Life in the Bus Lane

An early start means we had time for this lengthy masterpiece tonight.

I believe Schindler’s List was about 14^o

Back to work today after an extended weekend off. Minor excitement was provided by someone breaking into the old school that forms part of our offices, leaving us a sausage roll and a pasty, and nicking the worst monitor in the building. Other than that it was dead quiet as a lot of people are on holiday at the moment.

It’s “Beer and DVD” night later, we’ll have to come up with something good to watch.

“It’s OK, we’ll just go for a quick pint with the girls”.

That’s “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” for the uncultured amongst you. A classic movie which I’ve not seen for years. However this special edition version seems to suffer from some slightly bizzare audio mixing where it’s been “upgraded” from mono to 5.1, it’s quite disconcerting at times.

The Brooks bar tape I fitted a year or so back is in the process of being retired from the Lemond. Whilst it’s very nice to look at, I just find it too slippery to be comfortable with the majority of gloves I wear. It’s being replaced by the faithful Bontrager Gel tape.

Fifteen years ago today I walked into an office and  became a paid employee of the NHS, working for the now defunct Bath District Health Authority.

Billed as “An intimate night with Justin Sullivan” it couldn’t have been more intimate. We were sat at a table about 4 feet away from Justin in a venue which held about 120 people or so.

Better than Them
Changing of the Light
One Bullet
Heroes
Love Songs
Turn Away
Dawn
Tales of the Road
Ocean Rising
No Pain
Stranger
You Weren’t There
Snelsmore Wood

Aimless Desire
Lights Go Out
Ghost of your Father
Stoned, Fired, and Full of Grace

Definately the best gig of the year, and certainly a contender for the best ever.

A few photos.

Schindler’s List took a backseat this week as Dan ended up working late, so the much shorter The Usual Suspects took it’s place. One of my favourite films, but one I’d not watched for a while due to over-exposure a few years ago.

I may not get to see all of New Model Army peform together as a band this year, but there will be a new live album titled “Fuck Texas, Sing For Us” out at the end of October, which will go some way to make up for it.

In addition we’re off to see Justin Sullivan and Dean White do an acoustic set in Stoke on Thursday which should be very good if the reports of their outing in Portsmouth are to be believed.

I think I bought mine at the right time, I don’t really like the look of the 2009 version.

2009 Trek 69er Singlespeed