Washing-Up Noisecast #3
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Monday, July 17, 2006
Washing-Up Noisecast #2
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link | 0 comment(s) | links to this postThursday, July 13, 2006
The Owls Are Not What They Seem
You're probably sick of me banging on about Animal Crossing on here. So I'm going going to do so elsewhere.
Then I'm going to shut up about it.
The DS Lite is ace. Almost certainly the best console I've ever owned. But it's causing a problem in that I'm spending far too much time playing games, and not enough reading books, making music, keeping the flat tidy, or exercising. Normally my game playing comes in dribs and drabs. If I've bought something new that I'm really enjoying I might play it fairly intensely for a couple of evenings, but mostly I try to maintain a balanced diet of activities. But because there's a fairly large number of appealing games in the DS catalogue that can be picked up for not-unreasonably sums of money, I've amassed a nice little pile of games for it in the past few weeks, each of which beg, nay, demand my attention, to the point where I'm seriously considering a period of voluntary DS-abstinance in order to deal with those niggly-little real-world issues like ensuring that your home isn't a total pig-sty.
Still, I'm not a total shut-in. We're going to the movies tonight to see The Wind That Shakes The Barley, and I'm even going to be exposed to those twin strangers "fresh air" and "exercise" on Sunday as I'm going hillwalking with some folk from work.
And yes, I'm leaving the DS at home.
Monday, July 10, 2006
Oh Yeah...
... and I think there was some kind of football on last night as well. I completely forgot until I went down to the wee shop along from the flat, which is owned by an Italian family, to find them all jumping up and down ecstatically. As much as I'm irritated by football, it's hard not to smile on the rare occasion that it makes someone that happy.
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link | 0 comment(s) | links to this postTiny Who Review
The last episode in the series of Doctor Who was on last night. Consistent with the standard of the series so far, it was okay, with the good bits sadly tempered by dialog that's just on the wrong side of silly, some disappointingly poor special effects, and the fact that David Tennant isn't Christopher Ecclestone.
Yeah, it's only telly. Worse, it's only Doctor Who, a show that, while I watched it religiously as a kid and retained a certain affection for, I was never a massive fan of. But the fact that the 2006 series has been so lacklustre is mainly disappointing because last year's was such a joy. Almost every episode left me with a big, silly grin on my face. I even went out and bought the shelf-spoiling DVD set in the massive TARDIS box.
Still, maybe this is TV's equivalent to the "difficult second album", having been rushed into production following the massive success of the last series without the lengthy gestation time that it previously enjoyed, and series three will be better.
The Daleks-vs-Cybermen slagging match made me laugh like a drain, though.
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link | 1 comment(s) | links to this postSunday, July 09, 2006
Hnery Henry Rollins is a Fibber
Good Saturday. Too much coffee with J&L, then super secret surprise birthday party in Sleazys spent drinking booze, shaking my ass to many metallic tunes, and, er, talking about Animal Crossing with mar-c. Afterwards we headed to the ABC, but my fuel tank was almost empty and I slipped into curmungeon mode, so didn't stay long.
More noise soon...
Update - Yes, yes, Henry Rollins, not Hnery, good name though it might be. And no, it wasn't my birthday. I was hungover, ok?
Wednesday, July 05, 2006
Washing-Up Noisecast #1
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The first in an irregular series of aural abuses. Warning: Contains naughty words.
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