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Being The
Geekly Diary of Waider
(may
contain traces of drinking, movies, and sport)
- June 27
- Watched Maria.
Was disappointed. I think the movie's summed up by the hack from
Le Figaro who shows up outside the theatre towards the end: he's
basically the entire atmosphere of the thing.
- June 26
- Couch-to-5k progresses.
- June 25
- Tonight's episode of The Sweeney featured entirely gratuitous
nudity, and the actress didn't even get a credit for her
troubles. "Think of the exposure", I'm sure they told
her. Exposure is right.
- June 24
- Well that was annoying: mac up and kernel-panicked.
Also annoying: a DVD with a handful of actual titles but 99 fake
ones on it.
- June 23
- On-call this week at t'office. Pager went off 15 minutes before
shift-end, which was not nice.
- June 22
- And another George Gently. Also still
excellent.
- June 21
- Watched A Complete Unknown again. Still
excellent.
- June 20
- Black Bag
is an excellent piece of work. It feels like John Le Carré -
it's about the gritty, almost boring side of the spy business,
rather than the action and derring-do of the likes of Bond and
Bourne. I'll put it this way: you could translate it directly to
stage and lose nothing. Beautifully played by all involved, and if
it's your thing, it has a pretty decent roll call as
well.
Annoyingly, the IMDb trivia for this movie is basically someone
pasting an interview / puff piece a paragraph at a time into the
interface and frankly I hate that crap.
- June 19
- More Sweeney. The episodes seem longer somehow - there's an
awful lot packed into the hour and it's not always clear, given
the precedent of the first episode, what the outcome will actually
be. I have to say the plot of this one kinda escalated into
incredulity rather quickly towards the end.
- June 18
- Second episode of the season containing a bit of implied eye
candy for The Boys. I guess this is what passed for
ratings-gathering in the 70s.
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