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Blogging fun since 4th May 2001
"This diary is my kief, hashish, and opium pipe. This is my drug and my vice."

Saturday, September 21, 2002

Cyberpunk

In the early spring of 1980 Bruce Bethke wrote a little story about a bunch of teenage hackers. From the very first draft this story had a name, and lo, the name was-- Cyberpunk.

"And you can bet any body part you'd care to name that, had I had even the slightest least inkling of a clue that I would still be answering questions about this word nearly 18 years later, I would have bloody well trademarked the damned thing!"

Friday, September 20, 2002

Currently watching:
AvaloneXistenZ
Play It. Live It. Kill For It.
Where Does Reality Stop... And The Game Begin?
Play Or Be Played.
Connect Compete Collide
Into your body, under your skin, beyond your senses

Thursday, September 19, 2002

Currently watching:
AvalonAvalon
Directed by a Japanese : Mamoru Oshii (Ghost in the Shell, Patlabor)
Screenplay by Neil Gaiman (Neil Gaiman! Have I ever mentioned that I have touched His Greatness' hand before?)
Cast of Polish actors : Malgorzata Foremniak, Wladyslaw Kowalski, Jerzy Gudejko, Dariusz Biskupski
Made a year after David Cronenberg's eXistenZ, Avalon is a dark and surreal movie where improvished people play a game called Avalon for fun and profit. In many dream-like sequences, the heroine plays in a FPS game, where players are gunned down in John Woo slow-mo shoot outs. Like a cross between "A Better Tommorrow" - the movie, and "Counter-strike" - that infernal FPS game, I cringe and await the inevitable, "FIRE IN THE HOLE! GO GO GO!".

Tuesday, September 17, 2002

I'm so excited. Since my last failure at making glycerin soaps, I've decided to make soap from scratch. The soap bases I was using previously were expensive and icky.

I bought a whole bunch of tubs of cocoa butter, exotic oils and such. I even purchased colours to put into the soap. I bought more molds! Stirrers! Funky additives : Sodium Benzoate and Citric Acid.

But strangely, I can't find lye. At all.

I bought two books : The Complete Soapmaker and Soapmaking for Fun and Profit.
I borrowed books from the library : Making Soaps!
I've surfed the internet for uncountable soap resources.

I am soooo ready to make soap this weekend.

I just need lye.

Monday, September 09, 2002

Its incredible what I managed to squeeze into a weekend.

Little Car still in the BoxWatched a movie : The Bourne Identity
Fulfilled social obligations : Alice, LF, Raymond, Gavin, Daphne, XH, Francis, Peter, KC and his bitch, Nick and his bitch.
Little Car!Alex bought me a new toy! We sat around Spinelli's at Bugis Junction and terrorized the staff with the little car antics. From Tomy, Tomica Bit Char-G! A shiny new Toyota Celica in silver. Tests, Headlights!, Bits, more bits. He's so nice to me!
Demolished a large bottle of Choya!

Friday, September 06, 2002

Currently watching:
Star Trek The Next Generation - The Complete First Season on DVD
Star Trek The Next Generation - The Complete First Season on DVD
Disc 3 - The Battle
Currently watching:
Star Trek The Next Generation - The Complete First Season on DVD
Star Trek The Next Generation - The Complete First Season on DVD
Disc 2 - Justice

Tuesday, September 03, 2002

Need

Streamyx.

I was promised Streamyx in December of 2001. They lie to me. Bastards.
In December, they promised me Streamyx in March 2002. They lie to me again. Bastards.
Again in March, they promised me Streamyx in July 2002. They lie. They LIE. Bastards.
July, yet again, they promised me Streamyx in August 2002. They lie to me yet again. Bastards.
August is over. They promise me Streamyx soon. They are still lying to me. Bastards.

Dark Age of Camelot. Its been nearly 3 months. I miss you so. ):

Currently watching:
Star Trek The Next Generation - The Complete First Season on DVD
Star Trek The Next Generation - The Complete First Season on DVD
Disc 2 - Lonely Among Us
Currently watching:
Still boggling
BogglingI'd like to join the legions of wannabes and say 'Yeah, deep movie. I loved it.' Thus implying my superior intellect and obviously more sophisticated thinking than other pathetic souls, who I know for a fact will have NO IDEA what the show was about as I did on watching it the first time. But I perservered. Afterall, I am a superior being. I watched it again. And again. Oh yep. David Lynch is one strange puppy.

What the fuck is going on in this movie?

Lookie lookie! Who's at my simParty!
Drew Carey!My sims threw yet another simParty! This time they went all the way and hired two entertainers to jump out of gigantic cakes! And guess who decided to crash the party in a black stretch limo? Drew Carey!

Monday, September 02, 2002

Currently watching:
o-t-n-e-m-e-MMemento DVD Special Edition / Limited Edition (RC1)

Features:
Disc 1:
Remastered Main Feature in Anamorphic Widescreen Closed-Captioned
English DTS and Dolby Surround 2.0
Audio Commentary by Christopher Nolan
Subtitles: English, Spanish
Scene Selections
Disc 2:
23 Minute Sundance Channel Documentary "Anatomy of a Scene"
The Original Short Story
Shooting Script which utilizes the multi-angle feature
Production Stills and Sketches
Theatrical Trailer, International Trailer
Easter Egg - Chronological Resequencing of Memento
Props Gallery
International Art Gallery
Journal
Are you hungry tonight?

May 1st, 1967 : Wedding of Elvis and Priscilla Presley at the Aladdin Hotel Las Vegas , NV
An estimated 100 guests dined on this :

The Menu
Ham and eggs
Southern Fried Chicken
Oysters Rockefeller
Roast Suckling Pig
Poached and Candied Salmon,
Lobster
Eggs Minnette
Wedding Cake (Pricilla's famous 6 tiered cake)
Champagne

Today at the MOVIES!
LiloLeeelow and Steeetch. That's right. "Are there any aminals in here?"