So, New Moon

Wow haven't I just been ignoring this! I should really change Blogger to my home page, at least that way I could remember to do something with it.

So yes, something to talk about... How about... the "Twilight saga"?

Twilight and I have a rather interesting relationship. It stays the fuck away from me and I don't bludgeon it's badly written sparkly not-vampire filled pages to death with a spanner, but even with this standing agreement its impossible to escape from its presence in the world. Forums and posters, films and books, pictures and words fill the world we live in. Even the bloody pop ups are shoving it in our face! Now I might be a bit behind the band wagon with this one, but thats simply due to the fact that up until now I couldn't for the life of me decipher what it was that I disliked so much about this thrice accursed collection of glorified fan fiction.

But now it sits starring me in the face like some kind goolish imp which has decided the best way to get my attention is to sit on my chest and poke me in the eyes until I pay it some attention. The fact is lades and gentlemen, that I despise twilight for the simple fact that so much of the fans love has been placed on a man that were he a real guy would have been locked away with a cease and desist order!

Edward Cullins is far from the "Perfect man" that the fan girls clam him to be, I've seen many cases where a girl will dump her boyfriend, stating "he wasn't like Edward Cullins". This makes me wonder what it is exactly that these girls want out of a man. Could it be that they want a vampire? No thats stupid, vampires were an old legend born from peoples ignorance of the world and a whole lot of fear! They were undead monsters who were twisted by what they had become and rose from their GRAVES each night to kill. It wasn't until Stokers "Dracula" that Vampires even had a personality!

So if its not vampires that they are after then what is it then? The sparkle factor? Well I know the old adage "diamonds are a girls best friend" but that just taking it to an unnecessary extreme. Simply stating that they are only doing it because he sparkles is pretty much like saying that girl are only interested in one thing. Cash, which is unfair and slightly sexist. But considering how this book was writen by a woman that might not be a relevant point

No apparently what makes a perfect man is some creepy stalker who puts you in danger and then proceeds to have a text book abusive relationship with you. Really the perfect man girls, well done, well done indeed! Truly you all have such good taste in men.

This point of view is strangely supported by the latest of the "Twilight saga" films "New Moon". In which after getting a paper cut everyone's least favorite sparkly notvampire freaks out and dumps his Mary Sue main character love interest, who spends the rest of the film being a selfish seductive suicidal bitch. While her perfect man tries to kill himself.

No really, thats the entire film in a nut shell.




Sometimes I just wonder if teenage girls strive to become fans of some of the most mundane shit out on the market, or wether its somehow ingrained that if something is like Romeo and Juliet then it must be good (which wasn't written as a love story by the way but rather a study of the self destructive nature of human rivalry.)



Ultimately Twilight will become like Harry Potter, ignored by everyone but the hardcore fans and hated and disliked on the internet... oh wait. It already is.

One half term, no real progress

Okay I'm back from Euro Gamer Leeds and All I can on it is. Wow what a spectacle. I say that is all I can say on it but in fact its all I want to say right now. I've managed to pull a muscle in my back and as I sit here typing away its attempting to stop me breathing. So thats "FUN!" (please note, measurements of fun might differ from reader to reader)

Halloween came and went like a mysteries internet video. Everyone was talking about it, but when you finally get to see it your internet closes down and theirs a power cut. Or to put it in a less confusing way, Nothing happened for me at Halloween. Nothing!

No trick or treaters, no visitors, no frights, no scares! Not even the annual attempt by the daemons/elder gods who live under my house took place. Which was rather disappointing. We didn't even watch a scary film, we watched Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy!

So without the usual distractions of creatures with more eyes then they have teeth Halloween passed with a whisper and we where none the wiser.


But enough about my hell dwelling squatters and their attempts to kill all life as we know it! On to more important matters, like University work...


I have been somewhat distracted this half term and I will be the first to admit that it isn't really good enough. Especially when we have so little time left and so much work to do. A distinct lack of speech work or research (a result of a points failure in Leeds trapping me for a few days longer then I would have liked) and only a few moments more on the animation. (although they are some very good few seconds if I do say so myself)

I have yet to start the 750 words, and didn't even consider the mood boards.

This leaves me with one or two days to do a number of tasks.


To put it likely I'm rather screwed.

But, meh, shit happens. It my back has not healed by tomorrow then it is possible the I might not be able to make it in. I hope I will be able but as it is I'm struggling to lie down without pain and spasms racking my body.


So all in all what have we learned today children? That I'm injured, I've done fuck all work, and Halloween barely registered as a blip on the scale of "stuff that has happened"