They Say What They Say

So, yes, I'm a little bit drunk, but that's probably due to the several glasses of white wine, the beer and the champagne I've consumed tonight.

The Doctor Who thing at the Palais was fabulous. I have a new respect for Colin Baker now, I love Sylvester McCoy even more than I did before, and Katie Manning just rocks so very much!

I should go to bed, but Shihad is programming Rage tonight and so far they've played Devo, PJ Harvey and the Damned, so how can I miss all that is bound to come? Oh, that's right. I have one of those new-fangled things called a VCR.

Hmm, wonder what this button labelled REC does?

So, yes, I'm a little bit drunk, but that's probably due to the several glasses of white wine, the beer and the champagne I've consumed tonight.

The Doctor Who thing at the Palais was fabulous. I have a new respect for Colin Baker now, I love Sylvester McCoy even more than I did before, and Katie Manning just rocks so very much!

I should go to bed, but Shihad is programming Rage tonight and so far they've played Devo, PJ Harvey and the Damned, so how can I miss all that is bound to come? Oh, that's right. I have one of those new-fangled things called a VCR.

Hmm, wonder what this button labelled REC does?

I'm exhausted and I think my feet are about to fall off from walking all the way over to Northcote Plaza and back again. Of course the second time around involved a backpack full of new jeans, a cute aqua cardigan I picked up for $6.00, and a few groceries, as well as carrying a new clothes airer.

I was going to get the bus home with all my loot, but for once I didn't spend hours wandering around K-Mart, so after I'd bought the groceries I still had to wait twenty minutes for the bus. Since it's only about a half-hour walk back to my place, walk I did. I must have looked a sight carrying the clothes airer, but it was fairly light, if a little awkward, so it really didn't make much difference. And after all the crap I've consumed over the past week or so I certainly needed the exercise.

Meanwhile, my flist has gone Harry Potter mad while I still struggle to care. It's not that I dislike him or anything, the books just never grabbed me and now the uber-merchandising machine that has become attached to the whole thing has, quite frankly, completely turned me off. There are a lot of great books written by talented writers out there in the same genre that are being completely ignored simply because the publishers and authors don't have the money to spend on publicising them to the same saturation level as HP. If I'm going to read anything about a young boy discovering his magical powers, I'll re-read Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising sequence for the umpteenth time.

I'm exhausted and I think my feet are about to fall off from walking all the way over to Northcote Plaza and back again. Of course the second time around involved a backpack full of new jeans, a cute aqua cardigan I picked up for $6.00, and a few groceries, as well as carrying a new clothes airer.

I was going to get the bus home with all my loot, but for once I didn't spend hours wandering around K-Mart, so after I'd bought the groceries I still had to wait twenty minutes for the bus. Since it's only about a half-hour walk back to my place, walk I did. I must have looked a sight carrying the clothes airer, but it was fairly light, if a little awkward, so it really didn't make much difference. And after all the crap I've consumed over the past week or so I certainly needed the exercise.

Meanwhile, my flist has gone Harry Potter mad while I still struggle to care. It's not that I dislike him or anything, the books just never grabbed me and now the uber-merchandising machine that has become attached to the whole thing has, quite frankly, completely turned me off. There are a lot of great books written by talented writers out there in the same genre that are being completely ignored simply because the publishers and authors don't have the money to spend on publicising them to the same saturation level as HP. If I'm going to read anything about a young boy discovering his magical powers, I'll re-read Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising sequence for the umpteenth time.