Ah, yes back again, Daylight Saving as just kicked and therefore for about 4 days I'll have absolutely no idea what the time is. Currently listening to this marvelous new playlist i've made, oh yes it's good. A combination of New Order, Rufus Wainwright, some fantastic live Duran Duran and a quintessential dollop of Tom Waits, now i've never met anyone who liked all three of those, never met ANYONE who likes New Order, which sucks because they're brilliant. Also, apparently being 19 going on 20 means I can't like Duran Duran, so everyone scornfully tells me. There's nothing wrong with liking Duran Duran, better than the indie half-a-hit wonders who come and go with names that sound like things you would cringe at if your doctor mentions, Duran Duran had their first hit 27 years ago, that's quality for you *smug*. Listening to Wainwright mean your gay you say? Well done you, I believe the sort of response you'll understand is "Yeah, well your mum's gay too!" ...And Tom Waits, well everyone likes him, if you don't well, erm....I think the Archers is on soon, tune in!

Any-who, this wonderful-succlent-orange-like segment isn't about music, believe me that'll come much later so stop getting excited, this one's about FILM. Now I can drone on and on and possibly on some more about film, so this'll be the first of 73423539329 segments about film. I bloody love film, it's the only thing about where Britain and America share this wealth of talent that's becoming sparser and sparser. I knew film was where my heart lied when I was about 12. The Career Advisor used to come to school and say "Get a job, that's what I reckon, yeah, better for you". I would tell anyone I would want to work in film, they'd laugh, it's sort of seen as being at the same sort of level as saying "I want to fly into space on a helicopter with a swimming pool, and shoot maaaarrrrtians", this student by-the-by probably works in some form a bank now, make you feel safe? 

Film was were I lied and i've been geeky every since, geeks are cool, we're harmless just very enthusiastic, my collection is fantastic and like an OCD I'm always buying more and filing them, yes, there are many ways, alphabetical, genre, how good the are and oh, the lady in Kansas reading this has just passed out onto her small Yapper-type dog with boredom. Moving on swiftly then, I obsessed with film, but my favourite time period was Classic Hollywood through the late 60's - Early 70's. There's no argument, it's the single most defining time period for film EVER. The talent was amazing, from Britain; David Niven, Alfred Hitchcock, Cary Grant, Dickie Attenbourough, Alec Guinness, Robert Donat, Michael Caine, James Mason, Lord Larry Olivier. From America; Jimmy Stewart, Frank Sinatra, Joseph Cotten, Orson Welles, stunning actress like Hepburn, Monroe, Joan Fontaine the list in all categories are endless. Films like Rebecca, Citizen Kane, The 39 Steps, The Third Man, Tony Rome, Shadow Of A Doubt, Harvey, Rope, Rear Window are just some of my favourites, my favourite film, if you're even slightly still reading and therefore interested or have ten minutes to kill, is Sleuth. Oh, why have not enough people seen that film, Olivier and Caine make up the entire cast (wink,wink,nudge,nudge) and it's just fantastic. Oozes class and brilliance and like starved pterodactyls the audience can lap it all up. It's so good in fact both Larry and Caine got Best Actor Oscar nods, Brando won for Godfather but didn't turn up...git. 

But not enough about what I like, because they'll be more and more updates of little classics I've found, recently purchased "A Matter Of Life And Death", such a treat. No i'm going to say what I don't like about films. I don't like a lot of 'modern' films, too many are studio-churned and superficial, it's not about the acting or the illusion of cinematography or the craft of directing, no, no, no it's all about how many sex jokes, toilet accident, boobs and guns you can get in a film. Working in a Blockbuster I see first-hand how many film are retched and still people rent/buy them, I can't resist telling them what I think. Now every single person I know, friends and everything, think I just do it to moan, and like my older films just to be different and a general arse, WHICH winds me up even more. I'm not trying to have a go, well slightly, ever so slightly, i'm trying to help, i'm trying to show people how much great film as been submerged in the cess pool of Will Ferrell and his cronies (I'll duck out of the way of some daft abuse now, all better now? Good) 

I get stuck with the sort of response, bottom lip pursed forward with tongue resting on it; "but it's black and white, that's shit". One 'geezer' thought he was being funny when during a quiet day at work I stuck on Strangers On A Train, and he commented "Ha, suppose they pay you to watch this shit then, fucking pointless innit?" This being whilst he's renting a copy of "Shooter". The restrain I had to fight with not to leap over the counter and throttle him with his own £5 Argos Silver-Painted necklace whilst force-feeding him his own copious amount of cheap hair gel was immense. 

I've got nothing against ALL modern film though, which some simpletons try to lecture back at me, if Zodiac doesn't grab a few Oscars next year, it'll be a disaster and Robert Downey Jr. is producing some of the best work about today. 

So, people of the world, before I fall asleep, i'm rather drowsy, please try harder, i'm not lying, put down that copy of Black Xmas in your hand and pick up Psycho, scarier, swap Tom Hank's loathsome LadyKillers and pick up Alec Guinness'. I'm not making it up, they ARE better, i'm just trying to help, you'll enjoy it and you'll learn something. Film is about people creating something wonderful and putting part of their lives in something so that you, the spectator, can experience something worth while. Instead of having to go to the bathroom and finding Adam Sandler in your toilet, starring up at you, trying to come up with a different word for "penis".......