The Daily Planet

Just a quick update of some of the books/flicks/music I have been reading/seeing/listening to in recent times:

Flicks:

Jindabyne : a "serious" Australian film, i thought it was pretty mediocre, Gabriel Bryne is in it and there is a werid Irish pious religious element in it that really annoyed me, not one likeable character either, at the end i was just glad it was over, the end was as i expected as in no ending, at the cinema i could hear the sigh from everyone else "is that it ?" .. maybe one will have to see it to know what i am talking about.

Kenny : Mockumentary in the style of Spinal Tap or Best In Show, I thought it was classic stuff.

Footy Legends : Rugby league is the football in question. Enjoyable enough in its own way although in the end it descends into fantasy (the local pups made good come up against a team of former legends and beat them, when the camera pans across all the legends are literally twice the size of the lads )

Some Boxset stuff (Is the boxset the greatest invention in the history of the world ?):

Simspsons fifth series : I think i had given up completely on the simpsons the last 5/6 years of simspons have been putrid, but this season on its own is absolutely classic, so many marquee episodes its hard to pick one, Homer the Vigilante/Bobo/Homer in Space/The B Sharps/The Thompsons/Campers Pampers

Black Books : Brillant No other words necessary, can't understand why i had to come to Oz to find out about this classic

Books

Day of the Triffids: I am big fan of the post apocalyptic genre, I think this is a great read, it seems to me to a very accurate and frightening take on the descent into chaos after a massive castrophe.

War of the Worlds : Fabulous SciFi considering it is over a 100 years since it was written, The tom cruise film that came out last year based on the book is a stain on humanity i might add.

Music

Morrissey : Ringleader of the tormentors : Good stuff from Moz although I don't think this album did aswell as he thought it would, I don't remember a strong single being released.

Dan Fogelberg : I heard Same Old Lang Syne on the wireless and thought it was great, so i picked up his greatest hits, its not bad middle of the road type stuff.

Miles Davis : Cool & Collected : In fairness it is pretty good but i have the feeling buying the albums is better listening you probably can't shoehorn a selection toegther like this and make it sound as seemeless as any of the classic albums. A review halfway down the page (Amazon) is spot on i reckon and i am certainly no expert.