Hello

What strange times we live in, first of all Hello again. Its been quiet because well life sort of took a hold and time became a precious commodity I could no longer ignore.

     There are lots of reasons for the inactivity, dreams exceeding ambitions. My son growing up and needing more of my focus and time and just the fact that though still watching movies at home and in the cinema and streaming I just hadn't seen anything that made me want to commit thoughts to the blog.

     Then along came a little bug and an international pandemic and the internet became an angry place. Twitter exploded with consipricay theories and and an endless stream of bial and vitriol and cyber bullying.  Arguments I thought would never see the light of day suddenly resurfaced, racism, sexism accross facebook and I returned to my bunker to shelter from the gathering storm.

     Here in Wellington, we started the year off with the city being brought to a stand still by anti vaxxers protesting the loss of there freedoms. Contradicted by the fact that they were being extremely loud and vocal and infilitrated by a number of known entities that had more extreme facist like views.

    But thats life, and when your fed up the world movies become more of an escape.  A form of normality is now restored, an election is about 14 months away and those angry voices can vote away their hate. They wont they will find another veichle for their ire.

    So as life reboots so have my personal dreams. Since my last posts I am now fully in love with 4K movies, I have a growing collection of movies some classic most new and I have found myself revisiting a lot of movies I used to watch in the eighties that hark back to the seventies. Recently I have revisited the Marathan Man and Little Big Man (Dustin Hoffman) the French Connection. 

   I love the fact that in 4K old movies look like film again, with more natural colours and a healthy dose of film grain.  That my 65inch Panasonic tv adds to that Natural feel. Its not perfect, its not OLED but I'm sorry after having a Plasma tv and learning and experiencing screen burn I just couldnt make that leap.

   Another revelation for me was the Beatles Get Back documentary. I did miss the grain, the digital smoothing that at times look a little waxxy but it was four nights of my life where I felt I was a fly on the wall with my favourite band that have been a vital part of my life and who I have taught my son to love too.

   So I'm back, older , fatter , greyer and dreaming of having my own projector. New dreams in an old body. I don't know how regularly I will post but it will be when I have something to say and not to meet some self imposed target.