Nerd Not Geek

xmas and new year are over. Nothing much has gone on but I feel as though it was a non-stop event.

Joshua received a new pet for xmas, a bearded dragon lizard. Since then we have been on a learning experience with a steep learning curve. Today I have set up our cricket breeding system which will hopefully relieve the need to pay $7 every 2 days to keep the thing fed. It started on xmas day as 125mm long , a week later and it has grown 10mm at least. 10% in a week !! Its a very clever little thing and I can easily waste time just sitting and watching him watch me.

Some movies that have been and gone over the break.....

Good.
Appaloosa - very bleak, quiet western , a very big winner.
Body of Lies - Muslim DiCaprio ?? but it works.
Choke - very nice
Slumdog Millionaire - the weakest of the good movies listed but with good pedigree and worth it for the dance sequence.
Dr Horribles Singalong Blog - Absolutely wonderful, could not have been more suprised and happy at how this turned out.
Humboldt County - Another wonderful movie that will almost certainly never make it big.


Bad.
Stiletto - Just shit
Ghost Town - Why do great UK comediens go to Hollywood and churn out Romantic Shit ?

Thats enough for now

Not much to add , just a journal entry really.....
First hot day in Melbourne today for a while 35 ish or something , still sat sweating in the shed. Having a beer to cool down though.
Contemplating selling my wooden framed LCD on ebay.
Ive made two modded LCDs and Im kind of attached to both of them so I asked a pro artist friend of mine how to go about the emotional side of selling something you have put your heart into. She said sell it for a lot. There ya go !!

And just another quickie....

Burn After Reading was the first flick to get me out of the house for a while and it was worth it. The humour is subtle and dark , the acting , especially by Brad Pitt, is wonderful, and the story is captivating.

To say more is unnecessary - go see

Burn After Reading - Two Thumbs UP

OK , its been a while but its time to get back in the saddle and get some blog down.
Its been a crazy month or two that started with Bathurst. Bathurst is a 1000Km car race around Mount Panorama. Its also 1000 km from home.
After a days drive we rocked up and had a great time on the mountain, camped for four days and came home again. Nobody got injured severely and all had a good time. Pics at Flickr , search for Nerdnotgeek .

Since then we have had Hannahs brthday , the Melbourne Cup horse race and just today Steve and Margies bub MJs christening and BBQ.
Next week is Marns work Xmas BBQ and then we have a couple of weeks off before xmas (if you dont count Josh having basketball saturday mornings at 8.30 till then ! )

Sooooo , apologies for missing the blog but I will try to update a bit more now. And then on to the shiz.....

How to lose friends and alienate people - as has been said before I am a Pegg fan , I loved Spaced and of course Shaun of the Dead. I was even a fan back in the days of Big Train. I was however reticent to watch "How to" after the disappointment of "Run Fatboy, Run". The problem is not so much with the films, they are both quite well made things. The issue is with the fact that Simon Pegg and myself grew up watching stuff and listening to stuff in what appears to be parallel worlds (and Im sure I am not alone in thinking this), the lines he writes for his characters make sense, his references are for english 30 somethings and the link is obviously real.
Imagine my disbelief when I find a clip of him on Youtube on a panel with Kevin Smith, another dude whos work I greatly enjoy.
This leads to the major flaw in the recent two movies - I dont believe them. I guess if given the same chances I would move to LA and start making "funny" movies about relationships but that isnt what I want from Pegg. Ho hum

Good enough movie but not if you are a fan of real comedy.

How to lose friends and alienate people - One Thumb UP

The left hand speaker looks shocking in this picture but is in fact not all that bad. Im not sure what it is about my camera but it shows the worst of everything in the shed.

I was sure I had already put up these pics but they appears to be gawn ?!?!?

here they come again then....

ok , Liv Tyler , so she was OK in LotR but can she cut it? According to The Strangers I would have to say yes. She does a convincing job and carries a tense and often jumping shocker.
The movie is the generic story of deserted folk being stalked by nutters but pulls it off (mostly) with a reasonably OK run of links which take the characters from scene to scene and fright to fright.
Was I convinced - nah , did I jump - oh yeh . overall - its a very sparse storyline but well performed and filmed. (The soundtrack is interesting and very well used also)
The Strangers - Two Thumbs UP

My latest blast at the past. Not exactly NeoVic but Neo something. This looked like it would be a simple cut and shut job but ended up taking a whole night. The result though is rather dandy.













Apologies for the poor picture quality, something needs to be done about that !!

For some reason this picture just grabs me.