wetflame: up & running again

listening to: brad mehldau - exit music (for a film)
feeling: head-poundingy

so i went to see equilibrium ~~toda~~.. uh, yesterday¹ and i was actually pleasantly surprised. i didn't realise they were making a film of nineteen eighty-four, you know, with more-or-less the same plot as the book except they'd changed the means of control, introduced a bit of "gun-kata" martial arts fighting, given it a happier ending and said someone else had written it.

but seriously, it wasn't too bad. seeming as i've read nineteen eighty-four it was easy for me to draw parallels with the book, and it's hard to imagine it didn't have an effect on the film, but i guess that's the way hollywood is these days. the action was great, though sporadic, and the storyline sometimes left me wondering where the film was going², but overall it was a good one :) nice to get out and see films every so often, my top five films coming out over the next year i want to see? 1. matrix reloaded 2. matrix revolutions 3. the hulk 4. x2 5. johnny english.

i see so many films now i'm a student living in manchester, it's great. i can finally consider myself a cinema buff. i warrant this title on the fact that i went to see donnie darko before general release in a tiny cinema round the corner³, i bought tickets to the entire cohen brothers season at the odeon down the road, and i've seen two spike jonze-directed films in the last couple of weeks. i love cinema. mmm.

i bought some new clothes the other day, which is unusual for me. i'll take a photo of me in them soon, but don't worry, i'll give you warning. i should probably put up the photos from the huge protest that took place today and travelled most of the way around manchester. it was bizarre.

i was surprised by my mum's comment to my last post, it was weird to see it there. i know she reads, and probably that's bad when i start getting all teenage angst-y and stuff, but at least she's happy that i'm stating my opinions, which i've done a lot of recently, and i've come to the realisation that everyone has their own opinion, and when you state yours, other people disagree. the nature of the disagreements is when things go bad.

i am very annoyed that radiohead tickets went on sale and sold out without me even knowing the dates had been announced, especially as i'd been planning to go since i heard they were touring the uk. grrr. it would have been so amazing to see them at the apollo. tickets are going on ebay for huge amounts, so i won't get one there, and i don't know if the touts outside will be any cheaper. grrr. i'll have to see them at glastonbury i guess.

there was something i wanted to talk about here, and i'm not quite sure what it was. so this paragraph is going to sit here until i think what it is, ie always. isn't it annoying when there's something you want to remember and you just can't? i do. also: avril lavigne (pronounced lavv-igg-knee) really annoys me too.

no radio show tonight, and none for the next 6 months or so. i want more shows next time, this was over too soon. but it was a heck of a lot of fun :) at least now i'm free to do other stuff, like redesign my site⁴ and work on uni assignments.

this just in: university assignments are a pain. with that, i'll go.

¹ it ended at midnight, so i guess immediately after i'd watched it i'd sen it the day before.
² if it was going anywhere at that point
³ and then raved on about it to my friends, who also went to see it, therefore making me responsible for it's popularity.
⁴ and this time it's actually going to be a redesign rather than changing the theme and keeping the same basic layout *gasp*

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