Well, it's been a hell of a busy few weeks around here. And as usual, I'm behind on reviewing it all, so let's start here:

( April 22nd-23rd: York and heavy metal! [long] )

Okay, so. Further to previous post, indeed... I don't think I need go into how much I idolise Per Yngve "Dead" Ohlin, if you know me you know what I'm like when I get fannish about someone, and you know the kind of people I get obsessed over. Say no more. However, sometimes I make some REALLY STUPID MISTAKES with my fannishness ( Read more... )

Of all the miserable fucking things that could've happened... campaign's over, Black Metal warriors. Stand down. Dagbladet reports (article dated yesterday, sadly, I wish I thought this was an April Fool) that Euronymous's family have vetoed the use of his image (translation, as usual, hereI am genuinely furious, not to mention heartbroken. I can ( Read more... )

And the moral of today's review is, don't buy horror movies from the Pound Shop unless you REALLY don't mind taking your chances...

( Cut for spoilers: Museum of the Dead. )

After a lengthy hiatus - and on the wrong day, yet - Movie Night returns! Last night's project was best described as an exercise in the unwatchable...

( Spoilers: Alien vs Predator and Alien vs Hunter. )

Deferred from last night to tonight owing to More Work Than Ever, we present:

( Cut for spoilers/review and to protect your sanity: Skeleton Man. )

I am awake. It is after 4am. I did not get enough/any sleep last night. Why am I awake? Because I have a downstairs neighbour. He was, at least when I checked last at gone 2am after spending two hours trying to sleep, STILL playing pop radio AND SINGING ALONG TO IT. On a Monday night. WHY ( Read more... )

...well, more like laid flat, actually. I do not believe it. Three days from moving day, with two job handovers to finish and any amount of bedlam to sort out, and what happens ( Read more... )

Apparently, the Tories yesterday edited Wikipedia to make David Cameron right, after he attempted to score a straw-man point off Gordon Brown and may in fact have got it wrong (on a topic which historians apparently disagree over anyway, namely the age of the painter Titian at his death ( Read more... )

So, the locking mechanism on our landing window has been broken for ages. This morning, two blokes from [window company] came round to take a look at it - and one of them only went and fell off the ladder when the bloody thing slipped backwards and went out from underneath him. O___O Thankfully, apparently he's okay apart from a few bruises, but we ( Read more... )