{"id":2495,"date":"2014-04-12T13:55:46","date_gmt":"2014-04-12T11:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/?p=2495"},"modified":"2014-04-12T14:00:32","modified_gmt":"2014-04-12T12:00:32","slug":"mixed-media-6-12-april-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2014\/04\/12\/mixed-media-6-12-april-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Mixed media, 6-12 April 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

Current musical obsession: New Zealand band The Naked and Famous<\/a>. Just a pity that I didn’t get hooked on them sooner, because they played Paradiso in November last year. They’re back in the Netherlands over the summer, but only playing festivals.<\/p>\n

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Last Sunday Fiona, Abi, and I went out to see Captain America: The Winter Soldier<\/i><\/a>. I loved the first Captain America film, and this one is great, too. Lots of big action, but even more attention paid to the smaller, quieter scenes.<\/p>\n

It was another Edinburgh week. Flying over on Tuesday evening I watched Network<\/i><\/a>, which was a lot stranger than I’d anticipated. I don’t have a very clear picture of what broadcast television was like in the mid-seventies, but they certainly had a good idea of what it was going to be like in the future.<\/p>\n

My room at the Cairn Hotel<\/a> was warm. Warm! Usually when I visit Edinburgh I have to ask for extra blankets, but there was no need this week. The wi-fi was wimpy, though; barely enough for very light web use.<\/p>\n

Dinner with mum & dad at the Vaults on Wednesday evening. On Thursday evening I grabbed chinese take-away, and watched The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo<\/i><\/a> – very good.<\/p>\n

Since Watch Dogs<\/i><\/a> was delayed, Infamous: Second Son<\/i><\/a> is the first game for the PS4 that we (as a family) have been excited about. The console is still out of stock everywhere in the Netherlands, but I saw that Amazon.co.uk had some available at the start of the month. Given that we were going to get one sooner or later anyway<\/em>, and that I would hate not to have one when Watch Dogs<\/i> does come out in May, I ordered a PS4 last week, and it arrived on Thursday. Not specifically for<\/em> Alex’s birthday on Friday (13! I now have a teenage son…), but a happy coincidence that it arrived in time. I brought back a copy of Second Son<\/i> for Alex (and a copy of the Tomb Raider<\/i><\/a> PS4 special edition for myself), and Alex played it for most of the evening. It looks fantastic, energetic and free-flowing, with a wise-cracking protagonist, and a cool rebel-against-the-evil-state storyline.<\/p>\n

This afternoon we’re all watching Frozen<\/i><\/a>. I enjoyed it at the cinema, but it’s even better the second time round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Current musical obsession: New Zealand band The Naked and Famous. Just a pity that I didn’t get hooked on them sooner, because they played Paradiso in November last year. They’re back in the Netherlands over the summer, but only playing festivals. Last Sunday Fiona, Abi, and I went out to see Captain America: The Winter … <\/p>\n

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