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Nothing much happening. I'm doing the podcast today (Monday) which I have off so I can take Sal in for some medical appointments in Geelong. She's okay, but there's stuff we need to get done.

I've spent the whole weekend obsessed with Jacques Demy's musicals, particularly The Umbrellas of Cherbourg and The Young Girls of Rochefort. I'm podding about them and having (ahem) acquired the soundtrack to Rochefort, I'm immersing myself in 1960s, French jazz musicals to a scary degree. It's harmless and will pass, but it's rare that movies give me such an emotional engagement. That's what I love about cinema.

I cooked lamb shanks yesterday and they were the best lot yet. Reducing the beef stock with some red wine, garlic and spring onions seems to help. I might throw in some rosemary next time.

The outlaws came over yesterday to deliver me a pair of slippers. Getting slippers for feet like mine is like trying to find a jockstrap for a rhino. But they did find a pair, made in New Zealand which means that cold tiles in winter no longer perform cryogenic experiments on my plates of meat. Sal and her Mum seem to be under the impression that by some magical method, bacilli and virii are absorbed through feet, but only when they're cold. No amount of rational explanation will convince them otherwise. Their theory has the memetic stickiness of a religious belief.

Time for another espresso shot.

A second new St Trinian's movie is getting made. Hurray! Cinema isn't all chick flicks, torture porn and CG cartoons with cute animals.

The trailer for Baz Luhrmann's film, modestly called Australia is out and doesn't it look like a wank! Here's the blurb

A romantic action-adventure set in northern Australia prior to World War II, AUSTRALIA centers on an English aristocrat who inherits a ranch the size of Maryland. When English cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn cattle driver to drive 2000 head of cattle across hundreds of miles of the country’s most unforgiving land, only to still face the bombing of Darwin, Australia by the Japanese forces that had attacked Pearl Harbor only months earlier

Only two references to the USA... how Australian.

Nicole Kidman's face is increasingly resembling Edith Scob's in Yeux Sans Visage.

Pretty much the same story without the romantic gushy stuff and the English cattle barons was made into a proper Australian film over half a century ago.

Hugh Jackman for all his talents, ain't no John William Pilbean Goffage

The trailer is here if you want to bother. It looks like it's another piece of pointlessly artsy tripe like Moulin Rouge was.