The Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire trailer looks great. I can't wait.

Apple - Trailers - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - HD

Anyway, i haven't blogged in ages. I had a few days when I was really busy, then I got sick, then I was a tad depressed for a few days, and then I was busy again. So that's my excuse.

So last you heard, we were moving out of our house for a week while the floor boards were being re polished. The apartment we rented in Docklands was really nice, as Adam and Gareth will attest. Those two came over to use Soundtrack Pro to make a soundtrack for their fringe show.

Meanwhile, I was invited to check out the new edit suite at Medialink. Ages ago I sent them a showreel and they said that they might need an editor when they get their own Final Cut suite. So I went over Monday and the guy said he had a project for me. So i've been going into Collins street a few days per week and getting paid by the hour as a sub contractor.

I find this development in my 'career' very strange. In many ways, the showreel has paid off, only a year after I gave up on working in the video/tv area. It's really good to be working on proper corporate videos, in a proper suite, not from home, and getting paid properly, but as per usual i never really feel good about anything. I've mixed feelings about it, because in my head I was over doing editing. Plus my skills are pretty rusty. Medialink is fantastic to work for though...my 'boss' is a good bloke.

Anyway, so the week moved on. I saw The Tempest one night, and another night I went with Adam to see Ren's show at the North Melbourne Town Hall (which I absolutely loved by the way, i thought they did mixing video and dance really well). Then the day after that I got really sick. Some kind of bacterial infection took my voice away and filled my lungs with phlegm which then turned into a chest infection.

So that wiped out the next week and a bit. I couldn't see Adam's show, Cunversations, or do the video for the Tempest. Being sick for a week gave me a lot of time to ruminate, which I didn't like. I kept thinking about my future plans and how I can't commit to any particular direction, my crappy social life, global warming, and that had me down for a bit.

The nice thing about my reasonably normal head is that after a couple of days it runs out of bad mood and I get a good mood rebound. It's not an estatic mood, but i'm feeling a lot better. Small things now amuse again.

For example, I was excited to watch the video of the launch of the new iPod video from Apple this morning. It's slightly cool, however, the iTunes store is only selling Lost, Desperate Housewives, and a couple of other TV shows for the new iPod (and only in the US). While ripping a DVD onto your iPod is technically possible if you have the right pirate software, it's too fiddly to be of any practical use. So the video feature is really a useless bonus. The large screen and thin form factor is quite nice. But I'll be sticking with my nano for a while yet.

I should also mention that there is yet another rumour that an Australian iTunes store will launch this Sunday (but how many times have we heard that?)