This weekend I will be playing in the Open Tour 2 held in Mansfield. I am playing for Trigger Happy, largely a Bradford old boys team with a couple from Macclesfield and a couple of germans, rather than Motion, the Manchester team that I train with. I’ll probably get some heckling from the Motion boys over my controversial decision to play the role of deserter. Trigger are very relaxed and this made the decision for me over the very frustrated and self-destructible Motion. It looks like it is going to windy, which makes for interesting and difficult disc play.
Monthly Archive for May, 2005
I did not vote today. I have just given up watching the election night shows in favour of finding my bed to crash into. In the news, whatever shape and form it reaches me in, have been a few articles about my age group (I just squeeze into the 18 to 24 year olds). We are supposedly more interested in governmental issues than our political participation makes out but the parties leave us feeling irrelevant, disassociated, unimportant. Maybe I fit in there. Throw in the nature of this round of campaigning, somewhat presidential (a focus on lead characters) and negative (’don’t vote for them because they are ugly’ tactics rather than ‘vote for us - we have great policies’). Then remember that ‘they’ know that I’m not likely to vote; that the turnout is highest among those over 55 and so demand, by sheer power of numbers, all the attention. You can see how it adds up: who cares whether I vote? I don’t.
Then again, maybe if I lived in a marginal, where it gets a bit more exciting, I could have been enticed into a booth.
Keep up-to-date overnight and checkout the final results on the BBC News site, they have this great map of constituencies.
Last night we went to see the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy movie, and it was thoroughly enjoyable. A great harmony of seemingly low- and high-budget special effects that decorate a brilliantly well written screenplay full of wonderfully random humour. Obviously not as good as the books; small sections were inevitably going to be missed out, but the books, radio show, TV series and original film were all different any way. Those that are scared off thinking that it is a weirdo sci-fi: don’t be, you’ll be missing a real treat.