La la la, comment to be added.
Although I reserve the right not to add you.
So no offence. =]

Mouse went and packed in
Off on mad dash to Asda
Three pound mouse - hurray!

Summer rain is great
And a nice way to cool down
- Only when it's hot.


Day off work today
Tomorrow will be hectic
*shakes fist at Potter*

Just made an awesome music discovery: Rockabye Baby on itunes* - lullaby renditions of Smashing Pumpkins songs - WIN!

This is a must-have, imo - the Pumpkins aren't the easiest to chill out to...until now! Eleven plinky-plonky-tinkly tunes...damn, I'd have kids just to play this CD to them at night and naptime... =D



*now on mad hunt for CD copy. sometimes digital copies aren't enough




ETA: Holy crap! They've got Metallica, NIN and Green Day too!!
ETA2: And the Cure... :')

As a cinema-goer and geek, I am excited about seeing HP6.

As an usher working in a cinema, I am dreading it...








eta: aww, stupid ticker isn't showing up properly.. :(

Uh, well first of all, it really depends on their musical tastes, and what they listen to. No point in me recommending something they already have ;)

That being said, I asked one of the guys at work for a rec, and he suggested Sonic Youth, which I'm going to try out (we have a similar enough taste in music).

The other way around however, and I struggle to suggest something - because I would recommend any or all of what I listen to! If someone I know liked similar music to me (MCR, Green Day), or was up for trying anything (even if their normal tastes were slightly different), I would probably suggest:

- Weezer;
- All-American Rejects;
- The Gaslight Anthem;
- The Bouncing Souls;
- The Offspring.

If they wanted something heavier, I'd maybe suggest:

- Slipknot;
- Smashing Pumpkins;
- Metallica;
- Disturbed;
- Soil.

Something lighter:

- The Killers;
- Goo Goo Dolls;
- Anberlin.

Something totally different:

- A Perfect Circle;
- Mindless Self Indulgence;
- Weird Al Yankovic.

Just one or two, y'know. Don't want to swamp anyone...


And of course I have tons of other music, but I didn't include my main favourites because hm. Well sometimes it's more fun to recommend less known bands or weird stuff people may not have heard of/listened to...If that makes sense. Probably not.

Dear idiots People in Charge at E-Buyer.com -

My address is not in the Scottish Highlands. I do not live at the arse-end of a tiny remote highland village. I live in central Scotland. Two hours or less* in any direction to any major city - Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow, etc.

You do not need to charge £9.99 postage for my address.

But since you don't give me an option to change it, I cancelled my order and went to Amazon instead.

You're welcome.


No love,

Me.





*Depending on traffic and how fast you drive, of course

http://www.geekologie.com/2008/04/23/spiderman-tat-1.jpg

Every time I see this tattoo, I can't help but stare in wonder at it. I don't think it matters if you're a fan of Spiderman or not; or if you like tattoos or not - that is a stunning piece of work, and the artist who did it is an utter genius (and probably American, otherwise I'd be all over him to do my tattoos already!).

Despite working in a cinema, I don't get to see all the films I'd like to (I missed Wolverine, for one). But today I decided to watch The Hangover, and I really enjoyed it. It's really funny, without too much gross-out humour or gratuitous violence/nudity/sex. It's just really silly and fun =]

Alas, the school summer holidays have started now, which means work is going to be awful for the next 7 weeks. Ice Age 3 opened today, but really, this is just a warm-up for Harry Potter... It's like bracing yourself for a punch in the face. >.<


(I still really want to see it though)

It's Zombie Cheerleader theme night! Yay! And I've finally managed to get the blood the right shade of red! YAY! Should have seen how excited I was to get the blood mix right. You'd think I'd conquered Everest. Well, TBH, it's not often I acheive anything, so getting this right was worthy of excitment.

Downside to the blood is - what if it goes funny before tonight? I'm working 5 - 9, so I've had to make the blood up already...I just hope it doesn't go weird/off/funny before 9-ish. It shouldn't. Previous attempts at making blood were left out overnight and didn't go funny. If it does gets fucked up though, I should have enough 'ingredients' to make another batch. It would just be a pain in the ass. :P

So. We're ready to rock out as zombies tonight - huzzah!

white vest;
grey skirt;
white socks;
white shoes;
blonde wig;
fake blood;
pom poms...

am I missing anything? Probably.


In other news, Laura has cut my hair, so all the black dye is now gone! It's pretty damn short, but it looks pretty cool. As soon as I have time, I'm dying it a different colour again. A colour I haven't tried before... heheheh.

Well, this is embarrassing, and I like to think it's partly the fault of the education system in the UK (at least where I live).

I only speak English.

I started getting taught French and German when I started secondary school (so, about 12). By then I think it's almost too late, unless you've got a natural flair for it, or you were lucky to have gone to a primary school where they took time to teach more than "bonjour" and "Guten Tag". Which I've most likely got wrong. >.< For shame.

While I was at college studying childcare, I learned that speech and language patterns are pretty much 'set' when you hit puberty. But if you're learning a second (or third, etc) language, as long as you get the grammar down by that age, the rest of the language is fairly easy to pick up.

Maybe my language patterns were set early though, because I really, really struggled with French and German at school - especially the grammar side.

It's embarrassing, because the attitude of this country seems to be "it doesn't matter, the rest of Europe speak English anyway!". I mean, come on - you've got Brits moving to Spain who don't bother learning Spanish because there are enough people there who speak English. To me, that's just downright rude and ignorant. You want foreigners to speak English when they're in the UK, you should do the same if you live abroad!

It's also embarrassing because there are so many children across Europe (and the rest of the world) who start learning foreign languages when they're very young - 8 or younger from what I gather.


I wish I could speak a couple of other languages, but hey, I don't think it's going to happen now (I - or they, my teachers - should have started the ball rolling say, oooh, twenty years ago??).

However, I can say "hi, my name is, thank you, good bye" or some combination thereof in French, Spanish, Italian, German and Finnish. I can also swear in Finnish.

But that's the extent of my abilities. Not enough.

This song is hilarious. Does anyone have an audio rip of it? I heard it on Youtube (look it up if you want, it's really funny), but I'd like a download of it; itunes doesn't have it.

Reminds me of the Offspring's prison song ("When You're in Prison"). Anyone got any other humourous prison tunes? >:]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/may/01/coraline-children-scary-movie


Interesting article, RT by Neil Gaiman on Twitter earlier. =]

Also beneath the cut in case the article disappears.

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Well, one sleep until we leave (tomorrow) for Carlisle. The show itself is Saturday-Sunday. =]

*is v. excited nao*

Still no word back from any artists. Sigh. I'm hoping to get something tattooed this weekend. I'll be ever-so-slightly disappointed if I don't get inked again. :P


In other news, I didn't hallucinate this as a child, it really exists! I was absolutely certain for years that the clip linked below was from the Alien film. I distinctly remembered seeing it, and years later when I asked dad if it "dancing alien" was from that film, he was pretty much "wtf you talking about?" lol

Turns out I was right, I didn't imagine it, and while it wasn't from Aliens, it was from Spaceballs - my little kiddy brain had mixed the two up.

Incidentally, I don't think my parents necessarily let us watch either of those films all the way through when we were kids - but my sister and I played in the living room a lot in the evenings, and must have picked up some pretty weird shit over the years... ^.^

Anyway, yeah. The clip:




(Or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVZUVeMtYXc )

Needless to say, this film has been added to my list on Lovefilm. It's obviously been too long since I've watched it.

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I've just gone and locked down most of my entries. The majority are now private - old news doesn't need re-read - and the more recent ones will be f-locked or filtered.

I'm just going to make a pretty picture/awesome graphic/blah banner to slap at the top of my journal. I'm doing the old "friend's only" thing.