Next Monday, I'll be transmigrating into a rather fetching apartment in Elephant and Castle (quite possibly the only rather fetching apartment in Elephant and Castle) and whilst everything there is nice and new and neat and shinier than a manatee's arse, the only problem is that I have to sort out the fecking Internet access all by myself ( Read more... )

I honestly make a very conscious effort to try and update more often than just once a month but most of the time, I just. can. not. be ARSED. And anyway I can never think of anything else to type other than shitty, paltry reviews. So, with that in mind, let's get this nonsense over with before my life ends up becoming the plot of a second-rate ( Read more... )

I've just had a week off from work. It started off well, got shit around the middle and then perked up near the end. I'm still looking for a new place but I'm staying with my Dad for the next week or two so everything is fine and spiffy ( Read more... )

I still haven't started on those film reviews but as a temporary diversion, I thought some of you might be interested in this photograph I took not five hours ago outside of my very own workplace. Just in case any of you where wondering which side Borders came down on in the War of Southern Independence, then there you go. Another mint julep, suh ( Read more... )

I saw Richard Wilson at work yesterday. He was buying some cards whilst I was at the tills and I was strongly considering whether I should run up to him and scream "IIIIIIIIIIIIII DON'T BELIEEEEEEEEEEEEVE IT!" right in his old man's face. In the end I didn't, but if I had he would've loved it; I don't care what Father Ted says (incidentally, I ( Read more... )

I'm currently on the lookout for a new place as I'll soon be abandoning my extant habitat to make way for the real occupant when they return from Teutonistan at the end of July. I was worried that I might have left things a bit too late in looking for a flat, but I've actually committed the opposite error and gone and done it too early. Not many ( Read more... )

I try to post with greater frequency but usually I'm either too tired to type or I can't think of anything worth reporting. Here's the rumpus:

I'm kicking myself for not finding out about this earlier but tonight The Wire‘s David Simon is turning up to have a chat at the BFI Southbank. I still haven’t started on the last season yet (I’m not gonna ( Read more... )

There was a power cut around noon at HQ today so instead of spending my day off playing retro games as we had originally planned, Kearan and I decided to make a sortie to the British Library to see the current exhibition on The Ramayana and kill a few hours whilst waiting for the electrics board to fix the problem. Which was fun ( Read more... )

I imagine that by now everyone has seen both of the trailers for Doctor Jones' fourth major outing. Like many, I expect, I was originally a bit upset to discover that the Nazis would be replaced by the Soviets in this movie as Marxists are more laughable than frightening in spite of their rather impressive body count (except for the Khmer Rouge, of ( Read more... )

INTRO NOTE: Due to some unforeseen ballsup, the opening chunk of this entry got accidentally posted a day before I wrote the remainder. It's of no consequence since the rest of the entry's not much better ( Read more... )