Sunday, October 28, 2007

Okay, so I've not been too busy to blog, I just couldn't be arsed! So now I'm forcing myself to do post something before I forget how.

First up I have a new project its only going to be food related and its here. I pinched the title from Reidski, but he won't mind I'm sure.

Friday night I had an urge to go and see Arcade Fire, but at £46 for two tickets in a big barn, I decided on a whim to have a look at the HAC site. Would you believe it, our favourite Rock covers band are on and its only £ 8 for two tickets. I'm sure Arcade Fire were good, but Big Licks were simply troopers of the old school, parading a set list including Alex Harvey's Framed, the Who's Won't Get Fooled Again, A bizarre Stevie Wonder/Led Zeppelin blended medley (I believe the young folks call it a Mash Up) which has to be seen and heard to be believed and the bastards even sent a tear down my face when they played While My Guitar Gently Weeps, which I last heard at Manuel's funeral. I'm beginning to like the HAC more now that you can take your drink into the theatre with you. Did I mention the stunning artwork by the immensely talented brother of Reidski? Arcade Fire Pah!

Football, what can I say, sublime, ridiculous? A bit of both actually. 3 -1 against Heart of Madlithuanian is definitely not to be scoffed at in normal circumstances. But these were far from normal circumstances. After a bleak injury devastated month or two, we finally had players back, Hay and Invincibile which made quite a difference. Throughout the first half I was convinced as were many around me that this clown had recently opened a new Ukio Bankas account, such was the standard of refereeing. Alex who was with me had just returned from the States where he saw stepson Craig's Burlington Barons (I have no idea how to read that league table) play in a series of matches refereed bizarrely by retired basketball referees. We thought this was perhaps where Mr Collum should fuck off to!

Nevertheless just before the end of the first half he sent off Hearts' Chistian Nade for an appalling assault and from then on things got better and better. A penalty taken by Nish saw the "Nishometer" swing back from the "Pish" to the "Not too bad ". Also fabulous to see Eric Skora back as sub after a few years. He'd been on loan from Preston, went back, we bought him a season or so later but he had a lengthy injury and this is the first time I've seen him in a while. All in all a good day out.


All this and Veal for dinner again.

Labels: warm and fuzzy

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Tuesday, October 02, 2007

thewife's birthday treat

To say thewife was euphoric when she discovered that her beloved Led Zeppelin were going to be playing a one off gig on her 50th birthday would not be an exaggeration. It was almost as if they had pulled this out of the bag exclusively for her. What better birthday present could I get. It was going to be a surprise too until she picked up the Sun of all papers whilst waiting in a Chinese takeaway. We NEED to register she says. Its already done I say, it was going to be a surprise and if we didn't get tickets and you never read that, it would never have mattered. Trouble is she did read it, we didn't get tickets and now she's down, poor soul. Course what really, really irks me is this shower of CUNTS who clearly did get tickets. The organiser in balloting the tickets and limiting them to 2 per person have clearly intended the distribution to be as fair as possible. Why not go that extra mile and demand that the uplift of tickets is accompanied by the purchasing credit card on the day of the concert with no pass-outs. That way those who bought the tickets would have to go to the concert. I'm thinking of starting a campaign to get spoof e-bay accounts and bidding ridiculous amounts for tickets with absolutely no intention of purchasing. That would sort the bastards out, having to relist every hour or so. Anyone for tout tormenting??

Labels: Fuck Off and Die Touts

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