Ewan

I predict there's going to be about as much raucous rockabilly covers as there will be plangent bleak piano music for trudging through the puszta.

Cafe Oto is filled with exactly as many pseudy intellectuals (I'm not excluding myself) and black-clad nihilists as I'd expect for a performance by Mihaly Vig, who did the soundtracks for all those Bela Tarr films. I wouldn't be surprised if the small child over there has seen Satantango.

You definitely get to an age where you feel aggrieved at having to queue to get into a gig when you'd rather just be sitting down and ordering a drink and not be doing with all this nonsense. But I guess I need to embrace this as delightfully nostalgic, not something I do much these days.

Well the Gail's in Archway has been open for about a week and already someone's smashed all the windows and scrawled "shop local" across the side. Somehow this doesn't surprise me.

It always seems weird to me that the BAFTA awards are broadcast several hours after they happen. I mean, who thinks that's a good idea? Maybe nobody really cares about them? I guess I don't

I fear that after watching The Testament of Ann Lee that my wife (sorry, uh, mother) might want to found a new ecstatic music-based cult religion

I've got a weekend involving travelling to all kinds of London suburbs. Today off in direction of Barking and tomorrow to Cambridge!

Pretty excited to be going to see a screening of Malcolm X tonight. It pains me to even make this joke but... Obviously hoping that I don't have to have seen parts I to IX first.

Turns out Tom Stoppard was a pretty good playwright and Arcadia is still quite fun (and funny!). Excellent night out

If a man can't hold a woman above his head while twirling around at a dizzying speed on ice, is it even skating? ... is I assume the main rule in the ice skating rule book given how often they seem to do it

*first time

RIP Frederick Wiseman the greatest to ever do it, what a great bunch of documentaries he made, many of which I still get to watch and enjoy for the first thing

A close-up of a bottle of wine called Orgo, a saperavi from Georgia.

Gotta, uh, support the figure skaters (I assume they have some coming up?)

I think part of the problem is despite all the time sitting in front of it, I still haven't seen an end where they score 0 so I don't quite understand how it happens. Surely the last team can always just float one into the middle to get a point?

If I keep watching curling, then the hope is that eventually I'll understand how they score it and what the strategy is. It never happened for me with other niche sports like AFL or NFL, but I believe I can understand this one

It just seems so weird to me that in between the Olympics you might be able to go somewhere in the world to slide down an icy death tube head first on the regular... for fun?

Some dumplings at the evocatively named restaurant Noodles & Beer.

Every time the Prince Charles shows IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE, they send 200 people out into Chinatown hungry for noodles and dumplings. I hope they get some kinda kickback from the local businesses.

Not that parents are bad. Sorry people with kids. It's just Brixton parents, clearly.

Now that the parents have gone, it's actually really quiet and pleasant in here

I'm at a craft beer bar in Brixton and I swear there are more tiny children here than at a crèche

I added my first Robbie Williams track to my running playlist today as well (well it was a Kylie ft, but it's a slippery slope eh)

Pretty common word over here and for me, I have to say...

Blimey bit colder than I expected when I looked out the window. I am however now committed to my plan to do a parkrun then get home for s 10.30 quiz. I think it's possible if I just run fast enough

Yeah I'm fairly sure I went to that. Time eh.

Weirdly thrilling to be going to see Art Brut and Maximo Park tomorrow, the latter a band I literally haven't seen in over 20 years. This might be my first properly nostalgia-based gig but I'm getting old so I'm fine with that.

Goddammit I just got myself set up to watch this and it's gone already, stupid internet

We're watching Red Eye, a film I've never seen before. It's all very thrilling but if they're hoping for me to care about the person the bad guy is trying to murder, well, times have moved on eh.

Okay I have to concede the American ice dancer who looks like Zuck is good.

Feels like maybe: funkier tunes? Less leaping in the air?

Oh I'm not asking her to waste her time with me. I assume there are different moves or something but they both seem like 'moving in unison to music on ice' to me.