Mat Bowles

Still alive

For some reason, I’ve barely touched the PC at home for over 2 weeks. The longer I left turning it on, the less inclined I was to do so. Cold turkey vs addiction effect?

I was actually quite busy, combining work, social stuff, going to friends and going out. I also slept for the whole of last Sunday (despite plans to do otherwise).

Went to see Team America: World Police; the guys from GW were going and, well, it was cheap. I actually loved it, very funny, the sex scene was surreal and the pisstaking of overblown American idiocy was hilarious; the opening scene has them there trying to stop the terrorists from blowing up the Louvre. They succeed in killing all the “bad guys”, the last one is killed by an air to ground rocket that also destroys, um, the Louvre. Chalk one up tot he good guys. Not normally my sort of humour at all (not a fan of South Park for a start), but I loved it.

Shame the same can’t be said about Electra, which and I went to see last Sat while I was in London. Imagine karate kid, except the lead is an attractive woman. Take out most of the point of the training, leaving an aura of unexplained mysticism. Add in some bad acting, an awful plot, an annoying contrived teenage victim, a stupid plot twist and the killing of of Poison Ivy, one of Marvel’s better characters here used as a throwaway villain. The hoped for redeeming feature, that of Jennifer Garner in a red corset, wasn’t really seen enough to justify the ticket price. And London cinemas are more expensive than down here.

Still, Synthetic Culture last weekend was cool, met up with many people and took the piss a lot. The bubble wrapping was amusing; a decent use for the annoying stuff. Huge queue; glad I missed it by getting there before the pubs kicked out. Thanks for putting up with me Mike.

Work’s ok, getting into random chance territory though, visit host family, turns out she’s a good friend of the father of an old school friend, they run my old scout unit together. Weird.

January 30th, 2005 Posted by MatGB | Uncategorized | one comment