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Buses

Chris Hawley — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 15:40:19 +0000

Buses are the worst form of public transport in existence. This is a fact that I had grown to accept and understand during my time living in Leeds, I knew that they weren’t going to show up on time (if they showed up at all) and I accepted it. Unfortunately I’ve since moved to London where the public transport system (tube and DLR anyway) works more often than not.

So, when I come to head back to Leeds this weekend, I have no problem navigating from my flat to King’s Cross, nor from there over the hundreds of miles back to Leeds; even going so far as to arrive early! Happy with the progress public transport had allowed me to make thus far I wandered out of the train station and to the bus stop. This is where the problems arose.

At the bus stop is a sign with the next three buses, none of which were the one I wanted. I consulted the timetable, and it said “at least every 10 minutes” so I figured that’d be fine. So ten minutes pass. Then twenty. Eventually the sign now displays three of the bus I want, with the ETA of “due”… great. Finally, after about thirty minutes they all show up at once.

Ah well, I did eventually make it here, but I bet it’ll only be worse on Thursday when I come to make the return journey.

Spiderman 3

Chris Hawley — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 23:29:03 +0000

While at home this weekend I saw, for the first time, the third of the Spiderman films. For the most part it was the usual superhero good vs bad stuff… but one point really had me confused. Anyone who doesn’t want to find out something that doesn’t really impact upon the main plot and has yet to see the film may wish to stop reading now – as here be “spoilers”.

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So yeah… why the fuck was there a random dance sequence in the middle of the film? It, and the preceding sequence with the prancing around on the street, was just stupid. The only reason I can think it was in there was comedy; it certainly had me laughing at the time.

I Heart Huckabees

Chris Hawley — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 00:49:27 +0000

So, this evening I watched I Heart Huckabees after I recorded it from More4 last night, and well… it’s possibly the strangest film I’ve seen in a while. This probably started off with me having no real idea as to what to expect, having only seen the trailer earlier on Saturday when I decided to record it on a bit of a whim.

During the watching of it though, I was often left sitting with a confused expression on my face as something crazy happens – like Jude Law’s character breast feeding another character in some sort of strange mental imagery that the character is conjuring up. It was just… weird.

It’s this strangeness, however, that means I’ll probably keep it around on the BT Vision box so I can watch it again in the future, perhaps to gain some further insight into just what the hell I spent the last two hours watching. Still, that’s for another time on another day methinks.