so, the foo fighters are playing an "intimate" gig at the astoria next thursday, and i quite fancied going. tickets went on sale this morning at 9am and were sold out by 9.17. that's nearly 2,000 tickets in 17 minutes. so, quite a lot of happy fans with golden tickets then ( Read more... )

Poll further musings on steer's new barnet

i've just upgraded my account to paid status - i feel like i'm on the slippy slope to lj ruin here. to mark the occasion, here's my first poll.

Poll my first poll

you'd think after living in this country for nearly 15 years, i really should have visited more than three of its top ten natural wonders:

oooh, pretty

(and in fact, i'm not sure driving past the cheddar gorge on my way to glastonbury every year and sailing past the white cliffs of dover every so often really counts. so, that'll be just the ( Read more... )

overheard at the end of some awful how not to spend money programme on bbc1 this evening:  "during a previous edition of this programme, we suggested that you could whiten your teeth easily and cheaply using lemons.  we now realise that this is possibly not the best suggestion and, on the advice of the british dental association, would like to ( Read more... )