When the Cheshire emerges...

My film review will be published tomorrow night, apologies for the delay.

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Those who behave in ways that you dislike are sending out their disharmony toward you because that's all they have to give away. Hating them is akin to hating moss for growing on the tree.

You don't need to let anyone in your life unless they come in with love and harmony.

One of the highest places you can get to is to be independent of the good opinions of other people.

You're doomed to make choices. This is life's greatest paradox.

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Why?

I'm documenting the Brownlow Medal as I see it through Twitter on my Storify account.

Rolling throughout the night, so check it out.

I will reveal here that my fave dress of the night was on Belinda Riverso, girlfriend of Rory Sloane. Love cobalt! She looked gorgeous - although it was hard to pick. Even Brynne Edelstein looked nice.

My home city has been the subject of people's attention this weekend as mega boy-band One Direction touched down in Adelaide to start their first Australian tour.

There was a bit of confusion. I concluded people were idiots.

The week leading up to it was interesting enough. As life usually is. Read on!

Turbo (G)

SPRING will see a healthy number of race-related films hit our screens, but before the adults get their turn with Ron Howard’s Rush, the kids get their share ahead of school holidays. With Pixar rival Planes hoping to appeal to audiences who loved its predecessor Cars, DreamWorks has released its own competitor.

They’ve decided to stay on the ground because they believe slow and steady wins the race. Their choice to feature one of Earth’s slowest creatures is entertaining in premise. Working on the idealistic moral of everyone wanting to follow their dream, one little snail has (of his world’s standards) a most impossible wish - to race the Indianapolis 500.

Turbo/Theo (voiced by Ryan Reynolds) is a believer. And good things come to those who wish upon a star, right? Things come along to those who deserve them, and when Theo finds himself in a bad situation it ends up being the beginning of a great adventure.

He becomes Turbo a la Spider-Man, with a bit of nitrous oxide altering his DNA to make him super-speedy. Turbo is the toast of new peers after he and brother Chet (Paul Giamatti) are found by Tito (Michael Pena), and he uses his newfound ability with no sense of that so-called great responsibility.

With great power comes the inevitability of one losing their way a bit. Turbo’s dream of racing in the Indy 500 becomes real with Tito’s enthusiasm, but is knocked back by Chet’s overwhelming disapproval.

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Childhood heroes are also exposed to not be everything they seem. Racing legend Guy Gagne (Bill Hader) finds Turbo intimidating enough to bully him with fear. In both relating the irony of talking to a snail and what this little animal has dreamed of their meeting, it gives the overall story a stab in the side.

The oddness of this all centring on snails is something that lingers as the film goes on. Their lack of speed is well utilised with entertaining slow-motion shots, while the enormity of their day-to-day affairs are highlighted in much the same way Antz and A Bug’s Life did so long ago. But it still brings a fascination to those watching.

David Soren brings a feisty protagonist to his first directorial feature, a young Generation X snail believing he can do it all. Reynolds brings the ‘I can’ attitude to the room to make Turbo a nicely likable character you want to cheer for.

Ken Jeong (The Hangover trilogy) hams up his feminine side voicing nail technician Kim Ly, while Snoop Dogg is Smooth Move... a smooth mover.

The script by Soren, Darren Lemke and Robert D Siegel blends a cute tale of pursuing your dream amongst those who shoot you down. Slow and steady, their DreamWorks snails are quite possibly the coolest they’ll ever look or sound.

Rating: 2.5/5

What’s over is over. You did what you knew how to do. It wasn’t right or wrong or good or bad. It just was. But all you’ve got is today. You can’t have it back.

No one can get behind your eyeballs and experience life the way that you do.

The only difference between ALONE and ALL ONE is one L… and that stands for love.
In matters of taste, you alone are, and must be, the sole judge of what pleases you.

Everything you “have to have” owns you.

It takes not one drop of sweat to put off doing something.

When God speaks through your hands and smiles upon the earth through you because you’re an unconditional giver, a purposeful being who asks nothing of anyone… prosperity will be your reward.

I had a week off and spent it back home in Adelaide which was fabulous. I relaxed, saw all my friends and family, and even got to the Royal Adelaide Show.

As such, I've been slack in my new Storify venture, but I've caught up. If you want to see what I was interested in this last fortnight, follow the tweets.

Katina's week that was (from Monday 2/9/13) http://t.co/wbmULLgfPw #storify #auspol #ausvotes
— Katina V (@Katiinkaa) September 17, 2013

Katina's week that was (from Monday 9/9/13) http://t.co/spX9Dv7Kqt #storify #adelaide #weather
— Katina V (@Katiinkaa) September 17, 2013

Networking can never fail. It’s so powerful because you just keep creating more power sources. It’s like geometric progression.

If you can conceive it in your mind, then it can be brought into the physical world.

If you work at living your life a moment – instead of a decade – at a time, then you can cope with your challenges.

You can attend a beautiful service every Sunday, and you can practice all kinds of Bible sayings, and you can label yourself with the most fantastic tags that you can come up with, but you won’t find your heart in a temple if you don’t have a temple in your heart.

The beggars in the streets of New Delhi, the boat people in Malaysia, the royalty in Buckingham Palace, the factory workers in Detroit, and you (whoever you are) are all equal cells in the body called humanity.

If children are raised in peace, they will not know how to be warlike.

We are all at once teachers and learners in every encounter of our lives.

Every problem you have you experience in your mind. The solution to the problem is in the same place.

Starvation is part of what the universe is about, but so is my desire to change it.

You’re not your form. You’re something much more magnificent, divine and grand.

Anytime you get hate, send out love. Then love will come back and you’ll be free.

When you no longer need to learn how to deal with disharmony in your life, you’ll stop creating it, and you’ll create love and harmony virtually everywhere you turn.

Instead of saying, “Why is this happening to me? Isn’t this awful. Poor me,” begin to say, “What do I have to learn from this?”

That we breathe, that we showed up on this planet, that we communicate, is a miracle.

The purpose of life is to know God.

The difference between being neurotic and being a no-limits person isn’t whether someone has problems. Everyone has problems. It’s attitude. Do you look for solutions or more problems?

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Rating: 2.5/5

Things you may have missed from me this week:

Do the Coalition know what their Internet filter policy is? http://t.co/4xrjpUui68 #storify #ausvotes #auspol
— Katina V (@Katiinkaa) September 5, 2013

Take a look at what captured my eye most this week!