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Last night, I spent money. Again. This is becoming a habit. It's all Candy's fault, of course. If she had arrived at the N1 centre at the exact same moment that I had, she would have been able to prevent me going into Borders and buying stuff.
It's all good stuff though. Firstly, there is Eddie Izzard's new DVD Circle. It is, of course very funny. On the cover, there is a pic of Eddie wearing (very nice) lingerie. I have been trying to decide if it's a picture of his head superimposed on someone else's body. Because, if it isn't, I'm very jealous!

A slight aside here - Roger has just come in and said the whole area is being cordoned off outside because of a suspected bomb. This makes me slightly nervous. For obvious reasons.

Anyway, before we all get evacuated... the other stuff I bought was The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett, Wicked Game by Chris Isaak - a pressie for Candy, cos she's lovely and the latest SFX Special Edition magazine, which looks quite interesting and had some very silly Buffy Christmas cards, which may, or, indeed, may not, get sent to people.

Anyway, the reason I was waiting in Borders for Candy, thus necessitating all this purchasing, was that we went to the cinema last night to see Donnie Darko. It is a good film. Although there is a 'but' to that. We spent a lot of time last night trying to work out what the 'but' is. The film is not obvious in any way - is it a story about a paranoid delusional who finally flips? Is it about someone who is getting visits from someone or something in the future? I don't know. We both think part of the problem was that the ending was not very satisfactory. If Donnie did what it seems he did (and I'm not going to say what it was) then it didn't seem to be the 'right' thing to do and would end up causing more problems than it would prevent. It's actually, really difficult to talk about the film in anyway without giving anything anyway. In a way, its failure is the opposite to Vanilla Skies. In VS, the ending is totally screwed by the audience being told exactly what it was all about with all other possible explanations ruled out. In DD there are too many explanantions. So, all in all, good but not perfect...
By the way, the end of the IMDB review of Donnie Darko says 'If you enjoyed this film, then we recommend: Planet of the Apes (2001)'. To which I reply: "huh???"

I should probably get on with some work. I do actually have some...