Seems I can rely on Kristine, even when I least expect it. :) Thank you my dear, you're a true friend.

What a day! Coming off finishing The Da Vinci Code and going on to watch Almost Famous, both for the first time, i'm in a seemingly major philosophical mood. Which sadly could, and probably will, go to waste, but still, least I embraced it while it was here! :) Either way, if you haven't read it, read it. If you haven't seen it, see it. I know most of you hear me say the word 'read' and immediately think of The Mirror, or maybe the horoscopes in the latest Cosmopolitan, but really, there's a whole world out there full to the brim of... another world. Let it suck you in, and you're basically fucked, but it's a good fucked. A 'fucked' that you WANT to take over you. You'll be surprised how good the written word can feel after reading some of it, and it does actually reach further out than just the recesses of your local sweet-shop magazine rack.

As for the film, there's more to life than blockbusters and mainstream Hollywood. Don't get me wrong, I love the occasional action flick (tho come on, they're fucking awful today), and i'm a sucker for Pixar films, but again, delve deeper. Go browse the Internet Movie Database, and find films you like then you know what you do? You click the link that tells you it can recommend you other movies like it. In fact, fuck it, go browse it's top 250 list. Fuck the Lord of the Rings trilogy, as well as the expected mush like The Godfather, Star Wars, Fight Club, Kill Bill Vol:2 (Vol.1 was good, 2? Fucking hell...), even the likes of Amelie (there are COUNTLESS better French films out there than this), and give Rain Man, Stand By Me, The Breakfast Club, Magnolia, fuck, even Groundhog Day a look. Sit back, flick open a bottle of water (the ones with the caps of course), open up your bacon rashers (excellent movie delicacy), and be enveloped in a narrative which doesn't need violence, special effects, or the obligatory twist ( I blame M. Night Shyamalan, that guy made those things too cool for their own good), but which relies on simple story-telling. In a manner which makes you sit up from your previously sat back position, and almost nod in agreement to the seemingly hidden message that's being thrown at you.

I'm preaching. I know it. But it's nice to point people in a direction which MAY, not definitely, but may bring them happiness. I'm no fucking messiah, i've done enough stupid fucked up things to know if I believed in heaven and hell i'd be debating with myself which direction i'd be heading. But there's no harm in trying to open a person's eyes. it doesn't happen often to me, but when it does? Oh boy! :D