Carbooting and Mother's Day.

I had a plan for today.
It was a good plan.

Today, I was not going to forget mother's day. So I got her violet and rose cremes, and a mug with a cat on.

She was happy. Usually I simply don't bother or forget.

Car boot sale was alright, for once. One guy with an overinflated idea of what his Pentax ME and pre-war beaten up Rolleicord were worth, some 80s records (off the top of my head - Depeche Mode "Enjoy the Silence" in three different versions, a Sisters of Mercy bootleg "Enter The Sisters" - BSR2001 - but the sleeve is red print, not blue like I found online, Cure 'Concert", Howard Jones 12" compilation of some sort, Songs to Learn & Sing, Ghostbusters Soundtrack and 12" single, Nik Kershaw's "Human Racing" and Japanese Whispers) and a small collection of toy cars as usual - prize being a Dinky Ford Escort Mk 1. Dropped in to see Ian and was sorely tempted by a £350 Golf GTI 3dr.

This album always reminds me of my first car. I wish I still had that Chevette (and was indeed still 17) sometimes ;) Today has been a day for memorys, I also bought a tiny Matchbox Ford Sierra XR4i in the special packaging they did for the launch. Usually by this time, Matchbox cars were in small boxes with a plastic window, blue with a red & yellow stripe/logo. When this model came out, the plastic cladding on the XR4i looked so ultra-modern, and the model's representation of it was so good, that I wanted one - so the guy running the Minolta Club for us at the time, Adrian, bought my friends and I examples of this model for helping him out. The packaging was special, different to the usual Matchbox models; all Ford logos and lines to look like blueprints. Of course, we just wanted the toy cars, the boxes were gone.

Have almost persuaded my dad that he needs to upgrade the G4 800/733s to a 20" iMac in one case at least - I think the clincher will be that the raw files from the Nikon D... *WHOOOPS! Embargoed!* are taking 4 minutes to export as a 16bit TIFF, I tried a quick test on my G5 which was running the usual Logic 6 etc, and it took 20 seconds to open and process, 20 seconds to export.

Siani is gardening, the cat is hyper, and I'm making a cup of tea and playing music loud whilst planning eBay activity and what to record next.

Oddly funny film

Okay. It got one star. It's trite and disposable.

Yet "Malbu's Most Wanted" had siani_hedgehog and I in stitches tonight. It's a pisstake of GTA, Ghetto stereotyping and 8 Mile, and is not badly done at all.

Note: I am not enjoying the current track. I was convinced it was from the crappy 70s compilation that lurks on my CD collection just to remind me all music is not good. And it seems to end 30 seconds before it starts the aural assault once more. Fortunately iTunes has followed up with a masturbatory poetic epic from Fish's rather excellent (if you like that sort of thing) album Fellini Days. It's self conscious artsy shite with Fish's contrived beatnik stylings over noise-laden anorexia, but I really bloody like this album a lot. Track is Clock Moves Sideways for those sad like minded people with the album.