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Shut up girlfriends of the past
I'm aware that my journal is becoming a succession of youtube links, but I really have to post this - a lovely song from the latest episode of Flight of the Conchords. Jemaine sings about all the girls that left him, how they left him, and the girls start answering back with why they left him. It starts off all Ray Davies-y, can't get away without ( Read more... ) -
The Risible Ghost
After a weekend of not doing very much at all (bar a viewing of Woody Allen's rather good Vicky Christina Barcelona and a lot of downloaded television), I got to experience one of the rarest joys - dreaming something funny enough to firstly break the logic of the dream, and secondly to wake myself up because of laughing at said funny dream ( Read more... ) -
Mushot fail
I had an attack of the giggles last night and ended up watching this - taken from Failblog - about ten times.
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Doug was not there.
I seem to have developed an escalating crush on Kristen Schaal from Flight of the Conchords. It's been there all along, but it was fuelled by her appearance at the 100 Club with martylog last month and pushed over the edge by this week's episode of FotC - she sings a song and variously berates and praises the boys for their behaviour in her dreams, at one ( Read more... ) -
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I went to see Anvil: The Story of Anvil last night, a lovely documentary about Anvil - a forgotten Canadian metal band who had a brief moment in the sun in the early eighties, but have carried on regardless of age and general public disinterest ever since. The founders of the band - excitable singer/guitarist Lips and laid-back drummer Robb Reiner ( Read more... ) -
M-m-m-my Ramona: Mary Elizabeth Winstead
As if I couldn't be any more in lust with Mary Elizabeth Winstead, or any more obsessed with Ramona Flowers, the godlike Edgar Wright has deemed it right to bring the two together in his forthcoming adaptation of Bryan Lee O'Malley's Scott Pilgrim books.
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Brilliant collection of personal ads from the London Review of Books here.
My favourite is:
God appeared to me in a dream last night and spoke your name in my ear. He gave me the winning lottery numbers, too, though, so you can understand where my priorities lay when I raced to grab a notebook and pen. Man, 37, living on hope and the next seven ( Read more... ) -
My favourite games of 2008
It's so hard - I did tons of gaming across the 360, the Wii and the DS in 2008 and I had very few duff experiences. 2008 was a bit of classic year, I think.
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I'm Buddy Rich when I fly off the handle!
A lovely night out in chilly London last night at the second Ward & White's Karaoke Circus, which was totally rammed and brimming with festive spirits. martylog had asked me to defend my victory at the first event by starting the karaoke with Queens of the Stone Age's oompah rock classic No One Knows, which was a lot of fun for me, probably some fun for ( Read more... ) -
Soothe my earworm
I quite like The Killers. Their first album was half abysmal, and much too Shed-Seveny to truly love, but yielded a couple of gems. A transformation into Springsteen-lite stadium rock for the second album showed ambition and a grasp of poetry and an innate sadness that did them credit. Now they are back with Human, the lead single for their third ( Read more... )
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