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Faith47.com
Faith is an incredibly talented Cape Town based fine artist, illustrator and graffiti artist. Her graffiti is heavily influenced by SA culture while still retaining that distinctive urban edge shared by all contemporary graffiti artists. You’ve got to check out her work. It’s a shame some of the image links are broken, I want to see them all! Hopefully they will be fixed soon.

(Thanks for the link Fly!)

Movie Review

We went to see six films this weekend: Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (eugh. had its moments.), After the Sunset (entertainment that’s easy to forget, though Salma Hayek has never looked hotter.), Ladies in Lavender (surprisingly good!), The Incredibles (fantastic and clever – check out the trailer) and Enduring Love (heavy going and thought provoking thriller – check out the trailer).

Standing head and shoulders over the rest for us was undoubtedly:

The Educators – official selection Cannes 2004
(Die Fetten Jahre sind vorbei)

The story begins with a wealthy family returning from holiday to their luxurious lifestyle. When they enter their villa they are shocked to find a pile of their expensive furniture stacked up to the ceiling. Their precious ornaments in the toilet, carrots on the diningroom table, family photos in the fridge, everything has been creatively rearranged and placed where you’d least expect it. Someone has left a note for them: “Your days of plenty are numbered.”

The story follows three unseparably close friends, through kidnapping, love and betrayal and tests their fundamental ideals.

“The Edukators is a deft and amusing look at the youngsters’ attempts to live by their own version of 60s radical politics, even when this is hard to square with their more individualist impulses.” ~ LFF Films

I loved this movie and give it 4½ stars! If it was worth any less, I wouldn’t have bothered to blog it. You will recognise Daniel Brühl from Goodbye Lenin who steals the show.

Watch the trailer on the German site titled “Trailer”.

At last, this is news Ive been desperate to hear! Thanks Tintu.

Google announced on Wednesday that its still-in-beta-testing e-mail service, Gmail, will now support POP access. Post Office Protocol (POP) is the mail service type commonly utilized by Microsoft Outlook and other similar e-mail applications. It is also utilized by handheld devices. This means Gmail account holders will be able to access the e-mail in their Gmail accounts using other programs/devices instead of being limited to online-only access through a browser on a PC. More info…

I wish someone would invent a WiFi Clock Radio so I can tune into Sleepbot Environmental Broadcast while tucked up in bed. I found this great new station on Chapel Perilous.

Why don’t all new audio and video devices come out as standard with signal receivers for other channels (11 in particular), so your wifi devices can send audio-visual data to them? It should be a standard. I don’t want an MP3 player, portable DVD player, or a DAB clock radio. I want a portable device that receives all known signals and plays all new formats, with a clock, alarm and programmable buttons to save your favourite channels, and of course a hefty HDD that can store a whole library of high quality DVDs. The HDD should be upgradable as better ones come out. Then I can hook up speakers to it or headphones and put it anywhere. It has to come out eventually, and I can’t wait!

Remember a while back we went on holiday in rural South West France? We stayed in a beautifully restored gite in return for revamping the owner’s old website.

At last its done and The Old Presbytery is online! Check out the photos I promised in the gallery.

In July I blogged Soy and Menopause
Only 10% of Japanese women suffer hot flashes and less than 4% suffer night sweats due to their soy-rich diets. There isn’t even a word for the condition in Japanse culture.

If you’d like to boost your soy intake now while youre young to avoid menopausal symptoms later, or are going through the menopause, and you dont like tofu, try my yummy hot chocolate recipe. Its really easy to make and happens to be completely vegan.

Yummy’s irresistible Rich Frothy Hot Chocolate Recipe made with soya milk. PIC: This is what it looks like. Irresistable!!

Equipment: coffee plunger (essential!), small pot
Ingredients: Organic unflavoured sugar free soya milk (Organic so its pesticide free. I use Alpro), and Green & Blacks Organic Hot Chocolate (extremely luxurious cocoa-rich chocolate, no milk added, contains raw cane sugar)

Instructions:
1. Mix 4 teaspoons G&B Hot Choc with a tiny bit of boiling water in your cup to blend the granules.
1. Heat up 3/4 cup soya milk in pot. (Boiling it does change the flavour, and I prefer it, so try both options to see which you like best.)
2. Add the heated soya milk to the coffee plunger. Plunge up and down a few times until the soya milk frothes. It may even double or triple up the plunger.
3. Slowly add the frothy milk to the cup while stirring it in well. Stop before you get to the top, to make space for extra frothing.
4. Plunge whats left a few more times so it stiffens more.
5. Scoop remains onto the top of the hot chock.
6. Sprinkle a pinch or two of G&B’s on the top.

Enjoy!

You’ll be amazed how incredibly delicious this drink is! I have it nearly every day. Let me know if you try this recipe and what you think of it.

Kat is a star! She has tracked down my favourite UK TV commercial so I can share it with everyone: The New Citroën C4 (4.7MB mpeg)

Dancer and choreographer Marty Kudelka had motion sensors placed over his body to record his moves, which were then simulated by the animated car and robot. The 30-second ad, which uses a track by Les Rythmes Digitales, was devised by London creative agency Euro RSCG, the animations were the work of the Embassy (Vancouver) and it was produced by Spy Films (Toronto).

The C4 goes on sale today in the UK.

Discovered on Chapel Perilous:

Fafinette
French graffiti artist Fafi is a rising star on the graffiti scene. She has a distinctly feminine style. Her drawings, paintings, and wall projects are often of socially and sexually liberated girls, and influenced by the many cultures she has experienced during her world travels.

Her graphics have been in countless magazines such as Nylon, Dish, Warp, and L’Express and she has exhibited in Japan, New York, and Paris. Go girl!

Shatner Has Been
There’s an interview that starts up when the site opens, so turn up the speakers. Select “You’ll have time” from the track list at the top. Hilarous!
(Thanks Bob)

It is safe to say that Caiterwauling is a very unique blog. It is shared by two sassy and intelligent women – Cait from Texas, and Miko from Japan. Cait with her rather bizarre and hilarous cat stories, Miko with her eyebrow-raising memoirs, both share so much about the funny and interesting sides to their vastly different cultures. It’s very edutaining and it’s for good reason Caiterwauling has always been in the “digested daily” list. Go and see for yourself.