Poor lonely Livejournal. Sorry I haven't posted much this year - I have now got a shorter attention... ooh shiny.

Sorry, what was I saying? Oh yeah. I've mostly migrated to Twitter which in turn updates my Facebook. I also used to send tweets to LJ but that service died, and there wasn't much point trying to find another replacement for it ( Read more... )

Considering today is just another ordinary Friday that holds no religious or cultural significance to me, and also considering that I leave for New Zealand tomorrow morning at an obscenely early hour, I thought I would get my end-of-year post out of the way ( Read more... )

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AvatarIn four glorious dimensions! (yes, time is a dimension, people ( Read more... )

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9Tonight was our second attempt to see 9, as last week despite it being listed at yourmovies.com.au, the film didn't actually open at Palace until Wednesday ( Read more... )

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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood PrinceIt's been a long time coming - the sixth Harry Potter movie was supposed to come out last November but the studio decided they didn't want to compete against the James Bond movie "Quantum of Solace" and also that a US Summer Release would probably net them more money, and the gap between movies 6 & 7 ( Read more... )

For the last few years, inspired by others (I can't remember who) I've posted - at the end of the year - a list of the various books, movies, tv shows and music that I've erstwhile "consumed" during the year ( Read more... )

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Quantum of SolaceAfter a few weeks of nothing worth watching, we headed back to the cinema for the new James Bond film.... Quantum of Solace. An obscure title, which seems to have very little to do with the movie, but it's one I've got used to over the many months of people discussing it ( Read more... )

It appears, quite sadly, that author Michael Crichton has passed away at age 66I quite enjoyed his novels, and some of the films based on them. Yes, even though he really only had two plots, and the characters were never form than two dimensions deep, and despite the fact that "State of Fear" was a 400-page treatise and sermon against the whole ( Read more... )

Futurama "Bender's Game" is very good. That is all.

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Burn After ReadingBack to the movies again last night, after a very pleasant meal at Jah'z Cafe ( Read more... )