It seems that some lunchtime Mojito’s are in order…
Friday Lunch at Mediterraneo
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Kong is King
The first trailer for director Peter Jackson’s dramatic adventure King Kong is now online and I must say it does look very cool indeed.
King Kong stars Naomi Watts as Ann Darrow, an actress from the world of vaudeville who finds herself out of a job in Depression-era New York. Her luck changes when she meets Carl Denham, played by Jack Black. Denham is an entrepreneur, raconteur, adventurer and filmmaker who is struggling to make a name for himself in the entertainment industry. Bold, ebullient and charismatic, Denham has a natural sense of showmanship and an appetite for greatness, which ultimately leads to catastrophe. Adrien Brody steps into the role of Jack Driscoll, a New York playwright, who becomes an unlikely hero in a romantic adventure story which will test his physical courage and his heart.
Andy Serkis (who performed the role of the CGI character Gollum in the Jackson’s “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy) provided both on-set performance reference and motion capture performance for the title character of King Kong. Serkis also appears onscreen playing Lumpy the cook, in service aboard the tramp steamer “Venture,” bound for Skull Island, under the command of Captain Englehorn, played by Thomas Kretschmann (U-571). Colin Hanks (Orange County) portrays a production assistant to filmmaker Carl Denham and Kyle Chandler (TV’s Early Edition) takes on the role of Bruce Baxter, a 1930’s movie star cast opposite Ann Darrow in the film Denham is shooting.
The movie is out on December 14th. Can’t wait.
WordPress-ure
There have been some complaints (especially from one person in particular) concerning the lack of recent posts on my blog. My argument of course is that this blogging lark is about quality not quantity!
I can however assure my readers that I am less interested in posting entries at the moment, and more interested in making things here look a bit more presentable. I have recently begun playing around with the plugins feature of WordPress (the software used to power my blog). I have successfully added two new fatures to the Comments section. First is the ability to add a ‘Gravatar‘ (a Globally Recognized Avatar) to comments. This means that if you add a comment any of my posts you can assign an image to appear alongside it. This is much like the picture feature in MSN messenger. Furthermore, you can also keep track of comments that follow yours by signing up to receive future notification of new comments in your email. Not actually sure if anyone is ever going to use this, but you never know….
I have also installed the Gallery Plugin for Flickr (click the Gallery link at the top of the page) which means that all my photos stored on Flickr are now visible here on my website. You can even launch a slideshow of photos directly from my pages. Pretty cool and seems to work reasonably well.
Over the next week or so I will be adding more cosmetic updates to try and lose the dreaded green look and make this think look slightly less amateurish. Unfortunately my knowledge of CSS and PHP is rudimentary to say the least so this could take a while. All a learning curve I suppose.
Olly. Out.