Vote Yes Boss to open the V festival.  They were interviewed on TV last night, and were quoted saying “Most people come up to us and say that they didn’t expect to like us but they ended up loving our show”.  Or as I so eloquently phrased it to Noah “I thought you were going to be complete shit but you kicked ass”.  I am a master of tact when drunk.

I caught a few minutes of a program on bride kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan.  It seems to be acceptable practice there for the family of an unmarried son to kidnap a local girl and keep her prisoner until she either kills herself or marries the son.  They had some weird initiation involving dressing the girl against her will in the family shawl, which had startling similarities with League of Gentlemen’s Papa Lazarou… “You’re my wife now Dave”… I realise that we shouldn’t necessarily try to impose Western customs and culture on other countries, but this did seem to be a denial of human rights.

I’ve just had another corporation come after me following on from the incident with Corbis. This time it’s the lovely folk at Getty Images, who want £1600 for the use of an image, which I removed and stopped using before they even contacted me. I’m not too worried this time, and am going to offer them compensation for the same amount that BigStockPhoto are selling their images - $2.50. Check out my awesome illustration of the image in question…

Apart from that life is pretty good… just been working, riding and playing the geeetar

So no takers for Castle Rock then?