soul meets body

Underneath the sky was an Oasis song which I tied to one of the games of my life. It wasn't by design.

I had a grey television, I forget the make but it was a hand me down from my eldest brother, he always handed me down the worst things, or rather things he couldn't sell or give away for free. Regardless it was grey and to tune it you needed to pull down the front panel so you could reach the tuner bits, pull out a piece of plastic which was the right shape to fit in the tuner bits. Then slowly twist it until there was a wondrous but entirely analogue picture being less than sharp on the screen.

This was the television I played Zelda- Link To The Past, we talk about the age of HD and connected. But with the game, a joypad, the SNES and a grey analogue television. It needed nothing else other than for me to play one of the best games of my life.

I talked before about studying particular games of the past so we could create the future, but in reality, for me this game is ageless. You could make it now with the same graphics and it would still have the impact it did then,

If I wanted to make a particular point about something, this wasn't it, I just wanted to tell everyone about my grey television, listening to Oasis and playing Zelda.

Love you all my beautiful eggs.

Something a bit more serious.

A short weekend break with Baker we tripped it through Germany, Belgium, France and then the UK. It wasn't hard from my point of view but then I didn't have to do any driving, Baker rubs his eyes and necks some of his Red Bull. I just stare out of the window and watch the Bavarian Countryside turn into the Rhineland then into the flatness of Belgium.

The weather doesn't welcome us into Belgium, its grey and stark, no streaks of beautiful white on azure blue. I cut out the weather man in the middle and say its going to be bad weather in the UK thats coming towards us.

But it isn't a day later the sky is wonderful, I'm back on my way to London for the 20th time during the last 2 years or so.

musik

• Chasing Cars- Snow Patrol
• Your Heart Is An Empty- Death Cab For Cutie
• Soul Meets Body- Death Cab For Cutie

kino

• Finding Nemo
• Goodfellas

vershieden

• the new watch, good choice,
• a good Belgium beer,
• getting my kebab and burrito on,
• maybe exhausting all the fights you could put together in the history of life and times,
• the brightly blue brothel in Frankfurt,
• realizing I wasn't in Germany for a few moments,
• not getting caught out by the bank holiday trainage,