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Current mood:  breezy Category: Life
This morning I wandered back to my desk after doing something brilliant and efficient elsewhere in the office (ha!) and found Penny standing in a Christ-like pose of mid-blessing. Turned out she'd had a nasty fall and was holding out scraped palms for all to see. Luckily I am a First Aider and have a big bag full of medical goodies, so I got to play nurse. I demonstrated my ability to improvise, since there were no big plasters for her hands, so I used eye patches instead. She is so bandaged up now that she looks like a half-finished Mummy. My work here is done...
Last night I went to see Terminator Salvation with my friend Christina. I am sort of with Mark Kermode on some aspects of this film - McG can't direct, he really can't. Scenes were snapped together with no sense of... what's the word I want? Flow, I think. For example at the beginning John Connor is being dropped from a wire into a cavernous shaft that looks amazing... He drops out of sight and then the next thing we see he's in a tunnel with a bunch of other people. How did they get there? Where did these extra people come from? All I'd have needed to stop my mind from frowning was a shot of some more people abseiling (right term? who cares...) behind him as he dropped out of sight. So there were many many little bits like that, just shoddy story-telling really, and not big deals, but annoying to a pernickity little stitch like myself. Also I thought Christian Bale was boring. I could have cared less what happened to John Connor - I was much more interested in Marcus Wright and Kyle Reece. Especially Marcus Wright. Sam Worthington has moved straight to the top of my celeb crushlist... I'll let you know if he manages to over-throw Ryan Reynolds.
By the way, I'm not a celeb-crushy type of person usually, so it's a pretty short list and usually linked to a specific performance. Leonardo diCaprio is on it because of The Departed.
All Sam Worthington needs is a shoddy performance in something and he could drop right off. It's a hard list to stay on. I liked him a lot in TS though, even if his Aussie accent did keep ripping through everything.
Talk of the list has made me try to remember who else is on it. After a brief mull it seems its pretty bare right now:
Ryan Reynolds (thanks to being good in everything)
Sam Worthington (thanks to Terminator Salvation)
Leonardo DiCaprio (thanks to The Departed)
Jim Sturgess (thanks to 21)
Blimey. Those male actors need to put some effort in. It's very poor that there are only four members. It's not like it's a hard list to get on... Just to stay on. The Hollywood fraternity need to re-think their priorities, clearly.
Anyway, back to Terminator Salvation... The Skynet bit was good, and I did feel somewhat on the edge of my seat. I think the "trick" was poorly explained, but made up for by OOH, SPOILER! Arnie. The heart transplant was WAAAY obvious though.
Basically the film was all over the place and I think a smarter director could have made something that looked just as whizzy without any of the rubbish exposition, corny dialogue and general messiness.
None of that may make sense if you haven't seen the film.
So, what else is new...
I blogged yesterday, so you'd think not much. However I just remembered something...
A couple of blogs ago I mentioned that I was going to get allergy tested. And so I did... It was pretty interesting; part therapy, part medical consultation, part homeopathic possible claptrap.
It turns out I'm not allergic to anything (hooray!) but I do have a ridiculous amount o bacteria in my stomach - thus the buggage I keep experiencing. I was given three homeopathic remedies, one prescription for hardcore pro-biotics, and told to cut down on coffee, wheat, oats, yeast and starchy foods. So far I haven't been completely without stomach-related illness episodes, but I think it's improved a bit. I have DEFINITELY cut down on coffee. I am on one a day and I can bump it up to two if I fancy another. This is down from about five, so I am well chuffed with meself. If only I was as good at not eating chocolate as I am at not drinking coffee...
Tonight I go back to Claire at Exceptional Health for a follow-up session. I will try to remember to tell you what happens.
Oh, and I discovered Summer of Tears. If you are bored and would like a giggle I would recommend you visit their youtube channel. They are making me laugh a lot.
9:43 AM
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