Stuck on the Phone

I am spending far too much time this morning on 'hold' lines trying to find out why delivery companies claim that a delivery was attempted when quite clearly it wasn't. So today's DVD review of Cellular over on my UK DVD Review Blog seems particularly appropriate, even if it is of a DVD that actually went on sale for the first time a couple of years ago.

Smile of the Day today is a BBC News Report on the visit of the King of Saudi Arabia to the UK. It's meant to be serious, but the music selected to greet the King on his arrival to meet the Queen, as featured at the beginning of the report is pure genius. I have a horrid feeling whoever made the choice might get sacked now that the Beeb have highlighted it - hopefully not!. You can see the report on YouTube here

Flood

Today's new review is of Flood, over on my UK DVD Review Blog. The DVD went on sale on Monday this week.

Smile of the Day is another video clip/song. Although I own an XBox 360 I haven't yet succumbed to buying Halo 3 (although I have Halo and Halo 2) - there are just aren't enough hours in a day. Looks like I made a wise decision, at least if this Blame Halo 3 video is anything to go by!

Days of Glory

I finally got around to writing my first review of a film on Blu-Ray last night! I published the review of Days of Glory, over on my Blu-Ray Review Blog.

Smile of the Day comes courtesy of Jacqui, a friend I met when I visited New Zealand a few years ago. If I hadn't told you she lived in New Zealand you could probably have guessed after watching this YouTube video. It's very silly and very juvenile, but I challenge you not to find yourself smiling at it!

Kiss of Death

Going to bed relatively early (well before midnight - a first for me since I started my 'time out' from paid work to catch up on new technologies) is the kiss of death for curing my insomnia. I woke up 'wide awake' at 5am this morning. Needless to say as I type this, at around 6.30am, I'm feeling a lot less fresh than I was an hour or so ago.

I've published a new DVD review, of the 1947 'film noir' classic Kiss of Death which was released just a couple of weeks ago. You can read it here.

Today's Smile of the Day is a Dilbert cartoon, which was actually published a few days ago, but seems to so accurately describe my life I couldn't let it go by without comment!

Clocks Go Back/The Reaping on HD-DVD/Pachelbel's Canon

Guess who only just found out the clocks went back an hour today (doh!) - nice surprise to find there's an extra hour in the day though!

Have updated my HD-DVD Review Blog with a review of The Reaping

Smile of the Day is not so much humorous (although some might disagree) but something that put a smile on my face this morning. This YouTube video of someone performing Pachelbel's Canon put a smile on MY face this morning, as it's one of my favourite classical pieces of music, although the performance of it on electric guitar may not be to everyone's taste!