Just setting up the venue for tonight’s screening of Midsommar…

Yep. Now up it’s Easy by the Commodores. Entire dining room on tenterhooks waiting for the ‘Uuoough!’

I’ve had Living for the City by Stevie Wonder over a hotel breakfast in Eastbourne. Glorious

I’m convinced JD Vance was only in that conference with Zelenskyy last week because he’d sat on that lovely sofa earlier in the day, and wasn’t able to stand up without the cameras picking up his obvious arousal

Jurassic Waterpark is the next logical step

It’s on TV tonight in the UK, Channel 4. Not saying you should get a vpn and watch it on the All4 app, I’m just saying you could.

Just finished reading my book on a fairly crowded train.
Was a bit confused by the ending, but I did find out that Jackie from Newark pissed in a plant pot on Leeds Station platform on Friday night, and that she can’t drink rosé because it makes her flaps dry.

Kingy channeling his inner Janey!

Excellent weather today for a bimble up the hill. Sunny, about 6°C, dry, and some lovely views (and a very handsome companion).
I also decided a bench is the best legacy one can leave. Thanks, Ali!

Far and away the worst film we’ve screened. People left halfway through.
Someone put earphones in to listen to a podcast instead.

That’s the script, essentially. With occasional bits of dialogue that sound cobbled off an overheard conversation about a seventh generation pirate copy of A Clockwork Orange for Jim Broadbent to struggle with.

Just spent the evening screening Vroom (1990) in the town it was filmed.
Imagine someone watching Rita, Sue, and Bob Too, but repeatedly nodding off, then trying to write down as much as they can remember the day after, then Google translating it into Chinese, then back to English.

Grand Theft Hamlet is very good. Heartily recommend

Just gone 6pm, and I’m already under a blanket with a big mug of tea and about 2 hours left in an excellent book. I’m not sure the rest of the weekend can improve upon this

Yep I found it now, thank you!

I’ll have to dig around, I’ve been using it for a couple of years but not seen that

Is that a StoryGraph graphic? Or something you put together yourself?

A propos of nothing, i just remembered the period in history when you would spend £2 to phone a premium rate number, to receive a bleepy version of Hollaback Girl to use as your phone ringtone. It’s the 90s equivalent of ‘We Drank From The Hose And Didn’t Know What Pasta Was”

She wanted him celebrated for it?

I just started London Rules by Mick Herron yesterday!

We’ve ‘sold’ 1 (one!) ticket for No Other Land tonight. It’s a free screening, in a town that is generally very pro-Palestine.
I’m not sure what we’ve done wrong, are people just entirely out of empathy now?

I think the impact could massively depend on the child, because there’s no dialogue and minimal sound (other than wildlife and distressed animal sounds), it does absorb you and can get very intense. If you’re just looking to relax I can see where the issue was!

It’s pertinent to me anyway, I was suggesting it for a screening at my local community cinema, and having watched it I thought it would be good to open up to children as well. Might have to review with a more child-perspective lens!

That’s fair, I think sometimes parents should watch certain films before showing to their children, especially if they are not marketed as specifically children’s films. I expected it to be more adult-oriented than it was, but that may be the way I came across it.

I just watched this alone the other night (well, with my dog). It’s so lovely, dog wasn’t bothered. I think a a child if have loved it, I didn’t feel it was that traumatising (and a lot of the threats were overcome very quickly)

I would imagine they would be absolutely terrified, I’ve not seen a single one of these hearings that inspired any confidence.
“Are you currently able to do the job you’ve applied for?”
“No.”
“But are you willing to learn?”
“Again, that would be No.”

Tell us what you read, please!

They’ve got a robust back-up plan in case the thoughts and prayers don’t work… Hoping for the best

Been going back through my TBR pile to try to reduce it a little. I just started on Wait Until Spring, Bandini, and feel a little annoyed that I just slept on it for years