Who’s Hungry For Shrimp?

Sat, 12 Sep 2009

Finally watched District 9 tonight and it was hella good indeed. Great fun story and kick-ass action, my only problem I kept thinking that the main actor was Spike Jonze. I mean, obviously it wasn’t, but I just couldn’t keep shaking off that thought. But that’s just me. Also loved the many subtle science and sci-fi references. Along with Moon, District 9 is one of the greater sci-fi film to have come out in years. Go 2009 go! And there’s still Avatar to look forward to.

Also set to check out Casablanca on the big screen this weekend and it’s gonna be awesome. Next weekend has also got a screening of The Wizard of Oz and I’m so down for that too.

Ain’t had much else to blog about this week, hence the rather quiet activity around. I keep trying to make use of twitter as an alternative, but its a service I’m not really getting that into at the moment.

Meanwhile I stumbled across this neat little article/entry and linking mostly for the first paragraph, but you can check the rest here.

My whole theory of beautiful language holds that it comes from nameless, groups of people looking for a more expressive way to say something. I’m always thankful to get a note where someone praises a sentence I wrote. But what I really want is the kind of genius that takes “I’m leaving” and turns it into “I’m ghost” and then takes “I’m ghost” and turns it into “I’m Swayze.” Seriously, what kid decided to pull “Ducat” out of obscurity (at least obscurity for us 80s city kids) and use it as easy as bread, or ends, or greenbacks? Who decided that a gun should be called a “heater” and then a “toaster” and then finally a “biscuit”?