Yeah I Saw the Boy Who Could Fly But..

..a flying fuel dispenser?
Surrealistic TV adverts are not rare but few are therapeutic.
Well, I find this therapeutic. It's kind of like Boris Vian meets Erik Satie.

Steam Punk

Borgen

Forbrydelsen, aka The Killing was sort of disappointing. I loved being able to see the city of Copenhagen and I thought acting was great, but the whole "Who's done it?" business was too tedious for me and couldn't care enough to keep watching it. Then I did watch every episode of the Killing Season 2, but I still thought it was lacking magnetic-something, sort of underdeveloped. It wasn't as gripping as Prime Suspect(not the US remake, the original) or as sinister as Criminal Justice.

This January the new Danish TV series Borgen has started on BBC4. I'm enjoying it so far. They included the Greenland issue in the episode 4, which I thought was a yay; one can't deny or avoid the history if one wants to talk about politics. So I'm looking forward to watching the rest of the series and will be glued to TV on Saturday nights for the next 3 weeks.

New Year's Resolution 2012

1. Wade through the piles of books in my bookshelf and make some progress.
2. No more impulse book shopping until I've done 1. (except No.3)
3. Find and read all of Richard Yates' novels and short stories that I haven't read.
4. Stop being sorry to anyone or anything. Oh yeah.
5. Stop feeling sorry for myself.
6. More adventure.
7. Less wine.
8. Less ale.
9. More gin.
10. More vermouth.
11. More 9+10=Gibson
12. Definitely more Bowie.