Thoughts on Turning Thirty

Yes, it's true. The big 3-0 approaches in less than three weeks. I can't say I'm that bothered, I just can't believe I've been on the planet that long! I mean, I kind of thought I'd have everything sorted by the time I was thirty, and I now feel that I've only just got started. Still, I've always felt that my life would get on the right track in my thirties, that I wasn't really cut out to be a teenager or a twentysomething, so I'll have to wait and see!

Everyone keeps asking me what I want, but I haven't really got a clue. I'm hoping to start an iPod fund (I'll settle for a mini), but I think people want to buy me a "proper" present. And then they get annoyed when I can't tell them what I want. I've vaguely said that I want some "art", but don't really know what that means. Some big framed movie posters would be cool - like old French movies, or classic Sci-Fi - Metropolis would be excellent. I'd also like weird sculpture-type things. I suppose art is a bit of a unique taste thing so I'm not really surprised people don't know what to get me. I've got a wish-list on Amazon.co.uk, so if you really want to get me something, you might get some ideas there.

Went to see Bird with a Pearl Necklace this weekend. Oh, wait, that's not the title, is it? (Though there'll hopefully be the porno version out soon!) Well, I'd been hogging the cinema choices recently (2 lots of The Matrix and LOTR:ROTK) and The Wife was getting a bit miffed. She'd read the book last year and loved it, and Colin "Britches" Firth was in it, so I agreed to go with her (not because Mr. Firth was in it, but in the spirit of marital harmony).

So anyway, I thought it was pretty good. It looked fantastic, and Scarlett Johansson was fabulous (and damn good looking too). I felt that it could have been a bit more erotic, but The Wife said that I was wrong. And I probably was. I just felt the sexual tension could have been more... tense. And will someone tell me what else Cillian Murphy has been in?