the corner office

Ronwen and I were off to Cresta for lunch, and decided to catch a movie while we were there. It's been months since we last went to movies (always too busy or lazy). We ended up watching Around The World In 80 Days. Some less than stellar bits but overall good clean fun. The fight scenes with JackieChan! are always good fun. A good few cameos... Arnie didn't do it for me, but Rob Schneider's part had us in stitches.

I ate too much though. Came home and spent the evening feeling sorry for myself on the couch and mooching around with Gentoo. R & I watched 'Coming To America' on SABC3. Still a damned funny movie - especially the various Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall characters. It's always a hoot to revisit or even rediscover the source of old gags and lines that are nowadays part of our common culture, 16 years later. As I said to Ronwen, it's painful to look back at the clothes and hair styles and music and think we grew up with that, but then again, if you're willing to re-embrace that 80s cheese, you can hook back into a lot of good memories.