Greetings Music-Lovers. So, what do y'all think of the Nu-look 3-column Sonic Blog? Improved use of available screen space I reckon. More tweaking to do yet (a Nu-header up top for one) - but the tearing-my-hair-out-in-html-hell part is done.
So what else? A goddam Earthquake in the UK is what else. Some geo-wierdness is definitely afoot blog-kids. There I was last night, snoozing soundly in the sonic 4-poster, when at around 0:45 of the A.M., Thunderbird 2 attempted a landing on the roof, and in doing so, displaced me and my bed right into the middle of the room, like we're in California or Amityville or something. Us Brits expect permanent badweather, but not seismic activity.
What with the God's Wrath-type gale-force winds we've had here this week, now this, things are getting spooky. Someone out there has pissed him off, and I know it's not me.
Tonight I'm sleeping with the lights on.

Listening to: Goodfellas - OST

Occasionally, something will come along that near-as-dammit renders me speechless. Thankfully it doesn't often rob me of my ability to type - so here I am - but I digress. This item is one such gem.
Let it be known that Modern Medical Marvels The Rolling Stones have issued a full-on Warning to The Yoof concerning the dangers of recreational drug use.
Cue speechlessness. Ok, that's it. I'm saying no more.

The Blair Witch had a baby and she called it Cloverfield.
Yes Blog-Kids, I went to an afternoon showing of said flick yesterday. Have to say, (migraine-inducing motion-sickness camera-work notwithstanding), I thought it was great fun.
It takes the Mother of all ridiculous premises - giant anti-American lizard attacks Manhattan - and creates something truly intense and malevolent out of it, or at least in parts. Some Class scary movie-moments in there. I especially liked the scene which involved trying to activate the nightvision capability on the now-famous shakey camera, with less than positive results for all concerned.
There has understandably been a fair bit of commentary in the press concerning the movie's exploitation of post 9/11 paranoia, and sure enough, it looks pretty much like the footage we're now used to seeing of that day. But it's also worth considering that Cloverfield's older Japanese cousin Godzilla (Plot summary: giant anti-Japanese lizard attacks Tokyo) was made less than a decade after the American blanket-bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Tapping into the Zeitgeist is just what film-makers try to do.
Definitely one to catch on the big screen, but take my advice and sit near the back.

I reckon I've done pretty well thus far in 2008 not mentioning The Weather, but, just like Britney being forcibly checked into a 5-star rubber room it had to happen sooner rather than later, right?
She hasn't slept for 3 days, apparently. Well that's still more kip than I've had this week pop-kids, let me tell you. So what could be responsible for this abject state of Sonic affairs, I hear you cry? No, not crystal meth, but two other words: The Weather.
Yes, Chez Sonique has been taking a real pounding by high-winds and rain, especially during the night - last night I really thought the roof was about to come off. I've had to resort to wearing ear-plugs as a result, just to get a little shut-eye.
Now I'm not about to launch into the Global Warming debate here, but every school-kid knows that climatic changes generally take place over centuries, or millennia. The Earth heats up or freezes over, and human/plant/animal-life perishes as a result. We're all mere prawns in Mother Nature's game after all.
So it follows that if any one of us can notice significant changes in weather patterns within our own lifetime, never mind a mere 10 years or so, then something is very definitely Up.
On a positive note my fellow prawns, Spring is on it's way. Hang in there.