Month: December 2002

  • The Remix

    I’ve just been listening to my Wavefinder’s recording of last Friday’s Remix, and it’s fantastic. Loads of great tracks that at some point I’ll pull apart and make into audio of. Maybe tomorrow at work!!!

  • Sweet Home Alabama

    I’m not sure why I went to see this. I do think that Reece Witherspoon is an excellent actress, and if Election is cheap on DVD I’ll get hold of a copy. Aside from the fact that I had a voucher to get me in free which expires tomorrow, the reason was this review from…

  • Stamboul Train

    Well I did promise myself that I’d read more, or indeed all, of Graham Greene’s oeuvre this year. Stamboul Train is one his earlier works – 1932 off the top of my head – and takes an interesting third person stance, following the fortunes of a number of passengers aboard the Orient Express. Not quite…

  • One Step Behind

    The latest in the Kurt Wallender series by Henning Mankell was recently published in English in the UK, and I love these books. The trouble is that I came to them late, and was able to lap them up until now. They were published out of sequence, but we’re back on track, but sadly some…

  • The Two Towers

    Well I wasn’t nearly as quick off the mark seeing this as I was The Fellowship of the Ring last year which I saw at about 11.00am on the opening day. And this, after I waited a year to see it! Was the wait worth it? It most certainly was. This is epic cinema at…

  • Our Man In Havana

    I promised recently that I was going to read more Graham Greene, so this was the obvious next title. Obvious, because I managed to not get around to reading it before visiting Cuba last year. Reading it, I found it very familiar but from long enough ago, that I’d forgotten the ending. Later, on returning…

  • Dance Dance Dance

    I bought this on a total whim a while ago, and my recent few days in a wet and soggy Cote D’Azur afforded me a chance to read it. Haruki Murakami seems to be quite a popular author in Japan, and on this reading, I’m going to have to investigate some of his other work…

  • French DVD Magazines

    So why can the French produce a nice DVD magazine for only �7.50 (just under �5) that has a full film on the cover, while we can’t? I just bought a recent issue of the said magazine that featured the full version of A Simple Plan. Bargain!

  • Damned if he does, damned if he doesn’t…

    So let me just see if I have this straight. If Saddam has weapons of mass destruction, the US can invade. And if he doesn’t, then he’s lying and we can invade. Hmm. Unsurprisingly he says he hasn’t.

  • Daniel Deronda

    The series finished on telly last night, and I was very impressed. I enjoyed it a lot – probably better than Dr Zhivago overall.

  • The Quiet American

    I finished the Graham Greene novel the other day, and immediately promised myself that I’d read much more Greene in 2003. Obviously it’s an excellent work, and I was pleased to see just how closely the recent film adhered to the novel. Certainly there were contractions and fewer characters but overall it was a very…

  • Cyber Terrorism

    Cyber Terrorism is the new buzzword. It’s what we should all be scared of. If even The Observer is publishing scare stories about this new threat to world safety then we know we’re in trouble. Let’s get a couple of things straight: hacking into government websites is a bit like letting loose with a spraycan…