Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Close encounter of the famous kind....!!!

Guess who I saw?????

None other than Christian O'Connell!

It was a very surreal experience, because although I've woken up to the sound of his voice every morning for the past 3(?!) years, I never expected to actually come face to face with him.
And the weird thing is, it was kind of more than a coincidence that I saw him:

I was in HMV, looking for birthday presents for people, and it was really difficult, because all my friends have loads of music, so I had to try and think of CDs they definitely wouldn't have...highly complicated...

For some reason, I went to the soundtrack section at the back. I never go to the soundtrack section, because
a) It's right at the back
b) You have to walk through either Jazz & Blues, or Classical to get there, which are highly embarrassing places to be seen in, and
c) Because there aren't many sound tracks worth getting, except Bridget Jones, A Knight's Tale and other rare films like that.

So anyway, you get the idea.... it was already quite strange that I was there...

I jogged through classical, hoping nobody would see me there, and nearly ran straight into a man who was looking at the books at the back (you know...where they put stuff like Johnny Depp's Biography, and a book of the stories behind every Beatles song etc.).
I managed to stop in time, and I had to walk in front of the man to get around to the soundtracks.

As I walked in front of him, I looked up, can't remember why... probably to sort of smile apologetically coz I was blocking his view or something . When I saw his face, I froze in front of him and stood there staring at him.

I believe the expression is, 'like a bunny in the headlights'.

I don't know how much time passed before I un-froze, possibly several minutes, and then I realised that I was still blocking his view of whatever book he'd been looking at.

So I mumbled something like, 'Uhhh.....sorry.....' and moved out of the way. He kind of watched me walk past, in a way that a semi-famous person might watch someone who they thought had recognised them.

I still wasn't sure if it was actually him.

I stood in the soundtrack section staring at his back, trying to figure out whether it was him or not. Every so often he glanced around at me, which was a bit embarrassing, because then he knew I was staring. Though he probably felt my eyes boring into the back of his head.

I just looked at the Virgin Radio website, and I'm pretty sure it was him.

The only thing that makes me think it might not have been him is his bag.

I know I have a thing about bags, but the bag he was carrying was not at all stylish. Not even in a kitsch way.

I txted Em, who replied before I'd even put my phone down and told me to get his autograph.

But how could I, after I'd disturbed his quiet browse of the shelves at the back of HMV, and then stared at him for hours on end?






Thursday, April 05, 2007

The Unibrow Song

Needs no introduction...

Monday, April 02, 2007

Premonition

I went to see Premonition on Friday with Em, Lobs, Phelan and Debbie.

The Physics crew were all trying to drag me along to see 300, but I heard that 1 hour and 15 mins of the film are all killing, and that theres lots of Spartan men in thongs, and lots of body parts being blown off, which isn't my idea of a good time.

So basically, it was either Premonition or 300.

Premonition is a 12A, 300 is a 15, so I assumed Premonition would be easier to watch. Plus I like Sandra Bullock. =)

Don't get me wrong, Premonition is a good film, but I've never got on particularly well with psychological thrillers...

Remember the time we went to see Secret Window? We only went coz it had Johnny Depp in it. The three of us ended up all sitting in one chair, screaming.

And when it finally finished, none of us wanted to leave the cinema in case we got a screwdriver smashed through our heads.


However, Premonition wasn't excessively gory. There were some things that made you squirm in your seat, but on the whole, they were quite conservative when it came to gore.

There were only 2 scenes I can think of that had blood in them. One was when she trips over in the garden and her hand goes into a dead crow. That was REALLY disgusting.

The other was when her daughter runs through a glass door and gets cuts all over her face. There was a lot of blood in that scene. And it was quite upsetting, coz, you know, a kid going through a window isn't really an enjoyable thing to watch.
(Unless, of course, the window is open).


They did a lot of scary music, and those creepy black and white shots of wind blowing through trees and crows flying around and stuff...

Oh, and the lid comes off a coffin, but you don't see inside. I think. I wasn't taking any chances with that part - my eyes were shut.

But it was a really good film.




In case you don't know, it's about a woman who has a premonition of her husband's death. She had quite a few premonitions, so she is able to keep a diary and work out what will happen the week her husband dies, and try and stop it from happening.



But, the plot thickens, because she finds out that her husband was planning to have an affair the day that he dies.



So she has to decide whether it would be better to let him die than to have their family ripped apart by the affair (they have 2 small children).



Also, she has to work out whether letting someone die is the same thing as killing them.

So yeah, it's a really good film. The only reason I don't like it is because they could have SO easily made it have a happy ending, and they didn't.

I like films to have happy endings even if it makes it totally unrealistic. I don't care. I just want everyone to be happy.

Premonition could have had a happy ending, but it didn't. And the thing that makes it even worse is that they tease you. Up until the last minute of the film, you're so sure that they are going to live happily ever after; everything is falling into place, all the problems are starting to be resolved. And then right at the end they snatch all that away from you.

I literally felt robbed when it happened.

But looking back at it now, I think that the ending wasn't as bad as I thought it was at the time. Even though they didn't let everyone live happily ever after, the ending isn't as bad as it first seems... it kinda leaves you thinking that yeah, the world can be a harsh place, and bad stuff happens, but there's still hope.
You can still find happiness when things don't work out like you planned.


I won't tell you how it ends though. Go and watch it!