Misc

Music I've been enjoying recently:

1. 'The White Album' - The Beatles
2. 'Only by the Night' - Kings of Leon
3. 'Oracular Spectacular' - MGMT
4. 'Intimacy' - Bloc Party
5. 'We are beautiful. We are doomed' - Los Campesinos

I've also seen a few films recently that deserve a mention:

1. 'The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas' - A strange concept in that it's probably the first children's film about the Holocaust. Not quite as powerful as I would have expected, although the end cannot be faulted.

2. 'Quantum of Solace' - Let's just say that I was satisfied. This wasn't as good as Casino Royale. What made that film special was perhaps the poker game in the middle - it gave it some gravitas and anchored the film's various set pieces. Quantum, by contrast, seemed like one continuous action scene. I liked the development of Bond's character and disagree with those who moan that he doesn't seem to be having any fun. However, Bond does need to go back to basics somewhat next time. This means bringing in Moneypenny, and Q!

3. 'Goodbye Lenin' - A fantastic film about a German man who deludes his socialist mother into thinking that the GDR stills exists even though the Wall has come down while she was in a coma.

4. 'Come and See' - Part psychological horrer - part horror film from Belarus. Made in 1985, this is an extremely distubing film about the Holocaust.

Books - currently reading Marquez's 'Solitude' but I'm not giving it the attention it deserves. This is not the kind of book you can read for 10 minutes each night...

Ciao :)