06 July 2009 @ 07:07 pm
Went to see "Public Enemies" with Angella today. We both thought it sucked, in fact If I'm being honest the chocolate flapjack I was eating during it was more interesting. Angella kept herself amused through it by debating with herself wither she should buy a wii fit, she convinced herself to lol So we went and bought it after the picture. She also coined a new term ( which you are all welcome to use)"Meat for money" ok so I can see that you won't be able to find many uses for it though lol. We were talking about the show "Supersizers" I commented on the amount of meat they eat, and Angella said that Sue Perkins was a veggie normally. I said she was a kind of a reverse "Gay for pay" that's when angella said "Meat for money" lol (Really you had to be there!)

I've just bought the movies "Baby Mama" and "The thing" from the sale on play.com. I love the film Baby Mama, Tina Fey is awesome in it. The thing is a movie I saw a looooooooong, loooooooong time ago and have had the urge to watch it again for while now. As i recently found (while tiding out a cupboard) the 20 year commemorative issue that "Rue Morgue" ( an American Horror movie mag) did and Ciniworld are meant to be showing it for a day soon which would be awesome.

Getting my hairdyed tomorrow, thank goodness as I'm feeling a bit scruffy lol.

Thanks for all the replies about "American psycho", glad you all think the same lol. I've deleted her from yahoo IM
 
 
Current Music: Patti Smith
 
 
I will be in attendance at Knuckleheads next Saturday to see Webb Wilder and Three Bad Jacks. 8:30 PM, $15.
Work Hard.
Rock Hard.
Sleep Hard.
Grow Big.
Wear Glasses if you need 'em.
 
 
06 July 2009 @ 10:11 am
Okay, guys, it's homework time! Except it's really easy homework. I have to do all the work.

I'm giving a lecture about young adult literature in late July, so I'm doing research, and I figured I'd go to my lovely flist here and on Myspace for some good data.

Feel free to post elaboration in the comments!

Poll ahoy! Click and deliver! )

There. That was painless, right? Walk it off, man. Walk it off.

-- Rachel

ETA: Sorry about some of the questions not being on target. Best I could do on one cuppa Starbucks and off the top of my head. But honestly, "all of the above" doesn't help much when you're trying to parse data, and I can't edit a poll once it's open, so if one reason applies more than another, go with that one, 'k? Thanks!
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Current Location: Secret Undisclosed yadda
Current Mood: curious
Current Music: "Get In, Get Out" - Cinder Road
 
 
06 July 2009 @ 07:57 am
Michael Jackson to be Buried Without His Brain

As the late King of Pop's family prepares for the singer's funeral on Tuesday, they have been told his brain would be held back for tests. 

The family was given the choice of either waiting up to three weeks for Jackson's brain to be returned to them or go ahead and bury him without it - which they have decided to do. 

Los Angeles Coroner's spokesman Craig Harvey said that neuropathology tests are going to be conducted to see if it holds any clues to the exact cause of his death. 

However, the examination cannot start until at least two weeks after the death when the brain has hardened sufficiently to slice it open. 




(h/t: Rick Emerson, again)
 
 
06 July 2009 @ 10:00 am
Apparently there was some confusion as to if I was quitting LJ after my last post which apparently also extended to myself.

I got my "subscription expired" email last night. Rather... I have no idea what, actually. Rather like a bill reminder.

Feh. Busy as heck weekend, in any case. Yard work on Saturday, then [info]atomiks came by to poke at a printer (verdict: didn't work).

Thankfully, printers are slightly more disposable than a very disposable thing, so we got a replacement.

After dinner we showed [info]atomiks how to play Peggle, and then I got to slaughter him & Cynra in Scene it! for the xbox. I didn't enjoy it, but a man has needs.

Sunday was slightly more relaxed. After mroe yard work (hacking down a tree that Cynra was afraid was giving access to our roof to local critters) I headed over to [info]kinra's to work on a sekrit projekt. It involved playing some games (War of 1812 & SW Minis) and watching the Riftrax for Tron.

Hey, here's a great revelation. My copy of Tron DOESN'T WORK. Great thing to find out about a DVD I've had for seven years. Feh.

We only played one year of 1812, but it's a neat little block game. Two points of interest : Yankees need to guard Detroit carefully, because the addition of the Tecumseh block makes things very interesting, and an aggressive war of conquest is a loss if you don't gain any territory.

After watching and playing we did stuff and I headed home, gassed up Cynra's car (she's doing some summer work) and grabbed a crunchwrap for dinner.

Now, it's Monday. Feh.
 
 
The red-band NSFW trailer to Jennifer's Body, starring Megan Fox, Johnny Simmons, Amanda Seyfried, Amy Sedaris, Adam Brody, JK Simmons, and Lance Henrikson. It's written by Diablo Cody (Juno), produced by Jason Reitman (Juno, Thank You For Smoking) and directed by Karyn Kusama (Girlfight).

"[A] hellish tale about a high school cheerleader (Fox), screwed over by a visiting rock band, who becomes possessed by a demon and begins to feed off of the fellas in her town."
 
 
05 July 2009 @ 10:12 pm

Woman is the nigger of the world
Yes she is...think about it
Woman is the nigger of the world
Think about it...do something about it

We make her paint her face and dance
If she won’t be slave, we say that she don’t love us
If she’s real, we say she’s trying to be a man
While putting her down we pretend that she is above us

Woman is the nigger of the world...yes she is
If you don’t believe me take a look to the one you’re with
Woman is the slaves of the slaves
Ah yeah...better scream about it

We make her bear and raise our children
And then we leave her flat for being a fat old mother then
We tell her home is the only place she would be
Then we complain that she’s too unworldly to be our friend

Woman is the nigger of the world...yes she is
If you don’t believe me take a look to the one you’re with
Woman is the slaves of the slaves
Yeah (think about it)

We insult her everyday on TV
And wonder why she has no guts or confidence
When she’s young we kill her will to be free
While telling her not to be so smart we put her down for being so dumb

Woman is the nigger of the world...yes she is
If you don’t believe me take a look to the one you’re with
Woman is the slaves of the slaves
Yes she is...if you believe me, you better scream about it.

We make her paint her face and dance
We make her paint her face and dance
We make her paint her face and dance

 
 
Current Music: InstantKarma/GivePeaceAChance/HappyXmas/Lennon.
 
 
05 July 2009 @ 09:16 pm
My auntie bought two magazines that were tributes to Michael Jackson (Historical and another one). They had nice pictures, but other than that, they were so full of fail in chronological-ing his life. And these are supposed to be professionals? Fans do a better job than this.

I'll be making scans just because its so funny.

- There was a picture of Randy that said 'A Young Michael'

- A picture of Randy Jackson FROM AMERICAN IDOL with the caption 'Randy Jackson and his wife'.

- A picture of an OBVIOUS impersonator has a caption below that says: 'Michael browses the shelves during the launch of the 25th anniversary edition of Thriller at HMV in central London'. Never mind the fact that the impersonator has the 1992 Dangerous era look on him, but the fact that Michael NEVER even went out to promote the 25th Thriller anniversary album in the first place.

- Several chronological pictures' dates are wrong. One slide has two clearly Thriller era pictures of him in between a Bad era photo (during the tour) the second one with the title "1987".

- One slide of a 'Changing Face' section has a picture of Michael from 1987 with "1984: He's lighter-skinned with a squarer jaw" next to a photo of Michael from 1983 with the caption "1987: His face seems fuller and jaw more natural". Um, okay. (Not even going to bother to address that of course when you lose weight, your face and jaw can stand out more or less. Or the first picture that says '1979' which is the Off The Wall era, but uses a picture from around 1977).

- A whole page of photos of Michael making faces at the camera during a court date in 2002 in which he was being sued [for some concert money he owed] has the caption "Even when he was being tried for child  molestation during his sensational 2005 trial, Jacko still managed to joke around during a break in court and acknowledge fans from his limo".

FAIL! Collectors items? Maybe a bootleg version.
 
 
05 July 2009 @ 04:47 pm
HBO first look at Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (in two parts):


 
 
05 July 2009 @ 12:59 pm
clicky.
 
 
05 July 2009 @ 07:40 pm

Okay so for the past 3 months or so I have been in contact with this American model called “Tina” She sent me an message on myspace so I put her on my friends list. Soon after she sent a pm asking to get to know me better, so we swapped instant message details. The “Want to know me better” has consisted of “How are you?” “I’m fine” how are you?” Most times I asked her a question all I would get is one word answers. In fact all I know about her is she’s model, want’s to start her own clothing business, her parents dies in a car crash and her GF ran of with her best friend ( all of that sounds a bit too “Hollyoaks though). All she known’s about me is what is written on my myspace profile. She was in London recently ( on a shoot) and IM saying that she “misses me so much” Last night I got a PM saying she was in Africa and can’t get home cause they paid her by cheque and she can’t cash it. So she want’s me to do it cause I’m the only one she can trust. I asked her about the agency that sent her, could they not help? She said that the owner hit on her and she turned him down saying that she is gay and that I’m her soul mate, so the guy has refused to help her. I IM’d “Soul mate? We hardly know each other? She said “You’ll never know how much I feel about you. I changed the subject and asked her if she had a return ticket? She said no, I asked her “Why?” she replied “You. I moved down here from London for you.” I think this woman is a bit freaky ( and not in a good way) She is saying all the right thing, after all who doesn’t want to be told that someone misses them but we barely know each other. Plus there’s the whole in Africa but “moved down from London” thing I think she is a bit of a walter mitty lol. I think I’m going to change her name to “Alex” and hide the neighbours rabbit. Seriously I think I will take her off my IM list and remove her from Myspace.

 
 
Current Music: Wife swap on the TV
 
 
05 July 2009 @ 02:56 pm
Happy Birthday, [info]stillsostrange!  
Happy birthday, Amanda. :-)
 
 

Я обожаю барахолки. Для моей мамы это - очередное говно в дом (с), а для меня - сокровищница царя Багдассара, где можно раскопать невиданные золотые россыпи из бездонных закромов бабулек, алкашей и прочего торгового люда. Не проходит выходного, чтобы я, уже нагруженная всевозможной свежекупленной едой, не перебегала от лотка к лотку в поисках копеечных книг, монет, значков и остального «очередного говна» (с).

К чему это лирическое вступление? Да запросто объясню. Вообразите, вчерашний светский выход на рынок принес в мой дом давнюю, ослепительную мечту моего отрочества – ЭЛЕКТРОФОН! А именно - такую древнюю дуру для проигрывания виниловых пластинок. У нас дома, конечно, тоже есть своя древняя дура для схожих целей, и она даже чрезвычайно похожа на настоящую, но, к сожалению, не работает. А эта – работает, и еще как.

Приперла я, сияя от счастья, сей монументальный агрегат в дом и приступила к обходу владений своих - полезла в кладовку раскапывать семейные виниловые запасы.

После краткой инвентаризации кладовочных сусеков я основательно заскучала. Ассортимент нашей домашней винилотеки варьируется от унылого совка до полного собрания сочинений Владимира Шаинского и детских аудиоспектаклей, на которых выросла моя бабушка. Посреди разгула пластинок с Валерием Леонтьевым и Юрием Антоновым я с большим трудом раскопала Высоцкого, Тото Кутуньо и оркестр Поля Мариа, кои и были проиграны мною примерно за час. Напоследок, уже от отчаяния, я прослушала леденящий душу альбом Modern Talking с суперхитом «Ты мое сердце, ты моя душа», после чего села и завыла волком.

Ну не было в моей семье отродясь меломанов. В кого я уродилась такой, блин, аудиофилкой – загадка века папанька давно подозревает, что я соседская дочь.

В общем и целом, прошу помощи зала. Если вы, дорогие ярославские френды, совершенно случайно являетесь обладателями не упершихся вам нафиг грампластинок с мелодиями и ритмами зарубежной эстрады, то в ваших силах несказанно меня осчастливить, а именно - одарить меня ими на халяву, обменять на пиво или загнать по спекулятивной цене за разумную сумму. Не дайте пропасть любительнице антиквариата. Ю май харт, хдыщ, ю май сол…
 
 
Current Mood: нерабочее
Current Music: Мельница
 
 
05 July 2009 @ 04:38 pm
I was hellish busy all week at work but I got done what needed to be done. I think [info]jenni411 has cut and pasted a statement I made about never whining about being bored at work again. She has my full permission to post it should I forget and start whining about being bored :)

Thursday was enlivened by an evening with the ever lovely [info]thalinoviel. We'd arranged to meet so I could admire her shiny new motor and also test drive it a lil'. However, we neglected to actually specify who was meeting whom where. So there I was sitting outside her house and there she was sitting outside mine when she called to ask me where I was :P There was giggling :)

Anyway, I belted back to WGC and took the dear girl out to Pizza Express for food where there was much yakking and catching up. I drove her very shiny new car home and while it has a lot to recommend it, I think I'd need to do a longer test drive to be sure. It's a smidge on the small side and feels a bit light on the road, but then I've been driving a Rover 45 for five years, anything smaller would feel light and small :) But it's definitely a model to consider, although I'm still eyeing a Corsa or a Fiat Punto.

Have done nuffink this weekend except loaf and watch tennis. Am currently watching the Men's Final between Roddick and Federer and it's a nail biter which is why I'm updating my LJ by way of distraction!
 
 
Current Mood: cheerful
 
 
Я тут в общем закрыла сессию почти на отлично, накрасилась, приоделась, волосы в косу заплела и поехала по миру путешествовать.

Только поехала не одна, а с дрожайшими моими родственничками, потому и само путешествие и фото из него несколько ээээ....м.. однообразны чтоле..


ну смотрите сами: мир из окна автомобиля )
 
 
04 July 2009 @ 06:46 am
Happy Birthday to the U.S. of A.
 
 
03 July 2009 @ 10:46 pm
My skin feels crispy. Note: Start wearing sun screen.

Ouchy.



Seriously.



Waiting for the boy to call me back, he hasn't.


Thinking I might just go relax and watch Resident Evil with the room mates. Oh.

Thinking.


Just thinking.
 
 
03 July 2009 @ 10:51 pm
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03 July 2009 @ 08:42 pm

I went to see Blood:The last vampire, the other day. It sucked ( pardon the pun) I have no idea what convinced me to go as I own the original manga DVD and that sucked too. Crazy,crazy lady. Off to see "Public enemies" on Monday with Angella. Silly Angella was convinced that the Springsteen Concert is a week on Sunday but it's a week on Tuesday, I don't know how many times I need to tell her lol.

It was my last day of work placement today. So I have my freedom back woo hoo! I managed to leave without a fuss with only one person knowing it was my last day. He only found out cause he asked me when I was next back in. I got them a nice wee thank you card so I'll send that next week.

I can't believe that Mary "Queen of shops" Portas never got a mention in the independent newspapers " Pink list" they mention some sports announcer whom I'm sure no one has heard of but leave Mary. without her gay men would have no where to shop since she made Harvey Nics the Icon it is today sweetie darling! I think these types of lists are only filled with people the writers can think of at that moment or who are popular at the time ( apart from Mary lol)same with the afterellen one. Still at least there were 22 women on that newspaper list but out of 101 it's still pretty poor.

I'm going to spend tomorrow working on my bruv's wedding Scrapbook. Hopefully it will be finished before he comes up in Aug. Here is a pic of one of the layouts. I made the heart embellishment myself I've very proud of that lol. The creators of the software I use had made a new vid showing how to thread an embellishment, so I'm going to try and thread the lock that's on the layout threw the ribbon. That should give me ample chance to swear in frustration tomorrow lol


A question that I have been pondering recently is "Can you call your religion ( what ever it is) a religion of peace if the religions holy book supports the death penalty?

 
 
Current Music: Theatre of tragedy
 
 
03 July 2009 @ 03:58 pm
So I haven't been around lately... mom was in the hospital for a while.  So I get back today to get some stuff done (icons and whatnot), and my laptop is not working!!!  My *new* laptop!!  Half the files are corrupted somehow.  I mean I couldn't access the Control Panel, and I couldn't even do a system restore, not even in safe mode.

So.... this led to me having to reinstall Vista.  Which of course meant that I lost everything!!!!!!!   I do have a *small* backup, but that last time I did a back up was well over 2 months ago.  SO basically EVERYTHING is lost.  Pictures, icons, images, videos, EVERYTHING.  *sigh*

So I'm "back,"  but not really :(
 
 
Current Mood: enraged