Quite simply - if you want to see the most creative movie of the last decade, you have to see “SCIENCE OF SLEEP“.

It’s Michel Gondry’s (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) newest film about a young man who mixes up his dreams with reality (basically a hommage to his own work and life thus far). It’s full of crazy ideas, a car chase with cardboard cars, toy horses made out of material which come to life, cities made of cardboard, time machines made of plastic etc, etc, etc.

It is wild! It makes everything else you have seen, which claims to be creative, look like a piece of work made from someone out of the movie “1984″! Seriously, it is outrageous! It is funny, actually hilarious, loveable and so very daring!

Go see it! Tell everyone! Enjoy!!!!!

For those of you who grew up in a similar era, you will know exactly what I’m talking about. The movie Top Gun and those F-14 ‘Tomcats’. Now it wasn’t the greatest movie ever made, far from it. But as a ten year old, it didn’t take much to amuse us all! Those jet fighters and that movie were the ultimate propaganda for influencing young impressionable minds. To the point I always dreamed of growing up a fighter pilot. Many things have changed, but planes… jets especially, still get me excited. Little boy time!

Anyway, the US navy’s F-14 ‘Tomcat’, built to protect the fleet from Soviet bombers, took its last flight off an aircraft carrier yesterday, closing one of the final chapters in its 32-year history. According to the Age, the retirement of the ‘Tomcat’ clears the way for the navy to start using new military aircraft that supporters say can meet post-Cold War requirements more affordably. It is apparently a trend in US government weapons spending that favours cost cutting over performance. Really?

“It’s a Cold War icon with modern day lethality,” said Commander Jim Howe, commander of the navy’s last Tomcat fighter squadron and the pilot on the last Tomcat to make the two second, 240kph catapult launch off the carrier. Pilots and machinists aboard the USS Roosevelt aircraft carrier, off the coast of Virginia, echoed those sentiments this week along with industry analysts.

Beyond reflection about the aircraft’s powerful image, supersonic speed and unmatched dog fighting capabilities, many sailors and analysts agreed the navy just doesn’t need the Tomcat anymore. Simple but deadly ground-based threats such as the roadside bombs used against US forces in Iraq, difficulties securing access to foreign bases and the near total lack of a rival in the air, raise questions over the need for maintaining high spending levels.

Above photo taken Photographer’s Mate 3rd Class Todd Frantom, aboard the USS Kitty Hawk, November 2002.

Read the Age article here.

Check out the US Navy’s official take here…

Last week I went to a charity fundraiser for the Friends of Baucau. Friends of who? Baucau is the second largest city in East Timor, home to the country’s largest airport as well as its shipping port. A great deal of Baucau’s infrastructure was destroyed during the country’s independence vote in 1999. A friend of mine was working for the organisation and the film night fundraiser was her pet project, hence my presence there.

So what did we see? Ten Canoes, the first feature length film that is spoke entirely (excusing the narrative role) in indigenous Aboriginal language. I wasn’t sure about going to see this film but my money was going to a good cause, so I felt I would be able to keep an open mind. It’s amazing what you’ll discover when you open your mind to explore other ideas.