Pearl of Wisdom for the day

Awkward moments are only forgotten when pushed out by even awkward-er ones. So get awkward. Baby.

Resolutions

A few days ago I created this post with the note (to myself) "Closure / Decision" in it, which I suppose sums up the typical retrospective/forward looking dichotomy of these end of year posts. So let's run with that. (more to follow)

Jake Gyllenhaal Double Feature - Donnie Darko / Prince Of Persia

Please note: My reviews might contain spoilers and be overly critical. Um sorry about that. Rambles follow.

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Disney's Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time is an action movie, with a hint of the free running (evolved platforming) from the video game. The "twist", "romantic" subplot, and OMG SACRIFICE moment were predictable (and resolved with barely a whimper). Also, Jake puts on an annoying accent. There are worse movies to watch. Certainly for a "Video game movie" it does well. Humour doesn't quite match other movies in the genre like "The Mummy".

Rating:      ★ ★ ★ ✩  ✩
Verdict: T'was OK.

Donnie Darko: The Director's Cut is a movie about mental illness. I'm not particularity fond of those. It's set in the 80's. Negative on partiality to that particular era. About a teenage boy/arson. Ding ding ding. Trifecta. Parascience. Oh Dear.

Okay. It's no "list of things that James likes stuffed into a movie" but that's to be expected, it covers some vaguely difficult ground, obviously with some insight from the writer/director (which IIRC were the same person).

I'm not going to watch the movie again to try and ascertain the message.

Rating:      ★ ★ ★ ★  ✩
Verdict: T'was OK. Artsy/Indie (styled) movies gets an extra star to impress girls. Will probably end up as a English text at some point.

Bonus Review: Skyline


 "Who are you people and what have you done with the rest of the movie?"

In some ways you just want it to hurry up and kill off all these unlike-able characters (they even pull the pregnant card!) other times you want it to slow down and do some exposition about the antagonist. Then the movie ends and you start to think what a strange opening cinematic this game has, I hope the gameplay is good.

I guess what I'm saying is that this movie has some interesting ideas (alien super power brain transplant invasion!!), suffers from the same lack of scale as war of the "worlds" and failure to establish tension as Paranormal Activity.

Rating:      ★ ✩ ✩ ✩  ✩
Verdict: Quite Bad. Better than Pandorum.

Movie Review - Pandorum (2009)

Opps forgot to post this. I wrote this about 3 months ago I think.

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 Today, to procrastinate because I've wanted to for a while, I'm posting up the first of what will be (hopefully) many movie reviews.

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IMDB | Rotten Tomatoes | Wikipedia

Plot is non-existent.

Rating:  ★ ✩ ✩ ✩ ✩
Verdict: Watch-able, depending on your *cough* state of mind. I didn't like it. (derr)

The house before this one...

Immediately prior to moving out to woop woop, the house I lived in had a walk in linen closet. Full of towels, sheets, lightbulbs and security system we never touched by had alarmingly blinky lights. Quite a few times I remember wandering in there to enjoy a little moment of peaceful silence in a small, dark, linen-y room.

I miss that sometimes.

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I pushed the limits, they pushed back. Lesson learned. #melodrama

I went to a wedding and all I got was a picture of some candles - Day 21

The bride was pretty, etc. but mostly it was just a bunch of people I don't know dancing to songs from the 80's.

Incidentally, I think I need a new camera.

(backdated 12-Sep-2010)

OMG Driving. - Day 20

I'm up to like 8 hours total now. =)

It's a long way, I'm proud of myself.

this post took place over the last two days, photos of what I actually did, coming right after this nap...

So no one took any photos of the paintball.

I would post photos of my injuries, but that would just showing off sad.

I tried on my year 12 jacket the other day. It looked terrible.

Anyway, paintball tomorrow. =)

Skype Soup With H - Day 18

A story in pictures:

Creamed Corn

Cup-a-Soup

Eggs

the wrong noodles

substance

Result!

Thanks to H. (very cryptic blog) for this evening's entertainment. ;=)

Suit Up and a Federal Election - Day 17

I came, I saw, I voted. Then I went away and bought a suit. And shoes.

( backdated 22-Aug-2010 )

Please Vote!

The federal election: It's today.



http://www.aec.gov.au/election/guide.htm

Day 16

On the other side of the table.

The chips were very crunchy, the burger was so-so, but filling.

I would like to blame Tienyi for the lack of further photos. I'm also disappointed I didn't manage to explain the election to Paolo.

( backdated 21-Aug-2010 )

Everything I Wanted - Day 15

Who's that? :P

I've Made a Decision

This project 365 will from now on be 365 days of photos. That means, that if I miss a day, the project will go on just that little bit longer. Which isn't to say that I won't try.



That is all.

Also I'm a chronic revisionist editor. So that's something I should work on.

I think I should start a tech blog, somewhere outside the Blogger ecosystemgoo.

Dream

This morning I had a dream, or perhaps a day dream, I never can quite tell, but I can remember it abnormally well, so I'm going to write about it. (This is also a good distraction from my fail of a project 365)

In this dream, I was in a house with a bunch of other people, some of which were sometimes (it was a dream) cousins. Oh and HAL was there too, but I think the house had morphed into an orbiting house which I had started referring to as a space station. Actually, now that I think of it, the dream didn't start there, but before that is so foggy.

Anyway, obviously HAL has gone insane off camera and we (who?) were now trying to reason with him. I have no idea what HAL's mission would be on a space station, nor do I remember if he actually threatened us / showed any insane behaviour. Someone has this brilliant idea of assembling another HAL to convince the first that he's wrong, but that idea is ignored. Sad face.

Someone (maybe HAL?) opens a window. I'm shocked at how non-violent "decompression" is. Nobody seems to notice. A strange feeling. Slight panic. Leave the room, which has normal doors, which seem to be effective. Repeat.

At one point Keanu Reeves broke in through a skylight, forcing an evacuation of the room, and many rolled eyes.

Throughout I only noticed the lack of air when I remembered that there was supposed to be no air, which was a little inconsistency that was niggling at the back of my head. No wooshing either.

Near the end, I realised that I should get my phone out to record a video log/goodbye, but then I noticed that I had signal! Yay! but then... who to call? I settled on Dad, and got voicemail. Some (implied) time later I was talking to Dad, with an old nokia in my other hand, trying to convince him of something, occasionally the signal would break up. At this stage we break to a commercial with some older chick explaining how she prefers some type map and that she liked the  elephants performing at the tram stop.


Anyway, that's the best I can remember it,

Peace

( it doesn't have to make sense )

Lunch, the most photoworthy of daily events - Day 14

^^ In case you can't tell I was being sarcastic.

Toasted mortadella, with "plastic" "cheese", on white bread.

( backdated 18-Aug-2010 )

Eeee-van - Day 13

This is not what it looks like.

Evan is now 19. =O

Cascade, Grill'd, Expendables- Day 12

As often happens on a Friday, I had Grill'd for dinner, then saw a movie.

But first, a complaint. This drink:

Is terrible! it tastes nothing like the stuff you buy from the supermarket and mix yourself. I do like that their carbonated apple juice product is available however.

Now that that's out of the way, I had a "Front Bar" (IIRC) which is a "Steak Sandwich". It was very delicous (see below), but impossible to eat.. gracefully. Back to a "bar bar" next time me thinks.

The movie was "Centurion"...  Oops, turns out I was a week off. Centurion was last week (see what happens with all this backdating!)


What I actually saw was The Expendables, which, as I predicted 10 minutes in, climaxes... you guessed it, 10 minutes in. (I'm not going to spoil the best moment in the whole movie, even if the trailer almost did)

I really should've written about Knight and Day, Inception, or Toy Story 3 when I saw them. They were all good. I'm not just a complainer. Honest. =D

( backdated 18-Aug-2010 updated fixed corrected the same day )

Nawww.. filler post - Day 11

No, I can't remember what happened 2 days ago. This is why this blog exists. But I am committed to doing better, taking more photos.

Addendum: Really must hack the camera app not to stop music playback. It ruins my spontaneity having to choose.

( backdated 14-Aug-2010 )

More Birds - Day 10

It's like they live all over my world or something.

( backdated 14-Aug-2010 )

My own fault - Day 9

( backdated 13-Aug-2010)

Sunday - Day 8

Technically starts at 00:00.

This image is less scary like this. Normally sized it might... hurt my feelings.

( backdated 13-Aug-2010 )

Small? - Day 7

On this day myself and my father (grammar nazis, attack educate!) visited several car dealers. He was interested in evaluating the viability of "small" cars. He did not like.

I took a photo of some birds from a distance.

( backdated... lazy... 13-Aug-2010 )

Nnnnnerrdfest - Day 6

This is the best possible angle of Paolo.

( backdated with brevity in the interest of getting things done 13-Aug-2010 )

Also today: Centurion, which is not really worth mentioning except to say that human heads are apparently easier to cut off than I had imagined, and that the UK seems to have run out of actors, as I keep recognising them from their other roles.

(  Addendum 18-Aug-2001 )

Panorama Day - Day 5

I'm lazy so have a teaser.

I find it amazing what we don't notice. Spot the flaws.

 This one didn't turn out so well.

( Even this teaser was backdated for compunction on 8-Aug-2010 9:47 pm )

There are Birds - Day 4

Went to uni, on a bus.

I'm amusing 'Maddy' is female.

Afterwards I went to a supermarket that had it's own flock of internal birds.

If there were birds here the title would make sense.

Birds are hard to photograph.

( backdated for lazy : 8-Aug-10 7 pm )

Achievement is Not a Zero Sum Day - Day 3

(and coming up with interesting titles is easier than delivering interesting/matching content)

Concrete has started falling from the sky and little fluro workers are running around directing it.

No amount of editing can make this cheery. I tried.

I actually missed all my scheduled doohicky's today. The library was very full too.

Starcraft II is a very useful learning related tool.

Back Into It - Day 2

I went in to uni today. Which was odd, and not only because it was a Monday.

pictured: Joy

After a quick headcount, I had discovered that there were about 25 people in with Thau. At least 1/3rd were wearing earbuds, intently staring at their laptops.

I have not had a single oral conversation longer than two stanzas today.

{ This post was not backdated. }

New August Resolution - Day 1

Today I woke up at 2pm. At 5pm I got a text, sent at 3pm, and I left at 7pm for dinner at 7:30pm.

Nom nom.

( backdated for Evan because he was there too )

 Why did the lecturer give me a lollipop that's only for sale in Vietnam?

At least I got a lollipop. Therefore, Uni > Highschool.

How can I know I want to say it when I don't even know what I want to say?

(this makes me look more deep)


Yes, I will post the last few days, eventually. They were.

Day 9 (Part 2) - My Mother

I purchased some flowers for my mother.

Took what I think is an interesting photo.

Looked at a shed over a pool.

And had an over-edited meal.





( backdated for the love of Mum: 12:39 am 5/June/2010 )

Day 7 – A Morning Out

(no, I didn’t put a pun in the title this time,
What do you think I am, a punist or something? No pun intended of course)

So we went to see Iron Man 2, Ken (above) showed up too.

These other people were so forthcoming as to appear immediately after the film was over. One of whom accepts shifts whilly nilly, and another who accommodates said frivolous commitments. Ben is in there too somewhere. The film shall not be discussed.

 
Skipping over (and in line with) some typical teen indecision (and evacuation) I used identification to enter a 18+ venue for the first time. It was boring so we left.

We then went to a non-18+ cafe to order alcohol and something called “Tapas” because Gumji was hungry.

I purchased a lemon lime and bitters, a slightly fancy sounding drink with only the pretence of alcoholism.

This is some form of caffeinated beverage with two $7 dollar shots of baileys in it. Background: Tapas.

Harry, who journeyed all the way from Geelong just for the occasion, has a beleaguered N-ninty-something that fell to pieces to twart his plan to dunk it into his coffee.

I then tried to lock DK outside, but, like a wounded puppy, he just wouldn’t die. DK volunteered to test this automatic door’s night time locking credentials. It failed.

Nathan then bought a cheeseburger, suitably impressed by the Tapas.

Quite some time later, the herd having streamlined its’ self down to just myself and Harry, a place for me to sleep appeared as if by magic and with no effort at all by the host.

The cat left me alone, actually.

Sneak preview of my Mother's day post. Which is technically the same day.

( backdated for the memories: 1:26 am 11/May/2010 )