alexsarll | We'd only cry again, say goodbye again

Now, of all the monsters I wasn't expecting to see brought back...
I think I liked 'Gridlock', though it wasn't at all what I was expecting; it felt like a 2000AD story given a happy ending (of sorts) by the Doctor's intervention. Possibly one of RTD's best stories? Also: sob.

It's not easy on the nerves DJing at someone else's, successful-with-the-general-public night; far more pressure than at one's own doomed follies. Still, I was on early, for the slow between band sets, so I think it went OK if only because I would have really had to make a hash of things for it to register.
No Regrets - The Walker Brothers
Windmills Of Your Mind - Dusty Springfield
The Sound Of Silence - Simon & Garfunkel
New Art For The People - The Indelicates
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Nebraska
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Never Tear Us Apart - INXS
No Children - The Mountain Goats
You Could Have Both - The Long Blondes
Mr Bojangles - Sammy Davis Jr*
And then Luxembourg, roaring into their new incarnation to general public acclaim. It's great to have them back.

Have been doing a lot of London wandering these past couple of days, thinking. Mostly warm and hapy thoughts inspired by the city - but the good thoughts all seem to be as vast and resistant to order as London herself. It's only the bad ones that coalesce into coherence. Like - the new Brunswick is a soul-less pseudo-metropolitan horror if ever I saw one. Like - those slides at the Tate really didn't use the space as well as they might (though the exclusive Long Blondes track upstairs is pretty good).

*I was actually trying to play Leonard Cohen, and didn't notice one of the tracks had been crossed out.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,,2056882,00.html

Good thing you left the NUJ, eh?

Even in the bizarre mirror world where a) justice is on the side of terrorists and b) this is an appropriate matter for action by a trades union in another country, what conceivable sense does it make to have a boycott AFTER THE WAR FINISHES?

Also, as well as those two points, you've also got to wonder whether the boycott will extend beyond grapefruit and into things useful for journalism and invented, or developed in Israel in part or whole (Pentium processors, Windows, mobile technology, voicemail etc). And will they refuse drugs and medical techniques developed in Israeli hospitals and universities? (Let's hope so, if it results in pain or death).

Oh, also, the other thing that makes me laugh about this is this. You can say, quite rightly, "but what about all the other human rights abuses committed by Israel's neighbours/countries in general? Does this boycott extend to them?" But, more presciently, an actual real life journalist has recently been abducted by the Palestinians.

11 out of 10 for muppetry.

Yeah, well they support Chavez against one of their own members, so I assume they'll have the same sense of priorities over Alan Johnson. Although (though this may just be something that's been put about for his sake under the current circs), as I understand it he was there to make sure the Palestinian side of the story was put across. Well, he could hardly have done a better job, then.

gridlock - From briefly seeing the trailors I thought cat dude was Brendan Gleeson. Also, I started off thinking it was rub, then thought it was cool as it progressed. Although the "it's been billions of years, they've (the crab guys) evolved into animals" was a bit paper-the-cracks, really.

Yes,

freakytigger has pointed out that it was a bit odd to have the Macra devolve when the whole set-up looked like a classic Macra set-up. And it was. But I didn't realise this while I was watching, and I can forgive an episode a lot so long as it captivates me while it's actually showing.

I did also have a moment of 'hang on, this is not very good' early on, though.

"I did also have a moment of 'hang on, this is not very good' early on, though."

For me, it was the initial thought that it would be an extremely one-set episode.

Exactly - "You've gone all this way in space and time, and you're giving us a play in a lift?"

I gather (after a fuck of a lot of clicking) that Tate Modern would like people to go to the exhibition in order to hear the track...

Oops, that sounded unintentionally grouchy. Apologies.

No offence taken! But I'm a little puzzled as to where you were clicking, given I linked straight to the page where it says "We'd love to play you a bit, but we can't. From 1 April, the only place in the world that you can hear it is in Tate Modern next to the artwork. From 1 May, you'll also be able to listen here online"...

Erm... I was tired.
And evidently illiterate.
And other lame excuses.

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