Minor update pt.5
I just uploaded a shedload of 18.13 photos. I wondered if the evenings were getting darker, but as this old one and this new one shows, it doesn’t appear to be yet.
Currently reading The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall. Before that, I read The Scheme for Full Employment by Magnus Mills. I also received two excellent magazines from Stack. They were literary ones this month. There was The Drawbridge and another one I can’t remember the title of. They were both in the newspaper format, which I still hope to use one day to present some short stories.
Tonight I think we are going to see The Other Guys, which promises to be hilarious. I’ll let you know how it goes.
(Oh, and I think too much time has passed to write anything comprehensive about Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World, so I won’t. Shame, because we also watched Kick-Ass recently and I think they’re comparable. Scott Pilgrim was better, in my opinion. I still think it is perhaps the most original mainstream film I have seen in a long while.)
Who needs an X-Box/PS3/Wii etc. when you’ve got NBA Jam on the Playstation 2. An amazing game.
TV-wise, I am currently enjoying This is England ‘86, although ‘enjoying’ is the wrong word really. Last night there was a graphic rape scene involving a teenage girl. Still, it is disturbing and dark and funny and intense and realistic. (Disclaimer: I was only three in 1986 so I can’t actually confirm that it’s realistic, but it appears to be). The jury is out as to whether or not you need a graphic rape scene involving a teenage girl on TV. I didn’t particularly want to see it, but then it fit with the story and it was hard to imagine the scene not being included in the programme. I suppose it’s about context. Whichever way you look at it, the acting was fucking incredible.
Aside from that, X-Factor is on at the moment. Need I say more?
Many birds are now enjoying the bird feeder. There are robins and tits and our friends the wood pigeons. They all seem to get on alright, although the pigeons mostly get the lion’s share.
