http://www.seblog.co.uk Who He Is And How He Came To Be Mon, 23 Aug 2010 12:24:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I don't think I need to re-state how excited I was about seeing this one. And it may not be perfect, but it has a damned good try. ... That the film gets away with foregoing any sort of traditional three-act structure is a testament to the assured, exhilarating style ... http://www.seblog.co.uk/2010/08/scott-pilgrim-vs-the-world/ (needlessly long post, this - it was going to be a quick point about what is hardly a major issue, but... well, I got rambling) This week, I took delivery of a new PC - a Dell Studio 15, a replacement for the netbook I'd been using for just over a ... http://www.seblog.co.uk/2010/08/on-bloatware-caps-lock-and-dell-being-morons/ Best costume ever. http://www.seblog.co.uk/2010/07/aha/ Right, then. Just in time for England to get knocked out of the World Cup by Germany, let's do the next (or, possibly, last?) of my posts on football songs, in a vague attempt at whipping up a bit of spirit. So. "Three Lions", then. Not actually a World Cup song ... http://www.seblog.co.uk/2010/06/football-songs-2-three-lions/ I should have known that a bad performance in England's opening game - itself something of an inevitability - would have slightly dampened my enthusiasm for spending this week talking about various England-related World Cup songs, and so it's proved. Nevertheless, although I'm scaling back the "post a day" idea, ... http://www.seblog.co.uk/2010/06/football-songs-1-the-england-squad/ Hurrah! This is nice. Finally, my writing-for-magazines career and my writing-about-comics-online hobby collide, as I get to write about comics in an Actual Magazine for the first time. Issue #2 of Comic Heroes, the quarterly comics-related magazine from the SFX stable at Future Publishing is now on the shelves of ... http://www.seblog.co.uk/2010/06/comic-heroes-issue-2/ With the World Cup underway (I'm watching South Africa v. Mexico in another browser window as I type this, having waited until 3pm for my lunch hour so I can catch the whole first half), I've decided to do a bit of blogging about football over the next couple of ... http://www.seblog.co.uk/2010/06/the-beautiful-frame/ By way of celebrating this blog's Exciting New URL!, let's do another batch of my thoughts on the films I've watched over the past couple of months that I hadn't previously seen. I've slowed down a little with my Lovefilm viewing - partly because my commutes for a month or ... http://www.seblog.co.uk/2010/05/seb-watches-movies-vol-2/ Yeah, rubbish picture. iPhone camera, stuck up in the seating area. Seating position didn't hamper enjoyment as much as I'd anticipated, mind. I'm getting old. My sister and I spent the entire gig hoping they'd play "Carrot Rope". It's one of the quintessential videos from the days, around ten years ago, ... http://www.seblog.co.uk/2010/05/pavement-brixton-academy-12th-may-2010/ Really wanted this to be utterly great, but sadly it only made it to "good, with some great bits". It's all well and good giving Rhodes' "War Machine" outfit its proper technical name from the comics at one point, or throwing in a less-than-subtle nod to Captain America, but ... http://www.seblog.co.uk/2010/04/iron-man-2/