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if Aguero doesn't go to tottenham, they will apparently try and get Diego Forlan instead.

torres was flown by helicopter directly from Melwood, Liverpool to London.

Foals fo sho!

Laneway on Sunday for me :D

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alright. final few hours of the transfer window. at the moment it looks like chelsea will spend 50 mil on torres. liverpool will spend 30 mil on carroll. sturridge to bolton on loan. aguero to spurs not sure for how much though. im up for another couple of hours. so i hope something significant happens in that period.

The latest out of Egypt

i was about 9 and it was 1999. but we got internet at home when i was 10.

its pretty amazing whats going on in egypt now. they are effectively in a state of anarchy. the police force is basically non-existant and ineffective, the military has gone against the government and the people have taken over the streets. and for a large modern country to be in a state an anarchy is rather frightening but to the credit of the peope of egypt they are working together to maintain some degree of law and order.

Torres Training Alone Set of about 60 shots from the training session. http://www.flickr.com/photos/35531829@N00/sets/72157625815750981/with/5401840448/

Yves Klein Blue have called it a day. they made some decent songs but their departure from the scene is no great loss to australian music.

i thought they were meant to be indoors and air conditioned...............

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gr9TSjBOdKo]YouTube - MUST SEE 28.01.2011 Egypt Cairo Heavy clashes, sec forces retreating[/ame] [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APioVE_6x-U]YouTube - Egypt - Mohamed ElBaradei mobbed in Tahrir Square (30-Jan-11)(REVOLUTIONARY TIMES)[/ame] [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ce-RJmjDkZc]YouTube - Egypt chaos continues. People now started to take streets back from the Military 30/01/11[/ame] things seem to have calmed down slightly but the anger is still there. people are disgusted at the way their own military is being used to scare them off the streets.

anyone brave enough to put a bet on real madrid winning the la liga?

thats become a huge problem down here in australia. the live music scene is going through the roof but some ticket prices are just ridiculous and the promoters who set those prices have paid for it with the likes of U2 selling in some cases only 60% of tickets and having to give rest away for free to save them the embarrassment of playing to a near empty football stadium.

oh dear mr murray. OH DEAR!

post videos and news updates of the protests taking place in Egypt at the moment. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uc000YDVY5o&feature=aso]YouTube - Chasing the Egyptian riot police[/ame] [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WNTE_uqHqw&NR=1]YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.[/ame]

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thats exactly what me and my friends were talking about. haha

i've been to a lot of shows since i joined this forum but i've never had so much interest from other people. in hindsight i feel a little funny about it all. for the first time in my life i actually feel genuinely privileged to have seen a certain show. i've always had a lot of respect for sufjan and his place in the music scene but i never quite realised that i would be seeing one of greatest artists of our era. so basically what i'm trying to say is please don't hate me for having seen him when i wasn't a real fan because i am really really grateful to have been there. so without much further ado here is my review on the night. well to start i think owen pallett deserves a mention. put simply he was brilliant. he didn't get a standing ovation at the end of his set but he certainly deserved one. not only does he have a voice of an angel but he has the musical mind of a truly great artist. i am big fan of good musicianship, not the playing a million notes a second type of musicianship. rather the type of musicianship that makes u want to listen to that musician all day. owen pallett is that sort of musician. he played a good mix of Final Fantasy and Heartland material with the FF stuff being better received. i dont think many people in the audience were familiar with his work but we were utterly spell bound by his talent. its not often the support act has the undivided attention of an audience but when you have the stage presence of Owen. you command it. by 9pm every seat in the beautiful Opera House was filled and we were ready for the main man. he walked on with his band, clad head to toe in..............ok i don't really have a clue what they were actually wearing cos i was near the back but it was weird. but the moment he kicked into All Delighted People i was completely engrossed. in true sydney crowd fashion sufjan had to sing the line "all delighted people raise your hand" about 10 times before anyone actually raised their hand but it was all good fun. the main set was almost completely filled with songs from Age of Adz and they sounded (and looked) spectacular live on stage. but the highlights for me were the songs from All Delighted People. i had goosebumps when he sang Heirloom and had very watery eyes when he did Owl and the Tanager. he closed the main set with the epic Impossible Soul which i found a little tiresome for the first 10mins but then the entire crowd got into it and the show which had been up until that point a very subdued affair suddenly turned into a crazy dance party with 1000s of balloons falling from the ceiling and people moving their arms and bodies as much as they could within their seated areas haha. every single person in the House had a beaming smile for the rest of the song. after he walked off for the encore break the entire crowd gave him a 5min standing ovation until he came back on stage which sent us into raptures. he started the encore with Concerning the UFO then did John Wayne and concluded naturally with Chicago which i really thought would get everyone to their feet but didnt. i think we were all too exhausted from the dancing and long rounds of applause. i know my hands were killing by the end but thats what u do when you see something incredible. all in all, a feast for all the senses (except maybe smell :P) and a show i will never ever forget. and i hope sufjan appreciates that he has played a venue that means a lot to the 4 million people who live in this great city.

yay kimmy!! how can you not love her :D wow mens final tonight and no federer OR nadal! theres something that hasnt happened much in the last 4yrs. im saying murray but really hoping for a 5 setter.

THIS.

well i'm not saying that other festivals arent a great experience. i'm just saying that glastonbury is one of the few festivals any where in the world that isn't at all dependent on its line up. the time it has taken to sell out Coachella has fluctuated in recent years relative to the quality of its line up like in 2008 which barely sold out had Roger Waters, Prince and Jack Johnson.

people don't go to glastonbury because they want to see their favourite band play. they go cos its glastonbury!

i would ask her if she needed help finding somewhere to sleep that night :P