A friend of mine has a list, actually two, put up on her fridge door which is the things she plans to do over summer with her roomie. Bear in mind that both these gurles are very nice people and great to hang out with. Anyway so the list had community service, and planting trees ad many other nice things.
YS and yours truly plan to have two lists: films to watch, and beers to drink. getting on wih the story: my efiling system is a pet black hole: which is a nice way of saying that pictures which pass over the event horizon of my computer are lost to all mankind for ever. I believe this expression was first used by Clarke to describe Kubrick. Why all this? Well, I have taken some pretty louvvly pics of people recently. Which they want. which I will provide, after processing and indexing. Which might take some time. Hence, I get yelled at. But I managed to print some other pics too. Although there is much more to do, and many more pics to take. Really, it all boils down to making the right metering. I hear some of the new Canons have 51 point AF. Do they use all of that? But really, there is a crying need for some less expensive glass on the 4/3 system. And Sigma is being a git about it.. they come out with the oh-so-desirable 150-500 mm antivibr lens. And no 4/3 mount. Bstrds! And what happened to the 14-150 mm Leica antivibr lens which was announced and never released. Will you people stop drinking Pilsner and make that piece of glass. Now? Danke!
But as it was C's birthday and YK is going to India for a bit, I exerted my lazy bum and managed to get beautiful prints of their best pics (which it pleases me to describe at shaadi.com pics) and handed them over yesterday at C's birthday party lunch. Everyone was happy.
YS insisted that we see District B13. This is a delightful work of eurotrash. Think of Mithunda making fillums in French and getting them dubbed in Whitechapel. Yeah, something like that. Eminently avoidable. We also saw the Golden Compass (Daniel Craig fights Gawd). Now the book (the Northern Lights) has a very complicated plot, but that is quite readable because Philip Pullman is a talented storyteller who puts you in his character's skin very very effectively. But translating that to a workable film was apparently way to much to ask for. For people unfamiliar with the story ( and lets be realistic, with LOTR, the bar has been set extremely high on fantastic/alt universe books converted to movies), asking them to keep pace with all that happens is way too much.
