Don't mention the Laptop...

...I'm trying not to think about it. Various random things: this is one of my new turtle earrings (I have red, my cousin has blue.) I'm not entirely sure where the other one is, which is a little worrying.

The Stardust trailer is up at the official website, if you had difficulty playing it through Yahoo (Kat!)

I have added a YouTube thingy to this blog's sidebar. It's a bit trippy. It's set to 'tropical fish' at the moment, and I'll change the setting every so often. Also a picture of my eye which I took and then played around with. The plan is the picture will change every so often also.

noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

So. What did I get up to today? Nothing much. Finished vol. 4 of Dave Sim & Gerhard's Cerebus, made chilli-chocolate truffles (they need more chilli next time), killed my computer...
Yes. I killed my computer, by baptising it with coffee.

kidnappings and such

So. I had a lovely Easter weekend, as I was unexpectedly kidnapped by my cousins and made to eat chocolate and go shopping and watch movies. We made white chocolate and orange truffles, and I ate too many, and then I sat on the couch and watched Breakfast at Tiffany's and felt quietly sick.

Good Friday

Church at the somewhat unholy hour of eight a.m. this morning. I was yawning the whole way through -- I felt so bad. And I was in bed before 11 last night and everything.
300 was awesome, but what were y'all expecting?
It looks sooo much like a Frank Miller comic, even I can tell and all I've ever read of his is one Sin City book and The Dark Knight Returns. This movie has Frank Miller gore, Frank Miller wrinkles, Frank Miller nipples on Frank Miller women...
I'm glad I went last night, too. The atmosphere was awesome at the flicks - I went to the Southbank Cinema because they were showing it on the giant screen. It was a sell-out screening, and I nearly got trampled by people trying to get decent seats... the girl in front of me remarked to her friend, "I was here for the first day of Harry Potter. This is heaps more insane."
I got a decent seat because I showed up 40 minutes early and queued for one, so that was ok. I was disappointed by the trailers, just Disturbia, Shooter, and one other like that, then the new Pirates. But then they showed the trailer for Grindhouse, so they redeemed themselves somewhat.

Save money? I said...

After wandering around singing "No, no, no" for the last month, I finally caved and bought Amy Winehouse's album. And I swear it's absolutely all the money I'm wasting this week. Except I really have to see 300. But that's not a waste, is it? I mean, really. It's 300.

Is it? Could it be?

I think I found a Sandman reference in a My Chemical Romance song. Yes. It's pop culture referencing, the emo way.
The song is 'It's not a fashion statement, it's a deathwish' and the lyrics at the beginning go:
'For what you did to me,
and what I'll do to you,
you get, what everyone else gets,
you get a lifetime'
The Sandman quote is, of course, from the Brief Lives cycle, issue 43. It's one of the more famous quotes. Death comes for Bernie Capax, who has lived for fifteen thousand years. He says,
'That's pretty good. Isn't it? I lived a pretty long time.'
And Death replies,
"You lived what anybody gets, Bernie. You got a lifetime."
Coincidence? Probably. But on the whole, it's pretty cool. And it gives the song an interesting dimension.
Lyrics from here... Sandman quote here.

Huh. Didn't see that coming...

Every time at uni we have a mid-semester exam, I stress and worry and study lots of irrelevant extra information, only to discover that the exam is a) based solely on stuff covered in the lectures and tutes several times over, and b) a walk.
So this time, I think 'Ah, a mid-semester exam, thirty multiple choice questions, nothing to worry about.' I do a review of the base readings and lecture notes, and wander in feeling confident.
And then - BAM! - this is the hardest exam I've ever sat. And I'm sitting there going, 'But they're all phases! How can one of them not be a phase?!' and my stomach is sitting on the floor with my thongs...
Sometimes uni just floors me.