After 20 years of semi-ironic obsession, I finally got to see Roxette live. But after all the missed opportunities and anticipation, the memories I took home from the night were not the ones I expected to have.
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Warning: this review will be rife with spoilers. If you haven’t yet had the pleasure of sitting through Kingsman: The Secret Service I strongly suggest you (a) do so and (b) don’t come back here until you have.
One of the things I’ve been meaning to do with this blog is write more reviews. I’ve read a handful of great books over the last few years, all of which deserved to have some written in their praise, but I typically ended up leaving it too late; to the point where all I could really recall was “Oh, I really liked that book!” In an effort to avoid making that same mistake this year, here’s a few words about a book I finished the other day.
“Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.”
— Mark Twain
The problem with Words is that Other People read them.
And Other People won’t always know what you meant when you used those Words.
So they’ll attach their Own Meanings to those Words.
Which is Fine.
Most of the time …
Except that Some Of The Time you end up spending So Much Time talking about whether you were Right to use those Words or Not that you Forget about Whatever it was that those Words were supposed to Mean in the first place.
This wordvomit was mostly inspired by this tweet and the discussion that came before, during and after it.
“My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.”
– William Faulkner
In a Doctor Who finale full of shocks and surprises, one of the most brutal was the callous despatching of stand-in fangirl Osgood. The horror, the horror! Was it really worth it?
This week’s episode seems to have gone down a storm with fans (at least the ones I know) … but I’m convinced we’ve only been given half the story.
This is one of those moments where I have a tiny bit more to say than would fit in a tweet, and don’t want to fall into the trap of letting Facebook become my default micro-blogging tool. So here are a few quick thoughts down about the Peter Capaldi’s debut episode of Doctor Who.
A different actor, a different Bond, a completely different tone – it’s time to visit the esrtwhile black sheep of the Bond family: On Her Majesty’s Secret Service.