Torturific

yeeshk
its like buses (apparently - never really noticed this myself) but I see loads of movies with barely any/pretty painless torture in and then two come along at once. (Im not including Horror porn like Saw or Hostel because Im just not into that sort of thing)
The first is of course Casino Royale and the leg crossingly uncomfortable scene in that, which Chris claims as his second nastiest torture scene after one involving (according to the web) a nail remover (think fingernails). Ow
But Bond takes it like a man, well sort of, he's tough throughout which is all we could expect of him.
The funny thing is I've seen stuff on TV too - I was watching something this morning which is what got me thinking about this and the bad guys are electrocuting the good guys, but all the way through these scenes (Bond too) I'm thinking "I could handle that. Pfft I wouldnt crack."

I saw Pans Labyrinth yesterday. You see very little in the way of actual torture happening, but the bad guy in it is so very very very very very very upsetting that I cannot be completely sure of that because I had my eyes closed like a little girl.
It gets set up early on that he's not a nice guy (which he does very efficiently with the bottom of a wine bottle and a mans face, in squishy/crunchy detail). So by the time it gets to him capturing wounded rebels I'm pretty much telling them to shoot themselves, to avoid what he then does with a tiny hammer, a small pair of pliers and a little screwdriver. Nail remover my arse - the setup for that scene almost had me telling him everything I knew and I was only watching. Henceforth when faced with that kind of torture I shall be foregoing Captain Doug bravardo in favour of (Science Communication) Rosies approach - "What would you like to know?" "Is there anything else I can tell you?" "Can I get you cup of tea?"

Its a strange contrast from the world of action heroes where goodies take bullets and poisonings in their stride and a decent punch to a baddie can kill. In Pans Labyrinth they go round shooting the dead just to make sure, and Bad guys can take repeated stabbings, a half Joker-ing (if you saw the film you'd understand) and poison and are still on their feet.

It was a fantastic film - torture included. Pretty and Scary and very very Sad. Theres a lullaby in there so pretty i was humming it all the way home (humming coz i dont know the words). Im glad to have something other than You know my name stuck in my head
Oh and its all in Spainsh so theres subtitles. - I have nothing against them, I just wanted to prepare you.

If you like Strings (Chris Im looking at you) go see it. If you havnt seen Strings go see it, then go get Strings and see that too.

And if anyone goes in expecting to see David Bowie in a unitard, ill never speak to you again.

Audience Awareness

this is difficult.
i am exceptionally ... something. not confused, i suppose self aware is what youd call it.
you see a couple of days ago i had more lectures, bringing me up to 12 days this term (3 to go), but i found out that people actually read this - people other than chris and alex who, though technically people who read this, dont count.
really when you hav an audience of two you dont have to take much into consideration, but there are different types of people who read this which is an odd feeling. something to get over soon which is really what this note is in aid of.

whats irratating me is that im blogging in my head, everything i do comes with an inner monalogue like in Scrubs - ive even started to twist my head when its talking. then altering the blogs for the different audiences - is driving me crazy(er)
that and the new bond song. its going round and round in my head and i keep repeating it on my computer. its annoying only coz its repeating so much, i actually think its a really cool song.

got pirates of the caribbean today! yay. up at the crack of 10 an down sainsburys before lunch, great. but nothing important after that
it did strike me how odd it is to have my plans for the day read:
watch TV till i get hungry
eat
repeat til sleepy
sleep

hardly bettering mankind
still i never really expected much (its raining an im still a bit tired from the weekend)
well ive got a schedule to get back to
toodles

BAM!

my eyes!
so...
much...
facebook-age
im back to work more lectures, more twilight tasking and last night i went to see Casino Royale (cool as, but more on that later) and so yesterday i didnt get a chance to check facebook or my email. PAH i thought, nothing ever happens its nothing to care about, so i didnt care. but finally get a chance to squeeze it in an BLAM! so much updateing from chris and alex, i can hardly look at the screen, and pokes, and messages, and group requests, and birthday reminders.
when i stopped wimpering and crawled out of the corner it took me half an hour to appropriatly re-poke, re-ply and comment.
my life is hard in many unexpected ways
dadun daduuuuuuuuun dadooooown dow duda dow da dowdun (do do do do do)
it was great hooray! daniel craigs tough an a bit scary so hes not gonna get called names for being blond so thats nice
plenty of cool bond lines to try out in inappropriate situations
and excessively painful torture scenes that still make me pull faces and rock back and forth - and really made me wonder if bond should be "bumping and grinding" so soon after
still, great fun and a prefect excuse to wear a tuxedo tshirt to class today.
oh and sarah if you read this (ever) happy birthday!

Caaaaaaaaaaaaandy Flooooooooooooss!

Well that was an impressive fireworks night.
as a hick from Southam im used to a small display an tiny pile of wood down the cricket club, but we went to the big thing over in Clifton Downs (or something) point was it was impressive tonnes of fireworks, huge pile of wood and a funfair!
ok so it was smaller than the mop (southams annual october fair-majig) and i didnt get to go on any rides, coz no one would go with me, which is a bit sad. I gotta say how odd it is going to one of these things when theres no one you are trying to impress with your bravery, but it was nice not vomitting
oo an i got a big bag of candy floss, it may just be the greatest food stuff ever invented so soft an yummy an soft an crunchy an soft an sticky. BRILLIANT
fireworks were fun too, i spent most of the night pretending to be one we saw that was on fire at both ends an sorta whooshed in these great bend disc shapes (the impression is up there with my cylon base star impersination of sheer clarity)
an then we went to the pub.
top plan.

Cheese related difficulty

this is going to be a largely useless post about a lack of cheese. to all who dont care - you have been warned
i only have a few minutes till the state within starts on bbc1 (when something is described as somewhere between spooks and 24 you know i gotta see it) but i have lot of free time til my lectures start up again an i want to take you all (he says optimistically) thro whats been on my mind all day
I have ran out of cheese
no big deal woke up late, breakfast no probs
but then start getting hungry by 1 now chris an alex can back me up on this i never have much on my shelves food wise, tonnes of herbs an spices and weird thingsa but no complete meal usually
so no cheese leaves me with a lunch problem
omlettes! - no cheese and cheese makes them good
toasty - needs cheese
thats all i can think of for lunch
AArh
so in the end a cheeseless omlette it is (an dull it was)
then for t i cant have a jacket potato!
will the horror never end
turns out im ruled by cheese or more specifically cows (without them id miss breakfast to an just die)
oo tv time
play safe

Good news everyone

yes i do mean everyone because i may have linked this thro to facebook (scurge of crashs existance, but constant source of amusement for the rest of us) which means my blog is now going to bother a great deal more ppl. err... hooray?
well halloween went well, even tho after shaun of the dead i was still concerned about zombies
i almost dressed up - i say almost coz i wore a shirt but with my mandana - hooray for that - so i was sorta a cowboy or a pirate or when they played livin on a prayer in the club and i wore it like a head band i was an 80s rocker and it was nice an warm round my neck when we left, i may have to wear it out normally.
altho, mandana aside its was a pretty good night out, some frightneningly short skirts but best of all was that they actually played some interesting music, imagine welcome to the black parade but at a club volume, when they got to the guitars in the middle, it was so loud everyones ears nearly exploded. awesome
anyone who noticed my facebook batdog got a halloween skeleton costume well done, all tho im sure the rest of ya dont care that much.
lectures start again in 15 days, its a hard life, but i do have homework to do (thanks to everyone who filled in my questionaire thingie)
let the work begin!