Like everyone I succumbed and saw Inception. Leonardo DiCaprio’s performance was, again, superb. Christopher Nolan’s inventiveness, visual style and scale were impressive. However, what I liked most is what it left me with: stuff to think on. What occurred to me was films exploring notions of reality, the brain, and imagination end up referencing somehow, … Continue reading Inception: Alice in Slumberland
Stuff I Like
Filled with references to stuff I like in music, film, tv, reading, writing, online etc.
Random eerie resemblences in TV Land
I was thinking about TV and actors, which via a circuitous route best left mysterious, led to programs I liked as a child, and I discovered some things and recalled other things and found out stuff I never knew. Like how the girl from Worzel Gummidge was in Four Weddings and a Funeral via Educating … Continue reading Random eerie resemblences in TV Land
Blessed Be the FruChoc Stockest – Update
Hi, this is a very important update to the below post. Last week, via the goodness that is Twitter and Adam Hills, I discovered supermarkets around Australia are now stocking FruChocs. Calloo Callay! It's only taken a billionty years (approx), but yes, they are here. Of course the sad thing is they have been re-branded … Continue reading Blessed Be the FruChoc Stockest – Update
Egyptus Aeturnus Australis?
HERODOTUS, the world’s first historian and travel writer, was so impressed by the antiquity of Egypt he attributed to it the seeds of his own culture. And so, ever since the Ancient Greeks caught on, the allure of Egypt has not gone out of fashion. The Romans too, always followers of Greece’s fancies, were romanced … Continue reading Egyptus Aeturnus Australis?