Oh....MY!

I'm not sure if its just me but lately there havent been that many films that have 'grabbed my fancy', including Batman Begins, which anyone who knows me will tell you I should be foaming atthe mouth to see it, but it just feels too much like a hollywood movie rather than a comic book movie, I dont know, it feels like theyve forgotten about Batman and just made a Batman film, if that makes any sense, but I guess I should see it first, after all it does have Katie Holmes in it.

Now what I really want to see, other than the new Superman movie, is this:

http://www.kingkongmovie.com/ef239524432ba87f1ca8f70eed4b1fa7/

Watch the trailer, Peter Jackson just gets better and better, Remember what King Kong was like half a century ago? People loved it, it was the biggestthing ever, massive cult following etc etc. Well thats happening again for our generation. This really looks amazing!

Gut instinct

Why is it that some people (i.e. Me) just wont follow their gut instinct? Your gut says do 'A' and you'll be ok, things will work, but your stupid brain says do 'B', dont listen to your gut, be sensible about this. Being sensible normally means I make the wrong choice, my gut is always right, but I never listen to it. Why?

I also bought some foo fighter CD's and DVD's on play.com this morning, click, click, click, and I bought it. Way too easy, but thats not what I'm talking about, thats just my bad spending habit.

Singing in the Rain

Im not sure if the rest ofthe world have seen this ad, but a few months it aired over here, I think its brilliant, its no3 on the list:

http://www.ephinx.com/tvadverts/index.php

Not only is this site cool for funny adverts, click on the eye on the top of the page... sneakiness!

Poems on the Underground

Every morning when I get on the tube I search throught the most horrible of advertising (mostly offering home loans or some such services) in the hopes that I will find one of the more decent poems, or any to be honest, this is because the earphones to my minidisc are broken and I'd rather spend money on DVD's than buy a new pair. This is one that I read this morning, its from 'A Shropshire Lad' by A.E. Housman, published in 1896.

- XIII -

When I was one-and-twenty
I heard a wise man say,
"Give crowns and pounds and guineas
But not your heart away;
Give pearls away and rubies
But keep your fancy free."
But I was one-and-twenty,
No use to talk to me.

When I was one-and-twenty
I heard him say again,
"The heart out of the bosom
Was never given in vain;
'Tis paid with sighs a plenty
And sold for endless rue."
And I am two-and-twenty
And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.

Santoro (some top Frenchman, he got beaten by Novak)

Me @ Wimbledon

Please dont put your balls up there

Have you ever noticed how streamlined a dolphin looks? Or how a Maserati Quattroporte glides down any road its on? So why then do those perfectly toned and tanned sporting beauties with their stunning figures decide to stick tennis balls up the side of their skirt? It's like strapping an airconditioning vent to a dolphins back, or slapping on a roofrack with your luggage to a Maserate, you just wouldnt do it. There are more than enough ballboys quite eager to throw their balls at the players, so why keep a spare one up your skirt? It destroys quite possibly the best figures in the sporting world. I did howver work out a way to get around this, after every couple of games, the girls change sides, and only the one serving is so foolish to be putting tennis balls up her skirt, so the opposition remains unspoiled.

I dont know, maybe its something a non tennis player will never understand. To be honest I'm not that much of a tennis fan anyways, its not a bad sport, its just that it doesnt interest me (well the sport that is).

Spending a day at the Wimbledon Championships is definately something I would recommend to anyone. It's a really enjoyable experience, everyone is in a good mood, except those losing on the court, the sun is baking down, everyones drinking (pimms and lemonade @ £5, 75 a glass) and generally having a good time.

The only thing I would have changed about yesterday? Sharapova would have been playing at court no3, and not the over my budget priced court no1.

Clark Kent

I was blog browsing again and came across a link on some dudes blog, I got so distracted by the site, that I forgot to read his blog.

Its a site dedicated to geeks and 'geek culture', while reading through some of their rather strange material, I started wondering am I a geek? The following paragraph answered my question:

'But the big question on your mind..... are YOU a Geek?Since you have somehow found yourself at geekculture.com, chances are relatively good that you’re a geek or geek wanna-be. If not, it may be that there is a tiny Geek inside of you waiting to blossom. Geek Culture® hopes you will nurture this Geek seed, and cherish it for the wonderful, quirky, exhilarating thing it is.'

Something I can relate to:
“Geekosphere” is a term used to describe the area in the immediate vicinity around your computer. Most people personalize this zone with various cultural objects that have significant meaning to them (Star Trek memorabilia, photos of pets, tribbles, old coffee cup collections, pizza crusts, dippy ducks, etc.).

My geekosphere consisted of 2 star wars toys from KFC, a James Bond postacard, Batgirl action figure, and various other comic book related things, frinday nights would normally involve the addition of one or two pizza boxes.

Sick Again

I hate being Sick, I think there are two types of people in this world (ok there are way more, but when it comes to being sick), those that can handle being sick, and those that cant. I'm somewhere ib the middle, so I guess that makes three types then, I HATE BEING SICK!!!!!

It just brings you down, way more than other things, a bad paycheck? fine go and drink away the rest just to spite your employer and prove that you dont need their money anyways (not really that clever).

So last week I feel it creeping up on me, if waking up with a sore throat and severe dose of bad mood means being sneaked upon, then I was sneaked upon. Thursday night I cant swallow, or more like I haveto swallow to stop my throat from hurting, but swallowing only soothes it for about 2 milliseconds before it hurts again, wake up friday morning and feel even worse, that of course after going out for drinks the night before (very clever), so friday night I go out for more drinks, just to prove to myself how stupid and stubborn I really am, wake up saturday morning and I know I'm sick, coughing, nose running, throat still hurting, and im feeling like the tissue I blow my nose into.

I got to spend the whole weekend in bed, playing xbox, reading, watching movies and feeling sorry for myself while the sun baked outside. Wake up this morning, and I'm still sick, but the life of a temp doesnt allow you to be sick, being sick means you dont get paid, so money grabbing shylocke (I watched merchant of venice on the weekend) that I am, I come to work and spread my germs to all those around me!

Sidenote: Merchant of Venice is really good, really felt sorry for Al, he deserved his revenge, is the moral of the story supposed to be that no one derves revenge? and that revenge is wrong? if so, its a pretty stupid moral, revenge is sweet!!! nah, just kidding, revenge is never sweet.

Pub Life

Is'nt she Lovely?

A Decent picture of the Batmobile

The Bat sign at Leicester Square

More cyclists on Oxford str

Protestors or Exhibitionists?

Its not often that you'll be sitting in a pub and see a bunch of cyclists completely naked go cycling past. If I had been smoking something or if I was really really drunk I may have thought yeah I'm just seeing things, but as much of a cheap drunk as I am, 2 beers is not going to affect my vision that much. So there we are in the pub, enjoying our Amstel's, when everyone runs out of the bar, pretty weird thing to happen, but when we went to see what they were looking at I couldnt blame them, the only difference was that we still had our drinks in our hands. Naked cyclists! Women and men letting it all hang out, well as much as the cold weather would allow, at least the men with small 'man bits' wouldnt have been that self conscious.

Check this site out for more info on why they were actually doing it:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/4083580.stm

The Naked cyclists

Batmobile at Leicester Square

Batman Begins

Last night was the UK premiere of Batman Begins, the film clamied to be the best Batman film yet. Although I havent seen the film, I dont think the critics are far wrong (with the exception of Burtons's Batman Returns). I dont think much was spared on marketing the film last night, with Bat signals flitting accross the surrounding buildings, sounds of random colonies of bats terrorising the skies, Gotham style music, and a really big rusted copper Bat Sign above the Odeon.

Christian Bale, Morgan Freeman, and Katie Holmes were all there signing autographs, although it was clear that the main star was not in fact Bale (Batman), he played second fiddle to the roaring Batmobile and Dawson's Joey Potter, it was good to see that she has outgrown her overly intelectual, puppy faced teen character. At 26 Katie Holmes has alot going for her, if only she could avoid films like 'First Daughter'.

Several?

For a long time I have had a problem with the word 'several' (seriously), I think it is the stupidest word ever created/said, even stupider than 'Quixotic' (Quixotic: not sensible about practical matters; unrealistic; "as quixotic as a restoration of medieval knighthood"; "a romantic disregard for money"; "a wild-eyed dream of a world state).

Now thats a stupid sounding word with a cool definition. 'Several' meaning "of an indefinite number more than 2 or 3 but not many; "several letters came in the mail"; "several people were injured in the accident" is just silly, why not just say many, or 'a few', several sounds like seven, and for a long time I sued to think it was another way of saying seven, as stupid as it sounds that makes more sense to me than meaning more than 2, but not many! Does that make me Quixotic?

Several? I use it, I admit, but I still dont like it!

(I almost forgot to post this, the word came up last night in the pub, and got me going again, so I said I'd blog it, but then a few Amstels later, and there was no way I was going to remember, luckily I have friends that no matter how drunk they get, they still seem to remember these things for me, Thank you Dayne, and dont say I didnt tell you that Asahi does that)

The Cockney Grandfather

Every morning I walk the same route to the underground station, which by the way is actually not underground at all, and most mornings I pass an old man who has just gone to buy the milk and daily paper.

Every time I saw him I would greet him, 'Mornin' and get a big nothing in return, until after a few mornings of persisting in my 'Mornins', I got a response, 'Mornin' he replied. It wasnt long before that 'Morinin' evolved into fairly lengthy conversations (for that time of the morning), about football, the weather and even politics, but mostly football, which I know very little about. What makes it even more frustrating, is that being from East London, this man has a strong cockney accent, add to that the fact that he's old, and his cockney accent has developed into something that only east londoners would understand. So basically I stand there, nod and smile, and let the man have his say. Whichever way you look at it, I know have small talk with an old man whom I know nothing about on a fairly regular basis.


By the way, in case you didnt know Breakfst at Tiffany's is sung by Deep Blue Something, with another version by Everclear.

Normality

You Are 45% Normal (Somewhat Normal)

While some of your behavior is quite normal... Other things you do are downright strange You've got a little of your freak going on But you mostly keep your weirdness to yourself

How'>http://www.blogthings.com/hownormalareyouquiz/">How Normal Are You?

Blunt becomes sharp

If anyone hasnt yet heard of him, you soon will, James Blunt has become the new cool 'Slit my wrist and want to die' type music, I call it that cause like so much other music out there, it can be depressing very easily. 'Youre Beautiful' his first big single has its own sound, for the moment at least. Listen to it here: http://www.jamesblunt.com

The coolest thing about all this, is that I've had his album for more than a month before it was released. What is it about having things before you're meant to that is so cool? Or is it just me, I guess it all started with my first DivX. Watching 'The Matrix' 2 months before anyone has even heard of it, (I was probably about 15 at the time) is just a whole different kind of cool.

Groundhog Day

There are a few films that I can watch over and over, well actually there are few that I cant watch repeatedly. Groundhog Day ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107048/) is a film that no matter how many times I've seen it I still love it, I havent seen the film in probably 6 or 7 years now, so when I saw it in Virgin on friday night I just had to buy it! How many times have I said that to myself when buying DVD's? Probably every time.

A world without consequence? Do whatever you want, whenver you want, wherever you want, and theres no cosequence? I used to think that would be paradise, but if your actions dont have any consequence then whats the point? Phil conners as one fan put it becomes quite literally, a man without a future. Nothing you do matters (not that anything I do has an impact on world politics) but at least this is real. Bottom Line: I still love the movie, but its way deeper than I used to think.

Death of a Blog

After time, people get bored with things, with life, with their hobbies, I know I have. My passion for reading comics has come and gone over the years, but I've never stopped loving the characters. My passion for movies has always been there, and I think thats the one thing that will remain constant in my life, Computers, games, reading, all of that comes and goes.

Anyways I've been reading this other blog for a good few months now, and it looks like the blogger has either tired of throwing her deepest, most honest and presonal thoughts onto a computer screen (paper no longer exists) or shes just taking a break, but this is a poem that she ended her blog with, I thought it was pretty good so I thought I'd share it with you:

“Tomorrow will be better

Tomorrow is a new day

Tomorrow’s something else I guess

And that’s all there is today

Maybe it will bring me smiles

And carelessly wipe away my tears

Maybe it will settle all my frustration

And calm my haunting fears

Maybe I’ll find what I want

And get what I’ve been looking for

They say it comes when you expect it least

But that only makes me want it more

Maybe I’ll find happiness and love

Maybe I’ll find the meanings of this

Maybe I can put away the fear of being alone

And not think of the things I’d usually miss

Maybe I’ll laugh all day long

But that only happens to the luckiest of us

And usually I’m wrong

Tomorrow will be better

Tomorrow is a new day

Tomorrow’s something else I guess

And that’s all there is to say”

- Meredith Kuehl

George Shakespeare?

Anyone who knows me will know that like millions out there, I am a big Star Wars fan. More a fan of episodes iv-vi, but still a fan. Chris and I had a debate about those first (or last?) 3 films, he was wrong like usual, cause he seems to believe that no matter how bad they may be, because of the time in which they were made they have become instant classics. I disagree, its all about the story, the worlds, the characters, etc etc, theyre brilliant, fullstop, there is no debate there. Unfortunately however this means that it is almost impossible for the first 3 films (epsodes 1-3) to meet the fans expectations.

I watched Star Wars Episode 3, the final in the series on Monday and closed another chapter in my life. The Star Wars films are now complete, but like expected I still left the film feeling a bit unfulfilled, I'm not sure what George could have done different to fill that gap cause it was still a pretty good film, but with a few flaws, which none of the first films have.

My biggest problem was, and I'm hoping that others have picked up on this too, is that it seems like George Lucas based the relationship between Anakin and Senator Palpatine on Othello and Iago!

My reason for saying this? Anakin turned way too easily, just like Othello did, now if anyone remembers from school days, I hated Othello, it was just way too unrealistic that a man could believe someone like Iago that his wife was cheating on him, its just stupid!!! Sorry Bill but Othello was rubbish! So here you see my problem with SW3, if I hated Othello that much, how am I supposed to like SW3?

The only reason: it bridges the gap between the films, although unsuccessfully in my opinion.

Blog borrowing

I read other peoples blogs, any blogger does, and theres this one blogger who just finds the funniest stories sometimes, I hadnt heard of this until I read her blog. I considered rewriting the story but thats too much work, so I just took hers, giving her full credit of course.

"You got to love this guy... This is a true story about a recentwedding that took place in the States. It was a huge wedding with about 300 guests...After the wedding at the reception, the groom got up on stage with a microphone to talk to the crowd. He said he wanted to thank everyone for coming, many from long distances, to support them at their wedding.He especially wanted to thank the bride's and his family and to thank his new father-in-law for providing such a lavish reception.

As a token of his deep appreciation he said he wanted to give everyone a special gift just from him. So taped to the bottom of everyone's chair, including the weddingparty, was an envelope. He said this was his gift to everyone, and asked them to open their envelope. Inside each manila envelope was an 8x10 glossy of his bride having sex with the best man. The groom had gotten suspicious of them weeks earlier and had hired a private detective to tail them.

After just standing there, just watching the guests' reactions for a couple of minutes, he turned to the best man and said, "F--- you! Then he turned to his bride and said, "F--- you!"Then he turned to the dumbfounded crowd and said, "I'm outta here."He had the marriage annulled first thing in the morning.While most people would have canceled the wedding immediately after finding out about the affair, this guy goes through with the charade as if nothing were wrong.

His revenge...make the bride's parents pay over $32,000 for a 300 guest wedding and reception, and best of all, trashing the bride's and best man's reputations in front of 300 friends and family members. This guy has balls the size of church bells. Do you think we might get a MasterCard "priceless" commercial out ofthis?

Elegant wedding reception for 300 family members and friends........$32,000.
Wedding photographs commemorating the Occasion.....$3,000.
Deluxe two week honeymoon accommodations in Maui...$8,500.
The look on everyone's face when they see the 8x10 glossy of thebride humping the best man..........Priceless.

There are some things money can't buy, for everything else there'sMASTERCARD"

Life isn't like a bowl of cherries or peaches...it's more like a jar of Jalapenos! What you do today, might burn your ass tomorrow......" - (Megan, American Blogger, 06/2005)