bugshaw: (Poe)
Add MemoryShare This Entry
posted by [personal profile] bugshaw at 08:11am on 02/04/2014
"So what do you like doing with your spare time, bugshaw?"
"Well, I like going to the cinema, and to gigs and comedy and art exhibitions"
And I can back it up with the evidence below. How I fit all this into a month boggles me.

Books read (4-9)
Natural History, Justina Robson (2003)
#tag, David Wake (2014)
Code Name Verity, Elizabeth Wein (2012)
Boneland, Alan Garner (2012)
The Bloody Red Baron, Kim Newman (1996)
A Madness of Angels, Kate Griffin (2009)

Films watched (21-35) (6 at the cinema, 4 DVD, 1 video, 2 tv, 2 stream)
Tucker and Dale vs Evil
Pitch Perfect
The Lego Movie
The Thirty-Nine Steps
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Employee of the Month
Lady Vengeance
Under the Skin
The Godfather
Captain America 2: The Winter Soldier
Computer Chess
Calvary
Legend
Pa Negre/Black Bread
Starred Up


Gigs, comedy, clubs etc (8-14)
Paul Klee (art, Tate Modern)
Beautiful Science (art, British Library)
Made in London (jewellery, Museum of London)
The Tyburn Tree (music, John Harle and Marc Almond, Cambridge Corn Exchange)
John Cooper Clarke (punk poetry, Cambridge, Junction) plus support Mike Garry, Dave Formula and the Finks, and a comedian from Bungay whose name I forget
Simon Munnery: Fylm (comedy, Leicester Square Theatre, London)
Veronese (art, National Gallery)

Books incoming: 1 (I, Phone: David Wake as I wanted a proper shiny paper copy)
This was the month in which I got a Kindle, pre-loaded with 512 books, so I hereby abandon all attempts to obtain no more books than I read. I seem to read fast on a Kindle, maybe the fewer words per line leap into my brain more quickly without having to do so much eye-tracking.

Lots of things were awesome! (Lego: everything is awesome!) But if I wait till I have time to write all about everything and how awesome it is, a) I won't get round to it and b) you will have to scroll down a half dozen screens. Read Code Name Verity, and go and see Under the Skin if you can (if you like existential sf films with weird scores)
There are 9 comments on this entry. (Reply.)
 
posted by [identity profile] sphyg.livejournal.com at 09:08am on 02/04/2014
That's a lot of stuff! I'm trying to decide between Captain America vs Noah and Lego vs Muppets for my cinema trip.
 
posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 09:50am on 02/04/2014
I recommend Cap and Lego! Noah looks pants, would be interested in Muppets but Lego is definitely awesome.
 
posted by [identity profile] sphyg.livejournal.com at 01:46pm on 02/04/2014
Maybe I should do Cap and Noah (I tend to like Aranofsky).
 
posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 06:03pm on 02/04/2014
If you're going to see Noah, it's probably best big for the spectacle. Lego is also good big for the detail...
rmc28: Rachel in hockey gear on the frozen fen at Upware, near Cambridge (Default)
posted by [personal profile] rmc28 at 12:01pm on 02/04/2014
Cap and Lego! Winter Soldier is Awesome. Noah looks dire. Can take or leave muppets.
 
posted by [identity profile] davidwake.livejournal.com at 01:11pm on 02/04/2014
Always nice to get on this list.
 
posted by [identity profile] bibliofile.livejournal.com at 01:47am on 07/04/2014
Yes, Code Name Verity is v good. Read the sequel even though it's horribly depressing (much takes place in a concentration camp).

How DO you fit it all in????I haven't read that much this month, and I don't even have a pesky day job to interfere.
 
posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 09:56pm on 07/04/2014
I read no books at all in February! I got most of my reading done when off sick from work and not able to concentrate on something as long as a feature film. The Kindle helped a lot. Thanks for the rec, I will look out for Rose Under Fire.
 
posted by [identity profile] bibliofile.livejournal.com at 10:32pm on 07/04/2014
Sorry, that third sentence should start with "I", sharing info rather than commanding you to do anything. The second book is good but different, less out-and-about spy adventuring, more about surviving a camp.

September

SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
  1
 
2
 
3
 
4
 
5
 
6
 
7
 
8
 
9
 
10
 
11
 
12
 
13
 
14
 
15
 
16
 
17
 
18
 
19
 
20
 
21 22
 
23
 
24
 
25
 
26
 
27
 
28
 
29
 
30