A rally, a walk and a film

This morning P arrived around 8am and we set off for Fed Square for the big demonstration against the government's IR legislation. It was an amazing turn up -- the square was packed and Swanston St was filled all the way to Bourke St. There was a really well put together presentation: a mixture of short speeches from Bracks, Sharan Burrows and Greg Combet and some extremely well-made films featuring a wide range of workers, young and old talking about their experiences and apprehensions for the future.

The whole thing was well stage-managed; after the talking there was a short break and then everyone set off to march up Swanston St. At this stage P&I went in search of some sustenance. Unfortunately so did many other people so we had to wait over 15 minutes for our drinks.

I had to whizz into work to do a couple of things then met up again with P for lunch after which we went off to Melbourne Central to see Kiss kiss bang bang which we both enjoyed. Any film which has people correcting each other's grammar is a winner with me. Though why Val Kilmer's character is gay defeats me, as, apart from a small plot point turning on his kissing Robert Downey Jr in the street there's not much evidence of his orientation; mind you, he underplays it quite nicely. Downey's first person voice-over will probably irritate many people, but I enjoyed it and all the other references (to itself and other films).