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Brilliant gig at the dive-of-Peterborough, The Metropolis Lounge. The Hedrons are an all-girl punk(ish) band from Glasgow, who kicked up a storm last night - best gig I’ve been to in Peterborough by some way. Also the first time I’ve moshed since I moved here - good grief I miss Manchester. I bought a copy of the album (due for release 5th Feb) while I was there, will post a review soon.

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Having worked on a promotional website for this film, and seen the little embedded flash trailer loop 612 times, I did not have high hopes for this little chick-flick.
In fact, it’s quite funny in places, and while it gets a little soppy toward the end, this never really gets in the way of the plot or characters, and the writers manage to avoid shoving it down your throat, which is nice.

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So 80’s it hurts, this film does an incredible job of glamorising stock trading. By simplifying the actual trading, the action on screen is genuinely tense and exciting, and the between-the-scenes photography adds much to the atmosphere.

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There’s lately been a gamut of stop-frame videos of people who’ve taken photos of themselves every day for years. It’s an intriguing idea for a project, but I’m not sure I could force myself to do it for a long enough time period.

• madandcrazychild’s effort is short, but she’s nice to look at so that’s ok
• Sven and Tobias‘ efforts are impressive for what they are (taking a photo every day for 3 years), but ultimately they’re boring compared to others
• Phil is much more interesting, with beard and hair changing gradually, and then getting a bit more creative toward the end
• Like Tobias and Sven, Marqs video is a great achievement, but very repetitive. Also a bit lo-fi
• Lee has a different take, not only in that he doesn’t attempt to be in the same position with the same expression every frame. There is some debate about the authenticity of this
• Ben, staged but humourous. Apparently this was used as a Mountain Dew ad in the US
• ahreelee’s take is haunting, because she doesn’t change much over the course of three years, and even though she tries not to, just occasionally you get a glipse of a smile
• elko9, only 269 images, but more interesting as she makes a real effort to make each frame unique - there is no sense of continuity
• Orange is a piss take, filed under Comedy, but not actually that funny

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Bit of a self indulgent post, but worth mentioning - the last week or so I’ve been preoccupied with taking my CBT motorbike test, and buying a new motorcycle: the famous Honda CG125. Check out the pics below, and see more on my Flickr page.

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This isn’t the book I intended to buy. I went into Waterstone’s to buy a french dictionary, decided I wasn’t ready for one, started browsing the travel writing section, and ended up buying this.

Gorman is evidently prone to ‘adventures’ - before this one he’d been off on a project to find everyone in the world with the same name as him - as he’s distracted from writing a novel by “Googlewhacking”, a fad that swept the Internet a few years ago, helped not a little by this book. A Googlewhack is a two word search on Google which returns only a single web page. Dave Gorman made it his mission to find 10 of these “in a row”, by which he means the next Googlewhack is found by the owner of the web page which produced the last one. Since he is also required to meet these people, Gorman travels all around the globe in his mission, and it’s this which forms most of the interest in the book. The people Dave meets are interesting since they’re all so diverse, yet all (with one exception) have a willingness to find more Googlewhacks for him.

All tied together nicely by the authors witty commentary (I laughed out loud in several places), this is a charming tale of what can happen when you have someone with an unstoppable curiosity, tons of energy, and nothing to stop them…

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Even for a children’s film this can seem horribly saccharine at times, and the frequency of the musical parts (aka the filler) begins to grate very quickly. Scored higher as a couple of lines made me laugh, but disappointing overall.

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