09/04/09 14:24

Yesterday I cleaned my room for the first time in months. Now don't get me wrong, I clean my room every 2-3 days. But when I say I cleaned it yesterday, I mean I cleared out all the junk that accumulated on my desk or my shelves or in drawers in my wardrobe and re-arranged a little.

I was annoyed with how little space I had for everything, My TV was in the way of my record player so I hadn't played any in a long time. So I decided

a little bit of space clearing and moving stuff about, and I'd have plenty o

f space for all my schtuff.

Once I'd cleared my desk and my record player was reachable, I decided to spin the black circle and listen to some good tunes while I finished the rest of my room. What I found inside shocked, surprised and made my day. I found 250 euro in my record player!

I was over the moon, I'd gone from a man with just 20 euro in his pocket to someone with an extra 250, a gift from the vinyl gods no doubt. But of course this high was shattered soon after when I came upon the knowledge that I myself had put the money there, last Saturday (a day I don't remember much due to been plastered) and that it was Rachel's Cunt Features 250 for her Oxegen tickets her daily feeding, it takes a small village in Uzbekistan just to cook everything before she goes on a murderous rampage, devouring small animals and children unfortunate enough to cross the path of the Ham Beast  

Lets just say the buzz wasn't just killed, it was mutilated, skinned alive and then hung up on my walls to mock me. Rachel Ham Beast wasn't to blame for this though, it was my own idiocy and my fault for assuming this 250 was mine and getting excited about it.

Later that night....

I decided to watch the leaked HD near-final cut of X-Men origins: Wolverine. The one that was leaked online on march 31st, well over a month before it's theatrical release. I think I may actually enjoy this version more than the one people will be seeing in cinemas, because alot of the special effects weren't present, gun fire and blood splats were missing, sometimes wire's were visible on people as they jumped, claws didn't extend when meant to, green screen was very noticeable and the ten minutes of pick up shots done in January are also apparently missing from this cut.

A fully CGshot of a plane flying through some clouds... As you can see, it's nowhere near finished.

Zero reloading guns as they fall onto the clips, guns are cg and all that is visible is an image of two guns behind his hnds.

Someone gets hit by a LOG truck, then it cuts to an early CG model tumbling down the back of it.

Some scenes even had full CG one minute, and then the next shot, nothing. As you'll see below.

Also Liev Schrieber is BRILLIANT as Sabre-tooth. His presense on camera is just terrifying.

But it was a great learning experience for me, to see what an editor has to work with when he's cutting the film together but not having the final SFX to work with, just badly rendered mock ups, or sometimes even just pictures or words placed over where the CG should have been implemented.

I thought the film was pretty good, a few weak points in the plot here and there, but as long as your expectations aren't at ridiculous unachievable levels, I'm sure you will enjoy this one. Better than that joke of a third xmen movie.

The NTL man came today. My brothers room, my moms room, and the sitting room all have ntl digi+ now. And I'm taking the Dodgey Box into my room! RESULT!

Also now that my brother and mom have access points in their rooms, there wont be a bunch of wires and an extension lead at the end of my bed going from my access point and been divided into their rooms. You can't begin to imagine how annoying having a mess of wires that served no purpose to me

at all can be. Anytime my foot would hit off the extension lead, or I moved too much in my bed, It would normally knock out the cable, and I'd have my brother or my mom or dad, shouting in to fix it. Fix something that really isn't my responsibility in the first place.

Going to Rachel's tonight to watch Lost. I have it downloaded and all, now I just have to fight the urge to watch it until tonight and things should be good. I don't think I've looked forward to a Lost episode this much in a long time.

Reason being, it's a Ben-centric episode.

Last time we had one of those we found out alot about his past, the purge, etc. I'm hoping we get the same amount of new information in this one, like Ben's time spent with the others while still living with the dharma, or his relationship with Charles or even Alex. I'd like to see Alex again. She got shot in the head. That wasn't very cool at all. Took this image from the TV ad for the new episode. Made the background unrecognisible, in case someone thinks the location is a spoiler. And if he's pointing that gun at who I think he is, then my assumption from all them episodes ago (When they first board Ajira flight 316) could be right. I think ben does kill penny. Of course, we'll have to wait and see tonight. That's another reason this episode is gonna be brillo pads! ANSWERS!