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This is where you stick random tidbits of information about yourself.
Age 23, living in sin in Twickenham with Cheesy
Likes
Movies
Books
Writing
Theatre
Hugs
Kittens
Chess
Scrabble (mostly beating Cheesy's butt)
Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Dislikes
Vegetables
Arguments
Cleaning
Trashy TV
Pretensions
Public Transport
Pets
Rabbits-Bambi, Fern, Sooty, Pippa-all deceased
Dog-Sammy-deceased :(
Fish-CatFlap-recently (and finally!) deceased
Cat-Tiggy-still scratching
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Technically Rachel
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Tuesday, May 20, 2003
Almost forgot I had a blog - jeesh!
Took part in the lovely feedback section of my course at Soho Theatre yesterday - actually went a lot better than I thought it might - generally good reactions. Now I just have to wait until later in the week where I'm just talking to Tessa & Jo - have a feeling that might be the occasion where they start focusing on the negatives. For those of you who have read it - feedback would very much be appreciated right around now. Tis good to be prepared.
Work continues as per - trying not to kill certains, and so far not doing too badly, but things were a little touch and go during the PMS section of last week.
Ooh, and hopefully Little 'Un has received her much belated present by now - yes, I'm the crappest.
Am also starting to fear Glastonbury - I wonder what I can sacrifice to the rain Gods to keep me dry that weekend...
4:40 pm
Monday, May 12, 2003
Saw a rather nice number of DVDs over the weekend. Finally got to watch Battle Royale. I appreciate this is a good film, and a wonderfully chilling concept where school classes in Japan are selected, placed on an island, and have three days to triumph as the only survivor. To be honest, I think the concept is better than the film itself, but it was still an impressive movie. My admiration of Japanese cinema continues to grow.
Being subtitle heavy, we also watched Taxi 2 - now I haven't seen Taxi 1, but Babol gave me a run down, and the second movie was pretty easy to get used to - and damn good too. Thoroughly enjoyable - I recommend it to anyone who isn't too subtitle shy.
It has started me thinking though - as to what a shame it is that I cannot fully understand what is being said. In Japanese cinema, I don't have a clue if what is being said is what is being shown in the subtitles, but watching the french movie, I picked up on little phrases here and there that were not in the subtitles, some of them funnier or more relevant than the subtitles given. Also, we lack puns in subtitled movies - as obviously a pun in our language would not work as a pun in the other language, and vice versa. So they just never happen. Makes you wanna learn a language properly - but I don't think I'd ever be able to understand something like Japanese!
4:12 pm
Tuesday, May 06, 2003
Birthday Girl
I spent my first drunken outing in Cambridge at the weekend. The way Little Un went on about how dull the bar life is in Cambridge, I was expected something towards Chorley's standard, but no! We spent the first part of the evening in a really nice bar which made damn good cocktails, and moved on to an almost quaint indie club afterwards. And neither places broke the bank account. Now apparently these are the only two good places to go out in - but I would much rather have just two really good places to go out in than hundreds of crappy bars which charge you the value of all your vital organs for jsut one round. To be honest, since moving to London I've had the crappiest social life ever, cause I can't afford one! So it was a great pleasure to have a night out in Cambridge - not the mention the celebration of my Little friend's 24th birthday. Now if only I'd remembered to bring her sodding present...
X2
Oh my. How amazing was X2? I can't even begin to express how brilliant this film is. Who would have thought I could care about an action movie, cause dammit I cared about every single character in that movie. And everytime I think about the ending I get shivers. Giddy shivers. Brilliant, truly. Bryan Singer - I hope you become the richest and best director in all the world, cause you're well on your way - I just pray he doesn't ever deliver balls ups like some of the other greats. X2 just wiped the floor with things like Attack of the Clones. To be honest, I think I may end up enjoying this movie more than the Matrix (sorry Dan, I know it's blasphemy) - because as fabulous as the concept for the matrix is, and as amazing as the fighting and special effects are - I just am not as involved in the characters. There's nothing wrong with them, I just don't quite take to them like I do to Wolverine and Jean Grey and Rogue, and Nightcrawler (man, he is true brilliance - isn't it brilliant to see Alan Cumming in a high profile role?). X2 has the characters AND the amazing fights and special effects - okay, they're not quite in the same league as the matrix, but they're still exciting and tension building. And not a bit of fighting CGI in sight - that's what really blew about films like DareDevil (hated it), CGI people climbing up church organs. None of that in X2, but I noticed a worrying amount of it in the Matrix trailer alone. Praying that that's the lot of it - cause I hate human CGI - it looks crap.
Go and see X2!!!!! Now, I tell you!
10:15 am
Friday, May 02, 2003
For those of you who haven't seen this on CheeseMongers site - check this out:
Pandas!
5:35 pm
Weird behaviour
Okay, everyday at around 2/3pm the Mole goes into the toilets and sprays himself thoroughly with Lynx. Now he doesn't smell of it in the morning, but for some reason in the afternoon he feels the urge to douse himself in the stuff - and the whole room stinks of it. He may as well have done it in the room.
I don't get it really - why boys feel the need to wear so much of stuff that smells so strong. Surely the whole point of body spray is to stop you from smelling, not masking the smell with another stronger one. Cause surely as soon as someone else can distinctly smell it, they know that deep down - you must smell. In fairness, I don't frequently notice body sprays on the guys I know - so I suppose they must have reached a delicate balance of application. The Mole, however, has not.
I don't mean to be a bitch, but I am :)
4:34 pm
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