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Went on a reading week in Tuscany, and then to Eastercon.
Reading week was awesome. It consisted of good weather, beautiful houses, lots of books, too much (really, far too much) wine, good company, amazing food (mostly cooked by Mattia), and a pair of endearingly enthusiastic dogs. How holidays should be, basically.
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Britpop Meme
Via dyddgu. Bold is own music by, italic is seen live. Note that under owned I have included stuff which came on compilations off the Melody Maker (or at least those I can find), but not stuff which Aileen bought before we got together which is in our combined CD collection.
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I has no hair!
Ok, that's not quite true, but it is shorter than it has been in at least 15 years.
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Stuff
Of possible interest, Tom McRae tour dates.
Also, Studio 60 ratings are getting worse. The annoying thing is that I won't even care that much when it gets cancelled. -
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This morning Aileen called me to say that when she left the house this morning there was a pigeon sitting on the doorstep. It didn't look obviously injured, but nor did it move when she opened the door, walked past it, and slammed the door behind her ( Read more... ) -
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Oh dear, John Reid is the new Home Secretary ( Read more... ) -
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A belated thanks to everyone who sent birthday greetings in various forms ( Read more... ) -
Holiday
Off to Edinburgh for a few days for a bit of a holiday and to see Aileens family ( Read more... ) -
Woo!
Have just booked tickets for me, wg and immortalradical to a Serenity screening on the 24th. -
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In which I attempt to write something on LJ that's not related to World of Warcraft. In no particular order..
Picked up a Saint Etienne singles compilation in HMV the other day. Best summer music evah!
On Saturday we went to see Sin City. I'm still not entirely sure what I thought of it, but as I said to immortalradical last night, ultimately I find it very ( Read more... )