How is a depressed middle aged man like an orchid?

Not in many ways as you might have guessed and, as you will find out if you watch Adaptation.

I don't know why this didn't occur to me before because (at the risk of imitating Napoleon Dynamite) this is pretty much my favourite film of all time. Every time I watch it it yields new insight, its funny and weird and clever and tragic. Don't let Nicholas Cage's goggle-eyed face put you off, he is awesome in this movie, convincingly playing the lead and his twin brother.

Into the wild

After slacking off for months and not seeing or reading anything that I could write about, after wandering the allegorical dessert in search of blog quenching environmental themes, I finally saw into the wild.