so i decided i'd say a few things to spark off discussion, and also because i can rant here if i want. you don't have to like it.
update! i forgot something else that annoys me a lot, when people set their msn name to something other than a name, like a poem, quote or song lyric that ends up taking up about 3 lines. also, people that say "r u" instead of "are you" and use the number 8 in words like great and mate.
rss feeds should only be used for notification of updates, not reading whole posts. the whole is more than the sum of the parts when it comes to reading websites, i will soon change my rss feed accordingly.
as i said up there, i'm listening to nine inch nails and quite enjoying it. this kind of irks me, because i didn't think i was the kind of person who liked nine inch nails at all. i draw the line at use of the accursed "NiN" though.
i'd say that the latest harry potter book was written in a weekend if that didn't require her to have a typing speed of about 4000 words per minute. how long's the film going to be? she knows she's writing books that are going to be made into film now, she may as well write stage directions; HERMIONE folds her arms, RON WEASLEY does that annoying thing with his face again. VOLDEMORT is the baddie again, but HARRY uses whatever artefact has been mentioned at some point to kill him again. i highly doubt that she was that emotional when writing the death of a character, especially as we all knew it wouldn't be a major one.
the rapture are the new hives! oh wait, no, they're the old hives again, but with some sort of dance music in the background.
exerpt from empire magazine's review of the chicago dvd:
"Yes, it looks nice, yes, Catherine Zeta Jones can sing and dance quite convincingly at the same time (certainly compared to co-star Renée Zellweger); yes there are even a couple of good tunes (well, one, in fact). But isn't it merely the film of a stage show, with clunking dialogue serving as a link to the next big number?
Not that's there's anything wrong with a knockout musical of a movie [...] it's just that Chicago isn't one of them."
this review makes me glad some magazines aren't all hype and no balls. it recieved two stars out of five for both the film and dvd extras, just for reference, this puts it equal to (taken from the same issue) ghost ship. take all that jazz.
away messages on aim are getting increasingly more random. what's the point? if it tells me where you are or what you're doing, i'm happy. if it's a quote from an obscure novel, or if you're shouting "GARY BUSEY HAS A BONER!!!" at me, then i have no idea where you are or when you're getting back. i may love you, but you'll annoy me all the same.
in a completely unrelated note, i have to travel to london soon, and so when i went downstairs and saw a cardboard sign with "LONDON" written on it, i thought my mum had made it for me as a joke, but it turns out it's an advert for a £10 return ticket to london! this is very good. it would cost about 6 or 7 times that much to get there otherwise. this makes me happy, and so is probably a fitting end to a ranting post.
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