Short review: Moon effing ROCKS. Intelligent, sparse, bleak, funny, visually gorgeous, and Sam Rockwell turns in a killer performance. Mesmerising. And the soundtrack's lovely... utterly unintrusive.

That'd be a 9, George; *definitely* one of the year's best.

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Happy birthday, Nephew Prime - TEN YEARS OLD TODAY. Cruk that went fast :O

Having exhausted my Lego budget for the month, I hadn't planned on buying any more for a while. But this being churn time, I got curious to see who had what, and ventured into Big W (well off my beat normally).

Two words: Space PoliceWhat is it about those gorgeously wonderful syllables that puts the Inner Child in control of the wallet ( Read more... )

Nutshell: went for hair trim Friday - cut by very nice English tourist working while travelling - was quite proud of myself for being able to handle the Social thing. (Twice! once with her, once with the nice lady in Beaky's Woden, who also loves Lego ( Read more... )

Waiting for Crotchwood to download, so Degrassi Rewatch! :) TNG this time. Not sure where we got up to in Australia - last I saw was end of s3, perhaps? (way behind, I know... the last ones I DVDR-ed were to do with Snake's chemo. Definitely haven't seen the Paige court appearance thingie in s4 tho ( Read more... )

Reprinted from Digital Spy:

'Alien Nation' resurrected for US TVThursday, July 2 2009, 21:51 BST ( Read more... )

Woke up jonesing for Technic; prodded hubby into town shop visit. No luck, sadly - the stuff I want (Offroader, Crane Truck, Bloody Great Motorised Bulldozer) nobody has.

It would be insanely stupid to spend the Rudd Bonus on Lego. Wouldn't it. So I won't. But I'm bloody well tempted. Have you *seen* the Eiffel Tower and Taj Mahal sets? o_O ( Read more... )

Remembered absolutely *nothing* about V except (a) the improbably cheekboned cameraman's gorgeous sidekick and (b) zomg reptiles ( Read more... )

Did nothing worthy of report today - sat around and read. Oh, and said a personal goodbye to Belconnen Interchange; which will be "decommissioned", aka like DED before I get over that side of town again. Bit sad about that; I'm rather fond of the old monstrosity. It's *weird*, and quite beautiful in its own way - as anyone who saw Somersault ( ( Read more... )

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Ooo. I like the look of this: Sleep Dealer.