Klaatu barada nikto

Spent most of today working on another film studies essay but I did find a little bit of time to watch The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951). I watched the remake while I was visiting a friend in Germany, admittedly it wasn't great but I guess it wasn't too bad. That said, after seeing the original I can safely say the 50's version puts the new one to shame. Everything was just so much more mature in the old film, the themes were much more interestingly touched upon, the music was wonderfully old fashioned with a great space feel and was just consistently engaging. If you love Sci-Fi films then it's quite hard to do any better than this one.

Dis Rain!

Oh man, this weather. Didn't get a great night's sleep last night on account of the sound of the rain on my skylight. At first I thought it was charming but as the minutes passed it only became more and more apparent on how wrong I was. In addition to this, the awful weather also ensured a large influx of customers at work today, all desperate to wear-out their children in our soft play centre, and instead they just managed to wear-out all our staff members by providing one of the bustiest days in recent memory. I'm off to bed, here's hoping I don't have to put up with the awful weather tonight!

Mentally asleep

Foolishly, I decided to drink a cup of double espresso at 11pm yesterday evening and I found out the hard way just how badly that can muck up your body clock. I felt shattered all day and even tried to take a little bit of a power nap but got interrupted by Louis so we had a chatted to me about how is musical taste is better than his friends while we laughed at most of the selected tracks on Mark's 'Ultimate Playlist,' that thing needs a serious re-edit; how the hell did so much Nickleback end up on it?! Bed now, I'll tuck into a good comic of the Silver Surfer as I try not to be kept up by the pitter patter of rain on my skylight.

The Avengers

Spent my free first period spending my breakfast Subway voucher with some friends, I can certainly say that it was better value and food than a McDonald's breakfast and a small self conscious grin appeared on all of our faces as we realized just what we were eating fro breakfast. Mark, Jamie and I also went on a 7K run because Jamie wanted to get into shape and I certainty need the practice for the 10K in the not so distant future.

As a collective we watched The Avengers this afternoon which was pretty damn spectacular for a superhero movie. Sadly, I have not seen any of the other lead-in films predominantly featuring the other characters, but you didn't need to see those films to enjoy this one. The characters are great, the action scenes are very entertaining and you'll even find yourself laughing quite a lot throughout this film. It's a complete action package where most of the satisfaction comes from watching your favorite superheros initially clashing in personalities and values but ultimately forging a powerful alliance which provides a very satisfying pay-off. Be sure to watch through the first half of the credits though! There's a extra segment that you don't want to miss!

Back on track

Got up early this morning to finish off my history coursework, I noticed that Mum had been over it all and applied some possible corrections to the entire document in track corrects, a formatting method I was not familiar with so I had to manually over-ride every single mistake I made, this took upwards of 15 minutes and felt completely unnecessary. To make matters worse, finally go into the lesson to hand back the work and the teacher isn't in today...

On a brighter side I saw possibly the best documentary I have ever seen today: Senna, a film about Brazilian F1 racing. From that description alone it is difficult to see how anyone could normally enjoy that topic as formula one racing is typically like watching a motorway, but this film is really something else! Absolutely brilliant and quite moving at times, it is easily the most exciting documentary I've seen after Touching the Void and Senna only uses archive footage to deliver a great character study on one of the most iconic men in Brazil's history. Despite the seemingly mundane subject matter, I urge you to watch this documentary!  

Where's my card?

Worked a bit on my History Coursework and had lunch at Subway because I had an abundance of vouchers to use up. My provisional driving license still hasn't arrived which is a bit disappointing, there's a big ol' empty gap in my wallet which is the perfect size for the card, guess I'll just have to wait until tomorrow and see if I get lucky.

Fancy Eats

For most of the day I was dreading to do a practice exam answer for English in my last lesson because I could never quite get the style right before and they are often quite boring. To my surprise however I found that it was on old fashioned eating etiquette which was a fun little topic which I feel like I answered well. Otherwise today was run-of-the-mill as usual, we havn't been working on any film related projects recently since we are quickly approaching exam season, but we are very eager to get back to it as soon as all the hard work of school is over in July.