So it turns out that this Steve Carell comedy isn't a Steve Carell comedy, it's a steve Carell romance, a total date movie, so that I went with a dude is kind of awkward.
All I'm going to tell you is that it's really sweet, and very nicely made, and I don't want to talk about it anymore.
(Yeah, I liked it. But you shouldn't go if you're not either of 1. a girl, or 2. on a date with a girl.)
YOU'RE A MURDERER!!! OF LOVE!!
Shut up.
MRF had the fantastic idea of checking out this performance, which is part of the Comedy Festival, but not really a comedian.  Well not in the usual sense of the word.
The concept is simple - and is pretty well laid out right there in the title - one man (Charles Ross) in a plain black overall, by himself on an empty stage, acting out the entire story of all three movies that made up the original Star Wars trilogy in one hectic, sweaty, vivid, evocative hour.
He didn't quite manage to hit every note - his Yoda was execrable - but the really good far outweighed the less than sublime - his Jabba was brilliant, and he made for a pretty good Tie Fighter (if not such a great B or X-Wing).
Heavy on the laughs, and at not an entirely unreasonable price (particularly given that 25% of the ticket apparently goes to lining George Lucas's pockets, in licensing fees), I'd have to say this was a pretty strongly recommended performance.
If it pops up in your town, you really should go along, it's makes for a fun night out. (But you've missed him at the Festival for this year in Auckland & Wellington.)
One minute and four seconds of taste and sophistication. There's only one way to go from here.
But almost everything comes to me by email or the web, so when it comes to filing cabinets, this is about the best use I can find for mine.
Would call a plan that costs "$99″ the "$100 Package" and charge "$198″ for their "$80 Package"? No one, that's who. Because no one else is Vodafone.
The trick is of course revealed when you click through to the next page and discover that the price in large print is for setup and the hardware bundle - the package name refers to the monthly fee. Anyone else would have made that clear with 2 or 3 additional words on the page, or at least somewhere in the main copy on the page, but Vodafone just isn't anyone else, now, is it?
I'd like to do some science, or at least arrange to have some science done on my behalf.
Is hotness hot in the cold? Are people scared of scary people? Finally, and we can answer the questions that have plagued mankind through the ages.
It consists of a survey, in as much as surveys (and by close association: statistics) can be called science.
The survey takes several parts, but what it's really about is how many people a given person has to ask before someone will take a survey, and depending on surveyor, which passer-by is most likely to become a surveyee.
Initially it strikes me that interesting surveyors would be a patched mongrel mob member with full facial tattoos, and a bikini clad model in the rain on a winters day.
The third part of the survey is how long can you keep someone answering questions while you go through a seemingly (or even: actually) endless series of questions. And would the facial-tattooed patched gang member, once having snared one of the (I hypothesise) very few people not too scared to talk to him, be able to keep someone there standing answering his questions effectively forever?
This is science. As I see it. Pure, unadulterated, science.
The purpose of the hot bikini-clad model-type standing in the cold Winter rain, protected from the inclement weather by nothing more than a clipboard, should be self-evident. It would be hot. And what science needs is definitely hotness. And shivering gooseflesh.
Perhaps a hot washboard abs endowed guy in a speedo could be added for good measure, to throw the feminists off the trail. Actually that feels more sciency too, you could call him a placebo, or control group, or something. Which all sounds convincingly scientific to me.
Now all I need is for my modest proposal to be accepted, so I can get that Government grant-money firehose turned on all over my head, neck & back.
Almost certainly one of the most highly anticipated movies of 2008 is upon us. So anticipated was it, in fact, that I posted the trailer right here on my site.
There was such a strong response to the trailer, that The Onion dropped some of their own brand of too long but still very funny snark on it.
As of Thursday, the full length adaptation of the trailer is out, and is it good?
No, I'm afraid it's not good, it's very good.
Funny, action packed, and unlike other recent comic book adaptations such as Spider-man the hero is a hero, not a whiney-ass emo bitch who moans and complains about how hard it is to be a hero. Tony Stark is not emo. Tony Stark is WIN.
If you like action movies, or action comedies, or comic book adaptations I think you should go see it. Including people who like comic book adaptations is almost certainly redundant as they already have. Fucking fanboys.
I AM IRON MAN.