I Feel Like Shit

I stayed up until about 1 in the morning playing Marvel: Ultimate Alliance. I only stayed up that late so I could finish it, because I had to take it back to the video store later that day. I was originally just going to get up early in the morning and finish it, but I was so close to the end I decided to stay up. I had told my dad to tell my mum to wake me up early in the morning, because it's holidays, and I normally sleep in, and I wouldn't get to play it if I didn't get woken up.

I finished the game. Just over 13 hours. This game had crappy dialogue, crappy voice casting, crappy story, and other crappy parts which I can't be bothered thinking about. The best part of the game was the awesome cinematics, which make the game look a hundred times better than it actually is. Personally, I think the game feels like a World of Warcraft ripoff, but that's mainly because of the retarded villains they chose. Except Doom. Doom owns.

But yeah, I finished the game at about 1, and wrote a note telling my mum not to wake me up early.

She didn't see it.

I can't remember, but I think she woke me up just before 7. Under 6 hours of sleep. I need my sleep.

I feel sick too. I still hate every form of life.

I went to the library and got out four new trade paper backs: Astonishing X-Men Vol. 1: Gifted, Origin, What If...?: Why Not?, and Gambit: House of Cards. I've read Astonishing X-Men on the computer, but the rest look pretty good. I read the first three stories in What If? (two were by Bendis) and they were pretty good. The artists always make Bendis's stories look better than they actually are, though.

Beautiful

I received my Amazon order today, and it is amazing. It came in two massive cardboard boxes. The Bone: One Volume Edition is the thickest book I've ever owned and is very impressive. It will definitely take me a while to get through it.

The Promethea volumes are gorgeous as well. I like that the poster version of #32 was released in Book 5. I'll be looking forward to reading it all, since what I've read is very deep.

I stopped playing Marvel: Ultimate Alliance (there'll probably be a rant about this tomorrow), and started watching Mr. Bean. Burnt through the first two DVDs (there are three in total), and I'm amazed that even though I've seen every episode on TV, it's still funny. My sister is watching them with me, as apparently she hasn't watched many of them before.

I just continued with Marvel: Ultimate Alliance and am up to the part where I have to fight Arcade to learn where Nightcrawler is. Bore.

Atomic Morningstar

Atomic Morningstars are cool. It is my weapon of choice when I go to kill all the babies.

My Amazon order (Promethea Books 1-5, and Bone: One Volume Edition) had an estimated arrival date of today. Since I ordered them on December 19th, paid with a credit card, and even used a goddamn sigil on it, I was expecting it to be here today.

It wasn't. I hate everyone.

I did buy the Mr. Bean DVD set with one of my Christmas vouchers though. That silly Mr. Bean.

Recognition

I have been recognized by the person who inspired this blog: Warren Ellis.

The following occured on Comicspace, and I have made little images to show the comments. The first is a comment I made a while ago, to see what it would take for him to reply to me:


Today, since I had actually started posting on this blog, I told him about it, to see if he'd say anything now. He did:


I take being called a whore by Warren Ellis as a compliment. He is the Internet Jesus. I then posted this:


Now that I've pissed Mister Ellis off, it's time to move onto the other comic creators on my list...

Plants

Plants. They're a waste.

The other day my dad was watering the plants, and I told him that plants were pointless. They take up space, they require watering, and they don't give you attention like pets would.

My mum's rebuttal was that they look pretty. Yeah, well, so do hot chicks, but that doesn't mean I'll shove a pile of them in my backyard.

Though I could. It would be excellent.

EDIT: Immediately after this, I asked my friend what he thought of plants. He said he didn't worry about them.

I told him he should. Plants eat small children.

Watch out.

Sunday Thoughts

I saw The Prestige this afternoon. Very, very good. Lots of twists and turns, and it was a perfect time for me to see it as I'm becoming interested in magic (I performed two chaos magick sigils the other week). The only cons I felt was that some of the dialogue was hard to hear at some parts, but that might have been just my theatre, which had some hiccups at the start. There were also some confusing explanations, and I felt that the whole "duplicates caused by Tesla's electricity machine" didn't fit. But it was still great, and I think it would be even better upon repeated viewings. David Bowie as Nikola Tesla was also very good, and I love the whole Victorian era theme. I'd give it a 4.5/5, and it's the best movie I've seen all year (it's the only movie I've seen this year).

My family and I went out to the beach to eat fish and chips tonight. My dog went and did a huge crap (the biggest ever) and my mum was insistent on picking it up in a plastic bag. I told her to just put some sand on it. She didn't.

My dad had a cup filled with Coke, and went to drink it. It somehow went down his t-shirt, and I laughed. He started complaining that the cup was too big for his mouth. He said he had a small delicate mouth, and that the cup could fit two mouths. I asked him if he thought the cup was designed for two people to drink out of it at the same time, and he told me it was designed for a big mouth.

I found this conversation funny, and it reminded me of one of the Karl Pilkington conversations from The Ricky Gervais Show podcasts, which are all excellent and the funniest things I've ever heard. Karl Pilkington is my hero.

These were my thoughts on Sunday. Maybe I'll make this a regular thing.

Or not. I am lazy, after all.

Cooking With Wendy

Cooking With Wendy started off as a random video my sister and I had filmed along with a whole lot of other random videos. Cooking With Wendy was the funniest, so we got hold of an old video camera, wrote some scripts, and filmed some episodes.

Cooking With Wendy is about a girl, Wendy, who is absolutely nuts. Most of the time, it has nothing to even do with cooking.

I recently created a trailer for a possible Cooking With Wendy TV series, which can be found here.

Be afraid. Be very afraid.

Someday I might upload the original version which is on this computer, but for now, the trailer should do.