Bikeable goodness.

As requested, here is a pic of my bike. You can'r really see, but the mudguards are painted in camo-type patterns. Just not exactly camoflaged colours. It isn't that odd, mainly because I ran out of time. I have almost mostly finished packing! There is no way I will be able to fir it all into my room at college.
Saw Children of Men today. It's got a lot of mixed reviews, but I thought it was pretty good. Except for the music in the end credits. It should have been quiet, understated and bittersweet. Instead they put in some damn cheerful easy listening crap and spoiled the atmosphere completely. A friend who saw it before me reckoned that they made the political analogies too obvious, and I half agree. Since it's a film about a dystopia, the heavy-handed drawing of analogies to the present is really appropriate. But it is a little too much. More to the point, they've gone for including absolutely every parallel they could, right down to cows being burnt from (one assumes) foot-and-mouth. personally, I think it would have been better if they'd not done that; it didn't really have anything to do with the plot, but rather was a sign that the filmmakers were just using absolutely every single topical (when it was being made) issue tey could, rather than concentrating upon the scenario they'd created. If this makes no sense it's because my higher brain functions are succumbing to fatigue and I can't explain properly what I'm getting at, but there you are. It's a film to watch, anyway.
It's at times like these that I wish I didn't hate the taste of coffee quite so vehemently.
C.E.M.