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As you can probably see, the Year in Film project went off the rails again in the final few weeks. I blame that last exam, myself, although I doubt I’d have been bothered to go to the cinema nine times in one month anyway. Glancing back at the archives I’m quite disappointed; I didn’t really go out of my way to see anything that was a bit different, and most of what i did see was mediocre, formulaic crap, to be honest. The whole project began as an attempt to try and overcome my apathy towards going to the cinema, and yet if anything I feel even less enthusiastic about it now. Maybe it’s just me. Maybe I’m just old and twisted and bitter and see no joy in the dance of flickering celluloid, or for that matter the world. Or maybe it’s the pricing, programs, scheduling, cost/quality of food, comfort, advertising and usual clientele of London cinemas. But really, who cares?

I will be renewing my BFI membership though, which was a great present from the girlfriend, and one I’d wished I’d got more use out of. I’m also considering joining the Ritzy, which I guess is more or less my local cinema, and is also an extremely pleasant place to take in a film. I think I’ll enjoy myself a lot more if I concentrate on seeing stuff I genuinely want to see somewhere I actually don’t mind being rather than places like the Cineworld Trocadero, which is a bit like dying and going to Hell (I imagine).

The Long Blondes have split up, which is shit.

Now the exams are all over until next year I’m going to puts some thought into redesigning the site too, which I never really look at myself, but quite frankly looks atrocious and reflects a half-baked, unfinished design idea I never really thought through properly about a year and a half ago. I’m thinking of just using an out of the box Wordpress theme this time, as I clearly don’t have the patience or photoshop skillz to come up with a decent one of my own (although I did like the fact a colleague referred to it as “the satan worshiping motherfucker” theme).

Friends have stuff out:

• JT is a zombie in Charlie Brooker’s Dead Set which starts next week, and will not stop going on about it.
• Paul Holden has an iPhone comic out written by Al Ewing. Their Dead Signal was probably the most gloriously mental strip to run in 2000ad in a long while, and of course they were the team behind the controversy-blighted Murderdrome. I’ve been following this, but haven’t posted anything about it because as we’ve already established up-post, I am shit. I have however mentioned it a bit around the office, which may well be the densest area of iPhone ownership in southern England, so hopefully they’ll have snagged a few sales off the back of that.