Crikey! I Do Believe He's Playing Croquet!

Since when did our government become the political equivalent of Heat Magazine? Walking past the local shop today I noticed the headlines of a few newspapers. Apparently, there has been a huge scandal in the cabinet. Has someone been having an affair again? Has someone been taking bribes? No, wait could it be that one of the MPs has gone stark raving bonkers and shot 17 people in a bloody rampage? No. It's worse than that, I think you better sit down for this one...

John Prescott was playing croquet.

Yes, that's right, croquet. Can it be? Can our working mans hero who tells it like it is be going over to the dark side? Is he becoming a snob? Is he getting rid of his down to earth values and changing into a stuck up, toffee nosed aristocrat? No. I think you'll find that he's playing a game of croquet. It's a game, he might like it. It's like saying I eat cheese sometimes, so I must be Swiss.

Since when did someone's job effect what they can and can't do? I don't believe there's a 'common-ness' restriction on certain sports, is there? "I'm sorry, I can't sell you that croquet set until I see some proof that you look down on the peasants." So, please someone, judge politicians on the job they can do and not what image they present to you, but most of all, remember that they're just people and they're only trying to earn a living and enjoy their life. Let them play croquet if they want to.

Bobbikk

Memoirs of a Picky Cinema Go-er.

Wow. Just came back from seeing Memoirs of a Geisha and I have to say, that is one impressive film. There were a few small niggles with the film and the showing however:

1. The adverts were 10 minutes, the previews were 10 minutes and the things telling us not to smoke or use our mobiles or smoke whilst using our mobiles were 10 minutes (I know, HOW?). This meant that I had 30 minutes for my arse to get sick of sitting down to prepare me for 2 hours of fidgeting. The people around me cannot have been happy.
2. The adverts included an annoying advert where the world was made up of brightly coloured cars with an annoying backing song, however, this was not the biggest tragedy. Oh no. That is saved for the fact that 50cent has a movie (I may be a bit behind the times, due to the fact that every film shown at the student cinema is about 2 or 3 months behind regular cinemas.) Let me say that again: 50 CENT HAS A MOVIE. It's about gangstas, surprise, surprise. That guy sure does know how to market his chipmunk-esque face.
3. The film includes Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, who has starred in Mortal Kombat as Shang Tsung. This means that every time he was on screen all that I could think of was "You're soul is MINE!" Not only this, but I'm seemingly the only person who remembers he was in this and any time I mention it, I look stupid or geeky, or stupid AND geeky.
4. The film makes me ashamed to be Western. There is a scene where a bunch of Americans arrive in the town and they over-run the place spoiling the serenity and beauty it possesses. Why did we have to ruin other cultures? Oh well. Macdonald's anyone?
5. They didn't make use of her eyes enough. They go on about how amazing her eyes are, but they never show them properly 'til the last scene.
6. *SPOILER WARNING* The Hollywood ending. I'm half happy and half sad that the ending was all fairytale and wonderful. On the one hand I'm really happy for the character but on the other, the idea of the Geisha lifestyle being about sacrifice and presenting a face that isn't real would have been so much stronger with her not being happy in the end.
7. I ate all my sweets before the film began. Why do I NEVER learn not to do that?

However, none of these little things mean that you shouldn't see the film, due to the fact that it is brilliant and the aesthetics of it are incredible. I just like to pick at things, that's all.

Oh, and while we're at it, it's probably worth seeing Fiddy's film too, I mean, everyone needs a laugh now and again, don't they?

Bobbikk

Technical Difficulties

As you may have gathered from the first post, this is my new blog. However, I am still getting the hang of it (with much appreciated help from my friend DivineOmega, that's his blog on my links section) and things will probably change from time to time. So expect to see new headers and backgrounds and stuff periodically. If anything looks odd, or just doesn't work, then please tell me and I'll see what I can do. Or tell you that you're wrong and that you should shut up, depending on whether I like it or not.

This sure is going to be a fun adventure.

Wow. That last sentence was so cheesy and vomit inducing that it could have come straight from a Disney film.

(Remember, I have a years worth of posts on my old MSNspace blog, so don't forget to check out that via the 'Old MSNspace website' link. Yeah, that one over there.)

Bobbikk

In The Beginning...

...There was a blog. A blog owned by me. However, this blog was scurged by the problem of it being on MSN spaces. The evil spaces inhibited it's chance to grow, like a damsel stuck in a tower. It seemed amateur and tacky. The poor blog.

Well, feel sorry for it no more. It has been saved. It's knight in shining armour has arrived, fully equipt with huge white sparkly (yes sparkly) horse and massive kickass sword. I have unleashed this blog upon the world. May God have mercy on us all.

Hee hee... I'm so poetic...

Bobbikk