Alice

Today for no apparent reason, apart from the fact she told me to, I am pondering Alice. She's really cool. She has, err, hair and a face. You know, a face. It's that lumpy thing that sits on the front of your head, next to the hairy bit....

Anyway, Alice.

She has quite a nice face, like a sort of white Cleopatra, but not as manipulative or evil, or with a really big nose. And she's got a really nice smile :-) And, errrr... It was fun to have her at the Bond Night last year, when she didn't get thrown in a paddling pool by a huge ginger. Unlike some people *ahem* Emily...

Martha thinks that Alice is "fantastical and incredibly clever and it's not fair"

Eduin thinks that Alice is "imaginative, cheery... Jonny Depp!!?!?!!?"

Leila thinks that Alice is "hot, good at English"

Alice thinks that Alice is "the pengalengalengalengalengiest". Ed disagrees...

Wer've just spent the last ten-twenty minutes, at Alice's request, trying to work out who we wanted to play us in the movie of our life. The list is as follows:

• Ed: Matt Damon, as he looks like him (and he's the pengalengalengalengalengiest)
• Eduin: Alan Rickman, or Hugh Laurie when Alice said he couldn't be Alan Rickman (as he was mean in "Love Actually"). I think Alan Rickman would be a wonderful Eduin. Hehehe, Eduin.
• Martha doesn't think Alan Rickman is vegan. If we are going by this criteria, we will be here forever trying to find someone who is an actor, and vegan, and awesome/hot enough to play Eduin.
• Martha suggests Paul McCartney.
• He is not an actor.
• Or hot enough to play Eduin.
• Alice: Probably Emma Stone, I don't know why.
• Martha: Kiera Knightley, as she has been told she looks like her. I think perhaps Jim Parsons, or even Morgan Freeman, would be a better choice.
• Martha suggests Miss Piggy.
• Leila: Jonny Depp, no questions asked :)
• Sophia: Probably... Evanna Lynch (Luna Lovegood, for those who [like me] weren't sure of the actor's name)
• As for me, we are torn between Whoopi Goldberg and Lisa Kudrow. Obviously neither of them look like me, but that is perhaps for the better.
• At a later date I have returned to this and I now suggest Neil Patrick Harris, as we have so much in common...

N.B. I think Liz should be played by Helena Bonham Carter in the movie of my life...

Odd Requests

Today I have been pondering odd requests, such as the one which was put to me on Thursday.

As a result of this, today several of my friends and I went to meet up with Ross and some of his friends (who we had never met) at the cinema in Enfield. This was both funny and awkward as Ross didn't bother to introduce us to his friends, so we named them Julio. All of them. Well, apart from one, who we named Juan. He was our favourite; there was also one (Julio) who looked like Michael Crout, which was really funny. So, after being asked to see a film  I wasn't particularly interested in seeing, but which was very good, with a bunch of people I didn't know, I didn't even get to know the people I didn't know. But Josh Roper came, and that was nice.

As part of today's outing, I have now purchased a bright turquoise wig and a pair of fetching rose-tinted spectacles. They are both amazing and look rather sexy whether worn together or separately. It really is better looking at the world through rose-tinted spectacles; everything looks very grey when you remove them. I'm currently considering whether or not I could get away with wearing them for exams, as a medical purpose (preventing depression or sleep). I'm also wondering whether the head would allow the wearing of a turquoise wig as part of the uniform; it doesn't say we can't wear wigs.

So yeah, that's all really, I like fun fun fun things.

By the way, I have Twitter. If you want to follow me, or tell me or anything, or just laugh at the two happy whales I have as my picture, then please do. It's probably #EmPernilla I'm not quite sure how this dooby works. I also don't use Twitter much, ever, so I don't even know why I am suggesting this, but it seems like the cool thing to do these days.

Movie Adaptations

Once I again, I have found something to ponder and bore you with my opinion of. Today, after several hours of hard revision, I rewarded myself by watching "Starter for Ten" — a film based on the book by David Nicholls. It's very good. Possibly better than the book, which was annoying.

For those of you who don't know, "Starter for Ten" is about a boy called Brian who's struggling through his first year at a University (which we're assured isn't Oxford or Cambridge). His life's dream is to appear on University Challenge, hence the name of the book / film. It's an interesting story and the characters are so believable you actually don't like them at times. The book was interesting and included such gems as "Enough of this Shelley, I'm off to tarmac something" and "The ironic thing is, I actually AM a vicar", which continue to make me smile. And the film... Well, like I said, in some ways the film was better than the book, but in some ways it was worse, as is always the case with films. Which made me wonder whether we could ever really have a perfect adaptation of a book to film. I understand that they are clearly two different genres of expression (or whatever), but surely there has to be some overlap?

The film, as a piece of cinematography, is very good; there are some good actors and actresses in it, including Catherine Tate, Benedict Cumberbatch, James Corden, that guy from "Mamma Mia!" and (for about five seconds, being shouty at the end) David Tennant, and the camera work and special effects (of which there admittedly weren't many) were clever and believable. And compared to the novel, the script was pretty accurate. Well, accurate apart from the fact that one of the main characters was meant to be Glaswegian and appeared to be from Bedfordshire, and that chunks of the story line were left out of the film which (while most of them weren't integral) were really funny (like the Shelley quote). So maybe this is as good as it gets? A good film which portrays the story in an accurate way (without making you hate the central character) which stars good actor? There should be more to life, surely?

Any better book/film combos? Let me know.