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Four days till school break...I promise I'm not counting.
It's been a rather slow week for me geek wise but busy marking wise...no comment on how that is going.
Anyway, we'll start with some more posters for X Men Days of the Future Past. Quicksilver designs aside I'm feeling a little excited for this one.
Admittedly I find it strange that Iceman is with Kitty rather than Piotr but then I remember the third film in the X Men series...and I shudder. I can't wait to see how it does. Especially since I've just re-read the comic arc and it seems completely different. (Yes there is a little sarcasm but I'm still hopeful!)
Secondly, apparently the important type people over at Universal are planning a Battlestar Galactica film. As a reimagining of the series. Correct me if I'm wrong but I'm pretty sure it's been done and done pretty damn well. If you don't remember I present the following image as evidence:
All I have to say is what the frak!
Next is a cartoon bite from Philip Defranco's channel. I'm a huge SourceFed fan and was lucky enough to meet some of the talented people at Comic Con last year. Someone has done some quaint animation to snippets of their clips and I just find them hilarious.
And another video - This is the behind the scenes of "Let It Go" from Frozen in 25 languages. I know people are getting sick of this but I find it fascinating to watch these ladies sing.
And, finally, the latest Godzilla trailer dropped...
This I'm going to see and I'm going to enjoy it because it can't be worse that that fiasco in New York that time that we should never speak of!
I just re-watched the trailer and now my flatmate is laughing at me for getting so excited...I don't care! I used to sneak up in the middle of the night to watch the classic films. So many memories.
So, I hope you all had a lovely week.
Until next time...
Peace and pancakes...
Jaime
What a freaking week it's been...no time for details let's get into the good stuff.
First up Empire magazine has released 25 collector edition covers for Bryan Singer's X-Men: Days of the Future Past and, most of them, are pretty awesome. Look, it's Blink and Sunspot...w00t.
Plus, Empire released a cover featuring Rogue, even though we were told that Anna Paquin's scenes had been cut. Finger's crossed that her part is kept in...even just for a short minute. And look at this Future Sentinel :
I'm not going to talk about Quicksilver. I really have to hold my tongue and wait for the film.
Continuing on in the photo release vein (vane?) is the first image of Peter Capaldi as the new Doctor.
I'm getting more excited and the wait is painful but I'm ready to see what he is going to do with the role. Plus, I want to know what's with the kidneys.
Apparently, Jesse Eisenberg has been cast as Lex Luthor in the Superman/Batman film and Jeremy Irons is the new Alfred...read more here. I don't know what I think about this but I'm still probably going to see the film.
The above is an ad (possibly fake but still bloody brilliant) urging kids to stay in school. WARNING: it is a little graphic. (I'm not joking...) But it gave me a great giggle.
This came out some time ago from the awesome people at BadLipReading over on the youtubes. It is hilarious and almost works. I'd like to see this show.
Anyway, I hope everyone has had a lovely weekend. Summer holidays are over for me so I'm diving back into the teaching scene but I'm still going to keep as close to a regular schedule as possible.
Question for you: Who is your favourite X Men character? Kitty Pryde has always been a favourite but I also like Blink, Leech and Psylocke.
I didn't update yesterday because it was a rough day. Not bad just rather disappointing in regards to my students being unprepared and I had to turn into 'growly' teacher and it isn't a role that I enjoy that much. But I refuse to use this post to complain about what my students did or didn't do.
Instead, after watching a few random videos on YouTube, namely this one, I thought I would do my own post on nostalgia. So here are ten things that I remember, fondly, from my childhood.
Ten: Doug the cartoon. This came out just before I hit double digits and lasted for a lot longer than I actually remembered. With great characters such as Patty and Skeeter and, of course, Doug and Porkchop. Great cartoon.
Nine: Hiding behind my parents 'pleather' couch while watching Dr Who in the late, late 80s. I loved that show but the daleks scared the crap out of me. Seriously. But I just couldn't look away. I have the sudden feeling that this could have been one of my first geek moments and now I'm smiling as I remember the house we were living in at the time. It was an old (for New Zealand, that is) colonial house which will always hold some amazing memories from my childhood. I'm genuinely sad that we had to move away from there and I find myself thinking what would have happened if we'd stayed there.
Eight: Georgie Pie. For those of you not from New Zealand, Georgie Pie was a fast food chain similar to Mickey D's and BK except that it sold meat pies. Unfortunately, it was bought out by Maccas. But those pies were so good and such a special treat for those long trips up to Auckland.
Seven: New Kids on the Block. Mainly this song:
I have no shame at admitting this was my first introduction to the world of boy bands. I have grown out of it so I can look back fondly but excuse me for a moment while I go and listen to some Zeppelin and CCR.
Six: Side ponytails. I had really long hair when I was younger...seriously...I could sit on it. I used to wear it in a long plait but there were a couple of times where I wore it in one of those odd side ponytails that were made popular on all those feel good sitcoms of the 90s. Unfortunately, my hair was far too long and heavy so I often looked lopsided and it is also possible I walked with a strange gait because of it.
Five: Jurassic Park. Both the film and the book. I think I was eleven when it came out and my obsession with dinosaurs amped up several thousand notches. Along with my fascination with computers. Lex may have been the hacker in the film but in the books it was all about Tim.
Four: Bullrush. Another one of those New Zealand games that kids used to, and probably still do, play. The basic premise is everyone lines up at one end of the field except for the person who is 'it'; they stand in the middle of the field and have the option of calling one person at a time in an attempt to tackle them, rugby style or calling bullrush and have every kid make a made dash across the field. We always played it at the start of the school year and by week two it was normally banned due to excessive nose bleeds, sprains and various bruising.
Three: Christmas at the beach. As a pretend adult I look back on Christmas as a kid with so many fond memories. Of course, our Christmas is in summertime and the beach was the place to go but not before waking at the arse crack of dawn (though is it really waking if you haven't been to sleep?) to see what Santa left. Our Santa, by the way, wore board shorts and loved his beer. And, for some strange reason, Rudolph would always do his 'business' behind the tree. Except for that one year when we accidentally gave him the runs...well, that's what Santa told us.
Two: Snap bands or snap bracelets. Man, they were pretty stupid but so much fun. I'm not sure but I think they also got banned from school cause we'd keep snapping them in class much to the annoyance of the teachers.
One: Saturday morning cartoons. Not the piss poor efforts that are currently on our television but the real cartoons. Mind you, this was the late 80s and early 90s so we had things like Thundercats, My Little Pony, Transformers, Racoons, GloFriends, MoonDreamers, Rainbow Brite, He Man, Gummi Bears, Captain N, X Men and the list just goes on. I could, honestly, talk about the great Saturday mornings I had when the cartoons started at about six and went till at least ten. None of that Religious, you're going to hell if you don't repent, stuff that seems to be on every channel now-a-days.
I hope you enjoyed this random trip down memory lane and I have to admit, it's made me feel a lot happier on this cold Saturday morning.
I technically* started work yesterday. Let's just say that it hasn't really changed in five years. (Just to let you know I haven't been unemployed for five years, I've been travelling and studying and writing...so not unemployed just not employed consistently...)
The day dragged as only a day can when working retail and re-training but it was after work that I was waiting for. X Men First Class came out in New Zealand yesterday and I dragged my dad along to see it. So, after a mediorce feed we got our tickets, popcorn and sweets and meandered our way up into the cinema. Firstly, I do have to say that our home town cinema has really let itself go, which is sad because it used to be rather pretty.
Anyway, we settled down into our seats and tried to ignore all the tweens and teenagers** who were talking obnoxiously loud, playing on their phones etc. We also ignored the guy who came in with his ipad or tablet or whatever and seemed intent on checking it every five minutes therefore creating a brilliant burst of light in the front row. Finally the lights went down and they chucked on one trailer after the other before the goodness that is X Menstarted to roll.
I'm not going to spoil the movie because that's not my job but I will say that I thought it was bloody well done. I'm now going to list five points that I thought were done brilliantly:
The actors who were playing Russians, Germans etc actually spoke their native language - there was none of that awful fake accent and no language.
The actors playing Xavier and Erik did a really great job at portraying their differing points of view on the same problem.
Nicholas Hoult, as beast, was amazing. He really seemed genuinely confused and tormented by his small 'disfiguring' mutation which led to 'bad' things.
The attention to detail was excellent. Right down to costumes and everything. The 60s is my new favourite era...for now.
There are a couple of squee points for those of you who know the universe - it's kind of like guess the character/guess the mutant.
Oh and Kevin Bacon was pretty awesome. But then again, it's Kevin Bacon so...
It was the drive home that nearly ruined the night. For the first time ever, I got pulled over my the police and asked to do a breath test. Now, I know I hadn't been drinking, but the moment the cop asked me to state my name and address into the little machine thing my brain farted and I forgot my address (which is ridiculously simple). Luckily there was some recess of my mind that was still active enough for me to spew out the first line and that was when the cop said, "that's fine, you can go..."
That's all for today, folks, since I have to work in the shop and maybe try and scrounge a couple moments of sleep...
*It's still not official but they needed me in to rip covers off magazines...totally thrilling work, I know.
**Parents, do you know what your kids get up to in the theatre? I swear I'm getting old because some of this kids were right little...well you know...
