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Sunday, 11am.
Me: Good lord, why on earth is my hotel bill this steep?
Receptionist: Well, sir...
Me: Oh, no, it's okay. I remember.

So it was that I spent another couple of days in a swanky hotel in Manchester. As I'm poverty striken* I can't afford to do this more than once every few months and I do like to get my money's worth.
On Friday, [livejournal.com profile] neilhist, [livejournal.com profile] vulgarcriminal, [livejournal.com profile] tooth_fairy and I went to ARA, which was just as good as the locals had led to me believe: I danced like a thing possessed** and Tiffany was propositioned for hot botty-sex right now by a drunken toothless man, an offer to which she gave due consideration.
Saturday involved me wandering round the Manchester museum, gazing at the T-Rex skeleton and trying to blag my way onto the under-8's tour complete with sweets and games before luring an unsuspecting Jeni to my room with the classic chat-up line "Do you want to come back to my place and watch Doctor Who?"
After that it was off to the bar and [livejournal.com profile] jillys with Neil, Jeni and a random hot chick. Jillys was as poor as is becoming traditional - a combination of Gary Numan playing that night and it being the first week back for students meant the the club was full of a) 19 year old students givin' it attitude and b) the aging rocker char-a-banc trip. Musically this was odd because it meant the playlist for the evening was a combination of Green Day and 'classic rock' complete with 15-minute guitar solos***, neither of which really gets me going. However, I did run (well, flail uncordinatedly) into [livejournal.com profile] ginger_jamie on the dancefloor, which was odd as I haven't seen him in years. He seems to be turning into Fred Durst, which I'm not sure I approve of.

Finally, after managing to lever myself out of bed on Sunday before the late checkout tariff kicked in, I got myself on a train back to London. Upgrading to first class, I found I was sharing a carriage with both current Doctor Who David Tennant and newsreader Jon Snow (who spent most of the trip sitting directly behind me talking very loudly about his recent sailing trip). Texting my female friends to let them know I was surrounded by lush TV man-flesh I was surprised to discover how many of them fancy Jon Snow over the Doctor.

Oh, and I went to see Silent Hill but that deserves a review of it's own.

And tonight I'm off to see the Sisters of Mercy. It's like the 90's never happened in my little world.

*(c)Oxfam
**Would it be more appropriate to say 'Like David before the Lord'?
***I didn't know anyone still owned a copy of 'Rainbow rising'. Except me, obviously.

Date: 2006-05-02 09:29 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tooth-fairy.livejournal.com
I have video evidence of you dancing like a thing possessed :)

No Barney impression, curse you

Date: 2006-05-02 09:34 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] davywavy.livejournal.com
I'm pretty nippy on my feet, I'm sure you agree.

Date: 2006-05-02 09:54 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tooth-fairy.livejournal.com
I'm trying to figure out how to post it to my journal...

my mum thinks I'm a dirty stop out btw, I blame you :p

Date: 2006-05-02 09:55 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] angelusmorbidum.livejournal.com
I have to wait until Thursday for the SoM experience...
Fingers crossed it's better than the last (very, very quiet) one.

Date: 2006-05-02 10:03 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vulgarcriminal.livejournal.com
I am filled with anxiety

Date: 2006-05-02 10:07 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] angelusmorbidum.livejournal.com
They were excellent the first few times I saw them but sadly SHITE that last time... but that was only because it was far too quiet.
I'm sure it'll be good.

Date: 2006-05-02 10:32 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vulgarcriminal.livejournal.com
Well, at least we can bitch about it if it sucks.

Date: 2006-05-02 09:55 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] miss-s-b.livejournal.com
I'd certainly rather have Jon Snow than that gurning little tit Tennant.

Didn't you take the opportunity to kill him so the Doctor can be recasty? Or at least maim him horribly in some way?

Date: 2006-05-02 09:59 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] davywavy.livejournal.com
Of course not, silly. I'm a man of peace, a seeker of truth and a paragon of justice. I don't kill actors unless the kid who played Adric crosses my path.

Date: 2006-05-02 10:02 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] miss-s-b.livejournal.com
Bah. Coward! I thought you worshipped Mrs T? She'd have killed Tennant in a heartbeat, and with her bare handbag too!

Date: 2006-05-02 10:05 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] davywavy.livejournal.com
No she wouldn't! Why, she and I even share a motto!

Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury,pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy.

Date: 2006-05-02 10:08 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] miss-s-b.livejournal.com
She said THAT? Then why did she do the opposite? I think she was trying to cover her arse with that one, mate.

Date: 2006-05-02 10:18 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rupturedandroid.livejournal.com
SoM weren't particularly good when I went to see them a few years ago in a tiny Belgian village. I hope you get a better show than I did.

Date: 2006-05-02 10:34 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] queenortart.livejournal.com
I always upgrade if possible - you get a much better class of hoi polloi I find :)

Date: 2006-05-02 12:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hiromasaki.livejournal.com
What's the problem with Tennant? He seems perfect for the good Doctor, if not a bit Arnold Rimmer-y.

So long as the Doctor doesn't end up with an "H" bolted to his forehead, or his acting skills are worse than his IMDB listing suggests, I think he'll do fine.

Date: 2006-05-02 01:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] davywavy.livejournal.com
There's nothing wrong with him, tbh. The weaknesses in the new Dr. Who are scripted, not acted. That's why I was surprised when my lady friends pretty much unanimously wanted me to get Jon Snow's phone number, not his.

Date: 2006-05-02 01:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hiromasaki.livejournal.com
Funny, I thought the script for last Friday's episode to be rather good.

Of course, you saw that one over a year ago. The wound in time with the bacteria that are cleansing it / eating the Doctor.

Then again, compared to most American TV, it could be utter crap and we'd eat it up sheerly out of comparison.

Date: 2006-05-02 01:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] davywavy.livejournal.com
The new series has been kinda lacklustre - I'm wondering if the lack of zing is due to a) no cliffehanger episodes and b) over-reliance on deus ex machina endings. The glory era of Dr. Who was very clever, with some rather neat and clever storylines which were internally consistent. The new era isn't.

Date: 2006-05-02 01:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hiromasaki.livejournal.com
See what I mean?

Date: 2006-05-02 03:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gwaunquest.livejournal.com
Having watched Cassanova I have to admit to perving over Tennant - as do both my daughters (aged 19 and 24). I have found the new series very enjoyable. Being a who fanatic I can boast the sad fact that I have never missed an episode since the very first one. My reaction to the initial resurection was that Russel T Davies is a soap writer not a science fiction writer and some of the first new series were very poor in that respect. Since new writers have been co-opted the standard is rising. I do miss the serial episodes though, and the "man in a suit" monsters.

Date: 2006-05-03 12:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] davywavy.livejournal.com
I agree; the good bit of the latest episode were the 'Soap Opera' bits. The bad bits were the Sci-fi and the denouement. I remember the way that Sutekh was defeated by Tom Baker using Newton's Laws of Motion. Compare that with the rather shoddy cop-outs of endings we've had recently and it's leagues ahead.

Date: 2006-05-03 12:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gwaunquest.livejournal.com
Do you think it's playing to the lowest common denominator? Despite there being umpteen Sci-Fi serials over the last 15 years the actual standard of scientific knowledge amongst the viewing public has dropped.As I was discussing with my mate Kev last week if you mention the phrase Event Horizon all most people can come up with is the god awful Sam Neil film. Also, considering concepts such as string theory are now wandering down the route of mathematical philosophy there's little in "cutting edge" science that can grip the man in the street. Perhaps the problem is that most of the viewers don't want the science part, just the fantasy.

Date: 2006-05-03 12:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ginger-jamie.livejournal.com
FRED DURST?!?!?!? *wanders off to find a gun* ;-P

Date: 2006-05-03 05:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ginger-jamie.livejournal.com
*cries lots*

You evil, evil man!

You see this? *points to unidentifiable visceral mass on the floor*

That's my ego, that is!!!

;-P
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