other recent things

how is it that humans have evolved to need at least some sleep every 24 hours? and yet sleep time needed is so varied depending on each person's environment

succinct movie reviews:

xli. the girl who played with fire - relatively intense

xlii. joan rivers documentary - ball-busting hilarious

xliii. the kids are all right - given the online 'discussion', better than i expected

xliv. the queen - eh

xlv. the lake house - double soppy eh

xlvi. conviction - ok, serious

xlvii. the experiment - violent and crazy, not as revealing as i expected

xlviii. (500) days of summer - a montage. and not much else

xlix. the tree - quite good! charlotte gainsbourg's french and english voices are very different.

l. freakonomics - disappointing, to some extent

li. inside job - holy shit everyone should see this, even academia is corrupt

lii. true grit - couldn't hear half the dialogue since everyone was grunting with a mouthful of peanut butter gobstopper, but it didn't matter, HILARIOUS. random bear suit, animal noises, guns everywhere. 'i have lapped filthy water from a hoof print and was glad to have it.'

lxxiv. brideshead revisited, evelyn waugh

ugh suffice to say i read it and won't read it again, the only people worth liking were celia and anthony blanche, which is not saying much.

p.s. pretty sure fenella kernebone of triple j and abc fame complimented me on a swish while i was warming up for bball semis during her game this past wednesday... and there we go confirmed via twitter! #autofollow

collected thoughts of the 3 weeks preceding the most recent

just posting notes because i can't be bothered expanding on them. suffice to say hong kong is another world.

- hong kong is eating/shopping/walking, 99% nothing else

- dim sum is still chopped up stuff in a wrapper even with a michelin hat on

- galaxy tabs are the next ipad - smaller, better

- manual pomegranate juicing results in a bloody pulp

- even the most shithole syringe infested dirty public toilet has automatic sensor taps

- rice paper is a revelation (around sticky foods)

- japanese customer service is endemic and representative of so many things

- who cares if some people are 'too weak' for regular vegemite, let them try and revive their brand! lower salt is a good option. only problem is again with marketing, no one above 6yrs old would want to buy 'my first vegemite'. even if they want to, like me.
ETA: real actual major marketing problem, i wanted to buy it and couldn't bring myself to, my first vegemite is a joke.

oh shit

coming back from holidays means being an adult again with real responsibilities and stuff