And my gosh, that xmas eve service of classical music and liturgy was fantastic but at 2:20 long, even my family sobered up over the course of it.

Have a happy new year too.

45 RPM reports that the BBC Philharmonic is recording all 9 of Beethoven's symphonies and is putting them online as free mp3 downloads (here) starting from the 7th.

This is all part of the Beethoven Experience - every note written by Ludwig van is being broadcast or streamed between from June 5th to the 10th.

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A slap in the face and their hand in your wallet. At least, those words occurred to me as I watched it.

We're going to put them under the tree and label them as being from someone totally inappropriate. Ideas include:

To: K___
From:

I can't be bothered to redo ALL the formatting from the blog as the /. system doesn't recognize much of it for some reason.

Entry here.http://ithunk.blogspot.com/2004/12/punk-is-such-white-bread-affair.html

BoingBoing has ran a story on the soon to be released Thai film Ong Bak. I've seen it, and it's incredible. Check the trailer out.

I've been here 7 months and had no idea, though I'd been exploring it and wandering around on the bicycle through the woodlands and escartment all summer thinking how beautiful it was and wondering why no-one had developed it. And now I know.

So guess which weekend he'd pick to run it on? The long-weekend or a regular weekend? Go ahead - try it.

This girl, hired by Penguin Books goes around London England and tries to find men reading the book-of-the-month. They win 1000lb when she does.

As if MM's treatment of Bradbury (previous JE) wasn't enough, this article's author starts by describing the film as 'a sinister exercise in moral frivolity, crudely disguised as an exercise in seriousness' and throughout the article he is quite clearly offended by the film, and goes to great length to clearly show you just why its so offensive. His review just tears it apart.