This is rapidly shaping up to be one of those years that sucks.  It's barely two months in and bad stuff after bad stuff after bad stuff keeps rolling into the world around me.  The lizard brain wants to go smash things.

*thudthudthud*

I have decided I live in a reasonably decent neighbourhood.  My package from Amazon arrived today and the postie, in all his wisdom, left it lying on my front step.    I'm sure it had been sitting there for hours before I got home, with the Amazon.com branding so obvious I recognised while sailing past on the bus.   Considering that I couldn't ( Read more... )

Due to a lack of listing on the South Bank Cinema's website, I was worried I had missed Pan's Labyrinth on the big screen, but nay, it doesn't open until January 18.   Then nothing remarkable until May, after which we will have the following to go crowd into the South Bank Imax for on opening night:

Spider-Man 3
Pirates of the Carribean: At World's ( Read more... )

Parts of 2006 that kicked ass:

• Getting laser eye surgery
  
• Visiting New Zealand, England, Scotland and Italy (plus the aiport in S. Korea)
  
• Smallville convention hosted by Rogue Events
• Seeing Wicked and Avenue Q in London's West End
• Learning the joy of bittorrent and upgrading to 1.5mbps ASDL

Yay - a second season of Torchwood has been confirmed.   Happy days.

Nabbed from 
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Home again!  Yay!

Must fight urge to sleep and resume normal routine.

Back on usual Australian mobile.  Have however lost most people's numbers due to reformat of phone while in UK, so contact details via email or sms would be awesome.

Also have lined up work for Thursday and Friday.  Money coming in = good thing.

Lord it's amazing the way people leave their wireless networks unsecured. Ironically, the lack of net access was one of the reasons I hesitated about staying at my grandmother's place, but whaddya know... my laptop picks up some neighbouring connection.

I am totally weirded out by the thought that I'm going to be leaving England on Saturday. I ( Read more... )

Back from Rome but am now about to do the "see everyone before I leave" bed shuffle between relatives. I had a fun, if exhausting, time in Italy. Lots of good pasta, lots of old buildings and lots of American tourists. Plus I saw the pope ( Read more... )

I'm sorry if people have seen these pictures already, but a local rag in London did a big spread on this  New Zealand movie and I felt the need to recreate it...

Everything has been ripped from links via IMDB

"Black Sheep"
Plot Outline: An experiment in genetic engineering turns harmless sheep into blood-thirsty killers that terrorize a sprawling New ( Read more... )