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  1. While walking from one group of friends I was seeing to go meet another at the pub, I noticed that my recent sore throat/cough/popping ears thing meant that it hurt a little if I breathed in solely through my nose. Something about wearing my headphones exaggerated this, so I was preoccupied with testing what felt better. Anyway, I got to a cash machine - I chose "Cash", but was thinking, "Oh I should check my balance really...", whilst in strange pain and singing along to the song on my iPod. So I chose £20, took my card, and walked off.

     

    I didn't take the money.

     

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    Someone in the street just got £20 off me because I'm an idi.

     

    *sigh*

     

    Now I feel I can't buy Rihanna/Kate Bush/Drake's new album in a few days because I need to save my monies. I hate. UGH.

  2. Young Justice (the comic/team) was amazing, one of the first DC ones I followed when I got into comics in 1998.

     

    I loved how it just told jokes. Like ad adventure was a really muted/dour past incarnation of Mr.Myxlzptlk being accidentally summoned in a techno-magic ceremony (never elaborated on) and then just trying to work out why humans found things funny, by ruining a halloween party YJ were attending, but not actually doing anything.

     

    And I remember being so confused by a line in that very issue at the time - a girl says to Robin, "Is that a batarang in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?". I kept wondering what she was on about. :p I was 7/8, deal with it.

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    I remember genuinely LOLing at some of the jokes - especially Impulse. In one issue he gets a concussion and thinks he's Batman. It's amaze.

     

    *sittin reminiscin*

  3. Pixie Lott just epitomises The Dull British Pop Scene to me. It sounds like walking down an unremarkable street in Generic Town in the UK feels like.

     

    Can be reasonably enjoyable - I sortof like All About Tonight after being bombarded with it, but the effect is wearing off.

     

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    Since Tori Amos has apparently come good and returned to being good again after a few years of being cringe-worthy, I've fallen back in love. There is nothing more visceral than Boys for Pele or as sonically implacable/unplaceable as From The Choirgirl Hotel.

     

    I only JUST heard/saw this for the first time and am struck all over again. Loved the song on the album but live she's combined it with Tubular Bells (from The Exorcist) and Smalltown Boy by Bronksi Beat. HER EYES/HER HANDS. Her complete control and energy. Wow.

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    The trailer stunned/I liked Fish Tank/I'm was ready for the story (I've never read it but know it from various sources.).

     

    It was a beautiful film, like breathtaking cinematography, but not in a "Oh look at that gorge landscape!" way, more like "Oh I'm stunned by like mist in the air/really original compositions and close-ups of things/selective focus etc.".

     

    It's in 4:3, which was a joke.

     

    I enjoyed the relative lack of dialogue, though ultimately it did lend the film a hollow feeling, which fitted for the bleakness and horror of it all, but not for the 'love story'. Which I kinda liked? I dunno.

     

    My friend said he hated the acting, but I didn't notice it being bad as they had so little lines to say in the first place. I thought Kaya Scoliedarioriroiro was good in her one "dramatic acting/'YOUR VEINS ARE FULL OF ICE"" bit. The two child versions of the characters were more compelling though.

     

    But yeah, NATURE was protrayed so gorgeously - a character in it's own right. And the whole thing was so sensual. I was sort of hot and bothered afterwards, despite it being really not a film you'd think would do that. Maybe it was just me however. The horse+smelling hair bit = yes.

     

    LMFAO at the

    necrophilia??? scene. I loved

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    I love how the second part/most famous aspect of the story is glossed over, but stunningly, then the film ends.

     

    I really wanted to hear Kaya Scoliedrirorio saying "Heathcliff. It's me, Cathy. Let me in at your window, it's so cold.", in that monotonal yorkshire half-gasp.

     

    "Yü bruhk mu'haaht...yü kill'd meh."

     

    See it if you want to be stunned, but at the same think, "That was just a GOOD/fine film that looked great."

  5. I don't think anyone is so busy that they can't schedule in a small period of time to meet up with someone they like. If this person did like you then no matter how busy they were they'd find the time.

     

    Although I hate when people aren't patient when the other party is genuinely busy. There's only so any times I can say "I don't know when I'm free next week, I've got a whole project to do and my schedule fills up at random times, leading up to my assessment in a week." It's like...I'll see you, just let it breathe.

    [/related to my situation more than anything in this thread]

  6. I only ever read when there's a bigger purpose to doing so these days. I was rereading Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons as I got to Uni, but then it had no reason to be reread so it was lost.

     

    I read Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber which was very enjoyable, but for a project/research - now am alternating between Film Art (really just a very readable textbook) by David Bordwell and Lynch on Lynch by someone who is interviewing David Lynch. But both are obviously for research, and I'm somewhat skimming the latter for certain nuggets of info in any case. Like I'm half-way through the book after only a few hours of reading.

  7. Erotica is my favourite Madonna album for the moment but I've not fully explored all her stuff. :)

     

    It's one of the coolest sounding albums I've ever heard. The production is everything. It sounds like the 90's crossed with the 40's or something.

     

    It's not typical pop stuff, much more experimental than that. It all sounds so hazy, like there's steam in the room. Which is appropriate.

     

    I don't believe people who don't think that song is groovy.

  8. There Is Something About Kevin.

     

     

    When did it come out? Out of all the cinemas around me there (was) ONE showing it, and it had a total of ONE showing, yesterday. :/

     

    It was out on the 21st Oct, but seems only good (idea not the big chains) are showing it. I had to go to Wimbledon to see it (not that bad a trip tbf, like 20 mins on the bus. But considering the Odeon in Kingston is meant to be the best evar and screens opera live to the screen (why?), you'd think they'd bother showing very big arthouse/not even arthouse, just vaguely more independent than some films.

  9. Madonna. I can't stop listening, mostly due to the leak of her new single.

     

     

    American Life, Ray of Light and Confessions are all fantastic. I want love Music, but there's just something about it that's stopping me. Her new single is....there are no words.

     

    Have you listened to her earlier stuff? Like A Prayer, Erotica and Bedtme Stories are sublime.

     

    I would say it's a bit more mainstream and less electro-pop than her album Hands but still a very enjoyable track with her unique touch :)

     

     

    Are you joking? It's the exact opposite!

     

    It didn't move me, but then I found her kinda lacking other than some strong singles, especially among the 2009 surge of electro women.

  10. We should seriously genuinely do this and like you guys did recently do a story day. So like three to four 300-500 point matches, of like "The Hunt For Hulk", where each of us plays a group of mercanaries/street level characters + one 100-200 point Hulk figure, (Hulk has been cloned) and have to capture (kill the entire opposition) the other Hulks. Then like....Hulks gang up and destroy the city (map change) and the X-Men VS Avengers VS Spider-Man whatever have to kill each other due to radioactive poisoning or whatever, then you find out The Leader is behind it all, and it culminates in a gargantuan, like.....double map, 900 point each match for winzickles.

     

    Or something. Like three smaller games and one massive one., Etc.

     

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    Ready.

  11. @ReZourceman, can you me and chair have a battle one day? Thing is, all our clix at my house in Edinburgh, so it's not simply a case of 'meeting up in London'. One day, it will be ok. [/Delta Goodrem]

     

    I love board games but have only played the very famous. Cludeo, Monopoly (OBV), Taboo, Pictionary, Trivial Pursuit yawn,

  12. I'm allergic to overrated rubbish..

     

    Raisins_Face.jpg(That said, I've yet to connect with Ok Computer, despite it being my first Radiohead album. I have no personal feelings toward it the way I do for Kid A, for example. Still OBVIOUSLY stunning though.)

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    We need to talk about Kevin actually looks good, "Kevin" looks creepy and I've always wanted to watch Tilda Swinton in something other than Narnia. Is it gory at all? Or more of a thriller?

     

    It's neither. It's an incredibly intense piece of drama. Go see it. Now. It's a film that isn't just a diversion, it's worth it to see.

     

    Tilda Swinton is a fantastic actress who I enjoy in everything I've seen her in - I love how she can court Hollywood and do whatever indie stuff she feels like too. She comes from an indie/art-film background, having worked with people like Jarman and Potter and stuff...so it always feels like whatever she's in, she sees some sort of artistic merit to it. That said, havent seen Narnia, and am dubious about it's artistic merit. :p

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