Bah
It is Saturday. I am in the office. This would be bad enough, but it is pissing down with rain. This is a problem, because I am hungry, but I have no food. The nearest supermarket is a ten minute walk, in which time I will be soaked to the skin.
Month: January 2007
[Book And Album Reviews] Week 1
The week’s book: The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster by Bobby Henderson
The Question: Will Bobby Henderson’s ID spoof sustain a whole book?
The Answer: Just about, but it’s a good thing it’s not any longer – the new material is indeed as funny as the site, but it’s essentially just playing on the same theme, rather than anything new. This was a gift, so it’s a little hard to assess if it was worth the money, but honestly, I’ve got enough entertainment out of pastafarianism as a whole to think that Henderson deserves some financial recompense for it. If you like venganza.org, you’ll be entertained by the book.
This week’s music: The Power of Pussy
I got one of the tracks off this from a friend in a compliation CD a year or two back, and loved it, since it sounded like very little else I’d ever heard, so when Emusic recommended them at me, I thought I’d grab an album’s worth. On the strength of it, I’ll be getting more.
I suppose you’d have to call this psychedelia, but I don’t like the term. This is bitter, sleazy, nasty stuff, collaging together spoken word, laid back guitars, samples and more normal singing, as they talk about porn and sexuality and exploitation. You might have heard their classic “Folk Song” before, a long bitter rant about well, almost everything. Like I say, they sound like very little else that I can think of, and they’re fairly clever. This is more than enough recommendation for me.
Daughter and Father
Another portrait of Orla, with her Dad in the background. I’ll try and get out and about with the camera at the weekend, so I can stop posting baby photos… :)
I was interested to discover that the previous shot looked markedly different on my work screen to what either of my home monitors made it look like, which is unusual, because I keep one set at close-to-print colours, and the other set at a more or less neutral “screen” set up. And it occurs to me that I have *no* idea what it would look like on your average CRT screen…
Festive Spirit
Happy New Year folks. This is the first of two (or possibly three) portraits of my little cousin Orla that I took at my family’s Christmas celebrations. I thought I’d put this one up now, while the holiday period is still in recent memory, as it’s the most obviously seasonal of the three.
I hadn’t met Orla before, but I was impressed to find that at slightly over one year old, she’s already the life and soul of the party (and delighted to pose for the camera), and in keeping with the spirit of the season, was delighted to share her toys with absolutely everyone, so I wanted at least one portrait of her that was very clearly festive, which I think I got here…