holy fuck

midlesborough into the UEFA cup final. Not a bro fan but incredible that 2 English teams make it into the 2 European club football finals in the same year. That's where my aliegance to my country ends, however, as I shall be supporting FC Barcelona (as my housemate calls em) on the 17th of May. Have you heard Gnarls Barkley's 2nd single? Well you jolly well should because its stomping, funkful and soultastic. "Smiley Faces" gettit, burn it, playit, convert the glum midgets out there, this song rules!!! This evening, after being incredibly glum and depressing my housemate and myself, I watched "Creep" on dvd and thought it was pretty good fun. Not that scary and one hated the lead actress with avengance, but shamefully grew to hate her (a bit) less, and the baddie too, by the end of this British horror scare film (sounds really strange to say rather than "movie", bloody americans!).

Feeling depressed and moody. Hating work, hating the deep boredom sometimes felt living here in Cambridge. Feeling like a sick lovelorn teenager (again!). Its the weekend , an extralong weekend, so I can get the fuck out of this man-period dankmind thinking... Cheese! :)

saturday morning and the sun shines with giant warm rays. spring rules. I am off to town in a minute, to have a look in camera shops for kit for my new digital camera which I got from amazon last week. I decided to get a Canon Ixus 55 because although I would like to have a digital slr, I think this camera is perfect for travelling and general horsing about without spending incredible money, it is very compact and small, fits in a trouser pocket, takes cracking photos, and it is the BOMB!!!
Yeah so it was a fantastic day out there today. I went into town after juggling in the garden sunshine for an hour (mostly 2club) and bought kit for my digital camera (case and extra battery) and then went to see the Amazing "Transamerica" at the cinema. What a great film, the best I've seen in ages. and the girl who plays the pre-op transexual deserves an oscar. This evo after cooking toad in the hole i watched Akira. Akira is a jap manga sublime masterpiece. So complex so cool so different. Always keeping one on the ball of one's thoughts, never failing to surprise and amaze. I'm reading John Peel's part-autobiographical/part-biography "Margrave of the Marshes" (he died half way through it, his wife Shiela and children completed it), and enjoying it immensely. Very funny and highly saturated with good tales of, well, his life.
The weeks are flying past, I am pretty busy every day but I don't seem to actually get much done. I go to the cinema, play sport, watch football, juggle and read books. This I like. What have I got to show for this outpouring of energy? Firm ripplingly muscled arms, a bigger brain and a greater number of films that I have watched. I have watched lots and lots of films since January. 65 including DVDs in 3 months. Whoah, that's quite a few!!!

love film

Lovefilm.comis an internet dvd rental agency. I have been using it for two months now and I can only great things about it. I have seen huge numbers of films that without it I would never had the time nor money to get around to watching. If i had a TV (I have a TV but am not connected to cable/satalite/terrestrial because mostly it is a huge waste of both time and money) I'd be watching lots of crap tv and maybe catching the occasional good film... but what I have now is perfect. In the last couple of weeks I have watched a lot of chinese films: "the road home" starring the fantastically beautiful zhang ziyi, "shower", "enter the dragon" (okay, bruce lee is chinese but it was an american film), and the sino-american "saving face".

To those who haven't used lovefilm I shall explain how it works.

• Select Films you want to watch from online database of 40,000+ titles


• Titles are sent to you (i get 2 at a time for 12.99 per month);


• Watch film and then rate it (out of 7) to aid their system of recommendations (if you are looking for other great films then it recommends based on what you like/dislike;


• Return by prepaid 1st class envelope;

the turn-around is very good. If one posts first post on Monday morning then you get new dvds in the post on Wednesday. Although they try to give you your top 10 preferences first its not always possible for them to send these titles to you. Especially if you like obscure foreign films, like me. They have introduced a "fasttrack" scheme where a certain number of dvds (usually the latest blockbuster releases) are available for immediate selection. One has a number of fasttracks per month and you are guaranteed these films no-matter-what. The downside is that you will have to wait some while for the obscure films (dig! and howl's moving castle still sit atop the list after a month's occupation), but this opens up the element of suprise - one is eager to see what film is in the post next!!!

dance dance dance

dance dance dance

I finished the above titled book by Haruki Murakami and I have to tell you that it was really great: eccentric, weird, great food and music, a cat (always a great feature in a novel), stunning women, murder mystery, hawaii, Japan. A murder mystery and a social commentary. Mister Coelho's "Veronica Decides to Die" awaits my feasting eyes.
I was in London town the other day and was approached by a tourist asking directions to some other place in London town. I didn't know where the place was that the tourist (asian girl, cute) wanted and even though I had an a-z in my coat pocket I didn't bother looking it up and showing her where it was that she wanted to go. I was "busy" and "I didn't have the time". Yet I wasn't that busy and I did have the time so what is it about me (the english) and total strangers? I have heard that people in Korea or Japan (and probably a lot of other countries) would go out of their way to help a helpless ignorant foreigner (or human stick on the street). What is it about the English that makes us so hostile to strangers? I don't dislike them. In fact I am ambivilant towards them. I would behave the same way to someone English who asked the same question. What is it???

im going to finish my book...

if I am not back tonight, it is because I have departed this world and joined another. If I finish my book I'll be back for a chat with you tonight. If not then so long and see you soon.

its the end of the week and im basted

not the best time of this week to be writing to you but I have not had anyother time to get at the keys and write something.
This week has been a real rollercoaster. I don't know whether it is the spring air or the male-period but I have been firing from one end of the spectrum to the other. Today I went to London, for the boat race and some other noodling. Cambridge were soundly thrashed by Oxford (5 lengths) and watching it live (under hammersmith bridge) was not all that I had hoped it'd be. But I have seen it. another thing I can cross of the list ;-) Spring showers. Is she comparing me to him? Do I think of her any different than if she were my sister? I like her company. Yes. I love her company. She makes me smile. Makes me laugh. I also got two more travel books. So much for the reduction of my book pile ;) Said hello to chinatown, had a sneek in at the Tate Modern.