strange_powers

Pixelocalypse

strange_powers Apr 08, 2010 11:03

If we are going to go, I wouldn't mind as much if it were heralded by giant Tetris pieces.

Scott Pilgrim vs The World trailer

strange_powers Mar 26, 2010 10:04

Edgar Wright, Bryan Lee O'Malley's amazing books, Michael Cera and Mary Elizabeth Winsted. And AnnHog dressed up pretty hot!

Naturally, it looks and sounds amazing.

The Absent King's Christmas Broadcast

strange_powers Dec 24, 2009 12:26

Despite reading livejournal pretty much every day, I've made a grand total of 17 entries all year (including this one). How rubbish of me. It's been a great year though, and I'm happy that my friends on lj have been a part of it.

Merry festivus, one and all.
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Sydney dust storm

strange_powers Sep 23, 2009 15:58

A flickr person has been collecting images from the dust storm currently hanging around Sydney. Some of them are just amazing:

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The truth about swine flu

strange_powers Aug 10, 2009 09:31

Oh poor journal, underfed and ignored for so long...

I've had swine flu. It started with a temperature and trembling limbs, and kept those symptoms up through a week of aching joints, exhaustion, headaches, sweating and a very upset stomach. I did not like it (even though the traditional flu, which I had a couple of years ago, was far worse - ( Read more... )

blackout crew, dreams, illness

The Death of JG Ballard Imagined as a Long Sad Sigh Over a Cup of Coffee

strange_powers Apr 20, 2009 10:34

I heard this morning of the death of JG Ballard - one of my absolute favourite writers. From those slightly pulpy but always fiercely thought out early novels (The Wind From Nowhere and The Drought are my favourites), the phenomenal bank of short stories (Memories of the Space Age, describing a long abandoned Cape Kennedy is haunting and ( Read more... )

Happy list

strange_powers Apr 17, 2009 16:28

Things that have made me happy this week: 1) New Keep Left signs.

EDIT: Argh, LJ ate my list of things! New Keep Left signs will have to suffice. They are good.

I'm watching the Watchmen

strange_powers Mar 12, 2009 14:27

Watchmen

There's a barrage of cliche and received wisdom that is obligatory for anyone wishing to discuss Zach Snyder's movie adaptation of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' Watchmen to wade through: it's unfilmable; truncating it is akin to sterilizing it; heresy has been committed by changing it; Moore won't watch it so you shouldn't either; it ( Read more... )

film

Karaoke Circus tonight

strange_powers Feb 25, 2009 09:35

Are peoples going to Ward and White's Karaoke Circus tonight? I booked a couple of places a couple of weeks ago, but the_heiress has late meetings and won't make it to London in time. Must I sit alone? Does anyone want my spare ticket?

karaoke

My formative albums

strange_powers Feb 19, 2009 15:52

I was tagged to do this by ultraruby, and I'm feeling nostalgic. In the chronological order I heard them:

1) Cat Stevens - Teaser and the Firecat

Because Dylan is too dense for little kids. My dad used to play this album (and Tea for the Tillerman and Catch Bull at Four, but this was my favourite) a lot when I was small. It's a gentle, folky, sad and ( Read more... )