May
31
Everything You Need For Your Complete Entertainment And Instruction
May 31, 2006 | Comments Off
Look at this! Plugging music again.
The new Pet Shop Boys album, Fundamental, is a quite fabulous piece of work, and well up on a level with their better productions. Favourit tracks include The Sodom and Gomorrah show, Casanova in hell and next single Minimal (though I’m not sure it’s a great choice of […]
May
26
The Last Stand
May 26, 2006 | Comments Off
Off to see the new X-Men film tonight. I’m hearing very mixed things about it, so my expectations are a bit all over the place. More later.
May
26
Room With A View
May 26, 2006 | Comments Off
In honour of Dave and Octavia’s (almost) last night in town before becoming suburbanites, David and I went out for dinner with them to the recently-opened Galvin at Windows in what used to be the Windows on the World restaurant in the Hilton on Park Lane.
Yesterday morning I was expecting the experience to be somewhat […]
May
25
Seen Everything? I Doubt It
May 25, 2006 | Comments Off
Two items that trigger my “What the fuck?” alarm have come to my attention today.
The first comes from The Guardian:
The town of Black Jack, Missouri, got its name from the variety of oak tree that once grew nearby. “Those stately trees represent who and what we are today, a proud city with strong roots, providing […]
May
24
Casting Against Type
May 24, 2006 | Comments Off
The lovely Lee, who was among those gathered for Eurovision on Saturday night, posted yesterday about something from the evening which I had forgotten, namely the assertion that all gay men had a typewriter when younger.
I for one was forced to confirm that I fit this stereotype, as was My Beloved.
I had mine for years. […]
May
24
This Big Brother-Free Zone
May 24, 2006 | Comments Off
As previously mentioned, I’m not watching Big Brother this year, though as I’m living with what could only be called an addict, it would be impossible for me to be unaware of it.
And strangely, I’ve also discovered that a couple of people I know, know people in the house. And stranger still, more […]
May
21
“The XI In Team”
May 21, 2006 | Comments Off
Look away now if you don’t want to see me even tangentially talking about sport.
I don’t know a lot about cricket, but I do get that it’s played by a team of eleven players. The current poster campaign that Sky are running for their England Test Match coverage make much of the fact through […]
May
21
So Chris Gets His Wish
May 21, 2006 | 3 Comments
And Lordi walk off with the Eurovision Song Contest. In typical style this no doubt means that there’ll be a bunch of similar style entries next year. Hmmm - Helsinki sounds like a more appealing trip than Athens….
As far as last night was concerned though, I think it’s safe to say that if […]
May
19
Well That’s That Then
May 19, 2006 | 1 Comment
Say bye-bye Belgium, who we thought were a guaranteed finalist for Saturday’s Eurovision. And farewell too to Cyprus, Albania, Belarus and all the others who fell at the semi-final hurdle.
Worryingly, someone I work with is thinking of watching the main contest purely because of Finnish entry Lordi. I’d hate to think he’ll be […]
May
18
Carry On Flogging That Dead Horse
May 18, 2006 | Comments Off
So there’s to be a new Carry On film. Starring such top quality comedy actors as Vinnie Jones, Carry On London is finally in production after a three year delay caused by issues with the financing. Really? They had trouble finding the money for what will clearly be a number 1 worldwide […]