tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38991292012-01-30T00:50:43.105-08:00I am not an animal! I...am a man! I am a human being!Citizen Chopsnilfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06238509421355744035noreply@blogger.comBlogger2561100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3899129.post-1152881406615158962006-07-14T05:45:00.000-07:002006-07-14T05:50:06.653-07:00

Pretty good show. Very gaggy set, really, but there was some nice material in there. I got to do some physical stuff and some vocal stuff (including singing about right angles!) but there was a certain naturalism missing from this show that was definitely there in some of the scenes in EELS last night (or if not naturalism, gravitas).  Anyway:Slumber Party Quirks - pretty cool. Yeah.Toys - got to

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For the very first time, I went to The Treehouse to sing, dance, laugh and be merry. Sing? Didn't get a chance, for by the time I mustered up the cajones to actually go and do something, there wasn't a chance I would have gotten to actually sing. Dance? Kinda. Laugh? Yes! Be merry? Yes.Will did an awesome Morrissey impersonation with "You Have Killed Me", complete with twirling of nonexistent mic

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*Pretty* good show. The first half sucked in comparison to the second half, I felt - we were (and I'll single myself out as being particularly bad of course) kind of lacking in drive. But yeah, the second half came out with a vengeance and it ended pretty well. I did my first WAAT in a Jesters show, my first duet, first ballet...yeah! Unfortunately our children's poem sucked - what was I thinking

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1. Stand-up at Papanui Tavern: pretty good! Some obvious stand-outs and some less great but what can you expect, really?  I think I'll have a go at it next month. Looks like fun.  Yeah - night went well. Will and I had to leave early to catch a bus so we missed the last act (who was supposedly very good), but mm, Jeff and Stephen were very good...though sort of knowing them makes me biased. Shay

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Have finished three days of shooting a new short film, starring Emma Brittenden, Hamish Parkinson and William Croft. It's looking very nice.  The third day was...HELL......due to the obscenely cold location up on the hills above Christchurch.  But it looks as though it'll turn out pretty well. I'm really looking forward to editing this thing.  I've already done rough edits of a few scenes anyway.

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Looks like we'll definitely be getting:Brick - hit at Sundance and allegedly the "new Donnie Darko"Thank You For Smoking - a comedy about the tobacco lobbying industryTristram Shandy - Michael Winterbottom and Steve Coogan reteam for a meta-movieThe Road to Guantanamo - basically the movie I wanted to makeAn Inconvenient Truth - Al Gore's global warming doco.Wellington also gets A Scanner Darkly,

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The new Muse album leaked a few days ago so I'll do a real-time (i.e. as I listen to it) review. Unfortunately the leak is only in mono, but that means I'll get doubly the pleasure (heh...Doubly) when I buy the CD. Here goes...1. TAKE A BOW - opens with ominous synths. Vocals come in, similarly ominous - very low-key opening. Getting more urgent, then the vocals expanding it "You'll burn in hell

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So I watched Dead Ringers (fucking good!) tonight, and it made me realise, through a couple particularly affecting scenes, how, like, the movies that affect me emotionally the most are not those that are usually linked to "tearjerker" right away. e.g. (SPOILERS):Dead Ringers - "I want some ice cream"; separation; "Ellie? Ellie?"Terminator 2: Judgement Day - the last 10 minutes (maybe 15); the

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Fifteen songs have been recorded for the forthcoming Hairy Nobs album, now titled "What We Make For Ourselves". One more song is to be recorded (maayyyybe two) and then I can cull the tracks I want and cut a CD of it. It's sounding lovely, at least compared to the previous two Nobs albums.The one song is Murder Diorama - followed possibly by something called "Ludicrous Speed". Probably not the

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Saw both of those recently.  Mini-reviews:ARISTOCRATS - Extremely funny to those who have very loose senses of good taste/bad taste. I have no sense of boundary between the two, so it was excellent for me. Highlights included Billy the Mime's rendition of the joke, Bob Saget's, and the one involving a polyp. Yummy yummy! Perhaps it dragged a bit in the middle-to-end bit, because some of the

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I've decided I don't really like the Micetro format - for the reason that you don't get to play much, and when you do get to play, you HAVE to play. It's just not a very good system really IMO.1. Poem - OK. Rhyming and stuff, you know. Wha'ever.2. Vikings - good scene but I was totally redundant - only in there to justify getting the points for being in the scene. Parallel character, silent

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Final day of printmaking: one word - FINALLY.  Out of the MFing junkpile room! No more charcoal! Agh, it feels good, yes it does.  Finished six sort-of OK drawings. Not as good as my painting work but still OK, I guess. Not that the marks matter that much. Getting design marks next week. So it's a 4+ for film, 3 for painting.  Anyway.Mission: Impossible 3 - very, very good. And not just in a "

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entitled: Black Holes And Revelations.01. Take A Bow02. Starlight03. Supermassive Black Hole04. Map Of The Problematique05. A Soldier's Poem06. Invincible07. Assassin08. Exo Politics09. City Of Delusion10. Hoodoo11. Knights Of CydoniaFirst single Supermassive Black Hole coming out in about a week! Fuck I'm excited about this!

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1. Almost done2. done3. done4. done5. very not-done6. done7. done8. needs vocals9. in progress10. done11. done12. got lyrics and thats it.B-sides:Snakes on a PlaneKids In SandboxSedatives (I Don't Sell)HungryGoddamn Motherfucking Cunt

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First the new Pirates 2 trailer.  I was not excited whatsoever for POTC2:DMC before seeing this.  But now, I'll be got-damned if I'm not fucking ready for some Tentacle Action!  Hell yeah, man!Then the trailer for Casino Royale.  Proving that Daniel Craig WAS a good choice for Bond - he looks the part - and that the new movie is going to be gritty and non-prettyboy-Bond.  Plus that music just

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NOT all it's cracked up to be.  I still maintain that SP's best episodes are the ones where they deal with more grounded subject material - in recent memory, the baseball episode and the ginger episode come to mind (PARTICULARLY the baseball episode).  The whole "Tom Cruise in the closet" thing wasn't funny.  I imagine it would have been funny if you find the phrase "come out of the closet"

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OK, here are my main problems:1. I have real trouble entering an already-running scene.2. My characters aren't very varied.3. I'm not terribly confident at the moment. This is probably the cause of 1 and 2.What I need to work on is playing supporting characters and stuff.  Open scenes, you know, all that stuff, I've got to work on it and I have to get over my shit and just go on fucking stage.

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LIVING IN OBLIVION 5/5 Great movie about making movies, Steve Buscemi is awesome.  Nice touches in the script, love the fact that it's only three scenes, it's all so fucking true.ROBOCOP 4/5 Surprisingly good and intelligent as well as being ultraviolent.  I loves me some Peter Weller.  Nice satire/dystopic future setting.AMERICAN HISTORY X 5/5 Excellent film, probably more something you

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It was pretty great, although I think I could've played better.  The main thing that made it somewhat awkward was not knowing how I fit into the dynamic...like with the College team, we all know exactly how each other plays, so it's easy to slot yourself into a scene.  I'd only ever played with Jav before out of those playing on Friday, so it was a tad weird.The scenes I played in:Word at a time

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Will, Hamish, Gareth and I are all one of those now. I'm playing next Friday. It's pretty freaky, like, it's happening RIGHT NOW!Cool though.

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Current tracklisting:1. Stab Stab Kill Kill2. Co-Existence Is Futile3. Pi4. ...And the Cross You Rode In On5. 2.35:16. Terminus7. Driving the Porcelain Truck8. X-Men9. Voices of Delusional Paranoia Filtered Through the Concrete-Reinforced Walls of My Secret Underground Lair10. Hotel Apocalyptic11. Freeman Dyson's Spherical Postulation12. Murder DioramaTracks 3, 4, 7 and 11 are totally finished.

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"We don't really talk about [another] sequel too much 'cause Sam is too busy right now. It would all be kinda moot. But I think we're gonna do a remake. It'll be a whole new story, though. It won't be with Ash. It'll be the evil book, and it'll affect a whole new group of people in a different situation. More like a reinvention. A lot of people, they got really crabby on the Internet when they

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Currently being recorded are "Snakes on a Plane", "Meet Cute", and "Driving the Porcelain Truck".Design's going well, if I work my ass off tomorrow I may well get 32 pages by my lecture on Wednesday. Please, god, please let me finish this. I do need to do my workbook stuff though - damn this Stalinesque way of working, burning the path behind me as I move onwards. Fuck it. Fuck it right in my

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Yeah, I started working this weekend - the Rolleston Video Ezy, if you must know, Saturday mornings for now. I was doing returns yesterday - not serving customers yet as I don't know how - and it's fucking ASTOUNDING what people rent! The 3 most popular movies seemed to be 40 Year Old Virgin, Exorcism of Emily Rose and Pride & Prejudice...but also 3 copies of this new Steven Segal movie called

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OK, there's no freaking way I'm gonna be able to write a coherent review, as tired as I am, so this'll be in bullet-point form.- Nice to see an uncompromising HORROR movie and not some bullshit jump-scare movie. Feelings of real dread, revulsion, and, well, HORROR abound. The movie doesn't use cheap tactics - just really fucking disturbing buildup and stuff.- Also clever in that it starts out

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It's a pretty good movie, to be sure, but Best Motion Picture of the Year? No freaking way. Munich should have won BP.Ang Lee - good job, sir. Well deserved.Kong - should've lost Sound Editing or Mixing to War of the Worlds, I'd say. Maybe even Visual Effects too.Editing - should've been won by Munich.Cinematography - would've loved Good Night and Good Luck to win. Or Batman.Adapted

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I'm writing new songs (lyrics only at this point) for the third Hairy Nobs album and what will probably be the rebirth of the Nobs as the Merkins. I just can't see how I can justify this new material being released under the same band name that "Ass-To-Mouth" was released under. "Non-Fiction" sort of worked, but it was stretching it somewhat; this is just so far removed from that original

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Well - that was the first day. Hot and exhausting, though not from the work (there was none). It was just really really motherfucking hot, like 28 degrees or some shit. I had some ice cream upon returning home - it helped.So, yeah, first day of Fine Arts! Exciting. As for the people doing it, I'll say this - the ratio of girls to boys is something like 10:1...or thereabouts, it seems. Apart

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I saw Night Watch, in the super-ultra-mega-cool subtitled version. Overall I really liked it... The stylistic choices in this film are great. Some are a little "been-done", such as the very Fincheresque shots peppered throughout - a bolt falling off a plane, the camera swooping through a keyhole, and so on - but that said, they're very well executed and for that bolt shot, I genuinely thought,

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I saw this the other night, on the recommendation that it was "the next Braindead" or whatever...and was sorely disappointed and actually revolted. Not because of the movie's content, but just because it was...bad. What's more, it *totally* did NOT fill Jackson's footsteps - at least the ones he made with Braindead. The reasons: 1. Braindead had humorous dialogue. Evil Aliens had "Eat shit".2.

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(intermittent SPOILERS ahead)(also be aware of very common use of the word "Munich" as referring to the film, not the event. I have attempted to label any reference to the Munich Olympic tragedy as such, but don't count on my vigilance, please. Read with caution.)Saw MUNICH a couple days ago. Fucking hell - best film of 2005 and best film of Spielberg's I'd say (yes, even better than Schindler,

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That's about all.

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At last, some article has been put on the Internet about our theatresports win. This is the first time I've seen the pictures in the article, most of the quotes, and the Ultra-Naff™ team name "Titans". I mean, WTF mate? Anyway, the picture to your left is an artsy-fartsied up version of a pic in the article (click it for a bigger one). And no, I did not forget Gareth's eyebrows.A brilliant

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This is the cover art to the second Hairy Nobs album: "Non-Fiction". Hope you like it. It's created in Photoshop using symbols from a couple of symbol fonts I've got kicking around.Also, here is the final tracklist - or at least, the tracklist most likely to be used. I've been writing songs pretty solidly and hope to get the thing finished in a month at the latest, if I work at my current rate

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Been working hard on various things.1. Short Films DVD. The special features are almost completed. When I get around to doing a storyboard animatic for Chopsnilf, they will be completely completed. At the moment there are at least 2 features for each film except How To Get A Girl. "Fishy Smell" has also been re-edited, losing about a minute and a half and gaining a lot of class (and a whole

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These are gonna be incomplete, out of order, or just plain incorrect. But my memory serves me kind of, well, crappily. So, yep.DEJA VOODOOWe Are Deja VoodooToday, Tomorrow, TimaruYour Boyfriend SucksPHistory Never DeletesBeersFeelingsPLUTORadio CrimesHey LittleStick With ItLong White CrossKINGS OF LEONMolly's ChambersSlow Night, So LongKing of the RodeoTaper Jean GirlWasted TimeThe BucketRed

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Attended the Big Day Out 2006 in Auckland. Bloody brilliant. My feet hate me and I shall be punished. Got on C4TV requesting "The Widow" with Norry and some random who didn't demonstrate a very high IQ. Got a text on the screen saying "Who was the dumbass who put Iggy and the Mars Volta on at the same time?! Agh!", a sentiment that I felt was very strong during the day. I really wish I

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"Maquiladora", my new play, is sort of coming along, I guess. I've written about 10 pages so far. Now that one of the characters has died, it's gonna get better. I seem to be better with fewer characters, so hopefully it'll get easier as I kill some off. At the moment there are like 6 or 7 major characters onstage pretty much all the time. It's hell. I can't wait to get into the meatiness

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Another year, another set of awesome-looking films. Let's take a look at 'em, and in no particular order.V For Vendetta - Based on the Alan Moore graphic novel, this'll be a dystopic vision of the future, in which fascists have taken over Britain. The book is great, and if the Butt-Numb-A-Thon reviews are anything to go by, the movie will be a truly controversial, strong piece of art.A Scanner

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1. I saw King Kong. It was awesome. Let's get on with the show.2. I got into the Fine Arts school. Grand.3. I made a dance remix of Karl Pilkington saying "I could eat a knob at night" and sent it in to Ricky Gervais, whose podcast the idea came from.4. Yes.

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The Hairy Nobs album is now going into "duplication"...i.e. me burning off multiple copies of it. I rerecorded the vocals from like 4 or 5 songs, and finished off "The Spit Roast", which is INSANE, by the way. Good to be done with it.

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You can now view the Hairy Nobs at MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/hairynobsThere are three songs available for download there. I hope you enjoy them, or get repulsed by them, or...whatever. I don't really care what, as long as you have some sort of reaction. Beeblebeeble.

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The Endless Ass-To-Mouth Extravaganza: the Hairy Nobs' first album. It's nearly finished, in fact - only 3 more songs left to do. I've written the lyrics to one of them already, so I'll probably do the instrumentation tonight and do the vocals tomorrow. The other two tracks, particularly the "Giant Dildo" track, will be harder. Actually, Spitroast shouldn't be too difficult, the tune's pretty

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I saw SERENITY last night, and damn if it isn't my favourite movie this year so far. And I say that honestly - I'm not *really* a fan of the TV show, only having seen one episode...nor am I a Whedonite, never having liked Buffy or Angel particularly much.But Serenity...wow.It's probably the best sci-fi movie for the last few years, at least. The thing that sets it apart from the others (and I'm

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Just saw John Cleese's live show in Christchurch, New Zealand - "John Cleese: his Life, Times and Current Medical Problems". Very good. A few weak bits such as re-enacting the dead parrot sketch with a sheep, but yes...very nice. The medical problems spoken of are a suspiciously sweet and sour pork-looking tumour thing that was removed from his colon recently, a replaced hip and a chronic loss of

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Chopsnilf got a Highly Commended award.How To Get A Girl got Best TVC/Entertainment.A load of pretentious, boring, story-less, dialogue-less, well-shot wank got the top prize.

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http://www.apple.com/trailers/artisan/houseofthedead/large.htmlI think we can be pretty sure that HOUSE OF THE DEAD is actually as shitty as AICN says it is. Jesus, that movie looks bad. I kind of want to see it, just for the experience...but really, it looks terrible.1. Terrible, clichéd dialogue "it's not human, looks like its mutated"2. FUCKING SHIT makeup - hard masks, lines drawn on faces3.

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No more polytech photography. Looks like I'll have to start using the school darkroom. Eek eek eek!League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse: 4/5. Very postmodern and they dealt with the complex premise better than I thought they would. FUCKING AWESOME special effects. Nice references to other movies. Very good acting especially from Steve Pemberton as Herr Lipp - ironically the shallowest character

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Firstly:House Play 2004 does not count towards an honours tie, it was not performed.Journey's End set DESTRUCTION?!?! WHAT THE FUCK? You only did that because you would have had to anywya, because you were doing theatresports at the time and that's what we happened to be doing, and even IF - EVEN FUCKING IF you did it of your own volition in your own free time, it wouldn't count. Why? Because it

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Just finished bout of Scared Scriptless-ing. That was, well, probably the most fun I've ever had playing Theatresports. Playing with the Jesters was great, playing with the team was great, and it was just...great!The jesters know their Star Wars, that's for damn sure.

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Five weeks to do two briefs. I am going to have to work my fucking ARSE off to get this Design stuff done. That's reality check #1 for the first day of term. I tend to get these a lot - when you realise that over the holidays you've done so little and had to do so much. Ah well................I'll just be one ruined person by the end of the year.Scriptless Friday.

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And it's driving me fucking nuts. I still have no idea about how I'm going to end this bad boy. It's got to satisfy lots of questions, like: Why are the aliens keeping Ben alive? What's all this "reverse polarity" bullshit? Do the aliens win? And so on.Side note: Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh are co-producing the HALO movie, which will be shot in Wellington and effects-ed by Weta. Add this to an

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You know, that feeling late in the holidays where you realise you've gotten bugger-all accomplished... you take stock of what you've done over the past couple weeks. Let's see...I've done a couple (a COUPLE) of layouts for design, which aren't even remotely close to being print-ready, started to read The Great Gatsby (in fact, I'm considering writing an essay entirely on the bit I've read and on

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I just came back from Tim Burton's latest gift to the cinematic world, CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY. Now, I use that phrase because Tim Burton movies tend to be the sort that remind me why I love the movies. They have a sense of wonder that very few directors can actually create. This is no different.First the bad: I thought the ending was a bit...well...over-saccharine. Although,

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With PARTING OF THE WAYS Russell T. Davies sent off Christopher Eccleston in style. The Ninth Doctor will always be one of the better ones (mainly on the strength of Eccleston). Can't beat Tom Baker but what can you do. Most interestingly it provided us with a glimpse of the TENTH Doctor, David Tennant, who sounded suspiuciously Matt Bellamy-esque. I can't wait to see him in action (in all his

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Yeah, I got a chest infection so I had to stop doing Beyond the Camera after 1 day. Shame too. There were a lot of cool people there.Uuuuuughhhh... at least I can work on my script now.

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The penultimate episode of Series 1 of the 2005 Doctor Who series aired tonight. It was, obviously, "fantastic"...leaving us with the following "Cliffhanger Cwestions":1. What is the Daleks' plan?2. Why kidnap humans from the reality shows?2.5: A corrolary: Why reality shows?3. What, for the love of Christ, is "BAD WOLF"??4. How is this situation related to the destruction of the Jagrafess?5.

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Thanks to BitTorrent, I managed to catch - just now - the episode of Doctor Who that I missed (and Katie didn't manage to tape) the other week due to Journey's End. So, I've now seen The Doctor Dances, in full widescreen DVD quality video. Ah, the wonders of the Internet. Bloody good episode, too!

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Continuing the trend (well, starting it - it only happened once before) of winning in election years, Christ's College came out victorious in the Court Theatre Senior Theatresports Final this year. We gained a score of 30 and essentially rocked. STAC came second, Burnside 3rd and Avonside 4th. Our scenes:1. Blind Dub / Brushing Teeth = 4-3-3..2. Pop-Up Storybook / My Fluffy Pencil = 3-3-2.3.

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Well, yes, the ball photos are online now. What a glorious thing that is. Glory unmatched but for the honor of Kahless. Anyway... here're the ones I'm in anyway. At our table: Will, Kate, Hayley and me, all sporting candy and menus Theatresports 1st IV: Me, Gareth, Hamish and Will. Traditional theatresports charm abounding of course. Random photo: Me, Mijntje, Harriet, Hamish and Will. Journey's

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I thought they said Wednesday Afternoon...they're running out of fucking time.Anyway Brothers of the Head has been turned into a feature film by Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe (LOST IN LA MANCHA), with a script by the dude who wrote the FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS script, and some of the songs written by Pete Shelley of the Buzzcocks! Wahoo!

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Yes, we won again, beating our old nemeses Burnside and Girls' High. And Papanui too, but they were never really a nemesis of ours. Our games:1. Slow-Motion Commentary; Washing the Dishes: 4-4-3.2. Yes And Experts; Turkey Basting: 3-3-3.3. Papers; Baptism; challenge of Duplicity: 5-4-4.Overall score of 33.So we go through the finals against STAC, Burnside and Avonside. See you there.

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It was pretty awesome. Some high/lowlights:- The DJ was really shite. His CDs skipped, the only decent songs he tried to play were laden with static, and he lost power altogether at one point. Not to mention that he said he'd play Don't Stop Me Now, but didn't. Cunt.- The food was really good, with very well-cooked (not well-done though thank christ) lamb. and brilliant dessert thingies.-

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What a crock o' shit.

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It's looking to contain something along the lines of the following.- 5 films: Chopsnilf, Karma Subsidy Wins, Soul, There's A Fishy Smell Hanging Around, and How To Get A Girl.- Chapter selection for all of them.- Deleted scenes for Chopsnilf and Soul.- Storyboard-to-film comparison and special-effects test for Chopsnilf.- Outtakes for Chopsnilf, Karma Subsidy Wins, Soul, and Fishy Smell- A

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Journey's End is fucking tiring. Exhausting. It's gonna be an incredibly fucking amazing play, but god damn it, I'm gonna be one deadbeat motherfucker by the end of it. I mean...it's crazy. Slept during rehearsal today; woke up bizarrely when I was due to go on. How fucked up is that. Pretty damned, i'd say.

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BEST FILM: ChopsnilfBEST DIRECTOR: Andrew Todd, ChopsnilfBEST SCREENPLAY: Tristan Read, Einstein: Life of a GeniusBEST ACTOR: Hamish Parkinson, numerousBEST EDITING: Andrew Todd, ChopsnilfBEST MUSIC: James Norris, How To Get A GirlBEST VISUAL DESIGN: Hamish Parkinson, How To Get A GirlPhew. What a night. I'm full of chocolate and the buzz of having won. Thanks to everyone involved in Chopsnilf

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Yup, they are, pretty much. Done Art History, English and German. Sure, technically I've got Design to go, but it's not really an exam per se - just two hours of working on my MFing portfolio. But they haven't generally been too bad, actually!The film thing is on Friday and I'm shitting bricks for two reasons: one, one of the judges is a music video producer/director who's done work for Nirvana

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OK, so the poster made by Hamish and me has been vetoed by the almighty Rob Donaldson...basically we've gotta take 'em down and put up the older, crappier one featured on this site. It's a shame, too, because the one Hamish drew is really really cool.I just saw the Doctor face off against Simon Pegg...it was brilliant! Fantastic, even! Best dialogue of the season yet. And some good CGI too.

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We won the theatresports tonight, getting a total of heaps of points due to our having a mediocre scene, a pretty good one, and a fantastic (5-4-5) one. We played:- Gibberish Interpretation (Surgeon)- Word at a Time (Bed)- Three-Way Dub (My Pink Tutu, challenge was to have an emotional change)Yeah we kicked ass really. STAC also got through to the semis and they really kicked ass. Our first

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Microsoft has FINALLY fucking released Messenger 5.0 for the Mac. They're seriously so fuckign slack with Messenger on the Mac, especially considering how awesome Office is on it (getting features BEFORE the Windows version). But it's here, and I can finally use pictures. Wahoo.I'll be in the shit with Gel soon, due to my lack of organisational skills and the likely requirement of default to

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Ranking for Romero Zombie Movies:1. Dawn of the Dead2. Land of the Dead3. Night of the Living Dead4. Day of the DeadWe all knew it would be gory. And boy, does George A. Romero's latest zombie flick deliver it in spades. Not quite as much as it *will*, however - the uncut DVD will have even more, and uncensored too! But there is some terrific gore in this movie. Belly button studs being

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The teaser for next week's WHO episode really freaked me out, to be honest. It's gotten to the point where I've gotten beyond the cheese in the show and started to be drawn into the drama of it - and next week's episode will be a shining example of that drama. The very personal hatred and fear that the Doctor has of the Daleks will come out and the hateful nature of our minitank friends will

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I've done a really rough design for a poster for the Interhouse Film Festival... I tried to combine a Bauhaus sort of style (tying it in to our 30s theme), an iconic horror image (the skull/demon from The Exorcist) and also a hand-drawn effect to sort of subvert it a little, hence the drawn-on 'tache, goatee and mono. I quite like it, but it has some work to be done on it I suspect. It's thrown

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It's a multibutton mouse (from Apple! Huzzah!) but looks like it's only got one button. It has no scroll wheel but a scroll BALL. It has force-sensitive side buttons. It is the most unusual product, in my opinion, that Apple has ever unveiled. It's fucking weird, actually. The two buttons work the same as other two-button, single-surface mice but this one is all one surface - no deliniation

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Jesus Christ, I hate organising things. All it does is make me frustrated...and you wouldn't like me when I'm frustrated. Rarr! Yeah, it's terrible and I'm terrible at it.BOXES was really cool! Children's theatre is great and I love it! Up with the puppeteers!

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Dammit, I can't wait another week for the conclusion to WHO! Best episode yet. Haha!

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OK, I just found out that PAUL W.S. ANDERSON is remaking fucking DEATH RACE 2000. What the FUCK is the reason for THAT FUCKING HACK remaking a classic like Death Race? Yet another one of my favourite 70s movies ruined. Ruined ruined ruined. Or at least, I can't figure out a way it'll be made in a way that isn't a lame-ass, PG-13, focus-group-driven piece of shit with OC stars instead of the

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Scotty has beamed up. We will all miss him.I can't really think of much to say about him that hasn't already been said by Ain't It Cool or Joy of Tech or soemthing......soooo....DR. WHO 27.3 - "THE UNQUIET DEAD" by Mark GatissThe best episode yet. Fast, funny, frightening and fought-provoking. Simon Callow was revelatory as Charles Dickens and Chris Eccleston continues to astound as the Doctor

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Yep, I've decided to ditch Cuddles in favour of doing work for school. It's more important to do well in NCEA art than to do another movie. And I've also decided to ditch Quail Island. This is for another reason. I want to make a movie about drugs. Yes, drugs. Namely P, methamphetamine, whatever. I really want to do it and I have an interesting angle with which to go about it. It'll be more

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Mars is IN. Hell is IN. Imps are IN. Heavy gore is IN. Whew.

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This is a concept art picture of Davey Jones, Bill Nighy's character in the upcoming PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN 2: DEAD MAN'S CHEST. Davey Jones of the locker fame. This Lovecraftian image is pretty beautiful, to be honest, but I dont know about Nighy playing him. He'd better do some fucking amazing voice work, and the CGI had better be pristine. Anyway he's supposedly really fucking evil and

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...I found to be a bit overlong but otherwise brilliant. Any time Bruno Ganz was onscreen it was riveting. His attention to detail in his performance of Hitler far outdoes any such previous performance. Especially Robert Carlyle's OTT showmanship that popped up earlier. He was really really good. They showed him as more of an actual person too - with his tenderness towards his dog, or to his

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Quote from AintItCoolNews.com"he said in the fall he's going to start shooting a movie where he plays himself and a monster starts killing people in this small town where he is staying and somebody has the idea to get the guy from the Evil Dead movies to fight the monster, but even more people die when he shows up since he's never used a chainsaw or a shotgun. He also said he will return to the

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I've decided to document the making of my CUDDLES movie online. So, without further ado, I present the first character sketch from the pre-production phase: GEORGE! This is only a first sketch and just an idea of where the character is going visually. He's way too detailed at the moment, but hey, we'll see. Stocky is good for clay... anyway, soon to come are maybe Cuddles sketches, the house

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Well, there's two ideas I'm bandying around right now. One would be made as a counter-film to Greasy's one over the summer holidays and would be a longer-format (maybe 20 minutes) film. It would be about Quail Island and the leper colony on it. The other would be made as a claymation film starting pretty much immediately after I finish the editing of Hamish's movie. That one would be about

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Hey Bruce. Listen up.Got any plans to revisit the tiny land of New Zealand any time soon? After your excellent chapter on our language (exceedingly accurate, by the way) in your first book, you seem to have deserted us poor huddled masses down here.  We all love you, Bruce.  And not just in an "I love Bruce Campbell!" way. In a more of a "Bruce Campbell can have my babies, even the ones who have

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Seriously, it is exactly the same. You can be in the middle of town, literally, the middle of town, in the middle of the night, and the only sound you can hear is the muffled fuckin COUNTRY music coming from the pub. The lights flash for the pedestrian crossings, even though there are no pedestrians, or for that matter, cars to stop for them. It's such a chilling place. That said, a couple of

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HOLY SHIT, I just spent the most exhilarating and entertaining hour in front of the TV that I've ever spent. The new Doctor Who is FUCKING GOOD. I was skeptical when I heard they were making a new series, and the first few minuetes gave me doubts, but basically once the good Doctor (the inimitably awesome Christopher Eccleston) showed up, I just had a huge grin on my face. It was fucking

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First: the greatest emoticon ever to grace this earth has got to be THE PENIS, or Oh Equals Three, or o=3.----CENSORED TO PROTECT THE IDEA---- is going to be an inspiration, I'm sure.

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Never, ever go to www.stopracism.tk. EVER. Do a Google search and see what the first result is. Then you'll get an idea.

Citizen Chopsnilfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06238509421355744035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3899129.post-1120560532429702992005-07-05T03:48:00.000-07:002005-07-05T03:48:52.483-07:00

The new film is shot. Done entirely with a fisheye lens, it looks fuckin' weird. Hamish provided it with the best ending ever, ever, ever. It's cool-ass, dude. Matt's feet are wiggly, their heads are the size of golf-balls. It's really gonna rock the hut.I'm really digging TheFutureEmbrace. Really.

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http://web.tampabay.rr.com/lnsemsf/English/english.htmlSimply put, the greatest foundation ever created. They make a veryconvincing case, actually - the Experiment game makes me believe they'reright. I'm personally going to see to it that Leonard Nimoy gets moresalsa immediately.

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In an image that is sure to become one of the most enduring screen images ever, Alan Smithe (played by Hamish Parkinson) makes a proclamation about goat carcasses. This is an image from the upcoming film CHOPSNILF, directed by one Andrew Todd.

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Had the German day today. Pretty avvy overall, I'm afraid, though I did end up winning a wicked book about Germany. Also got to guts down some cookies...mmm, cookies. Some dude from STAC was likely the least intelligent person I have ever encountered - maybe it was his complete lack of German speaking skill, or maybe it was his lack of leadership while insisting on taking said leadership for

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I saw Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds t'other night. I give it the same as the Press did: 3.5 out of 5. I'll talk about the film in a moment, but first...a note about the audience. It was the worst I've ever been in. To start with, the BEWITCHED trailer got an audience-wide laugh while the KONG trailer got no response whatsoever (the ubiquitous FANTASTIC FOUR "you're hot" joke got a big

Citizen Chopsnilfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06238509421355744035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3899129.post-1120036873107141572005-06-29T02:21:00.000-07:002005-06-29T02:21:13.133-07:00

It's basically a "Fuck You" note to Greasy. An absurdist piece, or at least a vain attempt at one. About a couple dead dudes. All dialogue, no effects - no editing, even. One take except for a couple of random inserts. I'm GEARED UP AND OILED UP AND LUBED UP TO DO IT!!!What a prick Greasy is.

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That's the name of the new kitten, who we got today. He's a lilac Burmese, and almost criminally cute. He raced out of his cat-carrier-box thing and sussed out the whole place, going "yeah, I can dig that, man" and being generally clumsy and small. Seems to not like hard floors as he can't get a grip when he spazzes out. Ruboil had a sniff of him and doesn't seem to like him at the moment,

Citizen Chopsnilfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06238509421355744035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3899129.post-1119959230711540782005-06-28T04:47:00.000-07:002005-06-28T04:47:10.716-07:00

A note before we begin. I am a Dracula nerd. I have seen many, many different adaptations of it, read the book, and so on. I have a pretty good handle on what the characters are like, mainly Drac himself. I'm not that hard to please (there have been awful Draculae that I have enjoyed), but you have to at least get the tone of the piece right. Anyway. To the review. It's sprawling and

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Could be good. Dunno. Trailer CG effects look half-finished at best. Seeing the big guy's big buttcrack is too much for me. Naomi Watts was born to play Ann Darrow. Jackson is looking a bit overzealous with the swooping aerial shots these days. That said - it will win or lose based on the Kong-Ann love story. Get back down to earth and make your World War 1 ZOMBIE MOVIE, Peter!

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