When Harry Met Helen(?)

Go Fug Yourself alerted me to something (and it's not that Helen Mirren is amazing and sexy, I already knew that). So I ask this of you guys, surely some of whom have read the final Harry Potter book (which I have not). Is there a role in The Deathly Hallows for Ms Mirren or is she going to be the only British actor to not have any part in the series.


I haven't read the books - I'm an unedumacated person and prefer visuals, sorry book-o-philes(?) - but think it would be kind of cool if Helen Mirren showed up in the final film of the series. Or, how about Judi Dench? That'd be pretty darn awesome, I would think. If there aren't any roles for them can we drag them up? British people love that, right?

I never did mention what I thought about Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and I'm not feeling terribly wordy about the subject right now either, but I will say this - I liked it. I quite liked it, actually. Definitely my second favourite of the series after the kind of amazing Prisoner of Azkaban. The director (somebody Yates) surprised me. The visual effects just keep getting better with each passing film, some of the set-pieces were really great - the scene with all those crystal-ball-esque things was darn good (the hall of mysteries?) - and it's always a blast to see people like Imelda Staunton. B

***Can I just point out that when I was googling Helen Mirren (how rude does that sound?) for a picture to use in this entry the second image that came up was this. Yowza! It's, er, NTFW folks***

Here I Am!

So, my day has been interesting. Here's an equally interesting (...) rundown.

I woke up at 10 and went to the shops to buy a paper. There was a funny article about Germaine Greer. Doesn't she ever shup up? Don't newspapers get sick of writing about how she never shuts up?

At 11.30 I went into town with my friend Hannah. I had to film her getting her ear pierced for, like, the tenth time. She got one done and I was all "Is that it?" and then the piercer (Clare, she's really nice) brought out a big motha of a needle and said there was a second one. It was huge. I wasn't too crash hot on the filming thing in the first place, and then I saw what I was filming (my friend likes to keep the... memories) I closed my eyes. I have a big thing against medical stuff. Like, I could watch countless ultra-gory horror movies, but once there's things that are like surgery I just can't handle it. Needles being injected? Ugh. Hell, even the piano wire sequence in Audition was unbearable (other than that movie just being woeful in general). I can't watch any medical shows on TV like ER or RPA (well, except Grey's Anatomy, strangely). I couldn't even listen to my friends discuss disecting a frog in High School. And it's not because I have a history with hospitals. I've never actually been a patient in one. It just makes me queasy.

Anyway.

After that we ran into our friend Agi and we went to lunch at this organic restaurant and met up with Emma. It was nice, I suppose. Why are organic restaurants always so tiny? The focaccia I got was good, but had too much beetroot. Like, hold the freakin' beetroot! Some of it is nice but not an entire garden.

After that we saw Notes on a Scandal (2006, dir. Eyre), which was sort of hilarious. Judi Dench was brilliant. Cate, not so much. I just loved the completely over-the-top melodramatic lunacy that ensued. You know what else there was a lot of? Lots of shots of stairs! Upwards, downwards, sideways, under, over, any which way. Richard Eyre really liked filming characters walking up, down, sitting on, looking up at and standing underneath stairs! They were everywhere! Turn around and, oh look! Another flight of stairs! Turn around again. Ta-dah! More stairs. It was frightening the amount of stairs there were! Still, it was enjoyable. By the last half hour I was laughing my arse off. "HERE I AM!! HERE I AAAAMMM!!!!!" What a hoot. "You're not young!" Talk about LOL. Shame that Phillip Glass' score was ridiculously omnipresent. It was like the stairs. I almost can see them saying "No scene shall not include the score turned up to 11!" Anyway. I think I'm gonna scream "HERE I AM!!" everytime I enter a room now for the next few days. B.

While we were at the cinema we saw all these posters for Pan's Labyrinth!!!! Hannah and I were going to head up to Melbourne just to see it (before the oscars), but it's out as of tomorrow. All the posters had big signs attached reading "STARTS FEB 22" which is tomorrow! OMG. So, naturally, we're seeing it tomorrow. Can't wait. Agi was totally pumped to. She and her boyfriend were also going to go to Melbourne just to see it.

Anyway.

Then I came home and Blogger finally asked me to swap over to the new thing. Everytime I tried it told me I couldn't, but now it did. So... yay? I dunno. Am I gonna have to go through and add labels to every post? Oy...

*world implodes*

Fuck global warming, this is the event that will forever change our planet. I personally love how I named the file parishiltonjudidench01.jpg as if this freak of nature occurence is ever likely to happen again.