Do You Have A Soul Mate?

Starbuck and I visited the cinema on the evening of the 23/04/2012. Starbuck had tickets for an exclusive advance preview of Cafe De Flore. Cafe De Flore is an incredible film from director Jean-Marc Vallee. It is a French film subtitled in English. Cafe De Flore is a love story about people seperated by time and place but connected in profound and mysterious ways. The film chronicles the parallel fates of a fiercely devoted single mother with her young son in 1960's Paris and a successful DJ in modern day Montreal, balancing the demands of his career, his new relationship, his daughters and his ex. An elegant, emotionally truthful drama unfolds, exploring forces we seldom acknowledge and rarely understand. Cafe De Flore is truly delightful, thought provoking and sincere but this is not a review.

Friday Favorites #2

Sony's PlayStation division has always had a rather inventive approach to advertising their product. I have always been highly entertained by the adverts they create, even if they are completely bizarre as many often were. Just take a look at the PlayStation 3 "This is Living" campaign. With the recent lauch of the new PlayStation Vita Sony had some more marketing to do. The new campaign for the PSVita, "The World is in Play"does not disappoint me at all. It got me thinking about Sony's past campaigns and the adverts that captured my interest and imagination.

Disposable Monday. #1

As with most things, pleasant or unpleasant, they have a beginning, a middle and an end. Typically, Monday is not only the beginning of something unpleasant but also the end of something pleasant. The start of the working week is a weekly event that is universally despised by the majority of the clock punching public. But it's got to start somewhere I guess and we all love to hate it. A Monday moan is a weekly tradition as much as Sunday lunch is. If only Monday was as disposable as the rest of modern life has become.

Gaming is an expensive hobby.

One of many PS4 concept images.

As a large part of the gaming community is desperately clamoring for more information about the next iterations of PlayStation or Xbox, picking at morsels of information that may lend a clue as to the direction the industry is going to take next. With the information/rumours revealed I find myself somewhat concerned and disinterested at the same time. It's an unusual state of affairs given that gaming is a hobby that I am passionate about. I invest as much time as reasonably possible into gaming, I spend my hard earned cash on games and consoles where possible and if I'm not playing videogames I'm probably wishing that I was.

Friday Favorites #1

It kind of goes without saying already that videogames are among my favorite things in the world. As well as my family of course. My wife and son, so before my wife does read this and ask me "Why am I not there listed in your favorites?", mockingly in jest of course but it's no less of an awkward moment having to explain that actually yes, they are my my favorite thing. It's just that  this is not about them.
So what is it about? It's about favorite things of mine. Perhaps it will be my favorite brand of tea to drink (it's Lipton) or my favorite place in the world (that would be the place I consider home, which is not where I currently live). I intend to post a favorite something of mine here every Friday. Friday seemed appropriate because it's a pretty cool day of the week and only a day away from my actual favorite day of the week, Saturday. Also, the word Friday starts with the letter F just like favorite does. I already stated that videogames are among my favorite things and that is what I will begin with.

Tell the princess.....

In a moment of despair and hopelessness I wrote this poem. As ridiculous and nonsensical as it may appear, it does have some amount of meaning.

Excerpts #1.

So here I am. It is Sunday 14th September 2008. My Wife and Son are in Poland making plans for our wedding this coming weekend. I am sitting in the living room of our one bedroom flat in England wondering how much longer I can put off emptying the bin in the kitchen which is looming ominously close to coming crashing down. There is a level of skill required to maintain the delicate balance of an overflowing pile of rubbish of this magnitude. It is a skill level that I am proud to have achieved. It has taken years of negligent housekeeping to perfect the art and a certain commitment that is rarely seen these days!