Tegan and I

Just thought that I could add a picture here of Tegan and myself.

We've been going out now for nearly 3 months, but it feels like forever (in a good way)!

Ohhh, how sweet.

Finished At Last [Take 2]

Unfortunately I haven't quite "Finished at Last". I didn't quite pass my design subject (in fact I was "singularly disappointing").

However I have been given the opportunity to do a Supplementary Exam which will involve a 2-3 day design exam starting on January 17.

This is all good and I am currently trying to work out how to study for a Design Exam.

Imagine

Today is the 25th anniversary of the assassination of John Lennon.
What a tragic loss, but what a tremendous talent and inspiration.

If only we could act as if this is the way the world really is - then it would be so:

Imagine there's no Heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today

Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace

You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one

Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world
You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one

My Favourite Film

On Sunday Night ABC showed "My Favourite Film", a show listing the top 10 films as voted for by Australia:

1. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
2. Amelie
3. Blade Runner
4. The Shawshank Redemption
5. Donnie Darko
6. Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
7. Pulp Fiction
8. The Princess Bride
9. Gone With The Wind
10. Fight Club

A very interesting list, don't know that I agree with them all. No Australian films either.

The full list is here: http://abc.net.au/myfavouritefilm/top100.htm

Some of my favourite films that were in the list:
10. Fight Club
13. 2001: A Space Odyssey
15. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
16. American Beauty
17. Doctor Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
26. A Clockwork Orange
33. Lost in Translation
44. The Big Lebowski
80. Garden State
95. Mulholland Drive
97. High Fidelity
99. Being John Malkovich

And lucky last, one of my all time favourite films:
100. Dead Man

NO, NOT "DEAD MAN WALKING", "Dead Man" - the one with Johnny Depp.

What wasn't there?

The best film of all time: "Groundhog Day"

Also missing: "Heat" (De Niro and Pacino) , "Blood Simple" (Coen Brothers), "Adaptation" (Nicholas Cage) and "The Royal Tenenbaums" (Gene Hackman).

More on the best movies of all time to come...later.

Incomparable angst and joy

The wind whispers through the trees and the goats herd the lions.
Somewhere under starry sky the moon watches and hopes.
No one answers the questions that tick at the back of their mind.
Until the end the day will break, spreading incomparable angst and joy.