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Monday, November 10, 2003

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I’ve genuinely forgotten how to do this. Time to regress to the trusty bullet points, for the umpteenth time:

  • I got out of bed very easily this morning – the early morning radio chit-chat contained the following factoid – the average pillow is six years old and 10% of it is made up of mite droppings. Yurrrrrghhhmmmmph. No wonder my hair looks like shit in the mornings! Boom booooom.
  • Fireworks are scary. On Saturday night at a colleague’s home display one of the rockets exploded before take off, prompting a mass scattering of the crowd who spent the rest of the display trying to stay upwind of the burning debris. The fright was, however, more than made up for with plenty of hot dogs and mulled wine. Some of us weren’t so lucky: some fucker gave poor Gert her own personal firework display – on her shoulder. In the pub. It looks astonishingly painful. To conclude: they’re noisy, unpredictable and too easily available. When I was 8 a kid in my year set fire to my school with a firework, and at the time we all thought it was great because we were given 3 weeks off, but 8 years old? Anyhow, have a heart – go and wish Gert a speedy recovery.
  • Blue States and Cinematic Orchestra are both vewy good live. Blue States would have been even better if we’d manage to see more than, ooh, five minutes of them (damn SWT for not having later trains home).
  • It’s possible to buy The Fellowship Of The Ring (that’s the first Lord Of The Rings if you’re a bit clueless with titles like I am) for 99p – catch the details here… UPDATE: this turned out to be too good to be true. #Blame it on the black star, blame it on the fallen sky…
  • I was dismayed to see that Vanilla Sky was voted the fourth worst film ever in the Film 2003 poll, I actually quite liked it (apart from the fact that it doesn’t make any sense until the end, when some guy in a lift has to explain the last hour and a half). What about Signs? Or Problem Child 2??

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    • 11 comments

    1. Thank fuck someone else mentioned it – I fucking hated signs. It was shite. And I hate Mel Gibson. I quite like Joqquain Phoenix. But I hate prententious god-botherer M. Night whatever.

      Sorry. Long day.

      redking
      on November 10th, 2003

    2. dude, you just blogged about blogging…
      you also forgot to mention that we saw Craig Kelly, beautiful beautiful man..

      jeff
      on November 11th, 2003

    3. Oh yeah, we saw him. Working my way through D-list celebs, I am…

      Simon
      on November 11th, 2003

    4. I met a girl who used to be in Mike & Angelo and was in the film ‘Courage Mountain’ with Charlie Sheen… that was a bizarre day. OH PSHOP, i forgot.. arrgh..

      jeff
      on November 12th, 2003

    5. Ahh cinematic orchestra were playing up here as part of the AV Festival – a big audio-visual festival in the North East, on this month. I must get some of their stuff to see if I live them or not, and whether to kick myself for not going to their Q&A session.

      sarah
      on November 12th, 2003

    6. You’ll probably throw a rock at me for mentioning this, but I can’t help but notice that 9 out of 10 of those films were big-budget, high-profile, largely popular films by many scales. Another instance of the British instinctively reacting against success, visibility, and notoriety?

      Chris
      on November 14th, 2003

    7. Although THE AVENGERS and BATMAN AND ROBIN are definitely shit shit shit, don’t get me wrong… there are many many many worse films than the top 5 noted there, however. Well, OK, haven’t seen PEARL HARBOR but it probably deserves its rank.

      Chris
      on November 14th, 2003

    8. I think the reason its mainly large scale big budget films is because generally, more people have seen them than the worse, lower budget films about because they get more publicity… probably.
      I quite liked vanilla sky too..
      oh and simon, not only have you blogged about blogging, but you’ve quoted radiohead lyrics too.. what has become of YOU? (i know the radiohead lyrics were appropriate but still..)

      jeff
      on November 14th, 2003

    9. Do the British instinctively react against success? That’s a fairly sweeping statement… Give some more examples.I think it’s fairly safe to say that the list shows that the British have a short memory, because all films in the list are (iirc) 12 years old or less. Plus I agree with Jess’s point that big budget usually means big publicity, it doesn’t necessarily equate to goodness.And finally – there’s nothing wrong with radiohead lyrics! I think I’m overdue for a Radiohead fest…

      Simon
      on November 14th, 2003

    10. nah, i just meant it was a bit of a teen angsty livejournal thing to do ;) I love radiohead too!

      jeff
      on November 14th, 2003

    11. it’s cause Vanilla Sky is a yucky remake of a really good spanish film called Abre Los Ojos by Amenabar (director of The Others starring Nicole K)

      elisabetramsey
      on January 9th, 2004

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