Monday, June 12, 2006
Silly humans...
So I finally watched The DaVinci Code yesterday. I still intend to read the book at some point in the future, though. And it wasn’t that bad!
Obviously I’ve experienced all the whoopla and hype surrounding the book and movie, and have made up my mind ages ago concerning its credibility. So I went in expecting to see a nice entertaining solve-the-mystery-movie.
And it was quite enjoyable. No more than other movies, like National Treasure or Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Are people really so silly that they believe the story to be 100% factually correct?
(Come on people, history is never THAT exciting….)
Maybe it was because the author of the book (Dan Brown) claimed that everything was based on fact, and someone somewhere believed him? (Super-silly people…)
I would just like to say: Great marketing ploy!
I mean, do you really think he would have sold so many copies of the book, if he didn’t say everything was true?
Obviously I’ve experienced all the whoopla and hype surrounding the book and movie, and have made up my mind ages ago concerning its credibility. So I went in expecting to see a nice entertaining solve-the-mystery-movie.
And it was quite enjoyable. No more than other movies, like National Treasure or Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Are people really so silly that they believe the story to be 100% factually correct?
(Come on people, history is never THAT exciting….)
Maybe it was because the author of the book (Dan Brown) claimed that everything was based on fact, and someone somewhere believed him? (Super-silly people…)
I would just like to say: Great marketing ploy!
I mean, do you really think he would have sold so many copies of the book, if he didn’t say everything was true?
Friday, June 09, 2006
Yeah! Yeah! It's Friday!
And what a busy week it was.... but I'm not gonna talk about work.
Last weekend, I went to a farewell party of a very good friend of mine that I went to school with. She and her boyfriend are going to England for 2 years. So it was sad to see them go...
And I realised... If I like count the number of really good friends I have, almost half of them are in the UK!
This is concerning on the one hand - Do I have the kind of personality that forces all that are close and dear to me to flee the country and find refuge in old, cold, smoggy England?
(Chrisna doesn't count - she can't escape me - even if she wanted too ;) )
On the other hand Darren, If I go to England any time soon in the next year or two- I'll have lots of people to freeload off!
Monday: Went to the Independant Armchair in Observatory.
(Monday nights, R30 for pizza and a old movie - Sweet!)
Don't quite know what I expected, but I was a bit disappointed.
The movie was Groundhogday - Bill Murray, Andie McDowall - a movie we both REALLY like a lot, and haven't seen in a while. But the venue was... strange.
Taking into account that it's usually a club during every other day of the week - I guess I shouldn't have expected a lot of comfy chairs and clean restrooms....
It was kinda like the bad parts of Bohemia and De lapa combined....
(At least the movie and pizza were good - and the bar cheap!)
If anyone hasn't seen groundhogday... find it and watch it.
If you have... find it and watch it again.
(That will be your homework assignment for next week class)
I wish I could take a Film Study class - but only I decide what Films to study........
Last weekend, I went to a farewell party of a very good friend of mine that I went to school with. She and her boyfriend are going to England for 2 years. So it was sad to see them go...
And I realised... If I like count the number of really good friends I have, almost half of them are in the UK!
This is concerning on the one hand - Do I have the kind of personality that forces all that are close and dear to me to flee the country and find refuge in old, cold, smoggy England?
(Chrisna doesn't count - she can't escape me - even if she wanted too ;) )
On the other hand Darren, If I go to England any time soon in the next year or two- I'll have lots of people to freeload off!
Monday: Went to the Independant Armchair in Observatory.
(Monday nights, R30 for pizza and a old movie - Sweet!)
Don't quite know what I expected, but I was a bit disappointed.
The movie was Groundhogday - Bill Murray, Andie McDowall - a movie we both REALLY like a lot, and haven't seen in a while. But the venue was... strange.
Taking into account that it's usually a club during every other day of the week - I guess I shouldn't have expected a lot of comfy chairs and clean restrooms....
It was kinda like the bad parts of Bohemia and De lapa combined....
(At least the movie and pizza were good - and the bar cheap!)
If anyone hasn't seen groundhogday... find it and watch it.
If you have... find it and watch it again.
(That will be your homework assignment for next week class)
I wish I could take a Film Study class - but only I decide what Films to study........
Thursday, June 01, 2006
If you could live forever, would you and why?
Answer: "I would not live forever, because we should not live
forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, but we cannot live forever, which is why I would not live forever."
--Miss America, 1995.
No, I would not like to live forever.
The fear of death or time passing you by,
is what makes life exciting.
You'll get bored!
What would you do with yourself? Learn how to play all the instruments in the world?
Read all the books ever written, twice (all the good ones anyway).
The reason you do things now, is because you're not going to have enough time to do them tommorrow along with all the things you have to do tommorrow.
You'll get lonely!
Wouldn't you want to share forever with someone? Or do want to see all your partners die?
(I'm stealing from the Highlander movies here...)
Queen said it best:
Who wants to live forever,
Who dares to love forever,
Who dare who dare,
Who wants to live forever,
When love must die
I am unfit
So I played a lot of touch rugby recently...
(For those of you who don't know me, this is where you start laughing)
(For those of you who know me, stop laughing!)
Last week, we had this whole diversity-day interdepartmental touch rugby game,
where both teams had to consist of 5 men and 5 women.
Obviously we had to train for the prior 2 weeks,
seeing as most of us were really inexperienced in the finer nuances of touch rugby.
But it was fun [We won, so that was fun :) ],
but the ladies enjoyed it so much, they want to to do it on a weekly basis now.
I'm just not sure if my fragile unfit body can handle that.
And then yesterday afternoon-evening, was the annual Touch Rugby Tournament.
5 in each side... 5 minutes a side. It was fast, it was furious, we won, but I'm SOOO stiff today...
(For those of you who don't know me, this is where you start laughing)
(For those of you who know me, stop laughing!)
Last week, we had this whole diversity-day interdepartmental touch rugby game,
where both teams had to consist of 5 men and 5 women.
Obviously we had to train for the prior 2 weeks,
seeing as most of us were really inexperienced in the finer nuances of touch rugby.
But it was fun [We won, so that was fun :) ],
but the ladies enjoyed it so much, they want to to do it on a weekly basis now.
I'm just not sure if my fragile unfit body can handle that.
And then yesterday afternoon-evening, was the annual Touch Rugby Tournament.
5 in each side... 5 minutes a side. It was fast, it was furious, we won, but I'm SOOO stiff today...
