If you're on facebook you must be bored to death of this already -and I really do sympathise- but I'm just mopping up anyone who might not have had a chance to watch yet. Here is the Dons pilot.

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This is the umpteenth time I've had to ask this question, and I promise that this time I'm just going to save the damn number in my phone, but... please can someone give me the mobile number of lovely Bill and his lovely van?

(It's not for me this time... small mercies).

Enjoyed Black Plastic on Saturday; I recognised practically nothing of Jo's set, but the stuff with guitars sounded like early Spandau and the stuff without guitars sounded like early Human League. Is that Italo disco? Anyway, it takes a true pop scholar to realise that Couples and 'The Perfect Kiss' piss all over Someone to Drive You Home and ' ( Read more... )

Anyone fancy seeing 2001 at the NFT, 5:30 on Saturday? Not my all-time favourite film, but I always supsected it would look and sound really, really good on a f*ck off-gigantic cinema screen, and now's my chance to find out.

At work today it was my turn to go out on relief, and I had to go to the first of our libraries to have gone "self-service" (our turn early 2010). The counter is 25% the size it used to be, there are only two staff computers so it's almost impossible to do any work if there are customers around, and if you so much as turn around you collide into a ( Read more... )

The past fortnight I've been doing jury service in Zone 4. Don't go out way that often. It's Snaresbrook Court, just on the edge of Epping Forest. Very nice old building (on the outside), it looks like the hospital from The Prisoner. According to wikipedia it was originally an orphanage built by King Leopold of Belgium. My bus goes past this ( Read more... )

This is a truly terrible thing, but it'll keep me off the streets for a night or two.

http://www.xtranormal.com/users.php?mode=profile&uid=299294

( seven films )

"Marseille is my kind of town; intolerant, fractious and right wing." - Luke Haines ( Read more... )

Back in the day, Dirk Bogarde refused on principle to do anything for television; "I'm not having my audience get up to have a piss or put the kettle on while I'm hard at work". I'm not really au fait with The Great American TV Series of the past decade (The Wire, Sopranos et al), but unless you live in a bubble, even the most ardent cinephile ( Read more... )