Further use of Greymatter
September 23rd 2002 -
Further use of greymatter
There’s been a worrying amount of hand-coding to get this transfer from blogger to greymatter – nothing much to do with greymatter itself, more trying to put together a last blogger entry to redirect here, without actually having blogger handy, and trying to retrofit the old blogger entries into greymatter with correct datestamps, etc. I think I haven’t quite mastered the latter – they appear OK on the main page, but the archives index has them woefully incorrect.
Table tennis
Three games at lunchtime today, didn’t win any of them, but having lots of fun. I’m now officially on the rather worryingly complete list of table-tennis statistics for CISRA.
DVD frenzy
A special at Video Ezy caused a frenzy of DVD purchasing – Midnight Run, Tremors, Lawrence of Arabia, Ghandi, Vertigo, Being John Malkovich. Anna saw Tremors and Midnight Run for the first time, last night, enjoyed them hugely. I really enjoyed watching them again, but especially the characterisations in Tremors. Lovely script, the characters are uneducated but not stupid, heroic but not superhuman. And the scientist is done in such a way that you know there was a scientist involved in the script writing – sure enough, one of the two writers worked as a scientist for ten years before becoming a script-writer (with Short Circuit).
Austin 3
Back and forth like craazy with the big dumb comedys… I enjoyed Kung Pow, hated Scary Movie 2, and was back and forth within Austin Powers 3, but came out enjoying it. There’s the usual milking-a-joke-until-it-bleeds, a repeat of many of the jokes from the first two, the usual cavalacade of bodily fluids, and an unusual amount of puke-worthy sentimentality. The opening was great, though.