Pod People

Again, I woke up to delicious waffles knowing full well that it would be a while until I got to eat them again because half term has drawn to a close. The rest of the day was done doing bits of revision and coursework and wishing that time would pass slower. I did get to watch Garden State which had some of the most annoying characters ever put on film, at least for the first half but as it went on they started to wise up, it wasn't quite as funny or quirky as it thought it was and you could see it trying hard to be but it just failed to hit the mark for me.

The Invasion of the Body Snatchers on the otherhand was really entertaining. I really liked the overwhelming sense of paranoia and tension in the concept and it was genrally well acted and thought provoking, shame about the tacked on ending of the film but it has inspired me to watch more 50's American horror films.

The working, the working, just the working life

Yes you saw that correctly, Daniel is wearing an ironically unattractive sweater looking loving into the eyes of his best friend: an egg. Hopefully that has been enough to wet your appetites, more updates on this project soon after we have done some editing. Work today lasted a little bit too long for my liking, there were 4 members of the cafe team (including me) and little by little they all left since it was such a calm day meaning that I was left to close up and clean the kitchen ready for tomorrow, I hope I did an ok job, I'm pretty sure I didn't leave anything on that could burn the place down otherwise... bad things will happen to me.

Came home to watch a bit of a documentary on the making of Darkness on the Edge of Town and a large portion of sauerkraut so it was quite a nice little evening. As of last night I have discovered a new found interest in Calvin and Hobbes, nearly every strip made me chuckle, all the others touched my heart. I always enjoyed the series as a child but I never understood any of the more developed words Calvin uses in some strips whenh I was 7, now that I have a bit more life experience I can truly appericate Watson's comics a bit more; infact I'm gonna go read some more right now!

Hard-boiled love

Look out for this family photo in our latest short - coming soon to our YouTube channel.

Non-Stop filming

Awoke to the promise of tasty waffles cooked by Louis and they were pretty tasty, especially with some chocolate syrup and icing sugar. Filming today begun at 10am and finished at 10:15pm with a short break in the evening for dinner. Most of the morning was spent cleaning up after ourselves in the kitchen where most of the filming took place, especially after we made quite a large, intentional mess all over the floor. Overall the day was quite stressful but now it feels very liberating, Mark, Dan, Chris and Jenny have all left the house after staying over for the past 2 days so I can now finally do what I like, when I like. Sadly, I don't really have anything to do, I haven't seen a movie in 3 days however so I will need to change that ASAP but otherwise I feel very unproductive now and I have no ambition to start anything new like a game or anything similar. Guess I'm just getting the end of half term blues.

Til Trouble

At work today I was given a few more responsibilities, the main one being using the til and interacting with customers. It was quite daunting at first because the system is through a big interface but once you learn how to use it you respect how streamlined the software is. However, halfway through the day the til broke, could have been because of me but that seriously dampened the amount of people we could serve and luckily enough I didn't run into any people who complained a lot, the worst thing that happened was that I forgot to give someone a slice of carrot cake, but that was a very minor hiccup in an otherwise smooth operation.

In the evening I met up with some good old friends at a restaurant but I forgot all about the actual event so I ate before I went out, it feels really bad to be the only person who doesn't eat when a the rest of your friends are tucking in, mainly because I got some serious food envy over Mark's calzone.

Filming over half term

The Cafe Studios mugs have arrived in the hands of their rightful owners and they are looking good, drank my morning cuppa joe from it and coffee has never tasted better! The team also all assembled around my house to do some filming for our new short film about friendly relationship in turmoil, it has a very interesting hook though which I shall not ruin right now but its really good, promise. As I am writing this I am sitting in a room with the team as they are all cuddled up on a bed and I am sat in the corner tapping away on my laptop, and somehow, all feels right in the world. Hope everyone has a good Thursday, I have work but I should get trained much better tomorrow as we should hopefully be a bit quieter on a weekday.

Happy Valentines Day 2012

Sadly, we do not have a new romantic video to share with you as we did with As Time Goes By, however I do hope you all had a nice day. To celebrate the occasion I watched Shakespeare In Love, a film I admittedly didn't think I would have enjoyed as much as I did. Costume dramas never really interest me, neither does Shakespeare for that matter but I felt like giving it a go for the sake of watching a good British movie. It was quite charming I found, the script was really well written and the whole thing was very well acted, even Ben Affleck was pretty well suited for the role but Ms Paltrow pretty much stole the show. The final scene of Romeo and Juliette being performed with a, what I think would have been the actual reaction to the first showing was done very well and made me appreciate Shakespeare just a little more.

In the evening I went out drinking with Naomi and her friend Lindsey while listening to Jamie perform acoustic guitar songs. It was a very nice evening, lots of laughs were had and conversation topics ranged from 'You havn't seen Pulp Fiction!?' To 'You remember that time you cleaned your foot in a toilet.' Like I said, lots of laughs.