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my dad's car needs fixing; it's going to cost him about as much to fix it as i intend spending on buying a car next month.

because of the bank holiday yesterday and my building society being a pain in the ass, as of 10am this morning my wages still haven't cleared. I'll be up the proverbial creek sans paddle if it hasn't cleared by tomorrow morning.

I would say Nationwide sucks, but i dont want any itchy litigators to start crying defamation.

Robbie Williams wants to rejoin Take That. I doubt they'll take him back. Whatever happened to "I'm rich beyond my wildest dreams!" eh? robbie's a tosser IMO

he's a bloody good showman, one of the best entertainers at his peak no doubt, but his talent was outweighed by ego. He should just sit back and reap his royalties.

FWIW i think Take That's song, Greatest Day, is a rip-off of Rule The World.

click HERE to listen to a couple of tracks from my Significant Other's brother's band, Giocanda Smile. He's the drummer by the way, so check out the drum roll at the beginning of track 2: Any Line However Short.

And i work with THIS GUY; he's currently got a regular gig playing at a local restaurant and a hotel in the summer.

i love what Leona Lewis has done with Run:

Entertaining new film from Ridley Scott featuring great performances, big explosions, well-shot action and far far far too much jumping around locations. Not one of Scott's great films by a long shot, it goes on a bit too long and the end is a little naff, but well worth the price of a cinema ticket.

Saw Lee Evans live at the 02 on the 19th (last Wednesday) with the S.O.

The venue is great, it's brilliant. But if you want to eat there you have to get there very early as an hour before the show there were massive queues at all the restaurants and bars around the arena. Lee was great, he was on for about 3 hours and was so funny that i was in pain through most of the second half of the show.

We stayed in the Custom House Hotel, which was £50 for one night double room, the hotel's opposite the Excel Arena/Custom House DLR station and is about 10 minutes from the 02 by tube/DLR (change at Canning Town). The bed was comfy, the shower and toilet were clean and working and the complimentary tea and coffee told me i smelled nice.

getting to and from London was cheap on the megabus - £34 in total for two return tickets, the only travel hiccup was a closure of one of the DLR lines so we had to double back and walk to Bank station to get the DLR. Apart from that everything went pretty smoothly and a good 2 days was had by all.

the final one is brilliant: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=w7lYOQ4sbUc

from the director of Night Watch (highly recommended by the way) comes another leave-your-brain-at-the-door action thriller with many odes to The Matrix (in this case the assassins can bend bullets around corners). Heavy on stunts and short in explanation, the dvd is woefully poor on extras.

The film's great fun. These people, 'the fraternity', interpret a code hidden in a loom that gives them names of targets. They kill the targets. Only one of them has turned rogue, so the son of one of the fraternity is trained up and sent off to the Czech Republic to kill him. They can kill people because they... well it's not explained very well but it has something to do with a high heart rate and a lot of adrenalin, plus they can bend bullets. Angelina Jolie goes along for the ride, gets her arse out in one scene and kisses him in another - that's all she's good for here but definitely check out her performance in Eastwood's upcoming The Changeling. The voice-over is at times all-too-familiar, ripping off Fight Club with it's monotone sense of misanthropy but despite reservations i loved the film. Any film that shows a bullet exploding out of a guy's head in slow motion is good in my book. Assassins by their vocation are cool; here they're almost as cool as Jean Reno.

A few quick thoughts (saw it on Wednesday)

- the action camerawork is way too shaky
- no Bond gadgets to speak of
- nice homage to Goldfinger
- lots of action
- confusing plot
- impressive stunt work
- quickly trashes the car (again)
- not enough of Gemma Arterton
- Dench comes off very well in this
- more humour this time round
- one great scene at an opera
- the ending's quite poor