Posted by Max in Film & DVD
on Aug 19th, 2009 | 0 comments
Caught District 9 last Sunday and was blown away by the film. The viewing experience was so different, so completely off the radar that is made watching the film quite entertaining on many levels. Filmed in a documentary style, spliced with classic action footage, the film has rock solid acting, fabulous special effects, and a story which demands attention and further contemplation. Without giving away any spoilers and nothing that isn’t explained in the first five minutes, a massive, alien space craft comes to Earth and sits above Johannesburg, South Africa. After month of no-contact, the...
Posted by Max in Author, Tech
on Aug 12th, 2009 | 0 comments
I just finished one of the most interesting books I’ve “read” in a while. I say “read” because I actually didn’t read the words, as such. I actually listened to the entire, unabridged book, word for word. Sure enough, I “read” the book in its entirity. Honestly, I’ve always thought audio books where pretty cool but eschewed them because I thought they were too expensive to purchase, rarely came in the unabridged version, and it just felt like lazy reading. However, recently, my opinion changed.
I was doing some house work (painting) and I wanted to...
Posted by Max in Unfiled
on Aug 11th, 2009 | 0 comments
My thanks to the veritable flood of emails which informed me the website was down recently. Took a little tracking down but I’m reasonably sure we have killed the problem.