home from london and lying in bed with radiohead's in ranbows playing through the laptops tinny speakers ( Read more... )

i went running again last night. Just another 3 miles but when i fell asleep around midnight i had a glorious 6 hours of uninterrupted sleep ( Read more... )

waiting in the grocery store queue today a lady turned and walked past me smelling of chlorine and cigarettes. I felt simultaneously 10 and 19, it caught me completely off guard and caused a flood of memory that left me dizzy ( Read more... )

another day another bruised ankle... i can't seem to avoid injury and the inevitable limping back home for ice, ibuprofen and cold, cold beer. Hopefully at least this injury isn't so bad, a bit of bruising to my instep but nothing more. It shouldn't bother my climbing too much on wednesday which is good because I'm determined to finish a couple of ( Read more... )

I got the boards of canada ep in the post this morning: trans canada highway. It's sublime but stupidly short, i really want to bash their heads together and tell them 3 albums and a couple of ep's to show for 11 years work is just not good enough.

today has been recovering. i stood out on the balcony in the rain with a coffee and ate wet toast while the neighbours kids ran around screaming at each other.

Samina moved her stuff in, I put together the 2 bed frames and ordered new mattresses. Started reading the turn of the screw then watched half nelson.

busy few days at work. i have some code that needs porting over to some new database servers, a lot of code actually that processes billions of records a month, so its quite hectic making sure it all goes to plan. G has become fairly distant of late. We think its because he should have left as our team leader and started his new role, but isn't ( Read more... )

back from spain where we split our time between nights in the capital city and slumming it on dusty campsites at the FIB music festival in Benicassim.

We flew into madrid and booked into a cheap hostel in the heart of Cheuca. We hung out in the bars/cafes till late, before heading back to the hostel for a few hours sleep ahead of the drive to coast.


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 EW's top 100 films of 25 years, highlight as appropriate. * if you loved it

1. Pulp Fiction (1994) *
2. The Lord of the Rings trilogy(2001-03)
3. Titanic (1997)
4. Blue Velvet (1986)*
5. Toy Story (1995)*
6. Saving Private Ryan (1998)*
7. Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
8. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
9. Die Hard (1988)
10. Moulin Rouge (2001)

11. This Is ( Read more... )

in the vein of posting images, this is the small and crappy version of a great picture my grandfather took of my dad and i about 5/6am as we were setting up the fishing equipment. The bigger version has much prettier fog effects but I still like this shot a lot.

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