tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53675497719419569012024-03-13T22:40:04.870-07:00A book, a movie, a placeThis blog is place for me to talk about what I love, books, movies and sometimes a place. Books changed my life at 11 when I over came dyslexia. Movies spark my inner eye as much as books move my soul. Often a book becomes a movie or a new book is born from film. We love to love the books, but hate the film or find the best book ever after we see the film of a book. Here I will talk about all of these things, sometimes other things or anything.Amayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11191891205959125253noreply@blogger.comBlogger32125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5367549771941956901.post-31625842504813595372010-10-04T17:53:00.000-07:002010-10-04T18:24:09.154-07:00Let The Right One In<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#ff0000;">This movie was recommend to me by a person who is a bit of a horror and genre movie guru. I saw it on his recommendation and was a bit disappointed. It was so good but it just missed something for me. I read the book last week and found everything in it that was missing in the movie. I found answers and back story.</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#ff0000;"></span><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_the_Right_One_In"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#660000;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_the_Right_One_In</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#ff0000;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#ff0000;">I always find it interesting in book to movie interpretations that sometimes they get it so right eg Virgin Suicides and Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. And then like with this one they miss by a hairs breath. Or when they change the book to make a good movie eg Children of Men, and I can see why they changed that one where they did, and both of them still come out great.</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#ff0000;"></span><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_of_Men"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#660000;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_of_Men</span></a><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Children_of_Men"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#660000;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Children_of_Men</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#ff0000;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#ff0000;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#ff0000;">Or how big Stephen King books often lose something in the translation from book to movie but his novellas make sublime films.</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#ff0000;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#ff0000;">I think the success of a book to movie conversion comes when the people involved love the source material. If love is used and change is made to make it a good movie the changes made compliment the original.</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#ff0000;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#ff0000;">If you can get hold of Let The Right One In it is a great read. I hate the new vegetarian Vampires that are been spewed out at the moment. So if you like your Vampires old school this is for you.</span>Amayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11191891205959125253noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5367549771941956901.post-15612273875199251622010-09-02T04:41:00.000-07:002010-09-02T06:02:12.520-07:00The Last Resort or what was ment to be a review on that book but turned into a ramble through my ideas of Africa based on books and movies.<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#006600;">My obsession with Africa started with the movie Out of Africa.</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#006600;"></span><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out_of_Africa_(film)"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#993300;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out_of_Africa_(film)</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#006600;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#006600;">I saw it at the old Dawn Theater at Chermside.</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#006600;"></span><br /><a href="http://chermsidedistrict.org.au/chermsidedistrict/"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#000099;">http://chermsidedistrict.org.au/chermsidedistrict/</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#006600;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#006600;">With its marble stairs and the old milk bar. We sat in the vinyl seats with the brass stud tacks in them. The seats where all so old that they had a permanent sag in the seat.</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#006600;">I was always happier in those chairs then in the canvas ones at the front of the cinema. As a small child I could not reach the floor and I could never sit right in them.</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#006600;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#006600;">I saw Out of Africa there when I was 8 years old. Since then I have dreamed of my own farm in Africa. But sometimes I have thought that it goes deeper then that. And have decided that if the scientist are right and we all come from Africa, then something in me has always yearned for our collective home. Why else would I pine for a place I have never been?</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#006600;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#006600;">I remember that I felt encompassed by the vastness of the scenes in the film and over joyed at the vistas I saw about me. The flying scenes in that film are still some of my favourite film moments. I was still 8 years from my first real flight at that time, but in my mind that was the first time I flew.</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#006600;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#006600;">Much of the movie went over my young head at that time. All I really understood was that She (Tania or Karen or Isak Dinesen or Baroness Karen Von Blixen-Finecke) lost her farm, lost the beautiful Berkeley Cole and then the dashing Denys Finch Hatton. </span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:#006600;"></span><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Blixen">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Blixen</a><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#006600;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#006600;">Showing my early good taste I was madly in love with Berkeley Cole and not Denys. I was not surprised to find out later that DFH was a bounding cad and asked Tania and Beryl Markham on the flight that he died in. Neither went and so we have a rich font of information about European women in Africa at that time. He had Tania on one side of the mountain and Beryl on the other side.</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#006600;"></span><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beryl_Markham"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#ff6600;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beryl_Markham</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#006600;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#006600;">After the movie Out of Africa it was The Gods Must be Crazy (Don't pretend that you haven't seen it!) </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gods_Must_Be_Crazy"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#ffcc00;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gods_Must_Be_Crazy</span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#006600;"> </span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#006600;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#006600;">Everything and anything on the slave trade, Barbary Pirates </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary_corsairs"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#3366ff;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary_corsairs</span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#006600;"> Doctor Livingstone, Arabic Africa, the Boer Wars<span style="color:#cc6600;"> </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boer_Wars"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#cc6600;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boer_Wars</span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#006600;"> Breaker Morant </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaker_Morant"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#6600cc;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaker_Morant</span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#006600;"> Nelson Mandela </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_mandela"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#ff0000;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_mandela</span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#006600;"> and and and, you get the idea and yes I was "that" kid. </span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#006600;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#006600;">Don't get my started on Jane Goodyear and Born Free.</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#006600;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#006600;">So by a long and winding path I get to The Last Resort by Douglas Rogers </span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=75705814569"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#3333ff;">http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=75705814569</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#006600;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#006600;">In truth it was the beautiful frog on the front cover that first caught my eye. So a frog got me in, the blurb tickled me and the book delighted me. Considering it is about surviving in modern Zimbabwe delighted seems a rather flippant word. </span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#006600;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#006600;">But truly the people in this book are delightful. If you, like me, love people who do the forks to those that oppress them, you will like this book. If you love people who can live with grace, style, bravado or just plain old fashioned cussedness in times of trouble you will like this book.</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#006600;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#006600;">I now follow Douglas Rogers on Facebook, to keep up to date with what is happening to his family and friends in Zimbabwe. And one day when I do get home to Africa I hope to spend sometime at The Last Resort with his wonderful Mum and Dad.</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#006600;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#006600;"></span><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out_of_Africa"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#006600;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out_of_Africa</span></a>Amayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11191891205959125253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5367549771941956901.post-88818800029057759772010-08-19T04:38:00.000-07:002010-08-19T04:42:26.405-07:00A place I go<span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:85%;color:#330099;">A place in cyberspace where I go when I am blue.</span><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:85%;color:#330099;">I go just to see the beauty.</span><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:85%;color:#330099;">And because it always puts a smile on my face.</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;color:#330099;"></span><br /><a href="http://www.antiquedress.com/gallery.htm">http://www.antiquedress.com/gallery.htm</a>Amayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11191891205959125253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5367549771941956901.post-74186083684759312512010-08-04T19:31:00.001-07:002010-08-04T19:42:33.143-07:00Skellig<span style="font-family:georgia;color:#333399;">This is a tiny book that had a big impact on me. My very dear friend in England Catherin gave me a copy one day and said you have to read this. I did and I loved it. </span><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;color:#333399;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;color:#333399;">It is not a big book, but it has big ideas. It is really just a wisp of a thing, but like a wisp of smoke, or a wisp of light it can change how you see an event or how your day goes. Despite it's big ideas it is as gentle on the readers hart as a of a wisp of smoke.</span><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;color:#333399;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;color:#333399;">A young boy, during a time of change in his life comes across a secret and a new friend. And that is all you really need to know. Read with an open mind and open your hart to Skellig.</span>Amayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11191891205959125253noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5367549771941956901.post-3687861893856339712010-08-04T19:15:00.000-07:002010-08-04T19:30:39.037-07:00Different Types of Legend<span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#660000;">When I saw the movie I am Legend I really liked it. I love movies and books about the last person on earth or the last of a kind or the end of the world. It all seems so fantastical that it is like a dark fairy tale to me. </span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#660000;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#660000;">So finally I got around to reading the book and if you want a happy ending do not read this book. It is a great ending but it is not an ending you will like if you go in for the happy Hollywood ending.</span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#660000;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#660000;">This Richard Matheson book was published in 1954. When you read it you will be impressed with his idea of the future. It is set in the 1970s and it has the whole Cold War feel that the 70s had. SiFi writers are clever buggers. I am never not amazed with what they write and how so much of it comes true. Well elements of it come true.</span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#660000;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#660000;">I think that the movie was a good interpretation of the original work, despite the happy ending, I know the Will Smith character died, but the others got to safety. I am now looking forward to seeing Omega man as well to complete my </span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#660000;">I am Legend journey.</span>Amayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11191891205959125253noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5367549771941956901.post-68672808018060773482010-06-08T05:13:00.000-07:002010-06-08T05:37:51.823-07:00The Man loves his Hometown<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color:#003300;">Just finished The Given Day by Dennis Lehane</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#003300;"></span><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Lehanehttp://"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#003300;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Lehanehttp://</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#003300;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#003300;">The man loves his home town. Every one of his books has an extra character, Boston. Every time I read one of his books or see a film version of his books, I want to see Boston, I want to walk the wet gray streets, and feel the pulse that is in all of his work, but then I wonder would I have had to live there my whole life to feel it as he does.</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#003300;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#003300;">I love my home town, I would never live anywhere else, but can I feel and write it as he does? There are a handful of writers who can do this, let you in to the world they know, the streets they walk, the smell, the grit. I love his work.</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#003300;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#003300;">I found the story engrossing as well, I am fascinated by history, race relations, the union movement and the red menace. All of this is covered in the book and a lot more. Family, family we are born into, and the family we create. I liked this book so much that I was having trouble finishing it. I was so worried that bad things would happen to the people in it that I at times could not keep reading because I could not face them been hurt!</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#003300;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#003300;">And can this guy be more diverse? He jumps all over when it comes to subject matter, but he always jumps in Boston.</span>Amayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11191891205959125253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5367549771941956901.post-25480010905161139462010-04-30T14:11:00.000-07:002010-04-30T14:27:37.774-07:00Layer Cake or more like an Onion cos it makes your eyes water.<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#003300;">Disgrace by J.M.Coetzee can be read in many ways. It could just be a book about an ageing man learning to let go of his youth, it can be about a whole Country falling apart, it can be about human bondage and it can be about race relations. While it can be any or all of those things the one that it definitely is, is well written.</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#003300;"></span><br /><a href="http://www.randomhouse.com.au/Books/Default.aspx?Page=Book&ID=9780099526834"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#003300;">http://www.randomhouse.com.au/Books/Default.aspx?Page=Book&ID=9780099526834</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#003300;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#003300;">I seem totally unable to write about this book. So all I will say is, it is beautifully written, it will reflect any number of scenarios back at you and will open your eyes to a world you want to think does not exist. It could be Australia, and if we don't look at ourselves and how we live with others here, it could be our future.</span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:#003300;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:#003300;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:#003300;">P.S I would like to know how my South African Friends feel about this book.</span>Amayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11191891205959125253noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5367549771941956901.post-31317555871735552122010-04-29T04:01:00.000-07:002010-04-29T04:31:16.094-07:00Sarah Waters The Little Stranger<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#990000;">I love a good ghost story, the paranormal, and mysteries. But I very rarely find authors that I like who write in that field. Sarah Waters is a difficult writer, her writing is wonderful and always draws me in, but sometimes I don't like what she does to her people!</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#990000;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#990000;">The Little Stranger is like that, I sat down to read and 7 hours later I was finished. I love the book, but was so unhappy with the outcome. It was just like I felt when I finished her other book Affinity. She really is someone I want to sit down with and ask her "what the hell?" Why the outcomes? </span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#990000;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#990000;">The Little Stranger is set in an old English manor house after WWII, the locale Doctor is drawn to Hundreds Hall and the Ayres family. As Dr Faraday gets to know the family better he learns they are living under a threat, it's source unknown.</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#990000;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#990000;">The book is creepy good. It made me a little jumpy and made me wish I had not started it at night time. I liked the people in the book and I liked that the minor players where well rounded even if they where only in it for a short time.</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#990000;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#990000;">If you want to think and get a thrill give Sarah Waters a go.</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.sarahwaters.com/">http://www.sarahwaters.com/</a>Amayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11191891205959125253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5367549771941956901.post-84201771575186501522010-04-15T21:39:00.000-07:002010-04-15T21:59:39.287-07:00A bit of Magic<span style="font-family:georgia;">When I lived in London I was fascinated by the Ghost Stations of the London Underground and by the Wild Apple Trees that you would see all along the way. Why where the Stations empty and how did the Apple Tree grow where it did? Where did the little doors go and the random staircases lead too?</span><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">These where the thoughts I followed every work day for two years. They where the thoughts that took me away from the over crowed Tube, the smell of too many damp people and not enough ventilation.</span><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">London is a magic place, it is so old, and it's little by ways can still lead you places. This is the London that Neil Gaiman brings to life in his lovely book Neverwhere. I have been in a book funk recently and thought that my reading 3 books a week since I was 11 had finally brought me to a place where the might not be anymore surprises for me. Maybe I had read every version of every story there was to tell.</span><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">With that in mind I took my time at work and drove my Josiegirl mad with my constant cry of "Which Book"</span><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">Neverwhere won and I am so happy it did. It is a wonderful modern fairytale and I love it. After seeing the movie Stardust I should have known he was different, that he had something new to give.</span><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">So if you are feeling a bit sick of the everyday, and want to see your world in a new way give him and read and then work your own magic into every day.</span><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;"></span><br /><a href="http://underground-history.co.uk/front.php"><span style="font-family:georgia;">http://underground-history.co.uk/front.php</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;"></span><br /><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/apr/24/traditional-orchards-biodiversityhttp://"><span style="font-family:georgia;">http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/apr/24/traditional-orchards-biodiversityhttp://</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;"></span><br /><a href="http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-global/w-news/w-latest_news/w-news-orchardwindfall.htmhttp://"><span style="font-family:georgia;">http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-global/w-news/w-latest_news/w-news-orchardwindfall.htmhttp://</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;"></span><br /><a href="http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/g/neil-gaiman/"><span style="font-family:georgia;">http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/g/neil-gaiman/</span></a>Amayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11191891205959125253noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5367549771941956901.post-45046816444981661362010-03-10T16:02:00.000-08:002010-03-10T16:49:48.700-08:00Alice and her Muchness<span style="font-family:webdings;color:#ffcc33;">I saw Tim Burtons wonderful Alice in Wonderland yesterday and what I want to know was what movie did the crictics see?</span><br /><span style="font-family:webdings;color:#ffcc33;">Nearly ever review I have seen or read has been negitive, but why?</span><br /><span style="font-family:webdings;color:#ffcc33;">Oh I am sick of all reviewers, except of course the wonderful David and Margaret.</span><br /><span style="font-family:webdings;color:#000099;"></span><br /><a href="http://www.abc.net.au/atthemovies/"><span style="font-family:webdings;color:#33cc00;">http://www.abc.net.au/atthemovies/</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:webdings;color:#33cc00;"></span><br /><a href="http://adisney.go.com/disneypictures/aliceinwonderland/"><span style="font-family:webdings;color:#000099;"><span style="color:#33cc00;">http://adisney.go.com/disneypictures/aliceinwonderland</span>/</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:webdings;color:#000099;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:webdings;color:#cc33cc;">I love this movie. I love it's reminder to us to not let go of who we are,</span><br /><span style="font-family:webdings;color:#cc33cc;">as The Hatter terms it our Muchness. </span><br /><span style="font-family:webdings;color:#cc33cc;">I love Jonny Depps Hatter who is infact in two minds about everything.</span><br /><span style="font-family:webdings;color:#cc33cc;">I love the undertones of English/Scottish History.</span><br /><span style="font-family:webdings;color:#999900;">I love the White Queen who seems to want to do bad things but, she has her vows.</span><br /><span style="font-family:webdings;color:#999900;">I loved the red Queen, who really just needs someone to love her big head!</span><br /><span style="font-family:webdings;color:#999900;">I loved everything.</span><br /><span style="font-family:webdings;color:#00cccc;">I loved our Australian Alice, the critics said she was too insipid, did they not get the idea that Alice was finding herself again?</span><br /><span style="font-family:webdings;color:#00cccc;">Did they miss the first pasrt of the movie where everyone is telling the young Alice that it was all a dream?</span><br /><span style="font-family:webdings;color:#ff99ff;">I loved the costumes.</span><br /><span style="font-family:webdings;color:#ff99ff;">I loved the sets? Are they sets when it is green screen?</span><br /><span style="font-family:webdings;color:#ff99ff;">Ooh I llllloooooovvveeeeddd Allen Rickman as Absolem, I can just dream of a day when that voice reads me the phone book at night to send me of to sleep!!</span><br /><span style="font-family:webdings;color:#ff0000;">I love to make up what happen to so-and-so after the book or movie, so I can totally embrace this movie.</span><br /><span style="font-family:webdings;color:#cc33cc;">It stayed true to Alice of Old.</span><br /><span style="font-family:webdings;color:#cc33cc;">So many times the interprutation or trueness of a characotr is lost in the re working of a book or clssic film, but this one was WONDERFUL.</span> <br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;color:#009900;"><em>Ok just kidding but don't you think that is what Underworldian would like!?</em></span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;color:#993399;">I saw Tim Burton's wonderful Alice in Wonderland yesterday and what I want to know was what movie did the critics see?<br />Nearly ever review I have seen or read has been negative, but why?<br />Oh I am sick of all reviewers, except of course the wonderful David and Margaret.</span><br /><br /></span><a href="http://www.abc.net.au/atthemovies/"><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff6600;">http://www.abc.net.au/atthemovies/</span></a><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff6600;"><br /></span><a href="http://adisney.go.com/disneypictures/aliceinwonderland/"><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff6600;">http://adisney.go.com/disneypictures/aliceinwonderland/</span></a><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color:#00cccc;">I love this movie. I love it's reminder to us to not let go of who we are,<br />as The Hatter terms it our Muchness.<br />I love Johnny Depps Hatter who is in fact in two minds about everything.</span><br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color:#ffcc00;">I love the undertones of English/Scottish History.<br />I love the White Queen who seems to want to do bad things but, she has her vows.<br />I loved the red Queen, who really just needs someone to love her big head!</span><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;">I loved everything.</span><br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color:#cc33cc;">I loved our Australian Alice, the critics said she was too insipid, did they not get the idea that Alice was finding herself again?<br />Did they miss the first part of the movie where everyone is telling the young Alice that it was all a dream?</span><br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color:#ff0000;">I loved the costumes.<br />I loved the sets? Are they sets when it is green screen?</span><br /><span style="color:#33cc00;">Ooh I llllloooooovvveeeeddd Allen Rickman as Absolem, I can just dream of a day when that voice reads me the phone book at night to send me of to sleep!!</span><br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color:#993399;">I love to make up what happen to so-and-so after the book or movie, so I can totally embrace this movie.<br />It stayed true to Alice of Old.</span><br /></span><span style="color:#009900;"><span style="font-size:130%;">So many times the interpretation or trueness of a character is lost in the re working of a book or classic film, but this one was WONDERFUL. </span><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;color:#cc0000;">as a side note check out this site where Alice is called Shite the whole way through???<br /></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_in_Wonderland_(2010_film)">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_in_Wonderland_(2010_film)</a>Amayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11191891205959125253noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5367549771941956901.post-39159966504804143952010-02-10T02:26:00.000-08:002010-02-10T02:51:56.563-08:00A book that changed the course of a year for me.<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#000066;">I Heard The Owl Call My Name, is a book that changed a whole year of my life. 2002 was not my best year, in fact parts of 2002 very nearly was the death of me. Not a literal death, but a death of the sprite of me. The hope and love and joy that is very much who I am. </span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#000066;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#000066;">A very wise man I knew at the time told me to read this book. And for a very long time I did not get around to it. Then one day at a book store there it was. One copy of a book I had been told I would have to get ordered.</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#000066;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#000066;">Aha, I am stubborn and I can be dumb, but I know when life is trying to tell me something so I got the book and started to read it on the bus, I got off the bus and read while I walked and got home and read and finished in about 3 hours.</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#000066;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#000066;">Every single thing that had been wrong 3 hours before can into focus and was forgotten. The anger and the pain and the hopelessness was put aside by one line in a very small book. </span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#000066;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#000066;">Page 138 "In his tiny house the teacher heard the running footfalls on the path to the river bank, and he went quickly to the door and could not open it. To join the others was to care, and to care was to live and to suffer."</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#000066;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#000066;">Now that line may not change your life, but maybe you will find one line or an idea or a person in this book that could change you, uplift you and make your day better.</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#000066;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#000066;">And that is what writing should be about. This book is only 133 pages long, how I wish I could write one book of that few pages and hope that is could be that powerful. Instead I am happy to write about books and movies that help me, change me, uplift me and hope that I can share that power to others.</span><br /><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Heard_the_Owl_Call_My_Name">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Heard_the_Owl_Call_My_Name</a>Amayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11191891205959125253noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5367549771941956901.post-61239053367613384212010-02-03T15:01:00.000-08:002010-02-03T15:39:41.631-08:00Missed The Point<span style="font-family:arial;color:#336666;">I just saw the Lovely Bones movie and I was sad.<br />Not because of the content but because it missed the point.<br />It missed the point by so much.<br /><br />If you have seen the movie trailers or read the book you know what it is about.<br />So I am not giving anything away by saying it is about the murder of a young girl.<br />That should be sad and depressing, but in her amazing book Alice Sebold has given us a thing of beauty and love.<br /><br />The beauty of a life after death, where people who are cheated in this life by an early death can go to live some more and learn and love.<br />Love in a family that is not stopped by someone else's evil.<br />A beautiful dream space where the deceased can watch over their loved ones and see justice done.<br /><br />At work I am always telling people to buy this book, I tell them it is amazing and uplifting, and they give me a look as if to say " Are you nuts its about a child murder" , but nearly every time they come back and tell me how wonderful and up lifting it was and how they are now going to buy it for everyone they know.<br /><br /><br />Sometimes I think we just have to understand that some ideas will not be taken from the page and put on film. Some ideas are to beautiful and complex to be put in the world out side of books. I would hate for someone to see the movie and then not read the book because of the movie. The book is so uplifting and life affirming and the movie weighted me down and left me sad, for days.<br /><br />And now to Stanley Tucci. They got his charaactor so very wronge and by getting him wrong it made a lot else seem wrong. Why on earth was he doing a Dustin Hoffman voice? Why did this normally stellar actor make the bad guy into a near cartoon, rendering his evil to Dr Evil type nonsense?<br /><br />So my friends is you have a spare $20 and it is a toss up between the movie and the book, get the book. The movie will just leave you sad for days, whereas the book will lift you up and give you more then you had before.<br /><br />And isn't that what great art is meant to give us?</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.lovelybones.com/#home">http://www.lovelybones.com/#home</a><br /><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Sebold">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Sebold</a>Amayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11191891205959125253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5367549771941956901.post-65733399060869179932010-01-25T16:10:00.000-08:002010-01-26T14:18:03.632-08:00DUNE 20th time and still GREAT<span style="font-family:verdana;color:#cc6600;">Dune by Frank Herbert, I think is the best ScFi ever written.</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#cc6600;"></span><br /><a href="http://www.dunenovels.com/"><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#006600;">http://www.dunenovels.com/</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#cc6600;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#cc6600;">Big statement I know but I think it is true!</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#cc6600;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#cc6600;">If you have not read it I would say to you just read the first one, even if you do not read the whole series just read the first one.</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#cc6600;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#cc6600;">I am re-reading it for, I think and this is a conservative estimate, the 20Th time, that works out to once a year since I was 12 and I know there are years when I have read it twice.</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#cc6600;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#cc6600;">And it never gets boring and every time I read it I get something new from it.</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#cc6600;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#cc6600;">In the past the one of the things that has always resonated with me is the Litany against Fear from the Bene Gesserit rite;</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#cc6600;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#cc6600;">"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#cc6600;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#cc6600;">That has brought me comfort over the years and has helped me be less fearful. But this time as I was reading the book a new thing stood out for me.</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#cc6600;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#cc6600;">The first Law of Mentat is;</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#cc6600;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#cc6600;">"A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it."</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#cc6600;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#cc6600;">And now I have a new idea to mull over in my life and see how this helps me change. </span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#cc6600;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#cc6600;">I find it amazing that a person could create in his head a universe of such depth and layer and history. That from a place on earth, because that is the start, he could imagine a future like this for humans. Our history is interwoven in this future, bits of us make it into this realm. </span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#cc6600;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#cc6600;">Maybe that is why it is so easy to follow. Maybe we can see that our future could go something like this.</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#cc6600;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#cc6600;">I have a deep fondness for the Bene Gesserit, a school of metal and physical training mainly for female students. I would love to be a Bene Gesserit, although I have deep reservations about their work, in their quest to keep humane bloodlines safe, they have forgot the "humane' and seek out the Divine. The Kwisatz Haderach.</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#cc6600;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#cc6600;">I have deep feelings of love for many of the people in this book. Yes I know I just called them people and not characters, but to me over the years they have become real. I feel a savage joy in their victories and I still cry when some of them die. I feel for the Lady Jessica and her place in the world, I want a different path for the Duke Leto, I feel for Dr Yueh, knowing what the Harkonnens can do you understand how he does what he does. The Dukes main men are men I would like to drink with. And Alia, the one who was awoken early, for her I feel such empathy.</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#cc6600;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#cc6600;">And they aren't even the main characters!! Are you starting to see the pull? </span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#cc6600;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#cc6600;">Since Frank Herbert's death more books have been added to the world of Dune. I like these books and they add to the fabric of the legend. But they do not have the touch of a Master. His son Brain Herbert and author Kevin J Anderson just do not have his tone. But that is to be expected and I think they have done a wonderful job.</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#cc6600;"></span><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Herbert"><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#666600;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Herbert</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#cc6600;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#cc6600;">I really look forward to reading some of Brian Herberts non Dune novels.</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#cc6600;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#cc6600;">This is an article I found on line and I think it will do a better job then me at sharing one the ideas that I find most interesting in his books.</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#cc6600;"></span><br /><a href="http://baheyeldin.com/literature/arabic-and-islamic-themes-in-frank-herberts-dune.html"><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#006600;">http://baheyeldin.com/literature/arabic-and-islamic-themes-in-frank-herberts-dune.html</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#cc6600;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#cc6600;">Also there is the group of Hidden Jews that are in his books, I found this wonderful and amazing. To me it rang true, that no matter what happened to them or how they where hounded they survived. </span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#cc6600;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#cc6600;">A warning though, if like me you go and google this be very careful. A bunch of wanker white power idiots and anti-Semite F</span><a href="mailto:F&#@ers"><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#cc6600;">&#@ers</span></a><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#cc6600;"> have hi-jacked this aspect of his work and you might like me end up on a page that makes you sick.</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#cc6600;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#cc6600;">There is so much I would say about these book and why I love them, but as always my inability to express how I feel in words eloquently pulls me up and I just say to you read this book, give it a try and see what you see.</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#cc6600;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#cc6600;">At some other point I will get on to the David Lynch movie. I really liked it but other fans hate so it will be a whole other post!</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#cc6600;"></span><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_(film)"><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#006600;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_(film)</span></a>Amayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11191891205959125253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5367549771941956901.post-53912384286726392422010-01-18T21:26:00.000-08:002010-01-18T21:54:04.961-08:00Avatar<em><span style="color:#006600;"><span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;"><span style="color:#339999;">Magic in Movies.</span><span style="color:#339999;"><span style="color:#ff6600;"> </span><br /></span><br />I saw Avatar today and I loved it.<br />It is every childhood dream I had of different made up worlds that could just be around the corner or under a leaf.<br />It was the Swiss Family Robinson Tree on steroids.<br />It was my fairy dreamland made alive.<br />It was an underwater dream scape on land.<br />It was pretty and beautiful and grand and wonderful.<br />It was an imagined world made alive.<br />I am so happy that some very few blessed people in our world are granted the talent to be able to bring the imagined to life for us.<br />Do I wish I was one of those people?<br />Yes I do.<br />But I am not, so I am just happy to the bottom of my bones that some people are able to do it and that they think big.<br />It is a tale that has been told many times, so not a new story.<br />But a story told in a new visual way.<br />The characters are all archetypes, so not new to us.<br />But because they are archetypes instantly familiar to us.<br />It is a metaphor and didactic,<br />but still wonderful despite this.<br />It has bits and bobs borrowed from every war, love, battle, cross cultural film ever made,<br />but not boring.<br />Even the cadence of the Pandoraian Natives is familiar, sounds like North American Indian cadence.<br />But even that harks back to a story already told and not learned from.<br />We have all seen the small worthy group beat the bigger badder foe,<br />so nothing new there, but still not boring.<br />There is said to be nothing new under the Sun, and that may be so,<br />But James Cameron gave us a new Sun to look upon and for that I am thankful.<br />I love love love love love love love love love Cinema and this is just one reason why.<br />We as humans are not so bad I think, even though we do vile evil things at times, if we can still make beauty for others.</span><br /></span></em><br /><a href="http://www.avatarmovie.com/index.html">http://www.avatarmovie.com/index.html</a>Amayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11191891205959125253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5367549771941956901.post-23076729243204421422010-01-12T14:42:00.000-08:002010-01-12T15:12:40.362-08:00OLD SCHOOL<span style="font-family:times new roman;color:#ff6666;">Love In a Cold Climate<br /><br />I had read about the Mitford Girls many years ago and found their family and life fascinating. They really did live a life that seems today unreal.<br /><br /></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitford_family"><span style="font-family:times new roman;color:#cc33cc;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitford_family</span></a><span style="font-family:times new roman;color:#ff6666;"><br /><br />I knew that Nancy was a writer but had never seen her work in print. With the new release of the classic orange and tan Penguin Books selling for only $9.95 I decided to finally give one of her books a go.<br /><br />I enjoyed her work the way I enjoy Evelyn Waugh.</span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;color:#ff6666;"></span><br /><a href="http://www.evelynwaughsociety.org/"><span style="font-family:times new roman;color:#cc33cc;">http://www.evelynwaughsociety.org/</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;color:#ff6666;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;color:#ff6666;">Both of them write intimately of a time and place and a world we will never know. They write about that world with love and disdain. They mock it and at the same time you know they have a deep fondness for it because it was their world.</span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;color:#ff6666;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;color:#ff6666;">While reading Love In A Cold Climate I was constantly thinking it was really a bit a of a bio, if you read any of the many books about the Mitford family you will know what I mean. The story is set in the stately homes of England and the people are all what we would call posh. It is about the relationships within a sprawling family and the journey of one, Polly, to find love.</span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;color:#ff6666;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;color:#ff6666;">I don't really care that much for Polly, but I do enjoy all that goes on around her and within her family.</span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;color:#ff6666;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;color:#ff6666;">If you enjoyed movies like Gosford Park or Brideshead Revisited or like to peak at a different world you might get into this.</span>Amayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11191891205959125253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5367549771941956901.post-27270960827439114912009-12-30T12:30:00.000-08:002009-12-30T12:34:01.664-08:00Ferd from Youtube.....must know more!<span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;color:#cc33cc;">I don't know who this person is but they could be my cyber soul twin. Enjoy the link below and you will see why I think I have found my long lost cyber soul twin!</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSUDevqvx1E">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSUDevqvx1E</a>Amayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11191891205959125253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5367549771941956901.post-84023539616374270552009-12-28T20:40:00.000-08:002009-12-28T21:05:05.020-08:00Bright Star<a href="http://www.mannythemovieguy.com/images/bright_star_abbie_cornish_ben_whishaw_jane_campion_movie_review_movie_news.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 208px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 150px" alt="" src="http://www.mannythemovieguy.com/images/bright_star_abbie_cornish_ben_whishaw_jane_campion_movie_review_movie_news.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;color:#006600;">When I love a film it is hard for me to express how I feel about it. It will hit me in such a personal way that I become almost mute by it. This is how I felt about Bright Star. Everything in the movie was beautiful, the way it was shot, the acting, the music, the light, everything.</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.brightstarthemovie.com/default.aspx"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">http://www.brightstarthemovie.com/default.aspx</span></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;color:#006600;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;color:#006600;">After watching this film and crying for the beauty of it, I can only hope that John Keats and Fanny Brawne found a place of wild flowers and sun to spend their eternity in.</span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;color:#006600;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;color:#006600;">Ben Whishaw stands out for me in particular as he conveys the elven aspect that many people commented upon about John Keats. And Abbie Cornish broke my heart as Fanny Brawne.</span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;color:#006600;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;color:#006600;">It is a wonderful film, go see it.</span>Amayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11191891205959125253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5367549771941956901.post-43315447319307565372009-12-28T14:07:00.000-08:002009-12-28T14:21:31.950-08:00the inbetweeners<span style="font-family:verdana;color:#330033;"><strong><span style="color:#663366;">Th</span><span style="color:#663366;">e inbetweeners is peeing yourself funny. It is very blue so if you a sensitive don't watch it! I love it. Hard and nasty as only teens can be, it freaks me out that this is how it is for teens today, but reading the Facebook pages of my under 20's friends it probably is real to life!</span></strong></span><span style="color:#663366;"> </span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#330033;"><strong></strong></span><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wnnUmiTZNY&feature=related"><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#006600;"><strong>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wnnUmiTZNY&feature=related</strong></span></a><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#330033;"><strong></strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#663366;"><strong>It is starting soon on one of the free to air digital channels so if you don't mind naughty check it out!!</strong></span>Amayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11191891205959125253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5367549771941956901.post-12582844281854963382009-12-18T18:15:00.000-08:002010-02-18T15:21:37.912-08:00I Found Her part1<div align="justify"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#000066;">I found her. Or at least for a moment I thought I had finally found her.<br />In that vast food court in a soulless shopping centre in the middle of my hunting ground sat at last the girl of my dreams.<br />Round but not obese, worn down, tired looking and defeated by her sad life.<br />Everything in her posture said “kick me” and they are always the ones we look for.<br />Don’t believe the hype about us all been fucked up by our Mothers “oh Oedipus” we are not, well not all of us.<br />She looked neither like my mother or any woman I had ever known. None of them do.<br />What they all have is that inner thing that always tells them they are useless. It is like a spark to us, a little dark light that shines just for us.<br />And at last here she sat. Hunched over her food like she were ashamed to be eating.<br />And why not, aren’t girls told every day that they are fat, food is bad, skinny is good, to say you enjoy eating in this day and age is like admitting you like sex with hookers.<br />It’s great for me, inbuilt media driven loathing of self has given me a whole new world of fun.<br />So I sat and I watched and I let myself feel that first warm glow of love spread.<br />That early warm feeling of pure love before all the meanness and sex comes on.<br />The feeling a normal boy might have had for his some what foxy pre-school teacher.<br />I was getting all long and languid, a cat in catnip gooiness spreading over me, when something bad happened.<br />She sat up straight. Her shoulders went back and her head up. She scanned that food court for who ever was looking, not seeing me she did not tuck her head back down like most fat girls would; instead she started to eat like some freaking Queen of Sheba. My beautiful trampled target was gone and some bolshie chick sat in her place.<br />It was like a slap to your balls with a head masters bat.<br />I had wanted her, she looked so good, she had shiny hair and great teeth and trim little finger nails on her fat little fingers.<br />She took care of herself and not all my girls did.<br />But why that change? How could she be the ‘one’ and in a flash not be the ‘one’. Fuck her I might just kill her anyway.</span> </div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"><span style="color:#cc33cc;">I Found Her part 2</span></div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:lucida grande;color:#009900;">My sister always tells me I am been paranoid when I tell her people watch me eat in food courts. But she is skinny mo minnie and is used to people watching her do most things because she is hot.<br /><br />But people really do watch fat people eat in food courts and today was bad. Who ever that person was they gave me the willies. It went past the normal sideways look to see what fatty was eating. This was an intense boring a hole in my head look.<br /><br />And they were not checking me out in a good way. I know those looks too. There is a look that men who like their ladies round give, a kind of timid looks because they are not sure how they will be received. Anyway this was not one of them.<br /><br />It was gooey in a bad way and so I sat up, ate my food like I had a right to, like I owned that place. I have to say I am lucky I have that “thing” in me. That inbuilt whatever it is that makes me not really care that I am chubby. I still prefer been me with me size 16 roundness, then my friends who are a size 6 and won’t wear togs to the beach.<br /><br />But I was blue at the start of the meal, the job is boring me and the hours blow and I was starting to let myself get low, so I suppose I should thank the looker, whoever it was today, because as soon as you put your head up and your shoulders back you start to see things better and I did today. And as Scarlet says tomorrow is another day.</span></div><div align="justify"><span style="color:#cc33cc;">I Found Her Part 3</span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#000066;">I am all bent out of shape.<br />I wanted her, but she went and morphed on me.<br />I ended up following her anyway.<br />I thought if I was lucky she might change back into the trampled little fatty I first saw in the food court.<br />But no such luck, so no fuck for me.<br />I followed her to work and she just shone there.<br />All those people doing what she said and loving it.<br />Where does that sort of attitude come from in a girl like her?<br />That was why I loved this new media soaked world of the naughties.<br />Woman now have no sense of self.<br />It is all packaged up and given to them by their favourite brand.<br />But not her.<br />When I first killed one of my girls it was a different world.<br />Woman knew who or what they where.<br />They were Good Girls or they were Bad Girls.<br />They were Saints or they were Whores.<br />They were Mothers or they were Spinsters.<br />And not much else.<br />I still can’t say what I liked most,<br />The Bad Girls who thought that they got what they deserved.<br />Or the Good Girls who where almost indignant at what was happening to them.<br />Bless.<br />But this one pisses me right off.<br />She’s fat so meant to be unhappy.<br />Her hair is dark, not blonde like it should be for success.<br />She is far too smart and does not hide it around men,<br />So will never do well in the real world.<br />She will probably have to start up some sort of<br />At-home-online-organic-safe-for-the-whales-be-a-better-you-type-business.<br />I should save her from that, it might be more humane if I did kill her.</span></div><div align="justify"><span style="color:#cc33cc;">I found Her part 4</span></div><div align="justify"><span style="color:#009900;">I have had to go to the police to file a report. Someone is following me. I know it sounds mad but there is someone following me. Everyday for the past two weeks in this book I have at some point mentioned feeling like someone is looking at me, following me or hovering.<br /><br />When I was a social worker I would use the Gift of Fear by Gavin De Becker as a reference for women I worked with who thought they might be in trouble. I know all the warning signs so I went to the police.<br /><br />I think the little saint must be looking out for me. When I walked in the cop shop a police officer who I worked with as a social worker was there. So when I walked in randomly off the street and said I needed to report I was been followed he did not brush me off as a loony. I know there is nothing they can do. But at least if something happens they will have a record of it.</span> </div><div align="justify"><span style="color:#cc33cc;">I Found Her part 5</span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#000066;">So my fat little friend is not stupid either.<br />She went into a police station today.<br />I don’t know what she said but I know I will have to back off for a while.<br />I have followed fatties for months and they have never known.</span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#000066;">How does she?<br />I want to know her.<br />I want to know what makes this one so different.<br />But I will have to wait now.<br />Can’t do the deed when people are looking, like a coy matron would not pee in public.<br />I don’t want to kill her like the others, they are casual sex and she is a committed relationship.<br />I know I will kill her in time, I have to, she has got my goat and I want it back.<br />This is when I wish there was a Sex Killing for Dummies or a Facebook page for us.<br />Everyman and his dog has a Facebook group but not us.<br />No, there is no Facebook page for us.<br />I don’t even know if I have met another me,</span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#000066;">I have had suspicions before but how do you start that conversation?<br />I like to kill for fun, how about you?<br />And fuck Dexter and his writer.<br />We are not in any way noble or containable.<br />We are just bad and have always been and will be till the world ends, Amen.<br />I might just start that Facebook page.<br />Most people would think it was a gag.<br />But someone out there might be able to tell me what to do in this situation.<br />Maybe one of me has fallen for one of them before and they will tell me what to do.<br />I read the books about us and some of us are married but their wives always seem so dumb and sheep like. </span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#000066;">I don’t think my fatty would miss the fact that I killed for fun.</span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:#cc33cc;">I Found Her part 6</span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:130%;color:#009900;">Things seem to back to normal now. No one is watching me anymore. This is good, but also creepy. What if they watched me go to the cop shop, and that is why they stopped? I went through all the usual suspects in my head and could not come up with the Kayser Soze in my life. One of my ex’s is a bit mad, but in a self destructive way, not in a hurt me way. It can’t be someone from work, all that kind of weirdness ended when I stopped doing case work.<br /><br />Would some random person really see me and just start to follow me? Who does that anyway? No that is just made up bad movie stuff. I know the stats; if a woman gets killed it is normally by someone she knows. I mean really is there some physco killer out there who goes in for short chubby brunettes!?</span> </span></div>Amayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11191891205959125253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5367549771941956901.post-86368576187334844282009-11-29T14:43:00.000-08:002009-11-29T14:55:00.691-08:00A Place<span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="color:#006600;">A </span><span style="color:#006600;">place is my desk and at this desk this morning I am listening to Rufus Wainwright who is a divine singing angel man child.</span></span><br /><br /><a href="http://http//www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMrZ7lChK-g&NR=1&feature=fvwp">http://http//www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMrZ7lChK-g&NR=1&feature=fvwp</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#339999;">His Hallelujah is right up there with Jeff Buckley's, another divine and in this case true angel, really did you have to go for that swim?</span>Amayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11191891205959125253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5367549771941956901.post-51383387617693308302009-11-28T17:58:00.000-08:002009-11-28T18:13:14.683-08:00My Booky Wook<span style="font-family:arial;color:#00cccc;">My reading this week was Russell Brands My Booky Wook.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;color:#00cccc;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;color:#00cccc;">I love listening to Russell Brand speak, his big fat thick Essex accent combined with his I'm-a-bit-of-a-geezer-but-I-will-throw-something-really-smart-in-to-confuse-you is great to listen too.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;color:#00cccc;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;color:#00cccc;">But reading it is a bit rough. I think it is a bit soon for a book about his life. He has been through so much and he really does seem a changed man but he is only 34. It is a light read, with not always light content.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;color:#00cccc;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;color:#00cccc;">If you really love Russell you might want to read it, but I would say at this point, stick to his Ponderland and stand up, they are truly funny.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;color:#00cccc;"></span><br /><a href="http://http//www.russellbrand.tv/"><span style="font-family:arial;color:#33cc00;">http://http://www.russellbrand.tv/</span></a>Amayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11191891205959125253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5367549771941956901.post-74667176910448290752009-11-28T17:49:00.000-08:002009-11-28T17:57:29.232-08:00The Hangover<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color:#ff6600;">If </span><span style="color:#ff6600;">you are looking for a bit of light fun for a very hot Sunday head to the video shop and get The Hangover. I giggled most of the way through and loved Allan. You'll get why when you watch it!</span></span><br /><a href="http://http//hangovermovie.warnerbros.com/"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">http://http://hangovermovie.warnerbros.com/</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#ff6600;">and now for a bit of Allen.........</span><br /><a href="http://http//www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsFZFHzf2d8"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsFZFHzf2d8</span></a>Amayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11191891205959125253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5367549771941956901.post-4353989182610877562009-11-22T13:40:00.000-08:002009-11-24T14:48:43.932-08:00Under the Dome<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#000066;">Under the Dome by Stephen King is a fantastic epic.<br /><br /></span><a href="http://http//www.stephenking.com/index.html"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#006600;">http://http//www.stephenking.com/index.html</span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#000066;"><span style="color:#006600;"><br /></span><br />It is as good a The Stand and for people who thought he was not as sharp as he used to be, it is totally on point. For the record I did not think he had lost it, I liked Cell and Duma Key.<br /></span><a href="http://http//www.stephenking.com/library/novel/cell.html"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#006600;">http://http//www.stephenking.com/library/novel/cell.html</span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#006600;"><br /></span><a href="http://http//www.stephenking.com/library/novel/duma_key.html"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#006600;">http://http//www.stephenking.com/library/novel/duma_key.html</span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#000066;"><br /><br />Stephen King is a master at putting the whole world in a small town and he has done it here again. In the Dome a mysterious barrier appears over a small town in Maine and in following days we watch the good and bad unfold.<br /><br />What I always enjoy in Stephen King books is that the baddies are baaaaaad. You can hate them at will. The weak make you aware of your back bone and question how firmly it is in place and the good make you want to be better.<br /><br />In one or two well formed sentences he forms a firm character and even if they are fleeting in the book, they stay with you. You mourn the ones who go too quick and wish it weren't so.<br /><br />At 877 pages I did not find it too long and my attention did not at any point wane.<br /><br />Serious readers often dismiss Stephen King because of his subject matter. Snobs! What they are losing out on is, fantastical plots, memorable characters and some of the best sentences you will ever read.<br /><br />Just because his subject matter is kooky at times does not ever take away from his true and shinning talent as a writer. I read once where he said that the book he did not do as well as he wanted was Needful Things, he was still drinking and taking drugs at the time. If Needful Things is a reflection of him not at his best, woe to the rest of us who put pen to paper.<br /></span><a href="http://http//www.stephenking.com/library/novel/needful_things.html"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#006600;">http://http//www.stephenking.com/library/novel/needful_things.html</span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#000066;"><br /><br />He also writes relationships beautifully. He is a master of 'Phileo' or brotherly(sisterly) love. His friendships are tender in the most wonderful way. And he writes woman well, some many times a book can be ruined for me because of some glaring mistake a male writer makes when he is writing a woman. Stephen King never does that. He never underestimates us. Not for a our goodness and not in our ability to be bad.<br /><br />If you like Stephen King get this book, get it at QDB where it is on sale. If you have not read any Stephen King get one and give him a go. I love this writer and I make no bones about been a fan, that does not mean I am indiscriminate in my love, I would not recommend Gerald's Game, but I have not given up on it, one day I will go back to it, I am sure, read it and enjoy it.<br /></span><a href="http://http//www.stephenking.com/library/novel/gerald_s_game.html"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#000066;">ht<span style="color:#006600;">tp://http//www.stephenking.com/library/novel/gerald_s_game.html</span></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#000066;"><span style="color:#006600;"><br /></span><br />On a side track to Mr King and his new book, weird things happen when I read Stephen King.<br />Here is a little list of what has happened to me while reading his works.<br /><br />The Shinning<br />While I was reading this one, during part of the book that talks about the time the main character and a friend think they have hit a bike rider while drink driving, my little red tricycle which I have from my childhood and was in the top of my cupboard fell out on too my bedroom floor, the book freaked me out so much that the book had to stay outside my bedroom door while I slept!<br /><br />IT<br />This one was great, firstly while I was reading the part about the bird watching gone wrong, I looked out my window and saw the most freaking weired bird ever. Never ever seen anything like it and thought IT was coming for me. I took a photo and showed a friend, thank goodness for Scientist, she explained that different birds could mate (explaining the very odd bird) and have off-spring but the off-spring would be like a mule and be barren, so no the IT was not coming for me!<br /><br />Then whilst I was reading IT we moved house, the very first morning in our new home, I wake up to a lovely sunny morning, look out the window and see what looks like a yellow balloon with a smiley face on it!! PUKE! Then I calmed myself down, made myself go outside and have a look, the whole time waiting to be eaten by IT, and found out it was a yellow ball with a smiley face on it that the little boys from next door had lost over our fence.<br /><br />Tommyknockers<br />While reading this one, not long after the radiation poisoning starts in the book and characters teeth start falling out, I had two teeth crumble and come out. This was because of a serious medication I was taking but it did freak me well out!<br /><br />Under the Dome<br />This was great, I had just read about the falling stars in the book, then took my Dog outside for his evening "walk" and I look up and see a green streak in the sky and a massive falling star! It may not have been pink like in the book but it did give me goose bumps!<br /></span><a href="http://http//www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,1,26375522-952,00.html"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#006600;">http://http//www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,1,26375522-952,00.html</span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#000066;"> </span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#000066;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#000066;">All of that will make sense when you read those books or if you have already done so.</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#000066;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#000066;">Here is my last one to leave you with, after you have read Under the Dome you will need to ask yourself;</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#000066;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#000066;">Are you are Friend of Dale Barbara?</span>Amayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11191891205959125253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5367549771941956901.post-65244447507372240412009-11-17T05:02:00.000-08:002009-11-20T01:58:26.651-08:00<span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">Reading new Stephen King book,</span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">Can't talk reading!</span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span><br /><a href="http://http//www.stephenking.com/index.html">http://http//www.stephenking.com/index.html</a><br /><br /><span style="color:#cc0000;">Have read the book and will do the reveiw soon as time permits.</span><br /><br /><span style="color:#990000;">And yes you should read all 850 pages!</span>Amayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11191891205959125253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5367549771941956901.post-494020457839876932009-11-12T13:06:00.001-08:002009-11-12T13:15:51.330-08:00Moonstruck<span style="font-family:georgia;color:#000099;">A quick note on Moonstruck, I watched it again yesterday, it must have been about 10 years since I watched it, and goodness it is still a fantastic film!</span><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;color:#000099;"></span><br /><a href="http://http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonstruck"><span style="font-family:georgia;color:#000099;">http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonstruck</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;color:#000099;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;color:#000099;">If I could have, I would have taken Cher and Nicolas Cage straight from the film set to a giant freezer and put them in it to preserve them forever at their prime! They are both luminous in this film and I don't think I have ever seen them this glowing since!</span><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;color:#000099;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;color:#000099;">If you see it at the Video Store and you need a lift get it out and enjoy it again or for the first time.</span>Amayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11191891205959125253noreply@blogger.com0