This one started well with a massive party on friday night on one of the houseboats in shoreham. They were having a three day party on their converted WWII houseboat for a threefold celebration of getting planning permission, a 60th birthday and a graduation. Ben and I danced more stupidly than ever before (this is quite a statement), and I got told off for wearing a girls leather skirt... but it fitted me so well!
On sunday I went to Reading festival for the day, this one day ticket cost about £15 less than the all day ticket I bought last time I went, admittedly this was in 1994 but still £67 for a day seems slightly steep to me. Anyway cost aside it was a fun day, got to see lots of music, spill chilli over myself and wear a hat! Musical highlights included Art Brut, The Futureheads, Blackalicious, Buck 65 and Iron Maiden!
I have always had problems differentiating between what's cool and what constitutes a fashion no-no. Be it insistently wearing a white 70's safari jacket since I was 17 or persisting in being in an overly camp comedy band. My latest fad is a wanting to smoke a proper pipe, not something as crude as a crack pipe, but a proper mans pipe, the sort that Roald Dahl might have smoked. The sort that can become a surrogate beard for contemplative massaging. If I'm going to have to live with grey hair this seems the next logical step, maybe a cardigan too. So is this a good idea? Additionally, is it difficult, seeing as I often have problems keeping a roll-up alight, will I struggle?
It's been seemingly ages since my last post, I guess I've just been lazy and prefer reading other people's blogs to updating my own, but I felt I had to reply to Dan's brutal attack on the classic fantasy film Hawk the Slayer. Here is proof, if proof be needbe that it is god-rad!
1. It's ace! Are you sure you actually watched it Dan? Being able to watch a film in a group whilst making continuous amusing yet derisory comments and still enjoying the film makes it good not bad. 2. The music is wicked: Ok, Dan did pay a small concession to this, but not enough, almost as good as Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds (Oh-La) 3. It was the best fantasy film for ages : When the competition is Iron Warrior, Throne of Fire, Beast Master or one of the Death Stalker films, this is obviously a bold statement, but is easily corroborated by considering the rate of fire of Crow's bow, or the inclusion of the excellent mind sword, why bend down and pick your sword up like a sucker when you can magically float it into your grasp. Incidently anyone who thinks Krull or Ladyhawke are better films please keep it to yourselves. 4. It makes Live Role Playing seem more authentic: Films like the overblown adaptation of the Lord of the Rings have made the lives of people who like to run around in forests dressed as pixies or orgres a lot less satisfying. Hawk the Slayer's flimsy set construction, dodgy acting and poor costumes made it seem all the more real when you (er...I mean people that did live role playing) reanacted it yourself (I mean themselves).
