Will be there in person for both parts in repertory on the closing night. This is seven hours of one of the most important plays of my generation and I can't even begin to explain how excited I am.

I may explode.

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So, about six weeks ago, while riding a bicycle drunkenly around Rutherglen, I picked up a copy of R.L Stevenson's Travels With a Donkey in the Cévennes, c.1879 ( Read more... )

May I just suggest, if you don't have anything earth-shatteringly brilliant to do tonight (and you live in Australia) that you tune into SBS at 7:30 tonight to see where one of my favourite telly shows relaunched itself?

In true Clarksonesque style - here's a bit of an explanation as to why failing to tune in would be the biggest mistake of your ( Read more... )

Pete Cashmore of NME has called them "all rather splendid" and that doesn't do justice to the grind of this c.2002 Kiwi rock outfit called The Checks. Their debut album Hunting Whales is an unusually sophisticated blend of the best of Led Zepplin and the hardest blues/roots you can imagine ( Read more... )

So a while ago I bitched about the fact that I couldn't find any decent NCIS fanfic and my flist came to the rescue. So I guess I'm sort of returning the favour. I'm going to start with KIBBS fic, cos there's so much of it out there, but there'll be other pairings I'll rec soon, plus gen|non-paired fic (although that is particularly hard to find ( Read more... )