...way out on the corner of fucked up and evil...

People on my FList keep posting pictures of Kingdom Hearts II and Advent Children and I don't always stop to check the community name and then it leaves me all like, OMG RIKKU IS IN ADVENT CHILDREN WHY?!?! and then I think of how much I hate Sulky Squall and how David Boreanaz did his voice in KHI and I was all like, "Oh great, now you're whiny and voiced by Angel" and I secretly thought he might have an evil alter ego but NO, there was just Squall. Being sulky. Getting his ass kicked by Haley Joel Osmond. And... it's very confusing to me.

Also, shut up Amazon I do not want Sharpe's Challenge! Stop being all temptifying with the promise of Sean Bean only to deliver Ye Olde Sean Bean because it hurts my feelings! Besides, I need the Sentinal and Gargoyles and the Moomins and so many other things and oh my God why does everything have to cost money? People should buy me stuff just for being awesome. I'm going to take it up with Liamneeson at the next staff meeting.

I cannot believe they're making another Sharpe movie. Don't get me wrong, I harbour a deep and abiding affection for Sean Bean's ass in those tight breeches the original series, but come on! Am I the only one who saw Troy? Sean Bean's like seventy years old. They're going to have him pushing a frickin' Zimmerframe across India, "dramatic tension" arising when his arthritic hands can't fire the bloody rifle in the heat of battle and the only way he's goin to rip anybody's bodice is if Emily from the Corpse Bride happens to be available. It's going to be that episode of Kim Possible where Drakken creates an army of old people all over again, only not good.

On the other hand, the opposing side is going to be fucking terrified when they realise that Britain can apparently raise the dead and force them to fight for us. Bet Napolean wishes he'd thought of that.

In other news, a shiny meme:

1. Post a list of up to 20 books/movies/anime/TV shows/video games/etc. that you've had an obsessive fannish love of at some time in your life.
2. Have your friends list guess your favourite character from each item.

1. Escaflowne
2. Angel
3. Buffy - Xander - Snithy
4. Firefly - Jayne - Snithy
5. Wolf's Rain - Hige aka Fluffy - Hex and, by a process of elimination, _doompixie_
6. Watership Down - Thlayli/Bigwig - Hex
7. Master and Commander (movie) - Jack - Snithy
8. Eerie, Indiana - Dash X - ajmckay
9. Big Wolf on Campus - Vince - ajmckay
10. Hornblower - Ickle Midshipman Archie - Snithy and enednoviel
11. LOTR (movies) - Merry - Snithy
12. Battlestar Galactica (the new one)
13. Invader Zim - Gaz - _doompixie_
14. Good Omens - Zira - Hex
15. Saiyuki
16. Rurouni Kenshin
17. Orphen - Hartia - Hex
18. Moomins - Snufkin - _doompixie_
19. Smallville - Lex - ajmckay
20. Nip/Tuck - Christian - ajmckay

Oooh, POTO's on at the £3 theatre this Tuesday and Thursday. Mayhap I shall go, since it is taking Too Fucking Long for my DVD to get here. Plus, you know, Ten Foot High Gerik. Who could say no?

Also, look what I found - ( that Sharpe/Narnia thing I started a while back, then got bored with and forgot all about. )

In other news, Terry Pratchett + My Family = the unshakeable conviction that Ben Harper and Commander Vimes are in fact the same guy.

Oooh, I got another letter from the TV Licensing people today. This one had the Red Logo of DOOM on. So apparently I can expect a visit from one of their officials at some point in the future. Because they totally didn't threaten that in November or anything. Also, what, exactly, are they going to do? Since they can't come in without a search warrant, any visiting inspector can look forward to having the door shut politely and firmly in their face, and listening to me laughing maniacly from inside. Hope you enjoy standing on my doorstep in the middle of a freezing Yorkshire winter, bitches.

In other news, I am listening to the soundtrack to the 1987 musical Phantom of the Opera that I downloaded from... some kind soul whose name escapes me, and there's one track which, I swear to God, is just the Phantom pissing himself laughing for a full minute. I so want to make a CD that is just deranged cackling from all my favourite characters.

Speaking of Erik, and aslo for those poor souls who were subjected to my Sharpe/Narnia ramblings a few days ago (and yes, I am still working on that story, I just get distracted by porn and shiny objects), may I introduce ( Read more... )

Hmm.

Buzzimina and I went to see Phantom and Lemony Snicket at the cinema today. I was pretty suprised that he'd want to see something like Phantom at all, but the real O_O moment arrived after we left the cinema:

Buzz: So I was thinking...
Froodle (mouth full of brownie): Mmm?
Buzz: Raoul says he fell in love with Christine's song, right?
Froodle: Mmm.
Buzz: But... it was the Phantom who taught her to sing, yeah?
Froodle: Mmm.
Buzz: So, in a way, it's really the Phantom's song that Raoul fell in love with.
Froodle: ......
Buzz: So that means that Raoul is actually in love with the Phantom.
Froodle: *teary eyes of Slashy Sibling pride*

Seriously. I've never been less ashamed to be related to him.

Lemony Snicket was pretty good, but I haven't read the books and there were these fucking irritating kids and their Entitlement Moo sitting right behind us making noise and kicking the backs of our chairs, so I'll leave off reviewing it for another time, except to say that Violet has the most gorgeous costumes, the closing credits are well worth staying to the end for, I'm sure that banker was Pettigrew in Prisoner of Azkaban, and that Klaus is adorable and I want to keep him as a pet.

Speaking of pets, and in keeping with the spirit of this Buzzcentric entry, over Christmas my brothers and I were discussing the cuteness of the ickle ginger bunny in the petstore down the road, and how I wanted to buy it and call it Sharpe and take it back to Leeds with me. The conversation turned to Buzz wanting two guineapigs, and to La Parental Unit saying he couldn't have any more pets. At which point, he turns to his hamster, Bear, and says, with a completely straight face, "Hurry up and die, Bear. I don't like you anymore."

It was truly a Denethor moment of hilarious proportions.

You know, I really did have something witty to say here, but I am afflicted with Lady Sniffles D'Winter and I feel like crap. Think I shall go to bed, watch Sharpe and make fun of Sean Bean. Yes. A productive day for all.

Parental units finally left, though not before threatening, I mean, promising to return for a week in December so that Mother and I can bond over facials, makeovers, manicures and the like. *headdesk* I wonder if James will take her out to play if I give him £50...

Jess, James and Alan are supposed to be coming 'round tonight, but am absolutely exhausted after enduring parental inability to listen to anything I say for 48 hours, cumulating in Dad attempting to hoover up while I'm in the middle of changing Thlayli's cage, despite repeated explainations about why that is a Really Dumb Idea, ie, I haven't finished with the hay or the sawdust or the litter or the food yet, all of which have a tendancy to scatter, and Mother's aforementioned "girly activities" stupidness.

Shall curl up in bed with hot chocolate and listen to Paul McGann tell of the daring adventures of Sean Bean instead.