Another quiet weekend. Pizza and a movie in, sometimes the best way to spend a Saturday night. Today is quite nice outside so I have been lounging around the park with Hebe for a while.
I’ve fallen off the reading bandwagon again and I know why. I’m reading and enjoy it must be said Bandit Country: The IRA and South Armagh but I know why it’s not keeping me. I need to be reading about someone. I need to make some sort of a connection and *that* is what I’m looking for in a book right now. I have several books on Ireland I want to read but none cover someone quite like what I’m looking for. I’d head into town and look for some more but the selection here is piss poor for Irish history. I bet this will have passed by the time I make it to Dublin in a few weeks.
Two big tours coming up that I have to get tickets for. The first being Bruce Springsteen playing two nights (pre big tour) at the Royal Albert Hall. I suspect tickets are going to be expensive and hard to get but I shall be trying my best. Could be an excellent excellent gig. Really looking forward to the new album in a couple of weeks time. No joy on the net search for it so far.
Next up, Sigur Ros are touring again! This is some of the best news I’ve had in a while. No London details yet but hopefully a couple of nights somewhere and I’ll go to every night. The year is starting to fall into shape. This week I’m off to see British Sea Power on Wednesday night and that should be a good gig. Looking forward to it quite a bit.
I’m listening to some Rammstein right now, just to fit in somewhere with those bands. The duet with Tatu is actually pure genius. It’s a top top song. There are lots of rumours about them playing a gig at Download and that would be fucking awesome.
I saw Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo yesterday. It’s talked up a lot on the V and by some of the lads in work. I’d avoided it for a while as it just doesn’t sound like my sorta movie at all. And I was right. I laughed 3 or 4 times maybe, it just wasn’t funny. I was however impressed with it’s message. Not the sort of movie you expect one from in the first place and certainly not one delivered as well or as touchingly as that one was. Slightly redeeming allright but I just don’t see the appeal overall.
Continuing the weeks trend towards lists…
– Business are out to make money, thats’s pretty standard. However that does not mean that just because something will not loose money is not a good enough reason to follow it.
– Sometimes it’s nice to have others agree with your opinion or belief. The nice thing about opinions or beliefs however, is that they stand on their own and while it can be nice, it is by no means necessary.
– The new Doctor Who is a whole whole lot of fun and is making me actually want to go and look at the old stuff.
– The sixth season of West Wing picks up at least as much as to be watchable. It’s fucking dire compared to the first three
– The Office, the American version works quite well and I’m enjoying it.
– Main to 36 and main alt to 25 this weekend with lots of fun too.
– The full Glastonbury line-up is out and it’s not that bad actually. No main headliners but lots of decent bands below ’em. Nothing compared to U2 in Dublin of course 🙂
– I love Firefox and I love Greasemonkey and I also love love love Ad Block.
That reminds me, I wanted to talk about Corporate Responsibility. Not the in the usual way of companies doing good supporing charities or sponsership and things like that but in a society as a whole way. I’m really not sure I can get my thoughts into order on this so I’m just going to note it and I’ll revisit it tomorrow I hope. There is certainly nothing wrong with a company striving to make the world a better place. Even if that’s just making a lot of people’s loves a whole lot easier it’s something. This is kinda related to an arugement I was having with Shug on Friday night. I got me thinking about companies being out to make money. I’m not convinced that every company is, I think that some companies believe that if they make the product people will come to it and money might flow from that but if it doesn’t well it’s made a positive contribution to the world (or in the context, the internet).
For what it’s worth along these lines, I don’t use Greasemonkey or Ad Block to block ads on any Google/Gmail pages.