Well, Xmas has definitely taken hold now. The decorations are up around town, snowmen and trees in shop windows, and every where’s breaking out the mince pies etc...
In an unusually organised fit of pique I have actually already started this years shop-drudgery and gone and managed to nearly completely finish all the stuff for my family in one day, yesterday – pretty impressive seeing as though when I first woke my hangover was so bad I thought I must have fallen asleep with my head in a washing machine full of hammers. I was like a crazed shopping robot gone haywire, calculating and selecting optimum gifts with the precision and speed of lasers– or possibly more like a dishevelled homeless person stumbling around town grabbing their head before it splits in half, occasionally retching.

Luckily I chose to finish ‘Mind Your Own Business Man’ on the day before, which is lucky because I reckon that I still have one more picture to complete before this Xmas’ exhibition at the Brewer.

Went to see Harry Brown yesterday as well. Very cool, Very British, Very Uncompromising. It fits in with the ‘Somerstown’, ‘This is England’ sort of films where everything is pretty grim, dirty and harsh with sporadic violence. As it’s not a big space/sc-fi/Special FX fest you might think, “nah’ I’ll wait for DVD”, but this does warrant a trip to the flicks in my book. Caine manages to fill the screen on his own without relying on the smoke and mirrors of Hollywood, although it does get pretty bleak in parts. Scarily relevant and excellently shot, it’s a bit like a British ‘Gran Torino’ mixed with ‘Dead Mans Shoes’.



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