Saw “An Inconvenient Truth” at the weekend.

Everyone’s been saying “wow, this is a really important film”. It is. Go and see it. If you’re halfway aware of environmental issues, you’ll probably know just how fucked we are anyway, but still, go see it – it’s got some interesting trivia (but by no means trivial) items that are very sobering examples, and might be of use to you in trying to articulate how fucked we are. And issues aside it’s really quite interesting to see what kind of man Al Gore is, and to think about what we might have had, if Bush hadn’t stolen the white house.

If you’re not aware of environmental issues, then you absolutely have to see this movie. If you’re uncertain about anything to do with climate change, global warming, and what needs to be done or what can be done, then go. Now.

Yeah, I know: everyone you know who has seen the movie has said something like this. Fucking Kool-aid drinkers, the lot of us. Swayed by propaganda. Gore’s just pushing his angle, same as the other side of the debate does theirs.

If you are thinking thoughts like that, then I’d ask you to please leave the planet now via your preferred exit. The rest of us would like to survive the next fifty years or so, and you’re in the way.

Go and see the film.

If anyone’s in London at a loose end tonight, they could do far worse that pop along to The Spice of Life at about 8pm this evening, for the launch party for the new Flipron album, “Biscuits For Cerberus”. 6 quid on the door, for an evening of fine cabaret-pop[1].

Go on, you know you want to.

(And how can you resist an album with a title like that, I ask you? What’s wrong with you? Samples available here.)

[1] No, I don’t know what that sounds like, either. I also can’t think of a good way to describe them that won’t sound even stupider.

Gosh, it’s a bit nicer looking these days, isn’t it? I can almost forgive them not even interviewing me back when I applied for a job there. Bastards. Etc.

Anyway, now that they’ve got the social features up to the point that they’re slightly interesting, I’ve friended those of you I could easily find on there. The rest of you: leave your last.fm username in your comment if you given enough of a toss.

(I’m alasdairw on there, by the way.)

Off to Dublin for the weekend. Try not to break anything while I’m gone. Back Monday.

Have to say, the new iTunes flip-through-covers function is bloody marvellous. I’ve just packed all my jewel cases into boxes and put them into storage, and this has put back the only thing I might possibly miss about never thumbing through my CD collection.