I ordered some free tickets for the Music Live closing extravaganza with non other than Roni Size on the 3rd May.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/musiclive/events/6music.shtml
The ticket number is 08700 100 125 but if you phone it a different stoner in a Glasgow call centre tells you something different ranging from 'You don't need tickets just turn up' to 'there's a ticket lottery if you give me your details I'll enter you in it'..hopefully the tickets turn up.
10th,11th & 16th May, there is a One Giant Leap movie screening and live show in Belfast:
When Jamie Catto and Duncan Bridgeman joined forces to create the project 1 Giant Leap, they embarked upon a global journey that included Senegal, Ghana, South Africa, Uganda, India, Thailand, Australia, New Zealand, America and Europe, equipped solely with a digital video camera, a laptop and a vision - to capture and weave together a unique fusion of sound, image and spoken word from some of the world's most happening musicians, authors, scientists and thinkers and to explore 'The Unity in the Diversity'.
Their treasure hunt brought many unexpected collaborations with such inspirations as Michael Stipe, Kurt Vonnegut, Tom Robbins, Dennis Hopper, Brian Eno, Asha Bhosle, and Baaba Maal. The resulting double-Grammy nominated DVD consists of 11 short films - INSPIRATION, MONEY, FAITH, SEX, DEATH, CONFRONTATION, TIME, BLASPHEMY, UNITY, MASKS, HAPPY, and 30 behind the scenes movies. You might have found this site having seen 'The Making Of 1 Giant Leap' which has been broadcast globally by National Geographic Channel. Or perhaps you've seen them playing live with their 10 piece band and cinema screens.
Right now they are back in production in Africa, recording and collaborating in Kenya, Ghana, Senegal and last spotted in South Africa.
http://www.1giantleap.tv/php/summary.php?id=1.
Other exciting news from my world is that our honeymoon is now paid off after some extensive saving and ebay selling, now starting on the spending money.
The dump house next door, from the caravan episode is now up for sale, in need of extensive modernisation they say, in need of extensive demolition would be more apt.
There looks like some interesting work related travel on the cards soon, things are looking up.
Incidentally if you got a not an array_ref error for the following code, how would you check that $xmldoc was indeed what was expected before executing the loop?
I tried calling ref on @{$xmldoc->{Details} as my first attempt (hoping I could do a unless ref = something, but the badly formed xml came back as HASH aswell as the well formed xml, and I still got the error.
foreach my $yada (@{$xmldoc->{Details}}){
print "$yada->{ProductName}";
}
Hopefully through the wonders of the Interweb there will be a mail waiting for me with the answer when I wake up....Gold Star (real one) and full coverage in this here blog available to the winning answer.
