100 Short Things About Me

100 Short Things About Me

01 The first book I remember being read to me as a kid was The Midnight Folk by John Masefield.
02 My favourite time of day is the night.
03 I bite my nails.
04 I've been drinking a lot of water lately. My concentration seems to have increased ten fold. I haven't yawned in hours.
05 I'm disappointed if I haven't done at least one new thing each day.
06 I have hazel eyes ...
07 ... and light brown hair ...
08 ... and my birthday is 31st October which makes me a ...
09 ... Scorpio. And everything you're heard is true.
10 I don't wear jewelry. It just looks wrong.
11 My Dad is a watch maker and can always tell the time off the top of his head. I can as well, but I always seem to be five minutes out...
12 My five favourite films are Star Wars, When Harry Met Sally, Clerks, It's a Wonderful Life, Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Some of those always change.
13 I'm happy if you're happy.
14 I don't smoke.
15 I almost never have pictures of myself on my weblog. I think people would rather be looking at text.
16 I can't say 'Honey'.
17 My keyring still has a key to every house I've ever lived in on it (except for the ones I've had to give back).
18 My ICQ is still 134358633.
19 I once married Julie Delpy in a dream.
20 My mobile phone ringer is Enola Gay by OMD.
21 I cried at the end of Titanic when I saw it for the first time.
22 The first poem I ever wrote was about a MouseSnail. I still don't know what one of those is. But in my young head it could swing through trees.
23 I haven't seen the girl I had my first kiss with since two minutes after it happened.
24 Four things I'd eat on the last day of your life: Fish and chips; Spaghetti Bolognaise; Christmas Steak; Caesar Salad
25 Religiously, I'm a non-denominational spiritualist. That way I can't piss too many people off.
26 I studied Information Studies at Leeds Metropolitan University which makes me a qualified librarian, although I couldn't find anyone in Liverpool who would let me be a practicing one.
27 Some personal philosophies, beginning with: 'Wherever you go, there you are.'
28 'This life has been a test. If it had been an actual life, you would have received actual instructions on where to go and what to do.'
29 'Be yourself. No matter where you go.'
30 'Funny how the girls you fall in love with never fancy you. Funny how the girls you don't do.'
31 'I can't hurt to help.'
32 'But sometimes it can hurt to help.'
33 I didn't hear Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven until the age of 28.
34 The best present I never ended up giving was a mug designed to be used as a black board with free chalk. It looks good, but it makes your tea taste funny.
35 The oldest poster I have on my wall is of a sunflower farm. One day it would be nice to have one of those.
36 My writing is always better when I'm working from someone elses ideas. I'm not really that imaginative.
37 I can recited the whole of the first episode of Friends. Still can't get REM's It's the end of the world... Yet.
38 Budweiser if I'm really drinking.
39 The first film to make me puke was Annie (I was in a theatre in the bottom of an Isle of Man ferry in particularly choppy waters). The second was Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan
40 I spent a year commuting to a call centre job in Manchester. I miss the reading time on the train.
41 My computer desk is an old oak collapsible dining table.
42 someone with a personality. not a sheep, someone who speaks her mind. unpredictable but rational. willing to go out on a limb, be spontaneous, but responsible. someone interested in the world, who like me wants to discover the possibilites and how everything works. someone funny without being purile, spritual without banging on about religion all the time. who doesn't mind making an idiot of themselves if the outcome is pure.
43 I have the same name as the big bad demon in the 'Hell's Bells' episode of Buffy: The Vampire Slayer
44 My birthday is on Halloween. Coincidence?
45 If there was one person from my past I would like to meet again it would be Rosie Holt. We were in halls together in Leeds and I always worry about what happened to her. Sometimes you don't hold on tight to the people who you later wanted to be life long friends. That's Rosie Holt. Rosie Holt. Rosie Holt. I'm hoping she'll find this if she ever does an ego search on Google, so I'll repeat her name again, Rosie Holt. Just email and tell me you're OK will you?
46 I'm the only person I know who watches BBC Four. More fool everyone else.
47 I once owned a rabbit called Dunk after the character from the Wheetabix commercials.
48 My first job was at The Henry Moore Institute in Leeds.
49 One of the best jobs I've ever had was volunteering in the Media Centre at the 2002 Manchester Commonwealth Games. For some reason I cared more for it than for jobs I've actually been paid for.
50 This is the sound of my voice.
51 No 42 nearly said "I never can get the hang of Thursdays", until I thought of something else.
52 My favourite superhero was Spiderman.
53 I always wear odd socks. If it's job interview this differences can be very subtle. I once wrote a manifesto for odd socks wearers on a post-it note. I don't have this any longer.
54 My favourite jacket is a denim jacket I bought a few years ago which I'm afraid to wash because I life the colour and I don't want to it fade. Consequently I don't wear it all that often because I don't want it to get dirty.
55 The first holiday I remember is a wet week in Polperro.
56 The one thing I always remember about my Eighteenth Birthday is faux-Russian dancing with a girl I'd had a crush on for years to the dance version of the Tetris music by Dr. Spin. At that same party someone tried to request The Smith's Girlfriend in a Coma.
57 If I could live anywhere in the world it would be New York.
58 Anywhere in the UK, it would be Edinburgh.
59 Anywhere in England it would be Leeds.
60 Anywhere in Liverpool it would be the city centre.
61 I didn't drink alcohol until the age of 20. My first drink was a bottle of Carlsberg at a Jazz Festival in Leeds. I still have the bottle.
62 I'm never what people expect.
63 Sometimes when I write in my weblog I wonder if anyone is reading. Are you?
64 My favourite play by Shakespeare is Measure for Measure. Unlike most of everything else, the ending isn't certain and takes an unexpected turn, a bit like life.
65 I only ever need six hours sleep. If I get any more, I feel sleepy for the rest of the day.66 My typing is better and more coherent after a few beers.
67 I'm in all the crowd scenes at the end of the film There's Only One Jimmy Grimble.
68 The world needs to think more. Thinking is a good thing.
69 I've never taken drugs.
70 At various times I've owned or borrowed an Acorn Electron, Commodore 64, Sinclair Spectrum+, Acorn A3000, Camputer Lynx, N64, Nintendo Gameboy, 286, 386, 486 Pentium etc.
71 My current computer sits on a giant oak dining table in my room. The theory being that when I move out I'll at least have a table to sit at. I quite like the idea of not having chairs when I do get my own place. The floor is an underrated placed to sit.
72 The first weblog I ever read was Rebbeca's Pocket. It took me a while to notice other people were doing the same thing.
73 Doctor Who. There I said it.
74 On my bedside table, there is an electronic alarm clock with a real bell inside which I got for my Eighteenth birthday.
75 I hate computers. It's pity they can be so damn useful.
76 My last holiday was to Paris for three days.
77 I don't take holidays quite as much as I should.
78 When I was kid, I wanted to grow up to be Zoologist. Then I saw a documentary in which an animal was put down and I cried for days and gave up that ambition.
79 I've never been very good at science.
80 I've never been very good at learning languages.
81 My handwriting is atrocious due to years of typing everything.
82 I don't eat fish.
83 My watch is on a chain which dangles around my neck. I'm the only person I know who has one.84 I had a nursery teacher called Mrs Kilgallen. She used to call me the banana boy because I used to eat banana butties for lunch every day.
85 I've never stolen anything from a shop.
86 I was once at The Albert Dock in Liverpool with a friend and momentarily distracted Alan Bennett by doing Beavis and Butt-head impressions.
87 The first time my name appeared in print was as a prize winner in Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars. I won a book.
88 The only time I visited a magazine office was Zzap! 64 in Ludlow. It was very small and similar to a telesales place I worked at for a week on very low wages.
89 I always include my middle name because I'm the only Stuart Ian Burns around.
90 There are very few famous people I'd want to meet. If I see them in the street I tend to walk past because they really aren't that much more important than you are.
91 But if I could choose, Claire Danes, Woody Allen, Joss Whedon, Alanis Morrissette and Kelly Macdonald.
92 I once called up a radio station in the middle of the night to make the important point that Harry Enfied isn't that funny. I wasn't drunk.
93 I once walked through a Macdonalds drive-in to get a burger with the cars. I wasn't drunk.
94 I don't need to get drunk to do weird things.
95 When I was training for a job once, I had to say three things only one of which was the truth. I said I'd had am album out, I'd had a book published and that I was in a film. They all thought it was the book, which is quite flattering.
96 I'm not as well read as some people think I am. I've just seen a lot of film adaptations. It's amazing how people never know the difference. I don't tell them I've read the books, they just assume.
97 I've left some really embarrassing stuff out of this list.
98 I now have pine a wardrobe in my room.
99 I used to keep my clothes in a filing cabinet.
100 Is up to you ....

To win a feeling listless soundtrack album, I want you the reader to tell me what the last entry on the list should be from what you've read over the past few years. You can bung the answer in the comments box or by email and I'll pick the best one at the second birthday of the weblog at the end of July. If you've already won once, you can re-enter ... I've got something else up my sleeve.

Life I am still here, and will be posting again shortly. I just wanted to say that so that everyone who comes here won't be find a BB4 post as the last thing I said. Something really good is coming up shortly.

BB For anyone who wasn't reading three years ago, here is the page from the old site about Big Brother One:

"Anna, the lesbian ex-nun with a folksy guitar talent who one might expect to chime in with something acoustic chooses – ‘Together in Electric Dreams’ by Georgio Morodor with Phil Oakey. Oddly enough it kind of sticks out. A track which was created for a film that no one has seen since 1984. The least expected song from nowhere. Some personal resonance here. It’s in my top ten songs as well. And more often than not it has the same reaction for me as for her. She cried, her face awash with memories of club visits of the past and friends she’s missed, her housemates reaction underlining just how alone she feels. Probably the most touching moment of the entire series. Just a pity Craig spoilt the thing by laughing through it."

I'm actually getting slight annoyed with the whole affair -- even by now in previous series there has been some great defining signiture moment. Jon has been good but it needs something else, and the double eviction doesn't feel like it. Hopefully the new inmate (because there has to be one) will add something ...

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Music Joni Mitchell wasn't at Woodstock. In a BBC4 documentary tonight it was explained that she was booked to play there the day before she was going to be on The Dick Cavett Show, which was going to be her first piece of US national exposure and she took the decision to save her voice so that she could do her best before the cameras. It was heartbreaking to see her reaction as Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young gatecrashed the show to tell everyone about their experiences, not because the attention was drawn away from her, but because she knew she'd missed out on one of life's defining moments. And then she sang a song about Woodstock, and in the words of David Crosby (I'm paraphrasing) "Defined and explained the event more than anyone who was there."

Music Here is the second post ever from this weblog:

"It looks like the Sugababes project is over for now. In the week when Destiny's Child and the Atomic Kittens fight for the top slot in the charts (the 'kittens' winning with a travesty of The Bangles 'Eternal Flame'), 'Soul Sound' dropped from the top 40. Despite plaudits from the music press and further afield (even The Guardian gave them a good review), it seems the public had little time for this smoother form of RnB. Their time will come we're sure."

I was half right. Sugababes Mk II seemed to ditch their original cool to appeal to a wider audience with louder, more dance orientated sound. It worked and they went to the top. But I was always more of a fan of Mk I with their afformention soul sound, smooth, quiter, subtler. The change in sound can be attributed definitely to the loss of Siobhan Donaghy from the mix (apparently sort of just left suddenly). Although her replacement Heidi Range is certainly a capable vocalist, but flattens out the words to something close to a girl band model. With Donaghy it sometimes actually sounded as though girls cared about what they were singing, and the general impression was more urban. Now Siobhan is back with a new single and it's a joy. Shorn of her ex-bandmates, ironic we can see that she was the one with the range (pun intended). We now hear a Suzie Quatro-esque twing now and then which complements a musical sound akin to Coldplay being asked to do a cover version of something by Roger Sanchez. The video is good to as Donaghy looking like a Victorian beauty out on the town strapped to the camera ala Harvey Keitel in Mean Streets (you know the scene). Amazingly it's on the Radio One playlist to it might do quite well.

TV RI:SE axed. This means I've got to find some other pointless crap to watch in the morning ....

That Day Happy Father's Day! (were applicable) For the first ever I worked on this day, so I gave Dad his card (featuring a Dandelion clock) last night and his present (Booze!) tonight. Seemed disjointed for some reason.

Film Saw The Matrix Reloaded yesterday with my brothers in India (in other words I waited so long to see the film, it was out in that country already) and since there is no point in reviewing it at this stage I thought I would just offer some ruminations. This is a spoiler fest for anyone who hasn’t seen it though.

The Opening
Opening the film with a premonition feels like a fairly standard bit of plotting, especially for anyone who’s seen any tv science fiction or fantasy series in the past few decades. It also feels like a way of echoing the opening scene of the first film, whilst at the same time giving the film an action packed way in. The trouble is we’re almost automatically in an exposition scene about the robots trying to break into Zion which only makes sense if you’re seen The Animatrix episode Last Flight of the Osiris, which really should have been tacked onto front of this as a bonus short (I mean who actually saw it before Dreamcatcher) ? Then nothing really happens for about twenty minutes. The Brothers Warchowski play a dangerous game here, as their playing on the fact that people will be prepared to watch this much chatting because ‘hey, it’s The Matrix’. I’ve a feeling when seen with the third film it’ll make more sense.

The Middle
Something the first film lacked and this film misses even more is the sense of The Matrix being a place. They are forever banging on about wanting to win the war and free the humans, but we don’t have a sense of the people living with The Matrix. The Animatrix covers this to some extent but I would like to see this more in the films. You would expect some expression of interest from the populace what with the explosions and such on the freeway and Neo flying about and all of the missing persons (those who are possessed by the agents) would be reported somewhere or talked about or is the clean-up operation that good. In addition, the treatment of the people still hooked up to The Matrix is always interesting. At the start of this film the implication is that the security guards are real people just clocking off work. Does that mean that it’s OK for them to be gun fodder for Trinity and friends? Aren’t they the very people that Neo is fighting for? Taking to it farthest conclusion, the reception scene in the first film is mass murder on a massive scale, the security just defending themselves from the aggressor …

The Ending
What if when they leave The Matrix at the end of the film they’ve actually left The Matrix version six and entered The Matrix version seven, created to resemble their new version of the real world, Zion and all, and that’s why Neo is manifesting powers. And for an even bigger shock, how about that all of the films are in fact taking place in layers of the same Matrix, everything they’re experiencing is a simulation and at the end of The Matrix Revolutions Neo becomes the first to break through into some actual real world?

All of which said. I did love it though ...

Music There isn't anything better than someone treating crap like gold (I should know) so this piece by Pop Matters regarding Joey Blossom Lawrence one and only album Joey Lawrence is very good indeed:

"Nothin' My Love Can't Fix" is great example of the bouncy, happy fun that fills up much of Joey's debut release. The album is crammed with tunes all wonderfully innocent and completely danceable. Joey samples a few different genres, mixing hip-hop and rap with your basic pop melody. Every one of these happy songs has a groovy beat and a lively chorus. It all comes together to create a very cool story about a boy's relationship with his summertime girl.

To cover the blank faces which are probably greeting this post, Blossom was an early nineties Channel 4 import shown in the 6pm slot opposite BBC Two 'Cult' programmes. It was pre-Friends in all kinds of ways (although popular enough to be referenced in the first season of that show), but benefitted from some very good performances and a not entirely god-awful script which touched on some social issues (even if the senimentality did creep in all over the place). Her brother older brother suffered from a drink problem and her dad was a divorce. Everyone remembers particularly Joey Lawrence (Whoa) and Six who would enter into massive monologues which would obsess around a problem (for this think Sir Humphey's verbal games in Yes, Minister). Wierdly, some of the episodes were directed by Bill The Hulk Bixby ...

Who Certainly a bit impressed to see that Big Finish, creators of the new Doctor Who audio content have managed to secure the services of Sir Derek Jacobi to appear as The Doctor in one of their Unbound plays. For the probably unitiated, these are their version of the Marvel Comics What If? series and DC Comics Elsewhere. The first example being 'What if The Doctor never left his home planet?' Myseriously, Jacobi's is going to be something akin to 'What if Doctor Who never quite made it to our TV screens?' which makes no sense at all really. It won't be around until October.

The BBCi Shada wound down last week and was mostly a success. Although the Flash animation was a nice touch, it finally failed to engage and I've a feeling the piece will work much better in an audio release when more emphasis can be heard on Douglas Adams words.

And finally I found this the other day when I was having a clear out. It's a pretty good idea of how to make new Who for TV without pissing off current fans or scaring off new or casual viewers:

A vision for the future of television Doctor Who:

Main Characters: The Doctor, Female companion, The TARDIS
Familiarity. Turn on your average post-Troughton story this is your set up. The companion explores the problem at hand, The Doctor explains and solves it. The average viewer isn’t expecting three ‘teenagers’ and a robot. Better to give depth to one companion than have two or three ciphers.

Six one hour episodes
Clarity, attention span, budget. With judicious and careful editing most tv Who stories could be told in an hour – the audio version of ‘Genesis of the Daleks’ proves this. Yes, it’s nice to see Tom and Lalla running around Paris in ‘City of Death’ but it doesn’t exactly drive the plot forward does it? If Buffy can do it, so can this -- see also Jonathan Creek and Strange.

First episode - Cybermen. Last episode – Daleks (with cliffhanger ending)
Nice and familiar. Monsters, and monsters the public have heard of. Could give the Cybermen the usual redesignt, but keep the Daleks as pepper pots (that’s half their appeal). Daleks in last episode not first so as not to show all your good cards.

In between, The Doctor takes his companion to see the first civilisations (Stonehenge, Ancient Egypt, even earlier) and the end of time (last surviving human, aliens trading the last human DNA remains). Episode set on a strange alien planet, episode on a starship.
The Hartnell era might be a good pattern to follow. So two sci-fi, one quasi-historical, one pure historical. Random order. I’d have the historical as episode two, sci-fi three, then follow in ‘The Time Meddlers’ footsteps and sell the quasi-historical initially as a historical. Then Sci-Fi, then that Dalek story. Returns the show to unpredictability; the TARDIS guidance circuits have malfunctioned so he doesn’t know (and therefore we don’t know) where he’ll end up next (that’s real adventure isn’t it?). Historicals potentially an easier sell now alongside the monster stories.

Ignore continuity references, but don’t contradict anything too much.
Base everything on what the general public probably knows – yes, we know The Doctor is a Timelord, but do we need some boring old episode on Gallifrey to prove the point? Only exposition relating to plot at hand then, and make the stories self contained. No need to keep referring back to ‘the canon’ all the time, but don’t contract it. That way the fans will be content that this isn’t a re-boot, but the fans won’t start turning off in their droves when it becomes clear that they should have seen half a dozen old stories and read four novels to make the story at all comprehensible.

No romance, but lots of flirting.
See Pertwee and Jo Grant; Tom Baker and everyone (apart from Harry); whilst I personally had no problem with ‘that kiss’ this needs to have the original family show appeal.

Family show, but scary enough to need a sofa
Everyone says they hid behind the sofa. Nothing wrong here – scary monsters and cartoon violence. But keep to the model of The Doctor using his mind to outwit his opponents.

And as I said at the end -- 'It’s as easy as that. So what’s taking so long?'

Rings The new scenes for the extended The Two Towers in full. [via Sore Eyes]

Commerce Currently available from me at Ebay. Pink Floyd: The Wall on VHS video.

Celebrating An increase in US style Proms in Glasgow has led to a limosene shortage as kids club together so that they can travel in style:

"Fergus Ferguson, boss of Bishopbriggs-based Hollywood Limousines, said: "We have seven cars at our disposal but even if we had 107 cars, we could not keep everyone happy. "All schools seem to be going the American way and having prom nights but, unfortunately, they are crammed into the one month. If every month was like June, I'd be a millionaire."

But if you became a millionare wouldn't there be an even greater shortage. Swings and roundabouts.

Film Here is the dividing line between a cineaste, film fan and utter geek. What was Orson Wells final film? After decades of bitter attempts to bring his vision to the theatre, what was the last project he brought his considerable talents to? Some people I know will already be bored with the question. For the rest, it was the seminal Transformers: The Movie. If you want proof, here it is. If her knew that, do you think he would have even spent time of day on Citizen Kane? He played the planet eating Unicron in case you're wondering. Now I actually have soft spot for the vehicle/man machines, but I'm having difficulty seeing them work in a live action feature film. Or rather I would except it's being written by Tom DeSanto who also worked on the X-Men films and might actually treat the material with some seriousness. Anyone fancy a power cube?

Books As a final word on the subject, long term readers might find the following interesting:

"My other responsibility is to actually buy the presents for the people who graduate. This is the perfect task for me, since I don't know anyone who likes shopping more than I do. I love doing this, and I love picking out things that are appropriate to the person. I had always hated it that people would get these silly things that they'd never use or want - you know, novelty items purchased at the last minute, or paperweights with a piece of green felt slapped on the bottom."

That's from the final pages of Elizabeth Wurtzel's last book More, Now, Again. Here is something I wrote here in November 2001:

"Oddly, I never seem to have difficulty finding things people will like, or that they can use - it’s simply a case of listening and paying attention throughout the year. My mother is plagued by friends who give her presents which she’ll never use and is told that they never know what to get her - which considering how much she talks about life just shows how little some people pay attention to each other. My dad can be more difficult but I still seem to find something. The same goes for everyone else I buy presents for. It sort of annoys me that people would go out and buy somewhat generic presents for one another, making bee-lines for the ‘Perfect for Mom’ or ‘Perfect for Fathers’ sections of apartment stores, the latter always filled with golfing related products."

The difference between a journalist and a weblogger? It was a bit of a shock after reading three hundred pages of drug abuse to find something I could actually relate to. Perhaps LIzzy and I should start a decent present buyers union. And that is all I have to say about that.

Dating The following is truly one of the most terrifying things I've read this hour, from a survey by New Woman magazine ...

"When the thorny subject of cash came up you had a variety of opinions but seem pretty fair. Most of you said the bill should always be split, while ten per cent said whoever asked for the date should pay, whether that's him or you. A tiny minority (six per cent) reckoned it should always be the man who settled the bill but the other 28 per cent said it should be the one who's better off financially."

This has always struck as the most telling part of the date. I always assumed it was the man's perogrative. Was I wrong. In the past I have to say every time has been completely different and the cause of some stress. Anyone any stories of this actually dooming the relationship?

Film You will leave Nicholas Nickleby feeling pleasantly surprised. As one of Dickens' less known works (by which I mean if someone stopped you in the street and asked you to name one it wouldn't the first thing that dribbles from your lips) I'm sure there aren't that many people my age who will have actually read it. Admittedly when I entered I had no idea what was to come. I expected 'the usual'. Grim smoke filled London streets filled with starving urchins and characters warn away by life fighting again the prosperous. For the first half an hour that's exactly what happens as Nickleby loses his father and finds himself working in a country boarding house filled with hatred and suffering. Despite the slightly jokey opening voiceover you will glance at your watch and wonder how long you've got.

But then our hero makes a very strong, very motivating decision and suddenly everything brightens up and his journey begins. And for some reason the audience is inspired to stay with him as the episodes of his life play out. The trouble with writing a review of a film like this is that the real joy is in the surprises, of story and casting, which need to be kept under wraps for a truly pure experience. This is one of those films you remember watching when you were young in which almost every character is played by someone you've seen before and loved; for real effect, shut your eyes or look down at your popcorn during the credits. I will tell you to look out for the bright pink horse or Tommy from Trainspotting so you can see what kind of a film this is. So go and be pleasantly surprised.

Big Brother You knew it was coming, it is nomination night after all. And as usual Jon is up because they can think of a reason to nominate him. Listen up people. He is only shouting at you because he knows you're going to fail the task again this week because you haven't a bloody clue what you're doing and you won't listen to him even though he knows what he's talking about. It's for your benefit. The alternative is another week of chickpeas. Just vote off Federico everyone.

In other news, it doesn't surprise me at all that Nush is actually making a crack at playing the game (diplomatic with Jon about food / turning it all around when talking to Steph and turning everyone against him / making Sissy stircrazy). She's probably the cleverest of the girls so I'd keep an eye on her tictacs. Does anyone actually admit to being a Justine fan? Watching her outside the house on Big Brother's Little Brother and RI:SE she seems a bit, well, full of her own importance as though everything she says matters, even though, frankly, it doesn't. All excited about the going to the 2 Fast 2 Furious premiere. Look at which film it was ... and who else was there. Still excited?

Also, the Australian version was almost sued this week by the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission for airing a racist joke. Not because of the joke itself, but because the 'comedian' didn't get a warning from Big Brother because it didn't break the rules ... welcome to the not so real world ...

Film Having just watched the sublime The Animatrix, it's interesting to read that this isn't the only use of shorts of late to hype a new film. Even 2 Fast 2 Furious has one. Depressing.