Hurray! Before Sunset's up for a Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar. If you havent' seen it, it's a gem of a film; beautiful, comforting and delicious. Julie Delpy singing and playing guitar rates as a proper spine-tingler.

The news that there are more tickets for Little Britain's tour should go some way to cheering everyone up today. Apparently it's the most depressing day of the year. But it's sunny! So I don't care!

It's snowing! In Wales! I've felt it. How magical - the benefit concert, snow, fuzzy warm feelings of doing your quota of good for the year... I would be much more excited if I didn't have lots of work to do. but I might just go and play. Just a little bit...

The sheer implausibility of this type of physics makes my head hurt. Still, there's something strangely alluring about the mighty 'Hoff at such close range. More Dodgeball methinks...

As if the UK wasn't crossing its legs with enough excitement about Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, it turns out Tim Burton's come up with a new Nightmare Before Christmas style animation called Corpse Bride! I assume I'm the last one in the world to know about this film (I always am - sigh) but the pictures look enticing and it should be fantastic. Oh yes, and Johnny Depp's in it. *squeaks excitedly*

Best comment so far on last week's McLusky split: "Fuck McLusky. don't they realise splitting up is gay?"

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New articles! Exciting articles! Interview with Jesse from Death From Above 1979, and a review of The Manics and The Departure. Appear to be slowly cranking my arse into gear; I've almost certainly sold a feature, which, given the telephone call the bank have just given me would be very much welcome. How the hell did I end up owing so much money?

The best description of an argument ever: last night's MPs vs Blair/Brown debacle.

Last night's attack was led by Clive Soley, ex-chairman of the parliamentary Labour party (PLP), now its unofficial shop steward, in terms which some witnesses later described as "blistering" and "a gold-plated bollocking".

Genius.

Right, purely because of how crap I felt last night and because I had an argument with my best mate today, I am going to blow my own trumpet.

I got 80% for my last assignment! Fucking ace!

End of trumpet blowing. That was rather discreet actually...