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ITEM!: Blade Runner: The Final Cut. Oh see it see it see it see it. Seeing the flick on the big screen again (with BIG sound) blew the doors open in the back of my mind. Oh, to be the age I am now but somehow miraculously living in 1982 and seeing that flick for the first time having no foreknowledge of how it would rewrite the look of all movies for the rest of time. I may sneak back to the Regent to see it again (or thrice more) before it closes. It's just too goddamned incredible. Plus, potentially my very favourite final shot of any movie ever made. The entirety of the universe and the meaning of human life is in that one shot.

ITEM!: Caught up with an old issue of Tales of the Vampires last night and found that short story Joss wrote about the girl and the orcs. If you have the means I highly recommend reading it. For five pages, I think it's pretty much perfect. It's in TOTV #1.

ITEM!: What the fuck is the deal with iPod album name sorting. In iTunes, an album that starts with "The" gets filed under the first letter of the next word i.e. "The Lord of the Rings" goes under L, not T. On the iPod, it goes under T! Which is frustrating as fuck, but not even my main point. Here's where Apple has once again befouled the corridors of common sense: it works the other way under Artist sorting. (So "The Beatles" get filed under B in the iPod.) WTF. Figure your shit out, Apple!

ITEM!: It is so misty out, when I arrived at McCowan station, it looked like my office was gone. Tasty couple of minutes there.

ITEM!: "Am I cursed never to forget that I am two beings? Two beings forever at war with myself! With one hand I embrace life. With the other I wield pain! Heaven help me, I'm both human and spider, and as such - less than either!" - Spider-Woman #1 (c. 1978)