Finally got hold of the American Office this weekend, which I believe may actually be as good as the British version, Steve Carrell’s excellent performence the centre of an extremely likeable and funny show. Who knew?

Other than that, this week has been mostly Superman films and Lynyrd Skynyrd albums. Which can’t be a bad thing.

It looks as though the whole sorry Israeli invasion of Gaza may be coming to an end. I hope so.

It’s quite pitiful how little I am doing with my Saturday evening. I’m going to watch ‘When Harry Met Sally’ soon, for the first time in years. I hope it holds up to my memory of it.

Edit:  I was going off a New York Times Story, but now the BBC is saying the Israelis are wholesale rejecting any offers of ceasefire.  Oh well.

My room is akin to a sauna. i have the window open, which seems not so much to be cooling the place down but instead inviting every bug in York into my room.

My total ‘net inaquacies are shrinking. I now fully understand the whole RSS thing for the first time, and have aquired a sizable number of good feeds for my reading pleasure, including the excellent talking points memo, penny arcade and of course Jonic’s marvellous blog.

Other than that, tonight was mainly watching France beat the cheats, watching the excellent The Descent again, drinking the botlle of snazzy I won at work today and listening to the new Pearl Jam album for the first time in a while. Excellent. Hangover is now entirely gone too.

Imagine my surprise in the wee small hours of the morning when, cruising the intolerable hell-hole that is MySpace, I should stumble across what is either the most cheesy piece of marketing ever, or some bored staffer inside Bryan Singer’s office fooling around.  Yes, that’s right, Superman has an official MySpace page.  As too do Lex and Lois.  Great fun.

I want them to all be on my top eight.

According to the BBC website, the launch of film4 as a new free service on freeview and digital is starting off with Lost In Translation.  Now don’t get me wrong, we have it on DVD and I’ve seen it countless times, but for some reason this really excites me.

As someone who can’t afford Sky (or, indeed, to eat) it’s great to know that there’s going to be top-notch films on telly again.  I’m sick of getting one average film repeated over ITV or Channel 4’s myriad ‘franchise’ channels until the schedules groan under the pressure of repeats.  Yes, lots of these films will be films I own, or have seen to death, but I can’t wait to see what this channel does as it grows into its role, with seasons aplenty.  With More4 the people behind the Four franchise have proved they are adept at keeping television fresh, exciting and intellegent.  I’ve always been massively jealous of people who had FilmFour.  No longer.

In other matters, a friend of mine lent me an album a few weeks ago, which I have finally gotten round to listening to, namely Khoma’s ‘The Second Wave’ and I feel rather stupid for not listening to it earlier.  Effortlessly mixing the haunting epic sprawl of the whole Isis/Neurosis/Cult Of Luna scene (incidentally Khoma is an offshoot of COL) to the slightly more structured and song orientated likes of Sigur Ros and Belle & Sebastian and even hints of Rasiohead, this is a massive and haunting album that sends chills up my spine.  Ace.