• It’s only been like 3 months. Back to the episode I was watching. 14:36:21, 2013-10-13
• Odo is definitely more wrinkly faced 14:37:42, 2013-10-13
• Look how tiny Jake Sisko is. He is so tiny 14:39:02, 2013-10-13
• Does regular US tv have as many adverts as there are inserted into episodes on the Trek website? 14:41:29, 2013-10-13
• …and I think I’ve just remembered everything that’s going to happen in this episode. 14:45:59, 2013-10-13
• Randomly becoming a teacher is kind of.. unusual Keiko. Like with no training or anything. Or is it just keeping an eye on the kids? 14:48:33, 2013-10-13
• Quark is baiting Odo because he cares. Totally. 15:08:03, 2013-10-13
• Who looks after Molly O’Brien while Keiko and Miles are working? 15:13:55, 2013-10-13
• How do you NOT know what the DNA thingy is already Bashir? 15:15:28, 2013-10-13
• I mean, I realise that we don’t know you’re a super genius yet BUT STILL. 15:15:42, 2013-10-13
• Does Keiko even have a lesson plan? 15:22:06, 2013-10-13

• So watching DS9 from the very beginning. Already watched the pilot episode, now on “Past Prologue” 21:41:25, 2013-07-08
• DS9 was alway my least favourite Star Trek. Which is probably why it has the most episodes I’ve not seen 21:48:02, 2013-07-08
• It might have been Sisko that put me off. I wasn’t sure about Kira to start with, but grew to <3 her 21:49:47, 2013-07-08
• It’s a bit sneaky for Kira to pre-emptively go above Sisko’s head about the terrorist guy though 21:51:42, 2013-07-08
• The Duras sisters are forever entertaining though. 21:59:13, 2013-07-08
• They were never terribly successful at getting what they wanted though 21:59:48, 2013-07-08
• I do <3 how Odo loves to just lock people in gaol. 22:00:49, 2013-07-08
• I don’t think I could put up with hanging out with baby Dr Bashir though. He’s too… overeager for adventure or something 22:02:19, 2013-07-08
• Odo is the best as turning into another object and spying on people though. The best. I think Odo is my favourite at the beginning 22:03:35, 2013-07-08
• I don’t understand how Kira thought that Sisko wouldn’t find out that she went over his head 22:06:44, 2013-07-08
• Or how it would work out well. 22:06:53, 2013-07-08
• Or maybe Garak is the best. 22:09:04, 2013-07-08
• This Tahna Los guy is awful 22:11:21, 2013-07-08
• See, knowing what I know about Bashir, it’s kind of weird to see him being so obscenely naive. 22:14:23, 2013-07-08
• How does Kira not appear shady? 22:15:14, 2013-07-08
• Also, the way that Garak, Bashir and Sisko say “suit” is hilarious 22:16:11, 2013-07-08
• “how much do you know about me Odo?” “More than you probably realise.” NOT CREEPY AT ALL ODO 22:17:39, 2013-07-08
• PLEASE TRY ON THE JACKET BASHIR 22:19:42, 2013-07-08
• You are as covert as an explosive badger 22:19:58, 2013-07-08
• I can’t believe he didn’t try on the jacket. 22:24:04, 2013-07-08
• I don’t understand how Tahna Los could think that Kira wouldn’t be suspicious of Klingons 22:25:13, 2013-07-08
• Does Dax do a lot of backcombing to get her hair that bouffanty for just a ponytail? 22:26:35, 2013-07-08
• Can’t Tahna Los pilot the runabout himself? 22:27:10, 2013-07-08
• SISKO YOU SNEAKY 22:30:33, 2013-07-08
• Ok. Next episode, “A Man Alone” 22:39:01, 2013-07-08
• Bashir, you are never never going to get anywhere with Dax like that. 22:39:20, 2013-07-08
• Dax’s hair is awesome 22:39:40, 2013-07-08
• Is Odo more wrinkly faced at the beginning than at the end? 22:42:25, 2013-07-08
• Is that a euphemism Sisko? 22:48:05, 2013-07-08
• Ok going to halt 10 minutes in and finish watching another day 22:49:36, 2013-07-08

• …if Robin had listened to them? Ok, Will Scarlett would be dead. And little Luke Scarlett. And Allan A Dale. But still! 00:00:41, 2011-10-29
• I realise though, you kind of have to set Robin up as an outlaw right at the beginning and this is as good a way as any. 00:01:40, 2011-10-29
• And this way Will, Luke and Allan don’t die! This is also making me wonder about surnames in 12th century. 00:02:24, 2011-10-29
• This priest dude is kind of rubbish at not looking shifty. 00:04:04, 2011-10-29
• What’s this slowtime, flashback thing? What’s the point? Really? Is this to show Robin thinking? HE DOESN’T THINK, HE ACTS 00:05:06, 2011-10-29
• I wonder why Guy isn’t helping to fight Robin. The mulch joke is kind of funny though. 00:05:46, 2011-10-29
• Marian is a total badass. Not sure how no one notices how her hairpin is sticking out of some guard. 00:06:22, 2011-10-29
• Although this does kind of serves Guy’s purpose – Robin being an outlaw, running off etc. 00:07:16, 2011-10-29
• Will Scarlett’s first words “I’m just getting some kindling.” Also, I’ve watched too much American TV. Forgot eps were an hour long. 00:08:03, 2011-10-29
• Oh wait. They’re not. I was just expecting more from the outlaws holding up the newly minted outlaws before the stirring credit sequence. 00:09:00, 2011-10-29
• All in all, a pretty good first episode. Although kind of a shame that it turned me against Robin as a character for the entire series. 00:09:34, 2011-10-29

Yes, I’ve not posted here in over a year. It’s… unlikely to change.

I have got to see this film. Not only does it have one of my favourite action movie stars in it, it looks pretty cool and funny too. Well, funny between all the shooting, car chases and blowing things up and such.

Jason Statham seems to have been pigeonholed into the action star kind of role, but I think he’s been in some other less modern-day action hero type roles, which I guess I’ll have to track down and watch. It’d be cool to see him given the oppotunity to do something a little different though.

I first got introduced to the Tegan and Sara song “Walking with a Ghost” through a mashup by PartyBen that mixed it with a song by Mylo. It’s a really great song that I love (well, right now I do) and it’s also been covered by The White Stripes.

I don’t know what it is about this song, but it’s just so catchy and singalongable no matter what version I’m listening to.

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PartyBen – Walking in Paris (Tegan and Sara vs Mylo)
~ official site ~

The White Stripes – Walking With A Ghost
~ official site ~ buy “Walking with a Ghost” on Amazon ~

Tegan and Sara – Walking With A Ghost
~ official site ~ buy the album “So Jealous” on Amazon ~

AFI are my favourite band and have been for about 6 years now and I’m always struck by how dedicated their fans are and how much AFI seem to do for their fans. It may be because I am far more involved with the AFI fan community than I have been for any other band or musician that I have liked in the past, but thinking about the big music stars that I remember, none of them seem to do so much personally for their fans. Sure they might tour and stuff – but all musicians tour. Otherwise it’s just CDs and radio and while the music may be good, it’s not enough just to hear recordings. AFI actually concoct crazy mysteries to go with their albums for the fans to try and solve and investigate. They communicate with the fans using their messageboard, myspace and various other internet outlets. They take the time to meet members of their fan club before shows and often spend some time with the fans who stick around waiting after shows.

And I think it pays off. All the extra effort that AFI put into doing a little extra for their fans has resulted in a largely uber-dedicated fanbase who stick with them, even if some aren’t sure about the new direction their music is going in. A fanbase so dedicated that they frequently declare their love for AFI in a permanent fashion by tattooing it on their bodies.

This is a video directed by Karen Lum, adapted from the poem “Slip of the Tongue” written and performed by Adriel Luis.

And it’s great.

I can only really speak from the experience of creepy old men saying to me “You’re mixed race, yes?” as if they’ll get some kind of prize for correctly guessing that I’m both caucasian and chinese with perhaps a bonus thrown in for being incredibly skeevy. Then there’s the wondering whether you got into a university because of your ethnicity and gender and not because of your talent – perhaps they had some kind of quota to fill.

It’s something to think about.

Ok so like, I need to remember what I thought of these so I know whether I want to buy them again and if it’s not somewhere on the internet for me to look, did I even write it down?

Anyway. This was fine. The pasta was a bit too small and there was too much liquid at the end which made fishing the pasta out a little tricky. It did smell and taste good.

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Once again, time for my round up of last year. In December, I had been thinking that I hadn’t seen many new films but now looking back at 2023’s list – I didn’t see that many new films then either in comparison to the years before (lol and I even mentioned that in my 2023 round up). Maybe films that I might have been interested in that were due to be released in 2023 and 2024 were affected by Covid and got delayed or cancelled. I guess we’ll see what 2025 shapes up like over the next year.

Films

As usual, in reverse order of how much I liked them:

• Return of the King: The Fall and Rise of Elvis Presley – I basically watched this because I was starting to thinking I wouldn’t hit 10 new films for the year. It was fine.
• Apollo 13: Survival – I’ve seen the film with Tom Hanks and read the book by Jim Lovell that that film was based on, so I don’t think I really learned anything new seeing this.
• Gladiator II – Went to see this because my Mum wanted to see it even though she didn’t remember going to see the first Gladiator film, which she would have actually have taken me to see in the cinema. It was also fine, but ehh maybe I am too familiar with the real people some of the characters are named after for it to really work for me.
• Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band – I don’t think I discovered anything new about Bruce himself from this film but it was good to hear more from the band members and what the process of touring is like for them.
• A Real Pain – I don’t often enjoy films where I just don’t think I would want to spend time with any of the characters in real life but this was good. There’s stuff that’s occurred to me now about the marketing of this film in the context of some of the stuff that I do for my job but lol, not getting into that on the internet.
• The Extraordinary Miss Flower – This was a good choice for my last film of LFF as it’s music video kind of a film and by that point of the festival, I need something different.
• Endurance – I enjoyed this because I do love a documentary but really this would have been better as a 3 episode mini series.
• Seeking Mavis Beacon – This was more about the journey and what happens when the destination is something that you’re explicitly never going to reach and where you can go from there, along with some interesting thoughts on identity, representation and yeah, why are all the helpful voices in our devices female?
• Pauline Black: A 2-Tone Story – In contrast to Seeking Mavis Beacon where the protagonists tell us about looking for someone, in this film Pauline Black tells us how she found herself, in her own words and that it’s in her own words is the most important draw.
• The Cats of Gokogu Shrine – Look. This is an observational film about cats. I’m not even a cat person and yet here it is, third on my list.
• Deadpool & Wolverine – I feel like this is a good film to end the Deadpool films on but I also feel like there will probably be more films with Deadpool as the main character. The Easter Eggs are extremely entertaining to spot, but are a nice extra rather than having to do the heavy lifting.
• Conclave – I was always going to enjoy a film that was “what if Agatha Christie wrote about cardinals being bitchy to each other” because I am fairly Catholic in an easy-going way (which I guess has to be a thing) but it’s not only that. The dishonesty of some of these men about their past actions and the thinking that they cannot be accountable for those choices because of their position is exactly what then disqualifies them from being elected. This, along with the lobbying and scheming for votes, is a big part of a film which at its heart is about honesty, faith and trying to do the right thing even at personal cost. It’s also a 2 hour long film but moves quickly and it felt like no time passed at all as it’s so engaging.

Music

I don’t remember any new albums I listened to last year. I know Dave Hause put out some mostly vinyl only stuff that I did buy and enjoy – but I remember it mostly because it was a record you had to go in person to a gig and buy.
Speaking of which, I did go to 7 gigs in the end.

• Dave Hause (where I picked up a copy of that album)
• The Gaslight Anthem (who I kind of went off of right around when they went on hiatus (possibly even for the reason that I think they went on hiatus))
• Alkaline Trio (who I really haven’t listened to much in recent years, but this gig was really enjoyable)
• Ásgeir
• Bedouin Soundclash (still thinking about how their support act doesn’t have any CDs or sell music on Bandcamp)
• Sleep Token (awesome)
• Electric Six (who I only really knew those three songs they put out 20 years ago and it turns out they have like 15 albums and a dedicated fanbase since they are very entertaining)

Electric Six was also one of those gigs where the queue for the ladies was non-existent and in an entertaining turn of events it was the other toilets with a queue. Plus the support act, Enjoyable Listens was really good and was kind of like if Gabriel Bruce was English and kind of eccentric.

Other stuff

I suppose if I wrote more about this stuff at the time it was happening I would remember more of it, but I guess I do ok. I went to Valencia because I needed to use a travel voucher and picked it because that’s where Formula E goes to do their testing (although after the huge flooding, 2024 testing had to be moved to Madrid). I saw the penultimate FE race of the season in London. I went to Margate so I could visit the Crab Museum and ended up also visiting other cool places like the Shell Grotto and Walmer Castle. Went on a short cruise visiting France, Belgium and the Netherlands. Went to Norfolk and stopped off at the Oliver Cromwell museum on the way. In sad news, that Uncle who kept swerving meeting up with us each time in the last 14 years that we’ve got on a plane to travel to the other side of the planet where he lives, did in fact die so I guess I was right that we’d never see him again. It is what it is. In happier news, one of my cousin’s daughters got married and I’m extremely pleased for her – her young man seems well brought up etc and I’m sure they will have many, many years of love and happiness ahead of them.

More gigs already planned for 2025, along with one small trip so far and another London e-prix.

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