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Tuesday, July 18th, 2006
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11:39 am - New Journal (Reminder)
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| Saturday, February 11th, 2006
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3:18 pm - Sofie says..
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No you didn't. Doing a 1.38 minutes long jet ski sequence hardly qualifies as completing a game!
So actually, pheer MY leet skillz. I just completed Resident Evil 4, one of the best games ever made. I know - I'm a bit behind as this game has been out for ages, but I really am a huge fan of the Resident Evil series. In fact, I am so much of a fan that I can admit there are some rather terrible flaws in most of the Resident Evil game (but I love them regardless)! But Resident Evil 4? Wow. I was blown away. It is truly one of the most fun, interesting and challenging games I have ever played. What impressed me the most was probably that despite being so very different from the previous RE games, with a much more interactive world and fast-paced action, Resident Evil 4 still retains the RE feel that made me fall in love with these games in the first place.
Also, this is the first game I have ever played that requires you to protect an NPC (cutie Ashley in this case) that hasn't totally driven me nuts! Usually I hate protection-missions, as the NPCs you protect are generally dumb, get in the way, get killed, run around and act annoyingly. But Ashley is relatively clever, and the game gives you plenty of options to protect her without having to drag her around all the time. Brilliant!
So, yeah. I completed Resident Evil 4. The only two bits I didn't do myself were avoiding the lasers in the corridor (nice little nod to the movie) and the final escape on the jet ski. Why didn't I do those bits? Well, because frankly, I'm not very good at that sort of thing. :P And why try and die over and over again when there's someone in the house (mister wolfie to the rescue!) who is MUCH better at it than me*?
*Although, I doubt he could've done it without my valuable assistance; shouting "Dodge, dodge! L1 R1! L1 R1!" in his ear whenever an action event came up on the screen! :)
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| Friday, February 10th, 2006
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1:38 pm - mr.wolfie says: pheer my leet skillz...
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I have completed Resident Evil 4. ;)
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| Wednesday, February 8th, 2006
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10:41 am - mr.wolfie says: Quite possibly the worst spam ever...
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This arrived in my email the other day:
Do You hvae enuogh poewr to proivde yuor patrner hgih qaulity SEX on S.tValentine da?y
Get a MONTSER poewr, nothnig can birng yuor errectoin donw!
Show yuor patrner the POEWR of yuor LVOE and she wlil alwyas rememebr You.L
ove wlil ALAWYS be assoicated wtih YUO!
oYur oredr wlil be PRIVAET, nboody wlil konw waht You use.
Flolow tihs lnik and get SPECAIL DISOCUNT for taht perido.
Gone are the days of Shakespeare, I guess they're getting those hundred monkeys to type up spam emails nowadays. It looks like a sales pitch written by a d00d (using his best English too).
And, at the risk of creating an excruciating aphorism, may I wish you all:
MONTSER POEWR!
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| Wednesday, January 25th, 2006
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11:10 am - mr.wolfie says:
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hehe, Green Goblin magnet.
She's blonde, she's Swedish AND she has a Green Goblin magnet ~ I'm such a lucky bastard!
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| Tuesday, January 24th, 2006
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10:14 pm - Sofie says..
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FACT:
In the past, people had children so that they would have someone around to run up to the TV and change the channel for them.
Now, people have children so that they have someone around who actually understands how the remote control works.
EVIDENCE:
When I moved from Sweden to England, I left my mother a handwritten manual on how to operate the video recorder. It was five or six pages long, complete with illustrations and instructions on how to correctly utilize a fork and/or hammer to un-jam stuck tapes, and I stuck it onto the fridge with a Green Goblin magnet.
A year later I return for a visit, and my mother complains to me about always missing TV-shows. My eyes dart to the fridge - yes, the instructions are still there, intact - and I say, well, why don't you tape the shows?
Mother: "Oh, that's too complicated."
(I do not have many memories of TV-channel changing slavery, but that is only because I was fortunate enough to get a younger brother, to whom that particular chore was quickly passed on.)
And that's that for my first post! Stay tuned for more brilliant life observations from this procrastinating blogger, who is now off to watch mr.wolfie make spells for her EverQuest 2 character! :D
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| Tuesday, January 17th, 2006
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2:05 pm - mr.wolfie says: Welcome Sofie!
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This is to introduce the Swedish blonde in my life*, Sofie.
We set up a Livejournal for her to write in, but then forgot what it was called ~ so I'm going to be sharing my blog with her, since mine gets updated so infrequently too. I guess she will start her posts "Sofie says" or something similar. Then the two of you out there will know which one of us is writing :)
Enjoy.
*everyone should have one...
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| Sunday, December 11th, 2005
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4:34 pm - Reasons to not have Children (#11 of 7,839)
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So, you're topping up your car's radiator with Anti-Freeze when asked by your small offspring, "Daddy, what are you doing?"
"I'm adding this special liquid to make sure that the water in the car doesn't freeze in the cold weather," you reply.
The next thing you know, you've got a tank full of dead fish...
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| Tuesday, December 6th, 2005
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2:45 pm - Yuletide Nostalgia
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Ahhh, at this time of year one's mind returns to happy childhood memories...
(to the tune of Que Sera, Sera)
When I was just a little boy
I asked my Mother,
"What will I be?"
"Will I be pretty, will I be rich?"
Here's what she said to me:
"Shut yer face and get to bed,
"You'll get a slap if you don't get up those stairs...
"Washed hands and teeth as well,
"Get to bed, to bed..."
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| Monday, October 31st, 2005
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2:26 pm - Separated At Birth?
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----Jake Gyllenhaal---- ----Guy Smiley----
Separated at birth?
No, surely not.
There can only be one explanation, and now the truth can be revealed:
Gyllenhaal is the secret lovechild of Guy Smiley!
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| Wednesday, October 19th, 2005
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11:33 am - Tis the season to be jolly...apparently.
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The first mince pie of the year...
...is soon followed by the second. 
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| Wednesday, August 3rd, 2005
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11:56 pm - It's not in the stars, it's in the genes...
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I was watching MTV or one of those cable music channels ~ there's so many of them, I just continually channel surf between them, turning over everytime Eminem comes on (can anyone explain how he gets to be on the Kerrang channel???) ~ and the latest Garbage video caught my eye.
You've got to hand it to Shirley Manson, she's really done a good job with what little she had to work with ~ she's quite modelesque now ~ but her sister has really let herself go.
Aye, that Marilyn is a dog...
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| Monday, August 1st, 2005
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3:11 pm - Pictures and everything!
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Well, the graphics should all be back and working ~ along with an update to the Adam Warren Bibliography. Those people concerned that I took time out from playing my level 50 Templar (or, indeed, my level 32 Warlock) on EQII can rest assured that I only transferred stuff across and did some miniscule editing ~ and even the bibliography update was done by someone who hasn't been sucked into the black hole of sleep deprivation that is EverQuest (many thanks to Simon, you're a star! )
For anyone who has (spawn of the devil) a mobile phone, I would recommend staying away from Boltblue's (www.boltblue.co.uk) services. These are the people who bought out Cable and Wireless' customer base, said they'd keep up the legacy web service and have now pulled the plug. I quote from their email in response to my complaint that the server was unreachable:
"The CWC webspace was provided on best effort basis and is available to customers who use our ISP services."
Heh, heh, Boltblue's BEST EFFORTS... Nuff said.
FYI, there is an Adam Warren sketch online at Penny Arcade in Gabe's news from the San Diego comic convention. There's also a really cool sketch from Jhonen Vasquez (who I only really mention to improve my street cred, even though I bought JTHM #1 when it was first solicited and don't need to improve anything...)
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| Tuesday, July 26th, 2005
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1:42 pm - Webspace, belly up!
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I've noticed that a lot of the original art from my gallery isn't showing up, this is because the ISP of that particular webspace has closed down that server. Therefore the graphics in the galleries will be unavailable until I find someplace else to host them...
See? I can update my blog without being controversial
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| Tuesday, July 19th, 2005
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3:17 pm - Harry Potter - Good or Evil? Gabriele Kuby - Bitter and Twisted?
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In the wake of the latest Harry Potter mega-blockbuster we have reports that the Pope agrees with an obviously untalented and unsuccessful wannabee hack, Gabriele Kuby, and goes so far as to say that the Potter books are "subtle seductions, which act unnoticed and by this deeply distort Christianity in the soul".
Now I'm not a fan of Potter, but I loathe organised religion far more and consider them all to be wholly insidious, hatred-spawning cults the world would be much better off without. What right has some bloated old fuck got commenting on popular culture, especially when he himself comes from twinned cultures of hatred and fear ~ I think we have a right to be more worried about a Nazi Catholic than a fictional teen wizard.
Instead of sitting atop golden thrones, calling the place you live and work "The House of God" and sniping at works of fiction while worrying about how many followers you can gather next month, perhaps the leaders of our religions should actually be spending some of their billions on saving lives and ending poverty?
Instead of judging others (as I believe that is the provence of God alone) maybe these so-called leaders should be leading simple lives like the rest of us, and enjoying the odd episode of Buffy on TV.
In fact, perhaps that's just what the Pope needs ~ 50" widescreen plasma goodness ~ because, let's remind ourselves, that before TV violence we had the Dark Ages. I reckon witch-hunting, troll slaying, raping and pillaging en masse, inquisitions and crusades...
...all down to long nights and no television in my opinion.
As for the fanatical fundamentalists out there, you guys need a reality check. There is no heaven, no 72 dark-eyed maidens, no chilly raisins. The promises of organised religion are as hollow as those of governments. Which is indeed a great shame, for as there is no heaven there is also no hell in which fools like suicide bombers burn. The best I can hope for is that they are hanging in a black, weightless void and thinking, "Shit, I really fucked THAT up!"
Of course, it's popular to bash something as hugely successful as Harry Potter but here's something else again. This journo, assuming the name of German philosopher Oswald Spengler, who only appears to have read three books in total, none of them by J.K. Rowling, has so missed the point of entertainment ~ I can almost visualise him masturbating over his own article, wallowing in his pseudo-intellectualism. That's one great, big article of self-loving.
Oh, and matey, people who are narcissistic do not have an aversion to mirrors, quite the reverse. You dickhead.
You can ask "Spengler" if he really does masturbate over his own articles here or by email to the Asia Times editor letters@atimes.com
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| Wednesday, June 15th, 2005
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1:51 pm - New books and panties...
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Purporting to be the final book in Michael Moorcock's Eternal Champion series (and that's a BIG claim) The White Wolf's Son is out now.
Buy it. I just did.
Also, I picked up the latest Battle Angel Alita: Last Order GN and decided to try Tokyopop's edition of Battle Royale too (to take advantage of the free postage offer).
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| Tuesday, June 14th, 2005
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10:44 pm - In the real world, part IV in a series...
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Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer
Had a very shiny nose
And if you ever saw it
You would even say it glows
All of the other reindeer
Used to laugh and call him names
They never let poor Rudolph
Play in any reindeer games
Then one foggy Christmas Eve
Santa came to say
Rudolph with your nose so bright
Won't you guide my sleigh tonight?
And Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer said,
"Fuck off, you bastards. I hope you all die."
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| Saturday, June 4th, 2005
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9:36 am - "That's a nice coat you're wearing."
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A-frickin-mazing.
Fan-bloody-tastic.
That's my two line review of Frank Miller's Sin City as brought to the silver, well, grubby white in the case of the Harlow UGC, screen by Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino and Miller himself.
What I really like in a movie is its ability to stun an audience into silence, thereby allowing those of us who were kinda expecting this type of movie, having read the book(s), to watch it in peace. Sin City delivers. On every level.
To begin with, it's great to look at ~ Rodriguez has done a magnificent job editing all this stuff together and the integration of actor with CGI is seamless and, more importantly, you never realise that it's CG, never once does that "Hey, that's cleverly done" thought creep across your mind. That could be because the stories, solid in comic book form, are gripping and, being faithful to the original format, are super solid on celluloid (except there isn't any celluloid any more, is there?)
Then the cast is one of stars, shiny and larger than life. The men are cooler than the Absolut in my freezer and the girls, sexier than a chocolate Ferrari. They ooze, well, pretty much everything and copious amounts of the red (yellow, white and black) stuff too.
My only niggle is that I, personally, would have mixed the stories up into one cohesive tale ~ as it is, each chapter in the lives of the inhabitants of Sin City is told separately, very much in keeping with the individual graphic novels (so, I suppose, they can't really be faulted there) ~ but I'd have gone down a more chronological storytelling route, having each story weave in and out and between the other two.
Of course, that probably wouldn't have worked out because the events, the climax, immediately before the film's dénouement wouldn't then have been in the right place. So, maybe they got it right all along!
All in all, the best adaptation of a comicbook to the movie screen. Ever.
Should come with a Sin City graphic novel and a copy of Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics.
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| Sunday, May 22nd, 2005
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4:36 pm - To bid and bid again...
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| Monday, May 2nd, 2005
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11:56 am - Parental Guidance.
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I'm sure you know what I'm talking about when I say that, when I was a child, (and as far as Mum and Dad are concerned I'll be a child forever, apparently) my parents were always lecturing me with such behavioral necessities as;
"Sit up straight"
"Don't talk with your mouth full"
"Don't eat with your mouth open"
"Don't talk back"
and the gem,
"Breathe through your nose".
If only Kane had listened to his parents.
Little had I known at the time that my parents were giving me advice on how to thwart facehuggers.
Surely, John Hurt's mom was in the cinema watching the premiere of ALIEN, when she turned to her friend, Ada, and said, "I was always telling him to breathe through his nose, but would he listen...?"
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