War Horse

I recently went to see the film 'War Horse' with my lovely husband. We find it difficult to see films together because Dan likes 'Bang bang films' and I like 'ooooh ahhh films' I don't like mushy American girly films- they are silly. I like thinky films, I don't like films where more than 3 people get shot, and I refuse to see films where people have pointy ears- I just can't empasise with them.

That's why we thought that War Horse could be a film that we both like, Dan likes war and I like horses. Other films we could see together include

machine gun turtle
door mouse massica
guinea pig genocide
or exploding puppy dogs

I quite liked the film but Dan said it had too much horse and not enough war. Just at the end as everyone was in tears he said quite loudly 'As if I could give that much of a poo about a horse! it will be glue soon'

Here is a really good illustrated review of War Horse it's much better than this blog entry.

http://thehairpin.com/2012/01/war-horse-an-illustrated-review

Stationary Purgatory

A song by Hannah Jones:

Verse 1:
I was playing with my blob of blue tac,
it rolled away from me, and I want it back,
but it went to a place where few can escape,
it's in stationary purgatory.

chorus:
Stationary Purgatory,
That is where I know my blue tac will be,
it fell down the radiator,
I hope I'll see it later,
When I rescue it from stationary purgatory.

Verse 2:
I tried to poke it out with a ruler,
I enlisted the help of my friend called Tallulah,
we poked and we prodded but we dropped the ruler,
into stationary purgatory.

8 things

1) never go to Google image search and type in 'string' if you want a picture of string I'd try 'ball of string'

2) I have renamed my bank 'Santan-dur' because they are stupid. According to their customer service people, internet banking doesn't work if you get to their homepage via google.

3) Yesterday I was teaching Aztec art to year 5s and I heard the teacher say 'good artists are ALWAYS good tidy-uppers' errrr not true! I might even argue that untidy people are more likely to be good artists.

4) I recently asked Dan what he would prefer I gave him out of a wild boar a wild hoar or a wild chore? he answered a wild chore like cutting down trees or something.

5) I dreamt about Lady Gaga's wedding dress it was quite a traditional princess style apart from it was a 2 person dress for her and her husband to wear together. They waddled down the isle facing each other like syamise twins.

6) I have recently joined twitter, I don't fully get it yet, but I was pleased when I saw this fight between Pete waterman and my Dad on BBC breakfast and was able to find Pete on twitter and tell him to back off my Dad. Unfortunately I did it wrong the first time and accidental had a go at a Chinese person. Here's the clip: http://youtu.be/0Rtgk-pIU1w

7) oh yeah the fight (and it wasn't really a fight at all) was because HS2 is going ahead despite the fact I told my MP I didn't want it. You can read about her and her hypnotic eyes here: http://thewonderingsofwibble.blogspot.com/2011/12/my-hypnotic-mp.html

8) Dan is doing some kind of computor training internet thingy called sissco, and I thought 'where have I heard that before' and then I typed sissco onto you tube and relised he is the man that sang 'The thong song.' watch the hilarious video of a black man with dyed white hair from the year 2000 here http://youtu.be/Oai1V7kaFBk

The Mighty Nokia 3310

I'm feeling a certain nostalgia for this:

11 years ago when I was 14 this was the only thing I wanted. I didn't want it for making phone calls of course, I wanted it so I could play snake on the school bus like my friend Gillian. The other side benefit was that I could text whoever I wanted without my parents knowing. I had no desire to do this before age 14 so it was invented just in time. I think a lot of things were invented just in time for me. Like the internet...I was quite a technophobe and didn't have an email address until I was 18 but who needs to use the internet before the age of 18 really? In fact I don't think under 18s should be allowed to use it. They'll only waste time on it. Anyway there was no point in using the internet for homework and stuff when Encarta 95 had all the answers to life's problems. - Oh the good old days before I knew how to copy and paste. I'd print out sheets and sheets from Encarta and cut out the paragraphs I wanted glue them to another piece of paper and draw a picture.

I miss photos two, I do love digital cameras but I feel that they have devalued photos. I liked it when you went on holiday and you had one film of 25 photos...does anyone actually need more than 25 photos of one holiday? Maybe yes if half of them have thumbs in or are just black, but that's the fun of getting photos developed, -that risk that maybe they're all rubbish. At christmas we would take a photo album with a years worth of photos to our grandparents house and sit and tell them about each picture. If they were still alive they would probabley just 'like' my photos on facebook.