Friday, February 28, 2003

BWAHAHAHA The Tokyo Babylon OAVs are "the prequel to X: The Movie"! And Subaru is a "psychic investigator"! XD

The LoEG annotations in book form -- it shall be MINE. *__* Mina looks incredibly snotty on that cover. I love it!

Garrr, I've put off working on reports and writing assignments all week. Actually, the report I've been putting off all month. What can I possibly find useful and interesting to say about local children's programming? Something that hopefully doesn't require extensive research on child psychology and personal interviews with network executives? I am so dead. X___x

Martians attacked at 06:12 p.m.! Where were you?

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Thursday, February 27, 2003

I can't believe I slept until 4 PM today. >____<

Martians attacked at 06:46 p.m.! Where were you?

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Wednesday, February 26, 2003

YESSSS!!! Bert LIVES! ...or not.

Today I finally caved in and bought the Megatokyo book. For a while now it's been sitting there in our friendly neighborhood comic store, tempting me with its cuteness and shinyness; but before now it's always been "buy this thing that I've already read online, or buy the new volume of Bleach?" This time however, there wasn't much else around to tempt me. Oh, and for curiousity's sake I bought one of those new Thundercats comics, somthing called Thundercats: The Return. Kind of 'eh'... but it was probably worth it just for that one shot at the end of sexy grownup Wilykit and Wilykat. Amazing how long it took those kids to grow out of puberty. O___o

Martians attacked at 06:22 p.m.! Where were you?

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Tuesday, February 25, 2003

Watched the second part of The Snow Queen on Hallmark. I always get anal when they change fairy tale stories, but I have to say I liked this one. Even though the Snow Queen was still made into the big bad villain, at least she wasn't all Wicked Witch of the West like some versions. And I found Bridget Fonda's voice too American and modern-sounding for the Snow Queen, but at least her costume and makeup looked great. But, uh... why did the polar bear turn into a prince? Am I missing something here? O___o

And at the scene where they showed the Devil creating the mirror, I couldn't resist yelling, "...and he poured into it his cruelty, his malice, and his WILL TO DOMINATE ALL LIFE!!!" But that's me. Earlier this afternoon I saw an episode of Captain Planet on TV; and during the intro when they describe how Gaia gave the Planeteers their five magic rings, I said, "...but they were all of them deceived. For Gaia had forged in secret, a MASTER RING..."

Martians attacked at 11:50 p.m.! Where were you?

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Tuesday, February 25, 2003

Damn. I finally get to catch a showing of The Snow Queen on Hallmark, and then the stupid cable goes dead. I wanted to see her spirit Kai away in her funky snowmobile, dammit.

Anyway, earlier tonight I went out with Carlo and I finally got to see Daredevil. It was fun, though a bit anticlimatic, and definitely not as good as the Spiderman movie. The "radar sense" bits were neat; but you have to be kind of a lightweight as a superhero if your weakness is loud noises. XD I actually liked Bullseye the most; he had really cool boots!

Speaking of Spiderman... you'd think he and Daredevil would run into each other a lot, considering they both spend their free time swinging from New York rooftops. Why does New York get all the good superheroes, anyway? In the Marvel universe alone, it's got Spiderman, Daredevil, and the Fantastic Four, along with the X-Men only about thirty minutes away. The crime can't possibly be that bad.

Martians attacked at 02:05 a.m.! Where were you?

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Monday, February 24, 2003

From today's Philippine Daily Inquirer, the greatest news headline ever (outside of the Onion, of course):

GOONS OUTWITTING COPS
Goons continued to run circles around cops yesterday, four days after President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo scolded police authorities for failure to curb rampant criminality in the streets.

Just when you thought reality couldn't get any more like a cartoon... I keep picturing brawny thugs in black sweaters and little burglar masks running around blue-clad policemen with bobby helmets and whistles.

Martians attacked at 07:47 p.m.! Where were you?

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Monday, February 24, 2003

So yesterday we picked up Mom from the airport, and then went on a Duty-Free shopping spree. Replenished my supply of Teriyaki Chicken Cup Noodles and Rose Life milk tea. Also got a nice new pair of shoes.

And also found a little picture book that was so retarded I had to get it. It's a Crayola Kids Adventures version of the Trojan War, illustrated with pictures from an actual video which looks like a cheap school play. In this version of the story, Odysseus and all the other Achaians are Spartans, and there's some female archer named Zelda. ZELDA. Absolutely priceless. I may scan some pages later on.

Oh, and I've finally started putting some stuff up on DeviantArt. It's kind of a fun site, actually.

Martians attacked at 05:26 p.m.! Where were you?

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Thursday, February 20, 2003

Good freaking God, on Solar they're showing a movie with Christopher freaking Lambert as freaking Vercingetorix. On IMDB it's listed as "Vercingetorix", but here they're calling it "King of Gladiators". The horrifying thing is that Christopher Lambert is actually the best actor in this movie.

Heh heh. All I know about ancient European history, I learned from reading Asterix comics as a kid.

Martians attacked at 10:48 p.m.! Where were you?

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Wednesday, February 19, 2003

I take back what I said in my previous entry. The international entertainment industry is out for my blood. Their plan? To drive me to despair and eventual suicide by creating soul-destroyingly terrible adaptations of E.B. White books. The first step was that Trumpet of the Swan movie I saw the other day. And now, the next phase:

CHARLOTTE'S WEB 2

Damn you, entertainment industry. From Hell's heart, I stab at thee...

Martians attacked at 06:45 p.m.! Where were you?

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Monday, February 17, 2003

How odd. It seems that 20th Century Fox is now targetting me personally in their advertising campaign for X-Men 2. Carlo downloaded a copy of a new trailer which ends with Wolverine savagely unsheathing his claws, at which point a cute fuzzy cat comes up and licks them.

Ladies and Gentlemen at Fox, it's already a given that I will be watching X-Men 2. You don't have to try and reel me in with such cheap tricks. You might instead want to add a cute kitty or two to the EL EX GEE trailer.
Vamp!Mina: *snarl* I've had enough throats for the evening. *pets cute kitty*
Cute Kitty: Mew.

It seems that even manga artist Kubo Taito is concerned about my continuing patronage. In volume 6 of Bleach, he introduces a new character who is a mysterious talking black cat. Such is the awesome power I wield over the international entertainment industry. Next thing you know, the Star Trek people are going to release a new spinoff series about a starship whose crew consists entirely of talking cats. And their ship's doctor is a penguin. OH GOD, THAT WOULD RULE.

Martians attacked at 07:43 p.m.! Where were you?

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Monday, February 17, 2003

The animated Trumpet of the Swan movie is on HBO. Oh God. As soon as I heard that someone had made a cheap animated musical of The Trumpet of the Swan, I knew that it would be horrible; but I didn't quite expect it to be this brain-destroyingly bad. The designs are so ugly they make my eyes bleed -- how exactly did they manage to transform a beautiful animal like a swan into a fat ungainly duck with an oversized head and shaggy neon-colored hair?? And the animation is a joke, as is the voice-acting. What is not a joke is all the horribly pointless and unfunny slapstick comedy they decided to throw in. Why? Why did they have to do this to my favorite childhood book? T_____T And NO, having a scene with Louie reading Stuart Little does NOT count as being faithful to the original author. I've turned it off now, I can't watch anymore -- not even out of grim curiousity.

Martians attacked at 03:59 p.m.! Where were you?

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Sunday, February 16, 2003

This afternoon was basically just Carlo and I going to see Hero in the theater. It was packed when we got there, and we ended up having to get these seats that were front row and way to the side, so the image on the screen looked all skewed. But at any rate. Carlo liked it better the second time around, and I liked it just as much. Plus I was able to appreciate all of the artsy-fartsy details like the blueness of the blues and the greenness of the greens and the pattern of the hairs on Tony Whatsisface's chin. Plus I could actually read all the subtitles.

Overall, the movie was weird in parts ("They're fighting in their MINDS?? Okay..."), but pretty cool. Nice to look at, and some neat twists. Also, if you're a die hard Silmarillon fan who thought Gil-Galad didn't get enough bits in the LOTR flicks, watch this movie. Sky IS Gil-Galad, I'm not kidding.

And what do you know? I've just updated Britannia Waives The Rules. I even added a completely useless section on the EL EX GEE movie. Go me.

Martians attacked at 11:46 p.m.! Where were you?

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Sunday, February 16, 2003

Well finally, Icarus Falls is updated. New crap, and a new layout that certainly isn't based on any CLAMP manga series about sad children with magic abilities in a cyberpunk future, what are you talking about?

Martians attacked at 03:18 a.m.! Where were you?

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Saturday, February 15, 2003

New League of Extraordinary Gentlemen movie trailer on Apple... I had to supress bouts of insane laughter at every shot of Mina wearing leather and flying around and snarling, and especially the bit where she appeared to be fighting with two swords(?) Here's the train of logic for the makers of this movie: Mina was in a book about a vampire, therefore Mina=vampire, and fighting vampire=Blade, therefore Mina=Blade in a dress! It makes perfect sense! Actually, they look kind of like sais rather than swords, so she's actually Elektra! Or one of those very historically accurate sai-fighting Egyptian babes from The Mummy Returns! Because as we all know, a woman can't kick ass unless she's a vampire and fights with sais! Oh, the madness! It's like insanity in my brain!

...Well, at any rate, the two-second shots of Hyde going "rarrr" and the Invisible Man being invisible were pretty cool. And sue me, but I liked that shot of them all standing in front of the "EL EX GEE" logo.

Oh, who am I kidding. God damn it all to hell anyhow.

Martians attacked at 05:46 p.m.! Where were you?

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Tuesday, February 11, 2003

Huh? Oh yeah, so Tagaytay was fun. Saw some really nice scenery and ate some really good food. And we watched a pirated VCD of Hero -- the kind of pirated VCD where you can hear the theater audience murmuring and see them sillhouetted against the screen when they stand up. The movie was pretty interesting, so I want to see it properly next time.

Anyway. Just now Carlo and I finally got around to watching the final episodes of The Prisoner on DVD. No spoilers here; my reaction can basically be summed up in two words:
"AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!"
and,
"WTF?"
I usually pronounce that second one as "wutufuh?" Not sure if those are two words exactly, but oh well.

If they could somehow invent a time machine and go back in time and bring circa-1960's Patrick McGoohan to the present day and cast him as Sirius Black in HP3, I would SCREAM with amusement and delight. Failing that, I should probably writed a dorky fanfiction where Sirius is shipped off to Azkaban and it turns out to be this eerily pleasant little resort village. And then he has to wear loafers, slacks, a navy sweater, and a black jacket with a stylish white stripe. And the Dementors all look suspiciously like large white balloons. And every chapter, a different HP villain would be in charge of the place, with the directive to find out why Sirius refused to be the Potters' secret keeper. I would call it, "The Prisoner............ of Azkaban." Or something. Maybe.

Martians attacked at 11:16 p.m.! Where were you?

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Sunday, February 9, 2003

Back from Tagaytay. It was neat. In the meantime, this is actually pretty accurate:

Ottava rima? Me? That can't be right! Too frivolous? But tut, there's no such thing! Let others ponder thoughts of wrong and right, Or sit and think how much they love the spring; I'd rather spend my time in gleeful spite, Or maybe laugh, or maybe sit and sing. Besides, it might be fun to be inspiring - But surely it would get so very tiring. What Poetry Form Are You?

And apparently, if I wasn't that I'd be Blank Verse.

Martians attacked at 08:43 p.m.! Where were you?

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Saturday, February 8, 2003

So I'll be gone for a couple of days, on a trip to Tagaytay with Saki. Bye bye.

Martians attacked at 03:09 a.m.! Where were you?

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Friday, February 7, 2003

For most of today, thanks to a certain very corny radio station that was playing in the car, I have this song stuck in my head. You know... "Once upon a time there was a light in my life, but now there's only love in the dark... nothing I can do, total eclipse of the heart..."

It could have been worse. It could have been Hero, by Mariah Carey, which was also playing on the radio. Speaking of Hero, that movie is out now and Carlo has already seen it and I need to see it soon. I hear it's stupid and pretty.

There is a League of Extraordinary Gentlemen movie teaser trailer available. Forget vampire!Mina and swollen!Hyde; those flying titles are deadly! Seriously, it doesn't look too horrid; mostly because when I see these guys I don't see anything of the characters from the comic, so it's like they're all new characters. And the sets look fairly neat. So I can probably start getting excited for this movie now.

...AND I NEED YOU NOW TONIIIIGHT! AND I NEED YOU MORE THAN EVAHHH! AND IF YOU ONLY HOLD ME TIGHT, WE'LL BE HOLDING ON FOREVAH! AND WE'LL ONLY BE MAKING IT RIIIGHT! 'CAUSE WE'LL NEVER BE WRONG, TOGETHER WE CAN TAKE IT TO THE END OF THE LINE...

Damn radio. But thank God for Kazaa.

Martians attacked at 09:38 p.m.! Where were you?

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Thursday, February 6, 2003

So I watched the first part of the Animatrix, which they have available for download on the site. This tells the story of how machines rose up to be the world's dominant species, by showing us how cruel humanity oppressed the cute robots. I mean, did they have to be cute robots? They could've at least made them a little creepy-looking, like Sharon Apple's box or the evil mechanical dog in Wallace and Gromit: A Close Shave. But no, they had to be cute dinky-looking robots with round faces. They only wanted to join the U.N., for crying out loud. They even brought fruit. Now I'm all upset.

Martians attacked at 02:54 a.m.! Where were you?

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Wednesday, February 5, 2003

You know you're getting old when you can't remember how old you are. I actually have to check my blog to remember whether I'm 21 or 22. Soon, I will be the doddering old lady with ten billion cats. Just you wait. I already have the two.

Martians attacked at 08:14 p.m.! Where were you?

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Wednesday, February 5, 2003

Classic G.I.Joe on DVD... OH YES. *_* These are the old episodes where Cobra is trying to assemble a weather-controlling device to take over the world, right? Those are the episodes that I remember with the most fondness. I think back then the theme song still said "It's G.I.Joe against Cobra and Destro" instead of "G.I.Joe against Cobra the enemy". I preferred it that way.

Martians attacked at 05:44 p.m.! Where were you?

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Tuesday, February 4, 2003

You think you're deep, tortured and misunderstood.
You're not, you're just incoherent and a bit
silly. Now you know.

What Lord of the Rings engrish subtitle are you?
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Martians attacked at 09:33 p.m.! Where were you?

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Tuesday, February 4, 2003

So now Cartoon Network is showing Justice League every weekday afternoon? Right after Thundercats? Consider this my second childhood. ^____^ (Er, not that the first one ended at any point I noticed...)

Martians attacked at 08:54 p.m.! Where were you?

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Monday, February 3, 2003

According to this article, and this, in the film League of X-traordinary Gentlemen, Mina will have black tendrils coming out of her arms and can turn into a cloud of bats. Alucard, get the hell out of that dress and give us back our Mina!

Apparently Peta Wilson read the comics and said it should have been called "The League Of Ordinary Men With One Extraordinary Lady". Peta Wilson is smarter than she looks.

Martians attacked at 11:41 p.m.! Where were you?

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Monday, February 3, 2003

I think the death of Optimus Prime ranks right up there with Bambi's Mother in terms of traumatic childhood movie moments. Fortunately, Mr. T can weld anything. I SAID ANYTHING, FOOL.

I spent the better part of this afternoon watercoloring while watching Cartoon Network. I suppose I just wanted to see if I could still work in natural media. It came out not too great, but not exceedingly horrible. Watercolor was never my strong suit anyway. Next time I'll try colored pencils.

Then Carlo and I spent most of the evening watching our old tape of the Transformers movie, having been struck by the desire to see it again after viewing the abovelinked flash movies. Man that movie is violent. Probably the only reason they were able to get away with making such a violent movie for a kid's toy franchise is because all of the violence is perpetrated against robots. But you know who those robots fear more than anything? SAMURAI JACK. I'm serious. They call him "Jack the Robot Killer".

Martians attacked at 09:50 p.m.! Where were you?

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Sunday, February 2, 2003

Sean Bean as Odysseus?!! *___* Man, I didn't think I could get any more giddily excited about this Troy movie. Actually, pretty much from the moment I learned they were making a big budget movie about the Trojan War, I was giddier than a fangirl on her way to get her underwear autographed by Orlando Bloom. Then I heard it was Brad Pitt to play Achilles, and I thought, "I hope they don't make this Achilles: The Movie, because Achilles was lame." I want to get a t-shirt that says 'Achilles was lame', but that's beside the point. The point is that ever since I heard about this project I've been thinking, "Forget Achilles and Paris, who are they getting to play Odysseus?" Now I know. Assuming Sean Bean goes through with it. That would be cool. They ought to make this Odysseus: The Movie.

Martians attacked at 10:21 p.m.! Where were you?

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Sunday, February 2, 2003

So this morning I was brushing my teeth, and Carlo said, "Did you hear about what happened to Columbia?"

I had just crawled out of bed, so obviously my brain was not quite in gear; I thought he was talking about Columbia the country. So, toungue-in-cheek, I said, "What, did it blow up?"

And he said, "Yeah, it did." And it was a few moments before I realized he meant the space shuttle, Columbia; and I said, "Oh."

And then we went out to lunch with Lola at China Bistro, in honor of Chinese New Year. We ordered Peking duck since it was 50% off.

Then we went home and watched some of the news on CNN about the Columbia. It's strange that an event like this seems so sad; after all planes crash all the time, with far greater numbers of victims, all of whom have families too. But still.

And then I took a nap. And then we went to mass. And then we came home and had spaghetti for dinner.

Martians attacked at 08:14 p.m.! Where were you?

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