Another Day, Another Year

Today is the day of my birth (or for the more laymen amongst you my birthday). And that’s all I really got to say about my birthday as nothing really happened, so another day, another year down the drain.

New Bike!

After a 20mile cycle to the aptly named road of death last weekend I noticed that my old bike which I haven’t ridden is years was ridiculously heavy, unresponsive and spongy, this lead me on to a search for a new bike. So with a limit of been £250-350 I set out on finding a bike.

Today I went to town to a small bike shop called Bracknell Cycles, I found several bikes that would have made perfect acquisitions, but most had something missing from the checklist in my mind of what I wanted. Then the clerk suggested the MONGOOSE Tyax Elite 2009 which ticked all the box as well as being the best quality bike I’d looked at and at a £340 it was to the upper end of my limit, this is when Sam Snowden the business legend stepped up to the plate and managed to negotiate £30 of the price. SCORE! Now that extra money will be spent on new cycling gloves as my old Kona glove are falling apart, so win- win. New bike and soon to be new gloves

What happened to my prostitutes? oh they were "Taken"

Scary east European prostitute kidnappers! You just can’t make this shit up. I’ve just finished watching the short thriller “Taken” and do you know what it was half bad. If you told me watch a 1hr 30m film of basically just Liam Neeson, I would tell probably tell you to fuck off! But fortunately this is not the case anymore.

The plots are your averagely highly coincidental young American blonde and brunette go somewhere in Europe and gets kidnapped. Never saw that coming........ But luckily her dad just happens to be an ex CIA hostage rescue expert, some people clearly get all the luck while the rest of us get shit. The film then continues to follow Liam Neeson around continuously for the rest of the film, whether he's smashing threw the wall of the gate house to what I can only describe as a prostitute stronghold or weaving in between oncoming traffic with the ease of James bond.

Although this film is clearly very predictable, it is also entertaining, the lean 1hr 30m run time doesn't leave much in the way for padding which only extenuates the swift pace of the film. This movie was a big surprise. Neeson is very well cast as the CIA operative having the physical presence during many of the fight scenes even though he is now getting on in years. Its only serious downfalls in my eye are the very generic bad guys and lack of an active supporting cast. I would say that this film is one of the best thrillers I have seen in a long time. I strongly advise anyone to go out and watch this film.