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As with most people on our economically advanced states, late December comes with its degree of festivities. Last Friday eve was a end of year function at the Fiztroy Gardens Pavillion, leaving me unable to attend ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
trayce's function the following day. On Christmas day visited Brendan E. for drinks and zombie flicks (the excellent 1950s-styled comedy Fido, and a good 'realist' news broadcast short film - whose name I can't remember) and then onto severina_242's for food and another zombie flick (Resident Evil: Extinction, which had some good action scenes but that's about all). For new year's caseopaya and I (and Rogue) are heading to Eden. a delightful coastal town in southern New South Wales.
Last night went to the Astor to see an excellent double of Control, the Ian Curtis story and The Future is Unwritten, the same for Joe Strummer. The former, being derived from Deborah Curtis's memoir "Touching from a Distance", had a stronger narrative sense with excellent casting and sense of the times. The latter was like a combination of home movie (yes, this is a negative comment about the direction) and comprehensive documentary with significant input from a range of people close to Strummer (one especially great line "Strummer's lyrics were like an atlas to the world"). Both films managed to show the significant flaws and genius of these two great poet-musicians.
Politics is very hot in Asia at the moment. The liberal-socialist, and front-runner for the Pakistani Presidential election Benazir Bhutto has just been assasinated. In Thailand, a coalition supporting the exiled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra is being formed, which may have the monarchy a little annoyed. Not as annoyed as the Nepalese monarchy who have been abolished by their parliament (the Nepalese parliament is led by the democratic-socialist Nepali Congress Party (with 133 seats), the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) (84 seats) and the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Lenninist) (83 seats). Eight other parties have a total of 30 seats).
In other news, my review of RuneQuest (1st and 2nd edition) has been published on RPG.net.drjon provides an excellent review of the upgrade from Vista (to Windows XP) which is comic in its presentation but serious in its content (and links). On a very closely related topic reddragdiva notes that Microsoft admit that editing pictures, Quicken or Quickbook files with Vista may corrupt them.
trayce's function the following day. On Christmas day visited Brendan E. for drinks and zombie flicks (the excellent 1950s-styled comedy Fido, and a good 'realist' news broadcast short film - whose name I can't remember) and then onto severina_242's for food and another zombie flick (Resident Evil: Extinction, which had some good action scenes but that's about all). For new year's caseopaya and I (and Rogue) are heading to Eden. a delightful coastal town in southern New South Wales.Last night went to the Astor to see an excellent double of Control, the Ian Curtis story and The Future is Unwritten, the same for Joe Strummer. The former, being derived from Deborah Curtis's memoir "Touching from a Distance", had a stronger narrative sense with excellent casting and sense of the times. The latter was like a combination of home movie (yes, this is a negative comment about the direction) and comprehensive documentary with significant input from a range of people close to Strummer (one especially great line "Strummer's lyrics were like an atlas to the world"). Both films managed to show the significant flaws and genius of these two great poet-musicians.
Politics is very hot in Asia at the moment. The liberal-socialist, and front-runner for the Pakistani Presidential election Benazir Bhutto has just been assasinated. In Thailand, a coalition supporting the exiled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra is being formed, which may have the monarchy a little annoyed. Not as annoyed as the Nepalese monarchy who have been abolished by their parliament (the Nepalese parliament is led by the democratic-socialist Nepali Congress Party (with 133 seats), the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) (84 seats) and the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Lenninist) (83 seats). Eight other parties have a total of 30 seats).
In other news, my review of RuneQuest (1st and 2nd edition) has been published on RPG.net.
drjon provides an excellent review of the upgrade from Vista (to Windows XP) which is comic in its presentation but serious in its content (and links). On a very closely related topic reddragdiva notes that Microsoft admit that editing pictures, Quicken or Quickbook files with Vista may corrupt them.