If I'm bored in 2009 I'll sort the links out.
I guess, seeing as the end of the year is nigh, I should post some sort of 2008 recap...
Oh well:
Film
I've been really, really lax this year, but Hellboy 2 was the prettiest film and Robert Downey Jr can do no wrong. Unless he's on drugs, obviously, but let's not go there again, eh?
TV
Dead Set made me look forward to a new series of Big Brother, right up until the moment I realised that the advent of a new round of boredom with intermittent hand-jobs probably wouldn't herald the zombie apocalypse. We can but dream, I guess.
Music
Holy crap but I've clearly been listening to nothing this year. I'm sitting and thinking and realised I don't even know what the last album I bought was, never mind when I bought it. Dizzee Rascal's cover of That's Not My Name was fantastic, though.
Books
I loved Jan Kærstad's The Seducer (and am currently reading The Conqueror) and appreciated both The Road and Blood Meridian immensely (though I don't think they're the sort of books you enjoy, really). Let the Right One In was great and Children of Men was disappointing.
Everything else
Dr Sketchy's is the most fun you can have without taking your clothes off - although someone else does take theirs off, so I'm not sure that counts.
Denmark proved that it can be something other than really, really cold. It can be really, really hot too. My other half needs to keep me appraised of meteorological phenomena in Scandinavia, I think.
My nephew (soon to be joined by another) is a smart cookie. He also likes being a pirate. And dragons. Though he doesn't like them breathing fire. I sorted that one out, though - I asked him how else toast got made. I like the idea that every time he sees a toaster, he's imagining a little dragon inside...
Damn, now I've said that, I've got some sort of bastardised scene from the Flintstones playing out in my head and frankly, that will not do.
Doctor Who rocked and, if the other half and I were right about the identity of the new Doctor, we shall crow at you until you hit us in the mouth. Promise. Unfortunately, we won't make any money out of our cleverness but what's new there?
Enjoy yourselves people,
Dave xx
Oh well:
Film
I've been really, really lax this year, but Hellboy 2 was the prettiest film and Robert Downey Jr can do no wrong. Unless he's on drugs, obviously, but let's not go there again, eh?
TV
Dead Set made me look forward to a new series of Big Brother, right up until the moment I realised that the advent of a new round of boredom with intermittent hand-jobs probably wouldn't herald the zombie apocalypse. We can but dream, I guess.
Music
Holy crap but I've clearly been listening to nothing this year. I'm sitting and thinking and realised I don't even know what the last album I bought was, never mind when I bought it. Dizzee Rascal's cover of That's Not My Name was fantastic, though.
Books
I loved Jan Kærstad's The Seducer (and am currently reading The Conqueror) and appreciated both The Road and Blood Meridian immensely (though I don't think they're the sort of books you enjoy, really). Let the Right One In was great and Children of Men was disappointing.
Everything else
Dr Sketchy's is the most fun you can have without taking your clothes off - although someone else does take theirs off, so I'm not sure that counts.
Denmark proved that it can be something other than really, really cold. It can be really, really hot too. My other half needs to keep me appraised of meteorological phenomena in Scandinavia, I think.
My nephew (soon to be joined by another) is a smart cookie. He also likes being a pirate. And dragons. Though he doesn't like them breathing fire. I sorted that one out, though - I asked him how else toast got made. I like the idea that every time he sees a toaster, he's imagining a little dragon inside...
Damn, now I've said that, I've got some sort of bastardised scene from the Flintstones playing out in my head and frankly, that will not do.
Doctor Who rocked and, if the other half and I were right about the identity of the new Doctor, we shall crow at you until you hit us in the mouth. Promise. Unfortunately, we won't make any money out of our cleverness but what's new there?
Enjoy yourselves people,
Dave xx