"Let's go up there and blast him out of bed with a fire hose"

Birthday week starts tomorrow with a Sopranos style bash in Bath's finest Italian eatery, Martini Ristorante. First night out in Bath for frickin' ages, be nice to see everyone amd meet Pod the Rod's new ladyfriend, looking forward to giving him a big cuddle after the tragedy of his Amsterdam nightmare. I hope Marcus has recovered from his pensioner-style fall last week; his jaw was a bit stiff last Sunday, it nearly fell off whilst we were watching a particular ball-bouncingly funny scene from Family Guy last week (the episode where Peter,Stewie, Chris and Brian drink some **** and see who can stay the longest without throwing up), poor fella.

Champions League footie returned this week; happy with a point in Kiev, even though Arsenal should have wrapped things up before half time. Van Persie and Adebayor were both guilty of missing decent chances; both RVP's fell on his right foot unfortunately (still not really an excuse), whilst Ade seemed to be wearing his jester's booties in front of goal. Our away game triple header concludes tomorrow at Bolton, oh joy. I really hope Bolton go down this year, this fan still hasn't forgiven them for assaulting half our team in 2003.

Refereeing decisions have been in the spotlight this week. I have no idea why John 'untouchable' Terry's red card was rescinded following an appeal; he rugby tackled an opposing player, which is serious foul play and should result in a red card. But no, after Mark Halsey had the cahones to send him off, his punishment is to be relegated to officiate in League Two, whilst Terry will appear before the Sky cameras this Sunday against Man Utd. Additionally, Danny Guthrie's basic assault on Craig Fagan (which resulted in Fagan breaking his leg), will only carry a 3 match ban, staggering.

Some cracking music coming out at the mo, got Metallica's new album this week, and it rocks, loads better than their last few. They're a band I've always loved but never seen live, even though I was mad into them back in my thrash metal days; I remember heading straight to Our Price in Letchworth with Nathan to buy '...And Justice For All' the day it came out back in 1989 (?), had a listen to it the other day, but the music hadn't aged particularly well.

New Kings of Leon is out Monday too, they were great on Jools Holland this week (as was the lovely Carla Bruni), new albums from Roots Manuva, The Aliens and dear ol' Oasis are out or on the horizon now, yummy ear food for your, er, hungry ears.

Reading 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas' at the moment, bl**dy hilarious, favourite piece of dialogue so far:

"Hell, I forgot about all this beer, you want one?"

He shook his head.

"How about some ether?" I said.

"What?"