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Wednesday, April 19, 2006

a post without a title

Current obsessions and observations:

- My Space: I know that this has been around for ages but i've only just begun to see its genius in that you can read about a new artist and then go on My Space and listen to three tracks and can then either fall in love with them or be safe in the knowledge i've heard them and they aren't going to change my life. The two pages i'm listening to at the moment are Jenny Owen Youngs (a mate of Regina Spektor) and Lily Allen (who is kind of hard to explain, just have a listen to LDN).
- Junebug: The cinema is an excellent way of spending a bank holiday and because this was an arty film the bonus was UGC (or CineMegaPlexOpolis) put them on in the Premiere Screens so you get a huge reclining seat in a screen with not many people in it. The film is kind of hard to describe as very little actually happens (my favourite kind) but thematically it's about how families act atypically when someone new comes into it and the subtleties of family relationships. It made me cry. Also has a bizarre cameo by Will Oldham.
- Prison Break: Oh.My.Word. It is just getting more and more intense.
- Trips on trains: Went to Leeds yesterday for a potter about and i like reading whilst listening to music and pausing to look wistfully out the window.
- Mark Ronson: There's a new remix album of Radiohead songs and i love the cheeky reworking of Just (i'm just a sucker for horns).
- Arsenal: Come on, the boys.
- haruki murakami: I'm not a big reader but i have a desire to read a book by this guy but have no idea where to start. Any suggestions from an expert? Maybe a collection of short stories?
- Glastonbury: Saw this and made me not want to go to Glastonbury given that the vibe that everyone talks about seems to made up of wankers. Jarvis Cocker was good though.
- Work: Going back tommorrow and my brain has already begun to think in community leaders. How terribly annoying. Need to watch Thumbsucker and finish Arrested Development then today.

3 Comments:

  • i have hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world by murakami. you are welcome to borrow it. i have not read it myself though. so i couldn't tell you what it is like.

    By Blogger dan, at 3:00 PM  

  • loving the Lily Allen song, and Mark Ronson - have you got the whole album? All the songs are streamed on rapster records site.

    By Blogger Unknown, at 10:22 AM  

  • don't know if you still check your comments, but if so... Murakami has a wonderful collection or short stories called After the Quake, and that's a great place to cut your teeth on murakami.

    By Blogger Stacy, at 3:22 PM  

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