The Cove (I highly recommend you get to the cinema)

If you enjoyed Al Gore with 'An Inconvenient Truth' you will love 'the Cove'. The movie may raise more questions than it answers but it certainly makes you think. Are Dolphins sentient? How should we treat wild animals? (though Dolphins are classed as Cetaceans or small whales - and yet not covered by the IWC!) Do Whales and Dolphins threaten fish stocks? How do humans interact with our planet? etc

Well I left with a weird dichotomy of feelings - and watching Flipper as a child may have aided and abetted my adult feelings of guilt and 'awww they are so cute'ness.

Yes I would be happy to write letters to stop whats happening in Tajei - but more importantly to stop Japan interfering in Caribbean island nations to 'buy' votes on the IWC. Oddly for me they came out as the bigger wrongdoers - the IWC, with Japan as the slightly overweight David that the International Goliath was sadly mismatched against.

But - go see it and come away with your own views - not as gruesome, maudlin or even the bad rip off of the Blair Witch meets Al Gore I expected. Highly Recommended.

At Cinemas now!

Bunnings

That's BunnINGS - not bunnys.... the local Aussie DIY shop. Take your man there and get your hair done girls - or loose 3 hours of your life there looking at every little and large gizmo and gadget he might need for the summer or winter (or at least the season juxtaposed to the one you are in) and comparing screws.

I-mate ultimate 8502

well there you go, if its my prejudice against windows mobile, or if MS still have not made a robust mobile OS... I still find I cannot get on with a WinMob smartphone.

Oh the phone is not bad per se. The screen is excellent, perhaps the unit is a bit overburdened with buttons... to make use of it as a decent type emails machine. Certainly it comes with ms mobile word, excel and powerpoint. It allegedly connects to your tv... Wow and with such a timy memory too.... but its matt black finish is too me a little dull, I do not want to buy 16 software solutions to MS's shortcomings in terms of media player, menu customisation etc. And overall its overpriced!

but its main issues are: only takes 2gb expansion, runs WinMob and (sigh) I really want a E61, or for the same price could get a E71!

Favorite Movie Quote - From Tremors (1990)

Earl Bassett: We gotta run. We've got a schedule to keep. Valentine McKee: Yeah. See, we plan ahead, that way we don't do anything right now. Earl explained it to me.

Is it art or is it just a sofa..... The ACCA

ACCA - Australian Centre for Contemporary Art - Tacita Dean til 2 Aug.

Is usual pretentious film works and dark maze of rooms... Is it art or is it just a sofa? Well I like art that's comfy on the bum...

Indeed is it a cafe or an art installation? Good chai and muffins if it is - even with its own resident Tracey Emin lookalike barrista.

On the art on display - usual "I could do that myself" all round review of anything 'contemporary' applies... But saw the Yellow Peril - see picture above(actually called Vault, Ron Robertson-Swann 1980).

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