Over the weekend we were hoping to see Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, but it was sold-out, so instead we rented a bunch of movies and watched them instead. We saw: Broken Flowers, Shopgirl, Goal and Lord of War. Broken Flowers starred Bill Murray and featured some pretty cool music. Bill plays a [...]
On Friday night my Brother Brett and his wife Lyndal came over for a games night. We had pizza, chatted and played two boardgames: Articulate and Taboo. Both games are similar in the fact that you form teams and have to describe as many words as possible to your teammate without using the word (or [...]
One of my clients sells second-hand industrial food processing machinery, specialising in equipment from abattoirs, butchers and other meat processing plants. He’s always sending me new products to add and remove from his site, so I take it that he does a pretty good turn-over and in the most recent selection of products he wanted [...]
On Saturday night I went to see Superman Returns and was really impressed. I’ve never been a huge fan of Superman because as a hero, he seems a bit dicky (and the fact that no one has ever been able to notice the similarity between Superman and Clarke Kent has always irked me). But other [...]
On Friday night we went out for dinner to Amici’s and drinks afterwards for Al (one of Kristy’s now ex-workmates). Dinner was great and we then proceeded to the Plough Inn for some drinks. The band there (if you can call a lady singing with a keyboardist a band) was crap, so we proceeded to [...]
Been listening to Ministry Of Sound’s Sessions 3, Clubbers Guide to Summer 2006 and also listened to Gnarls Barkley’s St Elsewhere a few more times and I have to say that it’s really growing on me. There’s one quirky track called “Transformer” that at first I wasn’t too keen on, but really like it now… [...]
Last Thursday night Kristy and I went along to the opening night of Brisbane’s Bollywood Film Festival at the Dendy. There was a pre-movie party with drinks and (few) Indian nibblies. I was amazed at the diversity of the crowd that was there. The movie that we saw was Parinteena and is based on a [...]