Pynchon

I have suddenly become very tired. Perhaps it was watching Switzerland versus Ukraine. (Yawn, but I am glad that Ukraine went through.) Also, while watching the match I did a lot of ironing. The excitement never ceases in the Pynchon household.

A quick summary of what entertained Pynchon over the weekend.

Whole Lotta Led on Friday night.

I enjoyed it a lot. The lead singer did a fair impression of the Plant wail, the musicians were good (especially the guitarist who was brilliant) and mainly it was a good night. I say mainly because although some of the songs they played came out fantastically well ("No Quarter", "Black Dog", "Kashmir", "Misty Mountain Hop") they threw away arguably Led Zeppelin's two most popular songs ("Stairway To Heaven" and "Whole Lotta Love") with sloppy playing and showing off to the crowd. Still, I would see Whole Lotta Led again. They said that they are coming back to the Carling Academy next year with a different set. (On Friday night they played the Knebworth '79' set.)

Interesting to note that the bass player was the spitting image of Chris Langham, who recently was arrested on child pornography charges. Perhaps he is moonlighting to make some money prior to the court case?

"Thank You For Smoking" on Saturday afternoon.



I suppose that it was OK. Funny in parts, but it wasn't as good as I had hoped it would be. The targets were all a bit obvious and a bit boring. Perhaps they should have kept in Katie Holmes' nude scene to liven it up. Shame. It could have been great. That is, the movie could have been great, not Katie Holmes naked. Not to say that Katie Holmes naked wouldn't have been great. I wouldn't have complained about Katie Holmes being naked in this film. If Katie Holmes wanted to get naked, who am I to stop her? In fact, Katie Holmes naked...

Shall we move on, John? Yes, we shall.

"Doctor Who" on Saturday evening.

Entertaining, but frankly toss. Next week's episode looks pretty rocking, though.

"The Pacifier" on Saturday evening.

Lorraine wanted to watch it. I didn't mind. I like Vin Diesel. I have seen "The Pacifier" before with my nephew. "The Pacifier" is a perfectly OK kids film and as such normal critical rules do not apply. See Vin attacked by a comedy duck. See Vin deal with baby poo. See Vin drive like a maniac. See Vin challenged to a wrestling match by the comedy gym teacher. See Vin get it on with the foxy (female) school principal. See Vin being gruff and tough.

Yes. "The Pacifier" is crap. I laughed a lot.

"Red Eye" on DVD on Saturday evening.

We bought "Red Eye" for Sister 2 for her birthday. It turned up last week, but we haven't taken it around to her yet. I have seen "Red Eye" before and thought that it was a brilliant little B-movie. Lorraine hadn't seen it, and as we had the DVD in the house it would have been just wrong not to let Lorraine watch it. Lorraine said that "Red Eye" was obvious from start to end, but she enjoyed it anyway.

TV night tomorrow night ("C.S.I. Crime Scene Investigation" and "Lost"). Back on Wednesday.