And Ya Mama Too!

Well, it was officially announced a while ago, but I thought I would comment on it. Every other 'pottie' seems to be doing it, and well.... I wouldn't have credibility if I didn't jump on the bandwagon as well.

Chris Columbus is stepping down after directing the first two Harry Potter movies and Alfonso Cuaron will be stepping in. This is most probably due to his 1995 film "A Little Princess", which I was lucky enough to catch on daytime TV a few months ago. What is annoying, however the press's insistance on referring to him as "Director Alfonso Cuaron (Y Tu Mama Tambien)".

I mean, what kind of pedigree is that? Akin to saying "The man who directed a soft-core porn flick thinly disguised as a coming-of-age story, which only passed with an R as opposed to an X rating because it was in Spanish and therefore 'art' will be directing the next installment in a series of films for children."

Well, Ron and Hermione seem to be pretty much sewn up as a couple from the way Rowling writes about it now, but we weren't expecting a little more detail until Book 5. Looks like we may have a bit of cinematic 'shipping that's slightly more extreme than anything Sugar Quills has in it's libraries.

Panda Update(tm)

Right, so Shoujo the Panda has been panda-ing. I got my lines down, I got most of my dance moves down, I got me songs down. Sweet.

It was just brought to my attention that after spending 2 hours in the suit, under lights, with no aircon, I will be required to sprint round to the foyer to meet and greet the kiddies.

Who will hopefull run away really quickly because of the smell.

In other news, STOP VISITING THIS PAGE, PERVERTS!!! At risk of adding those dirty words to my page again for Google to index, check out this list of referrers from various search engines. Nice keywords, ne?

Tigris' Role Model for the HP-COS Premiere?

Ohhhh, woe betide her for sending me this link. My parents are giving me crap about a 20yo guy wearing a costume to a kids movie, and Australia has just been put on National Alert(tm) for possible bombing by terrorists because we don't tell Israel to "get the heck out of Palestine". All of this pales into insignifigance against this link.

I quote from our ICQ messages regarding this site....

On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, 7:15 PM, Shoujo said :

"We did take some artistic freedom and made the skirts a little shorter and the robes a little more detailed but these things just add to the fun." Yes. The fun of making slash fiction real. You PERVERT!!!!

On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, 7:17 PM, Tigris said :

She looks so utterly.... LOL. The thought kept runnin' through my mind - "Slytherin Slut"... but that just sounds like some sick SICK Harry potter pedophile movie...


I will now, of course, have a whole new stream of 40yo Emma Watson fans streaming to this site. Freaks.

Rock Bottom

Okay. Well I solved my modem problem. They wanted $250 - $370 for a new internal modem for the iMac, PLUS the installation fee at $45/hour.

Not a chance. Solution? A Swann MacSurfer for about $200. Sounds a lot for a USB modem but it's designed for Macs and I am consistently getting DL speeds of about 6-7kilobyte/second at the moment. That'll do. Still cheaper than getting the internal one repaired though.

After stalking Tigris for days, she has finally changed our tickets for Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets for a different session. The fellow 'potties' from the Brisbane Harry Potter Fan Club will be there, so we won't be the only people there who are wayyyyy too old to do this.

We are cosplaying - I am going as a Gryffindor (undecided which one, although I could do an accent and be Oliver Wood), while Tigris is going as Cho Chang. For obvious reasons. I mean, obvious to me, because I have seen her. Oh crap. I mean, because she is of Asian descent she will be going as the Ravenclaw Cho Chang.

Much better.

Amongst all this I will be performing as Panda in Harvest Rain's Christmas Pantomime, which you can buy tickets for. Just click the link to go to the site for details.

Well at least the wave of dirty searches for this site have stopped. I am regretting ever writing about those dirty stories that people who find my page are searching for. All I seem to get now is frustrated freaks looking for animated spooge. Yuck.

Anyway, back to the minigym.

The Forces of Nature Are Against Me!!!!

My modem has been overloaded.

The powerful beast that generates the volumes of existential angst that fill this page and attract freaks looking for dirty pictures of 10 year old anime characters is a lowly iMacDV. I think, however, that my modem may have received a lightning hit during the electrical storms last week.

Bugger.

Oh well, I spose that's how it goes. Now I gotta find out about getting it replaced and stuff.

Prices not looking good.

-_-;;

Gomen, ne

Sorry. You'll have to wait a little longer for more of my bitter, self-indulgent ravings. Assignment tsunami is crushing me.

kawaiiii, ne!! ^_^

Well, well, well... I just found my bestest happiest website for a long, long while. It's the Alien-9 website. Check it out.

It is in Japanese, so you do really need the lanugage kit, but it's sooo cool. It has roll overs in the main menu where all the kani turn into hiragana, but they're used in the same fashion as katakana (ie they phonetically spell out english words). Very cute.

I lke this anime too. I shall have to pester Greg for copies of the tapes. Nya!!

Shoujo Complains About Girls Again

I'm in the middle of my research assignment, so I feel that I will expound a bit more regarding something I actually care about -- and something I don't have to have references to back up my ideas in either.

I realise that I don't really care that much anymore about this whole 'lack of a girlfriend' thing, because I haven't had much time to worry about it. But I was having a shower earlier and (as your mind does when you are being assaulted by thousands of needles of pressurized water) I was thinking about stuff. First of all I was thinking about my four hour rehearsal tommorrow night and how I would really rather be sleeping, but that I am looking forward to it because it will be interesting, and then I thought about clouds for a bit, then I thought about this girl I like at uni but she's in first year and I'm in third and I will be finishing at the end of the year and it's pointless, so I though about a friend of mine whom I haven't seen in a while and I was thinking that reason I haven't seen her online or anything is because she recently started dating this guy (which started a conundrum because I asked her out, but she told me she wasn't ready to date again for a long time, but within a month she's going out with this guy, which kinda made me feel like, "Oh okay, it's alright to date guys, just not if that guy is me," which started me on a downward spiral to self-pity and feeling like....

Harrumph.

Err... where was I?

Oh yeah....

So I was thinking about this whole girls and friends thing and how girls seem to never think of me as boyfriend material, etc and I was thinking about how it's more doubly annoying when they get boyfriends that aren't me. I mean, obviously they aren't me, because if they were then I wouldn't be pining about crap on the net.

What does annoy me is that because I'm a guy, our "platonic friends" relationship suffers a seachange, because she can't be seen to be having anything other than a superficial "girl-guy friends" relationship with me as she is now going out with someone else. Now, this has happened a few times, but what really annoys me is that these are the only real "guy-girl" relationships I have where I can relate to someone of the opposite sex on a deeper level than, "Did you see the new 'Austin Powers' movie?" and because they are now going out with someone, the relationship has to stop. I'm not talking about time constraints either, I'm just talking about quality of conversation.

It's like I can't talk to them like that anymore because it would be inappropriate or something, but if it's an emotional relationship not based on sex then what's inappropriate about that? I do understand that if I had a girlfriend (in my wildest dreams ^_^) I probably would want her talking to me about things rather than some other guy, but still.

And the act of cutting off the emotional connection via conversation and stuff is almost like a break-up, because I can't talk to them how I used to because if I try they brush or laugh it off. Very confusing.

This does however force me to wonder if I am a convenient vessel for girls to talk to without having to make a real committment to or something.

Any comments members of the opposite sex are welcome (click on the 'comment's below) and Patrick, this is not a pick-up attempt, but an exposition of thoughts, so if you have nothing constructive to say, write it on your own page.

My Favourite Quote Today

In reference to Blockbuster Video in the States' new ad campaign for attracting gamers to rent games at their store, I saw this comment on Penny Arcade regarding part of the ad copy.

Boy if I had a nickel for every time I called one of my buddies a cheeseball I guess I wouldn't have a single fucking nickel.

In context it's very funny. Check the context.

Harry Potter and the Mountain of Slash

Well, the premier of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets happened this morning. My favourite source of Harry Potter linkage The Leaky Cauldron is chock fulla good photo links and article links about it, so totally like check em out.

I've called the cinemas to find out when we can buy tickets and if there's gonna be a midnight screening, etc but the stupid gum-snapping dolt I spoke to "totally, like, didn't know". Why does she get to work in the cinema when I can snap gum and use proper English? Arrrghhh!!!

I'll go in tommorrow and try to talk to a manager who should know what the feck is going on. Yes, that is "feck" because I don't swear. In my blog. I did watch a good length article on the news tonight about it and saw some extended bits and pieces of stuff about it, so I'm looking forward to it. Tigris and I are debating whether or not to Cosplay and if we do we want to drag Steiny and Bec into it, so we need to find out about tickets and screenings and stuff. Yes we do.

Oh well. Off to assignments.

I Got New Shoes!!!

I got new shoes! Yay Me! Yay Feet!

In other news I'm sore. From dancing. Not from Revolutionary Dance Dancing, but from proper dancing. From a rehearsal for "Matthew".

Shoujo does not dance, you see. Unfortunately I've just discovered that Panda does. Not only that, but he's naked. A naked dancing panda. He has nothing on except his Panda skin. I will be wearing clothes under the panda suit, but the panda suit will be naked.

Disturbing.

Naked Panda.

Boy those furre's are gonna be visiting my page now.

Filth!!!

Yahoo: nc-17 dragonballz fanfiction
Yahoo: nc-17 sailormoon fan fiction
Yahoo: lemon fan fiction pokemon

Very dirty people out there, but I know not why such searches lead them to my page. Perhaps because I have used all those words at one point in time or another, just not in that order. Or something.

I dunno

I do know that I'm really tired now.

Panda Bukakke

Act Two : Scene One

(FX : Sea noise, ships bells etc.)

(PANDA is tied up in the PIRATE's HIDEOUT)

This is the beginning of the scene I did last night.

Nuff said.

Contagious

I log this this blog.

I mean, my hit counter logs ip addresses so you can see from whence people are accessing your site. It allows me to see that I have recently had a visitor from navy.mil. It also allows me to see that there are far too many people from American Christian schools visiting this page. What's even more disturbing is that someone from vicone.netspace.net.au is visiting my page twice a day, one of those time being about lunchtime.

Who was this person? Why were they visiting this page? What the hell was wrong with them? Didn't they realise that I was not to be encouraged?

Then the unthinkable happened. A message appeared in my post comment boxes from a "Jennifer". Obviously this is an acronym for "Halil bin Udekanij Josef bin Osama Falafel el Mujahadin bin Kameer". Who obviously doesn't know what an acronym is, because if he did he would have signed his post "HbUJbOFeMbK".

Then were the contents of the message. They included a cleverly encoded link to their website which after hours of deciphering I found ingeniously hidden inside the "Website" link. When I visited this page I discovered that they had a link to a Pink Chickens fan page. It was, like my website, pink.

Co-incidence? I think not!