Hello! The 15th of March is the People's Premiere of The Age of Stupid, a dramatised documentary starring Pete Postlethwaite, looking back from 2055 at why we didn't do the things we needed to do to avert runaway climate change while we still had the chance.

It's said to be an extremely powerful (but quite entertaining) piece of cinema, and it may also help motivate the political will not to be so bloody stupid. The more people come and see it when it premieres (in Edinburgh that's at Vue, Ocean Terminal) or when it opens properly on the 20th (it's showing at the Filmhouse), the better chance it stands of getting picked up by more mainstream cinemas around the world, for longer. Here's a poster.

So, who's up for coming along on the 15th? It should be a fun event.

I also notice there's a series of related events going on in Scotland, which could be interesting.

On a related topic my brother's short film, 'Wake Up, Freak Out - then Get a Grip' now has French and German dubs available, as well as subtitles in Spanish, Dutch, Turkish and English. Does anyone have any good ideas for how to bring them to the attention of people who speak those languages? So far the film's been watched online more than 100,000 times, but of the translations, only the Turkish one has really caught on...

Lately I've been feeling like writing a lot, mostly reviews. I start to feel weird when I haven't really been writing for a while, same as when I haven't been sculpting or taking pictures or maybe programming. I think life might be easier if I didn't have so many things I always want to do with it.

So anyway, I started writing a review of Dasavatharam a few weeks ago (it's fantastic; I caught it at a cinema in Glasgow) but I'm still only a paragraph in... and I fully intended to write a proper review of Footsbarn's wonderful Midsummer Night's Dream when I saw it, and maybe also the mostly-excellent but flawed Elizabeth and Raleigh with Simon Munnery, and perhaps I still will... and I'd like to do a review of Arkle's production of Wyrd Sisters (with diotina and eduard_green in it), which I enjoyed greatly, but maybe it's a bit hard for me to be objective there so I don't really know if I should. I wish I had more time for all this stuff, but mostly I need to keep working on my PhD.

I did manage to finish a review of Brazil today, though. I've been wanting to ever since I re-watched it last week. Actually I remember I wanted to when I watched it a year and a half ago, too, but I think I needed to see it again for it to really crystallise. If anyone's interested, here's the review on Everything2, and experimentally, here it is on Google Knol as well. Still not at all sure what to make of the latter...

For those of you who haven't been following her journal, diotina's lovely short film, Addition, has qualified as one of five finalist in the Scottish region of the BAFTA 60 Seconds of Fame competition! If she's voted as the best in Scotland, she gets to go to the BAFTA ceremony where the film will be shown on a big screen... so go vote if you haven't already! As I understand it ('cast your vote by the following methods: voting online on www.60secondsoffame.co.uk and/or phone vote') you're allowed to vote once online and once by phone (09018271061) which costs 10p from a BT line.

The film is also going to be shown on BBC News Scotland some time this week, apparently, but we don't know when.

In other, much less exciting news, thanks to the excellent aitkendrum I have a new/old desktop computer incorporating a motherboard I already had in a nice, shiny box with a working power supply, which is great; both of us now have non-clunky computers to work on. Also I finally got the oven here fixed, so I can start baking my critters again.

Following last night's web horror, this morning I decided to restore a directory called _vti_pvt (somehow missed from my backup) because it vaguely looked like it might be important. I think I was right about this - so far, touch wood, my site seems to be mostly working again. If anyone happens to come across any broken bits, I'd be very grateful to hear about them.

Thanks to everyone who offered comfort and advice, I'll almost certainly set about sorting DNS forthwith.

After I gave up on my site last night I watched Brazil again, for the first time in a decade or so. What a brilliantly made film it is, although admittedly it is not necessarily the wisest choice of bed-time viewing. Reminded me just what a missed opportunity the V for Vendetta film was. It is deeply disturbing how much closer to reality Brazil seems to be than it was when it was made; I wish people would collectively learn lessons from horrifyingly plausible dystopias, but no: Apparently not.

I think I want a Consumers for Christ t-shirt, but the only design I could find online is rubbish...