Bunch of fives

Five albums, films and stage shows I saw, and loved, in 2006.

I’m spiralling towards middle age so I’m listing nothing hugely original here (see urban75.com’s Top 30 for the cool list), except perhaps the marvel that is Levi Weaver. He blew us away at the 12 Bar Club in the summer and his mini album is the most played thing on the pod this year.

Why isn’t there enough time to go to the cinema every week? It’s an outrage. I missed so many good films this year that even if I take a week off and devote it solely to movie watching, I couldn’t watch them all. At least the ones I did see were excellent (except Borat, which I can only describe as excrutiating brilliance).

Anyway, enough of your digitally enhanced films and new-fangled MySpace whatsits, Avenue Q has demonstrated that theatre is the new rock and roll…

Music

  • Arctic Monkeys – Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not
  • Levi Weaver – Civil War Between My Heart And Mind
  • Vikter Duplaix – Bold & Beautiful
  • The Whitlams – Little Cloud
  • Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly – The Chronicles Of A Bohemian Teenager

Film

  • Pan’s Labyrinth
  • An Inconvenient Truth
  • United 93
  • Volver
  • Walk The Line

Theatre

  • Avenue Q
  • The History Boys
  • The Life of Gallileo
  • Billy Elliot
  • Thérèse Raquin

Posted by Olly on December 28, 2006 Comments (2) | Permalink | Comments feed

100% just isn’t good enough I’m afraid

This week I’ve been putting my shiny new MacBook Pro through it’s paces by using the amazing Parallels Desktop for Mac.

I’ve never seem a computer so keen to impress me. Not only does it work perfectly, silently and look fantastic, it’s also SO fast that it’s able to defy the laws of physics:

Activity Monitor screenshot

Posted by Olly on December 6, 2006 Comments (0) | Permalink