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I went to Glastonbury in 2002, but the experience was spoiled somewhat by going on a year that had perhaps the worst lineup in the festival's history (Stereophonics and Rod Stewart headlining IIRC), and also because I went with some guys from my at the time work, who turned out to be the most boring people in the world. Seriously, they were all asleep in their tents by 11pm!

My advice would be: however much money you think you'll need, take double or triple that because you'll need it. And maybe get one of those money belt things to keep it safe.

Have a good time, Goaty!

Ah but though the Pyramid wasn't very good at all beyond Faithless (fun rave), White Stripes and Super Furry Animals (oh and Alabama 3 and Rolf harris I guess! Rolf is always fun), there was always the other stages. Garbage, Orbital, Groove Armada, Elbow, Queens of the Stone Age, Less than Jake, The Coral, Hundred reasons, Manu Chao, Fatboy Slim... always something to be had.

Well if you really need it, there are a few options for clean toilets

Other tip - you can find some tasty, cheap homemade stuff in the hippy fields. Lovely having a brew and a brownie as you pass through the greenfields. And Yoga is a nice way of getting that camping crick out of your neck (or depening on what you cna manage, a massage can be had too)

The Brothers Cider Bus? Since they stopped doing the bottles it's not as great but nothing beats a strawberry cider for breakfast.

The hot cider bus, well that's a welcome refresher at 1am when you're tired, cold and wet and looking forward to another few hours of partying on the stone circle.

Top tip for the loos... wait for the poshest looking lady to come out of the loo and go in after her, she'll probably have given it a little wipedown for you. Just saying...

Bring your wellies. Just in case. And enjoy! Make sure to check out Arcadia after hours, the tesla coils/flames are amazing.

1980s space guy was my favourite bit. I will watch this and it will be fun

However that music was awful

Aye, remember to take your flat cap off when you come down too.

*Sorry since I cant work out how to edit my post*

I think this episode more than any other brought a lot more sentimentality to the TV show than in the original material, astonishing as that might seem to those still tramautised by the wedding. Shae's relationship with Tyrion in particular. Coupled with Asha's plan, it's a world ever so slightly more 'like the songs' than originally conceived.

Changed quite a bit from the books now though... particularly a certain [spoiler]Greyjoy rescue mission[/spoiler]

ONly read the book but Cujo is a great example of how horror doesn't need to be insiduous, doesn't need to be otherworldly, and doesn't even need to be 'evil'. A rabid dog and a broken car is a pretty terrifying situation by itself.

Prior review of Chronicle - I loved that movie. Superpowers do not equal superheroes.

I watched all of The Fades. Daniel Kaluuya stands out of a great cast as the lead's best friend, shame this didn't get renewed. Was refreshingly horrific and visceral, despite a plotline that seems - on paper - to be sub-supernatural teen drama. And then the school gets turned into an abbatoir for human meat, you find out the dead are rapidly filling up the world due to there being no exit for lost souls, and it gets very very dark indeed.

Shame they kill the girlfriend though, and frankly the lead character Paul is a complete muppet. At least 20 people die directly due to his indecision.

Now I've got the ms on to misfits which she is loving.

How can I put a profile pic on here? I click on my name I get an error message 

yeah but there was only one guy left was there not? And with a wolf (or was it two?) on your side should have been easy enough to finish the fight.

There was like 20 of them in the attack on the farm.

Keen followers of this thread will be pleased to hear that not only did my copy of Tonia George's Things on Toast arrive safe and sound, but I got a new cooker toaster at the weekend

Fixed.

In another forum, we basically take it as read that if you are in the thread, you've seen the latest episode. All spoilers are therefore book spoilers.

I'm one of the minority - I actually enjoyed both of the Riddick films.  The first was basically a monster movie, but was well done.  The second tried to increase the scope and whilst not perfect, I enjoyed it (especially at the end where Riddick is fighting with the top necromonger).  Oh, and Dredd's in it. 

Lovers of pitch black should be happy though, because the new Riddick movie is supposed to be more like that.

That does look good. Especially the bit where it seems they have clones of the bounty hunters on board to 'resleeve' (to nick a Broken carbon phrase) their casualties

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I watched Chronicles of Riddick last night - I'd never seen this cos I thought the first film was pants, but I really enjoyed this. Vim Petrol may not have huge range a an actor, but this sort of thing suits him; the effects were great and there was lots of good sci-fi gubbins in there - particularly liked Judi Dench's elemental.

Hanging out on forums always reminds me that sci-fi fandom is very varied in its reactions. I thought Pitch Black was a great little movie, simple in its scope but very effective and a great contribution to the oft-attempted but sparingly-successful space-horror genre.

Chronicles of Riddick, I found to be a ridiculous grab bag of mythological gubbins, introducing an extremely flimsy wider world of fantasy-type nonsense and a backstory of needlessly epic proportions. Nice visuals but far, far too much going on to actually offer anything worthwhile. Furians, Prophetic Denches, evil empires - yawn.

I thought it was a really weird sequel and completely missed the tone of the first. Give me a space criminal on a failed colony any day.