Miro Video Player

I have been using the new incarnation of Democracy Player, Miro. I've been watching French video, among other things like GeekBrief TV, there is a lot of French stuff on DailyMotion. I never really got into Democracy player, but I'm getting on better with Miro. Don't know why. It now also does audio podcasts feeds (dunno if it did before) as well as video ones, and it also does bittorrent, but I haven't tried that out yet.

I like it.

Wot I been up to while away.

So I've been away for some time now, over a month. Haven't been feeling well. But am somewhat better now. Have been listening to many podcasts, Perhaps I might write about them. New ones I have found, that I like are KCRW's Good Food, been listening again to StarshipSofa (Sci-Fi authors/fandom podcast/fanzine type thing.), Mark Kermode's Film Reviews (I remember Kermode from those old Mark Radcliffe Graveyard Shift Radio 1 days), and of course all the usual (including of course Buzz Out Loud and the TWIT casts).

Too many brackets, alas. Anyway been listening to a lot of Angelo Badalamenti (especially soundtracks to Mulholland Drive, Twin Peaks and Lost Highway), hrm, been watching Twin Peaks too, erm Still reading Bonjour Tristesse in translation (with help).

I'm somewhat disappointed with the new series of The 4400, but I am still watching. It all seems to be about some impending Armageddon/police state/rapture and I'm not so big on these impeding doom/exaltation type things, and it's lost that subtlety that I thought it used to have (now it seems to scream drama loudly all the time - "promicin is is the road to heaven or perdition?") ; but anyway it's holding my attention enough to keep watching.

Still on Hiatus

Foxgloves
Originally uploaded by KCanard.

Here's one of my desktop images.

Foxgloves

Not Dead, (je ne suis pas morte)

Only sleeping.
Anyway, here is my latest Flickr offering to tide over...



I will be back soon. I'm having a rest and watching stuff on TV links, I've started watching Chris Carter's Millenium, and have only just finished a stint of Medium, the 4400, Monk and The Twilight Zone. I'm also revivng my french learninig and trying to read "Bonjour Tristesse" by Françoise Sagan, even though my French isn't that good, but I am getting there, and I have the book in English translation too for when I get confused.
Also listening to french streaming radio online like those found at Radio France (also podcasts!) and RSR (radio Suisse Romade, a (French) Swiss network) also watching videos of TV shows at tsr.tv (another Swiss thing). Arte radio is an interesting mélange of bits and pieces all under creative commons no less. Yes as if by magic one day command of the French language will be mine. Perhaps.

TV on the Internet

A good link - TV links.
I've been not surfing these past few days and instead have been watching TV shows online with the help of this aggregator. Some of the episodes are disappearing fast, especially the ones on the Daily Motion servers. The stuff on Veoh seems to be working OK so far for me.

Sliders is something I've been watching and is more enjoyable than I remember it. The tenets of the Sliders gang (in its various permutations) seem to be that Friendship and "being there" for your mates is the most important thing in life, as well as the oft repeated "there's more to life than happiness and contentment" idea. And it is interesting how often Wade (one of the characters from the first few series) needs rescuing. Also there are more non-white characters in Sliders than in any TV series (US) that I've seen before; characters who are black or chinese not because their race is part of the plot, their race is incidental, it's refreshing. (In the episode in which America is ruled by monarchy, the king and queen of The USA are Black.)

A Little Interest in YouTube

So now my Animal Crossing fixation is waning and I am on to other things. I've never really got into YouTube, but recently I have begun spending time watching more than the one off clip. Today I watched some Prodigy videos (live stuff and music videos) and then watched some Courtney Love stuff, and from there on to some general stuff people have been putting up. It's interesting to see some of the old Prodigy stuff (like Out of Space), how they have evolved, video speaking, and in their mode of dress, nice to see dancing Keith Flint with long hair.

Suspense!

I've been listening to this Old Time radio show called Suspense (the first lot of them on archive.org), recently. Suspense (brought to you by Roma wines that's R - O - M - A, Roma wines) sometimes cheesey, sometimes inadvertently funny, but sometimes rather good (I like the episode Cabin B13). There are hundreds of episodes on archive.org, and at the moment this is most of what I listen to. I also watched a crappy (but watchable) stream of The Man Who Knew Too Much on the same site. I'm having a 30s/40s bonanza. It will probably end soon. I have little stamina for prolonged immersion.

wiki details on Suspense here.