Londo: “My shoes are too tight.”
Vir: “Excuse me?”
Londo: “Something my father said. He was old, very old at the time. I went into his room and he was, sitting alone in the dark, crying. So I asked him what was wrong and he said, ‘My shoes are too tight, but it doesn’t matter, because I have forgotten have to dance’. I never understood what that meant until now. My shoes are too tight and I have forgotten how to dance.”
– Warren Ellis’ Orbiter is his best work since early Transmet and more than worth reading. Some beautiful artwork from Colleen Doran, nothing more spectacular than on the front cover.
– Angel Peace out..hmm an average episode majorly picked up by the last scene. Damn Lilah was looking good. And a set-up going back to Wolfram and Hart for season five could really work out well. Liked the fact that Connor could see the ‘real’ Jasmine all a long.
– Reading a lot today, I still have a headache and nothing is clearing it away. Vertigo Pop: London was a good read through to the end. I had read the first two and wasn’t all that impressed. Together it’s not bad. This could do well in trade. Captain Marvel. Not bad, finished the first story arc and it wasn’t bad at all. This should also do well in trades and quite deserves to aswell.
– Picked up a paper while I was getting milk and bread a while ago. The Evening Standard had a free “Best of the 90s” cd and I figured I would read the news and see what the cd had. It’s not bad actually. Starts off with Vanilla Ice and Mc Hammer which are good for novelty value but it has some good stuff on it too. Just moved into Tasmin Archer’s Sleeping Satellite.
– I’m in a Batman mood. I’ve always like the character alot, especially the darker stuff. Obviously that points a lot towards Frank Miller but I like a lot of more recent takes on him too. In particular the divide between Bruce Wayne and Batman. The fact that Bruce Wayne is Batman’s secret identity and not the other way around. There is a a series running in trades at the moment which I have book 1 of. The next two books are out and I have such an urge to go into town and get them. But I don’t really feel up to it.
– A large group from the V are going to see X2 tonight. I’m quite jealous. It’s a film which richly deserves to be seen for the first time in the company of a large number of comic book fans. The opening scene with Nightcrawler rocks hard, but if your going in knowing who Nightcrawler is and seeing what they do with him on screen it’s just so awesome. Don’t get me wrong, I’m thrilled to have seen a preview but I didn’t see it with anyone who was going into it as a fan. While I was sitting there loving every second if it, there in a crowd of people doing the same would be an awesome experience. The excitement building on the forums is great 🙂
– I am such a geek
– Guardian article on tv show file sharing.
– I should be at End of Days this weekend. I’m a little annoyed I won’t be there but *shrug* It happens.
– There is a discussion going on at Sk8 J about the Anita Blake books. I did see a new one out last week and didn’t really give it all that much thought. We talked about them on the V a while ago and I think I blogged about them. Anyway as it turns out this book is yet more of the same. No plot, all smut. Anita starts sleeping with Jason on a regular basis… That’s me done unless I see the word Edward on the back cover.
– I’ve not heard much good about Dreamcatcher but I read and enjoyed the book and I do want to see the movie. Sometime this weekend perhaps.
the saddest songs are played on the strings of my heart.
Right some catch-up stuff. X-Men laid the groundwork and was a little patchy in places. X2 just made the franchise. The opening scenes with Nightcrawler just plain rock. Alan Cumming is perfect as Kurt Wagner and Nightcrawler is the Nightcrawler we know and love. Other highlights are Magneto’s prison break, the assault on the mansion, a brief but full of potential cameo from Colossus, many many almost too quick to see X-Men geek nods and that ending.
I’ll say more when I see it again.
Buffy “Empty Places”. An example of how badly my brain was working today, I had a new episode with Faith in it…and I waited for hours to get around to watching it. It was very much filler tho. The plot is getting more and more contrived and the show has lost a lot of it’s touch. With only a few more episodes to go, I’m hoping for more.
My head feels fuzzy. As if there was this layer of something covering it. I’ve spent a lot of the day reading or just hanging around doing nothing.
Speaking of reading, I finished The Crow Road a couple of days ago. What a great book. I don’t know what to say about it other than I loved it and I loved the characters. They just all fell into place perfectly within a couple of chapters and not only that fell into place so well that I cared about them from the word go. I shall be reading more by Mr. Iain Banks within the near future.
I’m not really feeling much better I’m afraid. My throat is burning and there hasn’t been any whiskey involved. This is both a bad thing (the burning) and a bad thing (the lack of whiskey).
Blogs have been on my mind a lot over the past few days. In fact I spent a hell of a lot of time thinking about some aspects of them on Monday night. I had a couple of thoughts which stuck with me since then and I’m going to let it roll around for a while before I actually commit to doing anything about it. Or at least commit to anything in public.
I have some comics dug out to read, the first 8 of the relaunched Captain Marvel the full set of Vertigo Pop: London and I just have to find one more of Paul Pope’s 100%.
Gah, I feel like shit. I shall try and sleep now.
In a very typical sense of things I’m sitting at home bored. I have a bad headache and walking to the shop and back was no help for it at all. What’s typical is that yesterday one of the lads in work lent me a few movies I have not seen and I want to see. As I didn’t have a bag on me and figured I would not have time to watch them last night I’d lock them in my drawer. So they are (I assume) still there. Fuck.
Saying that, the snooker is on and this Higgins – Doherty match is quite a good game. The 18th frame on now is fairly thrilling actually and ending with some great snooker. I have some 24 and Buffy to watch. Will check out Buffy later but I don’t want to be staring at the screen too much, my eyes are sore so I suspect the 24 will have to wait.
Going to go and read for a while now.
The Dante’s Inferno Test has banished you to the Fifth Level of Hell!
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:
| Level | Score |
|---|---|
| Purgatory (Repenting Believers) | Very Low |
| Level 1 – Limbo (Virtuous Non-Believers) | Very Low |
| Level 2 (Lustful) | High |
| Level 3 (Gluttonous) | Very High |
| Level 4 (Prodigal and Avaricious) | Very High |
| Level 5 (Wrathful and Gloomy) | Extreme |
| Level 6 – The City of Dis (Heretics) | Extreme |
| Level 7 (Violent) | High |
| Level 8- the Malebolge (Fraudulent, Malicious, Panderers) | High |
| Level 9 – Cocytus (Treacherous) | High |
Take the Dante’s Inferno Hell Test
I feel like shit and I’m going back to bed.
Just watched CSI after heading out for a couple of cokes down the local after work. I’m going to bed in a few moments after watching a little snooker. Buffy is downloading…and nicely. Just over 55k a second coming down. 35% of 423mb in 72 minutes. Shame I don’t get it like that all the time.
Suppose to be playing pool tomorrow night but I’m really not sure I’m going to go. Another early night would be a good thing. As it turns out, my flatmate is apparently going to be away until sometime early next week.
Sleep good.
Just watched CSI after heading out for a couple of cokes down the local after work. I’m going to bed in a few moments after watching a little snooker. Buffy is downloading…and nicely. Just over 55k a second coming down. 35% of 423mb in 72 minutes. Shame I don’t get it like that all the time.
Suppose to be playing pool tomorrow night but I’m really not sure I’m going to go. Another early night would be a good thing. As it turns out, my flatmate is apparently going to be away until sometime early next week.
Sleep good.
Fuck. I need to note EVERYTHING on my calendar or I will never ever remember it.
iTunes 4 = awesome.
iTunes Music Store = awesome.
iTunes Music Store only available in the US = FUCKING SHIT.