What is this?

Big white ‘x’ mark everywhere on the underground, and now a banner that goes no-where.

I love a bit of mystery/reveal ad campaigning, just like The Times campaign from ages ago, I only hope this one won’t be for something rubbish.

My guess is a video game or a record release. The Google is not being very helpful so I’ll  just stick to being curious for the time being.

I done a busy

2009 was the year of busy. At the beginning I made some resolutions. New Year’s resolutions if you will. I typed them up all official like.

They were as follows:

1. Put money in a savings account
2. Start Spanish lessons
3. Do exercise at least once a week
4. Start a new sport
5. Eat more vegetables
6. Get back into music
7. Take some dance classes
8. Make new friends
9. Buy more CDs
10. Go to a gig at least once a month
11. Take some more photos with a decent camera
12. Start dressing better for work
13. Read more novels
14. Read more interesting work type books

And I’m pleased to say that I did most of them.  I did some dancing at Pineapple in the same classes as proper dancers like him and him. I joined a choir and sung at the Albert Hall.

I joined a crazy band and played some gigs

My lovely friend Dean released our record (you can download for free here too!)

I did a bit more reading. I finally read Pride and Prejudice and shit the bed that is a brilliant book. I also made some new friends got a lovely boyfriend and generally had a brilliant time. Well done me.

I did fail on the vegetable thing, the CD buying thing, the Spanish learning, and the money thing, but hey. Whatchagunnado.

So what shall this year bring?

My resolutions are thus:

1. Do one new London thing a month.

2. Give up smoking.

3. Start learning a language.

4. See more of the world.

There’s probably more, I do want to learn static trapeze and rock climbing. I want to stop being addicted to twitter and facebook as I pretty much get minimal enjoyment out of them but just. can’t. UNPLUG.

What do you want to do this year internet?

Oh hello. Sorry, what’s this writing thing again?

Oh yes, I remember: I’ve got a blog. I seem to have been somewhat distracted (some stupid thing called twitter got in the way of doing some proper writing of more than 140 characters). Look here are some words! Bumfluff! Insinuate! Meander! Eskimo! Shouldn’t that be inuit? Anyway. *clears throat*. It feels good to do some writing without the fear of BIG RED NEGATIVE NUMBERS.

So here I am again.

With lots to say.

Indeed.

Film related smiles

More reasons to love the internets. You ramble around it and find lovely creative people just doing stuff for their own amusement.

First up, Three Frames. Hypnotic.

Next, Ilovehotdogs. A film captured in a few screen shots.

(Skatetown USA)

Movies In Frames. One movie, four frames.

(Point Break)

Screenshots. Someone who has screen-grabbed the title of every movie he’s ever watched. Wow.

Something missing

Quote Post

When asked (at some imaginary dinner party) for my favourite quote my prepared response is Wilde:

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation”

Wry hey? Not really. Just pretenious.

I’ve got back into ffffound again and have been drawn to the recent mass of quotes made pretty that have been popping up all over the place.

Here are a few of my favourites.

a real design nerd one

and my absolute favourite

find them all on ffffound

Dancing herd

No escaping it, we are as beautiful and easily led as cows. Dancing cows. Moo.

Thanks to Mattyboomboom and @herdmeister

Milestone

Today I’ve listened to 21021 tracks since I joined last.fm. And the 21021th was I am an astronaut, the most loveliest Snow Patrol track. Isn’t that nice? I like symmetry. Symmetry in numbers makes me especially happy.  Small pleasures.

Welcome to 1995

1995. What a year. A year when the internet didn’t really exist. No mobile phones. No iPods. No email. No nothing really. Just a soulless existence where you had to actually be on time to meet people and where Blur were preparing to do  battle with Oasis.

Well I’ve been forcibly transported back to that happy year as my iPhone has been sent to hospital.  Apparently they don’t appreciate being watered and my insurance company insists on inspecting its damaged carcass before asking Apple for a new one. For two long weeks I will be incommunicado via a mobile telephony device.  This is the first time for 10 years I have been without a phone for more than one day. This may get difficult especially given I am addicted to all things internets and insist on having a constant soundtrack to my life piped directly into my earholes. Instant cold turkey.  Probably in 5 hours I’ll be curled up in a corner shivering and covered in my own vomit. Or I’ll feel strangely liberated. Maybe this is the very push I need to stop checking twitter every 5 minutes?

Only a very long two week time will tell.

Welcome to last year

I entertained myself greatly for all of today when I changed my facebook language to pirate.  Everyone should do this. Or rather everyone probably did it for a day way back ages ago (like, so last year duh) when everyone heard about it.  I’ve been blissfully unaware of the delights of checking your ‘bottle o’messages’ or liking a link by saying ‘it be pleasin to me eye’. They’ve translated everything, it’s brilliant:  adverts be ‘hawkin’; events be ‘grog fests’; you can scrawl on people’s planks (haha), or share by ‘divving the spoils me hearties’.  There is nothing that is not amusing about this me mateys.

Arrrrr.