Bill Nighy Art III - Bill goes Blur

Bill Nighy Art III - Bill goes Blur
Even though I only saw him a split second yesterday (on the loose indeed, together with Alex Pettyfyer, and Alicia Silverstone, and Ewan McGregor(!)) it was enough. Enough to have me forget the things I should have been working on (the [...]

New Piccadilly Cafe

Today I did speak to Lorenzo, the owner of The New Piccadilly Cafe. The Cafe, my Cafe.
I paid my Minestrone soup, and asked him the question that had been bugging me since the last time I was there.
“Is it true that this Cafe is going to close?”

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (2006)

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
Tagline: Capt. Jack Sparrow owes an unpaid debt to Davy Jones and his army of sea-phantoms…his soul. Now, he must find a way to save himself from becoming one of them, and suffering forever.

I had a serious talk with my new editor and we decided that we are not going to do it.
We are not going to write that today, it is exactly 1 year ago that I saw the film.
We are not going to write that the line “I’m not the man I dreamt I might be [...]

Bill Nighy - King of Coolness - in London

“You might as well eat your lunch” the pirate said to me “’cause it is not going to make any difference anyway. If it doesn’t happen today, it will happen some other day.” He would make sure of that, he promised.
I tried to believe him, and I [...]

The last few times when I had to decide where to travel to on holiday, I had no idea where to go. So I waited. I waited because I knew that the answer to that luxury question would suddenly present itself somehow and then I would go.
That happened about a year ago with Greenland. [...]

New Piccadilly Cafe, Denman St, London W1

The Table in the New Piccadilly Cafe, Denman St, London W1
It was about time. Back in The Cafe. At last. It has been way too long.
I went there directly after work, picking up a newspaper to read, on my way.

Karin, from met-k.com has written a very nice review about The Girl In The Cafe (both in English and in Dutch !), which is of course a very nice start of the week for me.
“The film moved me and let me think. About life and it’s chance meetings. How people seem to meet and [...]

I know I complained about it, but even though the weather was as good as it can be, I stayed inside to watch Holland - Serbia/Monte Negro at 3pm. 3pm UK time that was, which was about an hour too late, so I missed the first half. I keep forgetting that I am living in [...]

I just personally packed a new The Girl In The Cafe DVD, and will send it off to the next person on the list in Holland. I have given up waiting for it, I guess the person having the DVD either loves the film so much that he couldn’t let her go, or has some [...]

Lawrence (Bill Nighy), at the G8 in the Girl In The Cafe

Lawrence (Bill Nighy), at the G8 in the Girl In The Cafe
The Girl In The Cafe was made in 2005 as a part of the makepovertyhistory.org campaign. The film got broadcasted just before the G8 (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, the [...]

The Old Vic

Fall in London is going to be fantastic with Kevin Spacey back on stage in the Old Vic Theatre. Kevin Spacey has just announced The Old Vic’s program, and he is going to play in A Moon for the Misbegotten.

How to turn your room in London into your castle in 3 easy steps (and on a budget):

Yeah yeah yeah

Billy Mack is macky
From the official UK slang dictionary:
1. Mack vt macked;mack.ing or mack.in’
1: to flirt with, make passes at “That fool macked on me!”
2. to make out with - syn get busy, get down, get your groove on
2 Mack (noun)
1. a male adept of sexual attraction - syn hotpepper, pimp, playboy - [...]

on the Dutch telly.
BBC Worldwide has announced multiple sales from across its catalogue to each of the Netherlands’ major broadcasting groups NOS, RTL, SBS and Talpa totalling over 170 hours of programming.
NOS has gone for dramas and comedies, comprising the new series of Extras (hilariously funny, with Ricky Gervais, see it, is all I [...]

I was going to go to bed early today, until I found that voice in a very interesting interview. You might want to hear it, if you like the man just a little bit.
If you don’t you can just shake your head in annoyance about yet again a post about Nighy on this weblog.
Will it [...]

After a short visit to my ex hometown (Aarhus), the Girl actually crossed the ocean, and she is currently staying with Jason in the USA, who is taking good care of her.
Jane saw the film, and wrote the following review:
Hugh Grant meets Bob Geldof
In what starts out as yet another romantic comedy vis-?-vis shy, slightly [...]

Maybe it has something to do with the name. But this Bill is definetely one of the most funny Brits I have seen so far.
And yes he has a blog too. And no of course it isn’t updated.
But imagine having been hanging on your bed for 2 days eating apples and drinking applejuice, zapping [...]

The Milleniumbridge with St. Pauls Cathedral in the background
If you are sick and tired of reading about London already : you can skip the rest of this post.

The Girl In The Cafe has now arrived at Woordenaar
Anne has seen the movie, and she wrote the following review:
Okay, I have to admit I wasn’t completely objective about this movie. Being a fan of BBC productions, accents, movies like’ Lost in Translation’ and… Bill. Add the enthusiasm of Ingrid and what do you [...]