Stuff

Jess and I bought a caa (Aussie for car) last Saturday. Here it is...

First privately owned motorised mode of transport...

We picked it up for $1700 at a dodgy looking car dealership on the Paramatta road and drove it home. I say 'we' but I don't have a damn licence, so Jess was responsible for the actual driving. She started off awfully and I was a nervous wreck, but she has since improved.

We've driven it a few times since we bought it, most recently to go to Bondi to do the Friday night Jewish dinner thingy. Jess and I took a short walk along the beach.

Jess and a hunchback

Jess and Sting

We saw some excellent skateboarding, although not apparent in this picture:

Skate park at Bondi

We went to Slumdog Millionaire on Saturday and both found it worthy of its Oscars. After that we hired the hilarious 'Nighty Night' and a movie called 'Shotgun Stories', which was about a couple of Texan families locked in a feud over their shared father. A well-made and sad film.

I watched the 1998 X-files movie on TV last night which was rather dim. I think many people are partial to feelings of giddiness and gullibility when presented with simplistic narrations of how the world works, e.g. secret cabals of highly powerful people (or aliens, or even lizards) running the world. It usually only takes a simple question to knock these conspiracy theories to the ground though. Not that I think that X-files should be taken seriously in any way, but it seems that people are susceptible to believe other imaginings that are barely any more credible. This is why the X-files is both vaguely irritating and already tremendously dated. Irritating because it appears to pander to the hopeless cause of the irrational conspiracy theorist and dated because it talks about FEMA in high esteem ("These people don't make mistakes", warns one character) despite everyone knowing these days what an incompetent bunch of idiots they are (see Hurricane Katrina disaster).

Started another week of job searching today. This the view I see when I go for my smoke breaks...

Imperial at sun set