Shoes and Ships and Ceiling Wax, Cabbages and Kings.
It's been a weird couple of days. Firstly I didn't get the job at McDonalds, although this may be the first time I'll believe the "You're too good for them" sympathy thing: I don't think they were keen to have a graduate with ten years of management running around in the crew pit. Ah well. Today I had an interview with a company called Diligenta, the job I'd gone for basically being a call centre one, but in a call centre like no other: they work strictly office hours, Monday to Friday, offer lots of on site benefits, a decent rate of pay and work in an architecturally insane building! The reception hall is all big and bright, but is surrounded by corridors that look like the crypts of a medieval church (low ceilings and all), which then open out into what appears to be a chinese tea house. That was as far as they'd let me go wandering!After I'd failed to get the McJob I was pretty upset, I figured if I can't do that then I'm probably not much use to anyone, but Ronnie took me out for a day of fun.
We went to Woodgreen animal shelter where we saw lots of cute animals that needed homes! My favourites were a little cat called Pepsi, who was so adorable and sweet that everytime you went to see her she'd come right up to the glass and rub her face against it like she could actually get her scent on you. And I also liked two dogs, Sonny and Missy, a pair of Staffordshire Bull Terriers who were very friendly and likable. I'm not normally a dog person as you know, I prefer the aloof independance of cats, but I guess I can see the appeal of dogs and their slavish devotion to you...Then we went into Cambridge for a bit of shopping, and spent tons of money we don't have in the Hotel Chocolat, which is pretty much exactly like the chocolatarie in Chocolat (the movie anyway, not read the book), and had some super-yummy things in it, which we are eating oh so slowly! Then we had a bit of a Disney movie fix, and watched Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King. I'd never seen Lion King before, and it was very cool, I must (grudgingly) admit.
Yesterday we finally saw Superman Returns, and whilst it wasn't really Ronnie's sort of thing, I absolutely adored it! I know Bryan Singer is a total Superman geek, and it really shows in the way he's handled and presented the character here: he really captured the sheer otherworldliness (not sure that's a word) of Kal, whilst retaining the essential humanity of Clark. Brandon Routh was stunning in both roles, at times it was scarily like looking at (or listening to!) Christopher Reeve; there were a couple of times where his mimickry of Reeve's interpretation of Clark was really, really eerie! The action set pieces were totally unique, the sort of thing you can only pull off in with Superman, and the emotional core of the story really worked, with a nice surprise along the way. Overall, I'd have to recommend that EVERYONE see it! But then I really like Superman, the teaser trailer for the movie (y'know, the one with Marlon Brando doing his "They are a great people Kal-El, they wish to be, they only lack the light to show them the way" speech) always brings a tear to my eye, so you should take that recommendation with a pinch of salt! For me though, it beat Pirates of The Caribbean hollow.
Archie was a dirty boy this morning (we used the phrase "Is that cat pooh?" a lot!), so this evening to make him clean (and possibly to teach him a lesson!) he had a bath! He didn't really enjoy it at all.
I like this pic a lot, he seems to be wondering why nobody will help him.
This one is just a weird trick of the light, but pretty cool nonetheless. And he looks all miserable and bedraggled!
posted by BadMonkey @ 5:13 PM
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That's funny. I heard Superman sucked HARDcore. Randy said he and his friend talked for over an hour and a half about how awful it was. Glad you enjoyed it, though. It wasn't really on my list of things to see, so I'm not really into it either way. I'm sad that people seem to think Pirates wasn't very good, though, because I was looking forward to that. Still want to see A Scanner Darkly...
Yeah, there's still a few cool movies to look forward to: A Scanner Darkly, The Fountain, The Prestige and Michael Mann's revision of Miami Vice... not sure what else to be honest. Whoever Randy is, I think he's clearly very wrong about Superman, but like I said it kinda depends on whether you like Superman to start with. You've also got to remember that it is effectively a sequel to the two Richard Donner movies from the 70s, and it carries that feel with it, it's not a dark and gritty movie edited to within an inch of it's life, it's beautiful and almost elegaic, a paeon to a world that never really existed. Or maybe I just think it's cool, I dunno. I was disappointed that the new Pirates wasn't much cop too, but you should see it and make up your own mind!
Randy's a new friend *shrug* He seemed to think the new Superman was essentially the first one over again. Maybe not exactly, but enough to be uncanny and boring as hell. He said he would've walked out except he was there with friends who were spread out because the theater was so crowded : /
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