MTV Movie Awards – Snakes on a Plane!!
Watching these awards – it’s obviously pretty old, so don’t know why Channel 10 has only just got around to showing it; maybe it’s cheaper that way. Samuel L Jackson is presenting the award for Best Movie (I’m sorry, The Wedding Crashers ??)… but he’s claiming that next year, Snakes on a Plane will be winning next year.
Pft. As if.
HELP! snakes on a plane!!
The bro took a picture of a huge billboard in the US advertising the movie; pretty funny.
My GOODness, Jessica Alba is soooo tacky,
BUT WOW for good timing! I was about to go to bed… but Wolfmother just appeared at the end of the awards! YEH!
Hitting triple figures
Yeh!
Doing the proofreading for Distributed Proofreaders – the Project Gutenberg thingo – and I’ve got into triple figures in the rankings! I’m at 995, which means that overnight – when the Americanos get in – I will presumably be kicked back a way. But I’ve got in once… now my aim is to stay in the triple overnight. J thinks I am getting obsessed…. I’m just having fun.
Hamlet at the printer
On this show, some pop-science thing, there was a throw-away comment about how 400 years ago, Shakespeare would have been sending the final draft of Hamlet to the printers.
ARGH!!
Marlowe
Am listening to the BBC4 programme on Christopher Marlowe at the moment. I had no idea that he was born in the same year as Shakespeare. Interesting discussion on how they influenced each other – apparently Shakespeare actually quotes Marlowe somewhere, which is very cool. And Marlowe is the one who first really exemplifies blank verse and long soliloquies, taken up by Shakespeare. Very cool. I always did love Faustus.
Eagles of Death Metal
So, so good! I love “I want you so hard”! And the film clip! Jack Black and Dave Grohl and Josh Holmes! (or whatever). Such a GREAT clip. Very Ocean’s 11 – speakers so big they blow women’s clothes off…. So good!
Labyrinth
Not the movie – big fan though I am – but the book, by Kate Mosse. Another Grail story… this one a time-slip idea, with Alice the amateur archaeologist in 2006 and Alais, possibly a Cathar or at least a sympathiser in 13th century France. Overall, I think it was a good book. Not a reat one; just good, quite enjoyable, moderately engrossing. There were a few bits I found clunky – some of the dialogue, and some of the descriptions, particularly of Alice (I really don’t care that she’s tanned and wearing cut offs, sorry), but mostly the story goes along at a reasonable pace. I think that writing two different narratives is quite a skill, and Mosse generally manages it, although in a few bits I think she left a character too early or too late. But, I think I would recommend it to people who aren’t totally over the whole Grail thing – this one doesn’t make a huge thing of the Grail itself, which I think is an advantage.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
We’re watching this tonight, because it is rainy outside and there is nothing good on the teev.
However – one of the baddies is David Tenant! Dr Who!! So terrible.
And my goodness, didn’t all the actors grow up.
And th idea that pegasuses only drink simgle malt whiskey… love it.
Melvyn Bragge
I’ve been listening to a lot of BBC Radio’s “In our time” today. It’s good, but Bragge really is quite arrogant and butts in a lot; I guess he needs to do this to some extent, to keep the speakers in order because it’s radio, but still – he wants to be an expert on everything and keep on proving himself to be the best. Boring.
A Death
The giant black and white angel has died today. Very sad, but not unexpected. He’s been fading for a long time now. I wonder how the white angel will go now.
Alastair Reynolds!!!
I’ve just found out that there are two new Reynolds coming out!! No idea when, but who cares – just knowing is enough to keep me on edge. Yay! One’s a novel, the other is a collection of sort stories – which, thanks to the wonderful Kate, I am now totally fine with.
Definitely something to be looking forward to.
Randomly Yours, Alex 