Short trip to Dub

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‘Mostly dry’. That doesn’t sound too bad then. I’m hopping over to the Emerald Isle for a day’s worth of photo recce (for a shoot next month), perhaps some shopping, and a late night 30 Seconds to Mars show. Not that I’m a big fan or anything, but I’m sure both band and audience will be a sight to see.

Talking about a sight to see… (Yeah, grasping at straws here) Torchwood S2e02… now that’s more like it! This director gave Barrowman much less time and space, which cut down on his showiness. Now all they need to do is clean out his ears… that’s the only reason I can think of why he is always SO MUCH LOUDER than the other actors. Or is it just the Tom Cruise school of acting?

Loved the Monster of the Week. The woman playing Beth did so awesomely and the steely eyed sleeper dad was just the right amount of creepy and silly.

VOX popular

VOX, Six Apart’s new blogging tool, is now open to everyone. I’ve been using it for a couple of months now and (as you may have noticed) it’s made me forget about this here MT-powered self-made blog that I’ve had for the last 7 years. Why? Because I, like everybody else, have less time to spare and want everything to be quick and easy at this point in my life. Maybe when I retire I’ll go back to hand-coding my thoughts in Notepad, but right now, I want VOX.

Vox doesn’t do everything I want. I can’t import delicious, last.fm, upcoming, etc like I do here, but it does all the basics really well. But most importantly… all my mates are there in my own little neighbourhood! With it’s privacy features, it’s perfect for the easy, ‘secret’ blogging of stuff you want only your best friends and/or your family to read. It’s free, so give it a whirl, and invite your mates or maybe your techno-phobe dad.

Hmm, that came out like a copywritten advertisement. It’s not. Honest.

So what am I gonna do with eachman.com? Well, I’m thinking of reverting back to prolific.org and making this an aggregate-only hub. I think I’ll be stripping this site of its current ‘design’ soonish.

A prayer for his da

My friend’s father (74) dad had a heart attack on wednesday. When they got him to the hospital, he was put on a trolley in a&e for three hours. When he was finally given a bed, he had another heart attack. He’s in intensive care now and stable at the moment. He had a triple bypass a couple of years ago – when he had his first (three, I think) heart attacks.

I’d get upset about the three hours waiting on a trolley if I weren’t pre-occupied hoping for a speedy recovery.

Heroes always disappoint you in the end

It’s official, our band doesn’t give a fuck about us. First they didn’t want us in the front rows. Now we’re not allowed to make more than one booking per tour. I.e. they want to get rid of their hardcore, traveling fans. They want new blood at gigs. Hardcore fans are tiresome. I know we are. We’ve also tirelessly supported the most uncool band in the history of music. And made them bluddy big.

Nope, they don’t care one iota. I knew that already, but now we all do.

Update: It’s like the ultimate midlife crisis. Instead of leaving their first wives, these men dump their first fans.

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Hoax ‘missing parents’ e-mail?

Did anyone else receive an e-mail with a picture of a boy attached and the message ‘A BOY MISSING HIS PARENTS B’CAUSE TSUNAMI’, asking people to forward it to as many people as they can? Typical hoax stuff if you ask me. I think it’s a picture of the (mosquito bitten) Swedish boy who was reunited with his dad in a Thai hospital in the first few days after the Tsunami struck.

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Vintage me

self, 3 or 4 years old

Check out my flickr photostream for some black and whites taken by my dad.

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A thought that’s been going through my head a lot recently (which I should cherish and investigate — shallow as my everyday existence tends to be) is that everybody has their ‘prime’ time. Some hit it in their twenties, others in their thirties or later. I think I made a pretty good kid and kept it together in my teens and tweens. I don’t think I’m very succesful so far at being an adult.