Saturday, 30 December 2006

Tell 'im 'e's dreamin'...


The Castle voted most popular film amongst Aussie baby boomers: I have to say, I was surprised The Castle got voted number one, especially as numbers two and three were Mad Max and The Man From Snowy River.

If you haven't seen The Castle, you really have to. It's a brilliant tale of a family of working class Aussies refusing to leave their home to make way for a new runway, the family living at the very end of the existing one. With perilously low 747s regularly rattling the crockery as they come in to land and a brilliant selection of low IQ, fashion-challenged family members you think at first that the film is asing you to laugh at the morons. After a while, you realise they are perfect examples of the uncarved block, blissfully happy with their lot. Marvellous.

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So, here I go. One Blog Too Many. Might well be the truest thing written on this page.

Rampant egotism appears to be getting in the way of a level headed appreciation of the blogging scene so you're stuck with me, I'm afraid. (until something more interesting happens in my life....a new GTA, perhaps)

Anyway, in other news, I'm really not sure about how I should be feeling about news that Saddam Hussein has been excuted.

OK, he was an evil, dangerous (if you lived in Iraq) dictator but isn't delivering him in to the hands of the shiny new Iraqi democracy so they can murder him (albeit legally, whatever that means in Iraq) just a bit wrong? It all seems like it's very much on the same sliding moral scale (with the emphasis on 'sliding') that gives us those lovely rendition flights?

Me either.