Currently reading: The Horse’s Mouth by Joyce Cary 📚
The final season of Brooklyn 99 comes to the UK tonight. I’ve managed to avoid any talk about the episodes so I’m looking forward to it. I just hope all of my favourite supporting “bit characters” get their final appearances too. 📺
Read: ‘They didn’t go round the corner for beer’: Lou Reed and John Cale’s Songs for Drella (The Guardian) 🎵
Finished reading: The Looking Glass War by John Le Carré. It took two attempts to read this gloomy installment of John Le Carré’s espionage series but the ending was quietly devastating.
Preparing for Storm Dudley to hit later on. Storm Eunice is due tomorrow. I think British storm names are being picked to cause the least amount of anxiety.
Can a person have too many sets of headphones? I’m hoping the answer is “no”.
The Challenge, 1960 - ★★★
Watched on Tuesday February 8, 2022.
Spider-Man: Far From Home, 2019 - ★★★
Tom Holland as Spider-Man is hard to dislike and this film is hard to dislike.
Cry of the City, 1948 - ★★★½
Watched on Thursday December 16, 2021.
A week of highs and sad, sad, lows. It started with a tremendous Marillion gig and has ended with the tragic death of Big Big Train vocalist, David Longdon. I’m lost for words.