Day 38 - Monday, February 7th, 2011

With soaring joy attacking my heart and their associated veins and arteries, I embarked from the Lighthouse to commence another week of work. The day came, went, and was replaced by another double-dose of cinematic pleasure at Cineworld. First on the agenda was Hereafter (4.5 out of 10) - a story about a brilliant psychic (Matt Damon) who wants to stop being brilliantly psychic as it is cramping his lovelife. The film was watchable, but some of the direction (by Clint Eastwood, surprisingly) was embarrassingly bad and the film features one of the world's worst ever child-actors seen on screen, who seemed to be reading his lines throughout.  The film did feature a very impressive tsunami scene though, and Matt Damon's performance was excellent too. And loads of the film was en francais which provided an excellent refresher opportunity.

A mouth-watering 49 cent Aldi egg mayonnaise sandwich later, it was time to view The Fighter (8 out of 10) , which pleasingly proved to be the film of the year thusfar. The raving about Christian Bale's performance is entirely justified, especially when you see a clip at the end of the actual guy that he plays - he impersonates him to an absolute tee. The acting from Mark Wahlberg, Amy Adams and Melissa Leo is all fantastic too, and the story is hugely watchable from start to end, with no glances at the watch required.

Homeward bound now, and it strikes me that my 8th and final Citydeal voucher for Bombay Pantry is due to expire this Thursday - potential catastrophe! What better way to avert crisis than to phone in a mammoth order and pick it up three minutes after their scheduled closing time, having walked briskly along the picturesque Summerhill palisades to get there? Simples! The culinary booty is whisked home, allowed to cool, and placed in the fridge for consumption tomorrow.


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Tallest take-away in Dublin


Contentment : 11 / 25
Excitement :    1.5 / 10
Memorability : 2 / 15

Overall Score : 29% (21st out of 38)