The Jamjar

In yr Friday, messing w/yr feng shui

This is the why the tram I’ve been traveling to work on lately was stopped on the tracks for over an hour this morning – glad I missed catching it this morning though I was in the one right behind it. Poor bugger, I hope it all ends up okay for him.

After they had cleared the scene, the journalist had phoned in his story and the film crew had packed up their cameras, our tram got underway again. Tram officials decided that even though our tram hadn't been involved in the incident, it still couldn't go the whole distance so made us get off at the Depot to take a connecting tram to complete our journey. I did the math and that by this time, the difference between tramming and walking to work was only about 10 minutes, so decided to walk the 30 minutes to school instead – it was nice to stretch my legs after sitting so long in the tram even if the low cloud was a bit drizzly.

I stopped at a small café along the way to buy something to replace the breakfast I had missed due to deciding to linger an extra few minutes in bed. It was quite busy in the café and I squeezed my way past small tables of mums and preschoolers to the counter to see what they had in the way of food.

Me:: “Can I have a scone to takeaway please”
Woman serving behind the counter:: “scone?”
Me: :“Yes please” and the Woman behind the counter said something else I didn’t catch as she turned around to get a paper bag from behind where she was standing. When the Woman behind the counter turned back to me, she looked at me expectantly.. I didn’t say anything, then she raised her eyebrows and *looked* at me harder.
Me:: “Did you say something?”
Woman behind the counter: : “Yes, how many?”
Me:: “Scones?”
Woman behind the counter:: “Yes”
Me:: “One, please”
Woman behind the counter:: “I thought you said you wanted *some* scones”
Me: : “No, just one please”
Woman behind the counter:: “Well you said *some* so I was expecting you wanted many”
Me:: “No, just one thanks, I’m only a little bit hungry”
Woman behind the counter:: “But you said *some*”
Me:: “I’m sure I said *a* scone”
Woman behind the counter:: “You said *some* scones”
Me:: “Well I only want one thanks”
Woman behind the counter:: “Okay, but I was expecting to give you many”
Me:: “Just one scone please” and so the woman behind the counter put my scone into the paper bag and handed it to me.
Woman behind the counter: “Enjoy your *one* scone”

Misty Saturday

Foggy Friday

Waiting for the sun this morning - 3ºC and counting

Collingwood

Movie: Noise

I'm not a very good movie reviewer - you know that. My movie "reviews" are more like a recommendation at best, and long (almost) pointless ramble at worst. I really want to write about the movie I saw the other night: Noise - but I'm unsure how to start or what to say once I get going. There are points I want to cover, of course. They include:

• Cinematography: Just.plain.beautiful. Every shot was rich in the details of ordinariness (is that a word?) and saturated with everyday colour and light. Characters were often placed in such a way to give me a real sense of the space they occupied.


• Sound: OMG - this movie is soaked in sound - sound has double-billing with the main character. The sound we hear is what he hears inside his head - the sound built tension and caused us both stress and got on our nerves and I can't even think of an instance where sound has been used so effectively. It was freakin' awesome.


• Performances: Outstanding, authentic characterisations. Solid, grounded, endearing, subtle *excellent* work, people. In an age where movies are built around big movie stars so they never have to act as anyone but themselves, there does exist layers of hard working, talented, genuine actors making amazing film experiences for us that have the legs to go the distance.


• Plot: Intriguing, fascinating, mysterious - no spoon-feeding here, so pay attention.


• Pace: Time moves in an everyday way in this movie - like it does for you and for me on a normal day - not on those terrible bad work days when it drags, or those wonderful sunshine "in love" days when it flies, but those ordinary, everyday days when stuff takes time to happen. This
  isn't Hollywood-movie time, and I thank the movie gods for that!

If you like seeing movies that are well made, interesting, make you think, and think, and figure, and search the interwebs afterwards, and which stay with you that night and the next day and you make you need to talk to others who've seen it and ask questions about the details and you really think you need to see it more than twice just to make sure or confirm or experience it again, Noise is the movie for you.

Man, when Aussies get it right, they really hit the nail on the head.