Today I bought a new chair.
It was for my desk at home as my old chair had essentially kicked the bucket and gone to the great chair heaven in the sky. It is probably the best place for it. It served me well, but really started to hurt my back. I now have a much more comfortable and adjustable black leather chair which will help my posture when I'm at my desk. Very nice. And very boring to read about no doubt.
The reason I'm writing about my new chair is that it's helped me finish updating and refreshing my CV! The chair was a bastard to put together and it doesn't help when you're DIY retarded like me. However much swearing later I managed to place my new partially reclining beauty in front of my desk. And it even has a charismatic creak! (No chair is complete without a charismatic creak)
Anyway the chair got me thinking about things. First off, it's a lot more comfortable then my chair at work. Secondly, I can pretend to be an evil Bond villain and have already twice swivelled around evily glaring at the imaginery spy come to put a stop to my evil plans. I even placed one of the cats on my lap to add effect.
After I'd got over playing in my new chair, I settled down to check my emails and do some work. The chair was so comfortable I ended up working on my CV idly and didn't realise until a few hours later that I hadn't got up to stretch my spine which was usually in a lot of pain after half an hour on the old chair. Incredible! What else can I accomplish on this chair? I intend to find out.
All I can say is if you don't have a good chair in front of your desk, make sure you get one - you can pretend to be an evil villain for one thing!
Tuesday, 16 February 2010
Friday, 12 February 2010
Alice in Dunderland
If you pay attention to what's going on in the world of cinema, you may have noticed news reports stating that the theatrical release of 'Alice in Wonderland' due on March 5th has been threatened by the pull out of 3 major UK cinema chains - Vue, Cineworld and Odeon.
This is mainly due to Disney being stubborn greedy bastards who want to reduce the time between the cinema and DVD release of the film. There is no other reason, and as a result they now stand to lose a big sum of money for their sins. Serves them right. I'm glad the cinemas are actually telling the house of mouse to fuck off. It's high time Mickey had his ears clipped.
I wouldn't panic about not being able to see the film though - as all 3 major exhibitors in the UK have threatened to pull the film, Disney will have no choice but to stick to the original release window of 15 weeks unless they want to lose millions of pounds at the UK Box Office.
It is funny that Disney are the only studio who keep trying to do this - they've done it twice before in recent memory with both 'Night At The Museum' and more recently 'Up'. They backed down with the release of 'Up' but stuck to their guns with 'Night At The Museum'... but only because the film had already been on general release and had made more than enough money at the Box Office.
As for my cinema; well, we'll be pissed if we can't play 'Alice in Wonderland' as it's been built into our March budget and if we don't get it I doubt our company will readjust trading figures to compensate and we will suffer. Plus I've been really looking forward to seeing the film myself.
Looks like just another fucked up day in the world of cinema.
This is mainly due to Disney being stubborn greedy bastards who want to reduce the time between the cinema and DVD release of the film. There is no other reason, and as a result they now stand to lose a big sum of money for their sins. Serves them right. I'm glad the cinemas are actually telling the house of mouse to fuck off. It's high time Mickey had his ears clipped.
I wouldn't panic about not being able to see the film though - as all 3 major exhibitors in the UK have threatened to pull the film, Disney will have no choice but to stick to the original release window of 15 weeks unless they want to lose millions of pounds at the UK Box Office.
It is funny that Disney are the only studio who keep trying to do this - they've done it twice before in recent memory with both 'Night At The Museum' and more recently 'Up'. They backed down with the release of 'Up' but stuck to their guns with 'Night At The Museum'... but only because the film had already been on general release and had made more than enough money at the Box Office.
As for my cinema; well, we'll be pissed if we can't play 'Alice in Wonderland' as it's been built into our March budget and if we don't get it I doubt our company will readjust trading figures to compensate and we will suffer. Plus I've been really looking forward to seeing the film myself.
Looks like just another fucked up day in the world of cinema.
Monday, 8 February 2010
Valentine's Day Massacre
Valentine's day.
What is it good for? Selling awful cards, sickly chocolates, disposable gifts and generally making single people miserable. Valentine's day is about selling disposable love. It's not real, it doesn't last and yet so many people buy into it. Why? Because deep down we all want to be loved.
Cinema is no exception to any of this. It wants to be loved and is willing to buy into the falseness of Valentine's day to get noticed. No stranger to capitalising on people's fragility, Hollywood has surpassed itself this year and actually made a film simply called 'Valentine's Day'. It is released this Friday two days before February 14th and you can be guaranteed the cinema will be filled with dozens if not tens of dozens of couples come to immerse themselves in the cloyness of Valentine's Day and generally piss off anyone who isn't with someone.
You may think I'm saying this because I'm bitter and twisted. 99% of the time you'd be right - I am quite bitter and twisted. But I'm also honest. I and my girlfriend despise Valentine's Day. She hates it because she sees it as another shameless gimmick designed to make people spend money. I hate it because I remember exactly how alone I felt every Valentine's Day for years. I would see the same couples who are going to come to the cinema this Friday, exchanging flowers, cards and chocolates and generally going all soppy over one another. These same couples would split up about a week to a month later. If you're feeling sick right now, don't worry - it's a normal reaction to how pathetic Valentine's Day actually is.
I am certain there are some people who think Valentine's Day is a wonderful and lovely holiday. If you are one of those people, then all the best to you. However I must remind you of one thing; if the person you want to shower with affection is so special, why wait to Valentine's Day to make them feel special? Why not do it today? And while you're at it, come to the cinema on another day when there's a better film out. I can reccommend 'Kick Ass!' which comes out in April and is guaranteed to raise a smile on the most hardened cynic.
Personally my overall assessment of February 14th is this - It's shit. So do yourself a favour - Fuck Valentine's Day.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have to plan a surprise for my girlfriend in April. A romantic (and hopefully dirty!) weekend away. Now that's love...snoogins!
What is it good for? Selling awful cards, sickly chocolates, disposable gifts and generally making single people miserable. Valentine's day is about selling disposable love. It's not real, it doesn't last and yet so many people buy into it. Why? Because deep down we all want to be loved.
Cinema is no exception to any of this. It wants to be loved and is willing to buy into the falseness of Valentine's day to get noticed. No stranger to capitalising on people's fragility, Hollywood has surpassed itself this year and actually made a film simply called 'Valentine's Day'. It is released this Friday two days before February 14th and you can be guaranteed the cinema will be filled with dozens if not tens of dozens of couples come to immerse themselves in the cloyness of Valentine's Day and generally piss off anyone who isn't with someone.
You may think I'm saying this because I'm bitter and twisted. 99% of the time you'd be right - I am quite bitter and twisted. But I'm also honest. I and my girlfriend despise Valentine's Day. She hates it because she sees it as another shameless gimmick designed to make people spend money. I hate it because I remember exactly how alone I felt every Valentine's Day for years. I would see the same couples who are going to come to the cinema this Friday, exchanging flowers, cards and chocolates and generally going all soppy over one another. These same couples would split up about a week to a month later. If you're feeling sick right now, don't worry - it's a normal reaction to how pathetic Valentine's Day actually is.
I am certain there are some people who think Valentine's Day is a wonderful and lovely holiday. If you are one of those people, then all the best to you. However I must remind you of one thing; if the person you want to shower with affection is so special, why wait to Valentine's Day to make them feel special? Why not do it today? And while you're at it, come to the cinema on another day when there's a better film out. I can reccommend 'Kick Ass!' which comes out in April and is guaranteed to raise a smile on the most hardened cynic.
Personally my overall assessment of February 14th is this - It's shit. So do yourself a favour - Fuck Valentine's Day.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have to plan a surprise for my girlfriend in April. A romantic (and hopefully dirty!) weekend away. Now that's love...snoogins!
Friday, 5 February 2010
Prince of Persia, Kick Ass & several redundancies...
Well, it was our company conference yesterday. And cue much arse kissing, stroking of egos and very heavily political answers that didn't answer the questions asked. They said there would be no redundancies....despite making several Regional Manager's redundant and some Cinema Manager positions as well.
Cinema is performing well which is why no one could understand these cost cutting exercises. At this time of writing 'Avatar' has exceeded the 2 billion dollar world wide box office mark and it's just one of many films that are performaing well. So why the cuts? Well my colleagues and I had an interesting theory. The senior management team are just a bunch of lying cheating greedy cunts.
We did get to see some new film footage though and I can't wait to see Kick Ass! Unfortunately, Prince of Persia looks like a complete load of toss, but you never know. It might be good. Probably not.
The rest of the day was spent getting drunk of our collective asses and trading CVs.
Cinema is performing well which is why no one could understand these cost cutting exercises. At this time of writing 'Avatar' has exceeded the 2 billion dollar world wide box office mark and it's just one of many films that are performaing well. So why the cuts? Well my colleagues and I had an interesting theory. The senior management team are just a bunch of lying cheating greedy cunts.
We did get to see some new film footage though and I can't wait to see Kick Ass! Unfortunately, Prince of Persia looks like a complete load of toss, but you never know. It might be good. Probably not.
The rest of the day was spent getting drunk of our collective asses and trading CVs.
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