Last night I went to see Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events. Like a lot of the reviews have said, it is a very good film.
The characters have been very well cast and played their roles well. Jim Carrey played the lead part of Count Olaf. I’m not a massive Carrey fan but I thought he played his character well. Another actor I am not keen on is Billy Connelly. I don’t find his comedy funny at all but his performance of Uncle Monty was superb.
Proof whatever age you are, you can still be a Goth
The film was very well directed by Brad Silberling. The dark and gloomy colour scene throughout the whole movie worked very well indeed.
All in all a very good film which is nice as it’s been a long time since I have seen a decent one, these festive movies I have been watching lately certainly were disappointments. I highly recommend going to see this movie.
Now onto the topic of football again, all the top Premiership clubs were in action this evening and Arsenal’s hopes of winning the title were hit with a devastating blow as they failed to beat Manchester City at Highbury, the game ending 1-1. Chelsea on the other hand beat Middlesbrough 2-0 to put themselves 7 points clear at the top.
I really hope Chelsea don’t win the league as it will be a bad day for football. They would have bought the title not earned it over many years of team building.
Roy Caroll enjoys the odd game of basketball as well as footy
All the talk tonight though will surround the Manchester United game against Spurs. With only minutes remaining it looked to be a dull 0-0 game until the Man Utd keeper, Roy Caroll made a terrible error and put the ball into his own net. The ball must have gone two feet over the line but the referee and lines men waved play on. An utter disgrace! Man Utd deserved to lose that game, instead they stole an undeserved point. I hope it doesn’t have repercussions on the final league table in May.
Last but by no means least, Neighbours returned onto BBC One this afternoon. Now the hopelessly unemployable and house wives will have something to do at 1.45pm on weekdays (I of course watch it later on Sky+ when I have finished work).
The Lady and The Tramp
Sky of course has never been near a Big Issue in her life
In case you care what happened, “Jack the Junkie” had his court case, Steph’s having laydeez troubles and Lana is still a lesbian. Most importantly though, Sky returned and is still just as fit in 2005 as she was last year. Shame Cindy didn’t feature today though.
Peter Reid AKA Monkey Head
Away in a manger,
No crib for a bed,
The little Lord Jesus lay down his sweet head,
The stars in the bright sky look down where
HEALY! HEALY! HEALY! HEALY! HEALY! HEALY!
David Healy, the Leeds United saviour scored the winner for The Whites today in a smashing 2-1 win against Coventry. Another 3 points, thank you very much!
The game also reminded us why Leeds sacked ex-manager, now Coventry boss Peter Reid. Not only does he have a monkey head but he’s a crap manager. Cheer up Peter Reid! Cheer up Peter Reid!
I’m very pleased with the result, Leeds are becoming a strong team now. Marching on together!
Oh, another reason I’m pleased, I’ve got two weeks off work now (when everybody else goes back after Christmas!), off to TGI’s for dinner and then to the cinema to see A Series of Unfortunate Events tonight.
As I’ve mentioned on this site before, I’ve been playing the SNES classic Super Bomberman 2 lately. It was a great multi-player game 10 years ago and is still highly addictive today (far better than this modern day rubbish!).
Anyone who grew up in the 90’s and played a lot of video games would surly have played this game, or if not another game in the Bomerman series. Why not do what I have done and dust off the old cart and give it a go? If you’ve lost/sold/eaten your old copy then there loads going on Ebay for under £1! Oh and there is also a ROM available from various sites on the net, like here…
While you’re on Ebay, buying your legitimate copy of Bomberman, take a look at the auctions selling Blue Anti-Bullying armbands. Originally given away free on the Radio 1 website, sellers thought it would be funny and indeed a money making plan to sell them on Ebay. Unbelievably, one I found is going for £72.00 (and the price is still rising)! Thinking I’d like a band myself (I’m being traumatically bullied, not wanting to sell it – honest guvnor) I logged onto the Radio 1 website, annoyingly they’ve run out!
On a serious note, this seller has obviously made an easy £72.00 and deprived victims of bullying an armband which would have stopped them being bullied (yeah right). Many people would argue he should give the money made to some anti-bullying charity or the victims to the Tsunami earthquake tragedy.
Leeds United are playing Coventry City today. Coventry aren’t the best team in the division, in fact they’re one of the worst. Leeds could win this game easily, but as I’ve said so many times before, it depends which Leeds United turns up. If it’s the team who take no crap and get down to business they can win 3-0 again, if the team who couldn’t care less turn up then the score could be the other way round!
Saying that I think they will win today and am going for a 2-1 victory for The Whites.
Finally, take a look at the new O.T.B. section, here I’ll place any info I think is either too crap or too large to include on these blog pages. Currently there is my Fifa 2005 web log.
Bugger – Bugger – Bugger – Bugger – Bugger!!!
Leeds United. The most unpredictable team in England. A gamblers nightmare.
Firstly a very Happy New Year to you all, I hope you all had a good evening last night, if you drank too much and are bent double over the toilet bowl vomiting this morning – hahaha serves you right (don’t worry, you won’t die!).
I did go out last night although decided against braving it out in the city centre. I went out to town one New Year’s Eve and it was extremely busy. The pubs you could get into charged you over the top prices and then there were more people inside than normal so you couldn’t get a seat or a drink!
A typical night club scene on New Years Eve
Instead I decided to go round Daninthemix’s flat and have an evening of sophisticated recreation… including playing Super Bomberman 2 on the SNES emulator :o)
Moving on from last night, Super Leeds United are in action this afternoon. They’ve won their last two games and are at home to Crewe (not the best team in the league) so knowing the unpredictability of Leeds, Crewe will win!
If, now this is a big ‘IF’ Leeds did manage to win, it would be their third consecutive league win. The last time Leeds got three league wins in a row was in March 2002 against Ipswich Town, Blackburn Rovers and Leicester City.
I don’t want to get carried away, but after Crewe, Leeds play Coventry City away who are really, really poor – nothing to do with Peter Reid’s management skills I’m sure (hahaha)! If they beat them too, making it FOUR league wins in a row it would be the first time since March 2000 when they beat Coventry City, Bradford City, Wimbledon and Leicester City
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