Month: January 2003

I’m watching Boogie Nights. I had no idea P.T. Anderson reused so many of his cast members for later movies. He really has a good eye for talent (haw haw).

I’m sitting at my desk close to drooling. Ok so the Hulk might not look too great in the TRAILER but the movie sure does and then to follow that with the TRAILER for the next two Matrix movies….

This might sound strange and yes I know I’m a geek, thanks. I’ve just been putting the trades I finished reading on my shelf. Mostly parts of a series so they go with the prior books. Every now and again when I do stuff like this, just looking at the sheer amount of quality works I have on my shelf makes me happy. I don’t know how to explain it, its a good feeling and it makes me smile. I’m not even sure why I feel it. Whether it is pride that I own these books, happiness at having them to read or simply that they exist, I don’t know. Maybe all of the above. Perhaps it is a little acknowledgement that I like my own taste, a tip of the hat so to speak.

I’ve been thinking about something for a couple of days and trying to think of a way to explain it. I have as of yet not been able to think of one so I’m just going to tell you a simple story.

Once upon a time three guys go out to lunch together. The food is good and company better, so they have a nice lunch and they talk and laugh throughout. They finish their lunch and head back to the office. On route to the office they pass by a couple of colleagues presumably on their way out for lunch. However in this case, to simply say colleagues is leaving a lot out. One guy turns to the other and says ‘I know exactly what your thinking’.

That’s it, story over. It amused me and it continues to amuse me. I don’t know why, it just does. I really enjoyed lunch that day.

There are times retail therapy is just that. Headed into town for a couple of hours and picked up the second Exiles trade which I really enjoyed and the second trade for the Hulk by Bruce Jones which was also enjoyable. Wandered around window shopping a little then grabbed some dinner and home to read.

Got an 8 pack of batteries too, so all ready to go with the camera and my discman. Picked up The Beginning Stages of… by The Polyphonic Spree. A lot of buzz going around about them so I figured the bandwagon was at least worth checking out. First listen was ok, but I wasn’t paying all that much attention to it. Another shall follow shortly and I’ll give it some more thought.

UPDATE: Section 6&7 Hanging Around the Day is excellent as is Section 8: Soldier Girl. Section 10 being over 35 minutes of a really irritating buzzing noise is shit.

And lastly I have no idea who texted me this but it made me laugh.

Q: When is it ok to kick a dwarf in the bollocks?

A: When he says your wife’s hair smells nice.

Quite an interesting little story on different parts of Sony’s business pulling in different ways. Well worth a read.
Wired 11.02: The Civil War Inside Sony

Also, I’ve been in the Sony Village mentioned in the article and it was fuckin’ ace.

– – –
We are getting a new kitchen put in this week. The builder arrives sometime early tomorrow morning. So I spent a couple of hours this morning taking everything out of the kitchen. Should all be finished by Friday I hope and then we shall see how it all goes. I’m looking forward to it, a new cooker (with a timer hopefully) might actually have me cooking at home a little more often and you know that would be a good thing.

I don’t have much planned for today, in fact I’m quite bored. Have some more comics to read of course, but other than that nothing really I’m in anyway enthusiastic for.

draft
t noun 1 a preliminary version of a piece of writing: the first draft of the party’s manifesto | [as MODIFIER] a draft document.

The ‘Drafts’ folders in my email programs are the least used folders. I don’t tend to do drafts, I don’t know why. If I’m sending an email I’ll just type it out and send it. For work unless it is an email which I think needs a how should a phrase this; a little political consideration I’ll go over it a few times. Other than that, its pretty much just type and send. If for some reason I can’t finish an email because I have to go away from the keyboard I’ll either leave it open or if it will be a while I’ll bung it into drafts. I don’t do that very often tho.

For the blog, I don’t usually do drafts either. I have very rarely used the draft feature of Blogger. If I’m not finished a posting and its getting long I will use the post without publishing option just to make sure I have the post saved. I do this quite a bit. Also if it isn’t something that I’m ready to put out there I’ll do the same thing and come back to it later.

Perhaps this is something I should change. I wonder if I could communicate better, well no I don’t. I know I could communicate better, I just don’t know how to.

Comic stuff
– 3 issues of Daredevil is a good thing.
– No Chris Cross on Captain Marvel is a bad thing.
– The art for Elektra 19 was shit.
– WildCats Version 3.0 is one of the better new series out there.
– Global Frequency continues to have really good concepts, but I’m not sure about the execution.
– Powers isn’t doing it for me at the moment.
– I am going to miss Spider-Man’s Tangled Web. It is one of Marvel’s best books.
– Amazing Spider-Man is actually a really solid book.
– MEK finished ok. Some nice art by Steve Rolston.
– Ennis and Dillon on Punisher continues to rock.

‘The protection of privacy will be a huge problem for the internet society’
The Economist: No hiding place (via MetaFilter).

Wired 11.02: The Year The Music Dies (via Daypop)

*sigh* That’ll teach me to miss out on a pre-order. Hellblazer: Haunted was sold out. The good news was that most of the stuff in my order goes straight into the must read now pile and that Rosemary’s Backpack had finally arrived. Pre-ordered Orbiter and Namor because it’s by Andi Watson.

Picked up a few other bits and pieces, items of note include Michael J. Fox’s autobiography: Lucky Man, HST’s Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72 and Red Dwarf season 1 on DVD.

Have you ever read something in email or on a message board or somewhere that just didn’t compute. I can’t think of the right word for it. Its not that it doesn’t make sense its not even on that level. The words just don’t see to actually make it into your brain to then try and make sense. It’s like its blank and there was nothing there and you scroll back up and try again?

I am at a loss for words and not just a little embarrassed.

– – – – –

Nirvana really were one of the greatest bands of the 90’s. They are the soundtrack for the weekend kicking off now with the classic Unplugged.

When I title my posts, it is usually a pop culture reference of some sort which at the time either holds some meaning for me or is something which just caught my fancy. (The page title works exactly the same way except that it has a lot more of a meaning for me). Most of the time it’s a lyric from a song I’m listening to or I’ve heard recently. I really wish that I could type something in there to capture a piece of music. Right now when I type this I’m listening to Nirvana’s All Apologies and I want it to be the soundtrack while you read this. I want the song to match the post and the post to match the song. The title of this song is the first 8 seconds of the guitar strum at the start of All Apologies.

Yesterday was one of the lads in work birthday. It was also pay day. This combined left me with a fucker of a hangover this morning. However last night was a really great night out. I had a long chat with a friend who in the past 18 months or so I’ve not talked to much. Not for any reason other than we were never out together or had the chance. It was really good and I was very glad to talk to her for a while and catch up on stuff. This was kinda a trend for the night, a lot of sitting around the pub chatting. It was all very good. I do need to go and find my phone and charge it.

I am also very pleased to report that CSI and CSI:Miami are returning next week. w00t! (or something)

Another thread on another forum had an interesting thought which is something that has been going on lately with some people. At what point do you know your friends well enough and indeed do they know you well enough to refer to them using words that are in themselves offensive? Hmm ok I have no idea how to keep going on that one so I’ll just leave it as a standalone question.

Just fucking do it.
Yes, yes I know. It’s not that simple. Nothing ever is, as much as I wish it were.

There is a smallish thread going on over at the V about this weeks comics. As I am getting mine this afternoon I am so very much looking forward to the reading this will entail. Especially as one of the first things said to me last night was that Ellis’ Hellblazer: Haunted was excellent and I must read it. Which I fully intend to later today. Oh and I think its time for some more Invisibles

This is the cover for Orbiter. A hardcover OGN by Warren Ellis and Colleen Dorancoming from DC Vertigo in early summer. It is a large image and I wouldn’t normally post something this big but man is it pretty!

I was going to be picking this up and I was somewhat sure I was going to get it in hardback. This has ensured that I will 100% be getting the hardback. The cover is now my wallpaper in work where my screen can do it some justice.

My flatmate comes back today or tomorrow. This of course means I have some cleaning to do. Gah, I’ve done some of it, gotta take all the empty beer bottles and cans down to the recycling bins on the way to the shops.

Been invited out for some more drinks tonight but right now I don’t think that would be good. I suspect a night in reading would be good. I borrowed a couple of DVDs from Iain (Boogie Nights and Romeo and Juliet) and want to watch them. I may throw in a bout of depression aswell.

Also I HAVE to get some batteries so I can get my camera going again. As I have found the cable and have plenty of webspace I need to start actually putting some effort into it.

Oh that reminds me. Over exposure. Sometimes when I have been listening to music for a long time there comes a point where it is too much. It’s not physically painful to listen to more, but it is mentally painful. There has come points where I have pulled my headphones off because I simply can’t listen to another second. Its not even when I’m listening to the same album over and over, its whatever it is. I’ve noticed it a little more recently and I wonder what it is. Related to that I need some new music. I shall have a look in town later this afternoon. Not sure what I want, I kinda feel like something light but I have a stronger urge for something indie and maybe a little darker.

The New York Times has an article running about a project in place to put Wi-Fi on Mount Everest. How fucking cool is that? (via BoingBoing).

I had not intended to blog yesterday. I wanted to leave the thoughts in the long post (two back) right there at the top. It contains some stuff that is on my mind a lot and I wanted to keep it fresh. But it didn’t happen, there was some stuff going on and I wanted to write it down.

Right going out to get stuff now.

I’m annoyed. Not just one but two systems are being messed with. Neither to my standards. I guess this is what I asked for but I still reserve the right to be annoyed.

I saw the video for Nirvana’s You Know Your Right today. Found it available to stream over on AOL US. Man they were a band.