Iron Man - Theatrical Trailer 2

Well, what an eventful weekend…

Apart from watching “Death-proof” - instant Tarrantino classic, and featuring a New Zealander stunt chick - Zoe Bell as herself to boot!! I must admit, he could make a 30 second advert for TV and it would be an instant classic!! The man’s a LEGEND~!

So, anyhooo - come Saturday evening, and my landlords invite me along with them and some friends to Timaru (near Upper Hutt), Speedway to take in the season finale - Stock Car races, and Demolition Derby. For $15 you get three plus hours of gritty, petrol fumed pure adrenaline! I even got to wander round the pitts during the races…TOP! The highlight of the evening was seeing the Super-Saloon Class racing, all these soop’d up slick cars, AND a Mini!!! The Mini held it’s own however - I even had a chat with the driver; since he’s the nephew of one of my landlord’s friends?!

Goood times!

Today, is ANZAC Day, New Zealand’s equivalent of Remembrance Sunday in th UK, when the poppies come out and we all say a prayer for the unknown soldier. We went out marching earlier and played some hymns - odd; it really affected me in a very emotional way. This is my first Anzac and it’s similarity to my traditional view of Rememberance Sunday brought the memories flooding back, and just for one moment I felt homesick.

Later I went on a vain quest for a better videocard for my PC….of course since it was the day it is; hardly any PC shop worth it’s salt was open.

I wandered round town for a bit, then headed into the city and wandered round there too for a couple of hours, I’ve just had a roast beef dinner for my…er…dinner, and I’m gonna just chill with some wine and a DVD for the rest of the evening. On a more exciting note, I’ll be heading to a Demolition Derby tomorrow evening with my landlord, so I’ll be able to write about all of that tomorrow =p

Weekend kinda passing me by at the moment. I’m trying to remain positive about the house. Though it means I gotta tighten the belt strings financially for now, and also keep my fingers crossed that the exchange rate between Pounds and NZ Dollars remains good.

I’ve also realised just out of sync with TV I am now, since I don’t watch any!! I usually just hire a DVD box set of some series that I never got into in the UK, to see what it is like etc… I ‘did’ however bring back a classics DVD box set from Brisbane which included such titles as ‘Metropolis’ and ‘Nosferatu’ oh and ‘House on Haunted Hill’ - with Vincent Price (think I’ll watch that one today)