I’m just watching the video for “The Grudge” by Mortiis – its a good deal sillier than I’d really expected from him. Is the rest of his stuff this daft?
We’ve made it to 2005, it was welcomed in with a healthy dose of the second most addictive thing to come out of South America (so the marketing would have it at least). Of course, Mikey, the poker player, was a clear winner. Stoo recounted the tale of the Mad Swordman of Mousehold, a tale of martial arts, mistaken identity and inability to use a helicopter for its intended purpose. Zombies is top game, better with four people than two. Recommended.
Then over the weekend I went to Kent to see my family – where I was setting up Skype to make it cheaper to call between, my ID is neilhopcroft, in case anyone else out there is a user? I know its not the best of the VoIP systems, but it seems reasonably easy to use. Except I haven’t found my microphone yet, which makes for somewhat one-sided conversations.
Everyone seems to be reflecting on the past year, and looking forward to the next year. Indeed, this time last year I was pondering being “…not very good at relaxing and I’ve an irrational fear of intimacy”, but gave myself a get-out that I was in Tokyo being surrounded by cute Japanese girls in PVC who wouldn’t help with solving either. Such excuses no longer work. I am, however, open to offers of attempting to fix either (preferably both) of these issues by PVC-clad, English-speaking Japanese girls. Failing that, I’ll have to put some work in myself. Dammit.