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When did photobucket allow 1GB hosting? WTF? Well, I guess, luck for me, I've been surviving on their old 25 mb quota. Oh, and Blogger hates me. It won't republish my new blog template. Of course it won't. *growl*


Crap, I've forgotten what I was going to talk about. Oh no wait, that's right, I've decided to get my life organised. As one possibly renowned, possibly famous, possibly a man once said, the first step towards sucess is 'organisation'. Whether that be organising your sock drawer or organising to fix the major problems in your life, it all matters in the end. Life is in the details which is also unfortunately the title of my novel.

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Am going out tonight to the Murder and Mayhem thing at the HiFi Bar in the City. Line-up looks realy good and I'll get to see Danny Bhoy finally. My sister forgot to include buying me a Danny Bhoy ticket, even after I told her I specifically wanted to go. Silly girl. Also, I've heard of most of the line-up but never actually seen them except via television. This is the closest to the Royal Gala, which is the one I really wanted to go to, but oh-well. On that line, I did go see the Glass House which was so excellent and just as funny in real life, except because we got suck-ass seats, I spent most of it watching the TV Screen, just like I would have had I been home. Too bad, I ended up missing it on Wednesday but they taped two, so I can see this week's episode and I might be able to yes, pathetically, see myself not getting most of the jokes. Hahaha.

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I finally saw V FOR VENDETTA and well, I really can't believe all the critics trashed it. In comparison to the rest of the crap that gets flushed out weekly by the studio heads in Hollywood and which manages to rate a few stars from sympathetic critics, how does a movie which really isn't that bad and manages to come up with some kind of original plot and thinking via the Wachowski Brothers gets completely demolished in all the newspapers? Thank god for the NataliePortman!shavedhead notoriety or I swear, no one would have gone to see this at all. I completely agree with CLEO and am glad I read her little review before anything else, including Ebert's review, of whom I put almost absolute trust in. Even he did not rate it badly, so I do not understand the complete disregard for this movie.

Then again, my reasons for liking it are far from their fold. I thought that perhaps its was not the best time to bring it out, but that this would increase sympathy for its subject but apparently not. Australia Critics have trashed it immensely and I can't bear to read any reviews because I am so easily swayed. Look, I went in and I enjoyed it. It was fun and not a complete popcorn blockbuster. It had deeper meaning and thought then another movie involving an Arnie-type hero saving the world from some nuclear cold war, not that I don't enjoy movies like that but please, this movie was not entirely shallow nor was it overly pretentious, like so many other so-called indie films.

I've not very good at explanations on why this film was truly excellent so, if you would, please read the review on the IMDB webpage, above the forums. It really is very good and quite nicely details most of the reasons I liked it. The other reasons were not so much more obvious, except those which were picked out by Cleo and hoop-hooped by me during the actual movie. Mainly, because so many little nuances, themes and um...blatant objects were like scene rip-offs from POTO. I.e. V has an underground lair with a a) shrine b) candles c) mirrors and a d) musical instrument (ok, jukebox) plus lots and lots of masks. Also, he's burned to a crisp and has a thing about her seeing him for realz, y'all. At one point during the movie, he most seriously SMASHEZ the mask into a mirror because SHE LEAVES. He does the black cape twirly thing and kills people and in a very ironic way, but still reminiscent of POTO, leaves her instead of loving her. It was um...very uh unsettling to me. But of course, in some ways this almost tops POTO (I think equals it, generally) because it includes some of the cast of the Forsythe Saga which had me oogling like a baby over it, especially since they were in scenes together and I finally got to see me some Maced!Jon. TAKE THAT!

Icons to come, but you might wanna check my LJ site, I usually icon on that.

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OK. Must do accounting now. Tutorial and Mid-Sem in one week as well as a whole CRAPLOAD of assignments also due in. Sigh.

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