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Lost

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still from the first episode of lost

So last night we settled down for a Lost marathon. It started earlier in the week on Channel Four, but we missed the opening episodes. Digital channel E4‘s Second Chance Sunday was not only showing the first two episodes again but also the third, and so three hours of television drama ended our weekend. I am already hooked – it’s going to be twenty weeks of really high quality drama ahead. There’s been lots of talk about the most expensive television pilot in history and such. Each episode has been compared to a movie. I don’t know about that, but I know that it appears very well written, well acted and has very high production values. I also know there is a lot of content on the web about the show, and I am not going to read it. I am going to let the story unfold naturally (so don’t tell me), but the first question has to be: how did any of them survive, and how have they got three episodes in without worrying about food?

On this day…

2004: Kill Bill (Volume 1)
2003: Disappointing Frustrating
2002: On The Town

Kill Bill (Volume 1)

Kill Bill Volume 1

When you finally start to understand the plot of Kill Bill (Volume I), you will see that Uma Thurman wakes from a coma and is determined to seek revenge on those (namely Bill and his crew) who put her there. For me, Quentin Tarantino usually means more violence than I am prepared to stomach, but in Kill Bill (Volume I) it’s almost comic book (the blood spewing from the severed arms will – sadly – amuse me for quite a while). The acting is excellent (Uma is brilliant and Lucy Liu is, too). The staging of the fight sequences is unlike anything I have ever seen before and, although I am still trying to figure some of it out, I am pleased I rented it and not a little disappointed that I didn’t see it in the cinema.

I wasn’t expecting to like it, but I loved it.

On this day…

2005: Lost
2003: Disappointing Frustrating
2002: On The Town

Disappointing Frustrating

Why is it that the small stuff in life is always the most infuriating?

This morning I thought I would give the MSN Music Club the once over. You’re supposed to be able to download music legally and all that kind of thing. Well, today they did manage to take my credit card details (I signed up for the minimum service), but that’s about all they’ve done. I haven’t actually managed to get a track out of it. It seems to be a permanent error (but perhaps not as big an error as me handing them my credit card details). Obviously, I was also silly to try to access it later in the day with the Mozilla browser.

How disappointing.

This afternoon I rushed home from work to meet the plumber who was coming to fix a new kitchen tap to replace the one that’s been dripping for a year (I know it’s a water crime, but I do have a life to lead). Anyway, he arrived (after I had hauled my ass and walked up the escalators on the tube to make sure I got the right train home) only to leave ten minutes later, saying he couldn’t fit the new tap and somebody else would have to come out next week and show him how to fix it.

How frustrating.

On the upside, my Oyster card that allows me to travel on the tube hasn’t yet been erased by my mobile phone despite the fact that I keep sticking them in the same pocket.

On this day…

2005: Lost
2004: Kill Bill (Volume 1)
2002: On The Town

On The Town

Tonight I am taking a client for a drink (well, not me, but I am going with the Account Manager for this client). These are always interesting evenings, and you never really know what to expect. They could be nice, and they could be dull. It could be over in an hour, or it could go on to the early hours. They are perfectly reasonable people in the working environment, but they may be awful when you get a shandy in them. I suspect this may be a late night.

On this day…

2005: Lost
2004: Kill Bill (Volume 1)
2003: Disappointing Frustrating