13
Oct
Movies I've watched recently:
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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the...
2008-05-27 11:09
Holds true to the original three, films and Lucas does not ruin the legacy as he did star wars. Takes you right back to being a kid again, with one roller-coaster scene after another. Sit back in you seat, turn your brain back to your childhood and enjoy the ride.
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2008-05-25 23:34
Finally got to see this movie on TV (rare for me to watch films on TV as the ads piss me off) Great performances by Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon both portraying Johnny Cash and June Carter as well as singing their songs. Never been a big fan of country music but the best of any Genre of Music is still great music and right at home in the ipod in my car as my lastfm stats reveal.
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2008-05-24 11:01
Everyone should see this film before they die. Based on a true story, chronicling three decades starting in the 60's of life growing up in a drug gang filled Rio slum. Some don't make adult hood, some become gang leaders embroiled in an all out gang war and the lead character finds a way out. Fantastically shot and directed, this has to be in my all time top 10 films.
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2008-05-16 22:37
Incredibly dark humoured independent comedy horror, with an excellent cast of relative newcomers. Tag line: Every Rose has its thorns. A student when subject to male violence discovers she's unique with vagina dentata. The script plays it very low key but shocks when it needs to. Boy's will cross their legs, and Girls recently aggrieved by men will revel in it.
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2008-05-03 12:52
Great beatles covers, darkly surreal at times and captures what I think the sixties was like. One of the must see films of the year.
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2008-04-27 22:35
Beautifully shot, well acted, story ran out of steam culminating in a shite ending. 2 1/2 hrs lost.
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05
Oct
3000 Days off the Booze and any mind altering substances……..
Bloody Fantastic………
Hard work at times but the rewards are immeasurable. Instead of an early miserable lonely death, I’ve got fantastic friends, a relationship with my family a gorgeous girlfriend and a “just add water” young family. Never in my wildest dreams did I think it would be possible to have the life I have today when I landed in AA frightened and scared.
Still haven’t gotten over counting the days and hope I never do.
03
Oct
Migrated Gallery to Flickr and added some more snaps
Archived in the category: my photos
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Discovered my broadband package came with a free Flickr pro account which saves me the hassle of managing my own gallery app on the site.
Thanks to FAlbum plugin and Flickrs “blog this photo” feature it makes the whole process easier.
Added some of the snaps from Ghana, will have to start digging around my old hard drives to find some more of my better ones.
24
Sep
GSO has revamped the national sites Newcomer section. If you think you have a problem with Alcohol this is a good place to start and includes contact number for the AA helpline and email responders.
I particularly like the video they’ve put up to view on-line. Journey to AA - A short Video
ukjohnd.com is in no way affiliated with Alcoholics Anonymous and is not representative of AA as a whole, this little site is a personal one and reflects only my own experience of revovery from Alcoholism.
22
Sep
Big Conventions, Swimming, a Sparkly Cowboy Hat and remembering old friends.
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Last weekend went over to the English Southern National Convention at Brean Sands for the second year running. Never really been a convention person but my good lady keeps getting asked to share at them and loves getting involved in them.
Had a very different experience this year as was looking after the girls for most of it, went swimming for the first time in 16 years (even did it twice in two days) Defiantly getting over any body image issues I may have once had, does help being a darn sight fitter than I ever was and not the emaciated weakling I once was.
Saturday night was the dance and had a fantastic time dancing with my good lady and the youngest of the girls sporting the campest of sparkly Cowboy hats. Everyone we were with had a great time including my 1st sponsee both that evening and also earlier in the day at the fun fair on roller coasters, bumper cars and various other rides.
Doing my Daddy Daycare bit meant I didn’t do too many of the meetings but attended the Spiritual Meeting on the Sunday morning with the girls, there was barley a dry eye in the room of around a thousand as the meeting was dedicated to the memory of Malcolm O who passed away recently and who did a huge amount of Service work for this fellowship and the Southern National Convention. His widow Sheila spoke of his service to AA and how in even the darkest times towards the end was still committed to AA service and this program and also the support that the family of AA gave them.
Malcolm was the warmest and gentlest of men and will be well remembered by the many people his life touched, I will always remember the singing at the spiritual meeting of Josh Grobans “You raise me up” which was also played at Malcolm’s funeral.