Creative Accounting #570

The Hostage / Behan = outcasts of the world unite

Creative Accounting #552

Misterman = Garage + Psycho + Groundhog Day

Creative Accounting #615

Juno & The Paycock = Jerusalem + The Weir

Today's Happiness Experiment entry

Seeing Rapunzel at the Queen Elizabeth Hall as produced by Cornwall's Kneehigh company and written by Annie Siddons, with the enfants terribles, U and me Ma

Listening to My City of Ruins with N and having a detailed discussion about it

Walking over Hungerford footbridge and looking downstream at dusk

Review of 2007

Best Film:
The Lives of Others
Knocked Up
3:10 to Yuma

Michael Clayton
Into the Wild
There Will Be Blood
The Bourne Ultimatum
The Golden Compass
Charlie Wilson's War
In the Valley of Elah
Die Hard 4.0
American Gangster


Best TV:
Skins

Best Book:
The Song Before it is Sung - Justin Cartwright
Life Class - Pat Barker
The Ghost - Robert Harris

Best Play:
The 39 Steps (Criterion)

Best Albums:
We'll Never Turn Back - Mavis Staples
Twelve - Patti Smith

Best Single/track:
Radio Nowhere - Bruce Springsteen & the E St Band
Ruby - Kaiser Chiefs
Patti Smith - Smells Like Teen Spirit

Best Gig:
1) Madcap's Last Laugh - Syd Barrett tribute at the Barbican
2) Patti Smith - Twelve Songs tour at the Roundhouse
3) The Rolling Stones - last night of their Bigger Bang tour at the O2
4) John Martyn - Solid Air at the Albert Hall

Best Exhibition:
1) Antony Gormley at the Hayward
2) Robert Capa and Gerda Taro at the IPC, New York

Best Sports Event:
1) England beating France in Rugby World Cup Semi-final in Paris
2) Start of Tour de France in London

Today's Happiness Experiment entry

The 39 Steps at the Criterion theatre - our family christmas show

Salami sandwiches from Amici - tube picnic

The mysterious cloudy full moon

Winter Sun and Irish Moon - Yesterday's happiness experiment

Showing off London - taking my sister-in-law Elizabeth (from Dublin) on a walk from Charles Dickens' house on Doughty Street to Waterloo Bridge via the Inns of Court

A rare visit to the theatre (with Elizabeth, Bronagh, Joan and U) to see Frank McGuinness' new play 'There Came a Gypsy Riding' at the Almeida, Islington - featuring a cracking performance from Eileen Atkins.

Taking D to his guitar lesson - sneaking a look through the window at how comfortable he is with the instrument, then a sunny interlude in Avenue House park with my book (a WW2 yarn from Scott Turow)