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...definitely lose their touch with age (same with Christmas I guess). Today just feels like another day. Ho hum...
Current mood:
blah.Current music: Elbow - 'Scattered Black And Whites'.
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Just in case anyone reading this isn't already on the stuff list, and might want to be, just go to http://stuff.natts.com to subscribe, browse/search the archives, or even tell a friend. Stuff is a weekly(ish) mailing list usually sent on Friday afternoons with 25 links to random stuff on the web.
Current mood:
thoughtful.Current music: Hit Sheet Priority CD 2003.
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I took photos for another panorama thingy this week when it snowed. View it here (229 KB). Mmm again.
Current mood:
mellow.Current music: Disco Kandi (compilation).
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The weather was interesting today, and after getting up (about 4:30pm), doing some work, having brunch and watching TV, I decided to take a few photos of the view outside. Then I spent an hour or two pasting them together, matching the colours, and smudging the edges, to make this (291 KB). Mmm.
Current mood:
relaxed.Current music: Archive - 'Londinium' (album).
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James Walsh from Starsailor at Glastonbury speaking about The White Stripes: "It's good to see George Formby's music being kept alive".
Speaking of Glastonbury, I was there and I'll write some stuff up soon. Those of you who I e-mail will have already been sent stuff about it anyway.
Current mood:
sick.Current music: 'This Is Music' - ITV1 Granada music show.
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Bugger.
Current mood:
sad.Current music: Oasis - 'Stop Your Cryin' Heart Out' (it had better go to No.1 now!).
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KICK ASS!
Current mood:
excited.Current music: Jamiroquai - 'Light Years'.
Brief update on the situation - she's now ignoring me (showing her maturity). Her friends have naturally tried to stick up for her (despite knowing little about what's happened, because unsurprisingly she never really told them). I've offered to leave her alone forever more if she just comes clean and admits her mistakes (I've admitted mine). Not much else to say really as it's all in the comments of my previous messages.
This week I have mostly been working. In fact, aside from that, watching TV (mainly Big Brother), and all the other usual stuff, the only interesting thing I did was go to the cinema last night (Saturday) with Paul (
thunderdome) and his girlfriend. Like a lot of other people will have done this weekend, we first saw Spider-Man. Chances are you've probably already seen it, so I'll say little more than that it wasn't half bad. The plot was interesting as there were a lot more details than I ever remember from the cartoon series. CGI wasn't amazing but was good enough. Acting was satisfactory (although I got annoyed with the way that Peter Parker would come over very cool one minute, then like a nerd at others). My biggest criticism would be that Kirsten Dunst could have been in it a lot more - she rocks my pants (and I'm debating whether to get Crazy/Beautiful on DVD now that it's out). Anyway, overall it was still a good flick (helped simply because it was Spider-Man!) and is worth seeing - 8/10.
Second film of the evening was Monster's Ball, with an Oscar winning performance from Halle Berry. I guess not many people will see this, so I'll quickly outline the plot (taken from IMDb): "Hank Grotowski (Billy Bob Thornton) is an execution prison guard. He works with his son, Sonny (Heath Ledger), and lives at home with his racist father, Buck (Peter Boyle). Lawrence Musgrove (Sean 'Puffy' Combs) has just been executed and a horrible tragedy has happened at home. Now, Hank has just met Leticia (Halle Berry), a young black woman struggling to make ends meet and they quickly fall in love to ease each other's pains. If only he knew that Leticia is Musgrove's widow..." So, the plot wasn't actually that amazing, but it wasn't really about that, I guess - more about character change and interaction. The acting was great, so I suppose Halle deserved her Oscar - I just hope it wasn't because of her rather lengthy sex scene in the middle of the film. As great as that was to watch, I wonder why it was put/left in like that - I didn't feel it was necessary to the film to be so long. The production was also polished, with good cinematography, interesting and original music, and it was nice to see a non-sci-fi/epic film using 21:9 screen ratio (strangely Spider-Man was only in 16:9!). The conclusion of the film did have something to say, as such, but I didn't think it was particularly significant. I liked the movie overall though - 8/10.
Also watched Withnail And I the other day - the film that (sadly) introduced Richard E. Grant to the world, which I suppose I should have seen years ago as I actually knew what seemed like half the lines from it just due to the way people say them all the time. It was funny in parts, but it didn't quite do it for me, due to lack of overall plot. Not much more to say really - 6/10.For those who care, swagshop.com is coming along slowly. The product catalogue is just about complete, with stock control. The shopping cart is almost fully working. Following that I just need to do the checkout section and get the site looking nice(r) and it ought to be ready to go. Hopefully before Glastonbury Festival next week, which I'll be going to (line-up to finally be announced in Q and The Guardian this Wednesday).
Well done to England F.C. I don't really think we've got any more than a chance of beating Brazil (or Belgium if they're good enough to beat Brazil), but that's not to say it's impossible. If we do then we could quite easily go all the way, and my fantasy world cup team ('36 Years Of Hurt') would do rather well out of it too (5 UK players on the 23 man squad, who've put me comfortably in front of my league-mates). We shall see on Friday morning...
P.S. Hello to any new readers finding their way here courtesy of this mention. It's nice to know that the previous posts and their comments are entertaining you. Big Brother 4?
Current mood:
blank.Current music: Blink 182 - 'Stay Together For The Kids'.
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A concorde and the Red Arrows flew past today...
The BBC had a better view. Something tells me they knew in advance... ;)
However, I like what I'm able to do with a revolving window and a nice sunset:
God save the photography.
P.S. Watched 'Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain' tonight (a.k.a. 'Amélie'). Very heart-warming, romantic, captivating, sincere, sweet. 9/10. See it/her when you can - she'll change your life.
Current mood:
indifferent.Current music: Alex Gopher - 'The Child'.
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Haven't been up to huge amounts since the Crackout gig. In fact, the only other slightly interesting thing I did that week was get my hair cut. Amazing.
This (Jubilee) weekend though, has been slightly more entertaining. Callie (
erotiquekitten) paid me a much-welcomed visit and we had some fun in the relatively short amount of time I got to spend with her on Saturday night/Sunday morning. Crisps, drugs, Adam & Joe, condoms, shampoo, towels... say no more. Then she went to be on TV, 'cos she's so famous and all. I'd do a screen grab but my capture device is playing up - sorry.Last night was spent with Paul (
thunderdome), his girlfriend Alison, Rich from upstairs, and his cool mate Pete (well, I think he's quite a cool guy anyway), at an interesting, supposedly Jubilee-related, gig at The Windmill in Brixton. I saw a man who sounded like Beck with the lyrics of Billy Bragg (who was on Callie's TV show, as it happens) - he calls himself Kai Motta. Then Goldrush, who were supposed to be 'secret' guests, but that blatently didn't work because a lot of people came and went for them. They were alright, I suppose. Then came the heartfelt Mr. Toby Slater who played a great set with his band. I think I've seen him 5 times now - all good. Last on the bill were The Koreans, of whom I know the singer, Brent (see the Crackout entry below), and their managers Simon and Sean. Unfortunately due to having generally very little sleep over the past few days, and having sunk a few pints of lager, I was having trouble standing up straight and keeping my eyes open so I retreated to a chair at the back of the pub for their set, after having a brief conversation with Esther who helps manage Crackout. We ended up leaving about half midnight - the 5 of us piling into a taxi that was only meant for 4, and being the small guy I got to sit with my head grating against the ceiling. When we got back I thankfully fell asleep as soon as my head hit the pillow. Aw.
Current mood:
calm.Current music: Fila Brazilia - 'Brazilification' (album).