so i was just wasting some time waiting for the person on the computer near the wall to get off so i can plug this fucking external hard drive in and get some damn work done [i don't know how video editing fell to me seeing as i am the only person in the group who didn't do film and tv last year and i have no skills in anything but imovie, but it has.]
but i was trawling through some blogs looking at stuff and i thought i'd have a look at this danish street fashion blog because once upon a time a girl called Anne Nygaard stopped lovely_girl and i on swanston street to take our photo for afore mentioned blog to see if our photos had gone up yet, and they have. we're so big in denmark right now. i'm not putting the picture up though because we have weird faces and i also am still not revealing my identity [i like to create crazy conspiracy theories in my head and live in a fantasy world where someone would be reading this blog, think i am fantastic, find out who i am and try to find me, killing me, resulting in my face being all over the news as another victim of the evil interweb.] people who are my friends and already know my identity, please keep it a secret to help me keep the mystery alive, more for myself than for anything else.
[i wrote that part yesterday and saved it so i could go to the library and borrow the complete first series of doctor who before my hold on it expired, and as i have done that and moved on to today, i shall continue moving this post on as well.]
I'm in the production studio at uni waiting for my file to convert so i can get editing. finally something i'm good at, audio. they never used to have the net on these computers, but i guess it's a good thing because converting takes ages when the file is huge. i was originally in production suite 2 because tuesday was completely blank on it, and some girl knocked on the door and tried to tell me she had it booked, but i saw right through her. she didn't have it booked at all, she just wrote her name on the door because she saw that i was in there. well she won't get away with it this time. i'm in edit suite 3 now and i've put my name onto the next three hours so no-one can disturb me.
last night the boy and i went to see the losers. it wasn't too bad but seriously, the big bad guy they were trying to kill was pretty much the worst bad guy in the history of hollywood movies. he had absolutely no motives for any of his actions, he had no back story, his left hand was all mangled and we never found out why, we never found out why he wanted to start a world war, why he had so much money or why he was such a fucking dick. it annoyed me so much. otherwise the character development wasn't too bad, a little shallow and under worked. i think they tried to make up for the fact that the script was lacking so heavily with a shit load of cool slow motion sequences and big explosions. there were so many slow motion sequences. and wacky editing to make boring bits seem more interesting than what they were. they cut up this part where two of the characters were going down some stairs so that it was all snappy and in time with the music like it was some kind of film clip or something. there were heaps of kills songs which i didn't mind, not like bloody iron man and all the fucking acdc. i think the use of inter-titles i guess you would call them, little calling cards throughout letting you know [in case you didn't already] that this is a film based on a comic book] was a little over bearing, little sequences where the characters are in their comic book form and where physical locations have their names stamped over them. if you wanna make a comic book film then make one, don't try and make an action film with little comic book interludes or calling cards. go all the way or don't go at all because it's annoying. iron man, we know it's a comic book film so there's no need to put in any stupid illustrative features or [just as a blatant example i haven't seen since '69] speech bubbles and sound effects panels. there's no need for that. then you have the example of the watchmen which is hyper realistic, looks the way you imagine a comic book to look if animated etc, but they don't go in and out of this and another genre of filmmaking, it's not cheesy, they get the desired comic book effect without all the lame gimmick's. that annoyed me a lot about the film.
chris evans was pretty good as comic relief, very cute. and he's got a bit of a comic book thing going at the moment. it's funny how people somehow seem to fall into these kinds of genre's. jeffrey dean morgan was also in the watchmen, but chris evans is going to be in scott pilgrim vs. the world and he's going to be captain america when that comes out, continuing the role in the avengers series. apparently he also played the human torch in the rise of the silver surfer, and was one of the voices in TMNT. and who could forget johnny storm in the fantastic four? me, i didn't even go and see the fantastic four because it looked crap.
the babe from up in the air anna kendrick is going to be in scott pilgrim vs the world too, and michael cera as scott pilgrim. should be a good film. and kieran culkin, macaulay's brother who played igby in igby goes down is also in it, so i guess is a great, strong, ensemble cast makes for a good film then this one out to be great. it's about a guy [cera] basically who must defeat his new girlfriend's seven evil ex-boyfriends in order to win her heart. if that isn't a recipe for success then why am i even trying to head into this industry?
anyway, enough rambling, let's just leave this discussion at max [big bad from the losers] is a shit bad guy and no amount of killer moves and big explosions and slow motion will fix that. in horror the whole bad guy not having a motive things works great. do we know why hannibal lector liked to eat people? no. does that make silence of the lambs a bad movie? no, it makes it scarier because if there is no motive or probably cause then how are we meant to hunt down these psycho's? but in action films you need motive to be driving the action. we know why the losers wanted to find and destroy max, to clear their names and get revenge on the guy that fucked them over and killed all those innocent kids. but what were max's motivations to begin with? he just seems like a dumb child, and dumb children don't have the kind of power, malice and money that he had. i hope they explain it in the sequel.
in other news, last night i found out that the boy forgot to watch doctor who this week even though he didn't have work at the same time and he had a tv at his disposal. how could he? yesterday i wore a bow tie and seeing as i didn't go home last night, i am wearing it again today. so the boy got out his bow tie and is wearing it today too. i also convinced him to wear his tweed jacket. i have my own little doctor who now. he said he was uncomfortable being so dressed up and he felt like he stood out, so i just told him "we're on brunswick street, you'll do anything but stand out". we went to the pancake parlour for brunch. we slept in really late on account of not getting home from the movies until about 12.30am, which is late, and then after discussing the film for ages we wouldn't have actually gone to sleep until about 2. i tried to go to sleep but he kept talking. that's what happens when you work at a place where your hours are something like 9pm til 3-5am.
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Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Monday, May 31, 2010
schizoid
I guess i could seem quite a little schizophrenic these days as i just realised when reading the titles of my posts on this blog. one minute i'm swearing about trains or football players or quoting angry prose from chick plahniuk books [not why i like his books so much, but it doesn't hurt to pull out some pretty hardcore sounding quotes in certain situations] and the next i am twee and quaint, blogging about how much i love the new doctor who [and well, doctor who in general] and what kind of comic books i've read or film adaptations of comic books ive seen lately and what not. I'm sitting in a lab at uni pondering the implications of this new curfew the government wants to introduce as they can't come up with any creative ways to dispel the youth induced carnage on our roads, whilst i am wearing a bowtie. [i quote the doctor on last nights episode "amy's choice" when he was talking to himself (more on that later) "bowties are cool".]
So this curfew, which is described in short here is being discussed today in a round table [the government think they're the knight's of camelot now] today and is an idea they've concocted to help slash the road toll, which is up 15 people from this time last year. i think this is going to turn into one of those 2am lockout type things and isn't going to work because, let's face it, there are always going to be stupid people doing stupid things no matter what the laws are, they haven't thought about the implications of people who work in hospitality, when i worked at the espy i started work at 9pm and finished at 3am, and there's no way to get from st kilda to coburg via public transport at that ungodly hour, i had to drive. and what about the designated driver? if you can't drive your friends home after midnight then the whole group will just get drunk, and if there isn't at least one sober person in the bunch, then they're more likely to do something stupid like get in a car and drive into a tree. honestly government people, i thought you would have learned by now to consider all the options and put yourselves in the shoes of the average person. remember the first time you tried that by calling a press conference at a train station and catching the train in? do you remember that? yeah, oh course you do, because you were 20 minutes late you dingbat because you're running a system that doesn't work, and if you'd ever been on the train system before you would have known to catch the earlier one "just in case".
this is really just going to punish safe drivers who do the right thing. i don't mind being designated driver, i personally like driving and on occasion would rather drive than drink and thus be the hero of the night taking everyone home safely when frivolities have come to an end. are you going to improve the public transport system to cater for these rules? i mean young drivers are mostly students or part time/casual workers, making very little money and possibly still living at home. in my case, home is a very long way away from the city and too far to catch a taxi, so if i'm going out and want to get home, i drive. night rider buses don't go out my way, and they hardly go where you need them to go anyway. i propose night riders that follow all tram and train lines to a tee so that people can actually get home at the end of the night. can you deal with that to compensate for these changes government? seeing how poorly these buses already run i'm going to say no.
i think the issue isn't just a blanket problem for drivers under 25. these are the least experienced drivers on the road yes, but they aren't the only problem. if you seriously and accurately want to make the roads safer then perhaps it would be helpful to introduce a psychological test to accompany driving skills test when one is going for their license to assess whether the applicant is at a maturity level able to handle the challenge of driving and all the risks involved. of course a hoon isn't going to hoon in their driving test, they do that shit when instructors and officials aren't looking. and maybe every time one goes to renew their license they should have to do the tests again to make sure they haven't slackened and forgotten simple road rules. placing a curfew on young drivers is not the answer to these problems. you're just punishing the obedient and giving another challenge to the idiots.
ok, now to doctor who. i missed watching it on tv because i was at work, and shall be every sunday for the next two weeks, so i had to watch it on iview. when i first jumped on it wouldn't work because the sibling and male_parental_unit were both on the internet at the same time and considering the fact that we can't even get out phone to work at the moment, it goes that our internet connection is weak at best. so i went and watched bones and castle waiting for someone to get off the net and came back in to let the episode load. even without anyone else blocking my bandwidth it took me 1 and a half hours of loading, playing, pausing, loading, playing, pausing, loading etc to watch the episode, but it was worth it. the new series is getting a bit existential. questions such as "what is the point of you" directed at the doctor are starting to be raised, and given the guilt trip of the space fish queen in last weeks episode, it is starting to look pretty dubious for our hero. this week a dream lord tricked the doctor, amy and rory into playing a game of dream and reality. it turned out at the end...
SPOILER ALERT!!!
that the dream lord was in fact the doctor himself, a darker version of himself which some wacky space dust stuff [i forget what it was called and shall do no more prying as the bbc doctor who website is a week ahead of our doctor who viewing and i just found out something i didn't want to know yet. gosh, warning much bbc...] was feeding off and projecting in their minds as the dream lord. it's sad because earlier in the episode when the doctor figured out who the dream lord was he said "there's only one person in the universe who hates me this much" and that means that he hates himself. i get the feeling this hatred comes from him letting entire species of alien life form die to save the humane race, abandoning his companions when they're all grown up etc. i don't like to see the doctor so sad because he is brilliant and wears bowties and tweed jackets.
all this meaning of life stuff is really getting to me and amy's question bugged me a lot last night as i tried to sleep. "what is the point of you?" what is the point of the doctor, i mean, what exactly do time lords do? he is brilliant and saves amy and rory a lot, but if he hadn't have come around in the first place they would never have been in trouble. he seems quite narcissistic jet setting through time and space, changing the course of the universe. i mean he did go back in time and inadvertently make the dalek's as dangerous as they are now. he gave them that knowledge.
oh, and hey, what is with the dalek's? they're like the big bad of doctor who, like the joker to the doctors batman, but they can't even go up stairs. oooo, i'm so scared. sorry doctor who writers, but that's pretty lame.
i do wish i had a tradis though. that would be awesome.
in other news, lovely_girl did some trawling and found a picture of us all dressed up at fed square somewhere online [she will not reveal her sources, but i will also continue to look]. she is already wearing a mask so her face can stay, but if i were a marvel character and having to choose sides in the avengers series i'd be on captain america's side [i know he died but i want to keep my identity secret, i'm just a humble blogger, not some tony stark].
So this curfew, which is described in short here is being discussed today in a round table [the government think they're the knight's of camelot now] today and is an idea they've concocted to help slash the road toll, which is up 15 people from this time last year. i think this is going to turn into one of those 2am lockout type things and isn't going to work because, let's face it, there are always going to be stupid people doing stupid things no matter what the laws are, they haven't thought about the implications of people who work in hospitality, when i worked at the espy i started work at 9pm and finished at 3am, and there's no way to get from st kilda to coburg via public transport at that ungodly hour, i had to drive. and what about the designated driver? if you can't drive your friends home after midnight then the whole group will just get drunk, and if there isn't at least one sober person in the bunch, then they're more likely to do something stupid like get in a car and drive into a tree. honestly government people, i thought you would have learned by now to consider all the options and put yourselves in the shoes of the average person. remember the first time you tried that by calling a press conference at a train station and catching the train in? do you remember that? yeah, oh course you do, because you were 20 minutes late you dingbat because you're running a system that doesn't work, and if you'd ever been on the train system before you would have known to catch the earlier one "just in case".
this is really just going to punish safe drivers who do the right thing. i don't mind being designated driver, i personally like driving and on occasion would rather drive than drink and thus be the hero of the night taking everyone home safely when frivolities have come to an end. are you going to improve the public transport system to cater for these rules? i mean young drivers are mostly students or part time/casual workers, making very little money and possibly still living at home. in my case, home is a very long way away from the city and too far to catch a taxi, so if i'm going out and want to get home, i drive. night rider buses don't go out my way, and they hardly go where you need them to go anyway. i propose night riders that follow all tram and train lines to a tee so that people can actually get home at the end of the night. can you deal with that to compensate for these changes government? seeing how poorly these buses already run i'm going to say no.
i think the issue isn't just a blanket problem for drivers under 25. these are the least experienced drivers on the road yes, but they aren't the only problem. if you seriously and accurately want to make the roads safer then perhaps it would be helpful to introduce a psychological test to accompany driving skills test when one is going for their license to assess whether the applicant is at a maturity level able to handle the challenge of driving and all the risks involved. of course a hoon isn't going to hoon in their driving test, they do that shit when instructors and officials aren't looking. and maybe every time one goes to renew their license they should have to do the tests again to make sure they haven't slackened and forgotten simple road rules. placing a curfew on young drivers is not the answer to these problems. you're just punishing the obedient and giving another challenge to the idiots.
ok, now to doctor who. i missed watching it on tv because i was at work, and shall be every sunday for the next two weeks, so i had to watch it on iview. when i first jumped on it wouldn't work because the sibling and male_parental_unit were both on the internet at the same time and considering the fact that we can't even get out phone to work at the moment, it goes that our internet connection is weak at best. so i went and watched bones and castle waiting for someone to get off the net and came back in to let the episode load. even without anyone else blocking my bandwidth it took me 1 and a half hours of loading, playing, pausing, loading, playing, pausing, loading etc to watch the episode, but it was worth it. the new series is getting a bit existential. questions such as "what is the point of you" directed at the doctor are starting to be raised, and given the guilt trip of the space fish queen in last weeks episode, it is starting to look pretty dubious for our hero. this week a dream lord tricked the doctor, amy and rory into playing a game of dream and reality. it turned out at the end...
that the dream lord was in fact the doctor himself, a darker version of himself which some wacky space dust stuff [i forget what it was called and shall do no more prying as the bbc doctor who website is a week ahead of our doctor who viewing and i just found out something i didn't want to know yet. gosh, warning much bbc...] was feeding off and projecting in their minds as the dream lord. it's sad because earlier in the episode when the doctor figured out who the dream lord was he said "there's only one person in the universe who hates me this much" and that means that he hates himself. i get the feeling this hatred comes from him letting entire species of alien life form die to save the humane race, abandoning his companions when they're all grown up etc. i don't like to see the doctor so sad because he is brilliant and wears bowties and tweed jackets.
all this meaning of life stuff is really getting to me and amy's question bugged me a lot last night as i tried to sleep. "what is the point of you?" what is the point of the doctor, i mean, what exactly do time lords do? he is brilliant and saves amy and rory a lot, but if he hadn't have come around in the first place they would never have been in trouble. he seems quite narcissistic jet setting through time and space, changing the course of the universe. i mean he did go back in time and inadvertently make the dalek's as dangerous as they are now. he gave them that knowledge.
oh, and hey, what is with the dalek's? they're like the big bad of doctor who, like the joker to the doctors batman, but they can't even go up stairs. oooo, i'm so scared. sorry doctor who writers, but that's pretty lame.
i do wish i had a tradis though. that would be awesome.
in other news, lovely_girl did some trawling and found a picture of us all dressed up at fed square somewhere online [she will not reveal her sources, but i will also continue to look]. she is already wearing a mask so her face can stay, but if i were a marvel character and having to choose sides in the avengers series i'd be on captain america's side [i know he died but i want to keep my identity secret, i'm just a humble blogger, not some tony stark].
Sunday, May 30, 2010
and the fact that I'm trying to fuck you in a church to save my mom's brain
so i bought choke on dvd the other day because a) i love sam rockwell i think he is wonderful b) because it's based on a chuck palahniuk book and as i have previously, i love his too and c) it was on special at jb for $9.98, how could i refuse. god it's a good film. the old ladies in it are so funny. and when his mother... well, you'll just have to see it. actually, if you intend on also reading the book, might i suggests reading the book first, then watch the film. going in the other direction diminishes the brilliance of the book a bit. "and what ever you do, don't rape me on the bed, the bed is silk". brilliant. heather burns cameo is brilliant. but seriously this boy can move.
my favourite part of iron man 2 was when he was all cocky about his fighter robots and he was at the conference dancing on stage. and charlie's angels when we finally find out that he's the bad guy and he starts dancing while drew barrymore is all tied up.
man im tired. i stayed up late last night not doing anything and now im exhausted. i dont think i'll make it the whole way through work tonight. i don't know, i might. i cleaned my room today whilst listening to maggie gyllenhaal reading the bell jar. i've always wanted to read it, but there are so many other books i wanna read that pop up first and when i found the audio version complete with the dulcet tones of maggie's voice i couldn't resist. she has such a beautiful voice and it makes the bell jar sound so magically elegant. i wish i spoke in a 1950s kind of drawl using amazing words like "oh darling" and "isn't he a card?" and "oh that's just elegant". i'd need a drastic wardrobe change and my hair would need to be in proper curls and not just wild untamed mane kinda curl's. pin curl's if i had the time. or rollers.
i wonder what my stripper name would be. or my roller derby one. i've been thinking about it but it's hard, i'm not that clever. i mean i have come up with alright one's for my roller derby alter ego, but i want a heaps witty one like the names of the characters on whip it.
and we're back to drew barrymore.
i've been trying to find some photo's from yesterday but i don't know where to look. i mean heaps of people took our picture so there have to be some out their somewhere, but where... i thought the age website might have some pictures, but it doesn't. i mean how is the winner of the eurovision song contest bigger breaking news than melbourne getting a world record. especially one relating to comic books, which is normally something reserved for a minority and not enough people to break a world record. i mean i understand gary coleman's death still sorta being a big news story, and dennis hopper's is definitely news worthy, but eurovision...
success. the herald sun website has a gallery. fingers crossed we're on it. could take a while to get through though. the internet has been crazy since the phone lines started going down. and i need to save the download and load capacity for iview tonight because i'll miss doctor who as i'll be at work, so i'll have to watch it on iview.
ok, so there are no pictures of lovely_girl and i. what a shame. i'll keep looking though, maybe some of the photo's will be on facebook or something.
pomegranate and cranberry juice assortments are on sale at coles. i'm feeling a little more awake now. so much juice sugar. and apparently cranberry juice is really good for the skin. and i need all the help i can get.
well here are some moves of sam's. see, i'm not making this up. if he could sing as well he'd be a modern day gene kelly or something. a triple threat.
my favourite part of iron man 2 was when he was all cocky about his fighter robots and he was at the conference dancing on stage. and charlie's angels when we finally find out that he's the bad guy and he starts dancing while drew barrymore is all tied up.
man im tired. i stayed up late last night not doing anything and now im exhausted. i dont think i'll make it the whole way through work tonight. i don't know, i might. i cleaned my room today whilst listening to maggie gyllenhaal reading the bell jar. i've always wanted to read it, but there are so many other books i wanna read that pop up first and when i found the audio version complete with the dulcet tones of maggie's voice i couldn't resist. she has such a beautiful voice and it makes the bell jar sound so magically elegant. i wish i spoke in a 1950s kind of drawl using amazing words like "oh darling" and "isn't he a card?" and "oh that's just elegant". i'd need a drastic wardrobe change and my hair would need to be in proper curls and not just wild untamed mane kinda curl's. pin curl's if i had the time. or rollers.
i wonder what my stripper name would be. or my roller derby one. i've been thinking about it but it's hard, i'm not that clever. i mean i have come up with alright one's for my roller derby alter ego, but i want a heaps witty one like the names of the characters on whip it.
and we're back to drew barrymore.
i've been trying to find some photo's from yesterday but i don't know where to look. i mean heaps of people took our picture so there have to be some out their somewhere, but where... i thought the age website might have some pictures, but it doesn't. i mean how is the winner of the eurovision song contest bigger breaking news than melbourne getting a world record. especially one relating to comic books, which is normally something reserved for a minority and not enough people to break a world record. i mean i understand gary coleman's death still sorta being a big news story, and dennis hopper's is definitely news worthy, but eurovision...
success. the herald sun website has a gallery. fingers crossed we're on it. could take a while to get through though. the internet has been crazy since the phone lines started going down. and i need to save the download and load capacity for iview tonight because i'll miss doctor who as i'll be at work, so i'll have to watch it on iview.
ok, so there are no pictures of lovely_girl and i. what a shame. i'll keep looking though, maybe some of the photo's will be on facebook or something.
pomegranate and cranberry juice assortments are on sale at coles. i'm feeling a little more awake now. so much juice sugar. and apparently cranberry juice is really good for the skin. and i need all the help i can get.
well here are some moves of sam's. see, i'm not making this up. if he could sing as well he'd be a modern day gene kelly or something. a triple threat.
Saturday, May 29, 2010
happily watching the first ever ep of doctor who
the first doctor is old. i much prefer the recent babes. the ep's been going to 15 minutes and he only just showed up. so far it's been all about some weird 15 year old girl. he's grumpy too. get out of my tardis. blah blah blah. it's funny though, because the companions [of what little i have seen of doctor who in detail ie paying attention to more than just the ducted heating installation materials used to make the costumes of the cybermen] just seem to get the whole time traveling thing straight away, but outsiders are so perplexed and all, this can't happen. the original doctor, William Hartnell for those of you who don't know, is a meanie. the 15 year old is from the 43rd century, and her teachers in the 20th century followed her into the tardis even though doctor who told them not too, and now he won't let them out. i like the crazy special effects and soundscapes in the original doctor who [an unearthly child, 1963], the visuals are so lame and combined with the sounds gives me the impression the writers were on an acid trip while making this ep. it has ended with the tardis landing on some foreign planet, and the shadow of some creature walking toward it. man i love the doctor who music. i wish it was my ringtone. [i've really snapped and gone doctor loco haven't i?]
"the cave of skulls" the creature that cast the shadow is a cave man. i think they've traveled back to the stone-age. the cave men can speak english. and make fire. and hunt. the doctors companion calls him grandfather. how can doctor who have a granddaughter? i dont see how time lords could ever be in one time long enough to reproduce. or why they would need to considering how they can just reincarnated themselves as a younger, hotter version of themselves [going by matt smith and comparing him to this grumpy goop... WHO SMOKES A PIPE! awesome]. the humans can't figure out who he is and what his name is, so they call him doctor who? when i was at the davey crockett ranch at disney land in paris when i was nine an ad for doctor who came on and they were going on and on about this doctor coming up on the in room disney channel and my parents laughed and said "ah, the doctor" and i was getting angry that i didn't get the joke and i was like "what doctor? doctor who?" and all they said was "yeah". grr.
the cavemen want to feed him to a lion because they don't think he can make fire. but since the great fire maker died, neither can they. cavemen are dumb, how did we ever get so advanced...
i'm going to stop blogging while im watching it and just watch it. old tv shows are confusing enough, but old doctor who written by acid tripping hippy's in '63, wow.
btw, lovely_girl and i broke a world record today; most amount of people dressed as comic book super heroes in one place at the one time. we rule. go melbourne. anyway, i went as black canary, as i have mentioned previously, and lovely_girl went as cat woman and so many people wanted to take our picture it was funny. parents were even handing us their kids to get pictures. some old hag dressed as wonder woman said she liked my outfit and then said that it wasn't right because black canary has blue fishnets and i had black on. in my head i told her wonder woman wasn't a size 20 with an ugly pale blue velvet cape. stupid fat nerd. i was the only black canary too, so cop that. the main thing was, we broke the record.
"the cave of skulls" the creature that cast the shadow is a cave man. i think they've traveled back to the stone-age. the cave men can speak english. and make fire. and hunt. the doctors companion calls him grandfather. how can doctor who have a granddaughter? i dont see how time lords could ever be in one time long enough to reproduce. or why they would need to considering how they can just reincarnated themselves as a younger, hotter version of themselves [going by matt smith and comparing him to this grumpy goop... WHO SMOKES A PIPE! awesome]. the humans can't figure out who he is and what his name is, so they call him doctor who? when i was at the davey crockett ranch at disney land in paris when i was nine an ad for doctor who came on and they were going on and on about this doctor coming up on the in room disney channel and my parents laughed and said "ah, the doctor" and i was getting angry that i didn't get the joke and i was like "what doctor? doctor who?" and all they said was "yeah". grr.
the cavemen want to feed him to a lion because they don't think he can make fire. but since the great fire maker died, neither can they. cavemen are dumb, how did we ever get so advanced...
i'm going to stop blogging while im watching it and just watch it. old tv shows are confusing enough, but old doctor who written by acid tripping hippy's in '63, wow.
btw, lovely_girl and i broke a world record today; most amount of people dressed as comic book super heroes in one place at the one time. we rule. go melbourne. anyway, i went as black canary, as i have mentioned previously, and lovely_girl went as cat woman and so many people wanted to take our picture it was funny. parents were even handing us their kids to get pictures. some old hag dressed as wonder woman said she liked my outfit and then said that it wasn't right because black canary has blue fishnets and i had black on. in my head i told her wonder woman wasn't a size 20 with an ugly pale blue velvet cape. stupid fat nerd. i was the only black canary too, so cop that. the main thing was, we broke the record.
Monday, May 24, 2010
colour fading
my rinse is fading. i don't know if i like the blond or the red better. i mean i love being sexy and red, but i also like the blond bombshell look that scarlett johansson is sporting these days. she's so glamorous. i wish i was glamorous. i think seeing as how my hair is so light already i will just go all the way now and make it white, and if i feel like going red later on then i will. the boy likes me either way.
today lovely_girl and i went to the comic shop to look at hot girl comic book super heroes and get inspiration for competitions for saturday. we also wanted to find costumes that would be easy to put together and that wouldn't cost us a bundle. lovely_girl is going as catwoman which requires tight black leggings, tight black leotard, black boots and a cat mask, maybe a whip for good measure. or maybe something fancier, depending on what kind of catwoman she wants to go as.
i'm going as black canary because a) it's easy and b) she's a blond babe. i got fishnet stockings today, i have the leotard already, i'm going to borrow my mums black boots [same size feet], so all i need now is the choker, the leather jacket and some gloves. the_boy said he was going to go as green arrow. in comic land green arrow and black canary are together, so it works out well for us. maybe we can set up lovely_girl with a nice cute batman. what a story to tell the grand kids...
grand_kid "how did you and grand pa meet nan?"
lovely_girl "i was catwoman and he was batman, and the rest just came naturally."
anyway, this is what my baben' alter ego looks like.
the green arrow is a bit of a dorky looking dude so i'm not going to ruin the wonderful aesthetics of my blog with a picture. you can google him. and if you don't want to, just imagine a slightly camp, comic hero version of robin hood [if you can].
while we were in the comic shop today we found some doctor who comics and were rather smitten with the fact that the comic book doctor looks like david tenant. this got me thinking. perhaps new doctor who comic doctor will look like matt smith. oh man, what a dream. next time i'm in the comic shop im going to ask the comic book dudes to hold me the new series of the doctor who comics as soon as the comic doctor starts looking like matt smith. i went looking to find when this might happen but when i googled doctor who comics i found this. no, you are not mistaken, this site does enable you to make your own doctor who comics. ah-maze-ing. god, how good would matt smith look in comic form... hot. i would buy two copies of the comics and put the pictures on my walls. yummy.
but i'm not allowed to go near matt smith on account of me having the boy and lovely_girl currently being single [but perhaps only til saturday, if you're reading this batman, be at fed square at 10am] so she has bagsed him. though he is on my list with edward norton and sam rockwell, so when i am allowed near him again, it's on.
i signed up to the chuck palahniuk fan site mailing list because i was reading the ebook on saturday night and found out that he consults closely with the site people, is a bang up guy, and answers all of his fan mail. he is not accepting fan mail at the moment [i think because he's working on his next novel] so i have signed up so i know when the address to send fan mail to is put back up on the site as soon as it happens so i can send him a letter telling him how much i love him and to come to australia.
anyway, every one has gone to bed which means the heater will go off soon and as it is still raining and i love falling asleep with the heater on when it's raining outside im going to go straight to be now and read the real [non-abridged for dumb people] version of "do androids dream of electric sheep?" until i dream of sheep.
today lovely_girl and i went to the comic shop to look at hot girl comic book super heroes and get inspiration for competitions for saturday. we also wanted to find costumes that would be easy to put together and that wouldn't cost us a bundle. lovely_girl is going as catwoman which requires tight black leggings, tight black leotard, black boots and a cat mask, maybe a whip for good measure. or maybe something fancier, depending on what kind of catwoman she wants to go as.
i'm going as black canary because a) it's easy and b) she's a blond babe. i got fishnet stockings today, i have the leotard already, i'm going to borrow my mums black boots [same size feet], so all i need now is the choker, the leather jacket and some gloves. the_boy said he was going to go as green arrow. in comic land green arrow and black canary are together, so it works out well for us. maybe we can set up lovely_girl with a nice cute batman. what a story to tell the grand kids...
grand_kid "how did you and grand pa meet nan?"
lovely_girl "i was catwoman and he was batman, and the rest just came naturally."
anyway, this is what my baben' alter ego looks like.
the green arrow is a bit of a dorky looking dude so i'm not going to ruin the wonderful aesthetics of my blog with a picture. you can google him. and if you don't want to, just imagine a slightly camp, comic hero version of robin hood [if you can].
while we were in the comic shop today we found some doctor who comics and were rather smitten with the fact that the comic book doctor looks like david tenant. this got me thinking. perhaps new doctor who comic doctor will look like matt smith. oh man, what a dream. next time i'm in the comic shop im going to ask the comic book dudes to hold me the new series of the doctor who comics as soon as the comic doctor starts looking like matt smith. i went looking to find when this might happen but when i googled doctor who comics i found this. no, you are not mistaken, this site does enable you to make your own doctor who comics. ah-maze-ing. god, how good would matt smith look in comic form... hot. i would buy two copies of the comics and put the pictures on my walls. yummy.
but i'm not allowed to go near matt smith on account of me having the boy and lovely_girl currently being single [but perhaps only til saturday, if you're reading this batman, be at fed square at 10am] so she has bagsed him. though he is on my list with edward norton and sam rockwell, so when i am allowed near him again, it's on.
i signed up to the chuck palahniuk fan site mailing list because i was reading the ebook on saturday night and found out that he consults closely with the site people, is a bang up guy, and answers all of his fan mail. he is not accepting fan mail at the moment [i think because he's working on his next novel] so i have signed up so i know when the address to send fan mail to is put back up on the site as soon as it happens so i can send him a letter telling him how much i love him and to come to australia.
anyway, every one has gone to bed which means the heater will go off soon and as it is still raining and i love falling asleep with the heater on when it's raining outside im going to go straight to be now and read the real [non-abridged for dumb people] version of "do androids dream of electric sheep?" until i dream of sheep.
Sunday, May 16, 2010
doctor who
tonights episode of dr who was scary. i still don't want to think about it. those weeping angels. *shudders*
but anyway, after we watched the episode and dr who confidential came on the boy was laying with his head at my legs and his feet at the other end of the couch, so he was upside down to me. i swear, upside down the boy looks like matt smith aka the babin' new dr. i sure did luck out indeed. i tried to take a picture to show him what i could see but i couldn't get my phone at the right angle. disappointing. he'll have to sit with his face upside down to me from now on so i can perv on my own little dr who. i need a poster of the new doctor and his babin' companion.
i don't mind the boy liking her. he still really likes ladies of the red headed persuasion. i wonder if he's disappointed that when we met i was only faking it? i'm a blondie now, and hopefully soon after getting some more shifts and getting some more money i shall have white hair, but i won't put a return to red headedness completely out of the books. having red hair is pretty easy and low maintenance. although my roots have been coming through fairly, well, fair. my hair tends to do that, it really responds to colour. i love my hair. i wish is would hurry up and grow a bit quicker though. i mean it grows remarkably and almost unbelievably quickly, but i really want beautiful long flowing hair that covers up the important bits venus de milo style. or is that eve in the shell? i get them mixed up a lot. i'm not really a classic art aficionado. i know the mona lisa's and statue of david stuff, but i;m more of a modern art lover, lichtenstein and man ray type stuff.
why is hair so expensive...
in other news, i'm hunting down a poster of a huge amount of the DC comic book characters because the boy is more a DC guy, but he has a big poster with heaps of the marvel characters on it. i also wish to acquire a green lantern t-shirt, a proper one with the logo on it, not like some shitty picture of the green lantern on a t-shirt. it's proving to be quite hard. i think all the nerds in melbourne have already got them all and because there are so few nerds in melbourne they will not bring out any more. and apparently comic book people [as in the shop kinds] haven't seen a good poster of the dc universe for a while. but i'll keep looking. i'm determined.
but anyway, after we watched the episode and dr who confidential came on the boy was laying with his head at my legs and his feet at the other end of the couch, so he was upside down to me. i swear, upside down the boy looks like matt smith aka the babin' new dr. i sure did luck out indeed. i tried to take a picture to show him what i could see but i couldn't get my phone at the right angle. disappointing. he'll have to sit with his face upside down to me from now on so i can perv on my own little dr who. i need a poster of the new doctor and his babin' companion.
i don't mind the boy liking her. he still really likes ladies of the red headed persuasion. i wonder if he's disappointed that when we met i was only faking it? i'm a blondie now, and hopefully soon after getting some more shifts and getting some more money i shall have white hair, but i won't put a return to red headedness completely out of the books. having red hair is pretty easy and low maintenance. although my roots have been coming through fairly, well, fair. my hair tends to do that, it really responds to colour. i love my hair. i wish is would hurry up and grow a bit quicker though. i mean it grows remarkably and almost unbelievably quickly, but i really want beautiful long flowing hair that covers up the important bits venus de milo style. or is that eve in the shell? i get them mixed up a lot. i'm not really a classic art aficionado. i know the mona lisa's and statue of david stuff, but i;m more of a modern art lover, lichtenstein and man ray type stuff.
why is hair so expensive...
in other news, i'm hunting down a poster of a huge amount of the DC comic book characters because the boy is more a DC guy, but he has a big poster with heaps of the marvel characters on it. i also wish to acquire a green lantern t-shirt, a proper one with the logo on it, not like some shitty picture of the green lantern on a t-shirt. it's proving to be quite hard. i think all the nerds in melbourne have already got them all and because there are so few nerds in melbourne they will not bring out any more. and apparently comic book people [as in the shop kinds] haven't seen a good poster of the dc universe for a while. but i'll keep looking. i'm determined.
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
if i love a man does that make me a crap feminist?
warm turkish apple tea from t2 is awesome on a really cold day. the bom is doing nothing for me at the moment, once the average temp for the day is below 18C, put more clothes on. even with my big warm jacket on today i was cold because my legs and my face were not in said jacket and they were still really cold. brr.
but im home now and in the mood for more ranting. [i do it quite on. i think the title of led zeppelin's opus ramble on was inadvertently inspired by me as is does in fact have little to do with the lord of the rings content of the song.]
i just want to have a little bitch about iron man 2 because i went to see it with the boy on saturday and i was really torn. i know that sam rockwell is kind of type cast some times as an unsuspecting bad guy but it's really hard for me to truly hate him because i love him and when i'm meant to hate his character i just can't help but think that it's the fault of the script writers for not giving him sufficient material to work with. i do like his moves though. he must just throw that in himself. but enough of sam. i was disappointed by the lack of proper character development in the story because i know from what i've read of hulk and future spider man and the release of captain america and thor films that all these marvel entertainment productions are gearing up for a huge avengers series bringing the major superheros together. fair enough you're setting up for an avengers series and major sequels [i don't know if you'd still call an avengers film a sequel because it would be a sequel to so many films]. ok, so, set up the films sequels, but don't lose site of the story at hand. firstly, scarlett johansson, what a baben' black widow, but there's more to her than that. she didn't just show up at shield, she was a russian spy who defected. i'm sensing a prequel is in order here. i mean if wolverine gets one, then she should too. wolverine's crap. but i think iron man is a pretty damn good character, but the films make him out to be quite shallow and self involved. he's as deep and troubled as batman or any of the dc dudes, but he doesn't get the credence he deserves. i mean they touched on it with the whole father thing but he's so much more than that. his strength comes from his genius and the fact that he is able to tap into this despite his up bringing and how privileged he is. i mean he invents a friggin' new element in the new one, he's a bloody genius. and he recognises that the world needs a superhero, someone like robin hood who'll stand up for the average joe. someone who will shut down the big bad no matter who he is. but he just seems like a brat. in the tv series and from what i've read online of the comics he's more of a cryptic characters in a cryptic situation, inheriting his fathers empire and trying his best to try and figure out what he's left behind as well as struggling with the stark legacy. i mean his dad is a good guy. right? i mean he wants peace, but he designs and builds weapons. i think it's all too complicated for the films to go in to.
me and the boy were comparing iron man and spiderman in terms of awesomeness, morals and superness and we got into a heated argument about origins and he bit me. this is how much we care about comic books.
but im home now and in the mood for more ranting. [i do it quite on. i think the title of led zeppelin's opus ramble on was inadvertently inspired by me as is does in fact have little to do with the lord of the rings content of the song.]
i just want to have a little bitch about iron man 2 because i went to see it with the boy on saturday and i was really torn. i know that sam rockwell is kind of type cast some times as an unsuspecting bad guy but it's really hard for me to truly hate him because i love him and when i'm meant to hate his character i just can't help but think that it's the fault of the script writers for not giving him sufficient material to work with. i do like his moves though. he must just throw that in himself. but enough of sam. i was disappointed by the lack of proper character development in the story because i know from what i've read of hulk and future spider man and the release of captain america and thor films that all these marvel entertainment productions are gearing up for a huge avengers series bringing the major superheros together. fair enough you're setting up for an avengers series and major sequels [i don't know if you'd still call an avengers film a sequel because it would be a sequel to so many films]. ok, so, set up the films sequels, but don't lose site of the story at hand. firstly, scarlett johansson, what a baben' black widow, but there's more to her than that. she didn't just show up at shield, she was a russian spy who defected. i'm sensing a prequel is in order here. i mean if wolverine gets one, then she should too. wolverine's crap. but i think iron man is a pretty damn good character, but the films make him out to be quite shallow and self involved. he's as deep and troubled as batman or any of the dc dudes, but he doesn't get the credence he deserves. i mean they touched on it with the whole father thing but he's so much more than that. his strength comes from his genius and the fact that he is able to tap into this despite his up bringing and how privileged he is. i mean he invents a friggin' new element in the new one, he's a bloody genius. and he recognises that the world needs a superhero, someone like robin hood who'll stand up for the average joe. someone who will shut down the big bad no matter who he is. but he just seems like a brat. in the tv series and from what i've read online of the comics he's more of a cryptic characters in a cryptic situation, inheriting his fathers empire and trying his best to try and figure out what he's left behind as well as struggling with the stark legacy. i mean his dad is a good guy. right? i mean he wants peace, but he designs and builds weapons. i think it's all too complicated for the films to go in to.
me and the boy were comparing iron man and spiderman in terms of awesomeness, morals and superness and we got into a heated argument about origins and he bit me. this is how much we care about comic books.
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