Month: September 2002

So not that many updates lately. Fairly simple reason for that, there isn’t anything going on other than work. And work isn’t really a good subject at the moment. And that is all I have to say about that so its kinda quiet here.

Tomorrow night I’m going out with a group of friends into town and the plan is to have a night out. I’m not sure how many people are actually still on for this. It sounds like it could just the usual crowd which isn’t a bad thing but the point was kinda to bring in some new blood. Ah well

Yes my sentences run on. A friend pointed this out to me recently, and it is very true. I don’t tend to stop sentences as much as perhaps I should. A simple comma will allow me to keep going. I guess it feels more natural to talk that way and as a result I tend to write that way. I am more aware of it now. I am also trying to stop doing it. I have edited at least three sentences in this paragraph alone!

The Rising is still going strong for me, despite the fact I picked up a double cd dance compilation a couple of days ago. It’s not too bad and makes a change now and again. Handy to have something with a decent beat to get lost in every now and again.

TV season has just kicked off in the US this week and things are starting to get back to normal. Gonna have to catch up on my Enterprise from last season and jump into the new season. Looking forward to Buffy and Angel returning and first looks at Firefly and Birds Of Prey. Some stuff I might catch up on aswell, but I’ll just have to see how it all goes.

Fuck I need a proper computer and broadband at home. I don’t know if I can afford it right now with this holiday coming up, it would make watching and getting stuff so much easier nevermind allow me to actually play some games. I will consider it…*sigh* yes my name is Dave and I have no willpower, Dell in a new window then.

So I have finally read this. I have not been able to track down a hardcover for an reasonable price, they were going for way too much on eBay. The trade came out last week so I picked it up. I only got around to reading it this morning, my hour long bus trip to work let me read it all…

So I enjoyed it. It was solid entertainment as one can expect from Alan Moore. Some really nice concepts using some good characters from the period. I err enjoyed it. Thats all folks. I will still be keeping an eye out for the HC.

So I went to bed early last night, I was in bed shortly after 10. I had 26 pages left to read in my book so I finished them off, ending the first Riftwar Saga for me.

At 1:30 I just gave up trying to sleep and had a drink and read for another while. I have no idea what time I dropped off at, but I know I didn’t sleep well at all for the rest of the night and it was after 11 when I got into work this morning 🙁

*sigh*

So we went for drinks tonight, uninvited company and all. It was a fun night I guess, more beer not being all that good of an idea. I don’t get why anyone would choose not to get my sarcasm all the time. It really annoys me when I get grief because someone takes every single thing I say as being what I mean and not sarcastic. They should know better.
*sigh*

roll on holidays.

I feel like I’ve spent the entire day arguing with people. Not about anything people would normally argue about, but about work stuff it all just feels so bad. It is just so very shit and I hate it all.

I think I’m just going to give up on today and go to bed, I’m so very tired. goodnight

Scientists have broken the speed of light.

New Scientist

When I was young
It seemed that life was so wonderful
A miracle
Oh it was beautiful
Magical

And all the birds in the trees
They made me sing so happily
So joyfully
Oh playfully watching me

The Logical Song – Scooter

I would so love to be able to tell you that Signs joins M. Night Shyamalan‘s last movie Unbreakable as one of my favourite movies. I just can’t.

I loved this movie, the only way I can describe it is: fucking awesome. I have not enjoyed a
movie this much since Spider-Man. From the outset I was hooked. Tension was built within the first two minutes and it just kept building from there. I don’t know if I have seen this done any better. I was completely enthralled and I was just waiting to see where it would go next. And it worked 100%, it just worked. I was sitting there wondering how in the hell this was going to end. Several times I was going if this ends just now it will be perfect and it will make the list.

I had really high hopes for the ending. Given the writer/directors previous movies I wasn’t expecting it to be the typical Hollywood ending, I was wrong. It suddenly became completely predictable and flat. It just didn’t work. It was a happy ending tacked onto a dark chilling movie. There were quite a few funny moments in it, the hats for one thing made me laugh twice and the comments about the “nerds” was spot on awesome. Speaking of spot on, the cast were that and then some. Mel Gibson and Joaquin Phoenix came off really well together as brothers and were completely believable. They were both however acted off the screen by the two kids. Wow, they were both fantastic.

I feel hideously let down by the ending but thoroughly enjoyed the rest of the movie. I suspect I will buy this on DVD and I will click stop when he gets the TV.

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I am fairly cynical by nature I know that. So when I first saw this site I was suspicious to say the least. However I think now I would like to believe it. Either way it is worth a read: The Homeless Guy

Background:
Warren Ellis created a character called Jack Hawksmoor in his pre Authority run on StormWatch. The concept behind the character is pretty fascinating. Since he was very young, Hawksmoor has been abducted by aliens on a regular basis and changed. He was designed to live in cities, there he has special gifts and powers. One of these is the ability to communicate with the city as a living being. He is a really great character.

Thought:
I was browsing some blogs using Bloggers Random Blog feature. One of the blogs I found was based off of Montreal.com. The thought struck me. Yeah it happens every now and again and yes they can be fairly strange. How very cool would it be to read a blog about a city by a city. Ok so it is a way out concept but to be able to read about the events that shape a city on a daily basis and affect so many people would be fairly awesome.

On a whole other note I just saw a tag for a blog on a random list and I think it is a pretty good thought. This blog is my therapy

I headed out a few hours ago to Blockbuster to return the movies. I watched the first 20 minutes of Violent Cop and really wasn’t interested so I gave up. I did decide that I should go and have dinner because I knew I wouldn’t bother otherwise. So I headed out to that pizza place in Fulham that I like a lot and had a nice dinner.

I decided afterwards to walk home. Its only about 3 miles away. I had nothing better to do and I had my discman. Still going strong on Springsteen’s The Rising and I haven’t listened to much else in the last couple of weeks. But anyway I love doing that every now and again. I tend to walk pretty fast and when I have music going I’ll just get lost in thought. I don’t do it all that often, but I should. So I had a nice walk home.

One thing that I was thinking about was being alone at the time. I’ve never had a problem doing stuff on my own. I’ve just been out to dinner by myself and enjoyed it. I’ve been to the cinema on my own, I’ve been to gigs on my own and I’ve gone out for a night on my own. I have had people question me about it before and its not a problem. If I don’t know anyone up for it, I’m not gonna miss out on something because of it.

Oh and its now actually been more than a year since this blog has been going in its current form, one year and two days to be precise. A lot has changed since then, everything has changed since then. Hmm lots of stuff covered in here. More to come…more than likely. Fuck it is interesting to see what I was thinking about a year ago (other than the obvious). I’m going to be keeping this up, I enjoy it and I’m getting better at it.

So in the true spirit of Friends Reunited and Classmates, the interwebnet brings you Taliban Reunited. Class 🙂