New Years

Well I can't get a lift to Chris's New Year's Party, so I'm gonna stay home, watch videos and work on the music for LWW (see earlier posts for acronym).

I got about 6 weeks to write all them cues, so I better get cracking.

Saw HP-COS again yesterday, and am still impressed with it, although I agree with someone on the ThirdKeyList (whoever they were) that the editing is a little sloppy. It really jumped out at me from the effects shots, so I thought I better mention that for those of you who think Chris Colombous can do no wrong, apart from brutally raping the class schedule at Hogwarts, so that his daughter (aka Susan Bones) is in classes she clearly shouldn't be, robbing valuable screen time from Emma Watson, Rupert Grint and Daniel Radcliffe.

Bit annoyed about that one still, but I do intend on seeing LOTR : TTT again in about a week after I have watched the LOTR : FOTR boxed set directly before.

Hmmm. New years resolutions. Let's see....

I resolve not to invade Portugal or to assassinate the Emperor of Rome.

Post-Christmas Roundup

I love my folks. After my grandparents left on a plane to see our other rellies (Australian Vernacular for "Relatives" - Thin link, I know), Mum and Dad pulled out a few more surprises. My sister got some expensive plates (some China that has roses on it that's worth more than a car or something), but I got a VCR. 6 Head Samsung VCR with NTSC Playback!!!

Now, I realise I'm not as cool as other anime fans who have had NTSC facilities for quite a while.

Well, okay, years.

But it's all good. I can now watch my Card Captor Sakura fansubs in the privacy of my own home, without booking library audio-visual corrals at uni with the excuse, "Umm, yeah, it's for a 'Music in Cultural Media' assignment" or something else dumb like that.

Saw LOTR : TT yesterday, sandwiched between some crusty old smoker next to me, who had obviously smoked half a pack of the most God-awful cigarettes on the face of the planet, which he followed by cramming an entire box of Nicorettes into his mouth in order to survive the three hour epic.

On my other side were three Kiwi's (half the people in the cinema must have been from New Zealand - I especially liked the 15 Maori homeboy wannabe's who sloped in their Fubu and bandannas under their caps. Wankers), who vociferosly claimed that this was cheaper than a trip to New Zealand and ten times as better. Thank God they shut up during the movie, unlike the sheep-molesting tool who sat next to me last year with his 12 kids and was constantly pointing out all the locations to his spawn. Kind of ruins the suspension of disbelief when some idiot is going, "Thet's weir Enty Kit loves."

And of course, special mention has to be made to the female impersonator with her WWF Melbourne '02 jacket and studded leather wrist band who sat in front of me. She was really good at pretending she wasn't a man, even by feeding all the ugly, overweight, inbred cattle she herded in under the premise of them being "her kids".

I liked the movie, though I'm dreading the supersession I shall undoubtedly attend next year with the first two movies on the screen preceding the third. I shall probably buy 11 tickets, so I can lay claim to all the seats surrounding me so I do not have to put up with odiferious stinky-stink of the unwashed masses.

I mean, at least the people I saw HP : COS with had some measure of personal hygeine. Thanks for showering, Tigris.

Merry Christmas

I'm just taking a break between the Traditional Presentation of Presents(tm) and the forthcoming Gorging On Food-ness-ism-itis(tm) Pat. Pending to write this little Christmas message.

Congratulations to Jesus on Being Born

That was nice of God to do the whole deity-incarnate-as-man thing. Goodwill to men (and women), and even to, yes, I know, but it is Christmas, Nikki Webster.

Now, presents.

I got a jumper, shorts, shorts, LOTR : FOTR Extended Edition DVD Boxed Set (nice, and will allow me to prepare for tomorrow's Australian release of LOTR :TTT), sunglasses, box of Jumbo Froot Loops and a bottle of Jack.

No Harry Potter Philosopher's Stone Wide Screen Edition, but that's okay. LOTR will do nicely.

Hope you are all enjoying your Christmases too.

Oh, and last night, my folks said, "Aren't you going to leave Santa a beer and some carrots for the reindeer?".

I took two sixpacks from the fridge and left them on the bench with a bottle opener and a note saying, "Enjoy yourself, guys. Love Bill".

Panda Is Gone : Jesus Is Born

I rhyme! Like a phat phly phishin' rap mega star, although my pants don't expose my underwear and I have no harem of "ho's", whatever they are.

Top of the Christmas Eve to ya! I am writing this from home, where I have been recuperating from the final Matthew weekend. Joy of joyness. It was fun, despite the flu, hot costume, screaming children's and Dave Waller writing "Fuzzface" on my dressing room mirror in yellow greasepaint.

Good times, good times.

In other news, I got a fail for one subject after getting four distinctions, 1 credit, and a pass, so I am justifiably peeved. I have appealed, and to add insult to injury I got a letter today stating that my application for honours was turned down. No reason given.

Pretty pissed off, am I, young Jedi.

At any rate, I will be awaiting the results of my appeal, which hopefully will allow me to get into honours.

If not, then I'm pretty annoyed.

In other news, I am writing the original music for the stage version of "The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe" that is being put on by Harvest Rain Theatre Company in Brisbane next year (April - May), so come check it totally, like, out.

Megatokyo Volume 1 is delayed, again. Will ship on 3 or 4, January 2003.

That's about it for now.

Bye.

Sickness Is Fully Sick, d00d

Yay, me! do you like my l337 use of the the 'tt' HTML tag? No? Well, rack off. Who died and made you the coolness King of HTML??

What? They did? Oh.

Well I s'pose that's okay then.

Moving right along, I am currently struggling against the evil forces of the influenza virus. Yuck. Green sputum, clogged head and sore body. It is, receding however and hopefully my health (HAH! You call that health?!! HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!) will ret--.... was my blog entry just invaded by parentheses?

Anyway, I am getting better and hope to be over it by tomorrow morning when the show begins again for the weekend. I just thought I'd comment on how overused that stupid "8mm home movie" effect is on television. There's a station promo for Channel 10 running at the moment and it's fricken horrible. It's so overused and you can tell it's not film. All it does is posterize the image, boost the gain and contrast and drop frames so it looks old school.

NEWSFLASH!!!! It doesn't. It looks weak and gross. Very tacky.

And it pisses me off.

Hmmmm... I wonder what's for dinner.

Mini-Update(tm)

Just saw a bit of Ally McBeal on TV. With Christina Ricci guest starring. And she was in a hot tub wearing a bikini.

Damn not-working-VCR!!!

Whingy Bit: I hate those "old film" effects people put onto video thinking it's cool. You know, the one that that changes the gain and color balance and adds film scratches and jitter. It's so hideously overused and ugly.

Unlike Christina Ricci, of course.

^_^

Mega-Mega-Huge-Happy-Happy-Update(tm)

Okay, so bulk update due to show (which has been ruling my life) and sleep (which has had no part of my life until recently)!!

Panda Update

Show is going well. Apparently we have major school groups coming this week in the morning matinees, so because this is a pantomime (boo-hiss-"they're-behind-you") type show, hopefully this will work better than the reasonable audiences we have had the last couple of shows.

WARNING : Panda suit is icky. After a morning show from the night before and then the afternoon or evening show after the morning show, suit is yucky. To put it on after sweating in it for two hours, and to still find it damp twelve hours later... the best description is that feeling you have when you've been swimming, gotten out of the water, gone to the toilet and then have to put your wet togs (bathing suit) back on. Ewwwwwwwwwwww!!!!

On another note, which segues nicely from that last comment....

Pool Update

Those of you with no lives and an incredible facility for remembering those amazingly useless bits of trivia I throw in this blog, might remember my ravings about my cool James Bond pit of death that I had in my yard for a while. Well, it is nearing completion. The concrete has been poured, and two hoses have been filling it since yesterday. Swimmy-Swim-Swim-Swim time!!!

HP-COS Update

Cos I'm lazy (Cos - heh), I shall just quote an e-mail I posted to TheThirdKey:

Well on Thursday we had our Australian release of CoS. W00t!



Since you've all picked apart the film I'll just add one or two things:



"Do you live here?"



"No?"



*CLUNK*



And also the following that a friend wrote in their blog.



> "Thoughts upon seeing Lucius "Weenus" Malfoy for the first time"

> 

> So you're the head of one of the oldest wizarding families in England. You're

> brooding. You're sardonic. Your entire wardrobe is composed of black velvet,

> right down to your boxers. You are a sexy beast and you know it.

> 

> Your elder son is prancing about New Zealand and flirting with dwarves; your

> younger son is a weasel-faced git, but he has the family hair, and he's

> already landed himself a role as Harry Potter's student nemesis, so he's good

> for at least a seven-book contract.

> 

> You have serious problems with the domestic help.

> 

> Your nemesis is twelve years old.

> 

> But on the up side, you are going to be a staple in Snape slashfics for the

> rest of your born days.



Cheers.



Shoujo

See friend's blog here. I should mention now that I was interviewed by Extra (local lifestyle program) outside the theater, while Tigris stood around trying not to get interviewed.

Well, that's about it. Umm... Here's some links to a photo and another photo and yet another photo from the show I'm doing and when I get some more time, I'll write more.