A Surprising Film -- Spoilers.

The Social Network. A film about Facebook, or at least that's how word got around. The tagline "You don't get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies" is so much more telling. Far from being a film "about Facebook" it explores friendships confronted with money, power and business.

Wanting and English Coursework

Get me this phone. Now.

It's a new phone by Lumix. It has a 13.2 mega-pixel camera and acts as a phone too. Apparently it's going to have a 3.3 inch touchscreen, weigh 146g and be 17.7 mm thick.
It looks good but I'll have to wait until prices are released.

In the mean time... I still want an iPhone...





With the wanting/lusting over, now for something more realistic. And inevitable.
English Language coursework. Urgh.
We get to write anything we want to, it just has to have a style model. I'm tempted by Simon Callow's review of The Fry Chronicles, or his actual book, or even a Jeremy Clarkson piece, but definitely a review of some sort.
But then I have to decide on what to review. Do I make it a book? Or a film? And what book or what film?
Urgh. I'd love an essay title right now. I could pull that to pieces and find a way to make my answer relate in a round-about way. Nevermind. 
I'll probably post some more about it in the future.

(Lumix Phone: http://panasonic.jp/mobile/lumixphone/)

The Fry Chronicles

Begin with a deep, booming voice.

The Fry Chonicleeeessssss!

I got my Dad to buy this for me whilst down in Canterbury this weekend. I'm excited about reading it. I absolutely adore Stephen Fry and QI, it's one of my favourite programmes. The amount of useless and interesting facts I now know and the amount of myths and wife's tales it's dispelled is amazing.

Anyway, about the book;

I first heard about it in the Review supplement of The Guardian. The review gave it high praise and recommended it. Later on this weekend, I went into WHSmiths with the family, saw it on the door and rushed in. I opened the front cover to read the synopsis/blurb straight away, totally ignored it, saw the striped, multicoloured inside cover, realised it matched his socks on the front cover and got my Dad to buy it for me without even reading the blurb. 

On the way home (five hour journey, very long, very tired), I started reading it. The abundance of long, complex words indulged me in a form of English I very rarely, if ever, read. Don't let this put you off though; the anecdotes and insights to the life of Fry, even within the first few pages and chapters are hilarious and really interesting. 

I may have to go to bed that bit earlier just to read that bit longer. Expect more posts to come about this book, I can't wait to read the rest of it.

(Image source: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41f8ZX4d47L._SL500_.jpg)