Robbie Williams!Just discovered today that in one month, my day job website popex sold THIRTY GRANDS worth of Robbie Tickets, through this page here... mad eh?Also talking of day job websites, the Barfly Cardiff listings page is now updated directly from the calenda... Stoke Newington car crashMore local news now, there's a car gone into a lamp post at the end of Manor Road, we get a lot of joy riders round here... might take a picture of it tomorrow, it's quite a twatting...is this your car?the car crash I mentionedWell that's the smashed car I mentioned, the number plates have been ripped off it, maybe a case of stolen car identity like I read about yesterday in The Times... can't find the article online though, and if I could, you'd h... Holiday readingWhile I was away I read Matthew's Prize: Being the Tale of a Whitby Orphan Boy's Longing to Navigate the Broad Seas though I didn't know the title was so long at the time... it's about PIRATES, and it's quite good, if a bit of a blokey version of a m... Pirates of the Caribbean is aceWell worth going to see, and Warner Village Islington was a great place to see it. Apart from the bloke sat next to me, who stank. Seats were big, plenty of space, very comfortable.Johnny Depp is great as Captain Jack Sparrow, he apparently based his... Pirates of the Caribbean MISSTEAKS (and spoilers)I thought of a few of things about the film - if "Bootstrap" Bill Turner was tied to an anchor and thrown into the depths after they'd stolen the cursed gold, then right up to the point where Will (Orlando Bloom) bleeds over the gold, his dad is out ... Glastonbury Festival TicketsAvailable now - great seatsWell that's what I've just been offered by a new Google ad... also it's a bit odd that Carling seem to have bought up a load of ads that appear when the Barfly is mentioned, linking to http://www.carlinglive.com... I bet he drinks Carling Black Label[bah lost an image :-(]No idea of this chaps name, but I met him and his friends at the Bizkit Limp Bizkit gig... he'd pissed himself and sicked up all over himself, and couldn't even keep water down when I saw him, his mates reckon he'd had 16 pints... Oyster Card PARANOIATalking about the weather seems to be a tradition on the weblogs, I've seen a lot of people have links to "times they've mentioned the weather" etc, how odd. Anyway, where the bloody hell did that rain come from? And me without a jacket today. It pla... Oyster Card FearsMy Oyster card messed up for the first time today, I'm not sure staff really know what to do when this happens. First bus it worked fine, then on the next bus in Finsbury Park it gave me a red light. The driver didn't know what this meant, except tha... RE: Oyster Card Fearsthere ain't such a thing as a British Rail Oystercard, only tube stations are issuing them... a mate who's got one had problems on Stagecoach buses for a while, but his card was fine with everyone else's.Oystercard updateAha, just going through my mails (250 spams over the weekend that got through Yahoo's spam filter), and found that this was sent sometime on Saturday... so it looks like it takes 24 hours for an order to go through:The products you ordered through th... Pirates of the Caribbean DVD<a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00008KDHH/clarkeology-21#">Out Monday!</a>Oyster Cards - What a load of old crap!Got an Oyster Card update from a friend:I tried to RENEW mine by phone and after a LENGTHY recorded message the operator told me:they didn't have any record of my card on their computers (how can this possibly BE?!?) because I'd bought my card at the... Pirates of the Caribbean gameThere's a <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000AHOA3/clarkeology-21#">Pirates of the Caribbean for the PC</a> starring (at least the voice of) Keira Knightly...Oyster Card problem at Liverpool StreetIt's not a nice situation When oystercards go bad, like today at Liverpool Street... a huge delay at the ticket barrier (well a few seconds anyway), everyone behind is cursing the person at the front of the queue for forgetting that their ticket has ... Oystercard problemsMate at work has had a problem with his oyster card and I wonder if it's the same thing that happens to me... as his journey starts at a station with no swipe points, his journeys are being charged at the maximum rate, that is in the terms and condit... RE: Oyster Card Fearsthose Oyster Cards do that sometimes... who knows why. I think they just don't have their act together yet... all the machines aren't working properly. Some of the further out stations (british rail) don't even HAVE those electronic swipey things!!! ... Car crashGot held up on the 106 home last night, by an accident outside the Rose and Crown... I would swear it was that coughing major from "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" who had driven into the side of a taxi... the cab driver was getting quite aggy, but t... A quarter of commuters have found love in the tubeaccording to a poll by London Underground. And who's printing this shite? Yes, Metro. What should the sharpest response be? The other 75% can never find love becuase they've gnawed off their genitals in sheer frustration at the poor service? Stuck at... The Darkness in CardiffThere must be some kind of rumour going around that The Darkness are playing a gig in Cardiff, as I've noticed a few search queris the last couple of days...The Darkness last played Cardiff Uni on the 5th of October 2003, and played Barfly Cardiff in... Oscars resultsI didn't pick up a Metro today, I averted my eyes from the big screens at Liverpool Street, I didn't look over anyone's shoulder on the tube, and I was planning to not look at popbitch.com or any news or film related sites all day, so we could watch ... RE: Pirates of the Caribbean MISSTEAKS (and spoilers)1) they turn into skellitons when they are in the moonlight, and are actually not breathing air, so there isnt any in their lungs. 2) jack folded the chain in two, then grabbed the other (folded) end with one hand. if you watch it closely you'll see.... CarpettedThings were shit yesterday, I met with some of the other freeholders, they were mostly nice, but the concensus is "NO, you cannot have a wooden floor in the flat". So not sure what to do now, I guess put in a lower offer to cover having to recarpet t... RE: CarpettedJust mental masturbations, mon cher ' Pauly' . That's all. I understand this is THERAPY for you BUT you are missing the point.The point is that YOU DO NOT WANT to sort out this "flat" situation at all.You are actually enjoying the trials and tribula... RE: CarpettedBah, rubbish. Pauly just wants a nice flat, the way HE wants it. He also feels it was presented to him under the false pretenses that his neighbours were accomodating.Pauly, I think you should put your foot down on this matter. Sorry, that wasn't adv... RE: CarpettedWell, Dahling"Pauly" is trying to get blood out of a stonewall. His ~ preziosa energia~ would be better spent looking for a more suitable delux appartamento...in Belgravia, Paris, Cannes, Monaco,Prague, Budapest or ...Cardiff.La mia opinione personal... eek, those baby things were scary!let's warm ourselves with the glow of this magazine rises from the grave story.they thought the face was down ? they might just be wrong!... White Silk ScarvesMake girls like you.Monkey Caravans"That show you wanted to watch is on, what's it called, Monkey Caravans?"So, I found Guerilla Homes at last, it's on BBC 3, no wonder I couldn't find it in the schedules... quite an interesting show, it's not all about tramps living in shanty towns u... Wilde FlowersHugh Hopper, of CaravanWilde FlowersHugh Hopper, of CaravanPink FloydAt the Grateful Dead Caravan festival...CaravanCaravanCaravanCaravan Express Tour with Gordon Giltrap and SundanceFaith No MoreSetlist: Chinese, Faster, R'n'R, Crab, Care, Sweet, Blood, Spirit, Bowen, War Pigs, Grade, Anne, Bother, Jungle... not sure where this gig took place.Embrace+ Dogs Die In Hot CarsThe DarknessBack to Uncle Bobs, and an attempt at some Christmas carols...The DarknessWas this the Carling "Homecoming" type event?Here and NowSpandau Ballet, Belinda Carlisle, ABC, Howard, Toyah and China Crisis. Don't laugh!Travisplus Kings Of Leon who were OK, Travis a bit boring. VERY annoyed by the Carling-ness of it all and so we left early to get a proper drink.Paul McCartneyMothers Day present for Mum and Clare's mum, we went with them and Dad and Emma. Jim missed out as he has been to more gigs with us before...NME Bratbus tourThe Bluetones, Cardigans, Heavy Stereo and Fluffy. <img src="http://www.ibizaa-z.com/misc/tickets/bluetones_astoria_22111996.jpg" />Elasticawith 60ft Dolls. I spun my car in the snow on the way home.ScarfoMust have been someone more interesting supporting...ScarfoMust have been someone more exciting supporting, was it maybe Hooverdam?60ft Dollsplus Jolt (Mark Keds of the Senseless Things) and Yellow Car, as reviewed in OUT!CarnivalInspiral Carpets, Pop Will Eat Itself, The Boo Radleys, Chumbawamba, Elastica, Terrorvision and moreScarfoDAVID GRAY - SOLD OUTTrained as a painter at the Liverpool College of Art, David Gray eschewed art for a career in music. Since then, he has had three UK No.1 albums and won the prestigious Ivor Novello Award twice - in 2001 for his breakthrough single ‘Babylon’ and ... 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