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Rocks!
Great film, the best of any of the Batman Series. Funny, dark, exciting, cheesy, and just plain cool.
The battle between law and grace continues…
It was a really nice night all round. Drinks were great, the canapes tasty. Well, most of them, there was this strange vegetarian one which didnt do anything for me. And it was a really flash little hotel in a rather swanky, trendy (?) part of town. Soho, I think.
I managed to get ten of us together, and everyone had a great time. Lots of time beforehand to chat as we had the drinks and the movie was a hit with everyone it seemed.
So yeah. All good.
Mental note to self: enter more competitions!
Yep, that’s right; Free!
Thanks to a competition I entered (on behalf of myself and Sara) online at Nokia.co.uk the other day when looking at (lusting after) the new N91 phone… Sara won tickets for her and nine friends to see Batman Begins at a special screening at the Charlotte Street Hotel in a little theatre there (see picture).
Not only that, but they’ll give us champagne and canapés to ease us into the movie mood.
Nice.
Thanks Nokia and O2!
I bought a couple of dvd’s the other week…
The first was the series ‘Long Way Round’ which accompanies the book of the same name which I have just read. Once I was a third of the way through the book, I knew I just had to see the series. Ewen McGregor (of Trainspotting, Big Fish, and more recently, Obi Wan in the new Star Wars Trilogy) and his best mate Charlie Boorman (also an actor but of slightly lesser, err, profile) decided they wanted to ride on motorbikes around the world. Four months and nearly 20,000 miles on BMW GS1150 Adventures.
It was incredible to watch. The challenge, the distance, the bikes, the friendship, the adventure! And it just added fuel to the fire of the whole ‘motorbike’ thing with me. Well, it was a bit of a ‘double whammy’ really, as it encourages the ‘travel bug’ as well. I’ve been left imagining riding the roads of Western Europe for days or weeks at a time; Sara with her arms wrapped around me, leather jackets and travelling light… seeing Italy, France, Spain, Germany… Ah well, dreams are dreams!
Talk about wild at heart. By the way, I would recommend to any man that hasn’t read John Eldredge’s book; go buy it. It’s great.
The second dvd was Sarah McLachlan’s ‘Afterglow live’. Sara and I both really like her ‘Mirrorball Live’ dvd, so I thought it would double as a present as well as a general purchase! Sweet. The dvd also comes with a cd of some of the concert, so while at work listening to it (I bought it from www.play.com and it was delivered to work), I discovered that Sarah introduces one of her songs with an ad-lib of ‘you are my sunshine’. Like any man madly in love, I have found myself singing that to Sara at times, and thus an idea was born: I went home, put it in the player without Sara seeing, and asked her to come over and close her eyes and then hit play… and Sarah M serenaded us. A beautiful suprise and a lovely moment!
I love that when that happens.
So yeah, there you have it.
