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Japanese Themed B-day Party
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Category Archives: General
Twenty Nine Years
Aside
Well, I’m 29, and that was one of the better birthdays so far.
Apart from all the birthday fun including a Japanese themed party, photos will follow, I discovered that two of my favourite bands have decided to reunite. C’mon Fugazi, let’s make it a turkey, there’s still time.
Time for some COD.
My 2011 Review Winners
And the winners are… (view nominations)
Film
Source Code – A nice understated Sci-fi that doesn’t overstay its welcome.
After starting to write the odd note for all the films I’ve watched, since earlier this year, its been interesting to have a reference place to quantify them all against each other. Despite some ratings being inevitably debatable, i don’t think its been a great year for films. Aim for this year – watch less mediocre 5-7 stars and more 8+ stars.
Television Series
Pointless – So good I bought the board game.
Album
Beach House – Teen Dream - may have been somewhat subconsciously lured to choose this by its use in adverts for Guinness.
Song
Black Francis – Six Legged Man
Live Music
Willy Mason – Review here.
Game
Portal 2 - A really great, good head scratch inducing, game with some very amusing characters. Only downside is a severe lack of re-playability once the puzzles are solved.
So good I bought it twice. 
Also spawned this excellent fan mod.
Previous years winners – 2010, 2009.
My 2011 Review Nominations
The not-so-short-short-list for the Owen A Pollock Media Consumption Awards 2011 (or N.A.M.B.L.A.). As always, not necessarily this years hot new releases but stuff that’s new to me.
Film
- Das Boot
- Senna
- Source Code
- 13 Assassins
- Tinker Tailor Solider Spy
- Patton
- Of Gods and Men
- Black Dynamite
- A Town Called Panic
- L’illusionniste
Television Series
- Bobs Burgers
- Pointless
- South Park
- The Office
- Life’s Too Short
- The News
Album
- Black Francis – Nonstoperotik
- We Were Promised Jetpacks – In the pit of the stomach
- Devotchka – 100 Lovers
- Beach House – Teen Dream
- Surfer Blood – Astro Coast
- TV on the Radio – Nine Types of Light
- Broadcast – Tender Buttons
- Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan – Hawk
- The National – High Violet
- Built to Spill – There is no Enemy
- The Airbourne Toxic Event – All at once
- Beirut – The Rip Tide
Song
- Devotchka – All the Sand In All the Sea
- Devotchka – The Alley
- Wolf Parade – Palm Road
- A Hawk and a Hacksaw – Lajtha Lassu
- TV on the Radio – Killer Crane
- Surfer Blood – Floating Vibes
- Black Francis – Six Legged Man
- Broadcast – Tears in the Typing Pool
- Broadcast – Tender Buttons
- Built to Spill – Hindsight
- Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan – Time of the Season
Live Music
- Sonisphere
- The Secret Sisters
- A Hawk and a Hacksaw
- And You Will Know Us By The Trail of the Dead
- Mogwai
- Willy Mason
- Flogging Molly
- Dum Dum Girls
- Elbow
- We Were Promised Jetpacks (pending 16th December)
Game
- Portal 2
- Littlebigplanet 2
- F1 2011
- Call Of Duty – Modern Warfare 3
- Kilzone 3
- Dirt 3
- Mavel Vs Capcom 3
Previous years winners – 2010, 2009.
It Snowed!
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Advent Exercising
So the idea is that for each day of advent not including Christmas day, I will pull an exercise out of a hat and whatever it is gets replicated to the sum of the day it is. So for example if I pull out the 5 push ups on the 7th day, then I have to do 35 push ups. Make sense? Continue reading
Karma
Aside
Kooki is continually sitting on the laptop tonight. He knows.
Kooki vs Mouse & Nature Photographer
Gallery
This gallery contains 9 photos.
So the cat caught a mouse, and instead of doing the sensible thing, and eating it straight away, he decided to have a wee play with it in the kitchen. I proceeded to intervene and somewhat interfere with fun times … Continue reading
Me me too
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Horray for bands that I actually want to see not cancelling!
Woop. Who’s in?