"Tell me, what is my life..."
Not wanting to sound pessimistic or defeatist but I've just discovered that George Harrison was my age when The Beatles split up. Oh my.
I finally finished reading the last Harry Potter - I thought that the majority was pretty dull with intermittent exciting bits, a good ending and a not-nearly-as-bad-as-people-have-been-saying epilogue. I felt that it lacked the structure that the other books had as a result of it not being wholly set in Hogwarts but that overall it was a good and fitting end to a decent anthology.
I have finally re-strung my guitar after - ooh - a year and a half! I found a tenner in Tesco's car park and thought that I should do something worthwhile with it. Karma struck when I was tuning it though and the G broke, meaning that I had to fork out another £7.25 on a new set. I use an "unusual" gauge, apparently so a single string was out of the question. Not that I minded because they were all Martin strings, which I don't like.
The tenner wasn't the only fortuitous thing to happen on Tuesday. I rang my car finance people to pay this month's instalment and they told me that I was in credit by well over £200 so, unless I really wanted to pay, I didn't have to. So I didn't. Which has lead to a very strange phenomenon in my world - it's 3 days into the month and I have £250 in the bank. This never happens. It's great though, because I can get my car through its MOT. Just need to take my thumb out of my arse and get on and sort it out.
I bought Okami on PS2, which is honestly the most beautiful game that I have ever played. It is very traditional Japanese and follows the story of the wolf god who can cast magic by painting in the sky. Basically, it's a bit like Zelda. But with graphics that make you want to cry with their greatness, not for their kitch cutsiness.
I was reading The Sun today (it was there, ok?) and I found it very interesting that, when reporting the Chris Langham child porn conviction that the only shocking adjectives that were used were to describe the images that he was found guilty of possessing, not Langham himself. I feel a great amount of remorse for Langham, and not just because I am a huge fan of his writing and performing as a comic. There is something deeply troubling and melancholic about him. I fully believe that he had the images that he had on his computer as a means of scaring or shocking himself into facing up to his own abuse. Not that this is any excuse, and the correct sentence should be passed. But judging by The Sun's editorial stance (especially considering that later in the same edition they were hinting that rapists should be given the same treatment in Britain as they are in Saudi Arabia), I am not alone in feeling pity and sorrow for him.
Right, I'm off now to goose a stranger.
I finally finished reading the last Harry Potter - I thought that the majority was pretty dull with intermittent exciting bits, a good ending and a not-nearly-as-bad-as-people-have-been-saying epilogue. I felt that it lacked the structure that the other books had as a result of it not being wholly set in Hogwarts but that overall it was a good and fitting end to a decent anthology.
I have finally re-strung my guitar after - ooh - a year and a half! I found a tenner in Tesco's car park and thought that I should do something worthwhile with it. Karma struck when I was tuning it though and the G broke, meaning that I had to fork out another £7.25 on a new set. I use an "unusual" gauge, apparently so a single string was out of the question. Not that I minded because they were all Martin strings, which I don't like.
The tenner wasn't the only fortuitous thing to happen on Tuesday. I rang my car finance people to pay this month's instalment and they told me that I was in credit by well over £200 so, unless I really wanted to pay, I didn't have to. So I didn't. Which has lead to a very strange phenomenon in my world - it's 3 days into the month and I have £250 in the bank. This never happens. It's great though, because I can get my car through its MOT. Just need to take my thumb out of my arse and get on and sort it out.
I bought Okami on PS2, which is honestly the most beautiful game that I have ever played. It is very traditional Japanese and follows the story of the wolf god who can cast magic by painting in the sky. Basically, it's a bit like Zelda. But with graphics that make you want to cry with their greatness, not for their kitch cutsiness.
I was reading The Sun today (it was there, ok?) and I found it very interesting that, when reporting the Chris Langham child porn conviction that the only shocking adjectives that were used were to describe the images that he was found guilty of possessing, not Langham himself. I feel a great amount of remorse for Langham, and not just because I am a huge fan of his writing and performing as a comic. There is something deeply troubling and melancholic about him. I fully believe that he had the images that he had on his computer as a means of scaring or shocking himself into facing up to his own abuse. Not that this is any excuse, and the correct sentence should be passed. But judging by The Sun's editorial stance (especially considering that later in the same edition they were hinting that rapists should be given the same treatment in Britain as they are in Saudi Arabia), I am not alone in feeling pity and sorrow for him.
Right, I'm off now to goose a stranger.