I can't speak for elseware, but I had a great time today. Cloverfield was OK, it needed one (more) correctly placed character death, a drastic re-cut towards the end, and some external context. As an idea for a "special" episode of some sort of TV series that can afford to destroy New York (OMGWTF world consistency) it's got lots of potential, but as a stand-alone movie it doesn't quite work, and I'm afraid sequels aren't likely to help.
Anyway, back to the real subject. Birthday boy told me he hadn't planned anything except a nice brunch, but planned or not it was a really cool day. And yes, I have the same problem with track 7, in the sense that I've heard it before, I can guess the name of the track, but I have trouble Googling up a strong reference to identify the artist & confirm the exact title.
I am going to have to buy that Shatner album. Also, Matter (the new Culture novel), and perhaps Halting State since we also dropped into the new Southampton FP today which I hadn't seen before.
Well, I picked up the copy in FP and flipped to a random page. My basis was, if that page doesn't do anything that annoyed me in his other work I'd buy it on the spot (when I did this I hadn't spotted Matter...). The page I flipped to had some of the geeky dialog that makes me feel (even if wrongly) that he's trying too hard. So, I don't know. That sort of thing is not a deal breaker, after all I read Neal Stephenson. But it did mean I don't find myself desperate to read it right away.
Then I saw "Matter" on the way out the door and now (thanks to a quick visit to Waterstones yesterday) I have that by my bed and I have "A Perfect Vacuum" and other Lem stuff on its way from Amazon, not to mention Caroline promised to lend me "Tales of Pirx the Pilot"... and I seem to have borrowed "How to be a Domestic Goddess" from Ele although obviously that's not bedtime reading.
So, yes I'd like to borrow it some time, but maybe later rather than sooner.
Anyway, back to the real subject. Birthday boy told me he hadn't planned anything except a nice brunch, but planned or not it was a really cool day. And yes, I have the same problem with track 7, in the sense that I've heard it before, I can guess the name of the track, but I have trouble Googling up a strong reference to identify the artist & confirm the exact title.
I am going to have to buy that Shatner album. Also, Matter (the new Culture novel), and perhaps Halting State since we also dropped into the new Southampton FP today which I hadn't seen before.
re: track 7, I've had no luck with Google. Chris in music-too-obscure-for-teh-intarwebs shocker!
Then I saw "Matter" on the way out the door and now (thanks to a quick visit to Waterstones yesterday) I have that by my bed and I have "A Perfect Vacuum" and other Lem stuff on its way from Amazon, not to mention Caroline promised to lend me "Tales of Pirx the Pilot"... and I seem to have borrowed "How to be a Domestic Goddess" from Ele although obviously that's not bedtime reading.
So, yes I'd like to borrow it some time, but maybe later rather than sooner.