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News, oh, and the Da Vinci code. Never saw it, meaning to, several times, never did. Tonight I shall. And drink two 'peoples' beer' (aka watered dishwashyummy). And half a pack of McVities Digestives. Nice.

Peace
Skei (the got very good control of Boplicity now, will record tomorrow, probably, one)

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Ophelia was a preference, not humanly accessible, not as such.

The DV code was a disappointment. It's always like that when I read the book first. But, it's relatively new, so what's to expect in these days of superficial fast food style things. It's a bit odd, when people are young most seem to be in a hurry, worried that a few minutes may mean most of their remaining lifetime. Then, as time goes by (yeah, I know, I just love it) and age becomes a reality, an extra hour to get depth and meaningful characters means nothing like that anymore. I believe one of life's main lessons to grab hold of may be that life is endless, that there's plenty of time to add meaning and , to quote yet another song; 'you do what you must do, and you do it well'.
Why bother doing stuff that adds nothing. Why waste time - as it is so extremely rare these days - producing superficial nonsense?
Strange days in deed, most peculiar mama...
Peace
Skei (the my life becomes more and more a quote one)

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Ophelia was a preference, not humanly accessible, not as such.

9.25 pm on channel 4: 'The Illusionist', should be good. Ends at 5 minutes to midnight.
At midnight on channel 4+, 'H2G2'. IS good. Ends about ten past two in the morning. I have a 1 meter walk from the TV-chair to the bed. Should make it.
Peace
Skei (the Bopwalk Liaisons one)

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Ophelia was a preference, not humanly accessible, not as such.

10.30 pm 'Coffee & cigarettes' Iggy Pop & Tom Waits enjoying the black death. A blueprint of my life. I saw it a long time ago, will enjoy anyway.
There's also 'Kingdom of heaven' at 9, but seen too many times just a couple of months ago, so no.

Peace
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Cigarettes
Skei (the black and unhealthy like my soul one)

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Ophelia was a preference, not humanly accessible, not as such.

Right now, at 8.46 pm, it's Dalziel & Pascoe. I like DL. He's as un nice as I am.
At 9 pm it's Morse. Ok, it's not the same since mr Thaw passed his towel on, but it's still probably the best there ever was and ever will be on tv.
'nuff sed.
Peace
Skei (the lots of java black, all the time, one) (and the has a cheapo beer in the kitchenuum waiting for Morseuum one)(peaceuum)(oneuum)

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Ophelia was a preference, not humanly accessible, not as such.

'A man's gotta do', seems to be a terribly entertaining reel, at 9 on Silver. This fisherman, I understand, lives a happy family life, except that for some 25 years he's been a contract killer, when not tracking down cod, or whatever.
I believe this might be a nice break from monotony, as it were.

Peace
Skei (the today it's a new glass at mcdonalds again one)

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Ophelia was a preference, not humanly accessible, not as such.

Two consecutive episodes of 'Rome'. The first two, from the beginning. Lovely. I have, moreover, been able to put on socks, and jeans, for the first time in a fortnight. Lovely. I love summer, but too much is too much. I can't afford air conditioning, so I have to make do with the air au naturel, as we say down in the french quarter...
A couple of beers in the cooler, open windows and balcony door, and we're all set for a couple of hours of old roman culture.
Peace
Skei (the roman law one)

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Ophelia was a preference, not humanly accessible, not as such.

Tonight there's gonna be alot of memorising the lunar landing. 40 years today since. I was just a kid of 5, but I vaguely remember seeing the rocket, the guys walking on the moon, this was really a big thing in my circles, kids of 5-7 years, all wanted kits for building the saturn V, dreams all over, we were all gonna be astronauts, playing 'moon landing', great stuff. I hope I live to see people on mars or something, or some visit by starship Titanic, or so.
Great evening, no less.

peace
Skei (the Aldrin one)(oh, by the way, I went to university with one of Buzz' relatives, Kjell Aldrin, great guy, we had lots of coffee together)

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Ophelia was a preference, not humanly accessible, not as such.

just saw the 2007 documentary, "in the shadow of the moon". very engaging without being sensationalistic. loved it!

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"The human gene pool needs more lifeguards!
Either that or stronger chlorination...." (Pitbull)

I do believe I remember that one, the title at least, I may have, or may have not, seen it. I believe you anyway, it is probably good.

Peace
Skei (the had a great tv evening/night with lots of things on space traveling et al. one)

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Ophelia was a preference, not humanly accessible, not as such.

'The mummy', the one with Brendan Fraser. Saw it a number of times, doesn't matter, will enjoy the dream away world of -30's archeology and scary stuff. Love it. All the sand. And Imhotep...
Peace
Skei (the digestives and cheapo beer one)

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Ophelia was a preference, not humanly accessible, not as such.

The Shining. Need I say more? Nicholson when best. This one is REALLY good. Goes well with coffee too. 9 to midnight on channel 9.
Yup.
Peace
Skei (the shining one)

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Ophelia was a preference, not humanly accessible, not as such.

And here's the best part of it they claim. I think there are other parts as good as this one, but it's at least one of the better bits...
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TVooUHN7j4&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]

Peace
Skei (the 'heeere's johhny' one)

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Ophelia was a preference, not humanly accessible, not as such.

Om nom nom, I wish they weren't so expensive in America. They're $5.50 for a smallish pack. I miss living in France sometimes.

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Zombies make bad gifts.

Tonight at 10.30 pm it's 'Brazil' on channel 2. A non commercial channel, no breaks, great!
I saw this one long time ago, will enjoy, a bunch of mcvities are rudimentary. The cost of a pack here is about 1.70 €. Quite ok.
Peace
Skei (the digestives in brazil one)

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Ophelia was a preference, not humanly accessible, not as such.

That's right, it's on SVT2 isn't it. Saw it in the paper. I got all excited and then realised we don't have access to SVT2. Ah well. Enjoy the film!

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Batman: Nobody wants war.

Robin: Gee, Batman. Belgravia's such a small country. We'd beat them in a few hours.

Batman: Yes, and then we'd have to support them for years.

It was just as great as I dimly remember it. A pleasure to see quality film in this the day of crap productions. Gorden Kaye, Robert de N, Michael P, need I say more? Terry Gilliam is such a genious. The feeling is marvellous, the CIA KGB cold war bureaucracy, starship titanic, holistic detective agencies, children of the same era, bloody marvellous!
Aaaargggh.

Peace
Skei (the twelve monkeys one)

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Ophelia was a preference, not humanly accessible, not as such.

Brazil is my favourite film ever.

It's been a long time since I saw Brazil last time. But as it happens, it's shown also on Finnish tv at Saturday night. The bad part is that it is on a commercial channel, and the time is 00.25. Great film, one of my favourites as well.

just saw a rerun of h2g2, the movie. Very nice, as always. For once I could relaxand enjoy all of it. What it lacks is 'depth'. as my old university tutor would have said. Characters are somewhat shallow, but hey, it's disney.
Tonight there's two nice ones, first the monty python anniversary celebration thing, will see, will enjoy. Later part two of the sci-fi tv movie 'Impact', saw part one last night, better than expected, hope there'll be some excitement tonight, what with a moon running crazily across the sky, like a bowl of flowers and a whale, perhaps...
All in all a nice evening. I also listened to a bit of wakenius earlier, and enjoyed (surprise).
Peace
Skei (the now something completely different one)

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Ophelia was a preference, not humanly accessible, not as such.

Tonight an old favourite: 'A beautiful mind'. the one about the mathematician who got hit by this thing, schizophrenia, or whatever it's called. It's a sad story, but well done, very fine acting there!
Peace
Skei (the get off of my back one)

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Ophelia was a preference, not humanly accessible, not as such.

seconded. and it features two of my favourite actors: paul bettany and russel crowe.

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"The human gene pool needs more lifeguards!
Either that or stronger chlorination...." (Pitbull)

Yes, a fantastic movie. Totally brilliant. See, reality wins every time.
Wonderful acting by superb actors. Just think of all those who think gladiator is the best Crowe can do, who've never seen this - what a bummer.

Mmm.
Peace
Skei (the I KNOW they're not real, but I don't mind one)

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Ophelia was a preference, not humanly accessible, not as such.

Right now it's 'King of California' (or something like that) With Michael Douglas as the mental patient coming out to terrorise his daughter. Looking for a spanish 17th century treasure under a mall. Michael Douglas, aka 'the chin' was never better than this. Splendid. The mad guy eyes, the freak reasoning, perfect lunatic.
Peace
Skei (the mad as a lobster one)

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Ophelia was a preference, not humanly accessible, not as such.

Right now 'The number 23' with Jim Carrey.
It's much better than one might assume judging by the title.
Cool to see Carrey in something not a comedy. Even though I love his comedy stuff.

Peace
Skei (the not 23 one)

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Ophelia was a preference, not humanly accessible, not as such.

Planning tonight's tv schedule opened up for a v e r y late night...

Stumbling on the opportunity to see 'Omen' again, I realised I have to sit up until about 3 in the morning. But I guess with a seven hour sleep on that, up by ten or so in the morning, I'll survive.
Too bad they put the best thing at 1 in the night, but that's life I guess. Sometimes we smile, most of the time we cry, in the end it's all the same anyway. The grim reaper hath no pardon...

Peace
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Jocular intermissions
Skei (the have half a pack of McVities left from yesternight one)

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Ophelia was a preference, not humanly accessible, not as such.

No Desperate Houswives tonight; Olympics. Boo.

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Zombies make bad gifts.

Yup, Shikala, that's the way it goes in these olympic times. People like me, and obviously you too, who prefer a good show to a modern day gladiator game invented to keep the uneducated masses at bay, will always have to investigate their refrigerators for good leftovers and the proximity of new and interesting subcultures emanating from last week's stew or place the wallpapers under close and penetrating scrutiny while meandering the lifelessness of the 'life outside of the central corpus'.

And, by the way, most tv shows are part of the same scheme, waving a lot of colorful and glitzy items in front of the mass, and it will be lured not to notice the goings on that really matter. Political leaders throughout our common and not so common history have applied the same methodology for blinding the populas as to what is really happening out there. Nothing wrong with exercise, good for the old 'system', but sports in general is probably an invention to keep the lower classes occupied, thus not having time to question the decisions wrongfully taken on their behalf by members of the ruling strata enabling those to move to Brazil with the money.

Luckily there will always be Beatniks, who question the way things are, and jazz, which is good for liberating thought...

Peace
Skei (the just got up and therefore not accountable one)

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Ophelia was a preference, not humanly accessible, not as such.

You're being incredibly elitist there Usky. This here forum is peppered with sports fans who may take exception to being called lower class. Besides, here at the DAC we pride ourselves on being classless. Well I do anyway...

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Her mouth opened, her eyes patients, the variety of age and constitution as a pullets egg, with some gobbits of fat, and the heavy sand.

(... don't piss us off)

Sorry, didn't think before writing, really. I've been active in several sports myself, football, boxing, wrestling, running, etc, so I'm in the category myself, then.

Just playing with words, not considering somebody might take offense.

To any and all who feels offended: I'm so very sorry and I don't mean any harm! Trust me.

Peace
Skei (the one who writes before he thinks one, so to say...)

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Ophelia was a preference, not humanly accessible, not as such.

Don't make me come over there and steal your Jaffa Cakes!

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Her mouth opened, her eyes patients, the variety of age and constitution as a pullets egg, with some gobbits of fat, and the heavy sand.

(... don't piss us off)

I suppose you refer to the very selfsame cakes which once stirred a controversy involving even her majesty the queen's law (not the band, the gal):

"Under UK law, no Value Added Tax (VAT) is charged on biscuits and cakes — they are "zero rated". Chocolate covered biscuits, however, are subject to VAT, currently 17.5%. McVities classed its Jaffa Cakes as cakes, but in 1991, this was challenged by Her Majesty's Customs and Excise and the case ended up before the courts.[4] This may have been because Jaffa Cakes are about the same size and shape as some types of biscuit, and particularly because they are commonly eaten alongside, or instead of, traditional biscuits. The court asked "What criteria should be used to class something as a cake?"
McVities defended its classification of Jaffa Cakes as cakes, producing a 12" (30 cm) Jaffa Cake to illustrate that its Jaffa Cakes were simply miniature cakes.[5]
McVities argued that a distinction between cakes and biscuits is, among other things, that biscuits would normally be expected to go soft when stale, whereas cakes would normally be expected to go hard. It was demonstrated to the Tribunal that Jaffa Cakes become hard when stale. Other factors taken into account by the Chairman, Potter QC, included the name, ingredients, texture, size, packaging, marketing, presentation, appeal to children, and manufacturing process. Potter ruled that the Jaffa Cake is a cake. McVities therefore won the case and VAT is not paid on Jaffa Cakes." (quoted from wikipedia)

Peace
Skei (the cake, not chocolate covered bisquit, one)

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Ophelia was a preference, not humanly accessible, not as such.

Don't make me come after your Hob Nobs too...

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Her mouth opened, her eyes patients, the variety of age and constitution as a pullets egg, with some gobbits of fat, and the heavy sand.

(... don't piss us off)

By 'Hob Nobs', are you referring to Plain hobnobs - which are made at the Tollcross factory in Glasgow, or the chocolate variety - the variety which is made at the Harlesden factory? (again, wikipedia, the faithful old friend in cyberspace...)

Or might you be referring to the football fan site?

Anyway, Hobnobs are definitely bisquits, as they go soft when stale, one of the main criteria for classifying an object as part of one of the two main classes, though classless we be....

Peace
Skei (the going soft when stale one)

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Ophelia was a preference, not humanly accessible, not as such.

Let's stick with the chocolate and go for Harlesden's finest.

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Her mouth opened, her eyes patients, the variety of age and constitution as a pullets egg, with some gobbits of fat, and the heavy sand.

(... don't piss us off)

Milk, plain or orange?

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D.
The Thirteenth Triskaidekaphobe
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Questions, ever these questions. And people say life is easy.
The colour on the wall there suggests orange, with a slight hint to milk, which seems like an intriguing middle way to go. But I'm a bit plain, so can't decide.

I believe Mcvities is a subject worthy of a doctoral thesis, and there probably IS a thesis on something involving cakes & bisquits. Limp biskits.
Or otherwise alarming. Cakes. Cakewalk. Oscar Petersen did a superb cakewalk with Joe Pass long time ago. Not limp at all. See how I always manage to get into jazz, no matter what the subject is originally.

I need coffee. Might enjoy my last two Digestives at the same time. They rest on the table, hobnobbing within their plastic cover. Maybe dreaming of a place where digestives are free to fly, on rays of chocolate, or moonbeams. Vanilla moonbeams and strawberry fields forever.

Peace
Skei (the just had coffee one, soon time again)

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Ophelia was a preference, not humanly accessible, not as such.

Some stargate movie. Can't remember which one, but I'm sure it'll be an ok escape from reality...
Peace
Skei (the into the night one)

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Ophelia was a preference, not humanly accessible, not as such.

A super tv night;
*Time Team at 6.
*Zawinul in memoriam at 7.
*Midsomer Murders at 8.

Joe Zawinul for those uninterested in jazz is the austrian keyboardist most remembered from Weather report, and for writing the great tune 'Birdland'.

Great evening. better relax, cos tomorrow I'll have to go to some kind of info on a 'programme' for us unemployed. To possibly get us back amongst the work force. That would be nice. But it means I'd have to get up before noon. Which is not human. But for the sake of getting a job, I will get up at 7.30 tomorrow morning. Hope they keep their end of the agreement, though I seriously doubt it. But it sure will feel nice to have something regular to do for a while, a purpose. Even if I, like every reasonably sane human being with an IQ above 2.3, know there is no purpose in this whole 'existence' thing, it will be nice to have something to do for a while.
Peace
Skei (the wonko the sane one)

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Ophelia was a preference, not humanly accessible, not as such.

Just saw one of the best films all along: punch drunk love. Amazing. And now it's one I saw before; Aviator. Also so good it almost wrecked my lantern. So fine pictures. Just like the feel I want to give with the bentley. Dreamy. Aviation. Hughes.
Bah.
Peace
Skei (the logging off one)

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Ophelia was a preference, not humanly accessible, not as such.

Inspector Lynley mysteries. Elisabeth George's stories as base. really good. This man Lynley has a nice car. redish. Dark kind of, don't know the make. Probably some British thing. Nice car anyway. Much like a tweed jacket.
Hmm.
Peace
Skei (the ten to ten one)

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Ophelia was a preference, not humanly accessible, not as such.

It's a Bristol 410. Very rare car made by an eccentric offshoot of the former Bristol Aircraft Company from down Scratch's way.
Very tweed jacket indeed.

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D.
The Thirteenth Triskaidekaphobe
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