Sitting here doing some work while Yash is watching CSI and they played some classic Kruder & Dorfmiester! That definitely took me by surprise. Saying that, I do like CSI, the producers really know what they’re doing but more than anything the music producer (or whatever they are called) consistently selects some great dance tunes - especially CSI NY.Hats off to the Yanks for that. Here we are, the Brits, thinking we are the dance masters, but I have to say I think CSI, as a franchise, has the best sound track of any tv series going.

They should definitely bring out a compilation. How about a CSI theme club night? Excellent! Everyone can dress up - Grisham, Sarah, Horatio etc. Just play CSI featured music all night.

Talking of CSI, I actually had my own work featured on Vegas a few years ago! You know you’ve made it when that happens… Well. Maybe not, but it was a buzz. The situation was that Sarah used her computer to look up information about a suspect and ‘did a LexisNexis’. The scene featured her go to the computer and put the guy’s name in to one of my search form interfaces!! Still makes me smile.

Anyway, I know I’ve been slack with my blogging recently. My life seems to be 100% absorbed in to the new job. Off to Amsterdam in a few hours. Maybe I’ll be able to add some entries from there.

I’ll admit I watched Big Brother again last night - a special extended edition, but only because I’d heard in the day that one of the girls had been kicked out for making a racist comment.

They dragged out the show and made everyone wait until the end of the program to finally show the footage we all wanted to see. It turned out that female ‘Tim Nice But Dim’, Emily, had made a reference to her ‘best house buddy’ Charlie in what seemed to be a act of niave stupidity. The result was that the BB producers removed her from the house.

I really wanted to get online and put this down last night because watching the show, and then the beginning of BBBM had me wanting to put to two cents in too.

Firstly the producers did what they had to in removing her. True. But the whole situation is has been blown in to so much more than it should. I guess the media are sensitive to the subject and it gives them something to write about too.

If you didn’t see the show Emily seemingly innocently (hmmm) called Charlie a word which is commonly used in rap songs and by a certain portion of the black community as term of endearment. The fact that a white girl would use the same expression is where the fuss is being made. The whole situation around the use of this word is something that really gets my goat. Fair enough people can say that they can call themselves what ever they like - it is their choice.

I am from german blood and I’ve often felt I had the right to say what I want about german people as I am one too but I don’t. This is because I would be just as bad as the bigots in perpetuating sterotypes, prejudice and discrimination.

I’m defending her but Emily, it could be said, is a victim of the society she lives in, where these words have been dumbed down and accepted in certain context. Unfortunately she didn’t have the intellegence to realise that this kind of language will never accepted in the mainstream and hopefully never will.

I think the society as whole should bear the responsiblity for yesterday’s incident. However it is Emily who will have to wear the label of racist for a very long time to come.

Please don’t think I am a Big Brother fan but last night I couldn’t help but get drawn in to the opening night of the new series. The tv happened to be on (I was watching Property Ladder) while I was in the kitchen making dinner. I could here all the screaming etc and was intrigued to see what collection of freaks they were going to wheel out this year.

A whole house of girls! Very clever. Certainly got my attention. Not too bad on the eye apart from the irritating loud mouth woMAN (she had a beard), the scary looking freak in a rainbow crusty jacket who looked like she’d been wearing the same clothes since 1987 and the Germain Greer look a like. God know what they are all like as I didn’t follow it that closely.

I did have the misfortune of seeing the twins enter at the beginning. How awful are they. I’m not one for violence but I could see myself needing to hit something, hard, if I was locked in a room with them. Now there is reason number one why not to watch that crap.

Saying all that, somehow I know I will get sucked in, no doubt due to pressure from my wife, and end up discussing what a bunch of snide bitches they all are when going for a drink on friday after work.

We love to hate it.

Somehow it seem the only time I have to add to my blog is late at night. It is currently 1am on a friday night. I’ve had a fairly quiet night. went for a few drinks with Juan and Olly then came home as Yasia’s sister and partner have come down for the weekend.

They headed off to bed fairly early and me and yash watched The Three Amigos for while before Yash decided to hit the sack too. I will be joining her shortly but thought I’d just jump online and express a few views that have been holed up the past week or two. I must admit the Three Amigos had me laughing a fair bit. Don’t know what that says about my sense of humour which has certainly changed as I’ve got older, although it could be the wine.

I’ve friends who’d say it was either a classic or a dud as clear Steve Martin fans. I’ve never really been a fan although he has had his moments. Blowfinger (?) for example was, overall, a terrible film, but I still think it has one of the best comedy moments I’ve ever seen, which amazingly features Eddy Murphy. Personally I don’t think he’s done anything decent for about 20 years but the scene where his charater runs across the freeway is an absolute classic. It had me in tears and make the rest of the film vaguely worth watching. Basically beacuse you need to understand the context too as to apreciate the situation.

Anyway, moving on, I’ll split the rest of my ranting over a series of posts so that they can be suitable listed in the taxonomy.

For those of you who don’t know what taxonomy is,

• (a) it has nothing to do with tax, that you pay, and
• (b) it has nothing to do with stuff dead animals.

It is actually to do with the organisation of information, as in at a library, the use of meta tags, and results sorting. Hope that clears things up.

Went to see 300. I really enjoyed it. So I’d give it 4 out 5.

Not much of a plot but I’m a sucker for fantasy in all its tackiness. Then again stylized visual effect was amazing. You definitely need to see this in the cinema. Yash enjoyed it too although the story had no depth. Clearly watching a bunch of young men with 8 (not 6) packs had something to do with it. I must say it certainly got me wanting to hit the gym.

I would sum it up as Gladiator cum Lord of the Rings because the cinematography was excellent. Wonder how long it will be until a gay porn spin-off is made? ‘3 hungdred’? That is crap but you get my meaning.

Beyond the film, the website is well worth checking out. Obviously created in the usual vein of film microsites using flash and all the rich media, but the finish is top quality and it reflects the style of the film perfectly. One item of note is the video footage of the cast in training to get their bodies in shape for filming. Serious stuff. I’d both love and hate to go on a boot camp like that. The end result and feeling of achievement would be immense but the pain of getting there would be unimaginable.

So I finally got to see Hot Fuzz. Had the in-laws staying so me and Yash could slip off for the afternoon and check it out.

There has been a lot of buzz about the film and having seen it I’d say it is justified. It is full of laughs, the woman next to couldn’t stop all the way through. That’s good because atmosphere in the cinema was infectious and had me laughing out loud too. Not something I do often. Simon Pegg was good in his role but Nick Frost was the star of the show. Amazing to think he’s had no formal training and just got in to acting through Pegg.

I hadn’t read any reviews of the film so didn’t know anything about the story line. It is pretty ridiculous but then that all adds to the comedy value of the film in the same way as it does for Shaun of the Dead. I won’t go in to details of the story, that’s like seeing trailers (such as Die Hard 4) in which they clearly show you the climax of the film when the bad guys croak.

If you haven’t seen the film then I say go. It is one you could watch on dvd because the nature of the film doesn’t demand the big screen, but it is worth going for atmosphere. It has been along time since I went to the cinema and this was worth the wait.