I am glad to report this evening worked out quite well. Sat in Starbucks reading for a couple of hours and finished off Dead Air<\/i>. An excellent read and highly recommended. Then I jumped on a bus to Fulham Broadway and I went to see Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle<\/i>. Complete shite but I can’t think of a movie I’ve enjoyed more in a long time. It was funny with a really great cast, all in all complete trash but entertaining trash. Well worth seeing.<\/p>\n
Walked back home afterwards in the rain and it was really nice. Last week I dug out my discman for the first time in a while and I’ve been playing Damien Rice’s O<\/i> into the ground for a few days. It’s been the soundtrack to my day and in particular my walk home. It almost led to me getting killed as I was completely lost in it and not paying as much attention to the road as I should. <\/p>\n
Track 10; Eskimo<\/i> has become my favourite track and in a novel way (for me anyway) it’s because of the opera singing towards the end of it. It’s absolutely perfect for the song and I love the sound of it. A quick google has informed me that the opera singer on Eskimo<\/i> is Doreen Curran and she is in fact singing in Intuit. Things really have changed in my taste over the years. Had I got the money to spare I’d pick up another few copies of this album and send it on to various friends. May have to do with just using the interwebnet.<\/p>\n
It had me thinking when I got home that given the choice between meeting a nice girl and spending the rest of my life with her or having music in my life for the rest of my life, I don’t know what I would choose.<\/p>\n
Oh in the scary news of the day the trailer for Tomb Raider 2<\/i> actually made me consider seeing it. I don’t remember being too impressed with the first one at all and I don’t find Angelina Jolie attractive at all. Shall see how it goes.<\/p>\n
Picked up issue one of Kurt Busiek’s Arrowsmith<\/i> last night and it’s a damn good start to a series, this one shall be going on my pull list. Nearly didn’t happen I was walking up Charing Cross Road heading towards Comic Showcase and was so caught up in the music that I walked right past it. Got a few other bits and bobs too, nothing special so far but I have high hopes for Andi Watson’s Complete Samurai Jam<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Can you believe it’s about to be August? I don’t know where the year has gone to. Some has gone to plan, some has not. I guess that is to be expected. Wonder how the rest of the year will go…<\/p>\n
Some interesting stuff here: Blogging By The Numbers<\/a>. They reckon there are 3,471,464 blogs between Live Journal, Blogger and DiaryLand with 1,631,535 of them being active. I’d imagine there is quite a Moveable Type\/Gray Matte\/Other user base not counted in there but they are interesting numbers anyway. Apparently that works out as 2% of people online have a blog. Interesting.<\/p>\n My sister moves back to Dublin in about 3 weeks time. She should be there until July or so of next year and then she plans to move back to Japan, Kyoto this time. Seems to have a job there all sown up and one that comes with a place to live so it should be easy enough to move. So sometime over the next few months I shall try and get back to Dublin for a weekend and keep my parents happy. But these days that probably entails far more than I want to deal with. I was thinking tonight as I walked past one of the local pubs that I wouldn’t mind having another couple of nights out with my dad but again that would I am sure entail more than I can deal with.<\/p>\n The number 040 is haunting me these days.<\/p>\n The internet is boring me lately. I’ve read all of the blogs I follow and despite most of them having new content, nothing has really grabbed my attention. I’ve not chatted much with anyone lately and no new sites are throwing themselves at me. There was some massive traffic on the V while I was offline for a few days over the summit but of the, musta been a thousand messages plus, nothing really jumped out. <\/p>\n So I started writing here at 11:30 and it’s now just gone 12:30. Not really sure I have much more to add but I don’t want to hit “Post & Publish” just yet. I often will do this. I’ll type out what I have to say and then just leave the window open while I surf adding thoughts as they come to me. Sometimes and just like right now I don’t know what else I have to say but I just feel that I have more and I shouldn’t hit that button just yet. Some of it stems from wanting to move away from lots of short posts which was pretty much all this was when I started blogging way back. I prefer to have bigger posts covering whatever I want to cover rather than 10 smaller posts covering them. Paragraphs just make more sense I guess.<\/p>\n Whoo hoo. I have an AOL blog! It’s about time. I’ve been wanting to have a real look at these babies for a while now. On Monday I shall be looking into this a hell of a lot more and seeing what I can see. I do still wonder if I can sell the idea of a public dev blog to anyone. Anyway IM looks cool and I see one of the beeb guys has already screenshoted it using a UK account. This shall be of interest to some folks I expect.<\/p>\n It would appear that is that. It is going on 1:30 now and I don’t have anything else to say and I want to go and get some sleep. I dislike the fact that tomorrow is Sunday, the weekend does not last long enough. I don’t want to have to go to work on Monday, more time off would be such a good thing.<\/p>\n Anyway it’s time to get some sleep. I do think that’s enough typing for today too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I am glad to report this evening worked out quite well. Sat in Starbucks reading for a couple of hours and finished off Dead Air. An excellent read and highly recommended. Then I jumped on a bus to Fulham Broadway and I went to see Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle. Complete shite but I can’t think … Continue reading “tell it like you still believe”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3292"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}