Thursday 11 December 2008

11 Dec 2008 at Twitter

• 01:05pm: Heading into town for a Mexican Christmas dinner, armed with an extremely undesirable secret santa / white elephant gift.
• 01:24pm: Forgot wallet. Let's try again.
• 04:31pm: Full of Mexican, decamped to the Porterhouse on Maiden Lane.
• 06:22pm: About to watch The Day the Earth Stood Still...
• 08:25pm: Day the Earth Stood Still, fun but utter neutered nonsense with many holes and no ending.
• 09:05pm: @smagdali yup, the original is better as far as I remember.

On this day I was reading

• The Diary of Samuel Pepys: 1665 v. 6 by Robert Latham (Editor), William Matthews (Editor), Samuel Pepys (Author)
• Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow
• Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy by Barrington Moore Jr (Unfinished)
• New York Review of Books, Vol. 55 No. 13, August 14 2008
• Black Swan Green by David Mitchell

Music listened to most that week

1. Jacob Borshard (36)
2. Roxy Music (28)
3. Bill Nelson (27)
4. Joe Jackson (21)
5. Japan (21)
6. The Durutti Column (15)
7. Rain Tree Crow (14)
8. Talking Heads (12)
9. The Velvet Underground (12)
10. Booka Shade (10)

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