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Movies
Have caught up on a few movies recently. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines was the only good one.

Blindness sucked. But I'm still not sure what the hell those blind rights group were complaining about. Everybody (except Julianne Moore) went blind anyway and obviously some of them were nasty but that doesn't say anything about blind people in general. Those rights groups are always kicking up a big fuss about the smallest things.

The Day The Earth Stood Still sucked too. Silly story, just some 90-minute sorry excuse of an ad for Will Smith's annoying kid. That kid would have been reason enough to kill off all humankind.

TV
Finally completed BBC's Robin Hood. Nice little series. Richard Armitage (Guy of Gisborne) and Keith Allen (Sheriff of Nottingham) steal the show. Honourable mentions to Joe Armstrong (Allan A Dale) and Harry Lloyd (Will Scarlett).



Just started watching True Blood. Not bad so far.

Fun Bit 012 - National Day idiots

News:
An article in the my paper dated 30th July 2009 about idiots who'd pay rates of $408-468 a night at Swissotel The Stamford, $780-1800 a night at Mandarin Oriental and $1000-1400 for 2 nights at Ritz-Carlton to watch the National Day parade and fireworks.

Fun:
FFS, who the hell is that damn stupid enough to spend that kind of money on this crap when a better, longer holiday in Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam or even Hong Kong at better hotels can be had for even less money? I just spent 6 nights in Thailand and spent less than $1000 on the whole thing.

I find this so unbelievable I have to wonder whether idiots Long Li Yann and husband Jimmy Liew quoted in the article even exist.

RIP

I've been wanting to post about Michael Jackson's death for a while now but didn't get around to it. I sadly now have one more reason, the death of Sir Bobby Robson today.

Michael Jackson (29th Aug 1958 – 25th Jun 2009)
Easily the biggest artist the world has seen. I hate that we were robbed of his talent so many years ago after some profiteering bastards went and exploited his love for children. I never believed it for a second.

All the hypocrite singers who supposedly cried when MJ died should go fuck themselves. Never once did any of them try to collaborate with him when his career was down. Guess it would have been bad publicity huh?

RIP Michael, you leave behind legions of true fans and plenty of the best songs out there.


Sir Bobby Robson (18th Feb 1933 – 31st Jul 2009)
Another legend passed away today after a battle with cancer.

I best know him as the best Newcastle manager but this is a man who's done great things, including a stellar career as England manager and manager of many title-winning clubs throughout Europe. He also groomed Jose Mourinho into the manager he is today. Too bad Newcastle didn't treat him with the respect he deserved, that's just one of the many things Newcastle have screwed up on.

RIP Sir Bobby.