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The Guardian
So House moves over to Sky*spit*One and we get The Mentalist instead, which is quite amusing, but not as amusing as Life. Meanwile, FiveUS is showing The Guardian, Simon Baker’s previous series, in which he plays a young corporate lawyer sentenced to community service with a Legal Aid-type service for young people and the poor.
Given [...]
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I hadn’t realised that tonight’s resignee, Caroline Flint, was such a fox… for an MP.
She’s resigned because she feels dumped upon. Reading between the lines, it looks like she was hoping that, what with everyone falling on their swords and wanting to spend more time with their families, she was up for a promotion. And [...]
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Tags: cabinet reshuffle, caroline flint, gordon brown, politics
Cracked it
My MacBook is two years old this summer, and since it was less than a year old, it has had cracks in the case. I assumed I’d been closing the lid too aggressively, blamed myself, and (not being an MP), decided to live with what I’d done.
My solution to mitigate the damage, prevent dust incursion [...]
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Tags: Apple store, customer service, moonies
Mentalist
The Mentalist must be one of the worst titles for a TV series ever, which is why the two episodes I’d recorded were languishing on the PVR along with multiple unwatched episodes of The Wire.
Last night I was faced with the dilemma: which did I want to watch the least? It turned out to be [...]
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Tift Merritt – Home is Loud
On pre-ordering Tift Merritt’s live Buckingham Solo CD today, I noticed that another limited-release 2005 live recording, Home is Loud, was available again. Even better, for the instant of gratification, it’s on iTunes (that link should take you to the Store) for just £6.32, with no DRM. That’s 70p per track.
Home is Loud was [...]
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Result!
A miscellaneous post, with three separate topics.
I’m enjoying Life, on ITV3, starring Damian Lewis as Charlie Crews, a cop released from jail after a miscarriage of justice. In spite of his huge compensation payout, he chooses to return to his job. He has survived his ordeal by adopting the precepts of Zen/Confucianism, and he infuriates [...]
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Tags: fuel prices, winter, woodburner
Three Sacred Cows
1. There’s an interview with Phil Spector on TV tonight, being trailed as his first for three centuries. Ironically, one of the last he gave – for Tony Palmer’s All You Need is Love series – was on a couple of weeks ago. So not that long really.
Radio Times describes Phil as the greatest record [...]
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Photo by Jason Bechtel.
Occasionally when I go to a gig, there’s an issue with the sound. Sometimes it’s just plain bad (Dylan at the NEC); sometimes it’s too loud (any local band in any local venue); sometimes the acoustics are wrong. You’d think that a venue like the Radcliffe Centre (it’s a church, basically) would [...]
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Tags: concert, gig, live review, review
BBC1 – I couldn’t be bothered to get into Damages, which some (including the Radio Times editor) have raved about. I recorded the first episode, but then didn’t pay attention to it when I played it back. I’ve never liked Glenn Close, and I’m always wary of the things critics rave on about, stuff like [...]
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I don’t know what stopped me from buying this record when it was first released late last year. Maybe it’s the cover art (all hair and crushed velvet, it looks too much like a Christmas album); or the insistent emails from the Trisha Yearwood mailing list, publicising both this new album and (yet another) Greatest [...]
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Tags: album reviews, CD reviews, country, country music, Trisha Yearwood
