I can never remember what films I’ve seen. I can do books because they’re significantly more of a life investment. But I just keep forgetting the films. I see about three or four a week on TV/DVD and go to the cinema once every two weeks probably.

This flaw has been particuarly highlighted recently by my flatmate Tom. He is a runner at an ad production company and part of his job is to find stuff for mood reels. A mood reel is where you get shots from other films/ads/TV programmes to illustrate the kind of thing you’re going to do in a new production. He’ll come home and say, “What films have people shooting themselves in?” and stuff like that. Anyway, I can never remember, so now I’m going to try and log what I saw and what I thought. I think I’ll do books and records as well. Any media intake really.

The name of the mood refers to the fact that I’m going to play the critic. I won’t be uniformly critical in the negative sense. Generally I’m pretty upbeat about things if I even vaguely like them.