Well we all know china is not so hot in so many areas
but it's not been enough to stop me watching the Olympics, becuase hell i love them
or be amazed by the new constructions like the birds nest
check out this for a great view 30 minutes before the men 100m sprint final
but at the end of the day
i think it's beyond important to realise what a country is rather than get swept up in the hype
this article from the times online puts it really well
becuase china is a country whose leaders have a crappy human rights record and support other leaders with beyond crappy human rights records
WTF is going on world?
ok so the man is and was more than shaft, but this has always be a my favourite live clip of him
Normally jack is where is get my news on al things Life on Mars and ashes to ashes
but for a change i got this bit from the nz listener
this Wednesday prime are starting to Screen Ashes to Ashes
which i'm rather excited by, sure Olympics are on, but i'm not a 24/7 Olympics addict, so i'm looking forward to clicking onto prime on Wednesday for some Gene Genie.
let's fire up the quattro
Am I the only one who absolutely *loathes* this guy? It's a mystery to me how he has managed to make it as far as he is in the movie industry. I don't understand why people find him funny, at all, because he comes off, to me, as someone who is so desperately trying to prove he is cool and just entirely failing. Not in movies - in interviews. Not that it matters, since his movie persona IS him, as far as I can tell.
Just wondering.
of dramatic chimpunk
make way for teh kitteh
It's hot here. Very hot. I have the fan trying to blow cool(-er) air from outside into my little flat, and I have just spent a happy 20 minutes bashing seven bells of shit out of my drum kit, failing miserably to keep up with Van Halen. But hell, it was fun. I have a blister on my thumb now (I know) and I am as sweaty as hell.
But it was fun.
I am hideously and embarrassingly worse than I used to be. Perhaps I have lost my sense of rhythm. Perhaps I have overestimated my ability to pick it straight back up, perhaps everyone was just being over nice to me when I used to play, although that is unlikely, as I've always had pretty - ie brutally - honest friends. I mean, I know I wasn't necessarily any good as such, but I was pretty sure I could actually play. I think I have isolated the main issue at present* and have come up with a decent and logical plan** to address the issue. The only barrier is that when I come home from work, I am usually knackered and need to eat and sleep and go back to work. This leaves little in the way of regular learning and practicing time. I must make some, I think. The idea of this expensive (and gorgeous) drum kit sitting here getting dusty is bothering me enough that I will do something. Mind you, I've had it since February, and I've spent something like 7 hours at the most on them since then, as I've hardly been here.
From somewhere, deep down, in unchartered territory.... is some drive. I think I will see if I can dig it out.
*I'm shit
**learn how to play them again
preparing for Craft2.0
but i always have time for monsters
This is an old chat screenshot that I found kicking around a while ago. I kept it because it amused me.
I think this pretty much encapsulates a fair part of the reason that Sarah and I get on. Our chats are often more of the same - We have relatively deep and sensible conversations, with stupidity in between that doesn't seem to detract from the content.Well. more accurately, it's normally her having a proper conversation and me being a dick, with her still finding the shite I type amusing, while refusing to be distracted from the point she is making.
If there were awards for tolerance...
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