Shipwrecked

Matando Cabos (2004). Hilarious, one of the best comedies I’ve seen in ages. Sort of like “Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels” but infinitely funnier and with better acting all round. Some nice lucha libre moments too… 4.5 Lulus…

Erm, what else? I’ve been busy translating corporate documents for a chain of car dealerships and putting the finishing touches to this here lycra sports clothing shop. I’ve got to do a fair amount of work on Intangible’s site before tomorrow evening, and there’s rumours of a party being held here on Friday with Javier and a load of his students from England… I’m also off to buy tix for Julieta Venegas which is on the 4th, so keeping busy as ever.

Sita asked me what to dress up Atticus as for Hallowe’en. This page has a few ideas: http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/2006/10/lets_just_get_t.html though he’s more Princess Leia than Darth Vader… Being a schipperke, or Belgian boat dog, he’s be a good Hercules Poirot…

I’m liking FireFox 2.0, by the way definitely worth installing. Mind you, if IE had extensions IE7 would be up there with it. There’s a new TotalPodCastrophe out, Desmond 22 so I’ll be giving that a play on my next round of errands…

Erm that’s it. Have a photo of some taco ingredients that i’ll almost certainly not be trying anytime soon. Tacos de Trompa (snout)

The Tacos al Pastor come highly recommended though. Mexico City style…

There’s a lesson for us all here. Scrub yer fingernails before taking pictures of your grubby mitts holding your freshly minted press pass… I won’t get a chance to try it out till next Tuesday at the lucha, cos today is the last day of the photojournalism seminars, tomorrow we’re off to Tequila, and on Saturday… and then on Sunday we’re off to see The Killers in concert. So fingers crossed for the lucha on Tuesday… actually I wonder if I can use it at the Killers concert… Oh the possibilities.

The 9 o’clock showing was sold out so I had to wait till the 10:20 one, so I managed a swift pint of coffee before queuing up outside the cinema. Fantastic film, review probably coming sometime in July when I get a chance… saw the trailer for Hitchiker’s Guide, which I’m not looking forward to as much as I expected. I read somewhere recently that the golden age for science-fiction is 14… anyroad I finally got home at 1am, with the dog barking up a storm, naturally, and realised that what with the 8 hour time difference and all that it wouldn’t be a bad time to reestablish contact with me folks who’ve been trying to catch me in all week. Anyroad, had a lovely chat, then fed and watered the menagerie. Obsessively checked the stats on me website before bed (one from the rasterbator was a novelty). And am blogging a bit now because the coffee’s still swilling around me system. I’m picking young sita up from SJO tomorrow morning so I need to get a bit of kip in though I might end up finishing Zadie Smith’s White Teeth tonight at this rate. I’ll read this back tomorrow afternoon and make any necasery edits… Happy weekend folks

Here’s just one of the three 4′ tall ice sculptures:
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I took bloody tons of photos, but because I didn’t have a tripod, they’re all blurred to buggery due to atmospheric indoor lighting and shaky hands. I should’ve learnt by now. At Joop & Laura’s get together t’other night he showed me his new SLR digital camera. It was a sight to behold and to wield. I’m experiencing yet another bout of camera-envy… Anyone want to buy my Fuji Finepix S5000? One careful owner? 250 of your earth dollars… or 6 pounds, probably given the exchange rate these days.
Have you ever been to www.last.fm ? It rocks- enter 3 of your favourite artists, choose someone with a playlist that looks to your taste, then listen to streaming radio from that person’s favourites list. You rate the tracks as you go and teach it what you like and it should start showering you with nothing but tunes you like. It’s, like, a radio TIVO. And it’s free apparently. It might start weaning me off NPR and BBC Radio 4…

It’s made a huge difference having a decent hosepipe. My tip for the day is ‘You’ll always remember the quality but soon forget the price’. I reckon the front garden is as good a place as any to meet people. Folks park in front and ask if it’s okay, I’ve been asked for directions a goodly few times, and I’ve chatted with Seora Tere from next door about horticultural issues. No philosophical debates just yet. Maybe if I start weeding though… Maybe I’m tired, or maybe I really am posting an entry about watering the front lawn… anyroad, there’s also a Mexican tradition I’m glad to be keeping up that involves filling plastic bottles with water and distributing them round the garden to stop cats coming and crapping there. It doesn’t work. But they’re a cheap and tasteful alternative to gnomes and now the garden fits in beautifully with the other houses in the neighbourhood. Other garden news? Well, Sita decided that cilantro/coriander and basil is a faster growing alternative to grass for those pesky bare patches in the lawn and it’s coming along a treat. We’re going to have the best tasting lawn in all of Guanatos.

All the design projects I hinted at earlier are out of my hands for a day or two so I’ve been chillin’ listening to Top of the Pods and playing guitar along to VH1. And now, dear weblog, I’m writing again. Hang on, just been called to light the oven. Sita’s still ovenphobic after her near death experience 2 months ago… wish me luck… back again with just minor burns. Sita cringed in the garden while I lit it… Maybe this is why she wants a microwave. Laters…

Stocked up on some videos this morning… Los Infiltrados (forget the name in English, the Scorsese oscar one), Borat (because I feel I ought to have an opinion), The Last King of Scotland, and Apocalypto (apocalypso?). I made a dog’s dinner of the oscar nominations this year because I hadn’t seen most of them. In February’s film reviews there’s hardly anything too, so I hope to make up for that a bit this month. The only film I did see in Feb was The Color of Paradise and I was on the verge of tears for the next 5 days after that one so didn’t manage to review it. I may correct that later…

Anyroad, then we went to Home Depot for floor tiles for the bathroom and I’ll be barbying arrachera later. Looks like life’s returned to normal again.

Here’s an addictive little Flash game that’s taking over from Scrabble in my affections for the next day or two. Change the colour of the bottom left tile to join it up with other tiles of that colour until the whole board’s monochrome. Tewbewks: I thrown down the gauntlet: get to the level “do it in less than 26″…