Me and My Exciting Life.

Truth be told the last couple of months started catching up with me around December 26th. As a result the absolute last thing I wanted to do on New Year's Eve was go out and party. Instead I cooked something nice for dinner, opened a good bottle of wine and watched the original version of "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" - film almost as long as it's title. While I really think I need to watch it again and I don't think it's the sort of film you're meant to enjoy I certainly feel my life is a better place for having watched it.

Appropriately I haven't got round to watching again or watching the second film in the trilogy because yesterday (1/1/12) BBC1 was showing the first episode of the second series of "Sherlock" - the first big TV event of the year. If you're not familiar with this BBC drama it attempts to re-tell Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes mysteries in a modern day setting. A cynic would say that it borrows heavily from the US show "The Mentalist" but then the Mentalist does owe a certain debt to Conan Doyle. The first series of Sherlock was originally shown in the summer of 2010 which is traditionally a quiet time for new TV shows. In part this was done so the second episode could be used to prepare my little brother for his trip to China but mainly it was because the network really wasn't sure how the audience would receive it. They needn't have worried though because the audience immediately fell in love with it and started to demand to know when the second series would start. Unfortunately by that point most of the people involved had already committed themselves to do other things so it took another 18 months for the second series to be shown. That wait was filled with rumours about when it would be shown, who would be in it and what would happen. As a result there was always a risk that story of the making of the second series would be more interesting then the program itself.

The first episode of the second series featured Sherlock Holmes and his sidekick Dr Watson being hired by the Queen of England to find a dominatrix who had photographs of a young Princess engaged in lesbian, S&M sex. Although that sounds quite offensive to the Royal Family it was actually an attempt to ingratiate them with the world's homosexuals or "the feeble minded" as the Royals prefer to think of them. The story then progressed to encompass themes of Islamic terrorism, espionage, false flag terror attacks and the question of whether or not the Queen smokes amid around 540 other things designed to annoy me. The central theme though was the mutual attraction between and Sherlock Holme's growing obsession with the dominatrix, Irene Adler. That character was played by Lara Pulver whose been in "True Blood" and the final series of "Spooks." The important thing to remember about her though is that she is basically a much, much older version of Summer Glau from "Firefly" and "Terminator: The Sarah Conner Chronicles." Despite all this I think the team behind Sherlock just about got away with it especially Lara Pulver who, er, well dominated every scene. So much as it annoys me it looks like she's going to get a lot more work. As for Summer Glau if Britain has it's way her agent is going to be getting a call from the producers of the next James Bond film any day now.

I then watched "Hacks" on Channel 4. This totally made up comedy told the story of a British Sunday tabloid and it's Australian owner as it was engulfed in a scandal about phone hacking. With the exception of the owner Stanhope Feast, his idiot son, his Vietnamese wife and British Prime Minister David Bullingdon this was all done in such broad strokes and pantomime style it didn't really target anyone in particular. In fact it featured one the most sympathetic portrayals of Rebekah Brookes that I've seen in a long while.

In something more closely resembling actual proper news an arsonist has been setting fires across California - the heart of the US film and TV industry. This is just the Zionist part of the US state briefing against me. The allegation is that my posts of last Thursday (29/12/11) started metaphorical fires across Hollywood. That's nonsense because the rumours of what I've been up too started the fires. By tackling them head on I actually helped to extinguish most of the fires. However that's not what the Zionist wanted though. While we can argue about the intellectual rights and wrongs of it TV and film but especially TV play an important role in how people vote in elections. The Zionist element was rather hoping then that it could use the fire and fury of New Year's Eve to find out how Hollywood's liberal elite intend to play the 2012 election so the Zionist element can increase the chances of a Republican victory.