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I've been blogging here for a year!  Cool.  Thanks to all who read/have read this shit!

So I categorised entries for movies.  I'll think about other categories later - took long enough just doing movies - all 28 entries.  I wish there were an easier way of doing it.

I am very tired now.  Woken at 5am this morning so I'm stuffed now.

Night all.

I'm wondering if I catalogue my entries, if I'll find some sort of pattern.  Lately I just talk about movies because there's nothing much else I feel I want to write about.  My other blog has come to a total standstill.

So, I watched the other 2 DVDs I'd rented.  Fahrenheit 451 - which was old, but interesting.  I liked the German accent of the main guy.  I could see it becoming reality too - with the way things are going, pretty soon reading books (or certain books) will be illegal.  Already libraries in the states (sorry, States) get questioned by FBI or whoever about people who have had 'certain' books issued to them.  Pretty scary shit - 1984 - Big Brother and all that.

Which reminds me (as an aside) that I read that the Pentagon or somewhere are developing a major blog search engine.  Why?  Do they really expect that terrorists are going to reveal their plans in a blog??? 

Yeah anyway, where was I?  Oh yeah, the movie.  Pretty funny with the bright reds and funny uniforms, etc, but I think the message is more relevant now than when it was made.

The other movie I watched was called 'Plunkett and Macleane", set in 18th century England.  I like Robert Carlyle so any movie with him in it is usually pretty good.  I also like Liv Tyler.  She is truly beautiful when you see her in the flesh (which I have just a metre away from her).  Her skin is flawless.  She made a good elf.  I digress again......  Oh yeah, the movie - pretty good.  All about highwaymen.  Produced by Gary Oldman, I think.  Well, he's a fave anyway.  So it had to be good.  Not a bad movie at all.

Yeah, so I have to figure out what this blog is for.  Writing only about movies or what?

Watched 'Reservoir Dogs' night before last.  I felt sure I'd seen it, but I couldn't remember seeing at all before!  Anyway, pretty blood-thirsty.  I laughed at the end - with them all shooting each other.  Hilarious.  Didn't realise, also, that one of my fave tracks from Fun Lovin' Criminals included excerpts from Reservoir Dogs!  I recognised them - "you can torture me all you want.... " "Torture you... that.. that's a good idea, I like that one".  "Are you cool?" ..... "I am cool".  Cool!

Then watched 'Narc'.  I just love Jason Patric.  He is gorgeous.  He played a similar role in this one as he did in 'Rush' - ie undercover drugs cop.  I liked him in both.   Mmmmm.  The soundtrack on 'Rush' is cool too - Eric Clapton, so I keep thinking about buying it, but never see it.  Pretty blood-thirsty start to 'Narc'.  Ray Liotta has pretty eyes, but I prefer Jason's.

Yep, well, going out tonight so won't be watching the other DVDs tonight.  I don't expect them to be as exciting - certainly not as blood-thirsty.

Later!

I got sidetracked by buttercup's link to likebetter.com.  I totally confused the brain.  It thought I was a guy then suggested I make decisions with logic.  Wrong on both counts.  Had no more 'predictions' to offer.  I tried again and it got my estimated income wrong then asked another question which I did respond positively to but again it had no more suggestions to make.

I'm not a typical female, you see.  I chose cars over babies, a violent game over some other picture, a smashed American flag over a heart-shaped pot-pourri, etc.  So naturally, I must be male.  Hahaha!  Hilarious. 

Really can't remember what I came here to write now!

I thought of going to the movies this week, but there's nothing on that really grabs me.  I can't be bothered going to Pirates of the Caribbean.  Got no-one to go with anyway.  I sent an email to some guy who showed interest in me a while ago and kept annoying me with texts.  But since I ignored his texts it's no wonder he ignored my email.    Can't blame him.  Not really interested in him - just wanted a body to go with.  Sick of going on my own.

So I got a few DVDs out.  I always have a hard time choosing which DVD to get out.  I never seem to see the ones I missed at the movies and I forget what they're called so can't find them anyway.  So I got a few that I'd never heard of.  I should look up movies that Sean Penn's been in, for example (I like him) and check them out.  But anyway I got out one called 'Narc' and 'Reservoir Dogs' (which I have seen but wanna see again), a weird Brit one set in the 18th century and another about book-burning.  Fun.  No chick-flicks for me, thanks.

Been busy lately browsing YouTube.  Finding stuff I like and watching them - stuff like the Brit series "Extras" which is great, Bill Bailey excerpts which are hilarious, etc.

So, I think I'll grab something to eat and watch one of the DVDs.

Later!

Mood: bemused

Yeah, well. It was bound to happen. As soon as we knew Blogigo would be sold, we all worried what would change. Looks different. Not sure about it.

I seriously thought about deleting my blogs here a few days ago. Not because of the changes, but because mostly I felt I had nothing to write about. But it's probably just a phase - been pretty depressed and withdrawn...

Still not sure.

Anyway, I was having random thoughts while in the toilet (sorry too much detail!). I was sitting there in my quiet little bathroom and thinking about everything happening all over the world in that one little moment. You name it, it'd be happening - births, deaths, pain, humiliation, cruelty, thefts, laughter, tears, loneliness, joy, rain, sun, night, day, boredom, concentration, deceit, cowardice, determination.... just in that one little moment that I gazed at my bathroom wall. Little visions of such things flitted through my head but if it were really possible to watch it all it would take a lifetime at one second each. It'd be pretty horrendous to watch - and noisy too. Imagine, all that, happening to everyone somewhere in one second. It's pretty amazing when you think about it.

Then I got to thinking, that means that someone somewhere is living the life I don't want, and I'm certain there'd be a lot more of them than the people living the life I do want. We have to be grateful for the life we do have because it could be a hell of a lot worse.

Random contemplation over...

I haven't read the book it was based on but I bet it was a lot clearer than this movie.  It was so disjointed I couldn't figure out what was happening most of the time.  But I did get the general gist.  Pretty close to the truth I would say.  Good ol' America interfering to look after their own interests.  There's no way they want other countries to have democracy - not if it meant them losing out on oil deals.  The minute a foreign leader starts actually looking after their own people and putting them ahead of business deals with the yanks, they get assassinated or deposed, or accused of some bullshit.

Yeah anyway.  Nothing much to write about so I think I'll head to bed.

Mood: sombre

I watched the movie 'Crash' tonight.  Hadn't really heard anything about it so no expectations.

What can I say - fucking excellent movie.  I was moved.  It's been a long time since a movie moved me (haha that sounds kinda funny).  It was so unlike the usual Hollywood crap - i.e. it was realistic, it was unpredictable and it was moving.  I had tears in a couple of places and that's pretty damned rare for me when watching a movie.

None of the actors dominated, which was good cos I'm not a great fan of Sandra Bullock.  But yeah - highly recommended if you haven't seen it.