douglasfir:
Miscellaneous junk!
Just a quick update today - I've put a new folder in my pictures section for stuff from my trips to New Jersey attending Kevin Smith's film festivals.
At the moment I've only got digital versions of my second trip from 2002 so I've started with some location shots (the Quick Stop and RST Video from Clerks) and shots of movie props (mainly from Jay...
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At the moment I've only got digital versions of my second trip from 2002 so I've started with some location shots (the Quick Stop and RST Video from Clerks) and shots of movie props (mainly from Jay...
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caz:
OMG i totally love it! She was always my hero as a kid.. thak you 
syer_lps:
Hey hey how goes it?
douglasfir:
Pictures from my trip to New Jersey in 2002.
For some reason I have two syer_lps in my friends box... eerie!
Well after seeing Shaun of the Dead twice I finally cracked and got both Series 1 & 2 of Spaced on DVD... at 6.99 each including postage at play.com I couldn't really say no! So if anyone is wondering where I'll be for the next few days... I'll be in front of the...
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Well after seeing Shaun of the Dead twice I finally cracked and got both Series 1 & 2 of Spaced on DVD... at 6.99 each including postage at play.com I couldn't really say no! So if anyone is wondering where I'll be for the next few days... I'll be in front of the...
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syer_lps:
WOW you went to meet them thats sound!! You have me up twice its because im the best 
DOGSHIT SANDWICH are actually playing a show for me next month in Liverpool i'll let you know when and where when i remember
DOGSHIT SANDWICH are actually playing a show for me next month in Liverpool i'll let you know when and where when i remember Well my grand plan for yesterday was to have a completely self-indulgent day alone...
The first day of a four-day weekend, I'd just been paid for the month and to be honest I really needed to chill out as I've been on the verge of going postal at work for some weeks now...
So anyway I got up around 9am yesterday (still tecnically a lie...
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The first day of a four-day weekend, I'd just been paid for the month and to be honest I really needed to chill out as I've been on the verge of going postal at work for some weeks now...
So anyway I got up around 9am yesterday (still tecnically a lie...
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stormy:
haha thats so fucking rad! thank you sugar!
syer_lps:
HAHAHAHAHA more scousers im on a roll findin ya all 
Well the last few weeks have been pretty busy and I'm really not used to having any sort of social life - which is why I didn't do a journal entry for a while!
I've also been feeling pretty sorry for myself and I didn't want to come here and make a tit out of myself!
So anyway at the moment I'm trying to download...
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I've also been feeling pretty sorry for myself and I didn't want to come here and make a tit out of myself!
So anyway at the moment I'm trying to download...
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dollboner:
fraid it's a no can do...damn parents decide a family day out to the countryside is in order.... 
dollboner:
yeah. we're going up a waterfall, and down again and then we'll have bonded....riiight..? yeah we'll meet up soon, have a fun day in the cinema and film fest saturday!
Well I had no internet access last night (damn blueyonder and their shitty "broadband"!)...
Anyway I'm off to my mates place for the weekend soon... technically we're celebrating his baby daughter's 1st birthday but mainly we'll be getting drunk, eating junk food and watching movies... good times!
Anyway I'm off to my mates place for the weekend soon... technically we're celebrating his baby daughter's 1st birthday but mainly we'll be getting drunk, eating junk food and watching movies... good times!
snottlebocket:
i truly hope that is not the best picture you could find of yourself all though with a bit of photoshopping i'm sure you'd fit right into the armies of mordor. 
No time for a journal entry, Dr Jones...
But here's a funny clip someone e-mailed me (a banned Channel 4 promo featuring celebs favourite swear words!)...
http://www.updater.co.uk/
Enjoy (my favourite is the guy from Scrubs... )
EDIT - Well that link has already been posted in the UK group a while back... d'oh! Still no time for a journal entry though...
But here's a funny clip someone e-mailed me (a banned Channel 4 promo featuring celebs favourite swear words!)...
http://www.updater.co.uk/
Enjoy (my favourite is the guy from Scrubs...
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EDIT - Well that link has already been posted in the UK group a while back... d'oh! Still no time for a journal entry though...
lethal11:
lmao ive changed it twice haha, ure only 28 and ure telling me u cant keep up ure a jammy sod for having weekends off damn u
ure a jammy sod for having weekends off damn uWell I left for work today at 7:30am and noticed at the bottom of my road there were posters celebrating one of my Sister's friends 30th birthday (a lovely lady by the name of Lindsey). To be honest at that time of the morning I'm not at my most observant so I'm surprised I even noticed them!
Anyway cut to ten hours later and I've...
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Anyway cut to ten hours later and I've...
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lethal11:
lmao ive ordered it, seriously i have when it gets here is another story though
when it gets here is another story though 
nadine:
yeah well thats where lovely parents come in!
Okay firstly apologies to anyone reading this as today I will be mainly using this space to rant like a motherfucker...
Let me set the scene - you've spent your nine hours at your desk desperately trying to block out the continual drone of your work colleagues whilst you carry out your own menial job (one of the many benefits of working in an "open...
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Let me set the scene - you've spent your nine hours at your desk desperately trying to block out the continual drone of your work colleagues whilst you carry out your own menial job (one of the many benefits of working in an "open...
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lethal11:
haha proper mental, consider it bought by friday lol, yeah ya worth it for talkin to me haha
yeah ya worth it for talkin to me haha 
walkswithbears:
bloody townies eh? little scamps...
where do you work in bootle? i used to work at the HSE near oriel road st., it was a massive building, so when everyone left, i used to find that elderly work colleagues form an effective human shield against bb gun pellets. they didn't mind much, i think they appreciated the attention
where do you work in bootle? i used to work at the HSE near oriel road st., it was a massive building, so when everyone left, i used to find that elderly work colleagues form an effective human shield against bb gun pellets. they didn't mind much, i think they appreciated the attention
I haven't mentioned this here before but I collect original comic book art - it can be an expensive hobby but it's amazing to be able to hold in your hands the physical artwork created by people you have admired for years...
I have small collection but it's one I'm proud of and today I thought I'd share a recent acquisition with you. It's a...
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I have small collection but it's one I'm proud of and today I thought I'd share a recent acquisition with you. It's a...
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its_matt:
those pictures rule. im gonna start collecting art, my friend does these awesome neon pictures, kinda pop-arty dotty stuff....ahhhh i dont describe it well. but there amazing... as soon as i can get 400 bones together shes gonna paint me a personal one
nadine:
oompa loompas are the best!! 
Well today is my birthday - not much more to say other than that!
For some reason every christmas & birthday I now get Liquorice Allsorts from my sister... I'm not sure why as I'm really not a big fan. I mean I don't dislike them but I've never really stated a great desire for them either?!?!
I also got some Thorntons Peanut Brittle off...
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For some reason every christmas & birthday I now get Liquorice Allsorts from my sister... I'm not sure why as I'm really not a big fan. I mean I don't dislike them but I've never really stated a great desire for them either?!?!
I also got some Thorntons Peanut Brittle off...
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koyaanis:
hey,
Happy Birthday! Sounds like you had a good time out on the lash!
Happy Birthday! Sounds like you had a good time out on the lash!
I'm kinda drunk at the moment so I can't post any sort of reasonable debate but I really though Audition was one of Takashi's better offerings. Yes it can be painfully slow but as that was kind of the original intention of the piece I couldn't really find fault with it... I mean his films are almost cartoons sometimes with the constant bombardment of violence and vulgarity so when in Audition (after waiting so long) Asami hacks Shigeharu's foot off with the wire... well that was more effectively chilling because we as the audience had to wait for it... at least in my eyes...
I agree with that, it does give the scenes more impact as Miike has set them in a very real world, unlike say Ichi The Killer which is ridiculously ott, or cartoony if you like, with its violence from the off. I'd heard that Miike was a very stylish director, but mostly I just found his films to be dark and gritty looking, the mise-en-scene isn't generally very nice to look at.
whilst the first film could be seen as a slight parody (although it wasn't really intended that way) the sequel is really meant to be a parody both of current world politics (the war on terrorism, etc) and also of Japanese culture (the original intention is that Nanahara is rebelling not only against the BR act but about the americanisation of the Japanese culture)...
I didn't really pick any of that up when I was watching it, perhaps I should take another look at it, I sort of lost interest after Nanahara's speech and the second shot of the buildings collapsing. I thought the two speeches about america's post ww2 war activities was baseless, not being properly contextualised within the film and so it seems to be courting controversy more than anything that adds to the the film.
I'd say it's foolish to write off Asian cinema though just because of those movies... movies, like all art, are very subjective. And okay you didn't like those movies... but in my humble opinion asian cinema in general is often more inventive, more beautiful... and hell plain old more interesting than a lot of the other stuff out there...
Yeah, I agree with that, but I haven't really written it off, its just that i'm not as excited about it than I had been before seeing these two films which were ones I was desperately looking forward to.
At the moment I have Black Angel to watch, and on my rental queue are....
BlackAngel 2
DeadOrAlive
DeadOrAlive 2
Dolls
Versus
Freezer
Fudoh-TheNewGeneration
HanaBi
HappinessOfTheKatakuris
Junk
PerfectBlue
Ring
Ring 0
Ring 2
Tetsuo:TheIronMan
So gimme a month or two, and I should have much more of an idea of what I'm talking about You know of any others that should be on that list?
koyaanis:
eep. turns out black angel 1&2 are itallian. who woulda thunk it!
*update, dvds365.com are the fuckwits. not me.
[Edited on Mar 08, 2004 12:56PM]
*update, dvds365.com are the fuckwits. not me.
[Edited on Mar 08, 2004 12:56PM]