Zodiac

Now that we're edging towards summer, all the big summery blockbuster movies are looming. Already we've had the slightly sticky mess that was Spider-Man 3, and this week, arrrr! Cap'n Jack Sparrow be back in the third Pirates of the Caribbean, arrrr! And of course after that there'll be Shrek, Transformers… blah-dee-blah-dee-blah.

The downside of all these big budget plot vaccums is that the smaller, more interesting, less mainstream films get blown out of cinemas. Which is why today I ran out of work to catch Zodiac, because I noticed that the number of screenings for this film were dwindling in light of the impending and aforementioned Pirates. Arrrr.

Now, I'm a huge fan of David Fincher's movies. I'm one of the few people that actually like Alien 3; OK, it might not be the best Alien movie, but it's certainly visually interesting and there's some nice moments. Then of course there's Se7en and Fight Club, which pretty much speak for themselves, and Panic Room, which succeeds in making an interesting movie out of the fact that Jodie Foster's stuck in a box (hey, Jared Leto's face gets toasted too!). The only Fincher movie I haven't seen is The Game, but that's more to do with the fact that it's got Michael Douglas in it and he annoys me slightly.

And so, my Fincher-worshipping credentials established, I was very much looking forward to Zodiac. I was not disappointed. I'd actually approached the film with two slightly apprehensive notions; one being that it's nearly three hours long, and I thought my bum might fall asleep, and the other being that as it's based on a real life killer whose identity was never established, it might not have a very satisfactory conclusion. I needn't have worried - Zodiac has bitch-slapped Sunshine off the top spot as my favourite movie of the year so far. It was chillingly awesome. And despite my constant professing of not being a fan of Jake Jiggly-balls (as Marcosy calls him), he put in another cracking performance in another cracking movie.

Go see it before it's barged out of cinemas by the big guns.

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Ooo - nice weather!! How gorgeous has today been? Let me tell you: very gorgeous. And I enjoyed it all the more upon deciding to walk to Chiswick to look at trainers in Boardwise. After the pretty dismal response to the trainer vote, y'see, I did some more research on t'internet, and discovered that the Boardwise website is selling my beloved Kingpins at the knockdown price of £27! I can replace my worn-out trainers with identical shoes! So I thought I'd see if they had them in the shop.

They did not.

I did, however, buy something I've lusted after for a few years now: camouflage shorts! Yes, I know *everyone* is wearing them these days, but I still wanted a pair, and these were rather tasty. Those toned lower calves will be flashed around town before you know it - as long as the weather holds…

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OK, back on the weekend, Tara meme'd me with a post about eight random facts about everyone's favourite subject - me! (What!? Stop looking at me like that…). Anyway, the reason I've not done it yet is because I've been trying to think of eight interesting facts, and have found myself sadly lacking. But who cares - here's eight random and potentially crap facts about ME!

• When I was a kid, my dream job was to be a bus driver, and I amassed such a vast collection of toy buses that Sparky Ma and Pa considered seeing if they could get me on Blue Peter as 'Britain's most bus-obsessed child' or something. Seriously, buses *everywhere*.

• When I was about eight, big bro Simon dropped a big rock on my foot while on holiday, and the nail on my big toe turned black and eventually fell off (don't worry - a replacement grew!); I took the toe nail to school in a paper bag for a show-and-tell type thing, which, I seem to recall, went down very well.

• The first album I bought was 'Cloud Nine' by George Harrison on tape. Picked it up on CD a couple of years back, and still like it.

• Earliest cinema memory: watching Return of the Jedi in 1983, and leaning round Sparky Ma during the scene in which Admiral Ackbar first appears to say to Simon (in possibly the most incredible instance of pointing out the obvious EVER) "that's Admiral Ackbar."

• I once owned stick insects. And I seem to remember they went on hunger strike one holiday because we didn't have the right sort of leaves to give them. Fussy bastards.

• Once appeared on The National Lottery show when my school got a lottery fund grant; I was giggling 16 year old in the background in the canteen. I actually have it, but sadly only on VHS, so I can't share it with you.

• Was an avid fan of TV's Beauty and the Beast until Linda Hamilton left.

• I worked in the bar at Thorpe Park for two weeks after leaving school. Could never remember what each drink cost, so charged people pretty much what I wanted depending on how nice they were to me.