Do you?

This guy is asking to be beaten up, but it is quite amusing including the random statistics.
You Have Bad Taste in Music

Sufjan

The third album by the now Brooklyn-based multi-instrumentalist combines post-rock rhythms, traditional instrumentation and a knack for tugging the heart strings to write moving and honest stories about abandonment, history and tourist attractions in Michigan that transcend the borders of his muse.

30th October
The Venue, Edinburgh

Another "cool but weird" medical story

Man grows new jaw in back

Standing for 6 hours

Was in Gynae Theatre today. It was fairly interesting but also tiring.
However some good news.
There's a new Delgados album out next month:
Hurrah

[Listening to: Union Forever, The - The White Stripes - White Blood Cells]

Stethoscopic

3M™ Littmann ® Electronic Stethoscope Model 4000
Poncy

[Listening to: Night Falls on Hoboken - Yo La Tengo - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out]

50 miles a day for 2 months? Insane.

[Listening to: Night Falls on Hoboken - Yo La Tengo - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out]

Free Fantasy Football

The smell of the turf, the green green grass of home...
BBC Fantasy Football
Contact me if you want to start a Friends league

[Listening to: Night Falls on Hoboken - Yo La Tengo - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out]

BBC NEWS-Many doctors prone to stress
Suggests that personality type is important and that if you are a stressed medical student you will be a stressed doctor.

Audioscrobbler

In case you're wondering what I've been listening to or am currently listening to or in fact why the moon is not made of cheese. Enjoy.

[Listening to: Nice Dream - Thom Yorke - Bridge School benefit 27/10/02]

Back in the 'hood

Or Dundee/Scumdee as I like to call it.
A fairly uneventful journey, lots of swollen rivers and combined harvestered fields.
Flat is much as it was.
Nice to get my music/computer back.
Only 1 day of freedom remains...run for the hills, for the hills!

[Listening to: Old Folks - Miles Davis - Love Songs]

Quote of the day

The Trojan horse has been wheeled into the ward, now the Greek warriors leap out and start pillaging and plundering, and sacrificing unfortunate goats to Zeus; with luck, they'll also help out by making a few beds.

Ethics/smethics.

The ethics of medical education
Interesting article given my impending 4th year.

A lifetime of temporary relief

A 3 CD compilation of rarities from Low. Better than most band's released records. I am enjoying this very much (only listened to CD 1 so far)

T-8d till start of term

Danielson Famile/Br. Danielson
New music; Sufjan Stevens plays on the record; Pixies inflected folk-rock? Very enjoyable.

Rastering
Despite the crass innuendo this is pretty cool, hopefully I can do a few things to brighten up my room.
T-9d
Dave

Acoustic 'Creep' Flash Animation
This is very well done, must have taken ages to do. An interesting version of Creep, quite poppy.
Nevertheless.

Hello
I just got my blocks for next year. Everything is in Dundee save the Medicine 1 block which is in Wishaw (near Glasgow) in May next year; at least I got 1 out block. Apparently the hospital was only opened in 2001, so it can't be that bad. Getting slightly nervous about the new term now, looks like a lot of organisation...

Metacritic
One of my favourite sites for film and other reviews; based on very scientific metareview principles or find a review to suit your prejudices. Enjoy.

Location: Belfast; and others.
Activity: Various. Work: Typing up patient medical records/summarising computer records. Also: various gardening type activities (hedge cutting/fence painting etc.).
Leisure: Playing frisbee, walking, watching films, listening to music, i.e. the usual (+getting sunburnt).
Films recently watched:
The Beautiful Life (1999). A great wee Italian comedy set during WWII; at times quite dark and hought-provoking.
Delicatessen (1991). This is also a black comedy, based in a post nuclear-holocaust France. Some parts are, as my brother called it, "Very French" (i.e. slightly odd) and not quite as good as that other well-known French comedy Amelie, but still good. A nice style to it, but of course.
The Ladykillers (1955). The original film upon which the recent Coen Brothers film is based. Again, quite a dark film but very funny in places. Alec Guinness is a great actor. I haven't seen the re-make but seems to have gained mixed reviews.
Mystic River (2003). A good film. Not entirely original; mafia-esque intrigue, with many twists and turns. Well acted.
Capricorn one (1978). Saw this on TV late one night. Very poor production values. Maybe this kind of thing looked good in the seventies but just looked like a very cheap made-for-TV movie. The acting is diabolical, save Elliott Gould (Ocean's 11 among others) who is ok. Decent enough idea for a film: faked Mars landings but poorly executed.

Anyway, having bored you with that, here's what I've been listening to recently:
Neil Young: After the Goldrush. I was interested in this after hearing Thom Yorke's cover of the title track. The album is actually pretty good in a 70s folk-rocky way.
Tim Buckley: Tim Buckley/Goodbye and Hello. Bought this with the above in a buy one, get one free job. Interesting, but weird. Need to listen to it more.
Sufjan Stevens: Greetings from Michigan: The Great Lake State. Good, a bit different to Seven Swans. Again, more listening is needed.

Hope everyone reading this is doing something fulfilling with their lives. Let me know.

Dave.

I'm not dead, just very very tired.