What’s going on?

Ticket prices for Glastonbury keep going up. According to the official site, they are now going to be £105 plus booking fee. Funny, after the license was approved they said they’d be the same price as last year (£97). About a week later this went up to £100, and now it’s £105… Tickets don’t go on sale for another month, are they just going to keep going up at weekly intervals? Maybe Thom Yorke asks…

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I went to see “The Hours” this weekend. Cracking film, definitely recommended and worthy of its inevitable Oscar success. The acting, in particular, is superb. As a resident of South-West London, however, two things particularly amused me (unintentionally so). In the film, Nicole Kidman plays Virginia Woolf, living in Richmond in the early 20th Century, struggling with suicidal tendencies and writing “Mrs Dalloway”. At one point she sends one of her servants off to London…

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So I watched the Brit awards last night. Funny, I thought 2002 was quite a good year for music, as there are so many decent bands around at the moment, but apparently I was mistaken. No, it appears that Will Young was the best new act to come out of this country last year (so to speak – sorry that is an appalling joke isn’t it?). All in all, it was perhaps the dullest ceremony…

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I get a lot of spam email. Yes, I know it’s a bit of a hackneyed contemporary cliche to get upset about this, but it still bothers me. And ok, so I have a fair idea why I would get a lot of spam, I mean there’s: (1) the Hotmail address, from surely the most spammed email provider of all; (2) the fact that I’m signed into MSN all day at work (hmm, there may…

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Then again… I’m supposed to be flying out of Heathrow tomorrow so I’ll be able to report first hand on the new “security measures” (assuming I make it back in one piece that is). That’s always assuming I actually get away in the first place after the saga that was getting my tickets from lastminute.com, whose customer “service” leaves rather a lot to be desired.

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