Broken heartbeats sound like breakbeats
No! I'm not really back at work. It's just an illusion. I'm actually asleep in my bed. People aren't really asking me questions about stuff. What's undeniably true is that I'm not doing any work. Everybody else seems to be back to work very quickly with surprisingly few conversations about drink/standing in the street till midnight. I guess people are getting old. There was a discussion about £1500 televisions though. Apparently you must have one if you like to watch movies. I watched Sullivan's Travels on my 15 yr old CRT last night. It's not especially good though I could stand to see more of Veronica Lake dressed as a boy; is that very wrong? Slighly uncomfortable mix of the anarchic and the sentimental.
I think we should rearrange the calendar so Christmas Day is the coldest day of the year and it starts to get warmer from January 1st.
Popjustice 2008 readers poll results! I'm pleased to see Sugababes voted 2nd worst album, behind Sam Sparro. And Girls Aloud win best album obviously (though they're only 4th in best single). The worst cover versions is unimpeachable even if some of them are more tenuously cover versions than others: 1 X-Factor Finalists with Hero; 2 Kid Rock's All Summer Long; 3 Sugababes' Girls. Usher's Love in the Club beat Beyonce's If I Was A Boy in worst lyrics; though I feel Scouting For Girls's Elvis Ain't Dead should be higher than #4. Similarly, Robyn only #4 for best haircut? She's way cooler than Rihanna.
Better than their own best singles and albums of 2008. Crying Blood only number 41!? Little Boots' Meddle down at 62? Their best single was Solange's I Decided, just beating The 2xTings That's Not My Name. Ick. They also have John Barrowman at #14.
In other internet bizarreness, absurdly serious comedy criticism site Some of the corpses are amusing criticising Peep Show and praising Game On.
LRB piece on video games; slightly quaint despite its intelligence. But discusses how many games are work-like (i.e. requiring boring repetitive tasks).The people who play them move from an education, much of it spent in front of a computer screen, full of competitive, repetitive, quantifiable, measured progress towards goals determined by others, to a work life, much of it spent in front of a computer screen, full of competitive, repetitive, quantifiable, measured progress towards goals determined by others, and for recreation sit in front of a computer screen and play games full of competitive, repetitive, quantifiable, measured progress towards goals determined by others. Most video games aren't nearly irresponsible enough.
That is why I do not play World of Warcraft. In fact, I stopped playing video games when I got a job that involved me sitting in front of a computer (well I didn't stop entirely, but it fell dramatically). One of my young colleagues claims that the greatest video game ever invented is GCC.
I think we should rearrange the calendar so Christmas Day is the coldest day of the year and it starts to get warmer from January 1st.
Popjustice 2008 readers poll results! I'm pleased to see Sugababes voted 2nd worst album, behind Sam Sparro. And Girls Aloud win best album obviously (though they're only 4th in best single). The worst cover versions is unimpeachable even if some of them are more tenuously cover versions than others: 1 X-Factor Finalists with Hero; 2 Kid Rock's All Summer Long; 3 Sugababes' Girls. Usher's Love in the Club beat Beyonce's If I Was A Boy in worst lyrics; though I feel Scouting For Girls's Elvis Ain't Dead should be higher than #4. Similarly, Robyn only #4 for best haircut? She's way cooler than Rihanna.
Better than their own best singles and albums of 2008. Crying Blood only number 41!? Little Boots' Meddle down at 62? Their best single was Solange's I Decided, just beating The 2xTings That's Not My Name. Ick. They also have John Barrowman at #14.
In other internet bizarreness, absurdly serious comedy criticism site Some of the corpses are amusing criticising Peep Show and praising Game On.
LRB piece on video games; slightly quaint despite its intelligence. But discusses how many games are work-like (i.e. requiring boring repetitive tasks).The people who play them move from an education, much of it spent in front of a computer screen, full of competitive, repetitive, quantifiable, measured progress towards goals determined by others, to a work life, much of it spent in front of a computer screen, full of competitive, repetitive, quantifiable, measured progress towards goals determined by others, and for recreation sit in front of a computer screen and play games full of competitive, repetitive, quantifiable, measured progress towards goals determined by others. Most video games aren't nearly irresponsible enough.
That is why I do not play World of Warcraft. In fact, I stopped playing video games when I got a job that involved me sitting in front of a computer (well I didn't stop entirely, but it fell dramatically). One of my young colleagues claims that the greatest video game ever invented is GCC.