The Futureheads: This is Not the World

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The Futureheads’ new album, This is Not The World, is really quite good. It’s been on my iPod for the last week or so and I’m really happy to have found yet another British album that I actually really like. The great thing about bands like The Futureheads and Maximo Park [...]

Bathroom Refresh

My bathroom, which looks like an 80s sauna (the previous tenant just put wood cladding on the walls and the ceiling, and dirty red carpet on the floor), is currently undergoing a revamp/refresh.
A combination of seeing my former boss’ white house, and the fact that a friend is coming to visit next week, gave me [...]

A Day Out in London

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Ever since moving back up to Edinburgh, the time I do spend in London (every other week-end) is actually really productive and pleasurable.
When still living there, at week-ends my BF and I would tend to be knackered, moody, and staying indoors. Now, we plan in advance what we’re going to do, and are [...]

Mad Men Season on BBC 4

I got into this a bit late, though I knew it was on (it doesn’t help that on the BBC website this supposed ‘Mad Men’ season isn’t actually promoted on their website in a separate section, which is annoying if you want to find out more).
From what I gather, this ‘Mad Men’ - season [...]

werbung gegen realität

Some Germans have been taking pictures of food product packaging, then taking the food out and photographing what it really looks like
I quite like it - it’s very simple - though a lot of the ready-made meals used are very German and as such unrecognisable for us here. Imagine doing it for Spam [...]

Increase of Quality ‘Me-time’ and How to Use It

The first week in the new job has taught me one thing - I will have more time to myself. Whereas previously, I gave most of my time to other people and their needs (at work: everything, including my week-ends and evenings if a job needed finishing; at home: ‘running the house’, i.e. all household [...]

Kindle, Free Books Online, Culture, and Vivian Westwood

An article in today’s The Guardian talks about Amazon Kindle, the electronic book reader launched in November last year. I didn’t blog about it at the time, as I do like the materiality of books and can’t imagine reading real books on an electronic screen. Plus, I don’t want to buy electronic books on Amazon [...]

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 [...]

Tate Modern’s Got a Hole

Unveiled today: a huge crack in the Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall. I like sculptures that form part of the fabric of a building, rather than merely being separate from it.
My favourite sculpture is probably Rachel Whiteread’s House. Actually, Whiteread also created a sculpture in Vienna - the Holocaust Memorial. Methinks anaj should go and see [...]

Playing LocoRoco = World Peace

I started playing LocoRoco yesterday on my PSP, and it’s the complete anti-thesis to everything convervative discourse tells us about videogames.
Video games are most often in the news when they are overtly violent, get banned (e.g. Manhunt 2, and rightly, I think, so), allegedly inspire High-school massacres such as the ones in Columbine and Virginia, [...]