Movie Review: Enchanted

My firned and I have been trying to get together to see a movie together for a while now, but our only free days are Sunday mornings. We really wanted to see another movie, but it was on at the worst time so we decided to see this. It's a pretty unique storyline and there is that fairytale ending of 'they lived happily ever after'.

James Marsden seems to have had a lot of movies out recently - Hairspray, Enchanted and the soon-to-be-released 27 Dresses (which he looks absolutely hot in!) He can be my Prince Charming anyday! *grin*

Plot: Giselle (Amy Adams) is banished by an evil queen (Susan Sarandon) from her magical, musical animated land and finds herself in the gritty reality of the streets of modern-day Manhattan.

Shocked by this strange new environment that doesn’t operate on a “happily ever after” basis, Giselle is now adrift in a chaotic world badly in need of enchantment. But when Giselle begins to fall in love with a charmingly flawed divorce lawyer (Patrick Dempsey) who has come to her aid – even though she is already promised to a perfect fairy tale prince (James Marsden) back home – she has to wonder: can a storybook view of romance survive in the real world?

Christmas 2007

I'd like to wish everybody a Merry Christmas.

I hope those of you who live in the Perth metro area are keeping cool on this bloody hot day! (it's over 44 degrees celsius here!)

Separated At Birth?

I was watcing Video Hits the other day and they had on the music video for the Bandaid song from about 20 years ago.

Check it out here. You see Bono clearly about a minute into the video. Pause it. Zoom it if you can and then check out the picture of Daniel Radcliffe to the right.

How freaky!

New Mobile Phone

I bought a new mobile phone yesterday, the Nokia 6300, after my last one gave up the ghost. It is crap!

When it rings you don't hear it, even if it is up at maximum volume. This is because the speaker is at the back of the phone, next to the camera. So when you have your phone sitting on your desk, it is face up (naturally).

The battery doesn't last anywhere near what my old one did (Nokia 6610i) and it's a lot more difficult to navigate. I'll keep plugging away.

Anyway, I may upgrade again in a couple of months and maybe change my number because I keep getting nuissance calls and obscene pictures and texts.

Incommunicado

My mobile phone is doing this weird thing where I can't hear anyone that I call or who calls me unless I either have them on loudspeaker (not very good when on a crowded train when everyone is listening to you) or when my hands free is plugged in (which is not very often because I keep it in the car and never remember to connect it, besides which I tend to ignore my phone when I am driving unless I can pull over safely and quickly).

So, now I've got to buy a new phone. This is problematic because I am very happy with my provider. I have not been in contract for several years and have no intention of going into another contract when I don't need to. Even though I make it clear that I want to buy the phone outright because I'm happy with my plan, the phone dealers still feel the need to try to sell me their products.

I'll just keep shopping around until I find the phone I want.

Random Facts 19

1. The oyster is usually ambisexual. It begins life as a male and becomes female. It may go back and forth many times.
2. Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults laugh 15-100 times a day.
3. One thousand tonnes of meteor dust falls to Earth each day.
4. A single 75-watt bulb gives more light than three 25-watt bulbs.
5. Impurities in gemstones give them their colour.
6. If you remove the pip, the flavour of the olive will be diminished.
7. Babies have taste buds all over the insides of their mouths, not just on their tongue.
8. One of the best ways to clean pewter is to rub with cabbage leaves.
9. Iceberg lettuce, until the 1920’s was called ‘criphead’.
10. About 10kg of milk is needed to make one kilogram of natural cheese.

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