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Things:

• The second/last episode of this series of George Gently was just on. It was a lot more to do with Gently and Bacchus than the setting, which I think is what the previous episode was lacking, so once again it was quite grand, yay.



• I finally listened to The Decemberists' The Hazards Of Love album in one go all the way through yesterday. Man. It's quite depressing. Things make a lot more sense now, but a lot more horrible stuff happened than I thought it did, and the ending is slightly sadder. Although we never really got to 'the end' the end, so you can make up your own ending for it really, if you want to. And the thing is, what's good about it is that some of the lyrics are so full of euphemisms and odd phrasing that you can sort of interpret them a lot of different ways, and a lot of people do, and some interpretations are a lot sadder than others. It's interesting really, because it was apparently first conceived as a musical, before the band realised it was "unstageable", so there must be an actual story to some of the bits that are quite vague, something they would have had to depict on stage - unless that's why it's unstageable. But I'd assume some of the story was a lot more specific than is in the lyrics, but there doesn't seem to be any sign of the band saying what it is or isn't. But I suppose that's part of the fun of it, and there's plenty of plays where people endlessly debate the meaning or what certain words or passages mean. So it is good. Really really sad though.



• Also, I had some further adventures in looking things up online. Like Casey Affleck. Now, I know what you're probably thinking, 'he's Ben Affleck's brother, he's not even up to BEN AFFLECK standards (whatever your feelings on Ben Affleck), he's probably shit'. But no, I saw him in Gone Baby Gone, and he was actually really really good in it. But an article or an interview online or something said that he picks his projects with GREAT CARE, and doesn't do films all that often, so I thought 'oh, fine', and resigned myself to waiting for him to do something else. The next film he did was The Killer Inside Me, which as far as I could tell, was about how sad it is to be really violent and beat women to death. It may very well have been a really good film, and I think there is a place for looking at what abusers are like as well as what it's like to be abused. But it didn't feel like something I really wanted to watch, or not at the time. So I decided to wait for the next film of his, whenever that would be.
  
  I looked him on imdb yesterday - and he's in FUCKING EVERYTHING. I mean, not everything. But a lot more than the 'He's a talented and elusive artist, OKAY' article led me to believe. He's in all three Ocean's Eleven films! I've seen at least one of those, and never noticed him. His next film coming up is a comedy with Ben Stiller! The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford, which I almost saw because it has Sam Rockwell in it briefly, he has a main role in! He IS Robert Ford!! Dude. I mean, in a way it's nice, because it means there are a lot more films I could see him in, and he's more likely to bring out a new film soonish, that isn't all about beating up women. But dude. I was CRIMINALLY MISLED about the scarcity of Casey Affleck films.



• I have now seen the new Haribo advert. And wept.