Tuesday, March 30, 2004

Forgot to mention - clocks of changed, how cool is that. We lost an hour but gained a summer, seems like a fair trade to me!!

Music:Faith No more

Weather: +16, the suns shining and its bloody lovely. Metre high cloud hung over the fields this morning, very nice.

Recent Reads (by popular demand):
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues by Tom Robbins (don't let the apparently terrible film stop you reading this - its weird, funny and very very good)
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K Guin. For those of you who remember the Wizard of Earthsea Series, this is as well written,-thoughtful science fiction. Its all good.
Altered Carbon/Broken Angels by Richard Morgan - dam good hard science fiction, full of believable technology, lots of big guns, fights, sex and the best anti hero we've had since Angus Thermopylae
Brick Lane by Monica Ali. Fantastic story about a Bangladeshi girl coming to London for an arranged marriage. Its funny, uplifting and sad - pretty much all at the same time.
Pattern Recognition by William Gibson. dare i say it, almost as good as neuromancer. Actually set in present day, or near enough, very good things to say about product branding.
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami.....bizzarre Japanese surreal head fuck. Sort of like, in a different way, Eraser head without the chickens or mutant foetus.
....and yes, I do read fast.

Personally recommended to me, and I recommend it to.......
TAKAGISM

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