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I was going through IMDB, and I wanted to see what happened to the actress who played Samantha Darko in Donnie Darko.
And she's in the sequel, she's the star! The movie is called S. Darko :
The story picks up seven years after the first film when little sister Samantha Darko and her best friend Corey are now 18 and on a roadtrip to Los Angeles when they are plagued by bizarre visions.
It sounds ghastly.
Scientists in Switzerland have announced that the world's biggest atom collider will start operating next month.
Yeah, cool....but then:
Some scientists have expressed fears that the machine could create a black hole that could eventually swallow up the planet.
Yanno, some would say, that even if the risk of, oh, the collider generating a black hole and swallowing up the planet is 0.01%, that perhaps the enormity of the risk factor, which involves the end of all life on earth, as well as the human race, might be a factor in, say not doing this!
OMG!
Anyway, it's obvious from googling that there are fans out there of this writer, but to me he's an obvious misogynist who characterisation of female insulted me on so many levels it wasn't funny, and his obsession with rape, torture put a horrible taste in my mouth.
If you are quite sensitive to how female characters are portrayed in novels, avoid him!
He's shocking. Up there with Peter F Hamilton.
Oh, and just to make things more fun Mr Goodkind emailed a female fan and told her that she 'can't possibly understand the themes to his novels because she's a woman'.
Yeah right.
I enjoyed it much more then I expected, and I had absolutely no idea that Harvey Dent was going to be in it, I thought it was all about the Joker, and yes, the Joker was wonderful - exactly who I wanted to see on screen from every comic story I've read about him. Thank you Heath Ledger!
But I didn't expect to feel so much for Harvey Dent, even knowing, as a very low level comic fan, what his fate would be.
So yeah, if you haven't seen it, go. It's worth watching!
but where was little Barbara Gordon?!
Ajang Gor, 17, was attacked last October by the group as he rode his bicycle home from a part-time job.
Mr Gor was taunted and then punched and struck from behind on the head with a bottle that smashed on impact.
He was left unconscious on the road as Andrew Hoskins stole his mobile phone before all four fled.
In a victim-impact statement, Mr Gor said he now felt unsafe leaving home, was scared of being bullied and his schooling had been affected.
In sentencing remarks, Judge Coish accepted the four were remorseful and that each had good or reasonable prospects for rehabilitation.
How can the judge do this? That isn't justice. There should all get some prison time at least.
Four young men who bashed a Sudanese refugee unconscious and shouted racist taunts at him in an unprovoked attack will not go to prison.
But I'm trying not to get attached, so I'll wait a little bit before I do.
I refuse to get attached!
( little kitty )
That's 5 seasons. I don't know if I want to watch the last season though, I went off the show towards the end of the third season.
I should know, I grew up in one.
So, although, in some ways this is funny, it's fairly sad and not surprising:
After a long, hard day in the mines the boys want a warm telly, a cold beer and a hot chick. Or just a chick. If necessary, they'll make do with pictures. But they shouldn't have to, should they? Australia is the lucky country, after all.
For every five toey blokes in Mount Isa, there's one woman. A woman who, I imagine, is dripping with pretty shiny things and surrounded by flowers. That's what I imagine. The truth is that she's more likely to be groped at, pressed up against the bar and is used to having her drink spiked on a regular basis.
Mount Isa's Mayor, John Molony, has a solution. Strap yourself in.
Locate ugly girls and attract them to Mount Isa. I know, where do I start? I thought we were in 2008, not making Carry On Up The Mine Shaft. Molony wants to turn Mount Isa into Rooty Hill. Calling all bush pigs! Blokes bang up to bang you! Those ugly girls should be so grateful.
Bear with me while I quote the world's most unreconstructed holder of public office. We should find out where there are beauty-disadvantaged women and ask them to proceed to Mount Isa. May I suggest you leave application forms at Northland, Highpoint and Coburg trash-and-treasure? And if you don't, I will.
*cries*
It's bad enough that the little girl with the perfect teeth was filling in for the little girl with the great voice that's wasn't chubby enough, but that the 56 little children who were suppose suppose to represent the different ethnic groups in China, were actually, not representing the 56 ethnic groups whatsoever.
Turns out, those little children, although wearing the native outfits of these ethnic groups, were all, every single one of them, from the majority ethnic group.
There were no Uighurs, no Zhuangs, no Huis, no Tujias, no Mongols and definitely no Tibetans. Indeed, in the latest in a series of manipulations that have soured memories of the spectacular opening ceremony, all 56 were revealed to be Han Chinese, who make up more than 90 per cent of the country’s 1.3 billion people.
The latest example of artifice comes after revelations that some of the fireworks seen by TV audiences in the opening ceremony were computer-generated and that a song was mimed because the child singer was not deemed pretty enough.
“I think you are being very meticulous,” said Wang Wei, vice-president of the Beijing Olympic Organising Committee, trying to brush the latest revelation aside. “It is rather normal and usual for actors and actresses to be dressed in costumes from different ethnic groups. There is nothing special about it.”
Yeah, nothing special, could you imagine how well this would go down in a Western style olympics.
I want to see it, I find the Asia-Pacific Conflict in WWII to be the most interesting part of modern history, and it will be fantastic to see a new film where it's set from Australia's POV...hopefully.
I hope it's worth seeing.
The sad thing for me is that the media is focusing on the indignation of those who have felt cheated by the fake, by the lip synching. That doesn't bother me much, heh, synch away, it's all good. What bothers me is that, by all reports, up until a day or so before the Olympics the little girl who had the great voice, who was selected (presumably) for that great voice, Yang Peiyi was ditched because she wasn't pretty enough.
Just imagine, being seven years old, and being told that your beautiful singing voice has scored you a solo in your Nation's Olympic Opening ceremony, imagine how exciting this would be, how proud all your family, school mates and friends would be. Then imagine being told at the last minute 'Ooops, sorry, you're not going to sing, we're going to get another little girl to lyp synch because you don't have the right appearance'.
How freaking cruel, shallow and disorganised were the officials?
I mean, in a country of billions, you would assume that they would have been able to find the right girl with the looks and the voice, probably not as good as Yang Peiyi, but heh, the original criteria apparently wasn't about looks, it was about singing talent. But they would have been able to find someone they found acceptable, instead this!
It makes me sad and angry for that little girl, and even for the girl who lyp synched. How bloody shallow could you be. And how embarrassing and humiliating it must be for that girl and her family, shame cast on an international scale.
Chinese child singer 'too ugly' for opening ceremony
Now he's all grown up.
( my cousin's wedding )
But I do love Tony Foster from both the Blood and Smoke books. And umm, is it just me or is Lee Nicholas, the supporting actor in the series of books based heavily on Nick Lee, it can't be a coincidence that one of the film crew wears a Once a Thief tshirt. There are so many television filmed in Canada in-jokes it's not funny, how can you not love a series that references Due South, Stargate, Once a Thief, X-Files and many...many Buffy references, and slasher fans.
The Smoke Trilogy is about Tony Foster, who works as a Trainee Assistant Director on a show about a Vampire Detective filmed in Vancouver, wizard in training who has a crush on the television series co-star Lee Nicholas, and it references the online fans of the show a lot, including one little slasher girl Donna ('so, is there really deliberate subtext'). Ha.
OK, yeah, it's trashy. But how can you not like a book which features a wizard, a vampire, a mountie and a cute goth girl and so many geeky references I couldn't pick up on half of them. I get a feeling that Tanya Huff has researched the television industry a great deal (not suprising considering she only recently got her Blood series adapted to television).
I loved it.
What year is it again? I get the period it was done in the 60s was all, go-go boots and mini skirts, but how freaking practical is it to wear in a military scenario. Please!!
http://chud.com/articles/articles/1
ETA: Heh, maybe it's a lie! Let's hope.
A man aboard a Greyhound bus travelling across Canada calmly stabbed another man dozens of times and decapitated him, pausing briefly to display the head to horrified passengers before proceeding to disembowel his victim, witnesses say.
http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/world/4843
I'm really glad he decapitated and disemboweled him in that order…I mean, not glad that he did any of it, but small mercies…right? *shudder*
( Meredith and Stuff )
Apparently Fox found the pilot too confusing and dark, and Whedon says he responded by offering to shoot a new pilot. He will turn the old pilot into the first episode. For those of you who remember that the exact same thing happened with the pilot of Whedon's last TV show, the legendary space western Firefly, take heart. Whedon says it's not the same thing.
From:
http://io9.com/5027964/is-joss-whed
It doesn't sound too good to me, even if Whedon says it's not the same thing, it's Fox, and we all know what they are like.
