LOL, the title today means that it was the first time I have actually edited an entry - the last one, on Million Dollar Baby - I was walking to work this morning, not quite happy with what I had written. I was talking to a friend online at the time, and hmm it was a distracting conversation :) so tweaked the review a bit, hopefully it flows better or something, even though it's not as if IMDB will be knocking down the doors to get my blog linked to the reviews or anything LOL. It is a bit of a hobby of mine, amateur reviews, and it gives my weekend blogs perhaps a bit more structure - we will see how we go :)
Big props, as the slang goes, to the College of Cardinals at the Vatican. Now, not being a Catholic myself, and not really life or death interested in who the next Pope will be, but I just have to respect them at least a little bit, for the fact that they have shut the media out even before going into the Conclave. Too many people, organisations, government departments etc really think that the general public has interest in what they say or do, so it is good to see an organisation go into REAL lockdown and have the strength to ignore the media. Now if only some others would do that LOL, thinking Paris Hilton off the top of my head for some reason :)
Good to see Charles and Camilla finally get married. Good article from the Guardian here, noting who might be important in the royal circles over the next twenty years, even if Charles still remains Crown Prince rather than King. Camilla looked nice actually, in a middle aged kind of way LOL, good choice of clothes, and OMG is Zara Phillips fit or what. There was even a glimpse in the weekend paper here of a smidge of bra under that top LOL. But of course all the media coverage on the TV channels here was how they had to admit their sins blah blah, what Diana would have thought, why on earth go so negative so quickly??
Then again, even if such a rational person as V is a rabid Di lover Camilla hater, LOL what chance does the mass media have of being fair and balanced lol - and yes, that was a shout out to Fox News :)
Hmm, by the way it was my birthday yesterday - the big Two Nine, my parents were trying to bait me about next year, but my opinion is they start merging into one another after 21 anyways. Got the third series of Seinfeld DVD's, a series of World War 2 books, the Bourne Identity and Supremacy videos. a couple of nice shirts, a new pair of jeans (the message being I wear my other pairs into the ground LOL), and music/DVD vouchers.
Which I used today, and OMG what a fluke, BOTH the top two DVD's I have in mind at the moment were on sale, and could pick up both for under fifty bucks. Lost in Translation, my fave movie from 2003, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, fave movie of last year. So I was very happy, wasn't expecting to get both on sale, or even see both at the same time in the particular store :) Already have in mind the next DVD to get, in a different store where I go to the movies, Arlington Road, anyone seen it? Is in the cheapie rack LOL, so thats a plus as well as it being a great movie of course...
In sports news, well, rugby is the closest to my heart, the Lions team to tour New Zealand got named today. Twenty Englishmen, eleven Irish, ten Welsh, three Scots, even though the English lost more games in the Six Nations than the Irish and Welsh. I'm just trying to think of how to describe to non New Zealanders, or non rugby loving New Zealanders, how important a Lions tour is to us. Think of Superbowl, or World Series, or Stanley Cup, or Olympic gold, or rugby league State of Origin, or Davis Cup final, or the Ashes, and that is about the level of excitement a Lions tour induces :)
Especially since it happens in one country every twelve years (four year installments in South Africa and Australia as well). And the whole way the tour is set up is so old school lol, instead of more Tests than first class games as is the norm nowadays, the tour actually includes the provinces, although an odd exception is that Canterbury isn't playing a game this time around...
Think that's all for now, I REALLY need to catch up on some sleep LOL
Pauly
Big props, as the slang goes, to the College of Cardinals at the Vatican. Now, not being a Catholic myself, and not really life or death interested in who the next Pope will be, but I just have to respect them at least a little bit, for the fact that they have shut the media out even before going into the Conclave. Too many people, organisations, government departments etc really think that the general public has interest in what they say or do, so it is good to see an organisation go into REAL lockdown and have the strength to ignore the media. Now if only some others would do that LOL, thinking Paris Hilton off the top of my head for some reason :)
Good to see Charles and Camilla finally get married. Good article from the Guardian here, noting who might be important in the royal circles over the next twenty years, even if Charles still remains Crown Prince rather than King. Camilla looked nice actually, in a middle aged kind of way LOL, good choice of clothes, and OMG is Zara Phillips fit or what. There was even a glimpse in the weekend paper here of a smidge of bra under that top LOL. But of course all the media coverage on the TV channels here was how they had to admit their sins blah blah, what Diana would have thought, why on earth go so negative so quickly??
Then again, even if such a rational person as V is a rabid Di lover Camilla hater, LOL what chance does the mass media have of being fair and balanced lol - and yes, that was a shout out to Fox News :)
Hmm, by the way it was my birthday yesterday - the big Two Nine, my parents were trying to bait me about next year, but my opinion is they start merging into one another after 21 anyways. Got the third series of Seinfeld DVD's, a series of World War 2 books, the Bourne Identity and Supremacy videos. a couple of nice shirts, a new pair of jeans (the message being I wear my other pairs into the ground LOL), and music/DVD vouchers.
Which I used today, and OMG what a fluke, BOTH the top two DVD's I have in mind at the moment were on sale, and could pick up both for under fifty bucks. Lost in Translation, my fave movie from 2003, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, fave movie of last year. So I was very happy, wasn't expecting to get both on sale, or even see both at the same time in the particular store :) Already have in mind the next DVD to get, in a different store where I go to the movies, Arlington Road, anyone seen it? Is in the cheapie rack LOL, so thats a plus as well as it being a great movie of course...
In sports news, well, rugby is the closest to my heart, the Lions team to tour New Zealand got named today. Twenty Englishmen, eleven Irish, ten Welsh, three Scots, even though the English lost more games in the Six Nations than the Irish and Welsh. I'm just trying to think of how to describe to non New Zealanders, or non rugby loving New Zealanders, how important a Lions tour is to us. Think of Superbowl, or World Series, or Stanley Cup, or Olympic gold, or rugby league State of Origin, or Davis Cup final, or the Ashes, and that is about the level of excitement a Lions tour induces :)
Especially since it happens in one country every twelve years (four year installments in South Africa and Australia as well). And the whole way the tour is set up is so old school lol, instead of more Tests than first class games as is the norm nowadays, the tour actually includes the provinces, although an odd exception is that Canterbury isn't playing a game this time around...
Think that's all for now, I REALLY need to catch up on some sleep LOL
Pauly
Arlington Road is a pretty cool movie. With the twist at the end, I dunno how re-watchable it would be, but I remember enjoying it the one time I did watch it.
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