19.02.09

Bears, fish and BJCs

Posted in Fillums, Juggling, Reviews at 8:57 pm by alby

Pot pouri today.

I’ve watched a couple of fillums.  Least interesting was Finding Nemo.  Took me ages to get around to seeing it and it was alright.

That’s about it really.  Annoying squealy American voice of the little ‘un but apart from that was fine.  Particularly liked the Aussie seagulls.

Onto better things with Grizzly Man.  The story of a lunatic who took it upon himself to live in the Alaskan wilds with grizzly bears and, more to the point, no guns.

It may not be a great surprise to learn that he ended up getting eaten.  What is surprising is that he managed to survive for 13 summers and got some utterly breathtaking footage from his time there.

The man comes across as an utter loony who doesn’t really have a clue. He’s there to somehow “protect the bears”.  It’s the polar bears that are endangered anyhoo.  But he never really says what his “protection” is.  He just seems to shoot footage and witter annoyingly,

He is horrified when bears behave like bears and eat live animals – as if they are supposed to be soft, cuddly liberal, animal lovers.

We hear from natives who have lived in the region for millenia and they came up with a good basic rule; don’t mess with grizzly bears.  I think they had it right.

But to give him credit.  13 YEARS!!!  Wow.  And the foxes that befriend him are ace.

And to other news:

BJC 2009 – cancelled at the mo, hopefully just postponed but talk about a shitty outcome. [just been told - postponed it is, most definitely not cancelled no no no]

I have friends who have already booked their travel from Germany, people are saying they’ve already booked hotels and time from work etc.  It’s all just a bloody mess.

I’m pretty lucky in that work is flexible so I don’t need to take those days.  The germans may have to be welcome here for the weekend (assuming they go to Tom’s in Northampton for the first part of their trip).

Sigh.

Just realised that sounds really grumpy.  I am a bit but I do understand how hard this stuff is to do.  Which leads me to my next point:

In other news:

BJC 2010.  Leicester.  You heard it here first.

That’s the plan anyway – me and Pete are having a look into the possibility of sorting the merest chance of doing something along the lines of offering a bit of a modest possible proposal to be offered up as a potential option for 2010′s do.

Basic site seems promising, show venue is good, just need to sort out an awful lot of details.  The start of a long and tedious process hopefully leading to a proposal to be put forward at some unspecified date for others to pick apart and decide on.

We’ll see.  Of course this may well be the last that’s said of this.

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