Television, she is a fickle mistress. Sometimes it’s great, mostly it’s awful rubbish. Then, in the early 90s we experienced a sudden uplift in the number of television shows from different countries dropping into our television schedules. This wasn’t a completely new thing, as we’d been used to imports since the early 80s, with Dallas,Continue reading “Television Shows That Have Passed Me By.”
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Things that I need to stop doing, right now.
We all do things that we know that we shouldn’t, be they health, financial or social things. Sometimes they’re things that we abhor in others, and think that they don’t notice us doing. Sometimes they’re things that we even bullshit ourselves into ‘believing’ that we don’t do them. This list isn’t quite the same asContinue reading “Things that I need to stop doing, right now.”
Cars
I’ve never been a petrol-head of any note, and I don’t envisage this changing at any time in my life. It’s not that I don’t care about cars, or don’t see the value in them. It’s just that they aren’t a preoccupation, and I don’t have passion for them. What becomes almost an obsession forContinue reading “Cars”
Let the Right One In/Let Me In
It’s a constant disappointment to me that English speaking peoples cannot watch films in other languages. It both confuses me and is no surprise whatsoever. The dichotomy here is centered around the fact that it’s simple and commonplace to read a subtitle, for it is simply a sentence or two, but that I know fullContinue reading “Let the Right One In/Let Me In”
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