Mini reviews

Spent the evening watching films and eating pasta with darklightimages...

Dog Soldiers
Fairly lame werewolf outfits, but nonetheless an entertaining film. British humour, including an excellent throw-away joke for Matrix fans that was almost worth the price of rental on its own. Worth renting, but probably not worth buying unless it's going cheap.

Bad Company
Generic to the point of tedium action comedy thing. Explosions, gunfights, wisecracks. Anthony Hopkins wasted on his part, Chris Rock mildly irritates me in most of his films and this one was no exception. I might watch this again if it was on TV and I was bored, or I might not. I certainly wouldn't pay to see it again.

High Flight

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds - and done a hundred things

You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air.

Up, up the long delirious, burning blue,
I've topped the windswept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or even eagle flew -
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high unsurpassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand and touched the face of God.

Pilot Officer John Gillespie Magee

In Memoriam

Quiz: What kind of fairy are you?

( pretty picture )

You're a fall fairy

Calm yet sweet, kind but likes to be alone. You would probably like to go and dance with everyone else, you just don't want to go down there and face them.

What kind of fairy are you?

(yes, I corrected the spelling and attempted to fix the grammar)

Quiz: What Poetry Form Are You?

I am, of course, none other than blank verse. I don't know where I'm going, yes, quite right; And when I get there (if I ever do) I might not recognise it. So? Your point? Why should I have a destination set? I'm relatively happy as I am, And wouldn't want to be forever aimed Towards some future path or special goal. It's not to do with laziness, as such. It's just that on the whole I'd rather not Be bothered - so I drift contentedly; An underrated way of life, I find.

What Poetry Form Are You?

Quiz: How compatible are we?

I'm a generally unfuckwitted, liberal, not-too-generous, not-too-selfish, relatively well adjusted human being!

See what you are and how compatible you are with me!

The three essential ingredients for a worthwhile website...

(1) Content, (2) Content, (3) Content.

So, enough with the quiz results already. Here's today's exciting update...

I went to the shopping centre here in MK. Bumped into my sister and her fiance, got dragged into clothes shops, and ended up buying a frilly shirt and a shiny shirt. Weird things to find in a posh suit shop (they were looking for a wedding suit for him). Or perhaps not - I suppose it's a reasonable place to find unusual shirts. Maybe I should slob around in posh suit shops more often - if nothing else, it bugs the hell out of the staff when you wander in looking the way I generally do and start prodding the expensive merchandise  :)

As Orange refused to supply me with the unlocking code for my mobile phone because I'm still under contract, I passed the problem on to a bloke on the MK market. He took my phone away, had a quiet word with it, and it's no longer network-monogamous. I can now go back to using my work SIM card in my 6310i, rather than the nasty 3310 that was supplied as standard.

Weighed myself and found I'm now 9 stone 10 lbs, the heaviest I can ever remember being. I'm actually within a stone of my suggested ideal weight (10st 8lbs), which is probably good. As long as I don't just turn into a flabby icky thing on account of I'm getting old. Maybe I should start exercising as a pre-emptive strike. Thinking about it, I actually gained quite a bit of upper body muscle (those who've seen me without a t-shirt can stop laughing now) in the summer of 2001 just by virtue of hanging onto my motorbike while riding it in excess of 100mph (erm, on a private road obviously, officer). That sounds like a good exercise plan - I'll do that again this summer. Good, problem solved  :)

Erm. This entry has been brought to you by the word 'Sunday', and the phrase 'Oh god my life is tedious sometimes'. Thankyou.