'Looks like he's preparing for re-entry sir'
I can't say that I have much to update about really. I had the most amazing week last week. Due to the show and the way my days off fell I didn't have to go back to work until Friday, and I can tell you it was amazing. I played on the Xbox, read lots and generally enjoyed the warmth. My God I miss it now. I hate January so much and I hate being back at work, especially when there aren't any jobs to apply for!
The snow's mostly gone today, which is good as it was getting very boring. Aside from it being on the news all the time it just makes everything soggy and reminds me of Iceland and how much I wish I was there right now.
So what have I been up to? Well we've got back into our James Bond watching, ticking off Moonraker and For Your Eyes Only. To be honest, I think we'd stopped watching them because Moonraker was next. My God it was dire. And so depressing to think that it was the biggest grossing Bond film until Goldeneye. Proof that people will go to see any old shit if it jumps on the zeitgeist. It was such a rip-off of Star Wars I wanted to weep. Reasons why Moonraker is shit:
1. A double taking pigeon.
2. Hovercraft gondola
3. Jaws coming back even though he'd been eaten in the last film
4. Jaws gets a girlfriend. I mean really, WTF?!
5. There is a laser shoot out in space.
6. the first hour is useless. Bond goes all over the world to find that a man has stolen his own space shuttle.
7. Sexism a-hoy! And it's bad, even for Bond.
8. Rotating space station with an emergency stop button. Christ.
9. Evil man plans to poison all humans with a gas that doesn't kill animals or plants. How does that work exactly.
10. Did I mention that there's a double taking pigeon.
Awful. And what was more frustrating is that it had the making of a normal, good Bond film in there, it's just because they didn't stick with the original plan and tried to cash in on Star Wars. Grrr. For Your Eyes Only though, I'm happy to say was brilliant, maybe Roger Moore's finest. Strnage Blofeld death prelude aside, it was bang on form, possibly because Bond employs a lot of outside help which feels quite different and interesting. Hell, Bond even turns down the offer of a woman which is very rare. A great film. While on the subject of Bond films - What's your favourite Bond theme? I'm intrigued to know.
The other thing we've watched lately was the documentary on Barack Obama. James sums it up better than I can here: http://theresnotime-jrm.blogspot.com/2010/01/by-people-election-of-barack-obama-2008.html , putting that 1st degree to good use! But I really enjoyed it. Obama could read a shopping list out and I'd feel inspired. It was very interesting to see what happens behind the scenes though, American politics is much more interesting than here. It brought back memories of how exciting the Democratic nominations were compared to here where I'll be voting for a middle aged man in a suit - again (mind you, look what happened when we broke the mould last time...) So yes, a good watch.
Oh, we watched The latest Muppets film too, Letters to Santa. It was surprisngly good, especially the lengthy out takes. I'm a big believe that there's still room for the Muppets on TV (probably because I'm reading an amazing book on Sesame Street at the minute), they just need to kill the Disney-fied cutsy-ness stone dead.
Yesterday we went to see Nine at the cinema. It was very good, but not great. The cast is amazing, absolutely stunning and it's well acted. And the Dame Judimeister sings which is obviously amazing, but the whole thing was missing the wow factor like Chicago had. I don't know what it was. maybe the plot? Enjoyable at the cinema though, and it looked stunning.
Thankfully I've found another job to apply for. It's at the University of Huddersfield which seem like a great Uni. Commuting is an issue but hey, I'm desperate.
The snow's mostly gone today, which is good as it was getting very boring. Aside from it being on the news all the time it just makes everything soggy and reminds me of Iceland and how much I wish I was there right now.
So what have I been up to? Well we've got back into our James Bond watching, ticking off Moonraker and For Your Eyes Only. To be honest, I think we'd stopped watching them because Moonraker was next. My God it was dire. And so depressing to think that it was the biggest grossing Bond film until Goldeneye. Proof that people will go to see any old shit if it jumps on the zeitgeist. It was such a rip-off of Star Wars I wanted to weep. Reasons why Moonraker is shit:
1. A double taking pigeon.
2. Hovercraft gondola
3. Jaws coming back even though he'd been eaten in the last film
4. Jaws gets a girlfriend. I mean really, WTF?!
5. There is a laser shoot out in space.
6. the first hour is useless. Bond goes all over the world to find that a man has stolen his own space shuttle.
7. Sexism a-hoy! And it's bad, even for Bond.
8. Rotating space station with an emergency stop button. Christ.
9. Evil man plans to poison all humans with a gas that doesn't kill animals or plants. How does that work exactly.
10. Did I mention that there's a double taking pigeon.
Awful. And what was more frustrating is that it had the making of a normal, good Bond film in there, it's just because they didn't stick with the original plan and tried to cash in on Star Wars. Grrr. For Your Eyes Only though, I'm happy to say was brilliant, maybe Roger Moore's finest. Strnage Blofeld death prelude aside, it was bang on form, possibly because Bond employs a lot of outside help which feels quite different and interesting. Hell, Bond even turns down the offer of a woman which is very rare. A great film. While on the subject of Bond films - What's your favourite Bond theme? I'm intrigued to know.
The other thing we've watched lately was the documentary on Barack Obama. James sums it up better than I can here: http://theresnotime-jrm.blogspot.com/2010/01/by-people-election-of-barack-obama-2008.html , putting that 1st degree to good use! But I really enjoyed it. Obama could read a shopping list out and I'd feel inspired. It was very interesting to see what happens behind the scenes though, American politics is much more interesting than here. It brought back memories of how exciting the Democratic nominations were compared to here where I'll be voting for a middle aged man in a suit - again (mind you, look what happened when we broke the mould last time...) So yes, a good watch.
Oh, we watched The latest Muppets film too, Letters to Santa. It was surprisngly good, especially the lengthy out takes. I'm a big believe that there's still room for the Muppets on TV (probably because I'm reading an amazing book on Sesame Street at the minute), they just need to kill the Disney-fied cutsy-ness stone dead.
Yesterday we went to see Nine at the cinema. It was very good, but not great. The cast is amazing, absolutely stunning and it's well acted. And the Dame Judimeister sings which is obviously amazing, but the whole thing was missing the wow factor like Chicago had. I don't know what it was. maybe the plot? Enjoyable at the cinema though, and it looked stunning.
Thankfully I've found another job to apply for. It's at the University of Huddersfield which seem like a great Uni. Commuting is an issue but hey, I'm desperate.