[Charidee] Slightly less gentle reminder:

There are still a number of people who said they’d stump up for Charidee if I shaved my head, and haven’t.

I’ve shaved it three times now, with a fourth on the way tomorrow, so really, there’s not a lot of room for people to say they didn’t know I’d done it.

The form at http://www.justgiving.com/get_a_haircut_hippy will close on the 2nd of June. I’m afraid it’s not practical for me to accept donations any other way.

I had pondered threatening to name and shame anyone who’d pledged, but didn’t stump up. But I don’t think that’s in the right sort of spirit.

So just this: a couple of people already made their apologies for one reason or another, and that’s absolutely fair enough. I completely understand that circumstances change between pledging and donating, and that one can’t always do what one wants, or that it might be awkward for some reason for some people to pay on-line. But I’ll think a hell of a lot less of anyone that pledged that doesn’t either stump up, or get in touch just so I know not to expect their cash. No excuses or apologies required, just let me know not to expect anything, please…

Soundtrack meme…

Opening Credits
Alan Moore – Syon
Evidentally, the story of my life is a mentalist art house thing, if it’s going to open with a ten minute mediation on transcendence.

(Edit, post finishing: Yes. When they come to make the movie of my life, I will have apparently been mostly all fucked up on drugs. It’s skewed Crusty where Trainspotting went Dance, I think. Either way, this is all a bit fucked up, and I would like to get it cast now, in the hope that they can go and live it so I don’t have to.)

Movie Soundtrack

Notice:

It is very important that you go here and read the first ten pages of Phonogram issue #1, on sale, erm, some time soon.

Because it’s quite funny. And slightly interesting. And the art isn’t bad.

Focus Shift

Or rather, shift back. I span the not directly new media related links off into another site a short while ago.  I don’t feel it’s worked, so they’re coming back here.  Expect more links, and it means the focus of this thing shifts back to “shit that interests me”, rather than just “new media/webtech”, although since that’s my main interest, it just means it’s liable to be a bit more holistically culture/futurism/media/cheap laughs centered, rather than just techy crap.

This entry was originally published at my workblog.

A personal first:

Paid overtime.

My calendar for the near future appears quite uncharacteristically empty anyway, but I suspect I’m not going to be free most evenings for the next month or so. Just on the offchance anyone was planning to invite me to things.

Sitting By The Train Tracks Reading Kafka To The Sky

Just in case anyone that was at South London Pacific is interested: Jason’s new limited edition EP “Eleven Saints” is available for pre-order. For under a tenner, including international shipping, you can get a 15 track CD, and limited edition vinyl. One might make some remark about a 15 track CD being more like an album than an EP, but he’s calling it an EP…

Only 1111 of them available, and I’ve already had one, so if you want it, order soon.

Just a gentle reminder:

There are quite a number of people who pledged cash in exchange for the shaving of my head. And while many of you have already stumped up, there’s a fair number that haven’t yet.

I’m sure there are plenty of you that are just waiting for payday, or things like that, but I just thought I’d remind you about it, in case it’s just slipped people’s minds.

Donate here: http://www.justgiving.com/get_a_haircut_hippy

(Those of you who might be waiting to give me the cash in person: please don’t. If you donate through that link, then the tax (assuming you’re not foreign( is automatically claimed back for the charity. If however, I get money from you, then donate for you and enter it as “cash recieved off-line” then for legal reasons, that site cannot claim the tax back for Cancer Reasearch. You have until June 3rd, at which point the donations page will shut down.)

Show of hands…

Quick , in the last half hour before I dash off for the weekend: who’s at the Dresden Dolls gig tonight? Who’s going to be in the Ship beforehand?