Forgot to mention, finally got round to watching the Red Dwarf special over the weekend too.
Verdict? Meh, but then always only thought Red Dwarf was so so anyways (bring on the scorn).
a May 5th, 2009
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Red Dwarf
May 5, 2009 by Daniel
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Bank Holiday Films
May 5, 2009 by Daniel
This Bank Holiday we watched:
Vicky Christina Barcelona
Woody Allen’s latest, well when I say latest latest one I know about – he’s already done one since. This one featured well at the Oscars, Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role for Penélope Cruz, who was awesome in it. She’s often great when in films in her mother tongue.. Before we started we had a bit of a discussion about Woody Allen himself, does the marriage thing mean that his films can’t be enjoyed? I’m not so sure so I’ll take each film as it comes.
This one for me though was so so. The characters never feel real, or live in a real world. Money is of no consequence, nor time but only morals. The photography however is beautiful it just milks the “we’re artists” bit too much, “I bought this house from an artist friend of mine”.
I dunno really.
have now worked out what it was that bugged me in the film, it was the completely unnecessary voiceover. Where was the character that was doing it? Why were they explaining the things I can see before my eyes?
Gran Torino
When Clint Eastwood directs a film usually you know it’s going to be a little preachy and he’ll star in it, and growl some. Well now he’s said this will be the last one he’s going to be in and it was a great one to bow out on. Wasn’t sure at first whether it would turn out to be good but I got pulled into the story and the characters and was laughing at Walt Kowalski’s fight against the world changing around him.
From his awful family to a neighbourhood changing beyond recognition and how he became friends with the family next door. I really liked this film. I want to be able to say it’s a warm film but I can’t. It’s just one man’s solution to the problems he sees around him. There were some wonderful performances as well, in particular the two kids from next door, Sue and Thao played by Ahney Her and Bee Vang who had not appeared in anything else before.
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Cycling
May 5, 2009 by Daniel
Kate and I both have bikes that we haven’t touched for 3 years. Despicable I know! We moved to our flat which is in kind of a hilly area and just forgot all about them really.
Mine is a blue Raleigh and hers is a fold up bike we got from Freecycle.
So we’re on a bit of a health kick at the moment and decided that this bank holiday we’d like to go for a ride. However it took us so long to clean up the bikes that in the meantime it had started raining!
So we’ll go soon. We might even have a bike rack for the car coming to us, so maybe we’ll go for a trip out!
I bought a cycle computer for mine, which i’ve fitted but haven’t managed to get working yet. So i’m a bit annoyed with that.Update: Got it to work now, and Kate’s pretty much finished painting up her bike which looks awesome! Typically though since we started this project the weather has been awful… Just a puncture in my back tyre, a seat adjustment and to fix the rear brakes on her bike and we might actually be able to go for a cycle this weekend!
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Bloglines
May 5, 2009 by Daniel
Everyday I read a number of website feeds to catch up on various things and i’ve used Bloglines since Rob showed it to me a few years ago. I’d tried Google Reader but didn’t quite get on with it and I wanted a web based one vs a desktop one as I wanted to be able to read it wherever I was.
Just noticed that in Bloglines beta version there a command line prompt! Just press the ` (left of 1 key) key and see what happens.
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