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Finally chose which university I want to go to. Put it down and despite the misgivings of my friends, I'm rather happy with my choice.

All my friends thought I should have put York down. But half of them are going there so I should be glad to get away. I love them really. It's quite funny, one friend in particular was going on about how Leicester was not that brilliant, and I had to bite my tongue to avoid saying that the only reason he wanted to go to York was because Oxford turned him down. But I wouldn't say that because that would be mean.

Sadly it looks like I'm going to be proved right about O'Haire being the next Jeff Hardy. Although it does give me a rocking idea for an icon. Must go ask someone if I may use their words.

Writers block went, but that might be because of vodka. I really do like the stuff even if people seem to think its horrid, and only to be drunk when wanting to get drunk. They fail to appreciate its finer points.

Apparently their is going to be a remake of 'The Italian Job'. Why? Why can't they leave films alone. Now I'm not saying it's a brilliant film, but it is a classic of it's kind and is as wedded to it's time and place as any piece of history is. The originally is a rather splendid little film, very British. It's iconic, possibly for the wrong reasons. And the soundtrack, oh the soundtrack.

The remake is set in Los Angles instead of Turin (wiping out half of the fun of parts of the film dealing with the Turin Mafioso), has Mark Wahlberg instead of Michael Caine (I'm not debating Wahlberg's acting credentials, he just doesn't have the same charm as Caine.), and gone are references to Camp Freddie (oh no, so utterly non-PC, which misses the point entirely) and has far too many women characters. If there is a female involved in the heist itself, I will scream sacrilege. It's supposed to be a boy's own adventure (and quite how they're going to work in half the quotes that made the film what it is is beyond me, 'You're only supposed to blow the pissing doors off' doesn't have quite the same ring.)

I am also willing to bet that there will be no cute little Minis. And the ending, you know they're going to wreck the ending. Oh that glorious film will be done down.

A film I am looking forward to in the future (other than X-2 and Return of the King) is this new version of Dracula with Hugh Jackman as Van Helsing, and Richard Roxburgh (who was The Duke in Moulin Rouge, and is yet another Aussie). Actually he's doing the whammy, playing Sherlock and Mycroft Holmes and Moriarty in separate things. He's good.

And the other great news about this, it's made by the same people who did the Mummy films. Whoo! Am very excited.