Day: 24 October 2004

Billy Connolly

Of course, I can’t actually remember any of the jokes but I will remember this feeling of joy for a very long time.

I have to quickly post that I saw Billy Connolly tonight at the Hammersmith Odeon and, despite some recent newspaper comments, I have to say I have never laughed so much or so hard. Of course, I can’t actually remember any of the jokes, but I will remember this feeling of joy for a very long time. If you get the chance, you really should go and see him.

Of course if you want an alternative view read what The Times said this morning, although I imagine nobody else in tonight’s audience would agree:

He has become a frightful bully, willing to address only the converted and noticeably absent when it’s his turn to be on the receiving end. Connolly has become the patron saint of the truly humourless, one who is little more than three years shy of retirement age. Don’t you wish that, like the fanatics of Baghdad, he’d just hurry up and get on with it?

Well, he still made me laugh.

CD or not to CD?

Just bought another CD.

I’ve just been out and bought Erasure’s Hits collection. Now, I own all the original albums, so I am not entirely sure why I went and bought it. Still, I now own the CD, so it can sit on the shelf alongside all the others, and I will take pride in the fact that my Erasure album collection is complete.

Phil Gyford posted an interesting question about CDs and what would happen if they were all stolen. I have ripped a good number of my CDs, but I would miss the originals if I didn’t have them. There appears to be more value in holding an original CD case with the lyrics, photographs and the notes. I would have to try to replace a good number of them because I would miss them. A little like software, it’s good to have all the originals just in case something happens.

Community of UK Webloggers

plasticbag.org has a great new item about the community of UK webloggers –plasticbag.org | files | Who’s afraid of community participation?

I do consider myself a member of a community of UK webloggers. And I feel that way because we all have something in common – a shared experience maybe, or a desire to learn from one another, an interest in other people who validate our ‘hobbies’ or maybe it’s just because what matters to one of us is more likely to matter to other ones of us. I don’t share my politics or my sexuality with many of these people. Nor my gender, many of my interests, my ethnicity or my obsession with Buffy.

I’m too tired – as it’s too early/late – to comment, so go read it!