The Girl in the Cafe

Can love and politics exist in the same film? If films like Constant Gardener were anything to go by, then the answer would be yes.

The girl in the café is a protest film like you’ve never seen before. Written by the romantic bard better known as Richard Curtis, more famous for films like ‘Four Weddings and a Funeral’, ‘Notting Hill’, ‘Love Actually’, and ‘Bridget Jones' Diary ’.

With this film Curtis weaves his craft to convey a message so crucially important for every living soul on this planet.

’The girl in the café’ follows the story of Lawrence (Bill Nighy) a passed his prime political analyst/civil servant, with a backbone beaten by a lifetime of bullying. Before leaving to attend the G8 Summit, he meets the unexpectedly enigmatic Gina (Kelly Macdonald) and on a whim, invites her along. What follows is the account of two people longing for something they cannot control.

Bill Nighy, a most under rated actor delivers a performance so hauntingly real in a story so possible you’ll forget you’re watching a film.

Watch the film until the end of the credits and tell me that ‘click’ doesn’t make you think.

Post mid-year update

I suppose you could say a fair ammount has happened since my last post, after starting off as a Language specialist contracting for X, I applied for another internal position. A more challenging one and one that that I enjoy far more. As much 'fun' as it was being a language specialist, all I got to do was edit internal policy guides.

The new jobs requirements looked pretty much the same as the last one, add to that a knowledge of DreamWeaver (a web based programming tool). The language I was now comfortable with, but Dream Weaver? Never used it, didn’t know the first thing about it.

I applied anyways, thinking I could learn it pretty quickly. Good thing I did, cause I got the job, learned the software, and am now the happy editor of an in-house weekly publication. :)

Sure, its not the BBC or Daily Mail, but I like to call it 'corporate journalism' and I enjoy what I do. So I've been doing this since March now, and don't mind too much that I have to wake up at 6 five days a week.

At one stage, while studying and working as the language specialist, I took on some part time work as a barman at a friends club. Lots of fun, but not something you can do for long unless you're aiming for a burnout.

The bar job lasted a few months and once I had graduated, stopped the bar work too and decided to focus on my career. Since it seems to be under control for now, I may consider taking up another part time job.

Other than work I pretty much just hang out at the friends club, wouldn’t you if you got to drink for free?

That’s about as much of an update as I'm capable of right now, I still watch movies (alot), and recently joined the gym. if I can think of anything else worth reporting I'll be back soon.

Will try and post a pic or two so you can see nothings changed :)

I love TV

This weekend was good, if only for one reason. On saturday, while browsing through a fellow traders wares, I noticed a folder titled '24', I've just finished watching season 4, and have recently discovered that Unlce Sam is already airing Season 5. With broadband recently introduced into my third world, why dont I have it yet?

So with much doubt and scepticism (yes I do consider these to be different) I double clicked... '24 s05e01' read the file, magic!! Season 5, the first 8 episodes. Right click, copy, click on my C:\, right click, paste, I've got it! Okay, thanks you can go now.

Out of all 97 episodes I've watched, I have to say that the first episode of Season 5 is mind blowing, Jack Bauer returns... obviously, to a far more exciting landscape than any of the previous seasons. I'm not going to say anymore as I hate it when people spoil things for me, but go watch it, its brilliant!

The Non-Fictional Jaws

This may be old news to any Australian reading this, but after the cyclone Larry appeared all over Sky news this morning, I googled Brisbane trying to find out if it had been affected, apparently not. But what I did find, was an interesting story about a recent shark attack in Brisbane.

In no way do I mean to be insensitive to the victim, but did you know that the site of the attack 'Amity point' shares its name with the fictional setting in Spielbergs epic Jaws? That’s just an accident waiting to happen.

The woman attacked, was savaged by not just one, but several bull sharks who during mating season are apparently extremely aggressive.

“If we found them I suppose we would try to retrieve them and see if they have any body parts," said Queensland police inspector Ray Harding
Do you think this guy’s watched Jaws one too many times?

Freaky Dreams

Havent had one of these far ages, but last night seemed to make up for the recent lack of bad dreams.

Please feel free to comment and gove your insight on this one.

I cant remember quite where this dream started, but what I do remember is this damn dog! It somewhat resembled a sausage dog, but was red, and I dont mean like a natural dog fur red, I mean like a burning flame in hell red! This dog was crimson, and instead of normal dog eyes, this things eyes were checkered, red and black, with figure 8 balls in the middle of each red block. To say this dog looked menacing would be an understatement, but apparently I was the only one who could see it! No one would look at its eyes, treating me as crazy, and the crimson red fure didtn seem to bug them either. I think it was more about the lack of belief in me than the actual weirdness of the dog that bugged me. If it was a normal dog and I was just looking for attention then sure, ignore me, I'd do the same thing. But this thing was oozing evil, and nobody could see it.

Ah, another memory just got released to me, I was trying to kill it too. I remember trying to rip its jaw open in the same way that King Kong makes easy work of the T-rex in that recent pile of CG trash by Peter Jackson.

If I had to analyse this thing, this is how I would see it: I saw a copy of King Kong on a friends HDD yesterday so theres the connection betweeen the jaw ripping. We recently got a puppy... with teeth like needles, and I tend to call this thing 'a little demon' more often than not, as it thinks biting the back of your ankles is going to put a smile on your face, so theres a possible connection to the object being a dog. As for the crimson fur? & black and red checkered eye balls? I have no idea.