The bike I lust after is on e-bay.
Meh.
Incidentally, did Alcazar set out to make the campest video they could? And Mozilla has now consumed all the available memory, so I think I need to quit it and restart it.
Damn this book! It’s brilliant…..
Okay, I know my grammar’s hardly spectacular, and nor is my spelling for that matter, but I do have a bit of a closet grammar freak hidden (not well hidden, for those that know me) within my soul. And it’s particularly that ferral bloody apostrophe, that one that creeps into things…. But then, then I discover the sin which is the “,” instead of a “‘”. How can people do these things…?
Anyway, yesterday I saw this: “we,re” at Ikea.
On a big, big, pre-printed sign.
All over the country there are probably thousands of those signs with this whacking great typo in it. I actually yelped. I looked up, saw it, and went “urk” on seeing it. And then today, today on Living TV. The program is called “Worlds Apart” (I believe), but in the trailer for it: “word’s apart”.
Ye-what? What on earthis that meant to be? Nyargh. Make them all stop!
The Snapper is the second film in Roddy Doyle’s ‘Barrytown Trilogy’ (The Commitments, The Snapper, The Van) and it’s a bit of a slow starter. Described as hilarious, and I guess if you found East is East ‘Hilarious’ then maybe that’s the way you’d see this; but I found that, like East is East, The Snapper is generally pretty amusing, with some really really funny bits and a lot of very dark humour.
With The Snapper you really have to stick with the film; it’s a very slow starter and not very rewarding to watch initially. Indeed, for a good chunk of the film I was seriously thinking ‘have I bought a lemon here’, but it suddenly picks up and really, it is worth it. One slightly disappointing thing is that the camera work is hardly awe-inspiring (it’s really quite pedestrian in style, mind you it’s over 10 years old).
I’m not wildly amazed by it, but for the sake of completeness to the trilogy it’s definately worth a watch, and if you liked East is East, The Commitments and The Van then you’ll probably like The Snapper.
So,
Ikea. Went yesterday, saw these frames which are called “RAM” or “Cheap ass student frames”, they’re plain, untreated wood and a plastic sheet instead of glass, with a cardboard back.
Lovely.
Well, actually they look quite nice and I thought they’d suit some of my posters really well. So I bought one for one of them….measured my other posters and went back today to get some more frames. Unfortunately, the largest poster, at a staggering…. 150 x 103cm was well beyond the maximum size of RAM frame. Indeed, the next size down, 70×50 is too small for 2 of my posters, which is really disappointing. And my picture of Errol, from the diskworld? That’s just a size that’d look stupid in all the available frame sizes (what with being bigger than the next size down by 2 cm in one direction).
The bulbs for the lamps I bought yesterday….they doubled the price of the lamps (although I did buy energy savers, so that’s partly my fault :-) )….
Overall, I’m just a bit miffed that I can’t get frames the right size for my pictures. That and the fact that I, genius that I am, wrote my lecture down as 3:30, not 13:30, so missed it by a staggering 2 hours!
Pooh!
Well, I’ve actually had a fairly good day so far….
….not to make any promises for the rest of it.
I’ve done both the company and the personal tax forms, I’ve sorted out various bills ‘n’ things, I’ve got my copy of ‘The Snapper’ (woo!), the third, I think, in the Barrytown trilogy.
Unfortunately, The Van is not available on DVD, at all, except in German in Germany. Why the German DVD lacks the English language version I’m not sure. Annoyingly, the french version which does have the english language soundtrack…. I can’t tell, but someone has suggested that it has the French subtitles *on*, which’d be incredibly annoyng.
Anyway, I must away to the post office…. then to a lecture, then to a photocopier, then home, then jogging, then rowing, then listening to H2G2, then watching my new DVD…. Then shower, then bed :-)
