Last Days dir. by Gus Van Sant
Opening with a scene of Blake stumbling and mumbling his way through the woods this film almost always looks great and interesting. Unfortunately it isn’t. It is a boring, one-note tale...
4 September 2005
Stupidity has a knack of getting its way
Went to the library today with one aim in mind. To pick up a copy of The Year 1000 by Lacey and Dannziger. I’d looked up the call number and everything...
3 September 2005
Apropos of nothing
Isn’t this a scary looking banner? I mean, first of all “Homeland Security” is so 1984 it really isn’t funny, and the whole thing looks like something out of Starship Troopers[1]...
2 September 2005
Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics
You know all those US-ians[1] who go on about how the US is the greatest country in the world? How it is the best in everything? Well, to mangle the words...
2 September 2005
The beauty of it smote his heart
I haven’t commented at all on Hurricane Katrina. I guess part of the reason is a sort of disbelief. Not that the weather can be that destructive, but that it happened in the US. The idea that an entire American city could be destroyed is almost unbelievable. We are sort of used to it in less developed countries, but, somehow you kind of figure that the world’s only superpower would be able to deal with anything.
Another lesson that we don’t take nature all that seriously.
1 September 2005
Haunted by Kelley Armstrong
Eva Levine is a half-demon half-witch who also happens to be dead. She’s not in heaven, not in hell, just in the afterlife. Or at least the one that supernatural beings go to after they die. She is also a little preoccupied with keeping an eye on her daughter, Savannah, although being dead she has no way at all of protecting her, talking to her, or ever getting in contact.
30 August 2005
I need another W00t!
Remember Mr. Library man? Do ye? Well he gave me a call. Person who they offered the job to turned it down. I didn’t ask why. So… yes, he offered it...
30 August 2005
Somebody should check his birth cert because I don’t think he was born, I think he’s a creation of God
Only three left in it now. Cork were well beaten by Kerry, who now have to wait for the winners of the match between Armagh and Tyrone. I seem to have...
29 August 2005
I am overthrown
There are times in life when one really despairs of mankind[1] . Today I went to see The Dukes of Hazzard. In a way I was looking for a shite film....
28 August 2005
The Dukes of Hazzard dir. by Jay Chandrasekhar
This doesn’t even deserve the title of film. A film has a story, a plot, characters! It entertains. This, this monster is just plain boring. Worst film ever! Yes, I’ve seen...
28 August 2005
The Reverse of the Medal by Patrick O'Brien
Book 11 ISBN: 0006499260 Someone mentions Jack Aubrey and at once you think of sea battles and naval history, you may not think of Stock Exchange frauds and court cases, but...
27 August 2005
Sevens
Did anyone else play the ball game sevens? You had to bounce a ball against a wall and do various tricks and whatnot? Well this isn’t the same :) Janine tagged...
27 August 2005