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Somehow I feel a number of my friends list will be happy with this news:

"Doctor Who's John Barrowman has agreed to star in a BBC One show of stage musicals."
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/article/ds24046.html

Why aren't I at work? Well, I got bitten/stung by something yesterday and my foot has swollen up so much that I can't get a shoe on - a combination of anti-histamine cream and frozen peas (see, I knew watching The Sentinel would be good for something!) have helped but it's still not up to an hour and a bit drive to work.

DVD rentals

A quick calculation tells me that my current Amazon dvd rental list will keep me going for the next 28 months. Assuming I don't add any more movies to the list after today, which seems rather unlikely.

I'm not sure it's quite doing what it's supposed to do, which is make me buy more dvds, since the only movie I've rented this way and then bought a copy of was Underworld - that's out of a total of 32 dvds since January. I can't deny that this was highly motivated by the sight of Kate Beckinsale toting a big gun in a very tight pair of vinyl trousers rather than the deep and meaningful plot.

Other than that, I'd say the highlights to date have been Hidalgo (the horse was more to my liking than Viggo) Mystery, Alaska (Russell Crowe on ice!), the supreme cheese that is National Treasure and I quite liked Constantine even if Keanu Reeves proved once again that (with apologies to Dorothy Parker) he runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.

I have to say, though, that I've been very impressed with Amazon's rental system to date. I usually get stuff the following day after I've been emailed to say it's been dispatched and so far I have no complaints. It's quite possible that my liking for the back catalogue of Chow Yun Fat movies has helped with the availability issue, but a little surreptitious editing of my rental list has got me a couple of new movies within a day or so of their release date.