h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

PS Blue Jasmine, the new Woody Allen movie, is also showing, but we're choosing to see Rush. I don't know where I am with Woody Allen movies these days, although it's had really good reviews.

I know where I am with racing cars. Sort of.

I don't know anything about either film, but our Awix does.

The Woody Allen film: A87812111

The racing film: A87810294

has you covered.

I like films with dialogue & Mr Allen normally produces films with dialogue. I saw a very interesting film recently which I now place in my top collection of well crafted & interesting films: Triangle 2009 Dir Christopher Smith. It is currently showing on the Ewetube. You might want to avoid looking at the comments beforehand. Another film I have seen was Robot & Frank 2012 Dir Jake Schreier. That's an interesting character driven film also showing on Ubend-vision.

Talking about films ... why do so many people find horror entertaining ... you have your Zombie flics & your cut 'em flics (normally involving student types getting limbs amputated etc).

Waiter, waiter ... what is this fly doing in my soup?
Waiter: it looks like the breast stroke sir.

Hello Daydreamers

Just dropping by to say that really and to make perculiar of course.

Hiccup has been in hospital a couple of times with her asthma over the weekend but is starting to get back on her feet now. She can't walk far or fast but is in good spirits.

She made it to the bar and back to buy me a gin and tonic and herself a lager as today is her 18th birthday.

We also had a lovely meal, which we got all dressed up for and then we feel asleep on Granny's sofa waiting for Granny to come home We are catching up with missed sleep and meals

Let me know what you think of Rush cc, I like racing too

Wow. Happy birthday to Hiccup. Hope that asthma gets better. and .

I hope you gave Gandma a stern lecture for staying out so late.

I was going to ask what triggers her asthma & whether it was inherited and then I saw that the guide seems to have quite an extensive amount of info on this subject.

I hope you and your daughter are having / had a great day / evening. ... + party thing smileys ...

I've passed the birthdays wishes on, thank you very much and we did have a good day

Unfortunately my Mum has likely fractured her back

Anyway daydreamy stuff, I picked up a book in the hospital and over the weekend read it.

Notes from an exhibition by Patrick Gale, hmmm, it was a thoughtful read.

So has anyone happened to have read it?

Holyroses, dear Peanut, you're having a time right now. . Well, belated birthday wishes to Hiccup, , and now your Mum has fractured her back? Oh no!

Well, here's thoughts for you all,

Just been checking Notes from an Exhibition, looks like an deep read. The troubled artist, Rachel, and the legacy she leaves behind. Wowzum. Thought provoking indeed.

Funny the books one finds, in waiting rooms or other public spaces. Perhaps because there's limited choice, therefore one's expectations are lower, but sometimes the book seems to hit the spot in an unlikely way. It's happened to me a few times.



Hullo all!

Busy! Now I have to go eat lunch! Back later to consider all things filmic.

And other things, like bike gear cables. Which is more interesting that it sounds. Unless it isn't.

Nice Post reviews, Mister D!

Rush was great! Exciting race track scenes. The story was pretty accurate. Very much a 70s story, when track racing was still incredibly dangerous, the cars were so flimsy.

I was trying to explain to Awix about how, throughout the film, I had this strange yearning for 70s type film texture, which sounds pretentious, and is, in fact, pretentious, , but I'm trying to figure out what I mean.

The high definition, clear, brightly coloured images and effects were amazing, but they seemed so not 70s, I could have done with a bit more actual footage of the races, with the grainy film, (there was no doubt a copyright restriction), or else a simulation.

Kind of like a scratchy vinyl. heheh.

Perhaps the actual footage wasn't more grainy. Perhaps I'm just grainy. Or brainy. I wish. haha. Grainy brainy.



It's like trying to describe the ink colours for the illustrations for the Beano. Or Rupert Bear. Now I'll have to watch some 70s films to find out what I mean.



It's probably because I've been using the retro style filter on my camera, it's called toy camera, making everything look like it's taken with a pinhole camera. I love it. Not because the past is better. It isn't.

In fact I really appreciate digital technology. .

It's just funny how the need for scratchy imperfection somehow returns. Even my synth has a analogue-sound setting. And some synths you can even get a tape-hiss setting.

Is it a reaction against the clean cut perfection of digital? I have no idea. It's interesting though. Almost interesting. .

I like the balance of the two.



Thanks SA! I'll check those films you mentioned, and thanks for the warning about the comments.

Hmm. Horror films. I don't really know. I think they can be entertaining if they are cult, kitschy, spoofy. I love Mel Brooks's Young Frankenstein, things like that. But Zombie movies and things, hmm, yes, have to ask the Freebee Film Tip expert. . That's Mister D. He might know about it more.

Afterthought.

Of course, if Rush was made in a 70s style, it would be an arts film, rather than a mainstream film. It would probably have a cult following of one fan. Me. . Made the way it is, there is the potential for commercial success.

Thereby proving that I am forever arty, marginal and prone to eating beetroot crisps. .

A930214 this looks like a good night's read, from our own hootoo pastures. I think I'll read it in the morning though.

I meant the mindless teenage horror flics. There are some thoughtful horrorish films ... Have you sent the film Drive (2011) Dir Nicolas Winding Refn (strange name?) with Ryan Gosling. Now although that film is violent (horrorish) it is very stylised & mythical & goes into my personalised topped ranked film category.

ear-Artum: have you sent (no) --> have you scene (no) --> have you seen (yes)

CC, I do know what you mean by what a 70s film looks like. It is different- colour, camera angles, etc. That's why we look twice at a re-creation. Somehow, it doesn't seem the same as it was. Isn't that funny?

We're proud of Awix' reviews - he gives us that professional touch. That, and he teases the life out of me about Jason Statham and such...

I can't recommend a good horror flick, I'm afraid. I prefer Gothic, myself. I'm like SA, and don't know why people want to watch teenagers getting killed. Unless they just really hate teenagers. But still...

Last night, we watched 'Vatel'. This is a film by Roland Joffe, from 2000. CC, you'd like it. It's god beautiful colours. And it's more or less a true story. Francois Vatel was a combination chef and event planner back in the 17th Century. In France, of course, where they did that sort of thing.

Gerard Depardieu plays him, with his usual understated panache. Tim Roth is deliciously disgusting, as usual, and Uma Thurman is surprisingly real-looking. The film has quite a lot to say about...well, quite a few things. All that significance, plus whipped cream and a large, fake whale.

And yes, folks, we know he shouldn't have used Handel's Fireworks music. Not composed for another 100 years.

They just don't make 17th-century films like they used to. They lack that grainy quality...

Some cool pictures of ants, also fun

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2013/oct/10/photography-insects#/?picture=419603501&index=0

Ooh yes! You understand! Mister D, of Freebie Film Tips fame, , of course you understand. That's it! And I forgot camera angles!

Camera angles!

No, I don't like horror flicks either, definitely I don't.

Hmm, must check Vatel then. I love Gerard Depardieu. Whipped cream, and a large, fake whale? . It's the way you tell 'em, friend. These freebie film tips are movies in themselves.

They just don't make 17th-century films like they used to. They lack that grainy quality.

Meanie. teehee. That's funny. I might chase you with an ant.

Ants! Where did I see ants? Wait, I did see ants, back in a minute.

Hah! found the ants. I thought I was dreaming. They are so cool , those ant scenes! Thanks Peanut. Imagine setting up those tiny props, then waiting for the ants to make the action happen. I like the ne-ant-erthal scene the best.



I just realised something today, on the train, at 7.36 am. I would say on he train in the rain, but it wasn't raining, it was very early morning starry, and all the birdies were silhouettes. .

Do you ever get those times when all the separate strands of your life somehow weave together as a curious pattern, and you realise something, even though you don't really know what it is you're realising?

I had that today, and I felt all this inspired energy whoosh out of the top of my head like an ectoplasmic chrysanthemum.

And ...

I need

Golly, I wish I had a day like that. I need one. Glad you did.

I've just finished (I hope) a longish, rather dull project, and am starting a new one, for which I need odd facts.

And I just stumbled across one you'll like - though it has nothing to do with my subject, which is the ancient Mayans. ,rofl>

Did you realise that Daphne du Maurier's grandfather George was a novelist? Apparently, he caused a 'craze' in the late 19th Century. His novel, 'Trilby', was the media darling of its day. And who has heard of it now? Hm? Not I, said the little red hen.

Anyway, that novel gave us two words: 'tribly', a s in hat - although nobody wears such a hat in the novel, and Trilby is a silly woman who models.

...And 'Svengali', for a mesmeric, maniipulative person. There IS a character named Svengali in then ovel.

Thought you might enjoy that. Now, back to trying to find the etymology of 'cocoa'. Shame on that OED.