Gerry Butler is hilarious. "Madness? THIS! IS! SPAR! TA!"

Can't wait.

Do ex-United players even get considered for association with Liverpool?

That Knights of Cydonia is a pretty cool song. Muse verge so close to prog metal at times its just not funny. Overall there's just something lacking though...

A few results at the end of the 1998-1999 season spring to mind. Particularly the 0-0 draws with Charlton and Man U that saw Gillespie and Ward missing empty nets. Or the 2-1 defeat to already-bloody-relegated Forest.

Hopefully the Tugay red card will be overturned now that the appeal is being launched as it was a rotten decision by whichever one of the officals was responsible. Despite all the disappointment over the red card however, we seemed to play our best stuff of the match when we were a man down.

The Mido incident was definitely a penalty, however - intentional or not, his arm affected the flight of the ball in the area. How can that not be a penalty?

A Bond movie that may not actually be total arse - I'm vaguely looking forward to it.

The day of the game was two days after my eighteenth birthday - I'd been at my friend's house the night before and walked home at 6am with the intention of lasting the day with no sleep - I woke up on the couch a few hours later with a hangover that has still never been topped.

The game itself I watched huddled in a little ball, exploding into star jumps at every goal and the immediately receding into the fetal position afterwards. Some day.

At first I thought former Fulham/Barcode centre back Alain Goma had been victim of a vicious typo. i'm not going to pretend to have heard of this guy, but I agree that unless he's just too good to be turning down we should be focusing on improving the midfield and left back options before anything else.

I remember being torn between tearing my hair out and bursting into tears when Crewe scored that day (Colin "complete lunatic" Cramb, right?). 20 shots on target from Rovers before they scored, if I remember correctly. Desperate stuff.

Full report required please...

Pretty damn good, Mr Fleming. They only played about for an hour or so, which isn't really enough, and had a few too many rubbish songs in the set, but you can't really argue with Angel of Death, Raining Blood, Seasons in the Abyss, South of Heaven etc.

Tom Araya is a bit of a shadow of his former self these days (no intro scream in Angel of Death ), but its not the sort of thing you really notice when the rest of the band are in full flow.

I'd also like to take this opportunity to extend a massive thank you to the SECC for opening the doors an hour before stated on the ticket, making me miss all but two songs by Children of Bodom (the only other good band on the bill). Clowns.

I'm going to see Slayer tonight. SLAAAYER!!!

Ahem. Hope they're not as rubbish as their new albums.

i havent read the whole thread yet so sorry if this is a repeated film, but has anybody seen brick?

my mrs stopped watching it after about 20 minutes but i absolutely loved it, took me a while to get into it as it is very slow moving, but i got into it and thought it was brilliant!

I thought it was great. You need to let yourself ignore the stupidity of 'noir in a high school' but I got used to it pretty quick. Definitely one of the better films I've seen this year.

Sure did. Decent Alice Cooper-style 80s rock, but with added monster costumes.

Plus they had these lunatics in support so it was well worth a tenner.

I saw Lordi last night. Good stupid fun with a lot of fireworks and elaborate props. And the music's not bad either.

West Ham end a mammoth losing streak and the oldest player in the history of the Premiership also becomes the oldest ever to score a goal? Must be bloody Rovers.

I think the lack of depth in squad was exposed somewhat today - without getting carried away over the result, the difference in the midfield without Savage was huge. A player of Tugay's age shouldn't have to play 4 games over such a short period of time.

Peter actually looked quite promising without ever really getting over the final hurdle, and maybe a bit of genuine competition will give Gamst a much needed kick up the arse.

Saw The Departed earlier. It's absolutely pulse-pounding stuff, Scorcese at his very best. If no Oscars spring from it then I'll be very surprised.

The best line belongs to the superb Alec Baldwin: "Patriot Act! Patriot Act! I love it!"

Saw it last night, excellent film, one of the best I've seen in a long time.

Baldwin was great (tragically underused) but who'd have expected Marky Mark to steal the show?

"That would make us c***s. You callin' us c***s?"

I've just finished the first book now and see what you mean. Its well written, interesting and sets the characters out quite well. However at the end of the book you do get a feeling of 'is that it, nothing really happened'.

I've got books 2 and 3 so I'll get stuck into them now.

Exactly, in a way it feels like 'The Gunslinger' of the series (if you've read any Dark Tower). The second book tells a much better overall story and there is some very clever retconning of events in the first book.

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I just finished reading Fight Club. Pleasantly nasty misanthropy, the only problem is I read it in a few days and now I'm out of reading material.

The part of Birmingham around Villa Park struck me as a bit of an industrial wateland when I was getting the coach through earlier this year. I didn't really get a look at much else of the city apart from the bullring, but the bus depot was a dingy litle hangar. I'm glad I wasn't waiting there at night.

Hold on, I've got a Social Sciences degree and people don't think I'm that clever.

I'd have nominated Rio. Looking at that glaikit expression constantly smudged across his face you really feel sorry for the puffed-out rabbit inside his head desperately clutching at the controls.

I just caught the news on Sky Sports. Damn.

the 1980's version of King Kong was on last night - its quality

honest

"What do think went through there? A guy in a monkey suit?"

Jeff Bridges, legend.

I saw Sunn O))) last night - what a load of absolute non-music rubbish. But at least the first 15 minutes were vaguely entertaining absolute non-music rubbish. Curiosity: satisfied, I suppose.

It's good. Though don't expect much action. It's nothing like The Matrix in spite of the obvious connections.

Yeah, it was a lot better for one thing.

I ordered three more Devin Townsend albums from play.com (£7.99 each), two of which arrived the other day. The first one I listened to, Accelerated Evolution is really good. More pop-ish than most of his other stuff, just loaded with uplifting melodies and great musicianship. Here is the video for one of the songs, its called Storm.