Skuds’ Sister’s Brother

From the Argus we have the headline Arsonist handed lighters by mental health staff.  The amazing thing is that if you read the story it is even worse than the headline suggests.  A man was sectioned for repeatedly starting fires. Staff at the place he was kept say that they deliberately did not take lighters [...]

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The other day I watched the new Lars von Trier film ‘The Boss of it All’. Having been to Denmark on business trips a few times it certainly felt realistic, right down to the casual dress code and informal atmosphere. Fortunately the company I was working for was at the time was considerably [...]

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I like my freebies.  I had not had anything from Amazon’s ‘Vine’ scheme for months, mainly because I took forever to get around to writing reviews on the last couple of things I had.  One was a 500-page novel that was, although ultimately rewarding, a bit of an uphill struggle to get into at first.  [...]

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I wanted to play a small April Fool’s joke at work today.  I thought it would be amusing to make a new label for the drinks machine at work so that instead of “chicken soup” it said “Soylent Green”.  Unfortunately I don’t have access to a labelling machine, but that’s a good thing.  I would [...]

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The other night we sat down to watch Planet Terror.   Jayne rented it as a surprise and a treat for me because she knows that I really like Zombie films and Robert Rodriguez films so a Zombie film directed by Rodriguez was a no-brainer.1  It turned out to be possibly  the goriest film  I have [...]

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Something is bothering me about the current advert for Direct Line home insurance. There is slow-motion film of water cascading over furniture and a soundtrack with lots of cymbals and organ under-pinned by a strong bass. Isn’t it just a bit reminiscent of the exploding house scene in Antonioni’s Zabriskie Point?

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Two Zombie-related things to make me forget about the cold which, in its second week of snottiness, is making me feel a bit like a zombie myself…

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Tonight I continued catching up with the 30-odd hours of stuff recorded on the V+ and watched Oldboy. The warning before the film started advised that it contained violence, sex, strong language, torture and a man eating a live octopus… not a common thing to hear!

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Last night Jayne and I unwound by watching Die Hard 4.01 on DVD. The plot is quite easy to explain - its the same as the first three films.
or Live Free Die Hard as it was called in the US [↩]

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Tonight I went across to Tilgate to see the film It’s A Free World, which was being shown free at the community centre with the director, Ken Loach, there to discuss it afterwards.
I was a little worried as I was running late and thought I might not be able to get into the car park [...]

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