3x James Morrison
Just what the world needs: yet another musical James Morrison. There was a poster up at Borders advertising some new dude who apparently went to #1 in the UK.
J could only think of the trumpeter. Of course. He also claims that Jim Morrison doesn’t count, because he wasn’t known as James. Pft.
Pagan's Daughter
That’s a bit of a spoiler – the title I mean – but it is the title of the book.
Finally, Catherine Jinks has released another book in her fabulous Pagan series (a fifth). This one is, I guess, an epilogue or coda, as (here’s another spoiler) Pagan himself isn’t actually in it. But Jinks is obviously a fan of the nature over nurture argument (although, now I think about it, there are similarities in the way both Pagan and his daughter have been brought up…), as Babylonne manages to be quite similar to Pagan without his influence.
School bought the book, and I snaffled it for the holidays. Sorry, whoever else might have wanted it… I could always take it back today, I guess: I read it in 4 hours last night. I love her style – present tense must get so difficult sometimes! No hindsight! But it does make for a wonderfully immediate story.
I will have to find and re-read the first four now.
The Inside Man
This was brilliant. Denzel Washington (magnificent; and not an entirely goody-goody character either), Clive Owen (why did that man not become Bond?), Jodie Foster (a very different role for her – and she was great). Kat saw it at the flicks in Edinburgh and said it was great then; I was sorry to miss it on the big screen. It’s actually something I would consider seeing again, in a while. Very, very clever.
Glasses!
New ones! The 3 year old I babysat tonight noticed, which was very impressive. And her dad thinks I look like Dr Who – David Tennant, that is… not entirely sure whether this is good or bad.
But I do like my new glasses.
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Well, I tuned in half way through and I wish I had seen it from the start. Favourite line? “He no eat meat? What you mean, he no eat meat?? … Is OK; I make lamb.” Mahahaha.
It was so clever! And I was impressed that our Aussie Carides (Zoe or Gia… how bad that I can’t remember… I think Gia. Anthony La’Plaglia’s wife, anyhow) was in it. Reckon they must just about have hired the entirety of the Greek-American actors to play their family. And hurrah! that the dude from … that Alaskan show, with the moose (and if there were two, they’d be meese…)… ack, I can’t remember. Too late at night. Anyway, he was in it.
House
Not a place, the series. We got the four discs of season 1 out tonight – it is Friday, after all. Interestingly, we have actually seen the pilot and first episode. The third episode was, however, very good. I’m lookin forward to filling in the gaps – we only started watching it regularly in season 2.
There are few soapie aspects to it, but not too many, thankfully. And House could basically be the archetype anti-hero.
The Grand Beat-Up
You know, call me cynical if you must, but the ads for “Path to 9/11” are really bugging me.
Yes, I know it truly was a tragedy. However, maybe we could move on a little? Put things a bit in perspective maybe? Stop talking about it so much?
And definitely, can we please not go on about why we didn’t “wipe bin Laden out” (truly, a quote) before it happened? I can’t even begin to express how inappropriate that is.
Stargate and Doctor Who
I think it’s only just occurred to me that Stargate is a lot like Doctor Who. Everybody speaks English.
Even the Russians.
I wonder…
… whether there would be a mysterious van outside my house if I were to post that sometimes I hate Americans? Probably, if I didn’t clarify it (am I being paranoid? Senselessly overstating any possible importance anyone could attach to my words??) So let me clarify: Not all of them; just some of the decisions they’ve made over the years. This, admittedly from Wikipedia:
“August 21, 1998: The United States employs with cruise missiles to destroy a Sudanese pharmaceutical plant (and with it, half of the country’s medicine supply) based on faulty evidence that the plant is involved in chemical weapons manufacture: and tries to kill bin Laden in a cruise missile attack on his camp in Afghanistan, during a meeting of terrorist leaders (Operation Infinite Reach). Only twenty-four people were killed because of outstanding precision, but the leaders had dispersed by the time the missiles struck, and bin Laden was unharmed. The United States blocks a United Nations investigation into the Sudan attack. Sudan was allowed to import pharmaceuticals from the U.S. to replace the destroyed ones.”
Argh!!
Nice weather for ducks
That was today… it barely stopped raining all day. Which I know is a good thing. During the day, though, when I was going between rooms? Thank goodness for the new rooves on the walkways, is all I can say. Pity about all the free dirt around the place… now dirt no longer.
Randomly Yours, Alex 