Sunday 17/8/08 Dolores Claiborne

One of my favourite films of all times is Dolores Claiborne. Having scoured everywhere for it, I managed to get it sent from london via the zavvi store's internal online service. Pick any film you want, and if they don't have it in the shop, they will send it to your home address for only €12, p&p free. I ordered my copy late on a friday evening in the square, and was amazed to have it the next wednsday via post from london.

Its a brilliant poignant story, multi layered, with some great and haunting lines and plots. I loved the whole euthanasia story. Give power and control of ones life back to the individual, I say. I remember watching it on

video back in '95, and thinking, as I still do, that this woman had great guts. But surely it would have been much better if she could have had professional assistance, rather than relying on her own half baked attempts. Why are humans treated worse than dogs?

Having a lazy morning reading "god is not great" by Christopher Hitchens and looking at the dvd extras for "la vie en rose". Religion certainly can ruin everything. How obnoxious it is to believe that only your own particular cult has all the answers, and everyone else is wrong. Spoke to a woman yesterday, and I think she thought joe's death might have made me more of a believer. Death is an inescapable part of this life process, and whether you die of leukemia at 7, a car crash at 25, or snugly in your bed at 80, it ultimately makes no difference. There is no divine order to things, chaperoned by some maniacal magician in the sky, and thank fuck for that!