It’s all very exciting. This is a test page to see whether my new widget, WordPressDash, actually works. If it does, I can see blogging becoming a lot more frequent, since it will be a lot easier to do than previously! If the reference to a widget doesn’t give it away – I’m now on The Forbidden Fruit. My old Toshiba blew up (well, not quite, but almost), so J bought me an Apple! Joy! I’m just now learning all the tricks and good things to go wih it, so it might be a while before I can use it with quite the deftness that J expects… I do like that it rips my CDs very quickly. Noice.

I’ve decided to watch all of the Star Trek movies, in order. I’m starting with the first one right now. It’s not bad, over all. It’s a Director’s Edition, re-released in about 2000, so all the effects etc have been re-done.  Very pretty.

I do like some of the characters:  Bones is a brilliant doctor, with the typical bucking of authority shown by doctors to military leaders (well, in space, anyway). Commander Decker, though – what a damn pain in the butt.  Whingy, sulky, cleft-in-chin snoot.

Yes, that’s right, we stayed up last night to watch Australia get pipped by Italy. We had a little help from our friends, thankfully: about 5pm we decided to invite a few people over.  Oh yeh, we are so cool:  we had a party that started at midnight!  That will never be matched, I think. There were about 11 of us in the end; it was brilliant. And the game itself was quite entertaining… I really hope the neighbours were either watching it or couldn’t hear us (we’ve never heard them, so presumably…), since we were… rather vocal. 🙂

We were robbed!

Right now I am watching CREAM in concert at the Royal Albert Hall, from 2005.  They’re all looking a bit old – Ginger Baker looks like Clint Eastwood, which is a bit weird – but Oh My Goodness can they play!  Interesting – jack Bruce is using a four-string; I thought he used to use a 5- or even 6-string.  They’ve done the DVD in a very interesting way:  taken bits from all four nights, and put it together.  They included a couple of songs from different nights as a bonus, which is cool.  (Right now Ginger Baker is playing “Toad”, all on his lonesome – the other two left the stage to give him the limelight – reminds me of John Bonham playing “Moby Dick”.)

It’s made me go and find some Cream bass tabs; I can already (basically) play “Sunshine of your Love”…).

We finally watched this last night, instead of Superman III, which just looked a bit dumb.

It was good!  Denzel truly is brilliant, and Meryl Streep is really quite evil (we had just seen a trailer for The Devil wears Prada, and she looks pretty evil in that too).  Urgh to the Oedipal bit… it’s very clever, the whole story:  good twists etc, and good characters.  J didn’t get into it at the start, but I was hooked from the beginning.  American politics and big business… and the Gulf War… good mix for a story, not so much for the real world.

I just re-watched the first in this doco series, to make up a question sheet for school.  The thing that really, really struck me this time, in terms of the visuals, was the colours. Jerusalem and surrounds is sand, sun, and orange.  England (what little is shown) is rainy, never sees the sun and is very, very blue.  Veeeery interesting.

And Richard is almost always shown in full armour, except when he is sick, and they show lots of him hacking people up and generally brooding. Saladin gets to be in armour and civvies, tours victorious battle sites, etc.  This may just be a reflection of the fact that this first one is really mostly about Saladin, I guess, and re-taking Jerusalem.  They do both get shown worshipping, which in a show called “Holy Warriors” is just as well…

Is it sacrilege for me to say that I don’t actually like this film, overall?  Maybe it’s better if you’re tripping.

I think it’s because the final of Survivor is on, so it’s taken over one of the CSIs.  So there’s Big Brother (blech), The Bill (gone too soapie); and some other crap.  Sigh.  What am I going to do??  Maybe I’ll have to watch my Goodies DVDs.