Morgan Avery

Damn it’s hot today, big humidity. Nice though, even the momentary dash of rain was okay. Pity me, though, I’m going to be suffering through a wedding wearing a suit & tie later on… That’s going to be very sweaty, I’m expecting.

Also, being a trickerer on Valentines Day is fun. 🙂

After that, maybe something positive.

Movies I’m looking forward to this year:

1. The next Matrix movie…
2. Then the one after that…
3. Daredevil (featuring John Favreau as a guy with no super powers).
4. Some other movie I haven’t thought of, but every time I see the trailer I think ‘sweet’ like Solaris or maybe Nemesis, something like that, perhaps even the hulk.
5. Probably the last Lord of the Rings movie, but that’s way off in December, so it’s hard to be at all excited about it. Also, see the other days big rant.

Funny to hear that Peter Jackson has been snubbed for Best Director @ the Oscars…

He blew his image (which was as a kiwi battler) well and truly by being such a fucking whining wanker bully last year… Which, I’m sure, has nothing to do with the snubbing, but…

… The movies just aren’t that great.

Don’t get me wrong, there are lots of great moments in The Two Towers (and Fellowship, but who cares about old movies), the opening sequence with Gandalf & the Balrog, Gollum doing his multiple-personality stuff, the Ent that ran into shot to put it’s burning head out at Isengard.

Most awesome: Legolas pulling himself up onto the horse (with Gimli?) the wrong way around, that was just fucking awesome. Actually, pretty much everything he did was awesome, except stumbling when he was running, which seemed very un-Elf-y to me.

How can you take all this cool shit that happens, and lots of great scenes, and still miss the mark? Anyway, Hollywood obviously hates the little fucker, teach him for coming from Wellintown, won’t it?

You know one way he blew it?.. What the fuck did he think he was doing putting Liv Tyler (Arwen) in there?.. Nasty skank.

The whole ‘going from kiwi battler to fuckwit in no time at all’ trick is similar to what the Wood boys managed to do with ihug. Once you’ve done it, you can’t go back.

By the way, I know that Two Towers has been nominated for best picture, refuting most of my diatribe, but I’m sick of people wanking about how great the movies are, and this is probably one of my few opportunities to rant and yet be somewhat topical.

I’ve got a feeling I’m one of few people that feels this way, let me know how wide of the mark I am.

Heh, I’m a rambling ol’ drunkard even when I’m not drunk.

Thanks everyone (mum & Claire especially) for making yesterday so cool. 🙂

I’ve put up some photos from today. First gallery in months. I’m so slack.

Weird dream, I decided that I’d go back to school and do 7th form again, and this time try to get an A bursary. For some reason in my dream I’d only been out of school for a year or so… So I spoke to Maggie McKenzie, who was one of my teachers, and she thought it was a good idea. But then I slowly started realizing that I hadn’t been at school for the best part of a decade, and that I was doing something very weird, and wouldn’t it be better to go to tech again, or maybe to varsity. That’s pretty much it. Thanks for listening.

I know I’ve gone over this before, but when making a cheese toastie, the tomato really isn’t optional. Also pepper & salt.

I do fucking so know what year it is. Gah.

[ * This is a reference to a problem with entering dates correctly in an older incarnation of this site. ]

Went bodysurfing again today, Bethels did her best, but didn’t quite manage the right sort of waves, got into a bit of strife at one point, being gradually dragged away from shore, and so forth, but it all worked out in the end.

Enjoyed a gorgeous-sunset-watching dinner of KFC with Claire & Dylzno (and George) at the Birkenhead wharf.

Fun0r in the sun0r.