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Ageing

By Asides

I was just over the road at Paddy’s get­ting a hair­cut and Lance asked me if I wanted my eye­brows trimmed. Sigh.

iTunes Sentience (pt 4)

By Asides, iTunes and Music

I haven’t remarked on the amaz­ing powers of the iTunes shuffle facil­ity for over two years but this one is a zinger. From Eminem’s angry attack on the Iraq War, “Mosh” (from the 2004 CD Encore) straight to Hendrix’s “Star Spangled Banner”. There are 17,000 songs in that playl­ist so a seque like that kind of freaks me out. It’s as if there’s a little man in there, pro­gram­ming it all, it really is.

Simpsons meet Mad Men

By Asides, Humour and TV

In lieu of some­thing more sub­stant­ive, and just before I crash for the night:

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[from this year’s Treehouse of Horror, via Kottke and Videogum]

Way behind

By Asides and meta

Just a quick note to say, yes, I know I’m a week behind with the reviews (there’s a Capital Times review from Wednesday of- Christ I can­’t even remem­ber what they are now -Irina Palm, Rise of the Footsoldier, Max Payne, some­thing else) but I’ve just sent my last but one assign­ment for the Massey PGDipBA away via fax and I’ve got one more assign­ment due this week and then an exam, so- y’know, I’m busy and tired and doing 1.75 jobs at Downstage at the same time. Yeah, poor me.

A sighed aside

By Asides and black caps

Tonight marks the first night off I have had in quite a while. No Downstage, no study, no films to watch. I got home fully intend­ing to switch on the tv and watch the crick­et from Bangladesh, only to dis­cov­er that my Sky has been cut off – it’s that long since I switched it on. I only keep Sky for the irreg­u­lar West Ham games (only two so far this sea­son) and the crick­et and have to won­der if it’s worth it.

Well, obvi­ously it isn’t worth it and yet, I’ll be in to Sky tomor­row morn­ing to pay the bill.

So tonight I will be updat­ing the blog with last week’s film reviews, updat­ing the Academy web site for the new week’s ses­sions, and updat­ing the Voice Arts Trust web site with their first podcast.

Not much of a night off then, after all.

Biscuit-y goodness

By Asides

I’ve added a new link to the blogroll at right: Dominion Post film review­er Graeme Tuckett’s new side (table) pro­ject, Bickipedia. For all things biscuit‑y. World baked goods dom­in­a­tion awaits.