How inspirational a title huh? Well, just a quickish one - went and saw I Heart Huckabees - enjoyable, but not in a laugh out loud way, more a cynical grin way, and I feel it will play to a minority audience. Dustin Hoffman and Jude Law were fab, Naomi Watts is gorgeous, Mark Wahlberg I have a soft spot for, but it's not a Lost In Translation (ie a brilliant non action movie). Also didn't help that half the admittedly sparse audience obviously didn't have an idea what the movie was about, and left in drips and drabs through the screening...
But then again, all the movies I wanted to see this week were all worthy but not in a must see kind of way. Blade Trinity, Meet the Fockers and The Incredibles start up in Oz next week (Boxing Day), so the distributors are saving their powder I guess. Might see Garden State during the week as well...
Bought two CDs while I was out today as well - currently listening to Pearl Jam's Best Of, and my Mum is like maybe I will have to burn that - in the copying way, not in the Nazi book way LOL - wow, didn't know that Pearl Jam was that accessible LOL, or is it just me trying to protect my teenagehood from normality LOL. And also bought The Diary of Alicia Keys - one of those the shop is only open for two minutes impulse purchases, I could have waited a bit for Alicia I think...
How can Australians keep being interested in their Test cricket team? I am sure perfection gets pretty boring, and the ratings must be slipping big time I think - I mean, I love test cricket but the Pakistani test maybe I have caught about half an hour a day, and if that's a test match fan, goodness help the average person. Admit it guys, competition puts a bit of spark into the games, just look at the two one dayers against us (Kiwis) earlier in the month - and when was the last time a team managed to bat out the final two days of a test against the Aussies? It didn't seem so hard ten or fifteen years ago, thinking of Mark Greatbatch and Snedden holding off the Aussies for a day and a half at the WACA in 1989 I think...
And just when you thought the culture wars in the US could be put to bed for another two years, until the Congressional elections, along come some North Carolina Christians boycotting the term 'Happy Holidays' and wanting everyone to say 'Merry Christmas' instead. If the people complaining were Muslims putting fatwas on the term Happy Holidays everyone in the West would ignore or laugh at them. But then again, I guess the US isn't very much like the rest of the Western world anymore, what with it's religosity (spelling?).
'Ed Jones, president of the Greater Raleigh Merchants Assn., agreed. This Christmas, he is more conscious than ever of "a conspiracy of leftist-leaning people that want to bring down traditional values in our country," he said.
"I don't see anything to gain by offending others, but many of us are offended ourselves," said Jones, who owns a remodeling business. "I think we — the collective we — are allowing a small minority of people to rule our lives. I'm opposed to that."
His wife bought cards that read "Happy Holidays" this year, Jones said, but he was careful to ink "Merry Christmas" onto every one of them.'
That last sentence, about inking Merry Christmas into each card, how fecking petty... leftist conspiracy indeed bleah.
Talking of religion and stuff, here's an investigation by the NYT - remember how there was the big hue and cry about Guantanamo being infiltrated by Islamic spies in the US military? Well, read and find out where it ended up LOL - two Muslim soldiers being accused of espionage and helping the enemy and the case fell apart so much that part of the claim was that one of the accused had given baklava to the detainees, and another one downloaded pornography. The latter of which made it to a formal charge, but was dropped, and there will be an honourable discharge next month... kind of like dead bodies in an Arkansas land deal being dealt down to an Oval Office blowjob LOL - is a good article. Recommended read :)
Pauly
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