One Week To Go

Yep. Just one week to go before I finish university. I've got a whole 7th draft to do, which'll be done just before hand-in. We've been doing so many read-throughs of all our scripts lately that they're almost about to blend in together, which'll be interesting to see what comes out of those hallucinations!

In other news I've been in Newbury once again to work, and my friend Justine (who lives full time in France) is over to visit again, she's in fact been helping us read through all of our scripts, which I hope hasn't been too boring for her. It's always good to see her, despite the blazing rows we get into regarding chivalry.

Right then... chivalry.

It's pretty much dead, we live in an age where feminism took chivalry and beat it over the head repeatedly until it died, but most women still expect men to hold the door open for them. If that sounds a little bitter, then it is, but that's only because I just don't get the dichotomy between the two. Basically, me and Justine argue every time she comes and visits because I insist that she sleeps in my room and I sleep on the sofa. Now, I don't think that this is too much to ask, but it kind of irks me that she constantly refuses and insists that she'll take the sofa. It's just one of those things that I guess will never change about our friendship, even though I'll never quite understand it.

Mmmm... pizza.

Sorry. Anyway, one week to go until we hand in, one week until we party like it's 2099, one week until everything that we've spent all three years of university working towards is completed. Kind of scary, isn't it?

KILLING BONO.

Now, I really didn't expect much from this film, and when I was told that Bono himself actually likes this film, I was pretty much ready to write it off, but then when I was in Scotland I got the chance to go see it at the local cinema and I thought 'what the hell, why not'. And man, do I not regret that decision.

This is an utterly charming, music-filled, retrospectively funny and insightful little film. It's about two brothers who want to be rock stars, but the trouble is that they went to school with a bunch of lads that would go on to become U2, the biggest rock band in the world for quite some time.

Another reason for seeing this film is because it features some premier talent, Stanley Townsend was fantastic, Peter Serafinowicz is always a welcome sight, Barnes and Sheenan played off each other just right and it was, of course, the last film to feature the immense, undeniable and sorely missed talents of Pete Postlethwaite. I can't tell you how much I'm going to miss that man. The last lines of his in the film, spoken pretty much directly to the camera, are his true legacy left to his loyal audiance.

I'll admit I misted up.

But other than that, this was a funny, crazy, nostalgic little film about some truly great music and it's worth a watch, definately. I went in not expecting much, but I got more than I wanted from it, so I guess I call it a success. Might have to track down the article it was based off.

Next: Sammy's Adventures
(No, I can't believe I
watched it either)