Well, Kill Bill Volume 2 basically owned in gargantuan ways. Big big gargantuan ways. All the while being a totally different sort of movie than the first one, but still owning despite. You must end whatever pathetic mortal work you may happen to be doing, and go see it, for it is good.
Along those lines, Troy comes out while we're here, which pleases the girls to no end simply because of Brad Pitt. And pleases me for the whole concept, but. And for the guys, King Arthur may or may not come out, which means Kiera Knightly goodness. And for everyone, the Day After Tomorrow looks cool, even if it does remind me of a particular Heinlien book. Anyway.
Besides Kill Bill, my weekend has sucked, though. It's frying in this house right now, we have no idea how to fix the radiators, and it's just not good. Too, since I more or less forgot to eat for most of yesterday, I'm having fun with that, combined with massive dehydration. I did TRY to eat last night, but the fuckers at the Rat and Parrot didn't serve me until like 10 minutes before we had to leave. Fastest meal I've eaten since I dunno when. At any rate, this all means that I've had a raging headache since about midnight last night. I've at least passed the stage where all my nerves are on overdrive, meaning I feel EVERYTHING. But I got to be more or less delirious all night anyway, which I think produced some dreams where I was some sort of ancient statue or something. Very odd. It also produced me in this video game that looked an awful lot like Half-Life, except it was in a UFO: Aftermathesque city setting, and looked like it could be a lot of fun, considering I was driving this car around and capping aliens with a pistol. One of those things to think about when I'm a l33t game designer, I guess.
Oh. And I've got two papers due at the end of the week I haven't started. Maybe today. We'll see.
Posted by Dwip at April 25, 2004 2:30 AMDreams like that are crappy to wake up from. Although sometimes they give some good ammunition for short stories and the like.
Posted by: Whir at April 25, 2004 11:48 PMKill Bill Vol. 2 r0x0rz b!7ch3s.
forgive my leetspeak, I haven't done it much lately because I've been talking to whir.
Posted by: Clyos at April 27, 2004 2:27 PMSee, I much preferred V1 to V2. The end just seemed rather anticlimactic to me. Like Q-T had some sort of 'blood-spurting, obscenely kickass sequence' cap for the two, and decided to dump all the cool shit in the first one. *shrugs* I liked the twist with the kid, but warm fuzzy endings just aren't my style... unless I'm in one of those rare 'girly' moods. *twitch*
Hi, BTW. :)
Posted by: Rachael at April 27, 2004 3:05 PMI was wondering when you'd make it over here.
As seperate movies, I too like V1 more than V2. Taken as a cohesive whole, though... Good stuff.
And this particular English keyboard happens to be worse than all the other ones here, primarily because it barely works, let alone the problems inherant to all English keyboards.
Posted by: Dwip at April 28, 2004 1:36 AMyou do realize most keyboards are different in different countries? I seem to end up with some US version which sucks the good suck when IE messes up.
Posted by: toasty at April 28, 2004 9:10 AMPray tell how the keyboard is different thatn what i'm used to dwip, because I couldn't possibly think of any other layout for the english language.
Posted by: Clyos at April 28, 2004 10:12 AMPoor Clyos. ;) English English is way the hell different than American English, so it would make sense that their keyboards are a little bit weird. There ought to be some sort of universal standard, though.
Huh. Talk about a weird time to get deja vu.
Posted by: Rachael at April 28, 2004 10:31 AMuniversal standards are always good. How about we start a revolution?
Posted by: toasty at April 28, 2004 3:14 PMYou say you want a revolution? Well you know, we all want to change the world.
And listen to Type O on 11.
Posted by: Whir at April 28, 2004 3:43 PMAs long as we're welcoming Rachael over here, hi!
Also, how do you know these guys - what's your connection? Cuz I keep seeing you around, and I have no idea how you know everyone.
Posted by: Regina at April 28, 2004 4:26 PMShe's stalking me.
Posted by: Whir at April 28, 2004 5:31 PMShe stalks Cam, too, but that's slightly different.
For the most part, English keyboards are perfectly normal. QWERTY and all that. It's all the random symbols that are different. Like how Shift+3 is the £ sign. And Shift+2 is ", which trades with @, and how ~ and # get the key that would normally be | and |, which is over by the tiny left shift key. Not to mention the strange ¬ thing up where the ~ should be.
Bizzare, really. And pointless.
Posted by: Dwip at April 29, 2004 1:45 AMwe don't even have these symbols | over here...
Posted by: toasty at April 29, 2004 2:09 AMHeh. Well, it goes something like this... Cam's my pet, Whir's my toy, and Dwip is just fun to mess with sometimes. ;)
But I'm hardly ever on Alsherok anymore due to lack of net connection at home, and tres limited time at work. *shrugs*
I'm also going blogless myself as of late, which gives me more time to stalk. :)
Posted by: Rachael at April 29, 2004 10:46 AMBuhahaha, I remain the stalkerless Alsherok Immortal. I rock, you guys suck. It also helps that I don't have a blog.
Posted by: Clyos at April 29, 2004 10:55 AMI'm sure I could get Whir to stalk you with a sniper rifle or something in BFV. Hell, give me two more months, and I'll stalk you with a sniper rifle in BFV.
Or maybe a BTR. I'd like to stalk people in a BTR.
Posted by: Dwip at April 29, 2004 11:07 AMBTR, bah, those are for fools and weaklings, it's all about the Russian Helicopter and 8 billion rockets. Those things rock BTR's in Harsh, Harsh, ways.
Posted by: Clyos at April 29, 2004 12:00 PMYes, but BTRs rock everything else in harsh harsh ways. Which at the end of the day is sort of what counts.
Posted by: Dwip at April 30, 2004 1:32 PM