The General Babblings of Chris Wild
Jacob has Chickenpox or “Chicken Pops” as he calls it. He’s so happy about it! I’m not sure he will be as happy when the itching kicks in to full affect! However, we are glad that he is finally getting it out of the way as he’s managed to avoid picking it up for so long.
Chickenpox
Chickenpox
I took this while on my way to work yesterday…
This New Forest tree sits on a road bend at the top of a dip and has little else around it. It has pride of place at one of the highest points in the New Forest and you can view it almost in isolation on a full 360 panoramic. Many days I have watched the sunrise and sunset behind this tree, it’s just a matter of direction.
Apparently the area gets its name from the fact it was used as a mass grave during the second world war… I don’t know if this is true or not, just picked it up from a partial accademic paper on the net!
New Forest, Dead Man’s Hill, Sunrise, Photograph, Roger Penny Way, Fordingbridge. B3078
I watched Memento over the weekend. What a film! Highly recommended.
I won’t go into any real detail as if you haven’t seen it then just go an rent it out. However the basic plot is that Leonard has lost the ability to transfer short term memory to long term, and thus forgets everything very quickly.
The film starts with him killing Teddy and works its way back from there. It is depicted in short burts of scenes that work their way back. So for example, you see Leonard in the cloak room of a diner, he re-enters the diner and the waiter brings him something telling him that he left it on the table. The scene cuts. We then see Leonard enter the diner and the events that took him to the cloak room unfold. Scene cut. We then see the action prior to him getting to the diner.. etc…
What this means is that a) you know what happened and then just need to find out why it happened. b) you have to think about the film because you are getting everything in the wrong order.
By the end I felt that the story had been very good and the delivery exceptional.
Guy Pearce stars as Leonard and does a very good job. It’s actually a little odd because I think he is basically playing the character as if he was Brad Pitt playing the character. You could easily swap one out for the other. he kind of looks like Pitt and his acting is straight from a number of Pitt films.
Very enjoyable viewing.
Memento, DVD, Film, Weekend, Guy Pearce, Brad Pitt Guy Pearce, Brad PittAt the tail end of last month, Smoking Gun Productions went into recievership… it was a sad end to a decade of work.
Currently Smoking Gun Entertainment Group PLC is still active as we search for a way to revitalise it… albeit through a sale or reverse take over. I would hope that that should happen by the end of this month and therefore for me, the Smoking Gun experience will have come to an end.