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one of my friends is trying to tell me Lady Gaga is female!?! what is this!?
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[19 Oct 2009|02:32pm] |
Wow so I like. Never update this. but whatever. I have a girlfriend now, who makes me very happy.
Had a 360 Lan on Saturday night at PhatAlb3rts place, played from 8pm-3.20am, Gears of War 2, Rainbow Six Vegas 2, Forza 2, PGR 4, Call of Duty 3 & 4, and Halo 3. It was pretty good fun, had 8 people there so quite a few team-based games.
Quite excited for Forza Motorsport 3, being 'a part of the community' ie watching devs on twitter, browsing the forums and keeping up to date with the website, has already netted me a few cars. and the game isn't even out yet! I think there's 25 cars - 10 'classic cars' as part of the Forza package to download, 5 'hero cars' from the covers of various Forza games, 5 'limited collectors edition' cars, one Zune HD Audi DTM car for entering a comp on the website, 1 BMW for preordering at EB Games, and three custom-liveried cars through the website for preordering the game. Hopefully I will have a few competitive cars to begin career mode with, heh!
Hows life with you?
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[06 Aug 2009|04:09pm] |
 RIP: A Remix Manifesto, 2009 (Gaylor)
Heard about this movie on the radio and thought I'd check it out. A documentary about the culture of remixing, and how open copyright law was prior to people like the Rolling Stones and Metallica getting up in arms about people stealing their music. Interesting piece, with some interesting folks in it. Like Banjo guy. He was a little weird though. |  Red Cliff, 2009 (Woo)
Part of the film festival, went with ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) cheesecat. 2.5 hour version of a previously 5.5 hour (2 part) epic by John Woo. Once I'd adjusted to how to figure out which chinese dudes were on which side of the war, it was a little easier to understand. Some awesome military manouvres and plenty of explosions and fire (possibly too much?) Will probably get this on DVD eventually, to accompany my House of Flying Daggers and Hero. |  Thirst / Bakjwi, 2008 (Park)
Film Festival again, with bex_is_roxor. I don't really know what I expected from this movie, but it was definitely outside my expectations. It was very strange.. I guess all the vampire movies out of Hollywood in the last 25 years have put certain things on the table that just go along with vampire films. This was more.. well, as Bex put it, how the main character, and the people around him, deal with the fact that he's a vampire. How their lives change. It sounds more dramatic than the film actually is, but its not all 'vampire action' per se. |
I went to the pet expo. I petted an Alaskan Malamute and held some rats, and saw izmi for the first time in ages. I bought some seeds and ate them the next day.
Started playing Fable II and it's pretty fun. Looking forward to the Games on Demand feature of Live where I'll be able to download things like Oblivion and a few other 'classic' titles for cheaper than I can probably buy them at EB even second hand. Oh yeah I bought F.E.A.R but its got crap all over the disc screws up on the second level, and my aunt threw away the receipt I think. Guess I should try and clean it up, idk.
Watched the first Harry Potter film.. have four to watch before going to the new one lol. Looking forward to seeing District 9 though.
Have discovered googlereader so now I don't even have to go to any websites... all the things just get delivered into my one feed thing and I can just read them all there. Saves on bandwidth and effort I guess =P
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[04 Jun 2009|01:10am] |
Alien Raiders (2008, Rock)
Why: horror / got 100% on tomatometer
Any good: quite enjoyed it, not as many jumps as I was expecting, never really been a fan of internal host style aliens but whatever. Pretty interesting. Probably fall just short of recommending it.
10,000 BC (2008, Emmerich)
Why: trailer looked interesting in cinemas?
Any good: not really.. felt too long, didn't get involved with the characters enough, lead girl wasn't that attractive, kept thinking I saw Cliff Curtis. (oh.. I did).
Vipers (2008, Corcoran)
Why: still scraping around the horror genre.. that and Tara Reid (lolwut)
Any good: made for tv survivalish horrorish, snakes looked shit, premise was lolworthy, but it was alright. Like if you saw that this was gonna be on tv? you could watch it. but don't go out looking for it.
Zombie Strippers (2008, Lee)
Why: sounded bizarre
Any good: was bizarre. the acting was.. this was pretty much a porno flick with like 1/3 porno and the rest just horrible porno acting without porn. the story and characters were pretty hilarious. Roxy Saint is pretty hot. if you like your strippers with a goth tinge. Finalé zombie stripper vs zombie stripper fight was hilarious also. this is worth a watch for shits and giggles, but not worth it if you actually want to watch a movie.
The Fountain (2006, Aronofsky)
Why: ... followed some IMDB link in the 'may also like' section
Any good: wtf drama. but this was like, idk, a grownups Donnie Darko. it was pretty good, following three arguably seperate and distinct storylines all involving a guy called Tom (Tomas, Tommy, Tom) played by Hugh Jackman, but they all sort of weave together.. its quite a nice movie, maybe a little sad, makes you think a bit. I liked it though.
Mirrors (2008, Aja)
Why: horror / Keifer Sutherland
Any good: haaaa yes, this was good. It's one of those movies that makes you paranoid about common objects. mirrors for example. well idk it didn't actually manage to get to me but it was that kind of film that would make people scared of mirrors if they were prone to paranoia. Keifer Sutherland picks up a job as nightwatchman at a burned out department store, but weird shit keeps happening in the mirrors, and then the mirrors in his families house start acting weird and. yeah idk. this is a cool film though.
The Woods (2006, McKee)
Why: Agnes Bruckner / horrorish
Any good: Agnes Bruckner in a school uniform? zing! movie was pretty bizarre about a girl who goes off to a boarding school but there's weird shit going on and people disappearing and hurting themselves and the staff all seem a bit fucked up crazy. I liked it though. I probably wouldn't bother watching it again. There are cooler Agnes Bruckner films out there. lol.
glad i'm not doing pictures? me too.
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| TV... |
[18 May 2009|12:38pm] |
Amongst the absolute dearth of TV coming out of the states that I'm interested in, now that Dollhouse, Castle, House, Heroes, Terminator, Knight Rider and South Park have finished for the season, I sit around and wait for a month for Top Gear and True Blood to start up again, there is some vaguely good news.
Castle and Dollhouse have received pickups for a second season, which is awesome. People expected Dollhouse to go the way of Firefly and were unsure of Castle, but pulling steady 10mil viewers was enough for the network I guess.
There's a couple of miniseries coming up I'm interested in, The Storm, and yeah I forgot the other one. Hmm. So just Family Guy until True Blood and Top Gear =\ Dexter starts filming this month for fourth season so I guess we won't see that for a while.
Maybe I should watch the last six seasons of 24 that I've missed hrrrrrrrmm.
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| Movies zomg |
[12 May 2009|10:49am] |
I've seen so many movies in the last week it'd be rude to post the dvd covers.
Resident Evil (2002, Anderson)
I thought seeing as I'd recently finished Resident Evil 5 I should at least go back and watch these movies, having seen only a few snippets from the first one. I was expecting an overbudgetted, ridiculous survival horror movie with copious amounts of blood and gore. and that's exactly what I got. which was awesome. 7/10.
Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004, Witt)
Similar to the first movie, except 'outside'. Jill Valentines character seemed far more annoying and outspoken to the character I had seen in the game, but not having played Resident Evils 1-4 I'm not particularly well-versed on exactly how she should be. Though I assume the movies take quite a bit of poetic license. The 'boss', and the end of this movie, were probably the most fulfilling out of the three. 6.8/10.
Resident Evil: Extinction (2007, Mulcahy)
Similar to the first two, except set in a post apocalyptic desert scenario? Alices' abilities got a bit crazy. Vegas looked cool covered in sand. Surprised to see Ali Larter in as Claire Redfield. having not played the earlier games, this was my first meeting with Claire, though her (I assume) brother Chris is the protagonist in RE5. It was kinda hard trying to draw the relationship lines between everyone over the different media though. End of this movie felt like the end of LotR2... so I guess I'll have to wait for RE Afterlife for a conclusion to this leg of the story. 6.3/10
Resident Evil: Degeneration (2008, Kamiya)
Having just gone out and 'acquired' all the RE films I could, I was rather surprised at this one, it was completely CGI and created by Sony Japan. I get the feeling I'd have rather seen it with Japanese audio and subtitles. I found it pretty hard to invest myself in the characters, but the effects were nonetheless impressive. Claire Redfield makes another appearance with very few other characters I recognised. Watching this movie was a little more laborious than watching the live action movies, but at least it had a 'proper' end, unlike a lot of Japanese feature films I've seen. 6/10.
Ultraviolet (2006, Wimmer)
I was horrified by some of the effects in this film.. I know it was all done with a creative vision.. but a lot of it felt as if it had been rendered on a PS2, and it had these weird bloom lighting effects which made everything look horribly airbrushed, and not in a good way. It was impossible to feel any compassion for the characters in this movie. Slightly buoying my rating for this movie are some of the gunfights and other battles, but the rest of the film, I only watched to find out what happened at the end, rather than enjoying it the way through. 3/10.
Doomsday (2008, Marshall)
I don't even remember how I came about this movie. Something to do with zombies, I guess, and while the movie deals with apocalyptic-proportion infection, it's definitely not a zombie movie per se. The entirity of Scotland is sealed off from the rest of the world as the deadly Reaper Virus spreads throughout the population. 35 years later the virus crops up in London, and a special tactics team is sent into Scotland to recover a cure for the virus, as survivors have been spotted by satellite. The lead character reminds me a little of Kate Beckinsale, though its not. One of the dudes from the first couple seasons of Heroes shoes up unexpectedly, too. I did quite enjoy this movie, possibly because I went in with no idea what to expect. 7.5/10
Pathology (2008, Schölermann)
Grabbed this one due to Milo Kn.. Knuve.. whatever. Peter from Heroes. Cast also featuring Alyssa Milano, Ryan Reynolds, and the PI dude from Season 4 of House. Also grabbed due to being billed as horror. Very interesting movie, exploring the psyche of a team of pathologists who play a bit of a deadly game and their perhaps twisted view of the world. I won't say too much more about this movie, but I really enjoyed it. 8/10.
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[04 May 2009|10:17am] |
 Girl, Interrupted, 1999 (Mangold)
This was a movie that had never really piqued my interest but a friend told me to watch it so I thought what the hell. It was alright, it was weird seeing Angelina Jolie without makeup I guess. I was probably a little troubled with the parallels I could draw between her character and my mindset (as well as my propensity to not wear makeup.. well that didn't trouble me). Just a movie that follows a bunch of girls in a mental hospital. Idk. 6.5/10 |  Matchstick Men, 2003 (Scott)
Another film recommended to my by someone else. Pretty decent film, brought down by its incredibly predictable ending, and midsection, in my opinion anyway. Nicholas Cage can play anything they till him to, pretty realistically, it seems. 6.5/10 |  Lars and the Real Girl, 2007 (Gillespie)
This movie was pretty retarded. A young man living in his older brother's garage is socially withdrawn to the point where the brothers wife is worried about him. He brings a girl home.. but it's a doll he ordered off the internet.. and from there I had so much trouble suspending my disbelief at peoples reactions and just uttering 'what the fuck' every five minutes that this movie was pretty much a waste of time. Did anyone actually enjoy this movie? Let me know. 3/10. |
I had a pretty quiet weekend, hung out with Robyn for most of it, dabbling with the Halo 3 campaign, embarking on the Rainbow Six Vegas 2 campaign, as well as the mandatory Lips and Peggle. Heading up to Hanmer Springs in three weeks for three days and Robyns birthday, with emetic and katy and sels, so it will be nice to escape the city and get some fresh air and relax in the pools for a while.
I got 1000/1000 achievement points in Resident Evil 5 last week, which was pretty cool.. I haven't 'completed' a game since Avatar.. and before that it was like.. probably Forza 2 or Tenchu Z. Have been playing a lot of Forza 2 again, concentrating on lap times and fast cars, getting together with the guys from ButtonMasher every Tuesday night for some race nights, it's still good fun. Forza is one of those games that hasn't trapped me in the achievements trap, where I can't have fun with Wii games or PS3 games because there aren't any achievements contributing to a global gamerscore number which I can see going up all the time. Call of Duty 4 as well, somehow still very fun, without any promise of achievements being dangled in front of me at the end of a multiplayer experience.
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| Hello there, ladies and gentlemen |
[28 Mar 2009|11:56pm] |
This evening we had the second Battle of the Bands at Respawn. Four bands battled it out to get the best crowd reaction, but in the end there were pretty much enough prizes to go around to everyone. We split our original band, so I drummed, my brother played bass and we had Dibbles and his girlfriend Tegan on guitar and vocals respectively. Emetic (c/w gas mask) and his brother, and Mageslain formed 'Alan'sex'. I think. Unsure on the spelling. Sels, Gokuh and Goat Wing Spoon became the Illegal Immigrants, while Shoota, Cam and George were PBR. George had spent the day cosplaying as Macy Gray at Armageddon so had brown makeup allover his face.. tasteful ~_~.
I guess highlights of the evening for me was Emetic playing drums with one foot fairly high in the air, me attempting to play the drums standing up, my brother doing a crowd run during an easy bassline, PBR switching instruments during a quiet bit in one song, as well as playing Battery following that without any instruments failing. Mageslain and Goat Wing both sang and guitar/bass'd for their bands, so full credit to them.
We only played 7 songs each compared to last time, where it felt like we played about 30 (only 2 bands at the last one), but I think it was enough to keep the audience entertained.
Will link pics and vids once there are some up.
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| The Unborn |
[18 Mar 2009|10:21am] |
 The Unborn, 2009 (Goyer)
Hmmmmm. The more I think about it, the worse this movie gets. It was a fairly typical A movie, horror, with an attractive lead, a pretty loose story, and more 'shock' frights than genuine frights. If you're a horror movie buff, by all means see this.. but don't hold any great expectations for it. Otherwise I definitely fall a long way short of recommending this. 5/10.
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[12 Mar 2009|12:56pm] |
 Blood and Chocolate, 2007 (von Garnier)
I watched this film after hearing a cover of Depeche Mode's "Stripped" by Shiny Toy Dolls, which was on the film soundtrack, so gave the film a look. A roundabout way to get to a film I guess, but heh. and the song didn't even end up in the movie! but thats okay. I hadn't realised this film was by the producers of Underworld, though it certainly made sense once I found this out.
The cast was rather attractive, the setting (Romania) was picturesque, with impressive architecture. A "forbidden love" story of a group of shapeshifting werewolves, while I never came to particularly care for any of the characters, and found the special effects (only during shapeshift) to be a little lacking, this was a pretty cool movie to sit about and watch. I'm borderline on actually recommending it though. If you're obsessed with werewolves then give it a watch, but this one is hardly epic. 6.5/10
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[22 Feb 2009|04:37am] |
 I Am Legend, 2007 (Lawrence)
Finally got around to watching this movie. Hadn't read the book, didn't even really know anything about the movie (other than what would be significant spoilers if the film had managed to evoke any emotional interest from me at all). Will Smith was Will Smith, the film was fine, but I wouldn't bother seeing it if you haven't already. 4/10 |  The Condemned, 2007 (Wiper)
10 convicts from Death Row on an island fighting to the death, reminded a lot of times of Battle Royale (Fukasaku, 2000). Steve Austin was well cast for the role. but I guess the role was built around him so, yeah. Pretty enjoyable movie, Vinnie Jones' evil streak lending itself well to the character. 7/10 |  See No Evil, 2006 (Dark)
Wow. This movie was pretty gruesome. I only 'jumped' once, heh, but there was a lot of 'wtf' and not-quite looking away. 8 teen crims go to clean up an old, fire damaged hotel that is falling to pieces and (mostly) uninhabited. Kane fit the part for this, but again, the role was built around his presence. 7.5/10 |
Tired. goodnight.
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[09 Feb 2009|11:15am] |
Ugh. i got like three hours sleep last night, it was too hot. it got down to 16.9C at 4am, but by 7am it was 24C. It's just past 11am now and the airport shows 30C (86F), and a weatherstation in Burwood which isn't too far from here, shows 31.3C. Yesterday the hottest period was 3-6pm, and it reached 26.9...
we're in for a hot day =(
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| Phew.. |
[08 Feb 2009|12:44am] |
Just got home from a pretty epic battle of the bands at Respawn. Only us and Garbage Day showed up, both bands having their own distinct.. style. We put in some solid performances, especially on some tricky songs; Painkiller/ Judas Priest, Battery / Metallica, and Green Grass and High Tides / The Outlaws, eventually earning us the overall competition win against Garbage Day and a four hour pass each at Respawn. We all had a few fans each come along, heh, dad took pictures so I will photobucket/facebook them when I get a hold of them so you can all see what the band looked like, heh.
hope everyone is having a good weekend!
[edit: youtube natively handles 3gp.. zing!] this is Team Garbage Day, our respectable competition. Sorry for the appalling quality =P
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| can you help me? |
[05 Feb 2009|12:07pm] |
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Weeks ago I saw a music video on TV, I think it was the Vines, and I think the song had 'rock' in the title. The music video started off with them playing, but every few bars a new band was added to the room, playing the same song, so it ended up with lots of different looking bands all playing the same bits of the song at the same time, all in time. Does anybody know what I'm talking about? I'd go and spend hours trawling youtube but it doesn't work that well from work, heh. So yeah whats the name of the song.. and is it the Vines?
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| 3 films I was unaware of.. |
[20 Jan 2009|04:44pm] |
in the last 48 hours I've discovered 3 films about to come out that I didn't even know where being made.
Fast and the Furious 4
Underworld 3
Transformers 2
colour me completely unaware of the film world, but lolwhat?! I'll see all three, though F&F and Transformers will just be for shits and giggles. Underworld will be weird without Beckinsale (focuses on the origins of the Lycan race) but I'm sure it will be awesome, again.
I've been at work 9.5 hours today lolwhat
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| hmm hmm |
[18 Jan 2009|05:30pm] |
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lol what. lightning totally took out my internet. i thought it was a random outage but emetic texted me and asked if mine was down too. sels' was okay though. its all back up now. crazytiem lightning storms woop.
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| New rules? |
[15 Jan 2009|10:26am] |
I keep hearing these vagueries about new laws or rules covering downloading of materials in New Zealand, anyone got a link handy? I've trawled for a while and not found anything.
Cheers.
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| Nearly back to work... |
[11 Jan 2009|12:34am] |
I've certainly had long enough of a break, but I'm not sure I'm ready to return to work yet.. I'll go back on Monday regardless and try and allay those worries. Been playing quite a bit of Rock Band 2 (you can view our band here). Got the internet on at home finally, splashed out on a new router which is far better behaved than the old piece of crap we had. Have been reacquainting myself with missed episodes of House, Dexter, Heroes, Top Gear, and Sarah Connor Chronicles, and decided to have a look at Knight Rider 2008 as well hmm. Well I haven't watched any yet but.. who knows.
 Yes Man, 2008
Went to the movies on Thursday night to see Yes Man, due to a total dirge of interesting things on at the cinema. Therefore had no real expectations from this bar a few laughs. There no supernatural interference like in Liar Liar, but he decides for himself to say yes, to everything, as his life has gone stale saying no all the time. I suppose I'd go as far to pigeonhole this a romantic comedy, but.. I enjoyed it. So thats not possible! I'd see this film if you're bored one night and wondering what to do, it's a lot cooler than I expected. 7/10.
So yeah, wow, work, hmm. We'll see. We'll see.
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| o hay is chrizzmis? |
[27 Dec 2008|11:30am] |
Hmmm! Christmas was okay. At 9.30am or so my dad and stepmum picked me up and we went to the Botanical Gardens for a breakfast brunch. It threatened to spit a few times but never amounted to much until 11.45am when we were packing out anyway. I had some ham and cheese croissants and they were yummo =P following that, we went back to my aunt and uncles house where I'm staying, but the car broke down on the way =( only about 200 metres from our goal, but still. The Auto Assistance guy couldn't fix it so it got towed back to dads place. We still made it to aunt and uncles on time because they came and picked us up from the stricken car xD they were on their way home anyway.
Once we got round there we had present time. My dad got me a drum stool for my Guitar Hero Drumkit, though its a proper Tama drum stool which is pretty sweet. My stepmum got me a NZ$40 EB Games card, which I tried to use today to get Rock Band: AC/DC but they didn't have any left so I went and bought that from Dick Smiths. I think I will use the voucher to preorder Guitar Hero: Metallica once its in their systems in a few weeks. From my aunt and uncle I got a new pair of Globe shoes which I had picked out, and a new pair of dress pants from Australia which are really comfy
My brother got me a black charge and play kit as we haven't had one since the burglars knicked off with them, so that was sweet. My mother sent a parcel down with all kinds of stuff in it, a recharge voucher for my cellphone, which was well timed, a container of gingerbread cookies made from molds we've had forever which was really nice, some mosaics she's been creating with some of my great-grandmothers old buttons. Emetic and Katy bought me some new, lighter drumsticks which do feel a bit more natural when you're playing the drumkit.
I bought myself Rock Band 2 which was shipped on Christmas Eve but I haven't received it yet. I bought my dad the Second Season of Flying Nun music videos which is fairly difficult to find in stores but I tracked it down over the internet. I got my stepmum 'the other Boleyn girl', my aunt 'Chocolat' on DVD. I got my uncle a book that has 10 little buttons on the side that make different fart noises, which he won't stop playing with.. which is annoying but hilarious and totally my fault. I sent mum a nice book with some pictures of ducks and some nice messages relating to motherhood, and I got my brother Last Rememnant, a newish 360 game which he's still deciding whether he likes it or not. I bought Emetic and Katy 'Borat: Touristic Guidings to Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan and Minor Nation of U S and A' which is .. well its awesome and revolting all at the same time. I'm quite curious to read through it though haha. I sent Maddy a book of poems that she's wanted forever, and I won't tell you what I sent Kyrie coz she hasn't received it yet because I didn't get around to buying [spoilers deleted] until the last minute.
I received a card from Shyloh in Utah, I'm still waiting on one from Canada, and Maddy and Kyrie haven't sent anything yet but its all good =D
My dad found me some sugar free marshmallows, gummy bears, coke bottles and salted licorice (<_<) so it has been awesome to eat 'real' candy again over christmas without busting my blood sugar out of whack.
I hope everyone else had a good christmas =D
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