I’m thinking that wi-fi is the networking equivalent of squeezy Marmite. Great when it works well, irritating when it starts to clog up and you get it all over your hands, profoundly depressing when it fails and just blows air. I’m writing this on a laptop connected to my home network via wi-fi. The signal [...]
More as an aide memoire for me than anything else, here are the films I have queued up in my mind for reviewing: Harry Brown, The Hurt Locker, Crazy Heart, Seven Pounds, Valkyrie, Terminator: Salvation, 9, Dead Poets Society, Nowhere Boy, Paper Heart, 500 Days Of Summer, Body Of Lies, Four Lions, Ferris Bueller’s Day [...]
To step into Jeremy Clarkson mode for a nano-second, who would not want to sit out on the front porch, drinking beer and admiring a highly polished classic muscle car, winking at you in mint condition from the driveway – a metaphor for your lifelong angst-ridden rendering of the American dream? This nano-second is one [...]
Since the web began to offer a global audience to personal thoughts, back in the 90s, I’ve considered a campaign of reviewing every film I see, even if only briefly, as time allows. So, I thought the viewing of my first blu-ray might be a good point to mark the transition from sporadic to consistent. [...]
The Discipline Of The Twit is just that. If you’re going to say something inside a limit of 140 characters, with syntax and resonance and everything, it is a discipline and you are a twit if you do it to the detriment of reality. But then life isn’t like that anymore. Perhaps it never was. [...]