Well we have just got back from seeing the forth installment of the Indiana Jones franchise and it was fun but oh how I wish I could get to see the script that was rejected, because I get the feeling that Lucas in his hunt for trying to be ( in his mind at least ) the worlds greatest EVERYTHING  film related, he rejected it JUST because he thought that he could do something better and in doing so all that he ended up doing was something, if I did not know better was the work of Ed Wood and Lucas was just channeling him, let me explain ...................

 OK picture the scene, its film school and its day one of the cliche course and the subject is 50's B-Movie's and their affect of todays film makers. In walks Lucas after a hard nights looking in the mirror telling himself he looks gorgeous and the combination of lack of sleep, self delusion all the surreal images he was looking at somehow embedded themselves into his mind somehow to reappear some 30 years later in the script and plot of the forth Indy flick.

 The lesson starts well with the obvious subject of nuclear war, a stable of 50's b flicks, then it progresses through spaceships,aliens,giant killer ants,Tarzan movies and gang movie's, after the course finished Lucas had so much material in his head it somehow buried it's self DEEP only to resurface ALL AT THE SAME TIME in the form of the screenplay for this installment.

 Now I know that sounds like I'm panning it, far from it  IF your able to totally switch of your brain its good film, a few things though .........................

 The part with the town/cafe/university its like a total cliche of the 50's they did not need to make it SO 50's to get the point across.

 Secondly.. the car/truck chase through the amazon now if you over look the fact that the tree cutter is not cutting at ground level so there would like a bazillion stumps on which to rip off an axle with, the fact that once that tree cutter is destroyed there is magically yes magically a two lane highway through the virgin rain forest  wow how lucky is that ?

 Well that being said it was entertaining  and not as bad as Temple of Doom ..............

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 Well its a week later, give or take a few days...........but WE BOUGHT ONE.

 Yes you read that right, we bought a freaking Victory Vision  and even though its huge I have to say WE love it  Lalita has her seat behind me now with speakers and a back rest, so no more feeling like she is going to fall off the Vstar her own foot boards, no more foot pegs for her :)  and apparently it's very very comfortable back there, or so she tell's me.

  This is the  pair of them the Vstar Classic 650  and the Victory Vision

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This is one side of the beast

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This is the other

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its smooth its comfortable and we love it  :)

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Well today was a day where, seeing as Lalita took a day off I thought that I would try and think of things for us to go do. I had thought that as we both enjoyed teh butterfly house, that we could go again only this time we could take the video camera and record the fluttery fuckers, as  though it does not sound like a 'fun' place it was actually pretty freaking cool to see all the different sizes shapes and colours of the butterflies moving about. that was going to be teh start of the day and then I was going to suggest Qudoba for dinner and then take her to the pictures.   well  while at work I thought................ hang on we could start the day with us going to go take a Victory Vision for a test ride THEN go to the butterfly house etc etc ..............

 The plan was as they say, going to plan  we woke up ( always a good start to the day )  got dressed ( trust me you DONT want us leaving the house sans clothing )  and drove the bug to the Victory dealership. the weather was perfect bright clear skies a slight breeze and shock of all shocks IT WASNT FECKING RAINING yes thats right ............. not raining.

 We arrived and went inside fully expecting to see the red tour model that was there  from last year  well that was gone ie sold  in its place was a black street vision, the only difference between the street and teh tour is the addition of the back top box apart from that  they are identical bikes and the only difference price is the cost of said top box, the only other Vision that they do is the tour model with a few extra 'touches' lighted name tags chrome handle bars  that sort of thing.

 Well they had a Black tour with the bell's and whistles 'in the back' so we asked if we could take that one out  and  like the man from Delmonte used to say  they say YES!  so after the customery looking at our licences  etc etc diddly do diddleydoo I took it for a quick spin about 2 miles up the road and back and WOW fuel injected belt drive  and it handles REALLY REALLY smooth  before you know it your doing 70 and trust me if I had not glanced at the speedo I would never have thought I was going that fast, so if anyone is reading this and thinking of going for a test ride make sure you keep a look out for how fast your going !

 part two will get typed up tomorrow as Lalita is tired and wants to go to bed so ill go feed the zoo

 till tomorrow ................. byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

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Well I don't post often  I know I really should sit down each day and write 'something'  but what would I write exactly, nothing happened today  everything is teh same as yesterday  etc etc ?

Well some interesting news .............. I have a phone interview on thursday morning with Enterprise, the car hire people. This will be my first phone interview ever, part of me is SERIOUSLY wondering if ive applied for a position thats way abouve what im able to do, the other part of me ( that would be the smaller of the two parts..) is thinking "well they have my resume so they must have read it before setting up the phone interview, ....... right ? "  but thats the part im having trouble focusing upon ... oh well its me after all.

 So anyway im thinking good thoughts that it goes well  you never know they my in deed just be THAT desperate enough to go wtf what have we got to lose..................

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