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I just went to see No Country For Old Men. Personally, I think I expect gay love too often in the plot of TV and films. Although in films about guys hunting each other down, I think it's really fair game. Anyway. ( Vague spoilers, not really )

I'm probably betraying a lot of my flist with this. ( Torchwood, Episode 1 Series 2 )

A thing I was going to say before, but never had time to, was that I had another New Year's Resolution, except that I didn't, because it was impossible. If I did have another one, it was going to be to catch up with the Hellblazer series this year. Except that according to the list in the back of the books I had there were 26 books in the series, and being graphic novels cost a bit, and I had three. Which means that even if I got one EVERY MONTH I would still only be halfway through it by next January. EXCEPT that - mostly I wanted to catch-up with the series so I could possibly read the new books that came out. But I learned today that that doesn't actually matter, because they been published at all in chronological order. The order in the backs of my books? Is wrong. Which explains why they never had '1,2,3' written on them and were sometimes in the wrong order in shops. If you care to cast your gaze here, you will see the books in order of issues. If you have any interest at all and cross-reference these with the release dates on Amazon, you will see that IT DOESN'T REALLY MATCH UP. I'd bought a new one in the series, when I thought the next one I needed was out of print, and really wanted to read it. THIS BOOK COMES BEFORE SOME OF THE BOOKS I'VE ALREADY HAD. WHAT? Oh, it's very annoying. WHAT? HOW CAN COMICS BETRAY ME LIKE THIS?

But one of the comic book shops in my town is closing down, and I'm going to go tomorrow (their last day open) and see if I can get any bargains. At the moment they're having the worst sale I've ever seen. There are all these posters up about 'Closing Down Sale! - Spend £25 and get 10% off'. It's a bit funny because they're a chain store, so they can probably just ship their extra stock elswhere when they close. Still. I'm going down tomorrow in hope.

And speaking of New Year's Resolutions that can't be fulfilled, you remember one of those plays I wanted to see this year? It turns out that something else I wanted to see, a modern updating of Midsummer Night's Dream, is on over the same few days. So I can either a) Miss out on the performance of a play I kicked myself for missing this first time around, b) miss out on a possible new updating of Titania and Oberon, or c) have a very busy weekend. Hmm.

Nice Things:

It turns out that you only pay council tax for ten months of the year. Which means that if I take the £71 out of my account each month and save it, or set it aside, then that's four nights at Orbital paid for. Which is great.

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