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[froodle]

Bloody finally. Why does LJ insist on my password having numbers in it when that makes it so hard to remember?

Anyway, this week in brief:

Those Alex Rider novels; Yassen is either Alex's dad, or he fancies his pants off. Jury's still out on which is more likely - Horowitz doesn't seem like the kind of writer to push the boy-molesting envelope, but let us not forget that Yassen is ginger and nobody sleeps with ginger people*. Also, Alex is quite clearly not Russian.

Miami Vice sucks. I didn't want to believe it, but between Jamie Foxx's stupid painted-on hair and beard, Colin Farrel's 70's gay porn star moustache and goatee combo and the fact that the entire plot is basically Smuggler's Blues amped up and stretched over two hours, it's a dire viewing experiance. Also, playing a crappy remix cover version of In The Air Tonight is less of a shout-out and more a case of adding insult to injury. If there had been some aligator-related hijinx, or maybe if Gritty!Norties!Sonny and Rico had actually cracked a smile throughout the entire affair, I might have been a little less harsh, but as it is? For shame, Hollywood. For shame.

Alan Campbell's Scar Night should make it onto the To Be Read list of anyone with taste, anyone who likes fantasy, anyone who likes boys with wings, creepy religions, dystopian visions of the future, assassins, the devestating effects of biological warfare or, in fact, anything that is good.

*This has been scientifically proven. With science! Or at least with stern authoritarian figures wearing white coats.

Comments

Re: Boy Molestin' and other hijinks

[froodle]

I wouldn't worry about your mother's boy-molestin' tendancies - bear in mind that you almost never see attractive young boys in real life. Which is sad, but also keeps people like me out of jail, so... yay for fugly youngsters, I guess?

Now do you see that my tales of Isle of Manly woe were entirely justified? So hillbillytastic! Although I'm not sure I follow your cowhorse logic at all...

No worries, this year has been pretty... oh what's the word... intense for me also. Recap: getting kicked out of law school, nervous breakdown, getting robbed, nervous breakdown, going to work in a call centre, nervous breakdown culminating in mass murder, moving to Beeston and changing identities. Although not so much that last bit.

Re: Boy Molestin' and other hijinks

[miriglum.livejournal.com]

I vote we just try to blank the whole of last year out of minds, and pretend it never happened. If only I had paid attention in biology, I locate the right part of my brain and hit it repeatedly with a plank until I really *couldn't* remember. Bad idea, though - would probably suffer immense brain damage end up as some sort of bizarre amalgomation of the Phantom of the Opera and Lex from the Tribe...which, great to see you've been watching. I've been borrowing Sally's immense tribe resources on a random basis, and am now without, having relocated to Cornwall. Oh, boo.

Are you still at the same telephone number? If not, mail/txt me your new one and I shall abuse my parental landline in the interests of catching up properly/bemonaing our sad fates. Just let me know when be conveinient etc.

Fugly. I've forgotten how much that word amuses me.

Re: Boy Molestin' and other hijinks

[froodle]

Wow, can you imagine a cross between Tribe!Lex and the Phantom? It would be... totally weird! There are no words to accurately describe it.

I've got the same mobile number, but my landline has changed to... something I can't remember. I shall call your mobile tonight and thus impart this forbidden knowledge.