Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Movie Review - Juno


Ellen Page's performance stood out more than her heavily pregnant belly as the titular character in Juno, the latest from Thank you for smoking director (and son of Ivan) Jason Reitman. Shaped in the mould of indie successes like Napoleon Dynamite and Little Miss Sunshine, Juno stands on it's own two feet, and not just because of pocket dynamo page.

A smart script by Diablo Cody, coupled with great music and inspired casting choices (Jennifer Garner, Michael Cera and JK Simmon's all on point) converge to make Juno the comedy to see this aussie summer. The cup runneth over with metaphor's about the 16 yr old Juno, who gets pregnant to best friend Bleeker, and decides to give her baby up for adoption.

For a bellyfull of laughs (ah the metaphors) and even a smidge of romance, see Juno asap. You'd be a dork not to.

Monday, January 14, 2008

Gone Baby, Gone

After our second loss of the season, I'm wondering what's happened to our skills over the christmas break. I have to be blamed for some of this (especially since I didn't practice after last weeks game), but we have to sort out our team play, because we have none.
score was 33-67 (however, the opposition got a bonus 10points at half time).

Monday, January 7, 2008

I am legend

I'm here, it's 2008 and I've yet to learn a thing.

Monday 7th January - I rolled back into work, and found myself wondering why I had come back so early from holidays (granted, I had been off 3 and a half weeks).
After answering the usual quota of post-holiday emails (300 at last count), I set about the arduous task of catching up on the latest in the Britney-goes-crazy saga.
It was tough, and by lunch I needed my tuna and cheese upgrade. A trip to the mall satisfied my fix, and the afternoon cruised by like Tom and Katie.
I lost basketball, and played pretty miserably. Tim was waiting for me at the party palace when I got back, so the loss was quickly forgotten. He filled me in on his drinking and fishing antics at Venus Bay (they took up 9 litres of bourbon and 9 cartons).
After Tim left I made up some wraps and cleaned up the place ready for the mega-inspection tomorrow morning. Peace out.