Despite knowing that I booked a ticket to see Hope of the States in the Astoria tomorrow, I can find no record of this, nor can I find the ticket.
I’m not happy.
They could be in my desk I guess. That does mean I have to head into work tomorrow evening from my course to check.
I’ll be even more unhappy if they are not there.
and no, that didn’t even make sense in my head.
Strange strange mood. I shouldn’t be, it’s been a good evening.
I’ve just gotten home from dinner with a couple of old friends (incl. 1 crush) from Dublin. It was a really nice meal and a really good chat.
Strange at times. Sorta like I was being setup for something and for a second I thought there was a thread going on.
I don’t know. Nothing happened, it was really nice to see them again and another short sharp reminder of what could have been. That reads wrong, nothing could ever have been but it’s a reminder of how things were.
Perhaps that’s a good thing. It’s a sharp reminder of how things are now too and I’m unsure on that one really. It was just one of those evenings.
It’s amazing the effect people can have on you.
I have no idea at all where I am going with this one.
I’m reading a book that Jamie lent me at the moment. One Fine Day in the Middle of the Night by Christopher Brookmyre. I’m enjoying it a lot, it’s as good as he promised. The whole reunion thing rings so many bells that it’s almost not funny.
I have my headphones on at home for the first time in a long time. I had this urge to listen to some important music when I got home and to listen to it loud. It had to be some Radiohead. I was going for OK Computer but typically I could only find the case, so it’s the live album interspersed with the beauty that is Idioteque live. A couple of times from the glorious Olympia shows I was at a couple of years ago. It’s a massive song. It just builds so much and takes me right with it. Love that drumbeat.
Just booked a ticket to a tiny Frames gig in London in late November which should be cool.
Got home from dinner to find two emails from two different old friends who I hadn’t heard from in a while which was really quite cool.
Nixon was a professional politician, and I despised everything he stood for — but if he were running for president this year against the evil Bush-Cheney gang, I would happily vote for him.
Hunter S. Thompson.
I have tickets to Velvet Revolver in Hammersmith Apollo come this January. I got a call from Andy in work this morning shortly after 9. As I was meant to be out of the office on a training course this was a worrying development. However turns out he was notified of a presale starting this morning and he bagged some tickets, would I like one.
It was a good start to the day.
The course was cancelled due to illness shortly after 9.30…just when it was due to start. Not too impressed at having to turn around and come into the office. Still we were down Canary Wharf so had a wander around, went into Tootsies for some breakfast and got into work around 11.30. All rescheduled for Monday/Tuesday now. Annoying to have to come into work but I guess it’s not so bad and the morning was pretty wasted anyway.
Last night was a bit of a session. A pint and some dinner turned into Tequila and Black Sambuca by around 9pm. Not such a good idea, it got rowdy but it was a fun evening and this morning wasn’t so badly hungover at all. I was going to go to the pub tonight but now I’m thinking home to a quiet one with more CoH and Murder One.
Speaking of CoH, I don’t seem to have mentioned that I’m a debt free, almost level 29 respeced character. I got it with a team the other night. Surprised as hell we managed it, there were several muppets on the team but we did and so I have my accolade and all my slots back. Looking forward to 30. I’ll ding it over the weekend I guess. Aura here I come!
I’ve been watching Lost via the magic blue cable and it’s excellent, one of the better starts to a series in a good while. Really looking forward to the next episode later tonight. Smallville had a speedster guest star last night so I’ll probably try and catchup on that over the next few days. The first episode was ok, not as bad as I was expecting but Lois just doesn’t fit.
New Robot Fist later tonight. Articles came to me late and I’ve been running around all day trying to move meetings forward to this week and various other pieces of paperwork so nothing so far.
A while ago Budgie posted about the first season of Murder One being released on DVD. It came out a couple of weeks ago and my copy arrived yesterday. So last night I watched the first four episodes. I had planned to watch two and then get some sleep but it just didn’t work out.
I loved it when it first aired. RTE had it a few weeks before whichever UK channel did and I think it went out on Sunday evenings. Loved the cast, thought that Stanley Tucci was excellent as Richard Cross and Daniel Benzali was spot on for Hoffman.
I may be looking back through tinted glasses. Don’t get me wrong, I really enjoyed watching it again last night but I wasn’t as impressed with the cast.
Benzali came across as really wooden in places, in particular in a talk with the DA in a courtroom in the fourth episode where it literally marches out. It looked really bad. It threw me a little. I’m hoping it picks up a little as the series goes on and it’s more like I remembered. The tension from Hoffman towards Cross seems fairly overplayed already, I enjoy their scenes and I’m still impressed with Tucci.
Luckily, I don’t actually remember how the first season ends. Afterall it is eight years since I watched it and I’m looking forward to a couple of episodes a night for the next week or so until I reach the end.
Theme music isn’t as good as I remember it, but it’s still a nice piece of muisic.
Thanks to everyone who came along on Saturday night.
The Hilton has now got a small amount of Creme de Cassis left, aside from that, we are out of booze.
Tomorrow is my birthday party. I’m looking forward to it and hoping that some people will actually show up. Most of my good friends from work are either working the weekend or already have other plans. Little disappointed about that.
Tuesday is actually my birthday and aside from having a nice lunch somewhere, I was planning on having a drink after work. However in a very typical turn up, I’ll spend most of the afternoon and some of the evening in Hampstead Hospital having some tests done. The letter with the appointment was waiting for me when I got home this evening.
I can’t complain, I really can’t. I only went in to book the appointment on Tuesday and I for one will be doing a whole lot better once the results are back. Not how I planned to spend my birthday but ya know, shit happens.
Gillen has just blogged about Dylan, specifically using Like A Rolling Stone and it’s put me straight into the mood for some Dylan. I thought it had passed me by in the past couple of days but no, it’s right there. Given some short thought I do agree that it’s one of his most obvious moments and I think it is the song which sold me on Dylan completely. It’s glorious, it really is. I love his voice (not so much live in recent times) and Like A Rolling Stone really does match the music with the vocals so well. It’s a powerful piece of work and hits me right in the lonely spot. I love it and it’s one of the few songs that I have to give a little bit of attention to anytime I hear it.
I’ll admit I’ve not heard the full Dylan catalogue, to be honest I doubt all that many people have but here’s his top few songs in my not so humble opinion. It’s a fairly standard and unordered listing:
Like a Rolling Stone
Hurricane
Sara
Lay Lady Lay
All Along the Watchtower
Jokerman
Tangled up in Blue
Shelter from the Storm
Rainy Day Woman 12 & 35 *
*I always liked this but could give or take it on an album listen. Then I read the story behind it and it shot right up there. Recorded live in a single take, late at night with much merriment in the studio. The laughter and everything else in the background wasn’t deliberate, that was what was happening when the song was being recorded. It’s vivid and it’s so immediate.
Other stuff. I was at a birthday party this evening and stayed for alot longer than I had planned to. It was a good evening with some good company and lots of Guinness. I was going to head to bed and watch a movie but I’ve ended up fucking around online until it’s way too late for that…again.
Rereading Judd Winick’s Frumpy The Clown, I love it. It still manages to make me laugh on my third or fourth reading. So now I’m going to go and read a few more pages and then sleep.
Anyday now, I shall be relieved.
I’m really struggling to write anything lately. I’ve sat down to type here at least three times and never been able to get more than a few sentences down. It’s been a shitty couple of weeks and while this week is going pretty much the same way, I really just can’t say anything bad about it. It started real well and well it did provide a change of presepctive.
Eventful couple of weeks coming up. This coming weekend is my birthday party. So far it looks like most of the people who I’d really like to be there can’t actually make it. Yay for timing. Then a quiet week until the comic festival DU and a week of gigs. My flatmate has also just scored some tickets to a preview of The Incredibles so a nice half day to head off to that.
There had been some talk of a party at the Hilton in order to move up the hill and watch fireworks for Guy Fawkes. Not really sure on this, I may take some time to go to Dublin as my sister is back for a few days. Not sure, gotta see how that all works out. I have to sort out the holidays for the rest of this year soonish. Then I can worry about next year.
Playing City of Heroes a good bit lately. Gotten back on my main a few times and doing well on the badge hunting. Got my 50th last night and have two of the monster and lots of the leaders badges. Have to get some more over the next weeks and days. I really do want to see if I can ramp up to 50 by the end of the year so that I can open up the first Epic Archetype. Enjoying playing my Defender a whole hell of a lot. Reached 14 with him last night and I took teleport. I hate it. It’s clunky and I need to scroll right back out and adjust my viewing just to be able to see where I want to TP to. I’m quite pissed off by this, I really don’t want to have gimped him by such a bad choice. Got my next power planned and indeed my next 3 really and once I have Stamina, I think Hasten and then Super Speed will be in order. Fun to play and I’ve found myself wishing my Scrapper main had some buff powers. Anyway enough of that.
Finished and enjoyed Dylan’s Chronicles. It is as perhaps expected very lyrical. In the latter half he does talk about the music a good bit. Looking forward to the next one a lot. Probably more on this one later.
“sad as fuck, ended up in the virgin megastore on tottenham court road passing some time after just hearing the news. They had superman 1 and 2 running back to back on a giant screen all day, seemed a worthy tribute.
best thing was walking in on a miserable day and go up the escaltor just at the moment when Supes reappears in Superman 2 after becoming superhuman again. I’m just looking around wondering what his crowd is blocking the entrance for and the music starts and everyone within airshot takes a breath as Reeve flies across the screen – sad as hell but everyone has a smile on their face. rip.”
As told by Jim Val on the ADF.