EDDIE PERFECT walks on stage. Points at: PRESENTER (famous young Australian actor) who just presented an award and is leaving the stage. BECKONS him over.

Suddenly EDDIE slaps him.

 PRESENTER

What’d you do that for?

EDDIE PERFECT

Shit I’m sorry, I thought you were Dimitriades.

PRESENTER

[taking that as a compliment] Oh, thank you.

EDDIE PERFECT

Go backstage and slap somebody. Serious. It’s the new planking.

Why our kids’ success – and happiness – may depend less on perfect  performance than on learning how to deal with failure.

From The New York Times.

Wonderful resource or waste of internet time?

Plus this Ted Hope quote:

“After insipid subject matter, complete avoidance of emotional truth, ignorance of film history and the effects of representation, I think the redundant and derivative film language of most films is what truly gets my goat.”

I’ve watched the first one which was great. I’ll get round to the rest …

As witnessed on Judith Lucy’s Spiritual Journey.

A

Across

Top heavy artists urged initially to groove back into bewitching that’s miraculous. (14)

10 Back back-answer’s golden rice dish. (5)

11 Youth, before making bets out west, hit the ball north. (9)

12 Give too many weapons to Trevor Chappell delivery, not. (7)

13 Diminish the French follower of religious academic holding first place. (7)

14 Jungle pig makes pirate lose direction. (5)

16 For cruelly punishing law of negligence ancient city beheads cleverness. (9)

19 Unordained one to drop egg on each boy child. (9)

20 Distillation loses carat more. (5)

22 Spirit within shifting death, without each rural journal. (3, 4)

25 Runner to make Tolkien’s tree go on and on and on. (7)

27 It spoils a lie (sic) to choose emphatic type. (9)

28 No nephew ever heard such spice. (5)

29 Falsely painted seers mend tripe confusion. (14)

Down

2 Pessimistic outlook makes buzzing fly hate MP. (4, 5)

3 Alcohol, a burning light, a sharp turn, now back up: it’s dangling in the gorge. (5)

4 To spouses, gold does mechanise. (9)

5 Flip talk you wait for. (5)

6 Kids can watch a bosom in naughty thankfulness. (9)

7 Tribespeople fail religion. (5)

8 Reduces the noise of studies. (7)

9 Shoot bookie then decimate. (6)

15 Take another look. As to the former, I’m interrogatively born male. (2-7)

17 Plasterers’ transcendental number in thick mix with three R’s. (9)

18 To exclude bone is within relic. (9)

19 Hesitation after high sounds high after helium. (7)

21 Blow rental horn. (6)

23 Welsh family mineral water drops one point.  (5)

24 Rider addled but not so wet. (5)

26 Model downpour for coach. (5)

“Harry Joy was to die three times, but it was his first death which was to have the greatest effect on him…”

Even though I love -

“The hideous low scarred yellow horny and barren headland lies curled like a scorpion in a blinding sea and sky.”

- it’s hardly taken off. Are there any other great opening lines that people know of?

No more screams.

Last heartbeats of info. Leaves blow.

You can also see the last lot from 2008 earlier on my blog.