Happy Films for Happy People

I'm posting because my aunt's downstairs talking to my mum and my sister. Normally I'd like to think I was a sociable kind of fellow but there's a bit of an overload of females in the house and I'm not fully sure I can cope. So it seemed an apt time to blog.

Watched a couple of films last night, or rather about 1.8 films, since we missed most of the second. In fact, I watched a film the night before as well. So, I might as well give three brief reviews of them all.

The first, on Wednesday night, was Starter for Ten, a film about a freshman entering University Challenge. I like University Challenge, and the film was fairly interesting. It served to show me what I was missing out on by not going straight to uni, but, I also reckon that whatever people say, I made the right decision for me. Anyway. Film. It was quite good. Lots of great cheesy Eighties music, including Motorhead (who I have seen live this year!) and The Cult. Lots of. It was also pretty well cast with some fine looking females, and lots of geeky looking males. And a cross-dresser called Marcus, which was apt. Not a bad film.

Last night my parents decided to watch a film called Sideways, which featured a couple of guys going on a wine tour around California. Music for this was all lovely jazz, which I actually quite enjoyed, and it was also rather well-cast. It made me think that as a single guy, I could be having so much more fun. It also reminded me exactly why no-strings-attached sex is a very bad idea. Krsna had it right, I guess.

After that I flicked over to Channel 4 and watched most of a film about Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, which was extremely funny but not really very relevant to my life. Unfortunately. It's given me the urge to listen to ancient radio shows, which I'm fairly sure my father'll have on tape. Oh, by the gods, I'm turning into my father!

So that's about it. I quite like films, but I'm not overly fussed. I'd rather watch anime, anyday, so last night I did; three episodes of Chobits and the first two episodes from Arc 1 of BLEACH. Good stuff; I finally have full surround sound again.

The title of this post, by the by, relates to the Mogwai album Happy Songs for Happy People, which I first heard on the legendary John Peel's radio show back when it was released. May the Gods bless his soul, and push his boat far into the underworld.