typing the date reminded me - the release date for the powerpuff girls movie is the 18th of october. less than 2 weeks. in my head i'm doing the happy dance.

[edit: reasons to be cheerful II - and on the 28th the new Sigur Ros cd is out. If you are not excited by this you are a tit.]

Awoke from a dream of amnesia. I had been standing outside a door with my hand on the handle and didn’t know if I had just come out or been about to enter - with no idea of who I was or anything about myself. It wasn’t as relaxing as I have always imagined it would be ( Read more... )

Indication that my brain is working again came today when I heard that sub-grunge whiney anthem by nickleback playing and thought it sounded a lot like the theme song from Mork and Mindy. I spent several minutes trying to slow the M&M theme down in my head adding electric guitars to it to see if I was right. This might not be everyone’s idea of a ( Read more... )

Look I know we are all sick of the can rattling leeches begging for monet on the street, but today Amnesty International get a turn trying to separate you from your loose change.

Be nice, give them a quid.

Status update: i'm still sick as a journalist. *hack*

Thanks for all the wishing-wells. Am still annoyingly ill. I tend to get 2 bad colds a year one at spring/summer and one at summer/autumn. So I take this as a sign that summer is officially over.

Am still very much at the "For the love of god, kill me now" point - so that’s all from me for now.

am sick. v.

Caught The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra last night. Marriss Jansons is apparently “one of the great maestros of our age” - Su2 asked me earlier why/how people get to be called Maestro - and I couldn’t answer. Now I can.

I’m over familiar with Stravinskys Firebird - it’s something I’ve grown up with and wasn’t that excited about hearing. It’s had ( Read more... )

Following a question from tvor I’ve typed out the 30 “cinemas best kept secrets” list from Empire. I don’t agree with it - but if anyone has a lost classic they want to point me at - be my guest.

( Film buffs only beyond this point. )

Don’t get me wrong - I like summer, but now that it’s waning I am becoming more aware of how sluggish and unresponsive I’ve been in the warmth. I’ve had a more or less nice even ride the past few months, but I’ve lacked passion, I feel shallow. Autumn is just over the horizon and I can almost hear it singing - bring it on and make it last ( Read more... )

The latest with the Z seal of approval.

The peculiar memories of Thomas Penman
by Bruce Robinson.

"This is a book about a boy and his grandpa, life and death, sex and hate, dog's meat and cancer. it is also about pornography, enemas, morse codes, puberty, secrets, God and loathing. And it is about love."