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Gaming, Gang of Four, Zombies, Studies
Nov. 10th, 2019 10:28 pmThe past few days have been throwing myself into various activities after getting (mostly) over the cold last week. I have prepared myself for all the bits and pieces required for RuneQuest Glorantha Con Down Under, and I'm feeling quietly confident that it should all fall into place. Tonight we had a committee meeting of the Cooperative and pretty much checked off all the boxes of things that need doing. I've been composing Metaphysical Musings of the Scholar Wyrm which will be one of my three articles for the Convention special issue of RPG Review. In actual play on Thursday, there was another session of Star Wars: Force and Destiny where we're finding ourselves working for the Empire for the greater good (and they want it for the greater evil). Today I ran Eclipse Phase, where the proxies and their sentinels have been assigned a mission into a radioactive zone of sex-crazed mutant exsurgents; should be fun for them.
Last night was nephew Luke's birthday. After dropping off a nice bottle of whiskey for looking after our place during the European holiday, and as per last year. we took him to a local Thai restaurant, Sukho Thai, which does well with food, price, and decor - plus a nice drop of French red. After giving ourselves a hearty meal, we took Luke to see The Gang of Four, which Luke had familiarised himself with from my collection last time he did house-sitting. It was the fortieth year of their debut album, Entertainment!, and it was a pretty damn good gig. I ended up buying Andy Gill's guitar, making it the first electric guitar I've owned, which is pretty funny for someone who has been reviewing music as long as I have. Unsurprisingly, I've already written a review of the night which is available on Rocknerd.
One other pleasant distraction to this was visiting Brendan E., on the weekend who provided us with the viewing pleasure of Jarmusch's The Dead Don't Die. New housemate Hien N. was also present and we all had quite a good time watching this quite tongue-in-cheek movie with some rather good cultural names - Iggy Pop, Tom Waits, Bill Murray, Adam Driver. and a hilarious performance by Tilda Swinton. The somewhat mixed reviews of the film seem to have forgotten that this is essentially a comedy film, a spoof of the zombie genre, and to be honest there were some scenes where he could have turned it up a couple more notches in this regard. But it was jolly good fun and not to be taken at all seriously.
Apart from this, I've been working through the dissertation of my MSc thesis, specifically the draft of the literature review. My supervisor is being a bit ornery about getting all the specifics in and I suspect I'll have to provide a third version of the proposal even though I'm getting close to halfway in writing the draft thesis itself. I've also discovered that he doesn't actually read the entire thing - he made a request for the timetable in the last revision when it was at the end of the document. It really does strike me that sometimes various academic reviewers are not as careful as they should be.
Last night was nephew Luke's birthday. After dropping off a nice bottle of whiskey for looking after our place during the European holiday, and as per last year. we took him to a local Thai restaurant, Sukho Thai, which does well with food, price, and decor - plus a nice drop of French red. After giving ourselves a hearty meal, we took Luke to see The Gang of Four, which Luke had familiarised himself with from my collection last time he did house-sitting. It was the fortieth year of their debut album, Entertainment!, and it was a pretty damn good gig. I ended up buying Andy Gill's guitar, making it the first electric guitar I've owned, which is pretty funny for someone who has been reviewing music as long as I have. Unsurprisingly, I've already written a review of the night which is available on Rocknerd.
One other pleasant distraction to this was visiting Brendan E., on the weekend who provided us with the viewing pleasure of Jarmusch's The Dead Don't Die. New housemate Hien N. was also present and we all had quite a good time watching this quite tongue-in-cheek movie with some rather good cultural names - Iggy Pop, Tom Waits, Bill Murray, Adam Driver. and a hilarious performance by Tilda Swinton. The somewhat mixed reviews of the film seem to have forgotten that this is essentially a comedy film, a spoof of the zombie genre, and to be honest there were some scenes where he could have turned it up a couple more notches in this regard. But it was jolly good fun and not to be taken at all seriously.
Apart from this, I've been working through the dissertation of my MSc thesis, specifically the draft of the literature review. My supervisor is being a bit ornery about getting all the specifics in and I suspect I'll have to provide a third version of the proposal even though I'm getting close to halfway in writing the draft thesis itself. I've also discovered that he doesn't actually read the entire thing - he made a request for the timetable in the last revision when it was at the end of the document. It really does strike me that sometimes various academic reviewers are not as careful as they should be.