August 2003

Muse – Absolution

August 21, 2003

It’s been a good year for music both new and simply new to me. Aqualung, Athlete, Blur, Hot Hot Heat, Jeff Hanson, The Shins, Rob Dougan, The Thrills, Tom McRae, Turin Breaks. And that’s only a small sample. It’s been a vintage year, and the best of the them? I wonder. Years ago, it would […]

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Reaction to my script

August 21, 2003

Well, it's been a couple of weeks since I posted the first draft of my script, Tag up on Zoetrope for review by my fellow screenwriters. The passing comments I've had on it have all been very encouraging and positive. Now the reviews proper have started to come in and I have to say that […]

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Arses and the shifting thereof

August 20, 2003

I still haven't started packing. I still haven't sorted out my change of address. I really must stop procrastinating. I really don't want to.

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Blow-by-blow update

August 20, 2003

I don't know why this is in the procrastination category, but it is. Live with it. Sky sorted. NTL sorted. *sob sob* I can't believe it. I'm going to lose my beautiful 600k broadband connection. *sob sob* I've only had a it a few months. I'll be going back, then, to crappy dial-up, which may […]

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On the other hand

August 20, 2003

This definitely does belong in the procrastination category. Yet another Cannot Find Server page. But it made me laugh.

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I know I really shouldn't have

August 20, 2003

I know I shouldn't have wasted good time doing this, but I couldn't help it. Now, I want to see this appearing on Neil Gaiman's weblog by the end of the week, and expect this URL to have gone round the world at least once by this time tomorrow. Don't disappoint me, people. Cannot Find […]

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Packing…

August 20, 2003

I started packing. Ok so I only got two boxes done, but it's two boxes less to do on the weekend. It's depressing though. Until you start packing, the move remains a theoretical possibility. Once you've got boxes stacked in the corner it becomes an unpleasant inevitability. What's also irritating me is that my computer […]

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Recruitment agencies

August 20, 2003

Now, if you had a recruitment agency based in Israel which specialised in attracting English speakers into the country, what would you call it? Something snappy, yes. Something memorable, yes. Certainly something carefully considered, bearing in mind the tense situation in the area. And quite possibly not Marksman International Personnel.

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Escher in Lego

August 20, 2003

Someone has way too much time on their hands. Still, this is really quite astounding.

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Lost Temple of Isis

August 19, 2003

I had the most astounding dream this morning – the sort that makes you attempt to go right back to sleep again as soon as you wake, trying to reclaim those now lost moments. I dreamt that I was on holiday in Greece with my parents. We were in a large cave, accessed from a […]

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Forsooth, the end is nigh

August 18, 2003

I hadn’t realised it until today, but the end really is nigh. The end of my life in Reading, that is. For the last three years I have whined about Reading – about how soulless it is, how spiritless. Commuterville and then some. But the truth is that although I know no one here, it […]

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Golwg interview and Blog-City

August 18, 2003

I did an interview with Mai Williams of Golwg this afternoon. She emailed me Friday to ask if she could write a piece on Get Fluent and the troubles I’ve had with it. Of course I agreed, why wouldn’t I? But it felt odd. Like a book end. Golwg did a nice piece on me […]

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The first law of outdoors entertaining

August 17, 2003

Whenever entertaining is to occur outdoors, or rely on good weather, I can almost always predict with fairly reasonable accuracy that three things will occur. 1. The day before the event will be hot and sunny. 2. The day of the event, whether it's forecast to be hot and sunny or not, it will be […]

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The cough, Fflwff and insurance brokers

August 16, 2003

For those of you following the saga of my cough, and I know there are many of you quite riveted, you’ll be pleased to know that it’s now producing, i.e. instead of having a single lump of phlegm and mucous stuck in my throat which gets alternately coughed up then swallowed back down again, the […]

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Verdict on the Sudafed

August 15, 2003

Marginally effective. Lay there hacking for only an hour last night before finally falling asleep with Fflwff snuggling up to me. She attempted to hatch out my kneecaps all night, so I guess that means she's missed me. This goop does taste truly vile but it is supressing the cough a little bit. Or maybe […]

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