I have to say one thing about the Harry Potter stuff going on this weekend. Thousands and thousands of people queued up at midnight to pick it up. I’m gonna wander down Kings Road later today (maybe) and I’m sure they will be flying off the shelf.
And you know what the really good thing is?
It’s all over a book.
crescendo
t noun 1 (PL. crescendos or crescendi ) Music a gradual increase in loudness in a piece of music.
n Music a passage of music marked or performed in this way. n the loudest point reached in a gradually increasing sound: the port engine revs rose to a crescendo. n a progressive increase in force or intensity: a crescendo of misery. n the most intense point reached in this; a climax: the hysteria reached a crescendo around the spring festival.
t adverb & adjective Music with a gradual increase in loudness: [as ADJ.] a short crescendo kettledrum roll.
t verb (-oes, -oed) [no OBJ.] increase in loudness or intensity: the reluctant cheers began to crescendo.
—ORIGIN late 18th cent.: Italian, present participle of crescere ‘to increase’, from Latin crescere ‘grow’.
Cities are amazing things.
I crossed the road this morning to get to my bus stop and it was all quiet. There was not much traffic for some reason and there were not many people around. Looking at an empty path suddenly struck me. Thinking about it now, I had my camera with me and I should have taken a photo.
It’s pretty amazing what cities are and how they came into being.
Right now, a photo is worth a thousand words. I shall try to remember to take a photo later and post it.
I was sitting in work yesterday afternoon looking for something to listen to. It struck me that there was one thing and only one thing I wanted right then: Aerosmith.
Typically, I didn’t have any on my mac. Through the glory that is iTunes 4 I had a look on 5 or 6 other machines and had no joy there either. Today all that as changed. I’ve got some Aerosmith in here, it’s going strong and it’s amazing. Janie’s Got a Gun is a classic.
I really enjoyed that movie last night, it may well have to go on the to buy list.
Apple posted details of the G5 range on their shop site last night. It was either a mistake or a leak. It doesn’t matter which, I want one. So very pretty and so very powerful. They seem on first viewing to be the fastest most powerful home computers out there. Rumour also has dual cpu powerbooks on the way. Dear sweet god can you imagine it?
Tonight is the Summer Solstice, tomorrow is the longest day of the year and the weather is fine. I know quite a few people heading to Stonehenge for the night and I’m quite jealous. It sounds really cool.
E-Mail Mob Takes Manhattan
This is a fucking cool concept and something I would be well on for in London.
Team meeting at twelve has now been replaced with team lunch in the sunshine. I like this plan, I like this plan a lot. I must in the interest of fairness disclose that this is in fact my plan. We have a call at 1pm. Some fucker decided that lunchtime on Friday was a good time for the weekly UK call. We normally have a team meeting from 12 – 1 so that would mean a late lunch…unless we combine the two 🙂
I watched Y tu mama también tonight. I’ve been meaning to see it for a while as I heard really good things about it. Deservedly too. It was a hell of a lot of fun and really well made. The cast were excellent. The subtitles weren’t too bad, but the cast did such a good job I thought they really conveyed so much without me having to read the text.
Nice tagline too:
“Life has its way of teaching us. Life has its way of confusing us. Life has its way of changing us. Life has its way of astonishing us. Life has its way of hurting us. Life has its way of curing us. Life has its way of inspiring us”
Highly recommended.
Oh yes I have a confession.
I stole my nice new pencil.
It’s a quiet morning here on the third floor.
I have a nice new pencil.
I don’t like doctors. I’m sure it can all be traced to a bad experience I had with one when I was younger but that’s not in anyway an interesting story.
Today was not really a good day. There was nothing really bad about it, it just didn’t come together for me tho. Tomorrow hopefully will be better. I intend to get more sleep than last night anyway (damn you Alastair Reynolds) and then take it as it comes.
I did begin to sort out my address book. I was on a conference call this afternoon which went quite a bit off on a tangent for a while so I took the chance to begin.
Hit the pub after work as one of the lads had a really shit day and was plainly in need of a drink and a chat so a few of us went over for a quick one. There was nothing but coke for me, I’m still in taking it easy mode. One thing I did find out, which to be honest left me amazed I’m still alive was the amount drunk on Saturday night. Pat had kept count of the rounds gotten in throughout the day and night. I know how much I had before he arrived so this leaves us with a grand total of 15 pints of Ayinger white beer, one pint of Ayinger-Pils and 5 whiskey and cokes.
That’s 16 pints and 5 shorts. Jesus fuck. No wonder Sunday morning was so bad. It is worth noting that the groom to be was gotten a shot with every round he had leaving him with 13 pints and 15 shots (2 doubles). Small wonder he hasn’t been seen in work since then.
This day next week I shall be at R.E.M. and Mull Historical Society in Brixton Academy and then the following morning I shall be off to Glastonbury. I am looking forward to this like you would not believe. A few days off work combined with some of the best music in the world. How can it go wrong? I’m really hoping for a good gig from Sigur Ros. It should be the highlight of the weekend and will in theory blow everything else away
It’s the middle of June already. My doesn’t time fly when your having…um fun? 2003 certainly is flying by.
I don’t think I got enough sleep last night. I feel like I should be in a really foul mood but I’m not quite there. A little more work and I could be. The people who decided to hold a meeting in the fucking corridor a few feet away from my desk really got on my nerves.
My tools are still not working as they should and in fact I’m pretty sure I’ve broken something as a result. Unfortunatly I can’t fix it without the fucking tool and it’s all going to hell. I really want to put my fist through the screen right now.
It almost goes without saying that I am loving the new book. It’s had me hooked after the first chapter and I almost want to strectch it all out for a long time. But then again I want to rush through it and find out what happens. I’m very glad I have another one lined up afterwards.
I hate Americans. I’m listen to a bootleg of Sigur Ros playing in Atlanta earlier this year. I’ve been collecting full concert bootlegs from around the world for a few months now and this is about my 12th full gig. It’s very easy to tell which ones are from gigs in the US. They are the ones with people clapping and screaming, and random whooping. It’s Sigur Ros, shouting “hell yeah” repeatedly isn’t exactly in keeping with the music now is it?
Coming to the end of Milano, a simple piano getting quieter and quieter there are a group of people taking it in turns to scream. Compare this with the London recording. The same song, there is silence even after they finish the song. It holds for a few seconds until someone actually realises that the song is over and the spell is broken. Then the clapping and cheering begins. It’s annoying me as it’s a really really great recording. No noises from the people around, just the band and the general crowd stuff. Could even be a soundboard recording.
Anyway, I hate Americans.
Oh yes, the Radiohead lyrics thing I talked about last week. After some pressure from Radiohead themselves, Warner have backed down and lyircs should be available again fairly soon. Green Plastic Radiohead.