I'm usually a fairly relaxed driver, quite happy to fit in with other road users and get to my destination without too much grief or hurry. However, I can be transformed into a foul-mouthed gesticulating idiot by one of two things:

1. Those drivers in a long traffic jam who let the car in front get at least 100 yards ahead of them before bothering to move themselves.

2. Anyone who, when two lanes become one, won't "merge in turn" and edge ever more forward to stop you getting in and you end up on the other side of the road. Been known to stop the car and knock on the other driver's window about this one.

What really gets your goat when on the road?

'Nuff said?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2010/aug/28/guns-roses-reading...

http://www.nme.com/news/guns-n-roses/52736

Just seen some ads for the reissued Exile on TV and couldn't pick out any images of Bill Wyman or Mick Taylor.

Anyone seen the new documentary yet and do they feature at all? Or have they both decided not to take part?

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Just thought I'd have a laugh and download the new Dan Brown onto my iphone after getting a promotional email from Fictionwise (beats having to hide the cover behind a copy of Penthouse on the train). Cost on Fictionwise? - $9.99 which is just over six quid - except that it's geographically locked to US customers only. So I dug a little further and found that the UK e-book download from Transworld is the same price as the hardback - £18.95!

As much as I'd love to dip into this "rollicking piece of tosh" (Mark Lawson in The Guardian), is there any justification at all for this discriminatory pricing? With prices like this - plus another outlay for the crappy Kindle or Sony Reader, can't see much immediate prospect on any lift-off for e-books.

Having enjoyed a fantastically mellow hour or so lapping up the cider and the harmonies of CS&N, I nipped off to the loo by the Pyramid Stage and then tried to get back to my closely guarded Boss-viewing patch to find my way totally blocked by a throng of fellow festival-goers who were all in thrall to some lumbering leaden band from the Midlands with a lead singer who looked like a taller version of that bloke from Reef (including smug expression) and a guitarist who looked like early 70s Jim Capaldi from Traffic.

Haven't experienced a crush like that on Pyramid before and can't believe that it took Kasabian to do it???

Thing was .... everybody but me seemed to know all the words!!!

Closest I've ever come to experiencing a parallel universe of which I was not part. Am I missing something?

Great though it is and a lot more elegant and speedy, I can't understand why Spotify has been hailed as such a revolutionary breakthrough. Aside from the collaborative playlists which is Spotify's USP, it's been possible for at least the last 3-4 years for Napster subscribers to listen to just about anything they want on their PCs (note PCs!)either through streaming or by downloading for a tenner a month and for an extra fiver, put it all onto their MP3 players (up to 3 allowed). Our whole family has more or less unlimited access to music both in the house and when mobile for that one £15 payment with no likelihood of ads being increased in frequency in the near future and with a much wider range than Spotify and most new albums available the minute they're released. Granted it all gets lost if the subscription is cancelled but that's never bothered me.

Although Napster's just shot itself in the foot with a disastrous software "upgrade" which has royally hacked off many of its loyal subscribers, it still ought to be a powerful rival to Spotify but there's no reason for not running both.

Maybe it's because this has been denied to the iPod/iTunes cognoscenti due to the necessary DRM and perceived lack of cool...

The Guardian are doing a listing of 1,000 Songs You Must Hear.

Anybody got enough time on their hands to make a Spotify playlist out of it yet - or at least as many as Spotify has?