is it a kind of dream?

I ♥ Virgin TV XL package with TV On Demand.

We asked them to give us a tv box when we moved, since Freeview doesnt work here, and we expected them to put us on the freeview package or equivalent, and that would be that.

Somehow they stuck us on TV XL which we've had since the box arrived.
It costs £14 more a month, but its a price worth paying. I have been really loving the video channels to ride my exercise bike to, and the number of +1 channels out there.

ITV2 or ITV4 are usually showing a good movie once pumpkin has gone to bed at night. One and Three occasionally do too, though its usually bloody Eastenders or Casualty. Dave, UKTV Drama, UK Gold, and such show good stuff, and theres a Five US channel as well as FX that are great for imported shows.
Virgin1 shows DS9 at 8 and Enterprise at 9.

I've been watching bits of Bond : The World Is Not Enough tonight on ITV2. Pierce, you sexy thing you.

On Demand has series 2 of NuWho, both series of Life on Mars, Criminal Minds, and all sorts. I can rewind, ffwd, anything I want. Great to pause and leave the room. Resume when i return, its like a VCR which i didnt have to pay for. The Filmflex has 500+ movies on, and I can even elect to watch music videos!

I've been enjoying LOM once again in the evenings, and its lovely. Gene Hunt, I ♥ you, you armed bastard.

(i'd never have virgin's mobiles though - their service isnt as good as Orange's, neither is the coverage.)

That's all :) 

or.. Peter Firth, why are you so fucking sexy in a *very* 80s white/black turtleneck?

It was an ok movie. I remember it from years back. Its a space vampire movie based on an interesting premise.

PETER FIRTH WAS NEEDING A DAMN GOOD HUMPING. I volunteer.

Patrick Stewart was in it. He... had more hair. *gigglesnort*  He was still very wooden and thespian, though, even when acting under the influence of sodium pentathol and an alien woman possessing him. Hee.

Otherwise... meh.

Took me a few days to get through this, with life being hectic at the mo, but meh. Wish i had those 2 hrs of my life back.

James Spader, who was rawr sexy, and Keanu Reeves, who was wooden as ever. And Marisa Tomei, who was just there to be a sex object.

Crap plot, crap acting. Nice directing, though. Spader was really as adorkable as ever.  I love his rough, gravelly voice. Grr. Keanu cannot dance, not even to Dragula.

Heh. If you're thinking of watching it, don't.

Not as good as I remember it being. I think the Matrix made it look like shit not too many years later, frankly,

Ooh, a fat whopping 320g in his head - i have more storage in my PC...

I loved his rant about wanting room service and the club sandwich, though. Funny.

I liked the idea of women bodyguards - good idea. Sort of reverse logic, but also still quite misogynistic as the men were so important that the women filled their bodies with implants to protect them...

I also liked Henry Rollins in this. A lot.  I like his patch of grey hair - I have one of those, same spot on my skull too. Strange.

That's about it. Cyberpunk doesn't do much for me, but as it was pre-Matrix, it was kindof nostalgic.

Anyone want 3 David Warner DVD movies, PAL format (not NTSC)?

The Last Leprechaun
The Little Unicorn
The Disappearance (with Donald Sutherland)

Anyone? Send me your postal, email in my profile works, and I'll gladly bung em in the post tomoz.

Ignition - that was baaaaaaad. It wanted to be Tom Clancy + a Bruce Willis film, but man oh man did it miss the mark. I had to check other film reviews to make sure i wasn't the only one who thought it was a total turkey...

The plot was so overstretched and convoluted I had a hard time keeping up with the bad guys and twists/turns but the kill the president stuff thrown in, and the rocket to the moon? Eh? Trying to do ten thriller films in one on 1/100th the budget, are we?

Man, that was shit. And Bill was out of his element trying to play a physical hard man like Bruce Willis. He didn't look like a Conor either - he's looked like a Jack, like a Peter, etc, when the part called for it, but that name was really waaay irish sounding, and way wrong for him. 

The guy who played the bad guys' muscle was familiar for some reason, and very freaky looking. Aha, checking the credits, his name is Peter Kent. What a really weird looking UGLY guy. I can't imagine acting next to him and keeping my lines straight, eeww. I'm sure i've seen him in Stargate, somewhere. Icky.

But, Bill was sexy, always so. And i enjoyed the taser + heroin scene, oh yes. *gasm*  And it was hilarious when he shot the washing machine - i laughed.

I wish he'd stop dying his hair, though - no one can have that many wrinkles and look 50ish, but have no grey hair. He needs to be honest about how old he is, and embrace it. He'd be so much more beautiful if he did.

Looks like horse shit, but not quite. lol.

Got a new tv stand yesterday, much smaller than the entertainment thing we have now, £4 at the charity shop. So we can sell the great big thing we have, and make some more dosh. Yes.

Also cleared out 4 black bags of old paper and boxes and stuff. Made room in a cupboard thing for all pumpkin's puzzles and all her artwork we've been keeping since she started making artwork. It all fits nicely away and the computer room is much tidier, wow. The one cupboard will go in her room for her to use when we move, the other in the computer room as it has pc stuff, CDs, and ebay stuff, jiffy bags and tape in it.

Next up, the toys. OMG. There are 3 toy boxes in 3 different rooms and i want one toy box when i'm done with it. Have offered the nice toy box and a black bag of toys up on freecycle, just waiting to sort them out. *collapse*

Better half is gone to fetch me a new chair for use in front of the pc, an ergonomic affair for my neck which will be nicer to sit on than this office chair that's falling apart, and BOXES. zomg we need about ten bajillion boxes. Freecycle rules, i love them all.

And IGNITION came. The first 5 minutes has Bill swallowing a bunch of pills and looking rather in pain, and a lot of shooting. Fun stuff.
Lovefilm, ilu even more. ♥

Also, my hero Janie is sending me a CD of her latest music! ZOMG i am so excited to have CD#3 and have the entire set. She rules. GO FORTH AND BUY, yes.

And GIP. Bill is so cute, yes. Adorkable, utterly.

SIBLING RIVALRY - funny. Bill was hysterical as Nick, the inept bloke working in the blinds business, with the brain of a child but so amazingly empathic. It was good stuff. Kirstie and Bill had chemistry, i kept expecting them to end up in liplock.

THE FAVOR - Okay. Bill was *dead* sexy as the husband Peter Whiting. OMG.

But Brad Pitt? I just don't get what people see in him. He's a 'hunky stud' in this movie, but uh, his ears are too small, they look microscopic, like they belong to someone else, a child maybe. His nostrils are the wrong shape, they look like triangles or something. His lips are too fat especially the bottom one and while his body is 'nice,' like women supposedly like with a 6 pack and stuff, I found Bill to be 10000000000000000x sexier.  Especially while Bill was playing his harmonica and dancing, oh god yes.

I will have good dreams tonight. In fact, i think i need a cold shower. He's incredibly attractive, especially when he's the good husband going out to fight to get his wife back. *fangirlgasm*

IGNITION is on the way.

Lovefilm, I ♥ you. Okay, my free trial expires on the 28th, but i intend to rent everything I can while its still free, yes.

Bill stuff:

LIEBESTRAUM : okay, that wanted to be a David Lynch film, but... wasn't. It was sort of like Lost Highway in a lot of ways, but again, wasn't quite as surreal. Sort of this wierd bloke and his fascination for this wierd old building, and dying grandmas orgasming as they cross over and a set of lovers in the past and present. Bill was adorkable as usual, but he was a bit of a slimy prick with a hot temper.

THE GUILTY: This was a wierd but good movie. The plot was a bit contrived, but once it got going, it took some surprising turns. They offed some of the main characters with alarming ease but the payoff at the very end was worth sitting through it all for. Bill was a slimier prick as slick hotshot lawyer cum district judge Callum Crane, and it worked so well to see him preaching about rape in the last 5 minutes up on his judge's bench, and then the ending... Wowzers. Two seemingly unrelated plots came together well, but I can see why it went straight to video - why the characters do some of the early things they do is simply because it creates a neat little story - otherwise no real sense to it all.

Lovefilm, ilu ♥  :)

Royalmail? YOUSUCK kthnksbai.

A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN - quite a good movie. Bill had a tiny role, but i loved every minute of it. I was totally feeling the baseball vibe because I used to play softball for my high school and my university. Sometimes i miss it dreadfully, living here in the Land of Cricket.

THE END OF VIOLENCE -  can't remember if i reviewed that one before, but i watched again, yes. Lovely Bill. Movie was a bit shit, but Bill was yum. Not so sure about Gabriel Byrne, used to have a mini-crush on him but hmm. Doesn't do it for me any more.

LUCKY NUMBERS - he played a hilariously stupid and inept cop, who had deadly aim. Twas kindof funny. Travolta was Travolta, doesn't do a thing for me, not one jot. Bill, otoh, was yum, even as an aging cop.

YOU KILL ME - the aging Sir really bloody old Ben Kingsley doesn't do anything for me either. This was a kindof boring movie. Bill was an old whacko in big acetate glasses frames, but i loved him. Hence my Old Geek icon.

Lovefilm are sending me THE GUILTY and LIEBESTRAUM - expect reviewsies soon :)