I have no idea what I'm doing - but I'm shooting stuff, and that's what counts!

[alexsarll]

It's amazing how much more productive time spent on computer games feels now the technology's so much better. The social element definitely helps too, but I genuinely feel that an evening spent machinegunning giant insects and doing deeply suggestive violence as Venom was an evening spent well.

Have also finished the second season of The Wire, about which I hesitate to say more than: Wow. In part because I know some of my readers will be watching it soon, but also because I know that once I start I'll never stop, and given how much praise the series has already had from pretty much everyone, I'm bound to be repeating someone. So I'll confine myself to this - like Shakespeare, such elements of genre convention as The Wire does use, it uses so well that they almost make one forgive the existence of the rest of the genre simply because it culminates here, and that justifies everything. (And, to offer a rare criticism of Google, if you image search Omar American Dream it pulls up loads of American Dream stuff with no Omar component whatsoever, and no sign of him in that perfect top.

This morning I thought I saw a monkey in a tree, but it was just a pigeon sat near a flower, with a wind-caught branch serving as the tail.

Comments

[auxyeuxdargent.livejournal.com]

Do you remember my 'Imagine Alex' game? I never thought of imagining you playing on a computer game. But now I really can! x x x

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Yes! I can certainly believe that; it's a habit I'd more or less lost until earlier this year, but like all one's old ways, all you need is the push and you learn that the know-how and the impulse is only lurking, not gone.

[missbeatrice.livejournal.com]

Oooo. I have happened upon yr journal because we share the same interest in Bryan Ferry's fringe. Such beauty, such a pity hes been shouting his mouth off so much of late. How lucky you are, to see monkeys where there are only pigeons! x

[angelv.livejournal.com]

It must have been a monkey! Maybe it was Brian or Monkey having their daily exercise (see icon above).

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

But he only said he liked the visuals, which is a fair enough comment! The way everyone just heard the word 'Nazi' and automatically assumed he was advocating death camps all round is a sad criticism of kneejerk morality more than any shame on Bryan - his only mistake was that craven 'unreserved apology'.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

If it was then it was whatever the monkey/pigeon equivalent of a werewolf is, because it was definitely flew away as a pigeon...

visuals

[(Anonymous)]

True, true. Any excuse to talk about Bryan Ferry, to be honest! I unreservedly apologize for marring his name and state for the record that I have always found his visuals to be most pleasing indeed.

Re: visuals

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Then we are in accord, and all is well.

[darkmarcpi.livejournal.com]

The monkeys can fly in The Wizard of Oz, can't they?