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Quick Film Reviews #25
Julie & Julia: A Film For Democrats Maybe I should split this film into two reviews, as the film tells two different stories. One is that of a young woman's attempt to cook all 524 recipes in Julia Child's classic Mastering the Art of French Cooking within a year. What drives her to this life-changing task is not really clear. Is the fact she ( Read more... ) -
Discrimination, pt4 - Bondage and Conspiracies
This is definitely my favourite area of law. Not that there's much competition ( Read more... ) -
Compounded Ignorance
Since the Libyan rebels have been lured by Gaddafi and his sons into the trap of taking over Tripoli and the rest of Libya, one thing has become clear to me ( Read more... ) -
Quick Film Reviews #24
Mulholland Drive Just to be absolutely clear, Mulholland Drive makes no sense. It feels like many of the ideas or possible storylines have been cut off half way through, before anything is developed or tied together. It's a film you go along with for the atmosphere or experience. And that atmosphere is... Hollywood is sinister and weird? I didn ( Read more... ) -
Questions
Here are some more examples of the sort of questions Dom fires at me in the evenings, or that I end up pondering.
Why were British cavalry sabres in WW1 designed for thrusting rather than slashing?
Can you smell salt?
If the purpose of language is communication, should you pronounce words in the way that it's easiest for the hearer to ( Read more... ) -
Life Plans
Last Sunday, in Whole Foods in London, I was making plans about what I'd do if I was really rich.
What I would do would be to only eat superfoods. And not things like apples (warning: Daily Mail) or whole grains. Boring. My diet will be made up of goji berries, umeboshi plums, sea vegetables, spirulina, pomegranates, cacao nibs, teff, miso and ( Read more... ) -
I'll Be Your Mirror/London
Over the weekend Amy and I went over to London. On Saturday we went to the Portishead-curated I'll Be Your Mirror event, a sort of mini-All Tomorrows Parties. Sunday we just spent some time in London ( Read more... ) -
Carnival 2011
Last Saturday was St Pauls Carnival. Around 70-80,000 people visited the area, packing in to the streets and squares ( Read more... ) -
The Life Aquatic
Something I've been meaning to do for a while is to get more exercise ( Read more... )
