Time rushes past
13 December 2004 23:05![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
glenatronIt's been a while since I have updated, not because nothing has been happening but because in between the things that have been happening I have had a selection of heady nectars available to me in pretty much every entertainment medium. Mostly I have been trying to choose between the immaculately balanced gaming perfection of Half-life 2 and the literary joys of the first Phil Rickman book I have allowed myself this year. When I read The Wine Of Angels, the first of his novels about a female vicar in a small village in the welsh borders where dark goings on are afoot, I realised that these were books so awesome that I would have to not buy them all together or I would read the lot at a single very long sitting. I have tried to space them out by months at the least and I have done pretty well, although I have caught up with myself now and the only one I haven't read is only available in hardback as yet. They are detective stories at heart with a deep understanding of modern rural britain and hazardous undercurrents of the supernatural that mean you're never quite sure what is around the next corner. If any of the ideas I have mentioned above intrigues you even a tiny bit and you haven't yet read them then you owe it to yourself to get hold of a copy of The Wine Of Angels directly- you should be able to find it in the detective bit of any good book store and it is better than I can possibly make it sound.
I also read Amanda Hemingway's The Greenstone Grail which was interesting and enjoyable, a bit like a Michael Moorcock book might be if he bothered to wrap a bit of characterisation around his ideas but somewhat lightweight when placed between Dorothy Dunnett and Phil Rickman. I am back in the 15th century now with the seventh in the House of Niccolo books and he's just back to visiting the Tartar.
In addition to the finest games and books in the house Amazon had the sheer good manners to swap some of my money for a copy of the extended Return of the King- lovely. I'm already looking forward to watching the documentary on the horsemanship involved in the creation of the trilogy without being interrupted by a power cut.
Today was our last Sequoia gig of the year- in the past most bands I have been part of have done relatively few gigs and then gone our separate ways or just sort of petered out without doing anything more but since february this year Sequoia have played 26 gigs. Today, playing at the Camden Barfly for an audience slightly depleted by the fact we clashed with some football game or other, was a good show. It felt good, it sounded good, we were having fun and it send the year out on a high for all of us. Roll on 2005...
I also read Amanda Hemingway's The Greenstone Grail which was interesting and enjoyable, a bit like a Michael Moorcock book might be if he bothered to wrap a bit of characterisation around his ideas but somewhat lightweight when placed between Dorothy Dunnett and Phil Rickman. I am back in the 15th century now with the seventh in the House of Niccolo books and he's just back to visiting the Tartar.
In addition to the finest games and books in the house Amazon had the sheer good manners to swap some of my money for a copy of the extended Return of the King- lovely. I'm already looking forward to watching the documentary on the horsemanship involved in the creation of the trilogy without being interrupted by a power cut.
Today was our last Sequoia gig of the year- in the past most bands I have been part of have done relatively few gigs and then gone our separate ways or just sort of petered out without doing anything more but since february this year Sequoia have played 26 gigs. Today, playing at the Camden Barfly for an audience slightly depleted by the fact we clashed with some football game or other, was a good show. It felt good, it sounded good, we were having fun and it send the year out on a high for all of us. Roll on 2005...