re:mote voices

three to see the king - i picked this up just before going on holiday, with a load of other things. i'm still reading "goodbye to berlin", but the meandering anecdotal style of this kind of book doesn't entirely do it for me, it also seems to split into clear sections which make it suited to mixing with something else. the narrator lives in a tin house out on a red sand plain. he likes to think he is isolated and alone, but with the arrival of casual female acquantance he finds everything turned on it's head. this is where you are hiding, are her first words, he thinks, i didn't realise i was hiding.

spirited away - did i mention this is a great film? managed to catch it a second time and loved it again. definitely the best film to come from studio ghibli to date!

finding nemo - latest from pixar, the studio remains spot on with animation - this film looks great. delivery is pretty well done, film is overall enjoyable - good humour, which is always an essential for this kind of thing. perhaps not their best film, it doesn't have the flare of monsters inc., but well worth seeing.


There was also one that I had never seen before: A No Kicking Somebody Who is on The Ground While Wearing A Baseball Cap and Shell Suit.

-an extract from an article on the guardian site, exploring the town of burnley, which has seen a rise in the popularity in the BNP. one of the BNP seats has come up for a by election.