Today was a little strange. I was talking to a friend online last night until late. 4:30 in the end as the clocks changed over for Daylight Savings Time. I slept until about 10am this morning and then I remember being awake and looking at my clock. Next I know it’s 2pm. I guess I nodded off again. I decided that I needed to go out for a while, the sun was shining and it was a beautiful day so I thought I would walk towards Sloane Square along the river and then wander back along King’s Road. And you know what? I did exactly that. It was pretty much the first day of summer as far as I’m concerned. I was walking along the river, I needed my sunglasses, there was the smell of freshly cut grass and I had some good music going. How much more summer can you get?
It was all good, I walked through some of the parks and by the water and it was nice. It was a good place to get lost in my thoughts. Or perhaps to even find my way in my thoughts. Not really sure how that turned out. I think I was walking pretty much like a zombie for most of the time, something I do tend to do every now and again and combined with the music and shades I was so in a world of my own. It was good I guess.
The music was also good (to say the least): The Essential Clash. I have to admit there seems to be a huge gap in my music knowledge here. I knew a number of these tracks, but I had no idea who they were and none that they were all by the same band. So that kept me going and indeed I’m listening to it right now.
Met up with a friend and we decided to go and see a movie. The timing was bad for what we wanted. So we booked tickets for a late show and then headed around to Riley’s to play some snooker for a change. Jesus we were shit. Really really shit. I’ve never played on a full size table before and they are fucking big tables. It was really tough to get use to and neither of us really did. It didn’t help that we were not sure on the rules and we ended up just playing a couple of games in general. Good fun tho, and something to bear in mind for the future.
And then the cinema, The Rules of Attraction was the pick for tonight. I enjoyed it a lot. It was like 10 short somewhat interrelated pieces put together and done with style. It was funny and in places (you had to look hard) touching. Having said that, the suicide scene was quite harrowing and somewhat uncomfortable to watch. All in all, well worth seeing.
Last week Radiohead announced details of their forthcoming sixth album Hail to the Thief. As it turns out preview copies were sent out aswell. Seen as we live in such a modern age and as the electric internet is everywhere, these copies have turned up online. 14 files of hopefully wonderful goodness. Now of course, the live recordings of some of these songs have been around for over two years, but that’s not what I want. I want to hear the clear and crisp studio tracks and then the live tracks. I’m really looking forward to seeing them in Dublin in a few weeks and I shall be stopping off on my way to work to pick up the album on it’s release date.