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When I usually get a cold, it doesn't really last more than a couple of days. I've never been sure why I tend to shake anything like that off pretty quickly, however right now I am sat in bed and it sounds and feels like there are waves crashing against the inside of my head and it's making the palate of my mouth itch, this pretty much means I am getting a cold.

Selling most of my camera equipment at the moment so I haven't really been able to take any photographs, instead I've been putting most of my time into watching films and looking for a job, the latter of which I have been offered an interview for at the city of Manchester stadium next week (working for DWP). Next week is going to be pretty busy, Tuesday interview, Wednesday is meant to be the opening night of the Vice magazine show at the AOP gallery in Shorditch and then on Thursday I am off to Young Widows in Manchester. I remember when there used to be decent gigs on every week in the city but very little provokes me to get out of my seat and to a show these days, I feel guilty but I don't know why. Me and my friends often joke about not being bothered unless it was recorded before 1998.

As for the films I've been catching up on, my pal Lewis recommended I watch [rec], a Spanish shaky-cam horror film (which is the subject of an American remake called Quarentine) that's actually probably the scariest film I've seen in years. Tonight I have Cass to watch after the Spain vs England game. I've never really given much time to Patti Smith, but I watched her documentary Dream of Life, it didn't really inspire me - not too sure what I was expecting.

Film of the year so far for me has been The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Pulls on the old heart strings so it does, I rarely get those feelings when watching films. Not since Supergirl, anyway.