Why hello there! Been a week or longer since I last updated my blog. I just really couldn’t be bothered if I’m honest plus well I have more to talk about right now.
First of all I get to see Rosie on either Friday or Saturday for at least a few days yey! I’m so excited I actually have butterflies in my stomach already!! I miss her so much she’s my world. Can’t imagine my life without her. As you may have noticed I include her in many of my blog posts. :) I may be going down to Cornwall to with Rosie to her house for a week or two hopefully if the job centre let me. (Fingers crossed). I really want to go down there and spend some time with Rosie.
Well anyway if you’ve just read the above about the job centre well I’m on job seekers allowance now. Still waiting for my claim to process but hopefully it will be done sometime next week. Looking for jobs sucks but it must be done I need the money till I’m back at college.
Thirdly and finally I launched a new website with a couple of friends Sam & Simon for gamers who enjoy a good community and a place to share and discuss your thoughts on the gaming world. We named it Fragtopia and you can check us out over at www.fragtopia.co.uk please sign up if your intrepid in games I’m sure you’ll love it! We cater for all kinds of gamers be it PC, Console or mobile.
Anyway that’s all for now. Maybe I’ll blog tomorrow… maybe I won’t we’ll see!
So last night I went out with all my friends from college since it was our last day of seeing each other for some of us. I had such a great time and got drunk even though I said I never would! I always say that… silly me. My friend took lots of photos with my camera which you can check out over here: http://bit.ly/9ARYn8 It’s a public link so you guys should be able to view it. :)
Here’s come the bad part of the night… I was walking home drunk out of my skull when about 6 people decide to jump me, beat me up a little bit then steal my phone. The irony out of it all is I was walking off angry and shook up and one of them hands me my phone back. Who the hell does that?! So basically I got beat up for fuck all! Still a little annoyed about it. My nose is killing me I’m going to have to get it checked out tomorrow at the walk in centre in town cause hopefully it’s not broken. I think it’s just badly bruised but better to get it looked at.
I want to put the worry of Rosie’s mind. I wish she could be here right now. Missing her so much and then this happens I need her. :( Oh well not long now she’s coming up next weekend I can’t wait! When I wake up I got to tell her my Nan said it’s ok to stay. :D
Anyway I’m off to get some well deserved rest. Good night.
Phew.. so yesterday was hectic. I woke up late, went in college, printed all my work off for my showcase and then had to sit around for a few hours doing nothing because the tutor was busy helping others put their work up which is understandable. Bloody wish I didn’t sleep in, stupid me! I eventually got all my artwork up and it looks amazing. I’m not the best artist in the world and not very good at being erm… how do you say it proud of my work. Because I thought it was pretty poor. Now I’ve had a change of heart since it was mounted on the wall it looks brilliant! So anyone in Oldham, Greater Manchester make sure you come to the showcase Monday night 18:30 PM if you can.
Just had a long msn convo with evilmunky (check out his twitter). He is one top guy! I shouldn’t of stayed up this late… I need to be up for 8, DOH. Oh well lie in tomorrow woo! Got to sort my sketchbook out over the weekend and hand it in Tuesday for my final marks then I’m done. Still considering going back for a year or two to get some more qualifications. Still not sure which college to go for… so hard!
Anyway I’m signing off.. going to wake Rosie up in the morning she wants me to call her :) love talking to Rosie when I first open my eyes makes my day so much better! Good night readers of my boring blog!
P.S. Oh yeah, theme change the new WordPress 3.0 default theme woop! Shall finish sorting it all out properly over the weekend.
I’m so stressed tonight. The thought of leaving college very soon is just dawning on me and it’s my showcase to show my final major project off on Monday night. It needs to be all printed off and on the boards by Friday. I’m pretty much finished doing all my work I just need to work up some posters and then tidy up my sketchbook. Hopefully I pass… I’m doubtful I won’t because I lost a lot of interest in the course after being off ill with my anxiety.
So yeah if anyone was wondering why I hadn’t updated that’s why I’ve just been so busy and totally forgot about my blog if I’m honest. I’ll try update as much as possible. Once I’m done with college it won’t be so bad I’ll be updating a lot more. Anyway I’m off to stuff my face because I’m starving and download episode one of True Blood season 3. I’m been waiting for season 3 for months I’m such a Trubie! I love it. Vampires, shape shifters and much more epic! I’ll let you know what I think of episode one but for now I’m signing off, good night.
So here we have it. Johnny Depp and Tim Burton’s take on Lewis Caroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. This adaptation is a contrast between Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking Glass. Mia Wasikowska plays 19 year old Alice. In this adaptation, she is a lot older than we remember with the story taking place years later than the original. She is to be engaged to a dunce English nobleman who she does not love or have any interest in.
While she is at her engagement party she runs away from the crowd of people around her to decide whether or not the marriage is what she wants. She sees a white rabbit and thinks she is going mad, (as she does not recall the past, she recollects it as a dream). As she is running away she chases after it and accidentally falls down the rabbit hole in the garden in what it seems she is falling to her death but lands in a surreal world named ‘Wonderland’ known to everyone else as ‘Underland’. The world reminds her somewhat of what she experienced in her recurring dreams. Little did she know these dreams were but a memory of what had happened in the past.
Entering ‘Wonderland’ she is unaware she must free them from the Red Queen ruling Wonderland making life hell from everyone. She must free them by slaying the evil Jabberwocky. Alice finds it hard to believe that this is not a dream, she realises very near to the end after accepting to slay the Jabberwocky that Underworld depends on her and soon believes that this world is reality, not a dream anymore.
One thing I loved about this film was it very dark all the way through adding Tim Burton’s signature to the film along with Linda Woolverton’s script this was almost perfect although some parts of the film felt a little too Disney for me. I can’t say I dislike Disney in anyway but I would have loved for it to have had an even darker touch to it.
My favourite character of all had to be the Mad Hatter played by Johnny Depp himself. I knew as soon as I found out he was cast to play him he would do a perfect job and add his own little twist to it along with Tim Burton’s assistance in guiding him on the characters profile. The Mad Hatter is much more than mad but rather mental. His strange looking ginger hair, huge smiles and psychedelic multi coloured eyes with a Scottish accent which was close to one of a Glaswegian. His sudden movements and changes in voice show scars of the events that since Alice’s last trip to Wonderland.
To sum this movie up it’s nothing of what once was Lewis Caroll’s Alice’s Adventures to Wonderland. Other than a few hints of both Alice’s Adventures to Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass it seems something of a totally new story almost. You will find some quotations from the original in the film but the darkness and making Alice older gives it the touch of life it needed. For me this is one of those films you watch once and never again or not for a very long time anyway. I take my hat off to Tim Burton he pulled it off brilliantly as he does in all his films well done to you sir!
If you haven’t had the chance yet to watch it yourselves do check out the trailer above and consider getting a copy on dvd or renting it.
Thank you for reading my first ever film review. Now to finish off all I have to say is… Have you any idea why a raven is like a writing desk?
Good god my legs are aching from running the past two days! So sore walking downstairs but it’s nothing that’s going to stop me from doing it just painful. I decided to not go for a run today and rest my legs. There’s no point pushing myself too hard as I can only get better over time not over night.
I had my first day back at college today. Really didn’t feel like going in… Firstly I woke up feeling really sick but I think that was my anxiety kicking in as I used to feel like that all the time when my anxiety was a lot worse than it is now. College was pretty boring. Just scanned some of my drawings in and started to work one of them up in Adobe Photoshop. That was basically my day at college how exciting!
Going to finish off watching the rest of The Shining now. It shall be the first time I have ever seen it. I know shocking! I’m going through a list of the top 50 favourite films of all time on IMDb but picking them out the ones I really want to watch first. I know it’s a really old movie but I think I might write a mini review of it tonight or tomorrow.
Well it’s 2 in the morning right now and I can’t sleep so I might as well fill you in on what I got up to yesterday. Well I went out early in the morning for my first real run in probably years as I don’t do sports or anything anymore but as you know I’m trying to get my fitness back up in preparation from the Territorial Army. I only managed a mere 6 minute run! Yes I know it’s shocking. I couldn’t believe it myself but goes to show how unfit I really am. I use my iPhone to record my stats using RunKeeper Pro. You can check the stats and the route I took here: http://runkeeper.com/user/sheeep
I shall be going for another run later once I manage to get some sleep. Going to try a steady 10 minute run and remember to take bottle of water with me as I forgot yesterday and ended up feeling really dehydrated and walking back to my house I felt so sick I thought I was going to pass out! The field are only up a hill from my street but it felt like a mission away. Soon as I got in I just got some water and just passed out my bed for a few hours I felt dead. I’m going to follow what Rosie said and use that as my guide “Don’t run until you can walk”. Very true point and I need to stop pushing myself too hard as I have at least a few months before I can join the TA.
Later on when I woke up I went round to my mum’s house for a bit because I hadn’t seen her all week and fancied giving her a visit. Stayed for my tea, watched a couple of episodes of Spartacus with my mum’s fiancée Dom and watched then end of Shrek 2 before going home. Didn’t do too much but I just wanted to see everyone it was nice. :) Even my little brother Jenson was beating me up and running off with his cheeky smile loved it. He is a spitting image of me as a young child and we are 15 years apart! I have a feeling he will look like me when he’s older.
Anyway not got much more to saw. Trying to get sleepy. I took a tablet which helps me sleep as I have problems sleeping. I’m just sat here listening to some Eminem. Can’t wait for his new album later this month! I absolutely love him. His lyrics are real and we can all relate to them in some way or at least some of us can.
That’s all for now thanks for reading. Good night / good morning ladies and gents.
Well today I went out to town for a little while to grab my self a pair of jogging pants as I plan to start running tomorrow morning and evening. Just to build my fitness up as I will be joining the Territorial Army as you may well know if you have read some of my previous blog posts. It could take from 3 to 6 months to get in the TA so I have a lot of time to prepare myself keeping fit doing running, push ups and sit ups. I’ve already been doing the last two but decided to start running as I need to be able to do a mile and a half run in under 10 minutes once I start training to join up. I can speed the process up with joining the TA depending on how adamant I am on signing up with me speeding the process up by getting all my forms etc. filled in. I’m just waiting on them sending me a form to do with my medical background yet but if it’s not here by Tuesday I shall be going back down to try and get one.
Not doing much tonight but chilling out. Took the dog out for a walk earlier with my nan, as I live with my grandparents. I went mostly to have a look around the field near my house working out a simple plan for doing my run tomorrow as the fields are massive. Cannot wait till tomorrow morning even if it will kill me waking up quite early!
Right now I’m just going to chill out, have some booze and play some Xbox and possibly listen to some music and sort out a playlist for my run tomorrow. That’s all for now folks. Sorry for not updating too much I forget sometimes or just have a case of writers block. It’s a bitch.
So… I’ve been watching a lot of Spartacus lately. I wasn’t too sure if I would like it due to it all being done on green screen but then again what isn’t done on green screen these days. It’s quite magnificent all the environments they can come up with just by using a green screen. Really liking the plot of Spartacus up to now it’s getting more and more intense each episode as Spartacus fights to become a free man again and be with his wife who has been condemned to slavery by the Romans.
Had a good laugh on Gears of War earlier with my mates Ash and Steve. We used to always play together and don’t get online as much as we used to do so it’s always nice to have a catch up and a laugh. Only stayed on for an hour but I find the Xbox is much better in small doses these days. Really getting back into Gears of War though so hopefully I can afford to buy my Xbox Live subscription again when it runs out on either 23-25th June. Not sure which one it is but looking out for a cheap deal of 12 months subscription so if any of you know of one send it my way and leave me a comment and I shall love you long time!
Anyway that’s all for now I’m off to watch the rest of Britain’s Got Talent. I missed the first couple of acts. Good job Rosie reminded I thought it started at 8 not 7pm stupid me! Thank you baby I love you! ♥
So today I moved to a new web host called Tranquilium and the best bit about it is the hosting is free! No catches or anything. Thank you Vicky for the hosting it means a lot! I’ve only just got finished sorting porting it all over but it was worth it. Still needs some little things fixing but they can wait till later on I’m really tired.
I had a great Sunday night on Gears of War with my old buddy Steve. Really good catch up I’ve missed playing with him. One of the nicest guys I know. I didn’t get off till around 4am so I’m still paying for it now booo. I have to go out later today to sort my money out I get from college. I have a feeling it won’t get sorted. They are just too damn stupid and find a way to lose a form I had to fill in. What a waste of my time. Also got to go back down to the TA and hand my forms in check they are all ok and ready to send off or whatever they need to do with them. Can’t wait to get it all done then I can start training if I pass my medical.
