No thanks.

The Time Traveller’s Wife

I should be doing my assignments, but what do you make of this?
As one of my favourite books, the only one that hasn’t been [or had part of its set] made into a movie, I often and very recently wondered whether it would. (How did I not hear about this when the trailer’s out before The Lovely Bones’?) In my opinion they shouldn’t have used well-known actors and shouldn’t have cheesed it up so much (can you believe I was worried I might see an action movie trailer)?. Hopefully the film (and its soundtrack) is much better than the trailer. Wow and it’s out in about eight weeks.

I was also thinking a couple of weeks ago that the actor I’d most like to see make a comeback is Robin Williams. I think the ‘bad guy’ roles of the last, what, decade? haven’t suited him and utilised his strengths. I don’t think he’s limited to one zany character but if given the freedom he could use his funny side suitably and restore his former glory. Anyway I just saw the trailer (which suggests a different story and tone to the synopsis) for World’s Greatest Dad. Here’s hoping.

Yesterday’s personified cone.

At 04:24 someone called the house. I took so long waking and rising and turning on the light and determining that the noise was the telephone ringing in the real world in the dead of night that I missed it. No number no message but a few seconds of dead air.

Turned out to be a double blessing because the mystery was followed by super crazy fun dreams!

Later in the day our postgrad class had a pi-reciting competition. The winner just about doubled my attempt on her second go.

In further attempts to avoid study I went to bed with the marketer of District 9.

So many reasons why I walk tonight.
So many reasons to avoid the light.
My youth is here, residence in dark.
Drunk on moonlight with senses sharp.

Is it I or we that creep and sneak?
that must not be heard through the quiet?
I want to climb in and kiss the night.
Intimate shadows glowing romance.

Two lovers pause to catch their breath.
This air feels like their nakedness.
The refreshing touch of this place,
gives meaning to a warm embrace.

Do I look this cool when I wear glasses?

OH MY GOODNESS!
I have been going on (in my head) about how bands don’t come to New Zealand and when they do they’re so much more expensive than they are in England and, though I recently realised how grateful I am for all the bands I saw at Glastonbury and Reading last year, I miss those bless-ed little gigs of bands I admire in Brighton.
But what I should have been doing is IGNORING the stupid plug-in etc. that’re supposed to warn me about and put in my calendar upcoming local concerts of bands whose music I have. And looking… places for it myself.
Okay we have AH! Just found another one! and they’re getting even cheaper!
04.25 The Volunteers $10 (Perhaps the only MySpace-spamming band I ever added, from Wellington, pretty chilled, cheap and THIS WEEKEND!)
05.06 Matt & Kim $15 (Okay, so (as is sometimes the case) I only have one song of theirs, but I’ve heard more, I’ll be shakin’ along and you can’t go wrong with $15! Bad news is my assignment is due the next day, good news is I’ll’ve handed in two that day so deserve to celebrate.)
05.08/9 Dylan Moran $67.9 + P&P (Not cheap, but I never see comedians and said assignments are in (though should be planning lessons).)
05.12 Okkervil River $40 (I missed (actually walked right past in those carefree days of gigs) them in England because I only knew one song. I thought $40 was a good price when it was the first one I’d found.)
05.13 Ratatat $35.5 (This is on a school night and Okkervil River is the night before!)

Okay, well, before that outburst I actually have a lovely afternoon where I watched a trailer for Paper Heart (the title and simplistic ‘poster’ of which had me guessing I was going to like it before it started playing), found myself laughing aloud like I never do repeatedly before it was even halfway through, then stalked/surfed to all the Charlyne Yi I could stuff my face with. Okay so her face reminds me of my ex but her mannerisms remind me of my ideal partner. This is one of her bands, you can find the rest of her whereabouts.

I also watched Happy-Go-Lucky. I was expecting Poppy Lightfoot to be a similarly manically optimistic person but she was actually annoyingly interfering (expecting strangers to converse with her the same way the driving instructor expects people to give thanks all the time). But you get used to that and as you do their roles ‘reverse’ in a sense. I liked how her happy-go-lucky nature wasn’t given a supposed reality check and how she didn’t ‘fix’ the instructor.

While we’re at it I saw Monsters Vs. Aliens in IMAX 3D yesterday. The lead character was great, though the difference between the size of her neck and her fiancé’s was… well it wasn’t just their necks. The 3D was nice in parts.
The day before I saw Sweeney Todd which wasn’t as annoyingly musical as I had anticipated, though I had hoped all would turn out well in the Barker family and that kid did nothing to keep his promise.
Earlier that week I saw Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist which was good, but alternately bad in parts/things.
And a couple of days before that I saw Seven Pounds which was fine except OH MY GAWD! as if telling her whose house it was wasn’t bad enough he DESTROYS a different person’s life (I know her life shouldn’t revolve around the person she’s seeing but seriously, WHAT A D*CK! He’s not repentant at all, he’s loving the self-drawn attention and then making people he likes suffer!

You know I’ve been a fan of The Presidents Of The United States Of America since my preteens and I only just leant that the lead singer is Chris Ballew like the Jungle Book bear (I wasn’t paying enough attention when he introduced himself the other night) and not ‘bal-you’ and the former guitbassist is Dave Dederer, as in ‘dee-der-er’ and not ‘d-dear-er’. [Edit - And a month from now I will learn how a few Discworld titles are pronounced.]