Bad non environmental kitten

[green_amber]

Tescos Online have delivered 10 mins into allotted 2 hr slot, no fuss. I heart them (even if bizarrely, there were no tinned tomatoes due to Delays Caused By Snow. Now is the end of civilisation nigh.).

Today's (other!) Happy Thing was Ladies Who Lunch with yonmei, hfnuala and (not actually lunching!) chillies, which was very pleasant, with lovely food at Urban Angel (oops! whisper salmon risotto, rocket salad and strawberry bakewell tart with home made amaretto ice cream - extremely yummy). We all made plans to Go Back Soon.

And tonight i'm actually going to, unheard-of-ly, Stay In on a Saturday night,cook that leg of lamb, play with the cats and watch the ice dancing final. That sounds absolutely wonderful..

Oh and .. film challenge number no-fucking-idea, Good Night and Good Luck was much much better than I expected, indeed v g indeed. Very much a poster child for the usual liberal causes, freedon of speech and the American way, etc, but not nearly as been-done for all that as I anticipated. David Strathairn takes a tremendous part as McMurrow and the b & w cinematography catches the 50s look quite staggeringly well. I hadn't realised till I got in that the characters were all real, and that the film was integrating real footage of the McCarthy hearings - but the direction and camerawork is such that the join is seamless. There are moments that, deliberately, do jolt you out your seat with their modernity - the much quoted line about how you can't spread freedom abroad if you don't have it at home is one - and I'm impressed to see Clooney sharing writing as well as directing and acting credits. Doen't he know he's just a pretty face?

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[blue-condition.livejournal.com]

> Doen't he know he's just a pretty face?

Clooney will be recognised as the major figure in US movies in the 90s and 00s - he manages to mix big-budget Hollywood, Soderbergh 'little' flims, and his leftfield career doing projects that are important to him in front of and behind the camera. The guy has integrity and a work ethic, and still understands what it means to be a movie star. He's the only throwback to the likes of Bogart and Gable - women want him, blokes want to be like him - except he adds a dash of countercultural chic to the mix. Throw in a bit of early Caine perhaps ;)

[surliminal.livejournal.com]

I think he's more Cary Grant than Bogart - no sense of menace at all - and just once, I'd like to see him playing against type (he wasn't QUITE a loveable rogue in GN & GL but still a definite goody..)but yes, definitely a decent talented admirable bloke. As he says in all his interviews, probably because he spent 10 years in crap daytime soaps before becoming a "star".

[madcatwoman.livejournal.com]

Tescos may be The Spawn Of Satan &trade, but they're dead good at deliveries, with a far better choice than Sainsbugs or ASDA. I'd have to reconsider if Morrisons ever got their act together to do home deliveries, though, as they've improved out of all recognition in the last 10 years or thereabouts.

[blue-condition.livejournal.com]

> Sainsbugs

Speak not in the manner of she who is known as That Bloody Woman, that screeching harpy Sarah Kennedy.

[madcatwoman.livejournal.com]

Heretic! Speak not thusly of the Blessed Bunty, to whom I listen in devotion on the way to work every morning!
(and anyhow, I was calling them that a good 20 years ago, so I see no need to stop.. ;P )