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[Bloc Party]

I was looking on Amazon to see if there was anything to buy so I could have the excitement of thinking "I wonder if the postman has been yet!" for a few days when I saw Bloc Party had released a 'new' album (I know the second and third albums aren't up to much but I still really like Silent Alarm) so I ordered it and it arrived recently. Turns out the fourth album is no good so I decided to listen to Where You Been by Dinosaur Junior for the first time in years and it turns out it's still a cracking album.

Pretty sure it's from this Friday

Congratulations to you, friend Pops

Who thought placing Director Frank Miller in the credits was a good idea?
I still quite like A Dame to Kill For but have no real interest in the other plots here- especially the newly written one.

I'm feeling all sophisticated after throwing out all the socks I had with holes in them. Seeing how I'm about to start sorting through my underwear, I'm pretty sure I'll soon be pushing people into puddles so I can step over them without having to risk getting my feet wet.

First to be shot when the glorious revolution comes.

As long as I no longer own a pair of underwear that're almost as old as me when said revolution comes, I'll go happy

I'm feeling all sophisticated after throwing out all the socks I had with holes in them. Seeing how I'm about to start sorting through my underwear, I'm pretty sure I'll soon be pushing people into puddles so I can step over them without having to risk getting my feet wet.

[The Hunger Games]

The Hunger Games
Another film I didn't particularly want to watch but my mate really wanted to so we put it on and I'll be honest, I quite enjoyed it. Putting it in alongside other popular films based on books written in the last few years that were aimed at readers a few years younger than me but attracted their share of adult readers, I was also surprised at how quiet it was; no big orchestral score or, going for the seemingly more popular or modern move nowadays, screechy guitars as a whiny vocalist goes on with lyrics about- I don't know- how it's impossible to survive when you're in love or something.
Moved along at a decent pace, putting character and actions/consequences in place as it clearly goes about building up for the next films. I remember people scoffing at how blood had been removed from some scenes so it could get its 12 certificate (yeah, dumbass producers et al making changes to be sure their target audience can go and see the film! What dumbasses!) but what's shown on screen worked fine for me the way it is but then again, I'd best admit I can name quite a few films I've enjoyed which don't make a big thing about open wounds.
So yeah, pleasantly surprised by this.

Pancake day!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Teaft0Kg-Ok&feature=youtube_gdata_player

It sure is
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WERMGYQBXwc

[Marvel Comics- The Untold Story]

Just finished Sean Howe's Marvel Comics- The Untold Story. A fascinating little read on the ever rising and falling and rising and falling and rising of Marvel over the years, from origins to present with plenty on who was sniping for who during all the crucial events. Apparently Beach Boy Dennis Wilson was almost the first onscreen Silver Surfer!

[Blind Owl Records]

Ordered an album from an Amazon seller on the weekend (Blind Owl Records if you're wondering) and came home today to see the post had arrived. Well an album by the right band had been delivered but it wasn't the album that I had ordered.

Just finished my second cup of coffee. My bath is ready.
And I've just noticed I'm in work at 3pm today, not 8am like I had thought.

Been playing Flappy Bird and I swear to god I want to kill someone.

It's on BBC red button/teletext today that the bloke who made this has removed it for sale because he doesn't want the fame or something (but he hasn't ruled out a sequel).
Anyway, my most recent impediment is Firefox won't come up on my computer all of a sudden so I'm using an old Internet Explorer until I get to see my mate who understands these computers much more than I do.

[The Human Centipede]

The Human Centipede
Got this for a mate's birthday as a joke because A) said friend has this look of disgust she'll do without realising when watching films like this so even if I'm not enjoying the film, I can make a point of glancing at her every now and again to amuse myself and B) said friend is studying to become a nurse and the sleeve-notes said this film is 100% medically accurate.
But anyway, we watched this the other day. There was a brief moment near the start were I started to think "Ah, this is going to be a dark comedy of sorts; a joke that this is the next logical step for the whole 'torture porn' genre... two girls and one guy stripped down and forced to live mouth-to-anus as the villain of the piece further dehumanises them etc". Then I just got the impression that the bloke behind this was making no such statement and he just thought this would be a really good film (the sleeve notes also revealed to me that this film was inspired by a conversation on suitable punishments for child molesters, I later noticed). I ended up pretty bored regardless, though I will admit I did chuckle when [spoiler]the bloke forced to be the lead in this centipede looks back over his shoulder and, fighting back tears, announces how sorry he is that he really needs to shit and can hold it back no longer[/spoiler].
I've heard the sequel is about somebody who has watched this film and is sexually aroused by it but it's safe to say I'll be giving it a miss. And I also think the sequel should have been The Human Millipede if they wanted to up the stakes for those who enjoyed the first so talk about a missed opportunity.

Every time I look to this thread of late, it seems to be nothing other than a picture that is pretty much identical to the last (with the exception of the fantastic Judge Snout). Maybe it's just me, but constant Judge Whoevers  isn't really doing much for me.

I'm still interested in them but I haven't gone out and collected a title for a long time; I'm even sorting through the collection now knowing more than 3/4 of my comics will be making their way to eBay (in the name of making more space if I'm honest) but I still go into comic shops to see what's happening although I mostly find myself in such stores now to look at the t-shirts and action figures now. Any superhero run that catches my eye can wait until it's available in collected editions but even then I was fully intending to start collecting the Waid run on DareDevil but decided against that, keeping "my DareDevil run" as Nocenti and the Chichester run up until a little after issue 300 (though I did add Miller's work to my collection a while later and had the Kevin Smith run but ended up selling the latter even tho I liked it) so I haven't actually picked up a collection for a while now that I think about it.
And yes, the True Believer in me has been giggling at times when I've got Lego Marvel Superheroes on but my interest in them, the checking up on them and their world from time to time, is little different to the people who use social networking sites to look at an ex's profile picture or whatever even if they don't really want to go back there.