Well, I have moved out of home. I'm now living in North Fitzroy. It's a bit of a change but it's going well. I'm living with 3 other guys and the house is pretty big, my room is certainly much bigger than my old room.

Last week was a bit of a mess. Car troubles and I lost my glasses. It's unusual for me to lose things so I think I must have just been tired and not concentrating, but nevermind.

MIFF has been a bit underwhelming this year. I ended up watching seven films, meaning that I had three left over on my Minipass. Bit of a waste really. I could have gone this weekend, but having lost my glasses it would mean that everything would be all fuzzy on the screen. I'm not that fussed though.

The films that I saw were:

'Hahaha', 'Beeswax', 'Splice', 'Four Lions', 'The Wedding Party', 'Flickan' and the 'Accelerator 2' short film program. Nothing really blew me away or stuck with me, although of those films 'Four Lions' was the standout for me. It was pretty funny and well written which you'd expect for a film written by Chris Morris and the 'Peep Show' writers. The one thing I didn't expect was so much slapstick. It was a like a classic farce.

'Hahaha', 'Beeswax' and 'Flickan' were all good films. 'Splice' and 'The Wedding Party' were pretty average. And the 'Accelerator 2' program was a bit of a mixed bag. There seemed to me to be a number of films that had a similar tone or theme. When the film 'When the Wind Changes', (directed by Alethea Jones, a lecturer we had last semester) came on, it was a refreshing change as it was really the only solidly comedic film on the program. It was funny and well done and one of the standouts. Also, the film 'The Kiss' was a solid, tension building film, another standout.