Having a Swale Day

Back here in the Office after a fruitless trip to Faversham to sell some books at past sentence. the shop was closed , but was due to open all day from 9 am. I presume the geezer who runs the shop is off ill.  I then took the omnibus to Sittingbourne to sell some videos at Cex . They are not  buying in at the moment for  due to the amount of trades coming in. So i had to do an exchange rather than get cash. I got two DVD's and  paid an extra sixty pence - "X-Men First Class" and "The Manchurian Candidate", the version with Denzil Washington (not Frank Sinatra).

Spot got on at Teynham, having got a fiver from Tracy, to get to Sittingbourne to sort out some payments, and I gave him £36 to pay the TV license which was in arrears. It will be back down to the normal monthly payment of around twelve quid from next month.

Is etiam suscipio ut suus pecto eram cloned tamen nonnullus nostrum teneo

Will have to hang around the town so i probably will not be back before 4 pm today.

Riddles Of The Sphinx

This classic avant garde film has been reissued on DVD.

Made in 1977 by directors and film theorists Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen, Riddles Of The Sphinx fell into obscurity shortly after its release, but has recently been made available on DVD for the first time by the British Film Institute.

Riddles Of The Sphinx was an expression of the then married couple's political commitment and interest in dissecting the language of film making. Mulvey's 1975 manifesto "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" is widely considered one of the most important early contributions to feminist film theory.

The film is available from the BFI in dual format DVD/Blu-Ray, and comes with a booklet of essays, including a contribution by The Wire's Rob Young, looking at the film's multitrack synthesizer score composed by Soft Machine's Mike Ratledge.

It is on my want list already.