Friday, February 4th, 2005

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9:38a	Marilyn Manson, you've changed... (5 Comments | Comment on this)
9:38a	Schizopathic psychophrenia.... of the mind Returning to work on Monday, I found that Amazon had finally made good on their nebulous threat to deliver Le Tigre. Yay! I heard Hot Topic on the radio what must be two or three months ago, and was reminded how much I needed this album, as I think I have been pretty regularly since it was released. I saw Le Tigre in Brighton... um... perhaps three years ago - when they were touring Feminist Sweepstakes, in any case - and remember bouncing enthusiastically to Deceptacon. That was a good evening: steaming venue, and a walk home through cool night air. I do miss Brighton, and the sea. ( The sea ) So anyway. Today, over coffee before work, I finally brought down the curtain on a very low period in my life. I finished Angels and Demons, by Dan Brown. My life is once again my own. ( Long and spoiler-ridden rant about Dan Brown, The da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons. With swearing.  ) With a bit of luck, I may never have to read another Dan Brown book. For those who have yet to do so, I would recommend playing Deus Ex instead. It has all the same nouns, and the dialogue and plotting are actually better. It seems that Dan Brown includes among his top ten books of all time Kane and Abel by Jeffrey Archer, Robert Ludlum's Bourne series, and Strunk and White's Elements of Style - "Because who can possibly remember all the rules of grammar and punctuation?". I am unsure whether one can actually end another human being's life through papercuts inflicted by the target being secured to a chair in front of a snowblower into which an entire paperback run of The da Vinci Code is being poured, but I'm ready to try. Bad week. ( Train, eat, watch, shop, party ) Right, that seems to catch us up a bit. More later. (20 Comments | Comment on this)
9:38a	So I sat myself down in John's office, made myself comfortable and refused to move. After about an hour, just as I was about to doze off to sleep... Anybody comparing this to Ade Akiniyi's approach to playing up front for Leicester City will, of course, receive a hard stare. Still, football is marvellous - where else could a man whose name has been associated indelibly with overpriced failure be earning £5,000 a week. Actually, don't answer that. It would only depress me. Speaking of which, another thing about Dan Brown. ( Read more... ) I'll try to make that the last. Private view yesterday, of the linocut work of the lovely Maria Strutz. Have thus far managed to resist buying "Seagoats", but it may be a matter of time and taxes. Which is interesting. Art is something that I haven't purchased a lot of; the odd Andrew Logan chip fork here, a Mariko Mori mass-produced there, but nothing serious at all. Nothing you could hang, point to and say "yes, that is the work of a young/promising/local artist". Well, except for some Kev Hopgood sketches, but they don't count, being a) preliminary sketches and b) unframed. Also c) lost underneath an armchair, if memory serves. Do you have any areas of unexpected parsimony? (7 Comments | Comment on this)

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