January 2010
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“Troubling, irresistible gadgets of tomorrow: a device that informs you of when...”
– The genius that is Alain de Botton on Twitter.
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I’m just packing my backpack for a trip to London to see my really brave friend perform in Nic Green’s theatre performance Trilogy at the Barbican Theatre. It was a massive hit at Edinburgh Fringe Festival last year and is a pretty radical feminist statement from what I can tell reading about it, as well as just being fun and clever and colourful. Hooray for people talking about feminism again!
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Knowing how much I would like to work for Google my lovely fella Alan brought me a pen and a cookie back when he visited Googleplex in California. I was using said pen yesterday and am thoroughly disappointed in it. It’s the weight of a mini barbell and left my index finger with a distinctly ugly red nobule. Conclusion: Google are sabotaging the art of writing with pen.
To amuse myself and give...
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I wrote this poem a couple of years ago but I spend a lot of time in libraries these days so seems appropriate to post it.
The Library
Last year I entered this library, browsed the shelves, wandered from history to music and myth through science and travel through art and astronomy through fact and fiction looking for the perfect read. I lost one book from the self-help section, and got fined. I...
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Star Wars related special effects info (and...
Have you ever wondered what the sound really was behind the laser gun in Return Of The Jedi?
Thought so. Answer: The ‘whang’ was made by hammering guy wires that anchored a radio tower.
Back with more useless film trivia soon!
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“Sex has become a sort of communal activity. It’s an explicit element in...”
– Interview with J.G. Ballard published in Mississippi Review, Vol. 20, No.1/2 in 1991. Been doing some research on J.G. Ballard and narratology the past few days and really interested in his focus on how the ‘hardware’ of objects and environments affect the ‘software’ of...
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Still Up In The Air about it...
Was really excited about watching current film, Up In The Air, from favourite new auteur Jason Reitman and it was: funny, sexy (anything with George Clooney, swoon), moving and uplifting, but disappointingly not quite Juno - despite brilliant returns from Jason Bateman and J.K. Simmons. The marriage sequence ruined it for me because the kooky stuff, which make his movies, got replaced with...
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Wicked to find someone had posted opening credit...
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