Partay

Well need to get this day down before I fall asleep on the keyboard. Am meeting Andrew Owen tomorrow after a wake up phonecall from him, haven't seen him in so long, he is moving to Ireland! Busy chap. Today hung out on the common at a barbecue that Amy was having with some of her friends from Human Geography. Met a girl called Jess that comes from Somerset, that's three Jess's I know now. Of course she's "all about" the cider, but she has some stuff she calls apple wine that her dad makes. It excited me to think it may be like Apfelwein so she is going to bring me some, hope it is but suspicion, and others comments, make me think it will be rank. I had to decide whether to go to the Go-Off or to see Ong Bak at the cinema, not exactly a no brainer. In the end decided to go to cinema but went to a party I was invited to by Spanish friends before the film that started at 11.35. Once I was there though, a flat above the hardware store on Marmion Road, I ended up getting first to the point where I thought "I could call a taxi to get there" to the "bollocks theres no chance I've missed it" stage. But I think it was then that I decided screw it might as well make the most of the party and chatted with lots of people there.
Had a good chat with a girl called Emma who did Geology A Level and went on field trips to the Borrowdale Volcanic Group as she grew up in the Peaks and now is doing International Business and spent two years living in Russia. She has seen Night Watch!! Wish I could have picked her brains more about the lesser known Russian filmmakers she was talking about though. Briefly spoke to an Italian guy Alessandro who is an engineer in Hilsea working for the military. He said it is pretty commercial but has to keep it secret, silly military regs. Met guy who drums and whose band Thea and Emmeline are in, interesting. He seemed to like the gadgets and was telling me about the souped up 2Gb memory card he has in his phone, the same one as Alice's. But had a great chat with Angels about comics, movies and books which involved lots of recommending of stuff. I told her to read The Invisibles, always with the Grant Morrison, and Jeff Noon, ooh and Confederacy of Dunces. She told me about a couple of Lars von Trier films, Dogville and Breaking the Waves, and also about a book called Momo and a Spanish cartoonist called Ibañez. After checking out on the imdb I realise I need to see a lot more Lars von Trier films, Europa sounds excellent. Also Momo is by Michael Ende the guy that wrote Neverending Story. I now want to watch some Bunuel and saw a couple of DVD collections of short films that look tasty and a DVD set of all Jean Vigo's films and some documentaries. I am pretty sure I remember watching L'Atalante years ago, am sorely tempted to get the DVD now...
All of this quite intense discussion was to the backdrop of loads of Spanish women dancing around and drinking, bongos being played and an underpanted neighbour putting his head out the window asking to keep the noise down. Oh and a joke about a green gorilla playing tag with Sigourney Weaver! I am glad I went though I still wish I had seen Ong Bak in the cinema, not too bothered about the Go-Off though. V tired now, sleep will be good, I would like to watch Rules of Attraction, know I would fall asleep though.