Hurray to all of us who made it to the end of 2021! Time for a drink or two. Maybe a good film too.

Well that’s a first one!

Waves of Brighton

Hasselblad and Ilford Delta film

Insert coin to record your own vinyl. This one is actually working - can be found in Soho.

Tonight’s double bill of documentaries from national parks with extensive trekking and nature shots

The 1990 Total Recall is an absolute gem and I never thought twice about lots of violence and dead bodies in it - usual for a film with Arnold.

But now I think Verhoeven did this very deliberately to show a totalitarian society of the future where special governmental forces can kill civilians left and right without any consequences or reprimands. There’s a lot going on in the film, and it is a charged vehicle constantly going forward, but if you pay attention to the uniforms of the special forces, they are stereotypic of a totalitarian regime depiction - almost storm trooper like if you must.

Not to mention a few years later Verhoeven went full on with Starship Troopers where he didn’t even try to hide the nazi like government of the future Earth.

Also a masterpiece of a film.

Always fun to find the meridian in various suburbs of London

Well this happened, and it is so much more fun than Spotify

My new short movie here we go

The Expanse is probably the only other sci-fi show besides Babylon 5 where spaceships are not flying like airplanes

It’s going to be new booster shot every 3 months now isn’t it

Don’t Look Up is like a perfect culmination of the last 4 years

Boosted now

Brand new home cinema projector with a fresh bright lamp is a perfect excuse to re-watch Mad Max Fury Road

Started looking into amplifiers for our upcoming vinyl turntable, and omg it is a rabbit hole

I mean, how good a 8-bit Zelda can possibly be

Lines of the City

Ilford Delta film and Hasselblad

Whoa original Zelda is good

Have a croissant

Ilford Delta film, shot on Hasselblad somewhere in Hackney

It’s a bit foggy today in Walthamstow

Yes please

Been playing chess daily now for a few months and it is so good. Wrote some words: alexsavin.me/posts/202…

It’s year 2021 and I’m buying new games on NES cartridges

Turns out 99.9% of new projectors these days have 4K HDR but lack a composite SD video input. What’s great for Netflix is bad news for my massive collection of movies on laserdiscs.

Not to worry - there is always Ebay.

Evening is short, lots of cartridges to try today