I am still alive, just not seemed to post much recently, not sure why.
Anyway, some bits for me to remember in the future. Mainly what I am watching/planning at this time.
Music
She and Him Volume 1. Really good album, just very easy to listen to. Zooey has got such a good voice.
The Ting Tings, very nice first album.
Johnny Cash, got a best of album, did not realise how many of his songs I have actually heard of before.
Just spent a while on You Tube, going through ACW songs. Split from there into some folk music.
TV
Veronica Mars. Living are showing the whole of the 3rd series each night at 3:30 am, just get the V+ box to series record it, and watch the episode the next morning. Really loving it, can not find many faults with it at all, which is kind of strange as I have got the impression that the fans did not like the 3rd series. Hope they will repeat the 1st and 2nd series in the same way after this one finishes.
Gossip Girl. Blake looks too old to make Serena believable, I have a hard time telling the blokes apart, but I do like the show. Not sure how long it can go on for, but for now I will carry on watching it.
House. Always good, not sure if I really like all the new assistants, but they are a minor point of it.
Greek. Watched the first one, I will keep at it for now.
Wargames
Fire and Fury. Got last Sunday at Partizan, looks quite good. Going to be done in 6mm, just going to have to find some ready made bases in nearly the correct size.
The Great War. Also got last Sunday, only had a quick glance at them, but do not seem too bad. Not sure what scale to look at, as far as I am aware no-one else has any WW1 figures so I have got a free run on that. Maybe 6 or 10mm. Base size is roughly the same as that for Fire and Fury.
Just checked, looks like East Riding Miniatures do them, 1 inch square bases.
Been playing
WW2 naval. Our rules. Still got to sit down and have a total rethink on them, lose the mark of points bit and have effects totally based around explosive effects of weapons hitting.
Pulp Fiction. Bob has been putting on some games on a Thursday night, mostly they work, but it does lend me to wonder if a better way of doing it would be to give each player one decent character with some abilities, and quite a few add on minions with no skills. Allow each player to really get to know one character, and then put in the advancement rules to allow them to build up other characters. Sort of a dungeons done on mass.
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Friday, 30 May 2008
Sunday, 6 April 2008
Small surprises and TV
Couple of small surprises this weekend, nothing major but stuff I did not expect.
First was in the first episode of the new series of Dr Who, when Rose suddenly appeared (and then disappeared). Must admit, I did think that Billie looked haggard a bit, could be the expression she was meant to be showing.
Second surprise was when I opened the curtains and found the world was white. Looked a good 3 inches of snow covering the garden and car, but it was already melting.
Not that it bothered me, as my V+ box is over half way full, I thought I should sit down and start to clear some of it, so in order here is what I watched this morning.
Big Bang Theory - I really do like this American comedy, nothing really new in the whole premise, but it does seem to work.
iCarly - not actually recorded, but caught live. A Nickelodeon tweenie show that I have started to like. I just love the theme tune, and the show works by not having anyone be too annoying (unless that character is meant to be). Also, nice to have one of have a kids show that does not seem to go in for the massive moralising most of them do.
NCIS - probably my current favourite of the American cop shows. Avoids the CIS(s) odd ball death syndrome that has plagued them over the last few series.
Boston Legal - not one of the best episodes this week, too much of the Alan Shore does his left wing rant bit. Still good TV though.
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles - to be honest, remove Summer Glau playing Cameron and I would probably have stopped watching after the first couple of episodes. Her portrayal of the innocent killing machine is one of the best bits of acting I can recall, and the writing that provides the character is also spot on. The problem is, remove her and the show is average at best.
Moonlight (2 episodes) - the current "sexy" vampire show. Very much in the same vein as Bloodties, just without the mystical bits. A watchable show, even if the 2 episodes I watched really highlight my 2 problems with the show.
a) Sophie Myles - an OK actress, who is the chemical equivalent of Argon, no matter who she plays opposite there is no reaction. I know people rated her in the Dr Who episode "Girl in the fireplace", but I just do not see it. In the Moonlight episode she had to play sexy to get into a night club, run by Holly Valance. Sophie has a hard time pulling off sexy at the best of times, but to try it with someone like Holly on the show is just asking to look stupid. I can take Sophie as the lead, but as a dedicated journalist and not as one half of the main pair.
b) Coraline - Mick's wife. Not sure how it is going to play out, but now she is "back" then I can see a lot of episodes when Mick gets confused if she is Coraline or Morgan. Could get very old fast.
Writing the above about Moonlight has brought up an interesting point, it, Bloodties, Angel, Blade, all of them have a good "sexy" MALE vampire as the lead. I can not recall any show where there has been a good female vampire in it. Harmony on Angel is about the closest that comes to mind, and she was not so much good as rather incompetent at being bad as well as scared of Angel.
First was in the first episode of the new series of Dr Who, when Rose suddenly appeared (and then disappeared). Must admit, I did think that Billie looked haggard a bit, could be the expression she was meant to be showing.
Second surprise was when I opened the curtains and found the world was white. Looked a good 3 inches of snow covering the garden and car, but it was already melting.
Not that it bothered me, as my V+ box is over half way full, I thought I should sit down and start to clear some of it, so in order here is what I watched this morning.
Big Bang Theory - I really do like this American comedy, nothing really new in the whole premise, but it does seem to work.
iCarly - not actually recorded, but caught live. A Nickelodeon tweenie show that I have started to like. I just love the theme tune, and the show works by not having anyone be too annoying (unless that character is meant to be). Also, nice to have one of have a kids show that does not seem to go in for the massive moralising most of them do.
NCIS - probably my current favourite of the American cop shows. Avoids the CIS(s) odd ball death syndrome that has plagued them over the last few series.
Boston Legal - not one of the best episodes this week, too much of the Alan Shore does his left wing rant bit. Still good TV though.
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles - to be honest, remove Summer Glau playing Cameron and I would probably have stopped watching after the first couple of episodes. Her portrayal of the innocent killing machine is one of the best bits of acting I can recall, and the writing that provides the character is also spot on. The problem is, remove her and the show is average at best.
Moonlight (2 episodes) - the current "sexy" vampire show. Very much in the same vein as Bloodties, just without the mystical bits. A watchable show, even if the 2 episodes I watched really highlight my 2 problems with the show.
a) Sophie Myles - an OK actress, who is the chemical equivalent of Argon, no matter who she plays opposite there is no reaction. I know people rated her in the Dr Who episode "Girl in the fireplace", but I just do not see it. In the Moonlight episode she had to play sexy to get into a night club, run by Holly Valance. Sophie has a hard time pulling off sexy at the best of times, but to try it with someone like Holly on the show is just asking to look stupid. I can take Sophie as the lead, but as a dedicated journalist and not as one half of the main pair.
b) Coraline - Mick's wife. Not sure how it is going to play out, but now she is "back" then I can see a lot of episodes when Mick gets confused if she is Coraline or Morgan. Could get very old fast.
Writing the above about Moonlight has brought up an interesting point, it, Bloodties, Angel, Blade, all of them have a good "sexy" MALE vampire as the lead. I can not recall any show where there has been a good female vampire in it. Harmony on Angel is about the closest that comes to mind, and she was not so much good as rather incompetent at being bad as well as scared of Angel.
Thursday, 20 March 2008
Funeral
Monday went to a mates mothers funeral, or a friends funeral as I got on well with her.
It set me thinking, as probably most people do in those circumstances, as to what I would like at mine.
Firstly, I would want a humanist one, I am not religious at all, so seems a bit hypercritical to go for the whole CoE thing. She had a humanist deliver her service, and apart from seeming a touch padded out, it went well.
Secondly, got to go for cremation, actually at that point you could just leave my body at the side of the road for all I care, but if it has got to be legal then turn me to ash rather than waste a bit of land on me.
Thirdly, the music. About the only certain one I want is during the committal (the bit where the coffin goes behind the curtain), I want the original Thunderbirds theme. The whole bit always reminds me of something off the TV series.
The rest of the music will change as my tastes do, but for now, the following apply.
The entry - The original Battlestar Galactica theme tune. Great wallops of soring string music.
The end bit when everyone leaves - A St Trinians mix, start with Flash Harrys theme off the original movies (the piano picking out the notes one), which moves into the Girls Aloud St Trinians theme (off the new movies). A bit of a silly song as people start to move, into a nice full of life song with some good lyrics about being yourself.
The middle bit - currently not decided all that much, either Debbie Gibson's "We could be together" which I love, especially the line "If you said jump, I'd say how high", which seems to be how I've ended up living my life, or Suzanne Vega's Marlene on the Wall, which I also love, and was (still is?) the only song I knew all the lyrics to. Plus it is also semi sad sounding, and I want tears at my funeral damn it :)
As for the rest, I suppose a wake back at a pub somewhere, seems more "me" than something at a house. Be nice if people stayed to get drunk, rather than having a polite drink and leaving.
It set me thinking, as probably most people do in those circumstances, as to what I would like at mine.
Firstly, I would want a humanist one, I am not religious at all, so seems a bit hypercritical to go for the whole CoE thing. She had a humanist deliver her service, and apart from seeming a touch padded out, it went well.
Secondly, got to go for cremation, actually at that point you could just leave my body at the side of the road for all I care, but if it has got to be legal then turn me to ash rather than waste a bit of land on me.
Thirdly, the music. About the only certain one I want is during the committal (the bit where the coffin goes behind the curtain), I want the original Thunderbirds theme. The whole bit always reminds me of something off the TV series.
The rest of the music will change as my tastes do, but for now, the following apply.
The entry - The original Battlestar Galactica theme tune. Great wallops of soring string music.
The end bit when everyone leaves - A St Trinians mix, start with Flash Harrys theme off the original movies (the piano picking out the notes one), which moves into the Girls Aloud St Trinians theme (off the new movies). A bit of a silly song as people start to move, into a nice full of life song with some good lyrics about being yourself.
The middle bit - currently not decided all that much, either Debbie Gibson's "We could be together" which I love, especially the line "If you said jump, I'd say how high", which seems to be how I've ended up living my life, or Suzanne Vega's Marlene on the Wall, which I also love, and was (still is?) the only song I knew all the lyrics to. Plus it is also semi sad sounding, and I want tears at my funeral damn it :)
As for the rest, I suppose a wake back at a pub somewhere, seems more "me" than something at a house. Be nice if people stayed to get drunk, rather than having a polite drink and leaving.
Wednesday, 27 February 2008
Earthquake
Had an earthquake this morning around 1am.
I'd been in bed for about 10 minutes, when the bed started to vibrate. I was really expecting to start hearing some music, as I thought it was some pillock with his car stereo turned up full.
After a few seconds, when I didn't hear anything and the vibrating was continuing, I thought it was a (very) low flying aircraft.
The main shakes lasted around 10 seconds as a guess, then there was around another 15 seconds or so of it, noticeable due to my bedroom door vibrating.
Had a quick check this morning, seems to be no damage to the house.
All in all, not really scary, just unusual for England.
I'd been in bed for about 10 minutes, when the bed started to vibrate. I was really expecting to start hearing some music, as I thought it was some pillock with his car stereo turned up full.
After a few seconds, when I didn't hear anything and the vibrating was continuing, I thought it was a (very) low flying aircraft.
The main shakes lasted around 10 seconds as a guess, then there was around another 15 seconds or so of it, noticeable due to my bedroom door vibrating.
Had a quick check this morning, seems to be no damage to the house.
All in all, not really scary, just unusual for England.
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