I blame Year 11 and 12 English Lit. It taught me to pick up on every tiny bit of foreshadowing in every movie I see and every book I read. Which means I have usually figured out how a movie is going to end before I get to the end … and it’s also made me a VERY hard marker of endings - particularly in movies. Read more »

A couple of weeks ago Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner visited Australia to promote the latest film instalment of the Twilight series. I am a fan of the Twilight books … but  definitely no Twi-hard, yet on a scale of 1-10, my interest in their visit was around a 7 or 8.

My fascination with these two actors has little to do with my love of the Twilight books and more to do with the different ways they have seemed to deal with their skyrocketing fame. Fame of course comes bundled with two major “perks” - shedloads of money and shedloads of public interest. Public interest generally manifests itself in the form of hundreds of rabid photographers dogging your every move. Read more »

Read this on another blog I follow, a lovely quote from philosopher Rainer Maria Rilke. It just resonated with me so I thought I would share:

Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always