Dancing and DVD'S

Haven't really had much to say this week. Maybe the whole "Not really dancers" thing has forced me to keep my head down. The post didn't cause wide spread condemnation but that could be to do with the fact only about 5 people look at my blog with any interest. What has happened is that everyone I've mentioned this to pretty much disagrees with me. I still don't agree but I don't think I'll be able to get a petition put together to make Nike change the advert. Not even my "I've drive a car, does that make me a racing driver" analogy didn't sway anyone.
Oh well on a happier note I did get £40 worth of HMV vouchers from work because I rock, so on Saturday I popped down to His Masters Voice to spend my not very hard earned vouchers. To my utter joy there was a 3 DVD's for £20 offer so I was able to pick up six top quality films without spending a penny of my own cash.
I got Dead mans Shoes a brilliant little British movie from Shane Meadows. It's a revenge thriller type deal set just outside Nottingham. It goes from laugh out loud to brutal murder and then back again. A dark film but probably my favorite ever British film.
Then I picked up The Station Agent. An excellent little American Indie film about Finbar, a man born with Dwarfism. He works in a model railway store with his only friend. When that friend dies he Leave Fin a small, old an disused station in the middle of rural New jersey. This suits Fin fine as he doesn't connect well with people. Before long though all that changes as he meets 2 people that seemingly refuse to let him live in peace. A brilliant film about friendship, it'll leave you feeling very good about every thing. Maybe
The next 2 films I got were Hero and House of Flying Daggers both directed by Yimou Zhang and both beautifully shot martial arts movies. Flying daggers is one of the best looking films I've ever seen and if your a martial arts movie fan then you need to see both of these. Hero first though remember.
I then picked up Napoleon Dynamite which I'm sure most people have heard of this but if you haven't it's worth a watch. It's an offbeat comedy which had me chuckling through out. I really like it but it's one of those films I find difficult to recommend because I know it's not a film for everyone It's odd but well worth a watch in my eyes.
Last but most defiantly not least is the Breakfast Club. Quality John Hughes fare from the eighties. If you haven't seen it do, if you've seen it and don't like it then Pah to you.
That is all I need to say about that.

Walk the Line

Went to see Walk the line on Thursday. I'd been looking forward to it for a while now and so went into with much anticipation. I wasn't disappointed either. Not being a huge Johnny Cash fan, I like his music but I don't own anything and I knew nothing about his life before hand, I was worried it may have less impact or some of it would go over my head. Well it didn't the film would work without being about Johnny Cash. In essence it's a Love story told over many years. These people we know should be together just can't seem to do it and even though you know that all works out great in the end it's still nervous time but enjoyable time.
Acting was first class old Whack-whim did a wonderful job as Cash and not being a Johnny Cash swat I didn't notice anything that was slightly wrong. As for Greasy Reesey she wasn't half bad either. I don't mind Greasy as a performer but I've heard bad things about her as a person(who knew not getting cast in Mallrats would upset some one) . She did a very good job here though
and from a male perspective may not have looked better.
One thing I did notice about the film, and I don't know whether this was Cash or the Filmakers but some one seems to have it in for Elvis. He's only in it for the briefest of periods but in that time is pretty much blamed for all the problems Johnny Cash later has, i.e the amphetamine addiction. I don't know how much truth there is to this but it made me chuckle to see some one acknowledge that Elvis was no saint. You don't see that very often.
Well done all round though. Top Bananas.

Nike...Just do it.

Has anyone else seen the new Nike Advert aimed at the female market? You know the one with different dancers doing their thang..and then saying to camera "Try telling me I'm not an Athlete"
Ok love. You're not an athlete. You're a dancer. I'm not saying your not physically fit, I'm not saying you couldn't be an athlete I'm just saying your not because you aren't...You're a dancer. Athletes compete against fellow athletes in races or the like. Dancers dance, and very rarely in competition, unless it's on trouble TV.
You don't here A sprinter coming to speak to the camera's after his/her victorious race and saying "Now try telling me I'm not a dancer" You'd wouldn't know what the hell he was talking about.
So no offense ladies, you're all very good at what you do obviously and could beat my ass at most things but Nike, it's a stupid advert because these women aren't athletes they're quite clearly dancers....JAZZ HANDS....(Not so good without the visuals but you know what I'm doing.)

New Bond girl

The new Bond girl has been announced...Now I'm not usually one to get excited or even the slight bit interested in the casting of Bond films but for this I'll make an exception because the new Bond girl is one Eva Green. Now Ms Green first came to my attention in the Dreamers. Her first film role. It was Filthy and I fell in love with her. She's gorgeous and I came away from the film with a very positive opinion of her. No it wasn't just cause I saw her "boobs" although I have to admit it may of helped.

Also saw Walk the Line last night but more of that later. Peace.

The Da Vinci effect

Now I know the whole Da Vinci code story is pretty much old news now but with the up coming release of the movie the stories are again circulating and as part of the film was filmed in my humble little city(That's right mine) I feel the need to talk about it. Also it concerns Catholics and people in general being stupid so that's always fun too.
Opus Dei the terrible bad guys of Dan Browns The Da Vinci code have come out and asked for all "references that hurt Catholics" to be removed from the film. Now is it me or would that make a really short movie and besides Catholics do enough to hurt themselves so one little film won't make much difference.
I never got all the hype surrounding the book, I mean the Vatican actually appointed a cardinal to go around and talk to be people about how the Da Vinci code was fake. A book that you buy in the "Fiction" section of the book shop. The clues are in the name. This book IS a work of fiction hence why it sells in the fiction section. Dan Brown has done a very clever thing here. As soon as the talk started and he knew people were gullible enough he started doing interviews stating that there is evidence of this and that and you just know he didn't buy any of what he was saying.
The thing with the book and the key to it's success is that it makes stupid people feel clever. The book is nothing more than a holiday read but because it deals with religion and conspiracies people catch on to it and think by reading it they're interlectual. I read the book from cover to cover in about a week and I will say one thing about Dan Brown and that is he knows how to write a page turner. The contents though is pifel. I'm not very good with riddles and codes but even I knew where they had to look before they did.
I think the reaction of the Vatican has helped the book immensely though because as we all know people love things that are controversial. I'm not saying there was no bloodline of Christ, and I'm not saying that Da Vinci didn't draw a female next to Jesus in the last supper he may have done. It's just the evidence in The Da Vinci code is as the book, fiction.
The Priory of Zion was created in the 1920's I think by a strange French man that though he was related to the merivingians. There are many strange stories revolving around the Knights Templar but nothing can be confirmed.
In my eyes there will be some one some where related in some small way to Jesus. He had brothers who would have had children and I can't believe for a second that Jesus never knocked boots with anyone his entire life. There are huge parts of Jesus' life that aren't documented in the bible and as a sensible man I can't see how he as a Jewish man never married or even slept with a woman.
Son of God or not, man has needs.

Now terrorist will feel the fear....

After yesterdays story about Lou "the Hulk" Ferrigno becoming a part time cop, today sees the story of Batman taking on Osama Bin Laden and Al Queeda. Yes that's right folks, the capped crusade is taking on terrorism. Frank Miller the scribe of such classics as Batman: Year One and the Sin city stories is writing a new Batman comic where the bat takes on Osama and friends after Gotham is attacked 9/11 style.
Frank Miller is a master at what he does. I'm sure every one has heard of Sin city and if you like comics and haven't read any of his previous Batman work you're missing out. I'm still a little worried however that this could just turn out to be a bad propaganda piece for the US and if it wasn't in such good hands I would say it was straight out but as it's miller and as it's my favorite hero(He's not a superhero people, he has no superpowers) Batman I think it'll turn out a dark morality tale about Americas attitudes towards terrorism and their reactions to it. Or it might just be Batman kicking ass either way with Miller there it should be one hell of a ride.

Criminals fear again.

Hooray...The streets of LA of safe at last. The Incredible hulk has passed his training and is now a part time police officer in Los Angeles. Well Lou Ferrigno has anyway but I like to think he is the hulk. Actually no I down right KNOW he's the Hulk. Can you just imagine being some smacked up purse snatcher, you grab and bag and leg it only to run straight into the barrel chest of the incredible hulk. You'd just wet yourself. I wonder if he'll go around AS the Hulk, all green and shit. That'd be even better. In fact I'd pay to see that.
Any way good on Lou and lets hope he doesn't get angry, those criminals wouldn't like him if he was angry.

Every thing looks better after a good nights sleep.

12 glorious hours and sweet slumber and I awake feeling partially human again. Work, in their unbelievable show of kindness let me leave a whole hour early yesterday and by seven thirty I was out like a light. I also realized some thing quite worrying. Since Saturday I've taken some kind of pain killer every 4 or so hours. You're not supposed to exceed 8 in 24 hours. This fact may have also have had some baring on me yesterday as I struggled to stay awake.
My mouth still hurts, I've only got 2 painkillers because I don't want to hurt my liver any more.
I'm not tired but this could be a very long day.

Last one I promise

I just needed to show people this letter from the hate mail. It shows to me that their clearly isn't a God. If there was people like this wouldn't be tolerated. Below is one of the worst letters on the page. Not just in it's content but also on the fact it was written by an obvious idiot who should of been at school instead of having the bible read to him. Nutter.

There the KKK, there's youThere was Hitler, there's youThere are Satanic beliefs, there's youThere are un-American bigots, there's youThere are the un-Godly + damned, there's youAll that's vile comes from you. You teach hatred and prejudice. You insult Christians, especially Catholics. How Satanic!! Yet you demand respect + are quick to yell prejudice. How can you expect what you don't give?
You teach hatred, you insult others, yet, demand respect. Hitler didnt die, your still doing his hatreds and works.
Are you aware you're un-American? You demand your rights you demand + so on, but insult others + their beliefs. How low-down and hateful! May God judge your terrible acts. To get respect you must give it + you are cowards + highly prejudiced

In the words of Kevin Smith, all this over a movie with a giant rubber poop monster in it.

A bit more on religion

What I don't get about the whole thing is why these people are so bothered about what mere mortals say about their God. It's the same with all this violence of the cartoons of the prophet Mohammed. These people are threatening to kill anyone who disrespect their religion.
Why should they care what people say. If you are so convinced in your belief then it shouldn't matter what anyone else says. If we're all doomed to hell because we don't believe then that's our fault. All these smart Catholics can just live safe in the knowledge that God will take care of them.
If it's ok to tell people that God exists, why is it so bad to say he doesn't?
It's the closed mindedness that gets my goat.

Why I hate Religion

Check it out; http://www.viewaskew.com/dogma/hate/

These insights into the catholic mind set go some way to explaining my problems with religion.
And that's all religion not just Catholicism. They just make it easy for me.

None of these people has even seen the film, all of them obviously did not know Kevin Smith was brought up and still is Catholic. People are free to do what they want in my eyes that includes worshipping any God they see fit. I just don't like it when they feel it's their right to change what every one else chooses to do.

What a weekend. I think I'm going to die!!!

So we begin with a little back story...I'm suffering from tooth ache and have been doing since last week. I tried to get an appointment with my dentist but was told I hadn't been recently so they chucked me from the books. Rubbish. No where is taking NHS dental patients meaning I'm having to find some where private which also isn't easy. But on the plus the pain seemed to have passed by Friday and I headed out to a gig in Grimsby. It was at a little place called the matrix, a nice venue for small DIY gigs. Head lining were Swedish band Jeniferever, a great band who have a unique sound. Some where between Sigor Ros and The Mars volta maybe. They deal in sound scapes and music that just envelopes you.
The support was pretty good, two solo acoustics and another band called the City ghosts. They featured a lead female vocalist who I'm now in love with. Possibly one of the greatest looking women I've ever seen. Any way the gig was good I enjoyed myself. Come Saturday night however and my tooth ache came back and stayed back, all night, and all day Sunday. In all I've been awake for about 38 hours out of the last 48. I'm now at work, my mouth is killing me, I'm slightly out of it through sleep deprivation.
To add to this my car failed it's MOT on Saturday. Now I've got to get it fixed and retested by next Saturday and work are being awkward about me booking a day off to get it fixed. Now this pisses me off but if it comes to next Monday and my car isn't MOT'd then I can't come to work. The only place I'm driving that car to after the weekend is the garage. I won't break the law for work. screw that.
I keep getting dizzy now.....I want to go home....