Sunday, June 10, 2007

This is me...


...going away down to Lamorna. Rachel is now singing the song to herself I bet.

On an unrelated note the books I have read whilst in Cornwall are as follows -

Hannibal Rising - Thomas Harris (okay but pretty insubstantial)

Speak For England - James Hawes (very funny)

44 Scotland Street - Alexander Mcall Smith (okay but too insubstantial to dignify with the description "insubstantial")

Stalingrad - Anthony Beevor (very good, gives you frostbite just by reading it)

Skinny B, Skaz and Me - John Singleton (pretty good)

Viking, Odin's Child - Tim Severin (pretty crap, with moments. I didn't know Vikings had a sophisticated legal system).

Films I have seen are -

Stage Beauty (okay, has Claire Danes in it...yum)

Vanity Fair (okay, though I was drunk and cant remember most of it)

Spy Game (surprisingly good for a Tony Scott film if you can put up with Robert Redford and Brad Pitt gazing adoringly at each other)

Collateral (very good, inventively filmed, Tom Cruise was good in it, yikes!)

Last Orders (quite moving but nowhere near as good as the book which was absolutely brilliant)

The Good Shepherd (I liked it though it was too long and Angelina Jolie was too exotic looking for her part)

Hannibal Rising (pretty rubbish but it didn't have much to work from. The guy who played Young Hannibal did even worse silly crap sinister acting than Anthony Hopkins in Silence of the Lambs, although Rhys Ifans was quite good in it. Double yikes!!)

Road to Perdition (beautifully done but a bit unengaging. Jude -I am rubbish- Law was really good. What the fuck is going on?!)

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