Next time I make a 5-chili marinade, remind me to wear gloves. Haven't had fingerburn this bad since our first big garlic crop ( Read more... )

Some kind soul has put episodes of Rush (the colonial drama, not the cop show) up in A Certain Place. I never saw much of the series - just a few eps when it was rerun in the mid(?)-80s - but Mum loved it to little bits. Couldn't resist the chance to have a proper look. The beautiful locations.... the screamingly funny Fake Beards...


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New phone now has Bronski and Bernstein wallpaper. I'm starting to see the point of all this...

Lovely warm sunny day; we headed out, bought plants, then came back and began to put them in, at which point cue Whacking Great Thunderstorm with hail. Three separate bouts over as many hours, with rain in the interim ( Read more... )

Holy shit. Chasin' up the Justified theme tune - finally finally FINALLY available online - and ended up not only with the first Gangstagrass album (free download from the official site) but a trail of stuff that led to Groovegrass (wonderful!), B-Star, all sorts. And the new GG is out now (albeit not downloadable outside the US - I'll just have ( Read more... )

And irrationally irritated by Genius' refusal to suggest stuff "that goes great with" Kid Rock. Actually, shallow old bat thinks Genius is fucking stupid, given the way it seems to choose from a tiny, tiny pool of songs no matter what you start it off with. Gnarr. (I'm not kidding. Sigur Ros and Pantera appear on every goddamn playlist, despite ( Read more... )

Have decided ipod = dangerous. One clicks and buys stuff. It is also annoying, if only because Genius thinks the one - count it, one - Sigur Ros cut on there "goes great with" friggin' everything up to and including Black Flag and the earliest, deathiest, Die Apokalyptischen Reiter albums. WUT

On the plus side, I actually got to hear Lie, ( Read more... )

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What a *brilliant* idea. Haven't tested it - me singing breaks things. But I suppose it's safe if there's no human component :)

Yay! Got all three Mystery Plays - National Theatre, Bill Bryden production, filmed by Channel 4, 1985 - up on thebox. Enjoy.

Watching Life on Mars. Enjoying it. But that's not the point ( Read more... )

...Stardust wasn't just watchable, it was bleedin' very enjoyable indeed. Not what one expects from something labelled a "date movie" - awooga awooga. Don't let the hamfisted trailer/pub put you off ( Read more... )