Simon Reeve

It was Tuesday night and I was laying in bed unable to sleep. Moving around trying to get comfortable I cut my losses and switched on the television. Skipping past late night bingo on ITV 1 I came across a programme on BBC 2 called Equator. It’s where this guy called Simon Reeve cruises around different countries that lie near the middle of the equator. In this particular episode he was in Colombia and apart from dodging the terrorists and army he found himself in the Amazon. Whilst paddling in a boat up the Amazon River he would give a very conservative yelp in triumph every time he crossed the imaginary line of the equator. The boat driver would just look at him in an odd way as Simon looked at his GPS satellite device in wonderment. The whole programme was quite interesting because he got to see some of the culture and highlight the poverty going around. This left me thinking ‘wow, I want his job’. So the next day I went on to Wikipedia and it turns out this television presenter is also a bestselling author on subjects like terrorism and the Munich massacre (not much humour circulating around him then). He has also presented another programme called Tropic of Capricorn where he went off gallivanting around countries such as Madagascar and Mozambique and in general seems to be doing pretty cool stuff for a living, writing books and making television programmes which I found quite inspiring. So the last few days I’ve been falling asleep with the idea that I one day will go around the world getting into adventures and mischief but also get paid for it! Sadly, this still only remains in my dreams.

In other news I saw Knocked Up for the first time last week, it’s pretty funny but nothing on Superbad. The main character kept reminding me of Yogi Bear which kept me amused. I also, check out Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay which cracked me up, it’s sick but if you need a quick dosage laughter it may do the trick.

Here’s a trailer to a new film called Watchmen that’s coming out next year. It’s based on a comic book/graphic novel I have never read but the film looks damn good.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/watchmen/med.html