Mr Davy goes to Manchester

[davywavy]

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, neilhist, vulgarcriminal, 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 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 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.}

Comments

[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.

[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.

[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.