The Battleship Potemkin - Free DVD

In this Saturday’s The Guardian - paper they’re giving away a free DVD of Battleship Potemkin!
Anyone outside the UK wanting one, just let me know and I’ll buy a copy of the paper for you, and can post the DVD.
BTW when checking on YouTube just now to embed a video of the film, I found [...]

lenina loves Beethoven

I’ve been listening to Beethoven for the last week or two, and really really enjoying it.
I can’t remember what the pieces are called (they’re on my laptop at work and I listen to it while working). One of them is Sonata No. 14, and googling it just now I found a great site where you [...]

Plans for 2008 (i.)

Out of the list of things to achieve in 2008, which was:

move back up to Edinburgh (by mid-2008 the latest)
sell Italy-house (by autumn 200
get a cat
start MA in Translation (Sept 0
buy a 52″ or bigger high-end HD TV

I’ve now achieved the first one - I’m moving back up to Edinburgh in [...]

This is What A Scotsman Looks Like

Earlier, a Scotsman won Big Brother - Celebrity Highjack. I haven’t blogged about the show as it was tucked away on E4, and no one really seemed to follow it (I did a little bit).
In terms of viewing figures etc., the show was probably a failure (similar to Space Cadets, which I also really liked).  [...]

Campaign to get Edinburgh onto Monopoly Board!

Objective:
Get Edinburgh onto the new world-wide edition of the Monopoly Board
Task:
Vote for Edinburgh here
Deadline:
28th February 2008
References:
Edinburgh bids for world Monopoly (link)
Is Edinburgh world class? (link)
PS: Edinburgh shockingly did not get a place on the UK-edition of the Monopoly board:

Dundee and Cardiff are the only Scottish and Welsh cities to appear on the Monopoly Here [...]

Question for Sky Viewers

What is the new background music that Sky use for their TV guide? They’ve recently changed it from a really horrible one to a good instrumental tune. I think it’s a song by Scottish band Mogwai, though not sure - it’s not mentioned on their Wikipedia article. Hm..
Answers on a postcard.

Robert Burns Day

Today is Robert Burns - day.  Burns was born on January 25th, 1759 and is the ‘national poet of Scotland’.
Here’s a really informative, non-Wikipedia site about him. Apparently, he even wrote a poem about the Haggis!
Address To A Haggis
 
Fair fa’ your honest, sonsie face,
Great chieftain o the puddin’-race!
Aboon them a’ ye tak your place,
Painch, [...]

PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL

I received an email today titled ‘PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL’, and yes, it’s so private and confidential that I can’t tell you about it. Yet.
I do have a big story to reveal though, in the next few days. Watch this space.
I may even have to change the title of my blog! Again.

Social Networking the German Way II.

Today I logged in to wer-kennt-wen, the German social networking site started by some guys from the area where I used to live. It’s really huge in just that area, and I have over 100 ‘friends’ (!!). NB lenina doesn’t actually have that many friends, but so many people from my area are members of [...]

Bear with lenina

Bear with lenina while she is making some important decisions. More news to be announced within the next week or so.
Funnily enough, my friend K. told me yesterday that she’s found an old video of her and I, where we talked about future plans and life aspirations etc. We filmed it in 1999, and I [...]