The Day The Earth Stood Still

So, whilst it was definitely fun to see Giants Stadium destroyed, I can't say I enjoyed the film all that much, it barely kept me awake after my lunch of wings and Guinness.  Will Smith's son Jaden was pretty good though, Keanu was a little wooden - not that it should be much of a shock to anyone.

Tasks for tonight:

1)  Head to Brooklyn for good sushi and CSI:

Tasks for tomorrow:

1)  Start PvPing with my lvl 80 Death Knight (World of Warcraft)

2)  More wings and Guinness for lunch

3)  Throw snowballs at Nixta

New York Must Die : The Day the Earth Stood Still

No city in the world is destroyed quite so frequently as New York (e.g. "Independence Day", "Cloverfield", "The Day after Tomorrow", "Escape from New York"), and there's nothing quite like sitting in front of a big arsed cinema screen watching the combined efforts of a few million CPUs render New York to a smoldering ruin. Bonus points if you're actually watching the movie in New York. Extra bonus points if you see the location you're actually sitting in obliterated on screen.

Today's feature, "the Day the Earth Stood Still",  was as anticipated, truly a stinker of a movie. Sure, if you need someone to depict a lifeless alien Keanu Reeves is clearly your go-to guy, but why weave moralistic environmental themes into what could have been a perfectly serviceable invasion flick? The concept (spoiler alert) of having a swarm of nanobot locusts eat New York has potential (who hasn't been looking forward to the nanobot "grey ooze" doomsday scenario?) but the fact that they pretty much quit snacking before they reach midtown was a big dissappointment. Bye bye Upper West Side but by movie's end all significant New York landmarks are still standing and my thirst for metropolitan destruction is unslaked.

I rate this movie 1 out of 5 decimated Chrysler buildings. 

Priorities for the Day

1) Get out of bed and get some greasy food (note to self - Toblerone
does not equal breakfast).

2) Check out the Karaoke disc selection at Colony in Times Square.

3) Go watch the Earth be destroyed on the largest movie screen
available (hoping for IMAX).

No More Firings

From : Rod 

To : James, Nick

Date : Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 9:57 AM

Subject : No more Firings

Gents, I hope this finds you well. As I woke with a fuzzy head this morning I came to a resolution. If any more of our colleagues gets the axe then they will have to go drinking alone. My constitution can’t take it anymore. AFD for me today.

Catch you later