Son of Rambow

No I haven’t seen it yet, but honestly how can a film fail when you have casted fantastic actors like these. I will be very surprised if this is not going to be one of my favourite films of 2008.
Tonight I will attend a preview of it with a Q&A with director Garth [...]

Me and my sneakers - just landed on Magrathea

… have just landed on …

Arthur and Slartibartfast

Arthur and Slartibartfast
You have to be a very sad person to do this but I twittered The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy live from my mobile phone while watching it on BBC2 yesterday. That’s really sad.
(I know, too-much-bill alert. No Bill pic tomorrow, I promise. I think.)

New York, Times Square, 42nd St

“Hi” he says.
“Hi” I kiss him on the cheek. “Thanks for picking me up”.
“Always a pleasure, it has been too long. Is that all your luggage?”
“Yes. Do you think I can take some pictures?”¨
“Sure. They might look a bit, ehrm, spacey, but try.”
We buckle up and I grab my camera.
“Ready?” [...]

It’s not a big Thing for you. But it is the Thing for me.
So just to lower your expectations:
I am not getting married
I am not pregnant
I am not leaving the country
I am not moving
And it has nothing whatsoever to do with him
Sorry to disappoint you.
The Thing is …

Slarti lands in the middle of London

“Now do me a favour” I said to him “and try to land a place where it is a bit quiet. We don’t want too much attention”.
A few minutes later he called me.
“I’m here!”
“Where are you?”
“Oh, I just check, it’s a place called Leicester Square”.
“Right, you call that quiet? [...]

Empty in head and Lost. Mostly Lost.
So.
I texted S.
“Please come and pick me up”.
Half an hour later I heard him making a reasonably silent landing in my back yard. He didn’t even stumble over the bin this time.
“Where do you want to go my child?”
“Just off, away from here, into space” I said.
So, I’ll be [...]

The Tardis

Yes this picture has been manipulated in Photoshop but only to make it look more funky.
This is the one and only original one, and it landed just in front of me today.

INT. LIVINGROOM - AFTERNOON

I(NGRID)
Hey Davy

D(AVY)
Ahrr yes?

I.
You and Slarti have been meeting
quite a lot lately haven’t you ?

D.
Ahrr yes. I thought you liked him too?

I.
I do, I do.
You two are not getting me
in any trouble now do you?

This was the second time I had problems with my Oyster card. I paid for it on the internet, but somehow that information couldn’t get through to the card itself. Which meant I couldn’t get through the gates of the underground. So I went to the information desk (I am a regular customer there). And [...]

Daydream, I fell asleep amid the flowers, for a couple of hours, on a beautiful day.
“Ok I just landed. See you soon, S. Oh, ehrm … sorry about the road.” text message coming in on my mobile phone.

The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy - Marvin and Arthur Dent on Margrathea

I know you are waiting for my opinion about The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy, the movie. So here it is.
Since this was a preview, there were people in bathing gowns, and on ever chair in the cinema there was a towel.
A towel… [...]