Time magazine in the US has just published their list of the Coolest Inventions of 2003. You can see the list at:
http://www.time.com/time/2003/inventions/
There’s some absolutely fantastic stuff in here. I thought that the invisibility cloak, amphibious roadster and fire logs made from coffee were particularly interesting.
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…but they are being shown at the cinema.
We just got back from watching Matrix: Revolutions and, well, it was a lot better than I thought it was going to be. Going in, most of the reviews I’d read were pretty damning. They varied from ‘Can’t live up to the original‘, to ‘Marginally better than the second one‘ to ‘Worst of the three’. Anyway, I went in prepared for the worst and was, kind of, pleasantly surprised.
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One of the more interesting news stories I’ve seen for a while. According to an article in Russia’s Pravda newspaper, a psychologist hypnotised Hitler during WW1 to help him believe in himself, only he never got over it.
Truly illuminating reading. Truly. Kind of.
http://english.pravda.ru/science/19/94/377/11201_hitler.html
Elliott Smith, one of my favourite musicians, died on Wednesday 22 October, apparently due to suicide.
Elliott Smith played what I would call a kind of folk-rock. I got into his music when I heard his album XO a few years back now (1999 I think). After that, I heard his covers of songs by The Beatles (such as Because on the American Beauty soundtrack), John Lennon and The Kinks – and I was even more into him.
His death is a big loss to the music world and I personally find it (as does Tegan) very sad that we’ll not hear any new music from him, not to mention that any death is a sad thing.
More information at:
http://www.elliottsmith.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott_Smith
Just saw this in the online opinion section of the SMH:
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/10/21/1066631429212.html
Basically, it’s an opinion piece by Dominic Knight from The Chaser comedy team, in which he says much the same things I did in my Heckler piece a week or so back about having a celebrity replace Simon Crean. However, Mr Knight fails to draw any reference to Andrew Denton, so I still consider mine to be the superior piece.