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I was going to make a list of the various things I got for my birthday, but neglected to do so, and now I can't be bothered. I will mention the late but welcome arrival of stuff from my Amazon wishlist courtesy of Donal and Shar; the two videos of The Singing Detective, and a DVD copy of Seven Samurai. Being nothing if not a slacker, I've watched the lot already. The Singing Detective had an entire subplot I'd forgotten about when I was watching it as a mini-series, and I don't quite understand the ending, but that's cos I'm THICK. Seven Samurai, well, it's long - 190 minutes - it's gritty, and it's surprisingly funny. Toshiro Mifune spends a lot of time with his ass quite literally hanging out, scratching himself and being the clown character who inevitably does something heroic before the end of the movie. The grittiness lends an extraordinary realism to the movie that no amount of special effects could have provided - you really get the sense that this was filmed not in the 1950s but in mediæval Japan.
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  • four days of birthday
  • in the order of 20-25 pints of guinness
  • four dine-out meals
  • double handfuls of friends and family
  • one phonecall from goddaughter (aged 3)
  • two drunken phonecalls to north american continent
  • one Hot Dog of Dubious Provenance
  • much flatulence
  • many free pints, including from staff at favourite bar
  • ONE HANGOVER ONLY, and only a mild headache at that
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Yesterday was my 29th birthday. I went to a bar, met friends, drank beer, went back to one friend's house, crashed on the spare bed. All in all, a regular night out, modulo it being on a Thursday and people giving me gifts.

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