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Went for a coffee (me!) after work, mostly because I wanted to get something done - not really possible at home.

I have discovered why I’ve spent 26 years not drinking coffee, I was jittery, yeah, that didn’t work for me.

It’s an epidemic. It can strike anyone. It begins harmlessly enough… maybe with a cell phone, an online social network profile, or an IM. But before long, the electronic screens invade every corner of your life.

There’s a name for this tragic and extremely annoying condition: Screen Addiction.

But there is hope. Send an intervention to someone you care about! Help them take the first step towards recovery.

The song and animations are just lovely.

(The song is The Real Tuesday Weld - Blood Sugar Love and the refrain is Life is good when you’re filled with blood, life is good when you’re filled with love”.)

Saw a few children starting school today, stood at the bus stop with their parents. It was a just nice. In a very future-type-way, I am looking forward to having kids - though if, as babies they are like I was it’ll be hard work.

First day of school tomorrow, meeting the new children, finding out how we’ll all start to get on. I wasn’t sure, I still feel a little overwhelmed by all the things I need to keep track of. It’s not that they are all had, it’s just so many tiny little things.

In any case, I’m excited. I think.

Though I did eat the skin off the chicken I had for tea, oops.

Edit: it’s the next day and my legs hurt, plus the one time I have difficulty getting out of bed is the last day of the holiday!

Hypemachine - it aggregates music blogs. Still working it out but their radio, plays random songs and is nice for a change. Glass Candy - Candy Castle

My new radio. I mean it’s just different to listening to it on the computer (not really a fan). Golden Silver - Arrows of Eros

Bonus - http://hypem.com/track/623174/MGMT-Kids+(Soulwax+Nite+Version)+(256k) - which is amazing. Please give it 45 seconds of your time.

Currently have Does it Offend You Yeah? - Dawn of the Dead on repeat. It was played on 6Music this morning.

Quite awesome.

The adverts are awful, the Orange adverts got old a long time ago - I’m suprised they still run them. Where they were interesting, funny, ‘fresh’ now they’re banal, boring, cliched. Which is shame because now when I think about them, I think ‘jeeeeeez’ and not ‘yeah they were cool’.
We got there early, got some nice seats right in the middle. Then everyone sat around us. It’s the first time I’ve been to the cinema in the evening in a long while. Can’t say i’m a fan. It annoys me when people laugh at different things - well yes, they’re allowed and we’re taking different things but, well, I’m being snob. Plus, there’ inevitably more noise from food and conversations(!) and people using their phones - you get that brief flash of bright light (don’t think I didn’t see you doing it too Jenn). The whole ‘it’s the experience that matters’ is just plain silly, we’re not like that as a nation. I don’t think we do the shared experience thing.

Give me a weekend morning anytime, it’s quiet, it’s cheap and there’s no disturbances.

The Dark Knight was awesome. I know this, because I was leaning forward. I lean forward when the film grabs me, when I need to be closer to the screen to absorb what’s going on. Heath Ledger inhabits the role. The level of threat in the film is constant, you feel it as you wonder at what point will it all turn out alright.

Based on my experience, I can’t but disagree with the BBFC 12A rating. There are things they pick up on, the interrogation for example, that I didn’t consider one of the ’stronger scenes’. There are scenes in the film while don’t come under ‘violence must not dwell on detail’ and that ‘there should be no emphasis on injuries or blood’, are just vicious. Never the less, it’s the whole of the film, it’s dark and horrible and it really grabs you, unnerves you. It’s not your average superhero film - but what a 12 year old would make of it, I don’t know.