Movie Review: Yes Man

My first reaction to Yes Man, was a variation on the old Bruce Campbell line: "What? I needed a new boiler."


Which is to say, I just assume that even Jim Carrey needs to stoke the coffers every now and then, and that this was just the latest in a series of high concept Hollywood comedies that the big name actors put out every year to keep themselves going. Come on, Jim Carrey has to say yes to everything, hilarity ensues. It's the inevitable choice after "Jim Carrey can't lie", "Jim Carrey is God", "Adam Sandler has a magic remote control", and "Rob Schneider turns into a girl".

It's good though. I mean it's a formulaic rom com, but I like formulaic rom coms. This one comes with music from E and the Eels, Zooey Deschanel (swoon), Danny Masterson playing his character from That 70s Show (who I liked) and Rhys Darby from Flight of the Conchords.

Approval: given.

Sapporo-ro-ro!

Originally posted on facebook on 4th August:

Since last we spoke I have shot like a bullet by aeroplane from Toyko to Sapporo. By plane that takes an hour and a half, by train estimates vary from over ten hours to "the rest of the year". I have also spoken to someone who caught a ferry to south Japan, but then got stuck and had to get the train back, which took days...

This week Japan is awesome because:

I watched a TV programme in which two men attempted to roll a garden hose back onto its reel faster than a dog could play "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" on a giant piano.

When I got my Japanese mobile they also gave me a free gift of three cans of Sapporo beer and a litre of iced coffee.

I ate a burger at a tiny, tiny restaurant which felt like someone`s living room, the burger was described as a "House Special Deluxxx Killer Burger" and it was so big it pretty much did just that. It also came with an Ohio potato harvest worth of fries.

I ate Hiroshima-fu Kimuchi Okonomiyaki (okonomiyaki being one of the Japanese foods you just can`t get in the west, and which I loved last time I was here).

That`s it for now. I`m going home to bed. As always, more soon. More sense too.