i say....sleepy.

Well, it was Oscar night last night and I didn't care. Normally I get into it, but not this year. I think part of it was my work schedule. I'm on nights again and I'm super tired. My motivation for most things has completely disappeared. I also haven't seen any of the movies nominated this year, although there are a few I've wanted to see, but just never did (Brokeback Mountain, Walk the Line, Crash...). I'm not even into the dresses this year, and that's just strange! The few I have seen on the news I'm not incredibly impressed with. So far the only one I've gone wow over was Salma Hayek - what a gorgeous colour.

In other movie news, we saw Ultraviolet this weekend. It sucked! I wasn't expecting a decent plot or acting, but even the effects didn't impress. I think I like my cgi so believable that I end up wondering if it was digital effect or stunt work. As for the plot, it kind of had one, but it was so fragmented. The highlights for me were the opening credits and her purple hair. When we left, I said I couldn't decide if it was a 1 or 2 star movie. Ian said it was a crap star movie *g*, so it didn't even get the guy vote.

I finished the history book I was reading - Hitler's Scientists: Science, War and the Devil's Pact. It was excellent. Depressing in parts obviously, but extremely interesting. One funny thing from it: The technology chief of the Luftwaffe apparently objected to research on radar because if it worked, it would mean flying wouldn't be fun any more. Oh, I also read about the WWII Tokyo Bat Bombs. I certainly had never heard of those before, so an internet research was required. Turns out that the Americans were discussing the possibility of attaching small incendiaries to the wings and feet of bats and then dropping them from airplanes over Tokyo. The idea was they would fly into chimneys and the like and Tokyo would go up in flames. An amusing version of this can be found at Useless Information. See what you can learn from reading non-fiction books? Fun fun facts!