My god - Oldboy finally has a UK release. Go watch it. You get to see a man eating a live octopus (or is it a squid?). Though you probably won't believe me, it is purely coincidence that the screen-shot I took from this film just happens to be very close (the smile is only beginning in my screen-shot . . . the lift door is opening, you see) to the one used in the review that the image links to. According to the Rav, the next film to look out for is 'Garden State'.

And here's some of the strange answer phone messages I have to deal with . . . they MUST be wrong numbers. Translations welcome:

• Something about born again christians . . . "I don't know what they do"
• "Hello Kath, are you there?"
• this one's in Spanish
• as is this
• but this is not (after all, the weathering on the sphinx suggests it must be at least 10000 years old . . . but try to get an Islamic Egyptologist to say that . . . HA! "But the Koran says . . ." )