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

Hey there! Why do I only find you online when I'm heading to bed? I'm itching for a chat with you sometime soon.

I got your email, the one about the Stuff that's been going on. I didn't reply, because I didn't know what to say. But I did read it, and have been keeping you and all your loved ones in my thoughts and prayers.

I'm heading to bed in about 15 or 20 minutes, but I am glad to see you around. I've been thinking of you a lot and really noticed your absence recently.

Hrm, yah, have missed chatting, maybe this weekend can make contact? Post a time and I will try and make it.

Thinks are little better with my Mom, thanks.

I'm excited because I bought an "Elizabeth" poster on Ebay! Can't wait for it to arrive.

As far as I know, I'm home tomorrow evening. And I'm free Friday night until around 10:00 or so. Maybe we can pull off a chat one of those two times.

I'm glad things are a bit better with your Mom. I'll still be thinking of you and praying for the best.

I read about your poster purchase! How exciting for you. I'm sure it will arrive safely- and hopefully soon. I've had good luck with eBay purchases many times.

Friday would work, methinks. *crosses fingers*

Tomorrow night is book club. I haven't read the book, but plan to go for the discussion and the snacks, LOL.

Oh, yeah, definitely go for the snacks!

I'll plan on getting online for a bit Friday evening, then. Leave a message sometime Friday if you have a certain time frame or if something comes up you need to do. Otherwise, I'll plan on taking my nap after work and getting myself online in the evening.

I'd better get myself to bed now, gotta get up at 5:30 and I think tomorrow's going to be one of those busy days from hell. Not to mention it's *that time of month* again (what K likes to call "falling to the communists"), so I'm kinda tired and extra cranky. I literally shouted at someone at work both yesterday and today. I *almost* feel bad about it- but not quite.

Talk to you Friday. Have fun at your book group tomorrow and take care of yourself till then.

Nighty night, babe!

Goodnight!

Morning all, or more correctly afternoon. Getting up at gone midday is a bad thing!

(Sigh!) I wish *I'd* stayed in bed this morning, instead of writing a proposal on a topic about which I know absolutely zilch.

Yay! Kate is nominated for an Oscar too! But I wish she'd get off that damned diet! She was too skinny in Eternal Sunshine. Incidentally...and speaking of Leo...it puzzles me why they used a CGI stand-in for her nude scene in Titanic, wheras she took all her clothes off anyway in Holy Smoke (Excellent film, by the way. I never thought I'd see Harvey Keitel in a dress!). To quote from another favourite of mine, Gregory's Girl: 'Ah seen it all. T---s, F---y, the lot!'

Purely out of curiosity ...what was the film that was deemed pornographic?

JEllen - what's this month's book? If any of us have read it, we might be able to help you bluff through

RE: Films, books etc...I just love reading what other people think, their opine and what they've seen and how it makes them feel.

Sometimes, I miss stuff like inuendos or perhaps stuff that is related to real-life circumstance or past events and I'm interested to see - always!

For example CS Lewis books, I never knew about the relgious context till not long ago...and Lord of the Rings...the World War I and II connotations...

Then of course clever camera tricks and epic panoramic shots, lighting and perspective thrill me....I usually 'get' those...

...but then, do you always get film references within films?

My favourite one is in The Player when Tim Robbis is walking downstairs at a Hollywood party (passing Jeff Goldblum on the way up) and the wall is lined with pictures of movie stars. There's a close-up of a photo of Alfred Hitchcock. Hitchcock, of course, always appeared in cameo roles in his own films (eg he is a pedestrian at a crossing in Psycho).

Deep, huh?

imdb has lots of this kind of stuff in its Trivia sections. For example: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0175880/trivia It also has a 'Refences/Referenced in' section, but that doesn't tell you much.

I loved 'Being John Malkovich' and was looking forward to seeing 'Adaptation', it was very clever and I enjoyed the script and Nicholas Cage playing both directors, but I didn't enjoy the film.

I liked the Player, but probably didn't get all the references, it would be nice to learn them all and then watch the film again with new knowledge. That was the film when I began to realise what a great actor Tim Robins was.

A good one for references was the series 'Spaced' and also 'Shaun of the Dead'. I wouldn't normally watch a zombie film but I loved the team that did it.

I thought "Shaun of the Dead" was one of the biggest wastes of time I've ever endured. I think I'd like to see "Spaced" sometime, though.

"The Player" is one of my favorite films.

Not meaning to sound snotty, there Kaz. Just that "Shaun of the Dead" was highly recommended to me, and I really disliked it.

No worries PC I just the actors and the influences and teh continuation from Spaced. I really didn't like the film topic but I thought it was cool that it was caused by gm farning - a message there.

I was very highly recommended 'Withnail and I', I thought it was dreadful!

I can recommend 'Aardman Classics' though, its the guys who did Wallace and Gromit. All their cute 'Creature Comforts' adverts interspersed with very funny and violent things like 'Pib and Pob' has to be seen!

..sometimes I get film references within films and other times, my pard has to clobber me over the head a few times till I get it .. and explain patiently to my dumb @ss...

I enjoyed Adaptation I haven't seen The Player..I like Tim Robins too..as for Shaun of the Dead..we are getting that tomora..along with War of the Roses - I had to show Geo that one...and umm...mentally flicks thro..umm...somet else I forget now which order NF is going in...nevermind, movin on..

I love Wallace n' Gromit..and Wensleydale cheese and all those creature comforts

Sorry Pc it appears that Ed's film convo, "suggestions wanted" has spilled over here...

I treated myself to the cinema today and watched Fockers...I guess I wasn't in a funny mood..I knew I should have gone to see Phantom of the Opera instead..perhaps tomorrow

~waves~

No worries about spilling over film into my journal. I like film! I did some retail therapy today on my "lunch break" at work: got a video pf "Down By Law", and DVDs of "Le Corbeau", "The Lower Depths" (both versions, yep, what a treat!), and "Shock Corridor". They should all arrive sometime next week.

I've got to do my tax return tonight, and get some resumes sent out. And I've got a load of K's clothes and one of my own to wash this evening as well, or I'll be going out naked this weekend. It's too cold for that.

Hoefully when I've finished my tax return, it will turn out as in previous years, and I'll be getting a nice little refund. If I wind up owing, I'm screwed. And I'll really be kicking myself for ordering those DVDs.

Just popping in to say hi, i am out of my depth here, i don't get to see films and can only get occasional books in english.

But would recommend reading "Charlotte Gray" by Sebastian Faulks, it's a story set in WW2 france, much of it around this place, which was the last bastion of Resistance. Apparently it has been filmed, but i haven't seen it and am unlikely to.

When RK arrived, he had a film which we could watch via his beast, can't remember what it was called, but it was very good, if he comes on here, do ask him.

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Hi Terri, I will add "Charlotte Gray" to my recommended reading list. Thanks! I've just got myself a couple thrift editions of Nietzsche's "The Geneaology of Morals" and "The Anti-Christ", and have a couple of novels I'd like to read too. But I'm Keen on recommendations- Edward has some good suggestions. I recommend "Midnight's children" by Salman Rushdie (I nearly finished it last month but needed something less 'intense' for a while) and "Love in the Time of Cholera" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, if you can get your hands on them. Those were the two best I read last year.

I have a bad habit of starting too many books at once, and not getting around to finishing any of them for ages.

Last night K and I watched two more installments from the "Horrible Horrors" set his roomies gave me for Xmas. Both of them were AWFUL. It's possible they were beyond entertaining awful and went all the way to nearly unwatchable.

Edward, the film that they hated and thought was pornographic was a French film called The Dreamers. It did receive an NC-17 rating, but I didn't consider it porn, I thought it was a pretty good film depicting an obsessive and somewhat incestous love triangle.

I think the fact that I admited I liked this film may have wrecked my ever fitting into that more conservative group of people. But heh, maybe that is a clue, I don't belong there!

Meant to include link:

http://www.netflix.com/MovieDisplay?movieid=60031542&trkid=73