Someone on IRC the other day said “Someone should point out to Gearge Bush that when the Germans don’t want to go to war, you must really have fuck-all grounds for it.” Later in the same discussion, that same person said “Well, don’t blame me, I voted for…
No update for ages. Kevin Costner is Dances with Wolves, and I am Sucks at Journals. However here’s some key stuff since previous updatey: – Dave F and Steve P both resigned at work. This is not cool. They’re both full of clue, and it’s ICONZ’ loss IMHO.…
Poor Annette got a phone call this morning from her mum, to tell her that one of her uncles had died, apparently by suicide. No-one I’d met, and not one she’d had much to do with, apparently, but still.. amazingly sucky. I am fairly perplexed by suicide. There…
I went to see Bowling for Columbine today, and enjoyed it quite a lot. However, even though it was quite a fun watch, with many laughs, and much cringing, it was a quite muddled film. Mike Moore didn’t seem to have as solid a focus as he did in…
I’ve just returned from Wellington, where I saw the cast and crew screening of the second movie in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Two Towers. And it’s _all class_. Another lengthy offering from Peter Jackson, this one clocks in at 3hours. But I didn’t notice…
So, I recently watched the unaired pilot for a show called Heat Vision and Jack. It’s about a astronaut named Jack Austin (Played by Jack Black, the singing half of Tenacious D) whose spacecraft passes too close to the sun, and as a result now becomes superhumanly intelligent whenever…
A kind friend who works for Weta Digital has just offered me a ticket to the cast and crew pre-release screening of The Two Towers, on the 16th of this month. Life is good!…
So, work xmas do last friday – was on Waiheke Island, at a vinyard. A very good vinyard. With a very very good, very very expensive merlot. Which I consumed a couple of bottles of. Stony Ridge wines. Pay attention. Buy them, and you will be happy. Waiheke is really very…