If it isn’t clear enough, I’ve been on a particularly obsessive Alexandre Desplat bent lately, so I thought I would expand on what films I have already seen that feature Desplat as the music composer. His filmography has grown dramatically over the last five years, and I know there is much I’ve yet to discover of his range and creative process.

I have taken on an ambitious task of so watching nine films composed by Desplat that cover the gamut of genres in no particular order, and I will concurrently review the soundtracks along with the movie. It’s a chance to appreciate, enjoy and critique the broad scope of Desplat’s skill and niche. The reviews will be bite-sized but detailed – I am consciously trying to cut down on my word count as a test of discipline (!).

Last month I marked the tenth anniversary of my first ever blog post. Nostalgia compels me to celebrate, so I thought I’d have a giveaway – completely unrelated to blogging, mind you, but hey, you get free shit! And better yet, FREE BATMAN SHIT from BATMANIA! And just as Batman decided to look outside of Gotham to expand on his horde of Batclones, this giveaway is INTERNATIONAL too! Yes, I will ship anywhere short of Krypton.

In an inadvertently ominous fashion, the day before Steve Jobs died, I stumbled on Todd Sampson’s Twitter feed, which had a link to Jobs’ unveiling his iconic “1984″ advertisement for the Macintosh computer. In it he was eloquent and passionate about his work. The pride written on his face during the applause was stunning. I thought, now here is a guy who probably deserves to look so smug. But that was me thinking in retrospect. This wasn’t even Jobs at his peak of success, but rather at a prelude of even greater things to come. If he only knew just decades later that his face would be synonymous with the world’s leading innovators in design and technology, indeed all facets of everyday living and popular culture.

So today is the day my blog in all its varied forms turns TEN!

I’ve witnessed first hand the massive impact the simple art of publishing one’s thoughts online has had on the world over the last decade, and it’s been amazing – no one could have foreseen how far it would take off. Hell, when I first signed up for Twitter four years ago I thought it would be another web 2.0 flop. Blogging encompasses so much now. It’s endless entertainment, it’s unpredictable, it’s dangerous, it’s an agent for revolution and reform, it’s a thriving hive of rapid information exchange, it’s eclectic and colourful in all its interests.

So after a pretty long wait, on early Tuesday morning (3am AEST) I finally got my owl telling me my Pottermore account was ready. Of course, it was another day before I could even get past the busy server (Muggles—can’t trust their technology, really.)

Consider yourself warned—SPOILERS AHEAD.