Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Dollhouse & other stuff
Managed to finish all thirteen episodes of Dollhouse season one within a week. I think it's fantastic. The first four episodes seem to suggest that there would just be an adventure with the main character (with a different personality computer programmed in her) doing good. However, the dollhouse who imprint the personality is essentially a brothel and the moral ambiguity of this becomes apparent in episode five when there are more twists and 'what the f....' moments than you can shake a stick at. Thankfully there is a second season and to see how the show develops is going to be interesting.
I was disappointed with Derren Browns lottery show, despite normally being a big fan. As he did not reveal his prediction before the draw, it is more than likely there was a switcharoo somewhere along the line. (he did say in the trailers that this was 'misdirection') so a good magic trick. However, his explantion on the Friday was rubbish, though some of the tricks in the build up were impressive. Hopefully this Fridays one based on suggestion and hypnosis will be better. Also to look forward to (& setting the video / skyplus for) on Friday is the new series of Peep Show, one of the classic comedies of recent times. Just hope that as it is the sixth season, they haven't run out of ideas or get stale.
Has a good crawl of London on Saturday evening. After the draw at Charlton, where the pre-match pub of the Antigallican had some nice young barmaids in tight vests, we did the Chandos, Roundhouse, Lamb & Flag and Dehems where they had Lindeboom now on draught. Nice stuff.
I bought Dot Allison's new album (her fourth) and it's on a par with her debut. After going trancey on her second and far too acoustic on the third, she is back with more of a band sound whilst remaining dreamy meloncholy voiced it is more melodic. It has Pete Doherty and Paul Weller on it which may have helped. Finally, talking of music, if you get a chance type in 'Taylor Swift Def Leppard' into youtube and get songs from the US series crossroads where they duet on great versions of Photograph, Pour Some Sugar, Hysteria and Taylor Swifts songs Love Story and Should've Said No. Though you could say its slightly disturbing a 50 year old hairy bloke from Sheffield singing about pouring sugar with an attractive female teenager. Depends what your take on it is!
I was disappointed with Derren Browns lottery show, despite normally being a big fan. As he did not reveal his prediction before the draw, it is more than likely there was a switcharoo somewhere along the line. (he did say in the trailers that this was 'misdirection') so a good magic trick. However, his explantion on the Friday was rubbish, though some of the tricks in the build up were impressive. Hopefully this Fridays one based on suggestion and hypnosis will be better. Also to look forward to (& setting the video / skyplus for) on Friday is the new series of Peep Show, one of the classic comedies of recent times. Just hope that as it is the sixth season, they haven't run out of ideas or get stale.
Has a good crawl of London on Saturday evening. After the draw at Charlton, where the pre-match pub of the Antigallican had some nice young barmaids in tight vests, we did the Chandos, Roundhouse, Lamb & Flag and Dehems where they had Lindeboom now on draught. Nice stuff.
I bought Dot Allison's new album (her fourth) and it's on a par with her debut. After going trancey on her second and far too acoustic on the third, she is back with more of a band sound whilst remaining dreamy meloncholy voiced it is more melodic. It has Pete Doherty and Paul Weller on it which may have helped. Finally, talking of music, if you get a chance type in 'Taylor Swift Def Leppard' into youtube and get songs from the US series crossroads where they duet on great versions of Photograph, Pour Some Sugar, Hysteria and Taylor Swifts songs Love Story and Should've Said No. Though you could say its slightly disturbing a 50 year old hairy bloke from Sheffield singing about pouring sugar with an attractive female teenager. Depends what your take on it is!
# posted by Rich @ 10:07 AM 
