Alan Rickman, 60

Wow. :)

*thumping music*
*multicoloured lights*
*snow glitter*

HAPPY B-DAY, ALAN! XD *jumphug* FUZZ-LOVE!

Please our man! Wear out your clickah fingah at TheLiteracySite or summat! :)

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I had a day "off" (and tomorrow too) so I got the dentist over and done with. (That sounded pervy.) I was getting out and about today in any case. And in the unlikely event of bad dental news, at least a day such as February 21, 2006 can never be COMPLETELY ruined, eh? So, anyway, the dentist loves me. (Pervy dentist reference #2.) I've never had to risk swallowing a drill, my wisdom teeth have stopped emerging at least for now, minor plaque these days, and, um, I DO try to go easy on the gum-brushing since she told me a few horror stories about receding gums. 'Tis a mystery though:

Dentist: "Remember... once you brush away your gums, they NEVER GROW BACK."
Yoze: *GULP*

Wasn't talkative enough to ask WHAT happens once one digs down to the jaw bone. Someone mentioned surgery. Dentistlady never did. Perhaps the alternatives are

~Surgery for 500 000 SEK in Sweden
~Surgery for 500 000 x 0.33 SEK in cheaper nation :B
~Rotting skull

*shrug* That's what I imagine. :) Blasted.

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Then, of course, it was PARTY TIME! Namely, the ceremonial purchase of Diary 31. I spotted a little beauty in December and kept hoping it would still be available in February. My favourite version, a pink book with a magnolia on it, wasn't... but my 2nd fave was. Fate. :p It's a blue book with a blue poppy on it. Hehe, at least there is room for some Harry Potter symbolism in there:

~I'm a Ravenclaw wannabe and their main house colour is blue
~The nurse's name is Poppy (and with whom can she exchange potion recepies if not Severus?)
~Poppies give us opium and Harry Potter is as addictive...
~...which makes Potheads a good name for the fans (pity pot is not a poppy product... the solution is to re-name the boy Harry Opiumfarmer or some such name)
~If it weren't so far-fetched, I'd write that Barry Trotter's friend Lon wished to be covered with poppy seeds when he was turned into a bagel. OMG.

I just... love magnolias so muuuuuch. :p WHAT AN IMPORTANT POST THIS IS!

I then hopped to the cinema and spent a few hundred years trying to decide whether I should see Nanny McPhee as planned, or follow a primitive impulse and see Goblet of Fire for the 4th time. (I was starting to miss The Voice + it was THE cast member's b-day.) Gaaaaah. I picked Nanny McPhee. Emma T and the bunch... (Pretty much the entire Love actually cast, except Alan of course, who I shall assume was... BUSY!) It was aight. :B

I would have dragged my dad along to Goblet of Fire. He is the only family member who still believes he enjoys total Potter-ignorance. His idea of Harry Potter is based upon one of the cheesiest scenes from one of the Columbus films. So not to be a cultural fascist, but one should not go through life avoiding Harry for the wrong reason, since there is a good chance any given person will enjoy Potterverse. :B (I assume that's why dad tried to teach me about classical music when I was wee. It was torture, but I would have checked out THAT myself otherwise!) Alas, I was unable to convince him about Goblet in time:

Yoze: "Hey, you can go with me to see Harry Potter on Tuesday."
Dad: "Nah."
Yoze: "Why?"
Dad: "FANTASY... OMG."
Yoze: "You know I'm not a general fantasy hysteric either, right?! Guess what that could mean?"
Dad: *ROTFLHAO* *is always proud to generalise*
Yoze: "Harry Potter is not very spaced-out or anything... Plz?"
Dad: "No."
Yoze: "But I'll pay!"
Dad: "What about my TIME?"
Yoze: "I'm SO glad I've seen certain movies I didn't think I wanted to see. This will even fit your taste, I think, an still you're free from expectations. But you can sleep or leave if you hate the sh*t!"
Dad: "I can't walk out of a crowded cinema!"
Yoze: *doubts crowds but* "We'll ask for edge seats."
Dad: "But getting downtown is such a hassle."
Yoze: "You... gasp... hop on the tram 50 m from work and open a paperback for 10 minutes, you fecking car-maniac! Besides, you need to spend time with me or I may start doing drugs."
Dad: "No, really, forget it."
Yoze: "You are being so unreasonable. All out of rational arguments."
Dad: "I don't feel like it."
Yoze: "Gawd, I'm TREATING YOU TO A MOVIE! Who says no to - OK, I'll say the same thing next time you want a favour."
Dad: "OMG, you can nag a hole into a rock. Unfortunately, you are dealing with someone at least as stubborn as yourself."
Yoze: "You know, it is common for negotiations about the creation of a nature reserve to go on for 20 years."
Dad: "So this is great training for you, HAHAHAHAHA!"
Yoze: "I'll give you 50 SEK if you go." *stupid*
Dad: "It's a matter of principles."
Yoze: "Would you go for 1 billion? Haha, some principles. 50 SEK!"
Dad: "Sigh..."
Yoze: "50 SEK" + "There's a lot of porn in the film" (mini-true) + "You don't know what you're missing" x 5000
Dad: "Oh, shut the feck up!"

Mum, today: "Yoze, dad told me he's changed his mind and will go to Harry Potter with you next week."

OMG my brilliant argument/s must have worked their magic in his sleep. Or they think I'm lonely. I haven't mentioned to them that people are banging down my door for cinema company. (OK, 2 have asked in modern times.) But they're scary strangers, and as I said, my prejudiced dad especially needs a decent introduction to Potterverse. (It ain't the books, but at least not Columbus either.) He will also understand Alan's greatness better, and I nag a lot about that at home. (Mum seems a lost cause in that respect, however.)

*flexes ranger nagging muscles*

Lucky I didn't see Goblet today then, not in place of McPhee or afterwards... It was a wee bit too late. :) I almost called my gran to see if she wanted to come along to the nanny movie, as she has stated she will watch any crap starring Emma Thompson. :)

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For dinner I had the last of my weekend pizza. Only yer favourite food is good enough for February 21. :)

Ah, yes... The January exam & Walk the Line!

I always imagined bragging about the January exam result here... if it was good... and sucking the car's exhaust pipe if it was bad...

I'M NOT SUCKING THE EXHAUST PIPE! VG! VG! VG! VG! VG! VG MINUS!

Ahhh, finally another VG. Perhaps I've still GOT IT... *blows at smokin' gun* *downs bottle o' flax seed oil* 8 people failed, 5 scored a G and 7 scored a VG (I was the 2nd worst VG child), IIRC. As the teachers had kind of predicted. :p They are stats geeks after all.

The day after I found out about the, erm, wonderful exam result, yes, thank you lordy, my inner and outer film festival took place. All the invisible children was surprisingly good, although the short film featuring our man David and directed by Ridley Scott and some other Scott was the TOTALLY WEIRDEST one :p and my favourite was that by John Woo. *blows nose... because... because mission: impossible ii was so ballet-ly pwetty even though everyone hated it to bits & besides john was nice to my nick lea*

Then I was washed out from the pwetty cinema on the river of everyone else's tears and met up with my mum with whom I went to see... WALK THE LINE!

One of those films on which I do not have much of an opinion at all... But there was that actor... Yes, that is quite a different case. :) I + EVERYONE *heart* JOAQUIN!

Even my mum was a puddle on the floor: "OMG THE MOVIE WAS SO GOOD! OMG JOAQUIN AND THAT GIRL ARE SO TALENTED! I THOUGHT SHE WAS A PROFESSIONAL SINGER! HOW CAN ACTORS LEARN TO SING LIKE THAT? OMG JOAQUIN IS SO PRETTY! Especially with brown contacts. Yoze, why are you crying? OHHHHHHH, AHHHHHHHHHHH, THAT VOICE! JUST LISTEN! IT'S SO VERY MANLY!"

I shan't whine loudly. It would possibly have received a cooler welcome had I conjured it.

GET ME RIDLEY/JOHN/QUENTIN ON THE PHONE!

It could have been worse though. I loved at least one line:

"Elvis takes it!"

*neigh*

Nah, I'm just sitting here, having entered my third major Joaquin fuzz phase, approximately, and I will make no effort to swim back up. :9 O Joaquin, how can I describe my fuzz 4 thee? It all comes out sounding old (900 million years), superficial, and/or religious. Just listen:

[Sir, we have reason to believe that]

Joaquin is an angel! :D

See?

But really. 20 million monkeys poking 20 million people machines in 20 million people factories for 20 million years will eventually manufacture a... a...

Why am I wasting bandwith trying to explain? Now a relatively large part of the world knows the fuzz.

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I bought the soundtrack hours before I saw Walk the line. In the film festival's little shop. Which also offered... mmm... replicas of THE wallet from Pulp fiction. AND it was fake leather. I was severely tempted, but... but... I've got a lovely wallet already... and I'm trying not to be such a Bad Melon Farmer... so... *sniffle*

The soundtrack. I like Joaquin's voice... and Joaquin, so I had to have it of course, but expected to be horrified by the music. I had heard one Cash song that I knew of... Ring of fire. It played around a couple of Joaquin's scenes in U-turn. ROTF. THAT version of the song was perfectly horrifying in THAT feel-bad film... Anyway, I didn't know it was Cash. Later I saw the Walk the line trailer and recognised the song, but I could not think of why. :) I knew Johnny Cash's name mainly thanks to an X-Files ep in which Mulder held up a white shirt and shrieked:

"JOHNNY CASH!"

Threw the soundtrack in the player, threw some mushrooms in the pan. *feels rhythm & goes musical with kitchen utensils* All the songs weren't so fecking bad. :B I still don't feel like listening to the real thing, but my soundtrack faves would be

-Ring of fire...! :p
-Folsom Prison blues
-Home of the blues
-Cocaine blues
-Jackson

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I must make the unoriginal suggestion of a Robbie Williams biopic starring Joaquin! YAY! Their dark hair (um, Yoze, there is dye, otherwise), their green eyes (er, Yoze, did you see that movie Walk the line), their crazy faces, their 1974's, their higher-than-Cash voices (I mean in case Joaquin doesn't wanna work so hard to change his voice again)... I can only prove it by showing you whichever diary I was writing on June 8, 2000 - but on the day I first saw Gladiator, which was the first time I noticed Joaquin, I basically wrote... something like... "THE EMPEROR RESEMBLED ROBBIE." Spoooooooooooky, eh? :D No.

Problem is, I believe Robbie's style will not stagnate and his story will not end until he dies or summat *cries* so Joaquin can't play the young Robbie... Unless, of course, we make a Robbie Williams Biopic Part 1 this decade and keep 'em coming until the story ends. :P *crycrycry*

Or Joaquin can just tour the world and sing Cash songs or whatever he wants, I will kinda listen!
What other spooky opinion have I been harbouring for years? That Joaquin can pass not only for an animated painted wreath-wearing ancient Roman dude, or for Robbie, but also for any of them classic 50's rock stars... at will. (Er, I know nothing of 50's rock.) And I don't think it was just thanks to U-turn... :)

Naturally, these were just my few easy ideas. Our man can play ANYTHING! :x

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I'm at school and writing this on NO blood sugah whatsoever! Gonna go and gobble down my sandwich, and a packet of thick... smooth... sweet... cholesterol free... chocolate soy milk... The lurking headache softens when one knows such things to be in store... +)

The Nerd, Geek or Dork Test!

Outcast [korrektamundo!] Genius [no, dear]
65% Nerd, 52% Geek, 56% Dork

For The Record:

A Nerd is someone who is passionate about learning/being smart/academia.

A Geek is someone who is passionate about some particular area or subject, often an obscure or difficult one.

A Dork is someone who has difficulty with common social expectations/interactions.

You scored better than half in all three, earning you the title of: Outcast Genius.

Outcast geniuses usually are bright enough to understand what society wants of them, and they just don't care! They are highly intelligent and passionate about the things they know are *truly* important in the world. Typically, this does not include sports, cars or make-up, but it can on occassion (and if it does then they know more than all of their friends combined in that subject).

Outcast geniuses can be very lonely, due to their being outcast from most normal groups and too smart for the room among many other types of dorks and geeks, but they can also be the types to eventually rule the world, ala Bill Gates, the prototypical Outcast Genius.

Congratulations!

Thanks Again! -- THE NERD? GEEK? OR DORK? TEST

My test tracked 3 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:

You scored higher than 72% on nerdiness

You scored higher than 76% on geekosity

You scored higher than 92% on dork points

Teacher screws

The dazzling school-quote series continues.

Teacher: "Hello class, I think I'm coming down with the flu, but I'll try to make it through the day. Right. Iron, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah, manganese, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah, silica, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. Sigh... I was gonna go over carbon with you as well... but I say F*CK THE CARBON!"
Class: *ROTFLTAO*

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Lucky I've never had the flu, or I would have been forced to throw Teacher in a sack and toss the sack in a hole. :/

"Walk the line" review on TV...

When I first saw the trailer for Walk the line I smelled a Conventional Film. Tonight Sweden's film guru confirmed my suspicions... but, as I had also kinda predicted :B he loved the acting. :D

They showed clips. JOAQUIN LOOKED FECKING AMAZING! :O AND BY THAT I MEAN ACTING-WISE! XD *slurp wallow splash gulp*

Stop screaming, fangirls. He was also very pwetty. :p

Tomorrow! :D

*plop* *gurgle* *blubb blubb*

Teacher: "All right, here's some info about the excursion on February 28. You will take samples from a lake, using ice drills should there be ice. In any case, you will only sample from depths greater than 3 metres. Yadda yadda yadda yadda yadda yadda yadda yadda yadda yadda yadda yadda yadda yadda yadda yadda yadda yadda yadda yadda yadda yadda yadda yadda yadda yadda yadda yadda yadda yadda yadda yadda yadda yadda yadda yadda yadda yadda yadda yadda yadda. Oh, and I almost forgot to mention - if there is no ice, YOU WILL USE BOATS!!! :O"

Yoze: *stops envisioning winter-swimming*

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PETER JACKSON'S KING KONG SPOILERS

I saw King Kong 900 years ago and was the only person in the world who did not love it to bits. I suppose it was nice at first...
Adrien B: :)
Yoze: +)
Natives: 8/
Yoze: "AAAAAAAAAAAAA! GHOSTY!"
Natives: 8/ 8/ 8/ 8/ 8) *splat*
Yoze: "Wickedddddd!"
Dinosaurs: *munch munch munch*
Yoze: "Oooooohhhhhh, dinosaurs!"
Dinosaurs: *run*
Gang: *have supersenses that allow them to run for 37 minutes inside a forest of running Oliphant, I mean dinosaur legs*
Bloke: *plays "jump off the falling rocks just in time, and wow, without slipping, too!"*
Dinosaur: *trip*
Dinosaurs: *trip* *fall*
Dinosaurs: *fall for a while*
Dinosaurs: *never fecking stop falling*
Special effects person: "OH, GOD, YES! YES, YES, YES! OH GOD! OOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!"
10 000 000 tons of blubber: *come to rest*
Special effects person: *rolls over* *ciglight*
Gang: "Whoever finishes off the totally amazing endemic megafauna gets a drink!"
TOTALLY AMAZING MAN-SIZED WORMS: *engulf gang*

I... just find it disturbing when people in movies survive on luck... too often... I know that happens in most movies but HEY, maybe this was the last drop for me or summat. :/ (*SHRUG* At least they suffered a lot of casualties.) I prefer them to survive on brains... I get by on luck myself, though. :D

END OF SPOILERS

Yesterday I caught a(nother) festival film that I *COUGH* liked better! *COUGH* Zaïna, rider of the Atlas. :p Horsies! *horse chills* It was kinda pwetty, never boring but thrilling, and my heart was jumping outta my chest in the last seconds of the race, although I could not imagine it ending another way... :B *woosh* Wonder if that was the same race as in The black stallion returns... Wonder if it still runs... *wants to shoot* Wonder when this was set...

That Elijah film, Everything is illuminated, was sold out btw. :/ Oh well, then I guess it's gonna be a big movie after all then.

I went and got freshly freshly freshly freshly released tix for Walk the line on Friday. (3 h 15 min before that I will see my last 2006 festival film... mmmm... AT TEH FANCY CINEMA!) Ahhhh, I've been waiting... two years or so... AS USUAL...

JOAQUIN HAS BEEN NOMINATED FOR ANOTHER OSCAR! THIS TIME IN A LEADING ROLE, EVEN! ALTHOUGH I COULD HAVE GUESSED ALL THAT! :) Weeeeeeeeee! Not that Oscars are all that matter... :9