Not kidding about the NSFW language. Multiple and (occasionally) inventive uses of both the universal adjective and the universal noun. Also Ralph Fiennes. And a little person.

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Once more been neglecting this. Oh well.

Maskerade was a blast. Totally fucking gruelling once tech week started - at the theatre til after midnight every night, then two days of rest before going into a 12-day season with only one day off. Does strange things to the mind, I tells you. Especially condensing that much Pratchett into such a ( Read more... )

It's official. The world has ceased to make sense. Mickey Rourke made me cry last week. For those interested in a non-wrestling-fan's view of The Wrestler ... I liked it. It's not one of those movies I'm going to rush out and buy on DVD and watch over and over and over again, but I genuinely enjoyed it. It was beautifully subtle and gentle in ( Read more... )

( Press here to see why Rex is so happy - You Tube embed, SFW )

babybenedictine dropped off here the other day a moving box full of stuff. It's a heavy box, full of heavy stuff,so we've just left it in the family room on a rug on the floor. We may one day get around to throwing an Indian rug over it. Anyway ( Read more... )

Well, I guess that answers the question of whether of not I go to see The Future is Unwritten: Joe Strummer tonight and/or Rescue Dawn tomorrow morning. They're both at the Palace Centro cinemas, which is in the middle of fucking nowhere, public-transport wise. (Over a kilometre from Brunswick St station, or I can walk a combined 1.5 kilometres ( Read more... )

1. Who has my copy of Wintersmith??? Seriously. I do not have it. I used to have it right *there* and it is no longer right *there*. Where is it? I am very attached to it as it was signed by the great man himself ...

2. Saw Fracture today. Ho-hum, really. Two-and-a-half stars. Anyone with half a brain-cell should be able to spot the ( Read more... )

Ok. I admit it, I'm a complete freakin' weirdo. (Quiet, you.) I don't eat chocolate. This extends to chocolate cake, chocolate mousse, chocolate biscuits, chocolate milk ... I just don't like the taste. (Exceptions apply for the week surrounding my period ( Read more... )

Did the insomnia cure again today: saw Sin City and House of Wax.

Gush gush gush gush gush gush gush.

Some non-spoilery comments:
Sin City: Will never, ever, ever again believe Elijah Wood as Frodo; kudos to the makeup person who, probably knowing how much Micky Rourke shelled out on plastic surgery, decided to put him in a full-face ( Read more... )