Great news. I saw this at the Edinburgh Festival last year and it was truly amazing, so I’m definitely going to see it again. You can find the details at the Battersea Art Centre site.
Author: ashleyelsdon
Storyteller - Poet - Explorer
The Blues Brothers
I finally got around to buying the DVD of the Blues Brothers a few weeks ago but only watched it this weekend. I got the extended version which has a lot of deleted scenes in it. It has an interesting effect on the film to be honest. It feels looser and more relaxed that the cinematic release, but it is of course a fair bit longer.
It’s great to see it again though. It’s one of those films that I think everyone should see at least once.
The trouble with Netflix
Ok, just a few days into my netflix trial and I’ll tell you the biggest problem with the service. It keeps cutting out! It too me 21 minutes to watch the end of an TV programme that was 10 minutes long. Just because the service kept stopping.
Whilst that’s not the end of the world on a mobile device where I can do something else while I wait, if I was watching on a big screen and that kept happening with a movie, that would be unacceptable. I mean who would watch a 2 hour film if it took 4 hours to view?
No more app revisits
Well, there’ll be no more posts about old apps running on my iPhone 3G as I gave it away to someone who needed it more than I did. So from now on I’ll have to restrict myself to newer apps and see where I go using my iPhone 4 a bit more.
There probably won’t be too much less in the way of mobile music related posting, but not so much on the older iOS app front.
Finding something interesting to do with LiveView
Ok, I’ve been tinkering with the LiveView and to be honest, whilst it is interesting and it does demonstrate that the whole smartwatch thing has moved on since the Fossil Palm OS watch, I don’t have a real use for it in it’s current form.
I guess the main problem with it is that it doesn’t work with my iPhone, but also because the screen isn’t really designed to show very much information and isn’t too useful. My guess is that the next version will be better. From what I’ve seen so far the screen is much nicer and the device is a lot thinner too.
Having said that I’ve already decided to get a Pebble smartwatch and I think that will have moved the technology forward, and also, the Pebble will work with iOS, which is a big plus for me.
LiveView controlling music
So, I got it to do something slightly useful now. It can play music, although it has seemed a little random so far and control isn’t brilliant. It’s a step in the right direction though.
4th Doctor: The Energy of the Daleks
Another great simple and straightforward story for the 4th doctor who. I did enjoy it. But I think the thing that I find with these 4th Doctor stories to date is that they’re too short. I’m used to the 4th Doctor having stories which run for at least 4 episodes, and so, an hour long story is just a bit too short for me.
I’d like some of these stories to go to 2 or 3 CDs to get some more depth into the stories. Maybe they’ll do it sooner or later. The Hornet’s nest stories were very good for that, each being 5 hours long. Anyway, I’m glad that the 4th Doctor is making audio stories again.
LiveView watch case
So I finally got the case thing going for the liveview. It isn’t too bad either. Certainly compared to the old Fossil Palm watches anyway, which were more like having a small brick on your wrist.
Anyway, this watch is much better as the watch part is just a clip on back for the device so you can take it out and use it however you want. Good idea really.
Happy Birthday ZX Spectrum
The dear old Speccy is 30 today. Who could believe that! Amazing isn’t it? I think I should celebrate with some ZX Goodness today. I’ll see what I can come up with and post something more later perhaps.
App revisit: Vocoder SV-5
Another older app that I admit hasn’t been used too much for a while now. It is a good app, with lots of possibilities, but again, it hasn’t seen an update for a while, and for that matter YUDO haven’t done an update for a long time on any of their music apps.
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