Movies are a lot like food and sex. There are those that are filling but not very creative or stylish, there are some that are fast and tasty but in the end cheap and easy. Then there are the ones that are beautiful works of art that you can savour and enjoy. These are the ones you buy and then put on the shelf for a few months because you don't want to abuse the experience. One such motion picture is :"HERO". It's a chinese swords'n'sandals film made in the desert of northern China and it is absolutely stunning, a visual feast. This is a real gourmet item to be enjoyed on different levels and as often as you dare. It stars Jet Li and various others who are famous in Hong Kong and China. I watched it because I like Jet Li and his style of martial arts which is a very old and traditional style of Wing-Shu. It looks more like dance than anything and it is hypnotic to watch his movements in the first sword fighting scene. I am not a fan of the stylised wire-flying in Chinese cinema but it is minimal in this one, unlike "Crouching Crap, Hidden Meaning" which was a good story done wrong. There are violin solos played in this movie by none other than itzhak perlman . The music is so beautiful it haunts you for hours afterwards. Anyway rent it, watch it; you'll laugh, you'll cry  it'll change your life.

In other gnus I have found a great website at www.retro51.com where you will find the present I bought myself the other day. It's a beautiful cognac coloured fountain pen with antique gold trim called the "tornado". Check out the site, it's great, they sell a lot of retro designed stuff including some unusual things like this tissue box where the tissues are drawn through the statues' nose.

I dare you to not find this funny. Also, here is a pic of my pen which I love.

Don'tcha jus' lerve it??? I do, I sleep with it. One more, in case you're interested in the car I want to buy. It's called Tri-Magnum and it's a three wheeled marvel, look:

Say-ex-aaaaaaaaaayy baby. You know it is.

You know the very best times are the ones you don't plan. I spent the afternoon with my son the other day and we had lunch and shopped and had coffee and bought flowers for girls.. well, OK I bought flowers for a girl. What can I say, she's hot and I'm a dirty old guy. The point is that we had a great afternoon and none of it was planned, it grew organically from the moment. The best part is that we are so similar in the things that make us laugh, people look at us like we're carrying guns I swear. We both talk a lot and stuff just gets said that is funny and it makes us laugh like fools on the spur of the moment. Like when we were on the escalator and he said something that was soooo funny and we both burst into laughter. The people on the opposite side escalator were looking at us like we had thrown a baby overboard. That's an inside joke for Aussies, sorry everyone else, it would take too long to esplain. I am glad my boi and I get to share laughs, so many fathers miss out on soooo much, I am truly blessed. 

Anyway that is all my gnus tonight, happy birthday Laine@mindsay, 21 today!