Friday 3 June 2011
Friday 20 May 2011
The World is Ending! Update!
It's been the 21st of May for 58 minutes. So far the end of the world is sort of a let down.
Incase G-d is just running a little late, I'd like to take a moment to thank him for creating the plague, AIDS, baby moths that eats their way out from the inside of a live caterpillar, the particular kind of leech that likes to live inside eye sockets and of course, homosexuality.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-preacher-warns-end-of-the-world-is-nigh-21-may-around-6pm-to-be-precise-2254139.html
I'd also like to reassure him/her/it/ze/they that I don't hold any grudges against ze for hiding yourself so thoroughly, for making all your devoted followers nutbags and idiots, and for generally not being a good explanation for any of life's mysteries.
In order to deflect your possible wrath, I'd like you to consider that while I have been referred to as 'millitant' atheist before, I have never used the wit and style of this man. Dawkins.
some of my favourite quotes:
Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings."
We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of the Sahara. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively outnumbers the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here."
— Richard Dawkins (Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder)
Incase G-d is just running a little late, I'd like to take a moment to thank him for creating the plague, AIDS, baby moths that eats their way out from the inside of a live caterpillar, the particular kind of leech that likes to live inside eye sockets and of course, homosexuality.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-preacher-warns-end-of-the-world-is-nigh-21-may-around-6pm-to-be-precise-2254139.html
I'd also like to reassure him/her/it/ze/they that I don't hold any grudges against ze for hiding yourself so thoroughly, for making all your devoted followers nutbags and idiots, and for generally not being a good explanation for any of life's mysteries.
In order to deflect your possible wrath, I'd like you to consider that while I have been referred to as 'millitant' atheist before, I have never used the wit and style of this man. Dawkins.
some of my favourite quotes:
Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings."
We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of the Sahara. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively outnumbers the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here."
— Richard Dawkins (Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder)
Thursday 19 May 2011
Monster- Charlize Theron, Christina Ricci
I'm currently eating dinner. It's this awful chicken vinaigrette salad with way too much onion. After I wade through this massive salad, I'm going to kick back, keep ignoring all my looming assignment dea dlines and watch "Monster'.
I watched this for the first time a year ago with my buddy Taj. He believes a good movie is one with lots of awards attached to it, so this one was perfect. (Charlize Theron got 17 best actress awards.)
I don't necessarily agree with this (The Blind Side, I'm looking at you!) but settled back to watch anyway cause that's what I do.
Charlize is Aileen Wuornos, not the first female serial killer but probably the most famous one. Before all the killing and despair starts, Aileen meets Selby, (Tyria Moore in Real Life) and they dance together at a roller disco to the sounds of Journey's 'Dont Stop Believing', now widely famous as 'that Glee song'.
Now I can't pretend that Aileen is my type. She's unattractive in a real life kind of way, not in a movie sense. (you know, in need of contact lenses and a hair cut.) Selby is also not really my type, too whiny, too little-lost-puppy.
BUT.
I love the scene where they kiss. It then cuts to them outside, making out frantically up against a building.
When I watch this movie, my heart races. Charlize and Christina really sell the desperation of their characters, the utter need they have for each other.
(Disclaimer, this is a rare positive review)
It's not all that long after this that the killing begins, and Selby starts to act like a real biatch, so it's really only the first half an hour that I really love, the rest is just icing.
Anyway, tell me what you think!
I watched this for the first time a year ago with my buddy Taj. He believes a good movie is one with lots of awards attached to it, so this one was perfect. (Charlize Theron got 17 best actress awards.)
I don't necessarily agree with this (The Blind Side, I'm looking at you!) but settled back to watch anyway cause that's what I do.
Charlize is Aileen Wuornos, not the first female serial killer but probably the most famous one. Before all the killing and despair starts, Aileen meets Selby, (Tyria Moore in Real Life) and they dance together at a roller disco to the sounds of Journey's 'Dont Stop Believing', now widely famous as 'that Glee song'.
Now I can't pretend that Aileen is my type. She's unattractive in a real life kind of way, not in a movie sense. (you know, in need of contact lenses and a hair cut.) Selby is also not really my type, too whiny, too little-lost-puppy.
BUT.
I love the scene where they kiss. It then cuts to them outside, making out frantically up against a building.
When I watch this movie, my heart races. Charlize and Christina really sell the desperation of their characters, the utter need they have for each other.
(Disclaimer, this is a rare positive review)
It's not all that long after this that the killing begins, and Selby starts to act like a real biatch, so it's really only the first half an hour that I really love, the rest is just icing.
Anyway, tell me what you think!
Friday 13 May 2011
My license! Transamerica.
Well, I couldn't get on to update at all yesterday. I suppose it is better that I update when I actually have something to say and not everyday. No-one wants to read that dribble.
I got my license back the other day. (I lost it, speeding, for three months) and boy is it liberating. Life explodes with possibilities once more.
I do hate being a P plater though because the cops stalk me- I've been breath tested twice in two days! Thanks to my suspension I have almost a year to go on my green P's before I get my full license. I got my P's late, not at 17 as is typical but at 20.
The only road movie I like is 'TransAmerica'. It stars Felicity Huffman (the chick from desperate housewives) as Bree, a MtF pre-op transexual who goes on a roadtrip with her teenage son, who thinks she is a Christian Missionary who came to bail him out of gaol. (he was busted hooking) She makes a pretty prissy chick, to be honest, but the movie is funny and heartbreaking, and Kevin Zegers, who plays the son, is very very attractive! So there's that.
The music video that goes with this movie really made me like Dolly Parton (it has been pointed out to me that I have the musical tastes of a gay man) but more importantly, made me WANT that jacket. It's awesome. I don't have the chest for it though, maybe I could put a pillow down there.
I got my license back the other day. (I lost it, speeding, for three months) and boy is it liberating. Life explodes with possibilities once more.
I do hate being a P plater though because the cops stalk me- I've been breath tested twice in two days! Thanks to my suspension I have almost a year to go on my green P's before I get my full license. I got my P's late, not at 17 as is typical but at 20.
The only road movie I like is 'TransAmerica'. It stars Felicity Huffman (the chick from desperate housewives) as Bree, a MtF pre-op transexual who goes on a roadtrip with her teenage son, who thinks she is a Christian Missionary who came to bail him out of gaol. (he was busted hooking) She makes a pretty prissy chick, to be honest, but the movie is funny and heartbreaking, and Kevin Zegers, who plays the son, is very very attractive! So there's that.
The music video that goes with this movie really made me like Dolly Parton (it has been pointed out to me that I have the musical tastes of a gay man) but more importantly, made me WANT that jacket. It's awesome. I don't have the chest for it though, maybe I could put a pillow down there.
Friday 6 May 2011
First Daughter...made me gag on my dinner.
This was the only movie playing on my TV tonight.
I recommend you watch the trailer, and then thoroughly disinfect your brain lest the taint catch hold.
Why is it that all these movies always feature a virginal young girl who is swept off her feet by a vaguely menacing older man?
Imagine a movie in which a college aged boy is out with his friend's drinking. He's trashed, dancing and having fun, under the eye of a friend. (Token Black is in this scene, milling around in the background.)
Now imagine his ex girlfriend shows up, beats up the girl he was flirting with, and drags him home and puts him to bed*
Is this still a romantic picture? Is she a hero saving him from the evils of underage drinking and maybe even a little casual sex?
I suspect she'd be put firmly into the stalker, psycho category.
This actually happens in this movie, only, of course, the genders are reversed, and instead of being a pathetic ex boyfriend with no boundaries, he's actually made out to be her white knight. Her albino knight.
Seriously the extreme whiteness of this movie bothers me. It's like a toothpaste ad.
Why do you think this is?
....I don't hate this movie because of any of the following reasons:
- It's laughably naive about politics
- None of the main characters can act
- It relies upon the stupidity of its characters to advance the plot
These flaws are bad enough on their own, and these are only the things I picked up in the 30mins total I watched of this film! (15 at the start and 15 towards the end)
I hate it more because as a romance film it completely fails in making its characters likeable! Romantic Lead Female is a doormat and an idiot, Romantic Lead Male is a sexist pig with delusions of grandeur.
I guess that kind of means I hate this film because it's....sexist.
(Wince)
It's hard to put that into words because I know the eye rolling that the mere mention of sexism induces in an army of trolls, but it needed to be said. It does not get a pass for being old, or for being so cringe inducing American, which, let’s face it, is sort of a synonym for backwards anyway.
(You may notice I don’t always provide a handy plot summary with these movies. That’s because I am aware that you are just as capable of using Google and imdb.com as I am.>
Oh yeah, one more thing. I seem to have accidently started following myself on Blogger, which is weird. Seems like there should be a mechanism to stop oneself from doing that. I feel like there is a whole lot of things I don't know about blogging, but I'm always keen to hear tips, advice, even just plain criticism!
So talk to me baby. Let's talk all night long.
YouTube Queen, ZJtemptv
I have an assignment due, and instead of working on it, I'm writing a blog post. Even though I've only had one person comment, and only 67 people have ever viewed this blog, I still rank it higher in importance than my uni course work. This of course has nothing to do with my innate procrastination skills.
I am something of a Youtube addict, lately.
Sometimes it's science stuff, sometimes humour, but lately it's been ZJ.
ZJemptv (Zinnia Jones) is a gay atheist who calls themselves the Queen of Atheism. I love their stuff. It differs from a lot of the stuff I watch because ZJ is an angry person. (rightfully angry, but still) I find ZJ's passionate defense of reality, of logic, of basic humanitarian values to be inspiring.
This link is ZJ in a calmer mood, but still inspiring.
http://www.youtube.com/user/ZJemptv#p/u/24/3D4JQKVNWdo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yK02Lqky2U
The second one is fanastic, I wish I was that articulate.
Alas, under pressure I tend to stutter.
I have on one memorable occasion, lost the ability to speak at all when put under the pressure of a speech to a classroom of my peers. (thanks for the therapy)
Right now I'm watching Wanda Sykes...she's so prett---uhh I mean funny.
I think she's on my list of three people living or dead you'd want to have dinner with...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EK2iPGy1vYs&feature=related
(swear words ahead)
Anyway, I have nothing else to say today. Sorry y'all.
I am something of a Youtube addict, lately.
Sometimes it's science stuff, sometimes humour, but lately it's been ZJ.
ZJemptv (Zinnia Jones) is a gay atheist who calls themselves the Queen of Atheism. I love their stuff. It differs from a lot of the stuff I watch because ZJ is an angry person. (rightfully angry, but still) I find ZJ's passionate defense of reality, of logic, of basic humanitarian values to be inspiring.
This link is ZJ in a calmer mood, but still inspiring.
http://www.youtube.com/user/ZJemptv#p/u/24/3D4JQKVNWdo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yK02Lqky2U
The second one is fanastic, I wish I was that articulate.
Alas, under pressure I tend to stutter.
I have on one memorable occasion, lost the ability to speak at all when put under the pressure of a speech to a classroom of my peers. (thanks for the therapy)
Right now I'm watching Wanda Sykes...she's so prett---uhh I mean funny.
I think she's on my list of three people living or dead you'd want to have dinner with...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EK2iPGy1vYs&feature=related
(swear words ahead)
Anyway, I have nothing else to say today. Sorry y'all.
Tuesday 3 May 2011
Osama is dead
Spoiler!
Apparently the US have killed Osama bin Ladin.
Shame they had to do it by invading yet another country. (yes, that's what sending soldiers into another country without permission is)
In a highly suspect turn of events, his body has been 'buried at sea'.
I watched the celebrations on TV the other night at Washington D.C, couldn't help but notice a hilarious similarity to the people dancing in the streets in afghanistan when 9/11 happened....backwards redneck peasants are the same the world over, only what they chant differs.
Allahu Akbar! (God is Great) vs U.S.A! U.S.A!
Apparently the US have killed Osama bin Ladin.
Shame they had to do it by invading yet another country. (yes, that's what sending soldiers into another country without permission is)
In a highly suspect turn of events, his body has been 'buried at sea'.
I watched the celebrations on TV the other night at Washington D.C, couldn't help but notice a hilarious similarity to the people dancing in the streets in afghanistan when 9/11 happened....backwards redneck peasants are the same the world over, only what they chant differs.
Allahu Akbar! (God is Great) vs U.S.A! U.S.A!
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