I Am
Which tarot card are you?
Wisdom, guidance, meditation, intuition. One who listens to the inner voice.
An ancient and hooded figure stands at the pinnacle of a mountain holding forth a shining lantern. In its original significance the card may be said to be one of attainment, the summation of the path and the ability to now shed light for others.
hmm
Did you know that: Studies show that 99% of people spell Hmm with 2 M’s?
Fuck Fuck Fuck Fuck FUCK.
Fuck Fuck FUCK.
It would be nice if people would listen to me every now and again.
Last year was pretty damn good for new music. Ok, maybe it wasn’t all new music, but it was new to me. Highlights have to include (but are certainly not limited to): Sigur Ros, Ryan Adams, Doves, Starsailor (who my sister intoduced me to), Royksopp, The Strokes and Queen Adreena. (oh and somewhat in a different vein Avril Lavigne and Vanessa Carlton)
aswell as new albums from longtime favourites; The Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Garbage, Moby, JJ72 and Bruce Springsteen.
and finally greatest hits from: Bowie, The Rolling Stones, U2, The Smashing Pumpkins, The Manic Street Preachers, Nirvana and as mentioned recently Bjork
Stuff I’m looking out for includes: The Coral, The Flaming Lips and Sleater-Kinney. Of course the first big hit of the year is no doubt going to be Electic 6’s Danger High Voltage and perhaps behind this disco’s carcasss shall be dragged back in. It is not a bad tune by any means but I think it might get old quickly.
Its funny, the highlight of my day was an im conversation in which the screen name on the other end announced a love for Philip K. Dick. That was the hook, it made me smile and keep going. Most importantly it made me smile. You think that’s geeky and sad, well I wasn’t even talking to a person!
And you know what? She’s done it again. I am going to have to see if I can track these people down and congratulate them. Some work needs to be done but wow.
Bjork’s Hyperhallad is really doing it for me today. Stunning track with a really great beat behind it. I’ve missed a lot in not listening to her more closely in the past. It’s the next track up now and I have the urge to turn the volume way up.
Listening to the first track available from Zwan, Billy Corgan of Smashing Pumpkins fame new band. Not bad, very much the same style of music and very much the same great voice. They are playing London in early February and I was thinking about seeing them anyway based on his prior work. But I’ve just gone to check out the details and found they are playing on the same night I’m going to see Sigur Ros.
ah well.
Pushing Tin is by no means a great movie but it is pretty entertaining and it has John Cusack and Billy Bob Thornton. Both of whom are really great actors and always watchable and the script isn’t that bad. I saw this first time around in the cinema and I enjoyed it. It isn’t as good second time around but I’ve still enjoyed it.
Happy Birthday, Dear Internet
January 1st 1983. Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) takes over from Network Control Protocol (NCP) and thus the way forward to the internet as we know it was born.
I don’t think I can underestimate the affect the internet has had on my life and indeed continues to have. Something to ponder on.
Ok fuck it, I have been going through 2002 in a mini-review. Mainly prompted by the Mayfly Project. Basically you have to sum up your 2002 in twenty words or less. And I can’t. I get stuck after the first two.
On a whole other note, I shall have new Radiohead tracks shortly. The MP3’s from their recent webcast are downloading now and their next album has been confirmed for June.
Part of a conversation in the pub yesterday afternoon which made us laugh. We were talking about a day last week when a group of us headed off for a few games of pool and a few pints for a long lunch. It went something like this:
me: yeah, we headed down the Kensington for a few hours
Pat: you went all the way to Kensington for lunch?
Rich: no no the one over the bridge.
Pat: Ah the one we were in for the leaving do a while ago?
me: that’s the one
Pat: why, what was the occasion?
me: It was Monday.
Pat: oh.
We laughed, it was a funny moment.
Slept in really late today, it was well after 5am when I actually fell asleep and I forgot to turn the sound on my alarm (set for noon) on. So it was much later when I actually woke up. Went out to get some food and go for a walk. Wandered along Kings Road for a while, but it started to lash down so grabbed a bus back to the flat. I had been looking for a Starbucks or the like to sit down, have a coffee and read my book in, but everywhere was full.
I’m reading The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon. I’m about 150 pages in and its only now starting to kick off for me. I’ve heard a hell of a lot about the book. Other than the fact it won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 2001, it deals in part with the birth days of the comic industry in the US and as such is talked about on many of the message boards I frequent. So far I am enjoying it.
New Year’s Eve is one of those rare moments. There are not many days where I can tell you where I was and what I was doing at the time for the past few years. It’s something that just sticks with you I guess. This is my third now in London and well I think we are going to have to go with the Star Trek movie tradition, the even numbers are by far the better events. (Although while I am looking forward to seeing Nemesis at the weekend, I am not expecting much.)
I don’t usually make New Year’s resolutions at least not in any sort of formal way. I always have stuff I want to do or change and now is no different in that sense. But this year I am going to break with that tradition and make a New Year’s resolution; I’m going to actually do some stuff and change some stuff.
Marvel are increasing prices on a range of books in April. Not going to affect me too much, I only get one of the titles. However it shall be interesting to see how this plays out with events of last year.
And to kick off 2003 with a suitably geeky posting; Strange Days is an excellent movie.
Not casting Angela Basset as Storm in X-Men was a stupid stupid mistake,
yes more stuff, things which have interested me today:
“At issue is the level of legal protection that should, or should not, be accorded to an ordinary word that Microsoft adopted as its own: windows.”
Glass Panes and Software: Windows Name Is Challenged