I have had a busy few days, well in the context of Portugal. Sunday i cant really remember too well, in the evening a group of us gathered in the living room to watch a film called something like a different world or something like this, and the whole way through it it kept reminding me of the film Mystery Train so when the credits came up and said it was directed my Jim Jarmusch i was far from suprised. I really enjoyed the film, i love the way he integrated different strands of arratives together. There is something so poetic about his work and his cinematography has an honesty about it. He has a very dry sense of humour which i particularly like. The film was very appropriate for a foreign exchange house as the film was about taxi ride from five different countries each spoken in the native language, thank God for subtitles.

Monday was a good day we went to the Aquarium which was fun, its so disorientating when you return to earth. Very interesting but a lot of the signs came across a little preachy they all ended on some big downer even if it was completely out of context it would remind you how man has destroyed everything. Seeing the sheer variety of fish was inspiring, it is amazing how evolution has shaped life on earth. I was particularly fond of a photo opportunity like the ones you get at the seaside which read 'I dove at the Oceanarium' it really amused me. The evening we had a rissottoesque dinner and then watched a film called Zeitgeist which was intereresting and i did enjoy the first third which discussed the Religion and its relation to astrology but the two other sections, one about Terrorism and the other of a similar topic both continuously regarding 9 11 were a bit too speculative for my taste. I did not particularly like the graphics either but it certainly made some interesting points. It was just conspiracy theories and you needed to take it with a big pinch of salt, it annoyed me in the way it was trying to tell us how we are brainwashed by the media, yet it was exactly what it was doing but obviously they were arrogant enough to believe they were right.