Camera Obscura in Doctor Who

sadly this is not really the case (although there is a Doctor Who novel called Camera Obscura fact fans).

As some of you may know, i'm a bit of a fan of the old Doctor, and i am currently getting slightly over-excited at the prospect of the new series starting next Saturday (for those of you who don't know what it is, Doctor Who is basically the greatest TV programme ever, and the world's longest running sci fi show having started back in the day in 1963 and featuring the adventures of this fellow known only as the Doctor, who carts around the universe through time and space in a time machine that is stuck in the shape of an old British Police phone box (those of you who have been to see us live may have spotted the TARDIS sitting on top of my amp*) fighting evils and sorting folk in trouble out).

Yesterday as i was sitting in my living room surrounded by toy Daleks, I was perusing the old you tube and 'er indoors pointed me in the direction of a video that someone has made that uses our cover of Modern Girl as the soundtrack to a video of Rose Tyler out of Doctor Who. Theres an awful lot of these videos up there, and most of them are laughably bad, but this is quite well done and is worth a swatch, especially if you've never heard modern girl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTvob7BcxD4

Should you be a fan of the series you can see the trailers for the new series at www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho. I for one am practically beside myself with excitement (THERES DALEKS IN IT!!! (i hear Davros is coming back too, thats well exciting (if you're a geek) even though its probably not true, Ben Kingsley was rumoured to be playing him, but i don't suppoose thats true neither))

Kenny had the idea of setting up a web site where every week a new version of the theme music is posted up. I've long wanted to do a version in the style of The Selecter by The Selecter, but haven't managed to actually get around to it. Maybe one day, Who knows.

Anyway, i shall stop wittering on about Doctor Who, although i shall mention that last year in Chicago, before the show some of us watched the episode where Rose leaves, but i shan't say which band member had a wee cry.

Also, should Russell T Davies be reading this, we have no objections to you using our music in any upcoming episodes.

Gav

*when we played in Mexico City last year, the stagehand who was packing our gear away came up to me afterwards and said, "Your time machine is in your bass case"

Older Faster

Here are my news.

I have moved flat. My flatmate has talent and lovely curtains. I get to pile my books up against a different wall and make toast in a different toaster. Happiness blooms.

My favourite (ethnocentric) conversation of the month has been with a workmate about our limited grasp of the English language. He said he just realised that “alot” isn’t one word and I confessed that I still write “thankyou” all the time.

I read Jeanette Winterson’s The Stonegods and marvelled at her marble world. I watched the greatest-acting eyelid ever in The Diving Bell and the Butterfly and wondered what those almost-tidal salt marks were on my glasses at the end.

We are rehearsing as hard as time constraints allow, and we are feeling the pressure like a little tiny ringing alarm clock all the time as the recording deadline looms. Or that might just be tinnitus from the fire alarm going off at work yesterday. If you didn’t know you were struggling you might fall off the edge of the mountain.

Thankyou alot.

Love, Carey.