(x-post from Write Angry)

( Democracy and Monarchy )

I'm drifting away. This will not be my last post here but I have started a new blog, with a different purpose. I'll probably cross post everything to here anyway. You can find me at http://jtudball.blogspot.com

( Write Angry )

There's a weighty moral issue I've been grappling with these past few days. Around five, maybe six years ago, I set up a monthly donation to the NSPCC. Back then I was a poor student. I mean, not poor as students go, but poor as people in general go. I'm still poor as people in general go, but less so ( Read more... )

Harlequin is ill today, so we have cat sick on the carpet and cat drool everywhere else. She's currently on a shelf halfway up my wardrobe getting thick, stringy saliva on everything except the tissues I've put down to protect my things. No worries, though. I still love her ( Read more... )

I was so excited when I heard the Lightning Seeds were releasing a new album, and of course I bought it straight away. I liked it for nostalgia's sake, but the only song I still listen to from it is I Still Feel The Same, though listening to it feels a bit of a lie, since I don't still feel the same ( Read more... )

Harriet's friend Emma has moved in with us now. Emma and I don't talk. I mean, I don't know her that well and everything's polite and everything's friendly and there's no issues but I have always been terrible at small talk and I don't think she really wants to know why it's a good thing that Andrew Dominik and Casey Affleck are teaming up again or ( Read more... )

Just before I started university my mum took me shopping. Buying me clothes for the last time, she called it. The goal was a suit and a mobile phone. Two things: First, my mother and I are both aware that mobile phones are not clothes. Second, this was way back in 2003 when only almost everybody had mobiles ( Read more... )

I love the film Kingdom of Heaven. Most people don't. I really don't understand why. The theatrical release was maybe a little disjointed but the director's cut is one of the finest pieces of cinema. The biggest complaint, generally, is Orlando Bloom. I get this, I understand why you might be put off seeing a film he's starring in which doesn't ( Read more... )

Yesterday I saw two films, Resident Evil: Afterlife and The Last ExorcismAfterlife is terrible. So bad we were laughing the whole way through. It wants so desperately to be the Matrix and doesn't try to hide this at all. Characters run along walls in bullet time, Mila Jovovich discards empty guns mid fight because Trinity showed that was the cool ( Read more... )

I never liked World of Warcraft, for many reasons. I don't like grinding, I don't like MMOs, I don't actually like the graphical style of it that much and I don't like WarCraft being popular. It's like when your favourite band makes it big and suddenly they're not yours anymore. I can't accuse Blizzard of selling out because World of WarCraft is ( Read more... )