s e v e n i s a j o u r n e y

The weather report on Friday made it clear that this was going to be a wet and miserable weekend, so we dropped by Amalgmated Video and picked up a stack of movies.

Friday evening we went to our first film of the Wellington International Film Festival. “Best of British” was 80 minutes of animation from the UK. A real mixed bag. Somebody really needs to inform animators (or maybe the judges who select for such “best of” compilations) that “wacky” does not necessarily mean “good”. Ah, well.

For the more conventional movies we got The Frighteners and Heavely Creatures to finish off our Peter Jackson filmography. Heavenly Creatures was quite fun, and I see why he passed it around when trying to rope in cast for LoTR. Not a cheerful movie, but a great rendition of that particular madness which only teenagers possess.

We also got The Scorpion King, which is a good way to scrub your frontal lobes clean. It is one of those good-bad Conan-like films. We also watched the first Spider Man movie, as we both missed it in the theater and wanted to see it now in case we get the chance to see the second one in the theater. And finally we watched the first two episodes of Band of Brothers. BoB was really good, and we look forward to watching the remaining episodes.

Today Tam was home, as she has to go in to work tonight (working past midnight kinda sucks). But at least we got a day to run errands and do some work around the place. The high winds prevented us from working with the alpaca- as it is hard to work on halter training when the gusts keep causing them to get distracted and freaked out. Hopefully tomorrow the weather will be more still, and we can wok with them then.

While we did get lots of rain this weekend, up about 450 km north of here in the Bay of Plenty they got hammered. Not only did they get nearly a foot of rain, which would have been bad enough with massive flooding and slips and all. But then yesterday they got hit by a series of earthquakes (4.6 was the greatest). These caused some giagantic slips (landslides) in the water-saturated hillsides, and knocked a bunch of houses off their foundations. Quite a mess. (And with global warming extreme weather events are going to become more common. Makes me glad we are on a hill!)