Strolling towards Waverley Station this evening, on my commute back from Edinburgh, I became aware - blaring iPod rendering everything else as visual - of a woman offering me a leaflet.

"I'm fine," I said, making the usual these aren't the droids you're looking for hand gesture as I approached, thinking it's a little early for the FringeThen my ( Read more... )

it's been like this.

It's just gone midnight and, for reasons of national security, I need to stay awake for another couple of hours. Fortunately, BBC One is about to provide all the quality viewing I could possibly want in the form of Primal Force.

To borrow from some random IMDB person, "...once the film starts you realise that 'Primal Force' is BEYOND bad".

Well, that's that. Three years down the tube on a bit of paper that I might not actually get at this rate ( Read more... )

It's a cocking bank holiday today, and the Laws Of The Universe dictate that Zulu is on telly. And that's about the only good thing about cocking bank sodding holidays.

After using the soundtrack as my official Stomping Around Town Music for the past couple of months, I finally got 'round to watching Lola Rennt this evening.

Its one central idea is nice enough, but apart from that it's pretty damn bobbins. Badly filmed bobbins, at that. With bad dialogue and characters that are uncareaboutable. Apart from the ( Read more... )

I've got tears in my eyes, honestly.

A couple of days ago I was trying to remember a TV show from 'way, 'way back in my childhood - I don't remember the show itself, just a postcard of it. So I googled 80's kids space adventure captain tv show and found

Captain Zep theme tune
Captain Zep @ wikipedia
Captain Zep @ epguidesSo I've just sat down to ( Read more... )

So I was in Edinburgh over the weekend, on some highly exciting but currently unmentionable business.

I said hello to mrdog, happylizardboy, turlygod, crazysteve, jamie_anderson and tinyjudas, plus a few of the nonLJ. I drank booze and then felt unwell for the rest of the time, 'cos I am old and infirm. Was fun.

But now - now - I am finally working on my final-final piece of degree finalness. This should ( Read more... )

A little simplistic, but whatcanyoudo?