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27Jan/090

That Triumph Thruxton

After seeing the modified Triumph Thruxton 900 with Ohlins all round last year at the motorbike show at the NEC I tried to find a picture of one, thought I would share it.

Certainly the kind of bike I think I could get used to hehe.. Either that or the new Norton Commando, sweet!

Well was only a quick posting to cheer up any petrol heads that were looking for nice looking modern bobbers in a frosty boring working day.

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25Jan/090

National Media Museum & Classic Movies

Just a few weeks back I went over to the national media museum in Bradford with work. It was a really interesting place, well worth seeing. Great to see that alot of the older photos are being stored for prosterity including images on silver plate.

Even some of the older TV characters were about such as good ole Zippy and George on the left.

After visiting the media museum I decided to start watching more iconic / classic films, try to educate myself regarding cinema and I thought I might give a bit of a run down hehe if anyone is interested.

Firstly I decided to watch a couple of classic police/crime films, starting with Roman Polanski's "China Town".

The attention to detail in this film is utterly outstanding, every detail of the houses and cars seems to me to be authentic 1930s. I think it may be due to my liking for that whole period that I was able to watch the slower parts of the film with such ease. Everything is as you would imagine of a private eye in the 1930s, down to the wooden venician blinds in the office with the glass door with the gold lettering.

The characters are very believable, especially the JJ Gittes character played by Jack Nicholson. Infact this is one of the best roles I have seen Jack Nicholson play.

In the later parts of the film some of the complexities of the case being investigated seem to iron out only to reveal yet more complexity, which I found very interesting, to conceive plenty of believeable criss crossing plot lines was supurb.

I do feel, without revealing the main plot that some of the later stages uncover a disturbing side of the writer's mind and the film ends leaving the audience shocked and thinking.

The second classic was Sidney Lumet's Serpico starring Al Pacino, a much younger Al Pacino! Another 1970s classic. I particularly liked this film due to it's more alternative stance. So many films particularly american films in my experience tend to focus around some sort of greed, be it self gratification for capturing or saving others, be it money or women. Serpico is interesting because it is about selflessness and integrity.

Based on a true story, I find it easy to admire Frank Serpico's attitude, standing up to the corru[tion all around him when there was not incentives to do so whatsoever moreover it was more than likely to end in his own death if he did confront it.

Al Pacino is very believable as the slightly oddball character angry with the corruption and fearsly proud of the image the police should be upholding.

After these older classics, I jumped rather oddly to what is in my opinion a modern classic, Persepolis a 2007 animation, I will describe this in more detail in my next posting I think this is one of the most interesting films I have seen in the last few years.

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