Recently bought the Orson album titled ‘Bright Idea.’

It’s awesome. Below is a review I spotted on the web that I thought I’d share with you guys. Give it a read and pick up the album. The track ‘Happiness’ joins the bands’ two already-released singles in ‘Bright Idea’ and ‘No Tomorrow’ in carrying my recommendation.

“Every now and again a band comes along who slip so insidiously into the public consciousness that you wonder whether or not they’re the result of some weird governmental mind control experiment.

One day you’re doing the washing up and idly wondering what the name of the band who’ve made the song which you can’t stop whistling is, the next thing you know you’re hearing the same catchy riffs on builder’s radios, coming from taxi windows and back gardens and being played in The Queen Vic in EastEnders.”

Click here for the full review…

Okay. There’s a saying in life that there’s ‘no such thing as a free lunch.’

I’m beginning to see what those smart-arses were talking about.

It now seems that I cannot keep encouraging you folks to keep clicking on the AdSense Ads to make yours truly a spare few pence (and trust me, that’s all it is). If I’m found to have been doing so, my ‘account’ could be suspended. Thats’ the Adsense account, not the blog - heaven forbid!

And I’d lose the precious near 90 pence I’ve earned so far. Gawd I’d be crushed. So from here on in, I suppose I should say that you should under no circumstances click those ads because I’ve said so. Only if you want to.

Got that?

“Steven Gerrard cannot make the runs or breaks we’re used to seeing because he’s playing too far in front of the ball. For Liverpool he can see the runs to make but here he’s coming off Michael Owen and he doesn’t really know where to go. After 45 minutes I’d say he can’t play in that position.” Graham Taylor, BBC Five Live

Less than five minutes later, Gerrard gets forward with an England attack to head the game it’s first goal.

Hmm. How long ago was it he had his last real role as a football manager? About eight years ago when he got Watford relegated?

Additional Hmm: Two more goals in the time it’s taken me to write this. 2-1 now. England don’t do things by halves!

Fantastic article on Jimmy Carr…

Sick and scary - that’s Jimmy Carr in his own words. How can a
comedian who makes no effort to be liked raise so many laughs? He talks to Nigel
Farndale about stand-up, suits and celibacy. Portrait by Andy
Hall.

It is the relative blankness of Jimmy Carr’s eyes and mouth that
makes his dark eyebrows seem so expressive. They knit. They form quizzical arcs.
They make him look slightly cross. “I used to get told off when young for
frowning too much,” he says. “But frowning is a valid form of expression, I
think. I’ll never get Botox.”

We are in a bar around the corner from his house in Islington, and,
such is his ubiquity, I have walked past half-a-dozen posters of him on my way
here. They were in shop windows, advertising his stand-up show, but they might
as easily have been up on billboards, advertising M&S suits. “I’m a bit of
fop,” he says, shooting his cuffs. “A wearer of suits. I look a bit wrong in
jeans, like an undercover policeman.”

Click here for the whole interview - it’s a great read.

Just tried Domino’s Pizza’s home delivery service for the first time.

The idea of ordering food online and then waiting for it seemed to be a bit strange given that I’ve purchased thousands of pounds worth of online goods in the past and waited between days and months for them to arrive - I doubted this would arrive within the 45 minutes that was promised, but it did. The service was good, the ‘Pizza Boy’ was relatively pleasant (he only has one line, after all) But I have to say, the food wasn’t too hot.

Well, it was hot enough. Oven Hot to your Door, they say. It just wasn’t very nice. Though I shouldn’t be too harsh to judge. I ordered three courses (for close to £28 for the lot I was setting my expectations high) and the first was lovely. The pizza (main course, if you like) was horrible. I suspect mainly because I ordered my own custom topping, which I’ll never do again. I ate about three slices from twelve and threw the rest away.

I suppose that means the experience being soured (almost literally) was my fault. True enough. The final course was disgustingly small, but all of the rest of the disappointment was my own doing.

If you’ve got a Dominos in your area and don’t fancy the drive, I’d suggest you give ordering online a try. You don’t need cash either (by this I mean you can pay online whilst you order) and the wait is no more than 45 minutes. I’d recommend it as a ‘worth a try’ option!