Friday, March 16, 2007

Unlimited Doug Justice, League

ok i'll admit it, my life is ruled by TV, well sort of, TV and movies. but really its more like if theres a perticular TV program i enjoy, thats the one ruling me.

Justice League Unlimited turned up on DVD a couple of days ago. for the majority of you who will have no idea what justice league is i'll briefly explain.
the justice league is the cartoon with superman and batman and wonder woman and pretty much every other (DC) comic book character you can think of in and more. it is extra strength awesome. there is not an episode where i do go WOOOOO! at some point. although it amuses me that the same people who insist on calling comics 'graphic novels' insist on calling one of my favourate cartoons an 'animated series' - some fat guy got quite irate on amazon about it

naturally i've spent the past few days being a superhero (of course!)
ive been running round in the windy windy courtyard pretending to fly, which is hilarious fun
i managed to worry some girls near the library when i'd come inside and was quite warm so i unzipped my jumper the superman way

for some reason that got me strange looks. pfft girls! wadda they know?

also got to help out with the international society at UWE (ok no idea what its really called)
if any ones read stupid white men by micheal moore it'll help you understand. he has a chapter about men dying out because now women can reproduce with artificial insemination and reach things that are high up with a 3 step ladder. fortunatly there was no ladder so i got to be useful in a manly way. Y-chromosome Ho!
i mention the group because it made me giggle to help them out when i remembered an episode of harvey birdman, where a group of "ethnic" superheroes form their own super group called the multi-culture pals. as it was a very mixed group an i was a superhero (with the power of bring tall and carrying things) i kept wanting to pretend (or shout eeee-nupchuck when i had to be tall, like a superhero who grows large) but i knew id get punched.
my secret identity as a mild mannered sci comm student is getting tough. with our dissertation proposals due on monday i thought i was sorted til my supervisor suggested a complete restructure and re-research. DAMN YOOOOOOU! i have been in the same post grad room every week day for the last two weeks. it's crazy i even have one computer i use most of the time, i fear i'm becoming furniture.
at least by monday it'll all be over one way or the other.
then on to our science and the public presentations! uuuurrrgh superheroic trials!

oh an make sure more of you clear time between 1 and 3 pm on tuesdays because Sanna and I are doing our weekly radio show and we want more people listening (online at hubradio.co.uk) yeah yeah do it do it
and call in damn it! otherwise we'll have to continue faking dedications

Wednesday, March 07, 2007

Brain pilots drunk at the wheel - and radioage!

yes
yes it is
i have spent the last 3 days in the post grad room (just a computer room and no where near as fun as the actual grad which is/was a pub atop warwick SU)
3 days of health and safety and im going mildly crazy - i giggle randomly, spout lengthy monologues against the system and forget the day, week, date, time, im very much free of the application of meaning to a specific instance
oo an im drinking
now
i was in the PG room from 1030 til 830 today
sure i wasnt working the whole time, i helped joana and did a little rags in the am then had a random lunch sandwitch and did little for a couple of hours - in my defence my crazies kicked in and anyone who's seen me working knows my crazies are impossible for me and anyone around me to work through. i fell off a stool with great charisma and poked everyone in the room.
but i worked through every single bloody rags (rags is UWEs health and safety and ethics review board and the forms take days to fill in) form and found huge gaps in what ive done so today i wrote info forms (my project will promote world peace and stop global warming) and also consent forms (i am not a bloody kiddy fiddler let me into a school)
where was i?
drink!
yes!
having suffered through a 10 hour day of rags and course mates (mostly rags) i deserve a drink
i got out of that room at 830 but they had locked all the doors! i spent 15 minutes walkin the length of uwe trying to escape before finding the way out. like a rat in a maze with a bottle of wine instead of cheese
did i tell you about student radio?
maybe
last tuesday 1-3 i am being sannas radio sidekick helping pick music and talk. of course we were magnificent and if you missed us this week it ok coz we are doing next week! it was a barrel of giggles and you can tune in online at hubradio.co,uk so do it or ill know you hate me.
strangely its in the same sorta place the radio was in warwick (top of the union) the seem to keep a tower free in all my unions for radio loonacy (at least at warwick it was closer to the grad. damn uwe and its 5 flights of stairs to draught beer - cans it is!)
i forget exactly where i was going with this but im tired, long day, some wine, HEALTH AND SODDING SAFETY!, so im going to sleep face down on my mac if that ok with you.
night
x