28.4.10

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Well it's that time of year again. Having spent the last 2 weeks excruciatingly wringing out enough coherent thought to write 7000 words worth (see what I did there?) of intelligible prose, I am now confronted with the depressing spectre of my two exams. I know I shouldn't be complaining, but I'm a man of simple pleasures. Mainly I like bacon, sitting down and the odd head scratch. Anything which disturbs this heavenly scene is treated as a rude interruption and must be treated with the utmost disdain and usually misplaced sarcastic comments that, on reflection, don't really make too much sense. Anyway, the point is I don't want to study any more. Having to write about thermodynamics in an essay on American fiction nearly made my increasingly leaky brain collapse in on itself. Fucking Thomas Pynchon and his complex themes of communication theory. Just write a nice story about animals with no complex ideas like Beatrix Potter, or George Orwell before he went got all cerebral and wrote a novel about how everyone in the 80s would speak as if they had stepped from the pages of a shit romance novel and get pissed on gin all the time (again, misplaced sarcastic/facetious remarks are often my downfall).

In other news I managed to watch Kick Ass again. Not really sure how, but I was pretty bored and my flatmate wanted to see it again. It stood up to another viewing pretty well, but this time around I couldn't get it out of my head that the main character was being portrayed by a douche, having found out in the meantime that he's knocked up his 50 year old fiance, and he's 19 and dresses like those cunts in the Topman adverts that have that contrived scruffy-yet-oh-so-cool look that makes me want to punch them in the Adam's apple then tell them to read Das Kapital. It would probably make them more cunty to be honest, they'd become champagne socialists and sit in their Primrose Hill squats with each other reading J.D Salinger and Roland Barthes, waiting for Arthur to return from the latest croissant run to Camden Lock. What a load of imaginary berks.

I also bought some new DLC for Mass Effect 2, it was pretty fun and would recommend getting it for the low low price of 1/6 of the game's initial cost for around 2 extra hours gameplay. It was good, but pretty much a ripoff. At least I get an extra character for those side missions I'm not going to do and 15G to add to the gamerscore that I feel dirty for caring about.

Tomorrow sees Inter travel to Camp Nou (yes Camp Nou, you don't hear Spanish people calling Old Trafford, Trafford Old) and try to hold onto their 3-1 lead to get to the final, which seems like it will essentially be a walk in the park for whoever wins tomorrow. How a team with a defence as shoddy as Bayern's can get to the final is beyond me. They've got Zorro at the back for fuck's sake! Anyway hopefully it will be a decent watch, and I'm watching it at Guy's campus so it should be deserted cos Man United aren't playing. (for those of you who don't know why that's funny, it's because Guy's campus is where everyone who does sciences/medicine has the majority of their classes, and as a result it has a high asian population, and everyone knows that nearly every asian person that exists supports Man United. Check back tomorrow for more racial stereotypes.)

There's some music I want to write about but will do it in a less rage-inflected entry tomorrow or something, I need some sleep.

17.4.10

Home again, Kick Ass and a little bit of music

So I've been at home for a couple of weeks, trying unsuccessfully to crack on with my final 2 essays before my exams start next month. Well, I say "start", but I only have 2. And one if them is predisclosed... in fact I already know the questions. It pays to do a course that isn't a real subject. Until I hit the real world. Which will hopefully not be for many years to come.

Anyway, me and a friend made usage of orange wednesdays and decided to take a trip to the local multiplex to see a film that seems to have kicked up a bit of a fuss amongst the err.. let's say "cuntish" section of the british press. Most of this has revolved around the use of "the c word" by an 11 year old girl (or Hitgirl as her character is called). Its a highly bizarre thing to be worried about considering what the little terror gets up to immediately after channelling the spirit of Derek and Clive - she proceeds to dismember and horrifcially maim and entire room of people with a katana. As far as I was concerned watching the film, it was strange to see such a young character utilised in such a way and it was, momentarily, at least slightly uncomfortable. There's not really too much time for this though as it happens over and over again in various situations throughout the film, deadening the slightly jarring effect it did have in that first memorable scene. What's more bizarre is the music she slaughters these people to - Banana Splits by The Dickies. It's a surreal scene and a surreal film, but a highly enjoyable and funny comic book pastiche Tarantino can only dream of while he's titting about wearing beanie hats and watching Wong Kar-wai films with vaseline and a kleenex within his jittery arms' reach. What a fucktard he is. What was I on about? Oh yeah. Little girls cuttin' headz. Watch it.

Whilst at home I have also managed to expend a stupid amount of money on music. My discovery of Boomkat.com has been both a blessing and a curse. On the one hand I have an easily accessible library of fantastic electronic music... on the other hand they recommend everything that is released, resulting in lack of funds. Anyway, here's a short chart of some of the best stuff I've stumbled across in recent weeks and other shite that's been on rotation:

1. You Got Me by Scuba from Triangulation
2. Sahara Michael by Ikonika from Fish
3. Raga Bhairav by Charanjit Singh from Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat
4. Lagos by Nomad Discotech from Lagos/Fast Food Soul
5. The Only Way Up by Egyptrixx from The Only Way Up
6. Shangrila by Floating Points from Love Me Like This
7. Escape by Johann Johannsson from and in the endless pause there came the sound of bees
8. Detroit Falls by Pariah from Detroit Falls
9. Detroid by dBridge & Instra:mental from Acacia Avenue/Detroid
10. Igloo by Wiley from Avalanche Music 1
11. 444 by Autechre from Incunabula
12. Pickled! by Flying Lotus from Cosmogramma
13. Kobwebz by Gonjasufi from A Sufi And A Killer


Yeah I know Arsenal lost. Fuckoff.