I saw Terry Wogan on TV earlier today. I LOVE TERRY WOGAN!! Bring him back and put him on TV again PLEASE. Radio is not enough. It really isn't.

Two things

1. Where has Simon Bookish' blog gone? He used to be automatique

2. I realised today that I have become accustomed to my cell phone vibrating and then I automatically reach into my bag towards it. What a dangerous reflex I have developed! What if I was in a jungle and a poisonous snake dropped into my bag and feeling it moving about I reached towards it? I must retrain myself.

Why does no-one take Angel Dust or PCP any more? And what was it?

Bear TV

Watch Jamz on Nation 217 (Sky Digital Channel 217) on Thursday and Friday to see The Bear and Beaz perform songs Greedy Bastard and Love Me Love Me acoustically :)

Oooerr, thanks to spider_frog for this scary quiz result from 20 Questions To A Better Relationship. I think it's very me, it got me mostly right, but the fidelity issues (ahem..!) that I used to have no longer apply. I am now a one Bear lady and shall be for a loooong time.

I have highlighted words or phrases that I think you will all know and recognise about me ;)

You are a XPYT--Expressive Practical Physical Taker. This makes you a Player.

You are clever, sexy and sexually oriented. You know what you want and how to get it. You command attention in a room of strangers, as your charisma, your personality and your spending habits are all oriented toward making an impression on your target sex. You pay attention to details.

You reel people in easily, but have a harder time keeping them around since you are just as demanding in a long term relationship as you are on a night out. Combine your demanding nature with the fact that you're hard to keep up with and easily bored, and you get a recipe for problems with fidelity.

In a conflict, you're brutal -- you know how to unleash one cutting remark that turns a normal fight into a brawl or a breakup. Your general attitude is you just don't have time for fighting -- if you feel like your current partner doesn't understand you, you know you can find another one.

You may see yourself in a parent and dislike his/her choices, so you want to avoid them for yourself. You feel confined by social pressures, both to pair up and stay paired. It will (and should) take you years to settle (and for you, it may really feel like you're settling).

Please use a condom.

Of the 36373 people who have taken this quiz, 7.1 % are this type.

I have started reading Friday by Robert A. Heinlein. I usually love old sci-fi of this type. Its all about a female intergalactic spy called Friday. I am only up to page 25 and there has already been a gang rape and a torture session for our protagonist. I always think it's dodgy when a male author writes as a woman and they put their characters through so much degrading stuff. I get the same nauseous feeling I get when I read Dean Koontz. I don't think I'm a prude, no I am ultimate liberated me, it just annoys me. I love sci-fi but sometimes it feels like I am intruding into geek-boy world. Some of the books from the 70's and even early 80's are SO sexist! For a televisual reference check out all those classic Star Trek eps where the main storyline features a heavily naked big breasted alien chick that succumbs to Kirk.

Ohh, and in a really hypocritical edit, I watched The Ice Storm last night. My GOD Elijah Wood need's a going over of lock-yourselves-into-a-bedroom-for-48-hours proportions!!!

Reading Festival. Impressions.

Friday: Mud

Saturday: Beer

Sunday: Beer

The White Stripes are THE BIGGEST CON in the fucking world

The Darkness were the best headlining act I have seen in 12 years of Reading (yes, I am that old, and yes, don't I look young for my age.)

Regarding the wee throwing at The Rasmus and 50 Cent, I mean they always have to throw wee at someone at Reading it seems, but I find it so distasteful and just downright mean. What about the fans down the front who get unrequested golden showers and then have to go back to their tents covered in urine? When an act like 50 Cent comes over to the UK, and plays a festival like Reading probably knowing nothing of it's traditions, he just sees a predominantly white and aggressive crowd attacking him for no discernible reason. I think it's great when Reading gets truly international musicians (see Eminem for example) to play because it increases the profile and the likelihood of better acts playing in future years. Why do we abuse them like this?