- How much of a field day would the First Evil have on DBZ Earth? The only person on the whole damn planet it couldn't appear as is Mr Satan, not to mention New Namek.
- I've been watching repeats of Voyager, TNG and Deep Space Nine all week on Virgin 1. Quark needs to stop being cute right this minute, because there are aliens and there are aliens. Besides, Armin Shimerman was Principal Snyder and that's a whole other can of worrying.
- My laptop is getting old. Every time I try to rip something I need to keep an eye on the machine and stop whatever else I'm doing, otherwise it slows down to a crawl and runs the risk of overheating and shutting itself off. It's inconvenient as hell for vidding - I've had a Doctor Who vid in the works for days now but it's taking forever.
- Team Four Star are making me ship Nappa/Vegeta. They're not doing it on purpose, obviously, but they're still doing it *headdesk*
- Mood:
contemplative
- Mood:
annoyed
First of all, hot! So very hot! The shade, it does nothing!
Our ship was rather dated looking, but it was comfortable, and the staff were all total flirts.
The sky in Egypt isn't really blue. It sort of put me in mind of that scene from Hogfather where there's a gap between the ground and the sky - if you look straight ahead the sky's white
I'm all templed out at this point. They're very impressive but there's loads of them - like how if you go on one of those bus trips around Oxford eventually you never want to see another church or college again.
Also, while I'm at it, I've been in a gajillion temples and tombs and monuments and I saw no evidence of Duel Monsters.
The pyramids aren't where you expect them to be. When you picture them in your head you see them in the middle of nowhere surrounded by desert, so it's a little jarring to see them right there in Cairo. It makes sense of course - something like 80% of the country's revenue comes from tourism, so the people go where the money is, plus, in the past people have used the facings of the pyramids as building materials for the city walls - but it's still a little strange.
Also, the place is crawling with guys on camels trying to sell you Lawrence of Arabia headscarves. Well, everywhere is crawling with those, but the ones that hang around the monuments annoyed me the most. If you're in a market or near the gift shops then you know what you're getting into, but if you're just standing there taking pictures then they get right on your tits. On the plus side, they had made us get up at 3am to go to Cairo, and having an argument with four guys over the exchange rate woke me right up.
One of the guys trying to sell things had a Dragonball baseball cap on. I briefly considered trying to buy it off him, but given how hot and dusty his work place is I figured it wouldn't have been the best of ideas - I'd have had to boil wash it before I could wear it.
Oh sweet Jesus the Egyptian Museum in Cairo has no air conditioning and is made of stairs! Well, about three rooms do have air con but that's it, and they're upstairs and down corridors and have big iron gates.
Also, there's so much stuff in there that a lot of it doesn't have labels, and because every pharaonic ruler looks exactly like every other pharaonic ruler, and most of the Gods are represented as falcons, cows, men who look just like the Pharaohs and women with horns and sundisks, it's impossible to tell who you're looking at half the time. That's without taking into account some of the really random crap that's in there (I passed the skeleton of something small and quadrupedal at one point - could have been a sheep, could have been a dog, either way, no label)
Now, pictures:
( Cut to save f-lists, not dial up friendly )
(not at all obvious I've got too much time on my hands is it)
- Mood:
bored
- Firstly it was really cold. Admittedly, the tunic and chainmail getup that most of the guys were wearing looked quite cozy, but then they also had to splash around in the sea, which given that this is Wales was undoubtably freezing.
- Secondly, there was an awful lot of waiting around. Apparently some more exciting stuff happened the day before, but they were still stuck hanging around waiting for the landing craft to come around from Dale, which it didn't until about 1:30.
- Thirdly, speaking of that landing craft, it was on the sea for about 4 hours. Four hours in a cramped boat, on rough seas, with about 30 sweaty guys who are getting just as seasick as you...no thanks.
- Finally, having a crowd of guys on horseback run at you whilst you're on foot has got to be scary as hell. Never mind that their weapons are fake, those horses are real, they're heavy, and they're hard to controll.
I didn't see anything especially interesting. I walked past a truck full of corpses (humans and horses), which had very convincing hands but not so convincing faces, I briefly saw someone who I'm assured was Russel Crowe, but given how far off he was I couldn't personally swear to it, and on the way out I passed Ridley Scott's off road buggy thing. Still took some photos though
( Pics (mostly horses and guys in helmets) )
- Mood:
hopeful
Freddy Newandyke from Reservoir Dogs. We both tend to judge people based on our own experience with them rather than their reported behaviour towards others, we're both infinitely more confident when we're petending to be someone else, we're both easily led by people who show us some attention, and to top it off we're both big geeky kids at heart
(second time answering one of these in a month, that's unprecedented...)
- Mood:
drained
I'm bored an I'm on edge. I feel like I've got less time off than I have and it's a strange feeling - it's like I can't relax because I keep thinking I've got a dealine coming up soon, and I have to keep reminding myself that I don't have to go back to Uni until October but it won't quite stick in my head.
I've been doing that thing I tend to do when I've got nothing more productie to do in fandom - working out backstory details and dialogue snippets that I'll never use because I'm crap at fic. I had pages on the Troika for instance; never wrote a word of actual fic about them, just a whole lot of stuff on who their various favourite Doctor's were and why Andrew's afraid of hot things. Anyway, I've been doing that for the DBZ fandom. Spent a couple of hours making up vegetable based name puns for various dead Saiyans we never saw, and another few hours working out stuff about how the Saiyan royal family operates. Might post the results later.
p.s. Due to my well documented preference for the bad guys, upon hearing this song for the first time, my mother turned to me and said "This guy's just your ideal man isn't he?"
- Mood:
indifferent - Music:Skullcrusher Mountain: Jonathan Coulton
02. Explain in five sentences why you're using that wallpaper!
03. Don't change your wallpaper before doing this! The point is to see what you had on.
( Cut to save f-lists )
( DO NOT WANT )
I'm just depressed that Tim Roth is too old for it now. How freaking perfect would he have been - you combine Archibald Cunningham with General Thade and who have you got? And he's a shortarse. And he could have pulled off the whole rest of the character arc.
Of course if I was having young!Tim as Vegeta I'd automatically want young!Gary as Goku. But then, look at Rosencrantz and tell me that couldn't have worked, seriously.
( Other DB things )
- Mood:
angry
- Mood:
Bzuh!?
He doesn't know I know about it - as the most tech savvy member of the household I took a look at it for Mum and she explained what happened, plus he's a computer dunce and doesn't know how to delete his browsing history any more than he knows how to protect himslef online. Oh Dad, you silly, silly, middle aged man. I sort of want to give him a hug for being such an idiot, and in such a schoolboy sort of way.
That said, he's been excessively short with Mum and me lately, so Mum's pretending that the computer is in a worse sate than it is to teach him a lesson. In retrospect that's exactly what she used to do to me when I was a kid, so I'm more or less in the psosition Dad used to be in back then. The phrase "payback is a bitch" springs to mind.
- Mood:
amused
I never pay attention to these, but this was just such a random-ass question. I'm reminded of an episode of Family Guy I saw once where there was an item on the news that asked "Can bees think? Studies show that, no, they cannot"
- Mood: amused
- Music:Chameleon Circuit (yay!)
Oh Dear God, Ryo Horikawa I want to marry you for your singing voice.
I finally got around to listening to that cooking song thing he did (fuck knows what the context was, I've long since given up trying to make sense of a lot of things I've found in the Japanese side of the Dragonball fandom). Christ, even in Japanese it sounds kinda silly, with the backing vocals and the bounciness and the repetition, but he just sounds so into it and he really does have a lovely voice when he's not yelling (and a laugh like a mad scientist - that shouldn't be as sexy as it is). Nobody is allowed to give me a translation, I don't want to know
Apparently that's not quite how he sounds in real life, but still.
I feel like I'm cheating on Brian Drummond, even though technically Ryo came way before him (being a Western fan I got the various interpretations all out of order, Brian, then Chris then Ryo). I still get all shivery over some of Brian's delivery (there's a reason why "Trouble/Terror on Arlia" is one of my favourite episodes - "Are we bad?" "Well, a little" *unf*), but I'm getting to really adore Ryo's version.
BTW, I will get over this phase I'm going through eventually. Or at least that's what I keep telling myself (I now know how th_saurus felt when she was spamming everyone with HSM stuff...)
I'm feeling all peculiar right now. I've suddenly got time on my hands and it hasn't quite sunk in yet.
I've made this:
But I haven't actually watched "Watchmen" yet so I can't in good conscience use it. I've got an unofficial policy of not getting involved with anything until Fandom!Secrets shuts up about it (on a related note I've recently read volume one of Death Note).
Hoping to actually get some vids done in the next few weeks, but I've still not got the CD burning issue sorted and I still don't have those DBZ DVDs. All my plans on that front currently involve either "Me First and the Gimme Gimmes" or various things that involve referring to Vegeta with female pronouns - I take the piss because I care. That said I may need to talk myself out of the whole "Uptown Girl" thing, to say nothing of the whole Backstreet Boys issue *is a ridiculous person*. Could get to work collecting footage for that Death Eater project I mentioned a while back though.
Eh I dunno, I'm all out of sorts from the vast amounts of car travel I've been doing in the past two days.
- Mood:
indescribable
Does this mean we're not actually going to get answers this series? Because that's extremely frustrating.
If Kudos have been writing with a third series in mind then I'll support said third series just to get answers, but now I'm just annoyed that we'll apparently have to wait another year to find out what's actually going on with Alex. *Bitter bitchy fan is bitter and bitchy - sorry if I'm harshing anyone's squee*
- Mood:
pissed off
Speaking of my housemates, had a rather confusing experience last night. At about 1am I went to go downstairs to get washed up ready for bed, and as I opened the door of my room, there was a trail of Karma Sutra themed playing cards leading from my door down the corridor to John's room. The Hell!?
I don't know which one of them left it. It might have been John, but then it might have been one of the girls trying to play a joke on both of us. Either way, it way just plain weird.
Anyway, as I've been away from here for a while here's a quick fandom update
( Ashes to Ashes )
( Misc. DBZ (no I'm not done with this silly fandom yet apparently...) )
- Mood:
pleased
See, I’ve been having nightmares about exams for days, and especially about the London Road campus where my exam today was. I’d never been there before today, and I think the nightmares were justified. Buggery-fuck that place is creepy.
I got there early, and it was being in an amusement park after hours, everything looked deserted and kinda like it had been arranged for effect, but with a weird sort of, Silent Hill vibe on top of that. I really couldn’t shake the feeling that something unspeakable had happened there, like I was walking over where there used to be bloodstains and bodies. It was kinda like how I felt walking around Hiroshima.
Plus, the Great Hall (where I had my exam) had a really high ceiling. And an organ. No one wants to take an exam in a room with a high ceiling and an organ.
I'm really nervy lately aren't I?
(BTW, I honestly have no idea what to say about this weeks Ashes. It was just sort of, huge, with Mac and the Roses and the Sam references, and I think I'm just going to give up theorising for a bit. At least theorising online, I still get a call from my mum every Tuesday to talk about it because she's as into it as I am)
- Mood:
relieved
I don't think I'd have minded so much if it wasn't really well drawn, or if this wasn't an animated fandom in the first place, or if it was something like Superjail! where it would have been pretty much in character for all concerned.
Of course now that I've calmed down I'm rather amused by the whole thing. See, back in my earliest days online, when I was into DBZ the first time around, I had my first serious "DO NOT WANT!" freak out as a result of some porny DBZ fanart I stumbled across. I was about 12 or 13, and I promptly changed all the parental controll settings on my computer in a massive fit of overreaction. I couldn't access a search engine for months until I finally went back to the old settings.
Due to some rather more careful browsing techniques, a far stronger stomach, and having now come out of the other side of puberty, I haven't had a serious reaction like that since then... Until of course I returned to the bloody DBZ fandom!
Of course it was of an entirely different nature to the original incident - I've gone from freaking out over het-porn to freaking out over dismemberment and cannibalism with a yaoi slant, I'd call that progress - but it just makes me laugh that the two things were caused by the same medium in the same fandom, the better part of a decade apart. Hell one of the same characters was involved for fuck's sake!
- Mood: indescribable
Song: Accidentally in Love
Artist: Counting Crows
(Guil's POV)
It's just a silly little fluff piece, but what can I say, the boys just kinda make me want to do cute things. Plus I quite like how the editing came out.
Song: Jilted John
Artist: Jilted John
Fandom: Doctor Who
Pairing: Mickey/Rose, Rose/Nine
Plus the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHLZUIK0M
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