It was a wonderfull and relaxing trip. The stories come with the pictures. It was a beautiful trip with gorgeous islands and turtles popping up at the surface. And a lot of jellyfish! Big ones, small ones. There seems to be 600 types of jellyfish. Because of the dangerous ones we only could swim in a smelly and asexual stingersuit. It ruins the party in paradise a bit.
After this trip i took the nightbus to Brisbane. 20 hours in a crappy bus that showed a the horrible movie 'the cable guy'. No escaping that with full volume. I tried to read this moviemagazin and i really got excited about a lot of movies.
In Brisbane i went to the new film of Wes Anderson, the Darjeeling limited. How many movies can this man make about disrupted families? Although i think 'the life aquatic with Steve Zissou' is his masterpiece, this one is unbelievable funny again. And.......it stars Natalie Portman naked!
Talking about naked scenes. The new Ang Lee (brokeback mountain and director of my favorite movie about food 'eat drink man woman' ) 'Se Jie' seems to have some explicit sexscenes. The film has become a severe age rating in the USA. Luckily Ang Lee didnt want to make alterations so we still can see the balls of Tony Leung! (that must get your attention Ladies)
And 2008 got more big promises. The return of my heroes 'Batman' and 'Indiana Jones'. Being the only superhero who has an extreme darkside and didnt become superhero by radioactive bites or stupid medical experiments that has gone wrong, Batman is my favorite. Out of the hands of Joel Schumacher who almost killed Batman and in the hands of Christopher Nolan (Memento, The Prestige) Batman is the Darknight he should be again. This time the battle with my favorite supervillain The Joker begins.
There also a new flic of Michel Gondry (eternal sunshine of a spotless mind) coming up. 'Be kind rewind' is a comedy starring Jack Black and Mos Def(!). Its about two videostore workers that has erased all rentals by accident. The solution they come up with is to reshoot all the movies by themself. Sounds good doesnt it? Gondry is also filming a script of Daniel Clowes (the comicbook writer of Ghost world). And this is not the end of this commercial.....because i got really excited by the fact that that there will be a new Paul Thomas Anderson movie. Being the writer and director of the classics 'Boogienights' and 'Magnolia' I think that Paul Thomas is one of the most talented man of this era.
And my favorite movie of 2007? I was struck by the amazing visuals of '300' it was true to the Frank Miller story. It was even better than Sin City.
What happened to the new Won Kar Wai movie? Everywhere i come it isn't released yet, but it also not in the list of 2008. I wanna see Norah!
Our salingboat sailing along the islands of whitsundays.
The Skipper
First stop. Whitsunday island. In the top 4 of most photographed places in Australia
Pics of Whitehaven beach.
All 24 people on board slept under the sky. Our reward a great starshow.
There were shooting stars gallore. Somebody asked what i wished for.
My mind was blank i told her. Nothing to wish for, I think i must be satisfied how things are going.
We also looked for the 'southern cross' the group of stars that is in the australian flag.
The boatcrew used a 'starfinders guide' but there were to many stars to find it.
The third day we stopped at this sany island, Langford.
On one site of this island there is a big reef, on the other side there are a lot of rocks.
We went snorkling at the reef. I was pleased to see a tiny reefshark,
but when i came out of the water and looked at the rocky site. I saw plenty of stingrays and blacktip reefsharks.
And even a shovelnose shark!
Although the clouds on the background dont promise anything good,
I meet a lot of people, traveling the same or oposite
directions, who are complaining about the 'shitty' weather.
But I am still traveling with the sun. Seems to be connected to my backpack.
Back in Airlie Beach i went for Sushi.
And i found this perfect east meets south product
A kangaroo-sushiroll. It was delicious. Took three plates ;)
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i saw the movie 'Lust and Caution' by Ang Lee. I should have opened my eyes wide. I missed that scene ^^! To me, the main actress, Wei Tang, was impressive even though she was new. I think Ang Lee has good eyes in picking up actress.
SH
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