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On Friday night some of us (myself, silverjet-allie and fechtbuch ventured off into the wilds of Dalston to find The School For Gifted Children, an off-beat comedy night which is part of London Word Festival and just the thing for nerds like me. It was pretty funny and well held together by Robin Ince who receives a super special commendation for guiding Alexei Sayle ( Read more... )

Between the opening of the Electric Proms, Sandra Bernhard and last night's Plauge Songs I think I have seen or sat with just about every member of the British entertainment industry worth mentioning.

Mark Ronson opening the Electric Proms last Wednesday was unexpectedly much more brilliant than I had anticipated and although the likes of Lily ( Read more... )

Saturday was gloriously sunshiny which was great but I wish I spent it doing a whole lot less than chores :) Having discussed the whereabouts of a Tesco with a colleague at work who is familiar with Greenford, I set off on the local buses to get to it and get groceries. It kills my Urban heart that there are places in far flung bleak suburbia which ( Read more... )

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I'd been looking forward to Nicko & Joe's Bad Film Club for months now as they featured my all time favourite bad film, Xanadu, last night. I think it's important to explain that my teenage passion for this movie led me to be hospitalised for concussion as I tried to reenact scenes from the film with me on skates and a rope tied round a tree. I was ( Read more... )

I am dead beat, worn out, drop down tired. I think I've finally burnt out from long hours of work and continuous social stuff. I need a weekend off to loll about on the couch dribbling into a midday movie.

Last night toriar invited a gang of us along to the rather wonderful Book Club at the Lowdown which is a rather wonderful monthly comedy night based ( Read more... )