Rather than just get up out of bed, I decided to sit and read for an hour or so. At the moment I am reading a novel by one of the writers of the BBC series Sherlock, Mark Gatiss. The novel is called The Devil In Amber and although I am only 60 pages into it I am really enjoying it. It centres on a character called Lucifer Box, and is set in the 1920s. Lucifer Box is a charismatic spy who has been ordered to infiltrate the fascist organisation FAUST. As a long time fan, I have enjoyed his work, from The League of Gentlemen, Dr Who, and now Sherlock. I also enjoyed the BBC Radio 4 series Nebulous, which he starred in a few years ago, written by another favourite, Graham Duff.
At around 10 am I put my PC on, and became ensconced in the world of music blogs. I jumped from one site to another; I believe this is known as leapfrogging. As well as comedy I also have a kind of obsession for 12" singles from the 1980's. I love looking for sites of people that have done their own 12" mixes in the same style of the 80s originals. I have attempted a few of these kinds of mixes with some success. Although the people doing these 'Fan' mixes say you can use Audacity to make them and its simple and easy, I haven't found it the easiest thing in the world to do. Maybe I just haven't spent enough hours learning how to use the program first before attempting to create a mix. Having said that I have managed to do a few mixes that sound OK. Personally though I prefer to use a program called Acid, made by Sony, only for the simple reason that I have been using it for about 10 years on and off.
In the early evening I made a poor attempt at a chicken casserole from a recipe on the label of a soup can. I'm no chef and I think I'll stick to writing and reading music blogs! After that I sat back and watched a few DVDs; the first was the TV series Lee & Herring's Fist of Fun, which has only been out for a few months. It was first broadcast in 1995 and have not seen it again until now. As you may or may not know this programme was written by and starred Stewart Lee & Richard Herring. As I have become a Richard Herring convert recently I have begun to collect all of his DVDs (and books of which I have one so far). He will be visiting Swindon in the next few weeks and am really looking forward to seeing his new show What is Love Anyway. The second DVD was the first series of the Australian show Kath & Kim. We really don't get to see enough antipodean television in the UK but this was one of a handful that I am lucky enough to have seen. If you haven't seen it, it is half mockumentary and half sit-com about a mother and daughter. The daughter (Kim) is estranged from her husband and moves back in with her mother (Kath), while Kath is gradually making arrangements for her upcoming wedding to Kel, a local butcher. There is also Kim's best friend Sharon, who seems to be put upon by Kim in every way imaginable. While this programme may be seen as something that should be exclusively aimed at women I feel it has enough going for it that anyone with an understanding for good comedy can enjoy it.
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