Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Animation

. Brett,, here is an animation I did today. It doesn't have sound yet though.

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Saturday, April 26, 2008

Forbidden Lies Review





Brett>> Forbidden Lies is a movie by Anna Broinowski about Norma Khouri, and the two women are the commanding presences in it. Norma Khouri was revealed as a faker in 2004 for the writing of her book Forbidden Love (The book is no longer in print, pulled by the publishers when she was uncovered, but it is still possible to get it second hand, see link below).



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Friday, April 25, 2008

Smart People Review

Brett>> I really loved SMART PEOPLE. It was a smart movie and I laughed my ass off at the same time. The family in the movie were a disfunctional bunch, sent off the rails by the death of the mother, and we join them in this movie just as they begin to get their act together after what is hinted at as a very long time.

Babsi>> It was very good, the casting was

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Sunday, March 23, 2008

Spirited Away

We are sitting in a hotel room in Sydney and it's really raining outside. Usually we have a great view of the Sydney Tower but it's impossible to see today through the rain clouds. Last night as we were up till all hours we watched spirited away on Australian TV (unfortunately the dubbed rather than the subtitled version). This is an animated movie from Japan about the adventures of a young girl who gets trapped in a strange Japanese traditional spirit world full of bath houses and priests and witches and other odd stuff. Babsi just said it always makes her cry, and it is a very emotional story. The quality of the animation is just fantastic. Every painted background is a work of art. The motivations of the characters are really strange and otherworldly, you just let yourself go and be taken along by the very strange dreamlike hypnotic story and when the ending eventually comes you'll be just a little sad to leave the spirit world, just like the character.

Sunday, March 9, 2008

The Spiralcat Top 10 Books

The Spiralcat Top 10 Books

Brett: How about I chose five and you chose five?
Babsi: Yeah we can do that.
Brett: OK, what's your favourite book ever, ever?
Babsi: And that would go in 1 wouldn't it?
Brett: Yeah, I'll put yours 1 – 5 and mine 6 – 10.
Babsi: I've got a few. A Hero's Walk is one of them. And Maurice is another one.

- Much discussion later the list is formed -

Brett: So our first choice is Norwegian Wood?
Babsi: Norwegian Wood is a book by Haruki Murakami who is a very famous author.
Brett: Oh yes huge.
Babsi: And his stuff is mad but I like it. His book Kafka on the Beech is good but too mad. Norwegian Wood on the other hand is lovely. It is also a bit crazy, he always has these crazy elements, but still, it's a very, very good book. It's about this guy falling in love with a woman who plays the piano and ends up in a mental institution. It's very, very sad but

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Thursday, March 6, 2008

Lost. To time travel, or not?


Brett: Yeah, I liked this episode. I liked it very much, but it was still a little dissatisfying.
Babsi: Well what kind of answer do you expect. What do you expect to actually happen. You never get any answers anyway, I mean you know that don't you.
Brett: I suppose so. I suppose he's come as near as he's ever going to, to saying it's some kind of time difference between the island and the outside world, and it's something to do with electromagnetism.
Babsi: I've done a bit of research and had a look round and they were talking about another hatch. Which is the Orchid Hatch and is something about bunnies. And Ben knows something that these people want to know about. I'm starting to think that, I'm starting to piece it together a bit. I think the problem is that it's weekly so you've kind of forgotten everything you've seen. Well not everything you've seen, obviously, you're not an amnesiac. You just sort of get confused, and you think, “Huh? Who was this person?” Because there are so many people, and different groups of people now.
Brett: And they behave so oddly. Like these rescuer, scientist, Ben-hunter people who in the trailer for next week, look like they're going to be doing some weird experiment on the island.
Babsi: Yeah, I don't know what the story is going to be about that. It's interesting that one of them is an anthropologist. I thought that was quite cool. I presume they all have their own private goals and you sort of see glimpses of their lives and sort of try to piece it all together. I'm starting to think it may be about cloning. I would maybe even go as far as to say that the characters are clones.
Brett: Got cloned? It happened, it's over? Nah never! I think, they'll think they were cloned, for seven episodes, and then find out that they weren't.
Babsi: (Laughs). That would keep things exciting wouldn't it.

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Sunday, March 2, 2008

Let's Read State of the Union

Brett: Right now, we're both reading State of the Union by Douglas Kennedy.
Babsi: Yep. But we haven't finished it yet.
Brett: We haven't finished yet.
Babsi: I'm about half way.
Brett: I'm on page 32.
Babsi: Why did you start reading it?
Brett: Because we decided to read the same book, so we could talk about it on the blog.
Babsi: So what's your impression so far?

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