There's a brilliant interview with Paris and that other man in her life *cough* Benji*, talking about Repo: The Genetic Opera, horror movies and industrial music at: http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/13764 (ignoring the stupid obnoxious comments to the article that follow Paris everywhere on the internet of course - such people must lead such fulfilled and rewarding lives and must feel so adequate to the world!)

I fucking loved this interview :D Paris has mentioned liking horror movies before (including in Confessions Of An Heiress aka "The Good Book"), but it's good to hear her talking about them a little more. LOL, it's so cute where she mentions looking like Freddy Krueger in one scene and about Benji making her metal mixes. Actually, despite being quite a fan of various rock genres, I can't say I'm all that familiar with industrial. Looks like I have some catching up to do with Paris, lol!

* Well if I have to share her with someone I know there would be far worse choices and I'm always glad to see her happy.

Other notable appearances on The Equalizer season one so far include: Burt Young (Paulie from the Rocky movies), Lori Cardille (from George Romero's Day Of The Dead, here getting a sexy death scene that I remembered from the original airing), Alberta Watson from 24 looking like Sean Young when she was younger and Christine Baranski from Cybill looking a bit like Maiwenn Le Besco. Loved the bit where Edward Woodward hated getting called "Pop" by his son during a besieged weekend in the woods.

Doctor Who: The War Machines - This is a pretty fab 'n' groovy story. The war machines aren't quite as big as I imagined but they do get their fair share of the action (although never en mass). It's no wonder that Polly would later get crabs after her in the series after talking to Ben the sailor in a nightclub, lol! I've never seen a story with Dodo in it before but in this one I couldn't see what all the fuss was about against her. She's only in about half the story though and then conveniently taken away (at least the Doctor was going to wait on her though and didn't kick her out like he later would with Mel). This was an enjoyable story all round and William Hartnell did very well in it. Nice to see Scaraman from The Pyramids Of Mars in an earlier appearance on the show (and still getting taken over by outside forces!). I imagine that this story would have been a lot shorter though, had Zoe been around to get annoyed with the computer (or even if Number Six was around to ask it "why?") *g*

I forgot how scary The Nightmare Man could be in Heroes season two. Here is a man that could make Paris think that I've gotten married to Angelina Jolie instead so that she'll marry someone else too! Or he could make me think that Paris has gone on TV and told the world that she thinks I'm a creep and she wants to remove me from her MySpace friends! Such a scary power. He must be stopped! Elle's still my favourite thing about season two (besides how HRG dealt with his boss at Copy Kingdom - that always has me punching the air and with a reasonable shout out to Cheerleader Debbie who's cute when she's drunk). David Anders is good as Samurai Sark of course and Sylar rocks (even if he did kill off another one of my girls from the show when the original actress left)!

And now some gorgeous Paris pic spam:

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Happy Paris Hilton Day to everyone :D

(as declared by the Mayor of Las Vegas in 2006)

Early Happy Birthday to abinormal :D

In the downside of Paris news, I have to be honest to the fact that I'm completely underwhelmed and in dread of Paris's new reality show. I'll be hoping for the best but I have to admit it just doesn't look like the kind of show I would dream of watching if Paris wasn't involved and onscreen (and the fact that it'll probably focus more on contestants means that non Paris parts will be a chore to sit through). The sneak peek just comes across as a trashy reality show in the mould of Big Brother, Survivor, all that drek and I'm afraid that it'll just put out the wrong image of Paris (the wrong ideas about her being bitchy, selfish, shallow, manipulative, etc) and give ammo to her critics. It lacks the sweetness, charm, good nature and humour that completely won me over within minutes of my first Simple Life episode. I just don't think it's playing to Paris's strengths. She's always been sweet and charming, the whole looking to be shocking and outrageous stuff usually got left to Nicole Richie. I hope Paris knows what she's doing and the show turns out more interesting than the sneak peek suggests. In the meantime at least I have another bottle of Paris Hilton For Men fragrance to get through and some Paris projects (Repo: The Genetic Opera in film and her next music album) that should be more up my street.

Yesterday, thanks to Amazon, I had a double bill of Conan The Destroyer and Hawk The Slayer :D Let the good times roll! Unfortunately, my chances of a fantasy triple bill were scrambled because someone at Amazon's Jersey merchant doesn't know the difference between a DVD of Krull and some computer peripheral (my best guess: a memory card of some sort) in a small plain white box *headdesk* Still, this gave me the chance to finally see Roman Polanski's The Tenant instead.

Conan The Destroyer can't match the power of the first film, but it's still an entertaining enough fantasy adventure co-starring The Wonder Years' Olivia D'Abo, General Zod's bitch Sarah Douglas and Tracey Walters of Repo Man fame ("you'll find one in every car").

Hawk The Slayer has an all star cast. Jack Palance wears half a Darth Vader helmet as the villain. Jack's ghostly dad from Lost is the sword wielding hero and there's appearances from The Rocky Horror Show's Patricia Quinn and Clockwork Orange stars Patrick Magee and Warren "Dim" Clarke. This movie was a staple of my 80s childhood on video and TV and is still an entertaining fantasy adventure, if you overlook it's flaws.

The Tenant is one of those movies I've been meaning to see for years but was previously prevented in the video age due to the video being out of print, etc. The exploration of a tenant's decreasing mental state was less solitary than I expected. There's much more interaction with other characters and a domestic feel to much of the early movie. LOL at the scene where Roman Polanski and Isabelle Adjani make out in the cinema while watching Enter The Dragon and it's juxtaposition when they both find themselves in the same church. The film has elements of both Rosemary's Baby and particularly Repulsion along the way, although it's probably a bit too confused in intent or meaning to truly rival either. I was also reminded of David Lynch's Eraserhead in places (the grotesquerie that lies behind social awkwardness as black comedy and horror), but even moreso I couldn't help thinking of some parts of the movie as being an Anti-Amelie of sorts (an amiable helpful young man becomes increasingly ostracised for his efforts). An interesting film and some of it's Repulsion style sequences (like when the hands come through the window or when Roman imagines himself/the previous tenant being strangled) are pretty creepy.

Another video clip of "Repo: The Genetic Opera" featuring Paris as Amber Sweet:

http://www.parishiltonsite.net/mark-it-up-clip-released/#comments

I can sympathise with Amber's brother in this clip. Paris has me by the balls too (albeit in a good way) ;)*

* Something I'm sure regular readers could attest to in court *g*

In other news, I'm enjoying the second "Dexter" book much more than the second. It's better written and feels like it has less padding so far. The first book ultimately compared poorly with the TV series that it inspired and didn't really go anywhere (The Ice Truck Killer of the series was a completely uninteresting non-entity in the book even when he eventually made an appearance and the less said about the ending... still the more time I'm spending on it than the author!). The second book so far only shares two elements with the second season - Doakes' persistence and the Keith Carradine FBI character that Debs finds so cute. Loved Dexter's introduction to beer!

Paris must have known how depressed I was after dealing with the Scottish Training Foundation dickheads for my "jobsearch and review" yesterday. Whenever I get depressed it always seems to be Paris that cheers me up. And what a wonderful surprise awaited me this morning :D

http://www.parishiltonsite.net/screw-obama-mccain-vote-for-paris-hilton/#comments

"Paris For President" has long been a slogan of mine, but even a rabid obsessive fan like me wasn't expecting something as wonderful a putdown to the McCain and Obama twats as this video. It's a masterstroke. A work of genius. It's a perfect example of the charm, humour and indominatable spirit that I love about this girl.

Thank you, Paris *SMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOCH*

In other Paris news... Last week I registered on EBay UK and got a Paris keyring and mousemat. Also got the UK version of The Hottie And The Nottie DVD, which alas doesn't include the cast commentary that was listed for the region one release. The movie's pretty much your average romantic comedy and is charming and amusing in places but is unlikely to make a big impression on anyone not into the genre. The Nottie also gets the meatier role of the female leads, but Paris is still up to the material of being The Hottie and gets some memorable scenes and always looks her gorgeous best throughout. John Hughes/Brat Pack fans may recognise elements of Some Kind Of Wonderful in the plot development (in the way that Elisha Cuthbert's The Girl Next Door was a mixture of Risky Business and Something Wild). With Paris jogging on the beach, wearing bikinis and even in a wedding dress, no DVD shelf should be complete without this one.

In less appealing news, Amazon UK are now moving to abolishing cheque orders completely, which is an extraordinarily elitist move to people without credit cards (I use 3V vouchers but there's a 200 pound limit on them and you can't combine them). "Let's stop some people from being able to order from us" never strikes me as the best business move!

I think I should bloody well buy my confused computer a dictionary! I've lost count of how rich I'd be for the amount of times it claims to be "Done" when it's idly stayed on the same internet page, instead of doing what I clicked for. Idiot!

The way my father has a tendency to mumble to himself while going about his business, makes me wonder if he might have some Jawas in his ancestry, but I'd feel too awkward about asking.

And the real reason for the post, here's some of my favourite Paris Hilton photos of this week:



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What I'd give to be the person Paris is looking at so lovingly in that last one! Lucky man, Benji!

Today I'm taking a sick day. I have what is either a chest infection or a bad case of hayfever (symptoms can sometimes be similar). Whatever it is I'm suffering the tortures of the damned (tickly coughs, wheezing chest not helped by asthma, throat filling up with spittle or foam and that yucky catarrh taste) and Lemsip All-In-One doesn't seem to be impeding it's progress in anyway. Phoned for a doctor's appointment yesterday but the earliest is Thursday at 4.00 pm.

In other news.... Me and me mate Shareen caught my mad sister The Debster singing along to Eric Carmen (not even Eric Cartmen!) in her wardrobe mirror yesterday, lol! That is well shameful! She'll deny it of course but here's some partial evidence:



This is of course an act of revenge. It's bad enough that my crazy sister has the daft idea that I'm a serial killer (I suspect she's even told Paris to stay away from me and not to call me anymore *GAH*) but now she's even told some guy at her work called Doakes, who's taken to tailing me around wherever I go. Very annoying! Especially when I... er... wanna go and grab a sandwich or something.

RIP special effects whiz Stan Winston :(

In brighter news.... At: http://www.parishiltonsite.net/fightin-over-me-music-video/ there's a wonderful collection of Paris videos. A quick silent photo collection, a two minute promo clip for Fightin' Over Me, an quick interview with Paris from the time of her album release and a video of her singing along to her song Screwed at some club and talking a bit to the announcer and the audience. Perfect way to start the day. Be still my heart.

Troy: The Director's Cut - There's at least one extra scene but mostly it's extensions to existing scenes with extra tolchocking of malchicks and unfortunate devotchkas in the fighting scenes. There's also an alternate version of the early scenes between "Paris" (huh!) and Helen, which is far more revealing of Diane Kruger than the theatrical version. The extensions aren't essential but I love this movie anyway and always like to have the longest cuts of historical epics. Just wish they'd let Paris play herself though. Don't get me wrong, I've nothing against Orlando Bloom and have enjoyed plenty of movies that feature his contributions. It's just... the bastard or bastard-ess of a casting director deprived me of scenes with the real Paris making out with Diane Kruger and I can't help thinking of what might have been (and Paris could have bragged about beating Brad Pitt in a fight afterwards *g*) :(

Anyway, I'll be trying to keep myself fairly sedate until Thursday. Just hope that Debster doesn't play her flamin' Eric Carmen loud!

Sometimes I think my frakin' AVG antivirus program is as bad as the viruses it's protecting me from! It's constantly automatically updating and one in every so many always seems to interfere with my computer's running or causing bugs that need to be resolved (usually running a test fixes the problem although it never admits to there being a fault). Take yesterday. First thing in the morning and there's an update. The indicator for my internet connection was curiously absent, despite my being online. But worse, there was no sound through my speakers! And when I tried checking my audio, I was told that I had no audio system! I didn't have time to look into the problem further at the time, because I had to sign on. Thankfully running a test seemed to return things to normal, but it's so frustrating to lose access to sound just because of another bloody update! I mean just think of the heart attack I nearly got at the thought of no more new Battlestar Galactica episodes, latest Paris clips and no more sweet music on my PC (my beautiful playlist!). I should sue! No, not take up legal matters, I meant I should Mary Sue - write myself up as a perfect invincible ninja warrior and have me execute their board of directors in 500 words or less ;)

Back to playing Adventure Quest, after a long break of about four months. I've decided that it's high time that my characters (Django and Paris) got their own houses in the game. This is a lengthier process than I expected. You have to pay for the houses with Z tokens rather than the more plentiful gold. After buying a house you have to cut down lots of trees to make a clearing, which involves numerous battles with the local wildlife creatures (not a very environmentally friendly game then *g*). You can also buy guards of your own and when you check out your neighbours, you get into fights with their guards. It's fun in it's way and at least there's plenty of experience points towards moving up a level.

Enjoyed Gossip Girl 1.14 :D ( Read more... )

Yay lovely Paris (aka comrade Paris-ky Hilton-vich) for taking time out last week to visit a Russian orphanage and make a "special donation" (just the thing to warm my heart against the cold Siberian winter). Of course most of the media would never dream of reporting this fact as they hardly ever report anything nice or charity related about Paris (most of them only reported about Paris's planned Rwanda trip after the charity organisers had to reschedule it - of course facts and reading aren't the media's strong points and most of them blamed Paris for "going back on her word" on something they would just have ignored anyway - frakin' pondscum!) Source: http://www.parishiltonsite.net/paris-hilton-had-visited-an-russian-orphanage/#comments



Dosvedanya, comrades!

You know you love me.

XOXO

I'm going to report this news item in my journal because, if the media are being themselves then most of them will all but ignore the item, unless they think they can twist it round or use it to show Paris in a negative light (most of the media only became interested in reporting Paris's planned Rwanda trip after it got postponed and then blamed her for it against the facts and what the charity organisation itself said on the matter):

From SABC News (http://www.sabcnews.com/entertainment/other/0,2172,166226,00.html):

US socialite Paris Hilton visited a children's home in Pretoria today - hours after arriving in the country.

She is in South Africa to support her boyfriend Benji Madden, whose rock band Good Charlotte performs at a rock festival in Johannesburg tomorrow.

This is Hilton's first visit to South Africa and most of the more than 200 children at the Jacaranda Children's Home instantly recognised the star.

Hilton spent two hours touring the orphanage which is home to children between the ages of three and 18 years. She spent most of her time with the younger children - out of sight of the dozens of photographers present.

Hilton received proudly South African ostrich feathered "shawls" from the children's home.

Not that this is a big deal on it's own of course. Paris has visited children's hospitals and worked with different charities in different ways before. But most of it gets ignored by most of the media, while a joke comment she makes after stepping in a puddle gets reported on every site as yet another "reason" to berate her (or she's vilified for concentrating on herself on her own birthday - the nerve!). Paris Haters Are Rats!

In other news, good for the late and fondly remembered Arthur C. Clarke for insisting on a secular funeral, free of any religious rites of any kind.

It seems that not even having a hangover can stop me from trying to find something to post about and picking out what mood I want to have *g* You just have to admire that kind of pluck!

Belated Congratulations to Milla Jovovich on her baby girl :D

Robin Of Sherwood - Series One

Robin Hood And The Sorceror (2 parts) - A very good start to the series, although the introducing of Robin to his Merry Men feels a bit slap dash. Callan's Anthony Valentine makes for a great villain. Quite a few good fight scenes along the way and Robin plays an amusing character at the archery contest. I like the way that Nasir's way of announcing himself to the group at the end echoes a funeral scene from later in the series. 9/10

The Witch Of Elsdon - Robin and Marion don't waste any time on having their first lovers' tiff, which proves handy in saving the outlaws from capture. Poor Will Scarlet falls for the wrong girl and takes it in his own graceful fashion *g* And Friar Tuck nearly lets Gisburne drown (accidentally I'm sure). 8/10

Seven Poor Knights From Acre - I love this episode and especially what happens to the knights. The knights make for formidable menacing villains that have the advantage over Robin's less experienced and less professional group. Eeven the Sheriff and Gisburne get a dressing down from them. There's a couple of good action scenes and a great finale. 9/10

Alan A Dale - Alan A Dale gets introduced for one episode and proves to be an amusingly lovesick wet drip queen of practiced melancholy. Little John's semi-regular love interest Meg gets introduced and some poor girl is faced with the threat of a marriage to the Sheriff of Nottingham. There's a good fight scene that ends with Robin and Gisburne flailing around in the mud (and Robin amusingly nearly getting caught by the Sheriff). There's also a nice sting in the tale. 8/10

The King's Fool - A mostly great finale (although I kind of agree with Richard Carpenter that the mystical ending seems a bit tacked on). John Rhys Davies (known to modern audiences as "look it's Gimli!") delivers a powerful star turn as King Richard. It's interesting to see Robin get so taken in by the King's easy promises and leave the group so vulnerable. And forget any long lingering looks or deep sighs, in this version of the story Marion and Gisburne just want to shoot each other full of arrows *g* 9/10

Django Earns His Wages

Anyone with basic reading skills could easily find out that Paris's trip to Rwanda was postponed (not cancelled completely, with early 2008 being talked about) by the actual organisation that Paris is working with, nothing to do with her at all. So it comes as no surprise then that people like Associated Press would find all this too terribly complicated or subtle and decided to make it seem that Paris herself cancelled the visit herself in order to jet off to Tokyo instead. In other words:

Interviewer: Do you have any research skills?
Ex-Journalist: Well, I was a journalist and-
Interviewer: That'll be a no, then! Next!

There's a cute interview with Paris and Anthony Stewart Head (who I'm sure many of my readers will be familiar with *g*) from the set of Repo: The Genetic Opera at: http://www.parishiltonsite.net/more-of-repo/#comments . And Paris mentions that her clothing line is doing well, which is practically saying "thank Scott for buying my t-shirt" (of which, yesterday was my big debut of said t-shirt in the outside world)! Almost my own shout out (just so long as Planet Reality isn't within range :P). It's nice to hear Anthony say nice things about Paris's work on the movie, a nice change from the so called stars that feel they have to put her down in order to get attention for their latest project or cause. I do wish the director and producer or whoever would change the bloody record though on their "we didn't want to audition Paris initially" schtick! Although it might be flattering to Paris the actress/singer that she forced them to change their minds through sheer talent and preparedness for the role, it's annoying to see these people trying to curry favour with her haters instead of standing by the person who is obviously so positive about the project and her work on it. Paris isn't the only person who might change people's perceptions with the film though. Actually the only movie I've seen of the director's so far is Saw II and it had me thinking "this is the guy that's writing and directing Paris's next film? She should have made a sequel to Pledge This instead!" (let's just say I thought the movie went downhill in the second half and failed to match the original). That was before I saw the wonderful trailer though.

Incidentally someone I'd met once in Saltcoats a couple of years ago and hadn't seen since, asked me yesterday who Paris was. I just said "a celebrity" because "heiress, model, actress, reality star, writer, singer, fashion designer, perfume designer, businesswoman and all around multimedia person" would have been too much of a mouthful. At times like that I can almost envy fans of simpler and more limited "celebrities" like Letterman ("acts like an ass") or Dave Grohl ("he bitches about other people when he wants some attention"). But then I wouldn't be me I guess (and I'd probably be embarrassed to be whoever I was).

Ahhh, dear reader, the many faces of Django ("so HOT right now!")...

Watching TV Face:

Overall the first episode of Desperate Housewives was enjoyable. I won't talk about the Edie stuff for people who haven't seen it and want to. I will say however, that I loved Bree's line about banjos and her getting tough on the interfering old lady. The cancer storyline is hard for me of course, but I don't want to live my life under a rock. Alas I find Susan as downright bloody annoying as ever - couldn't she go away and "have" Danielle's baby or something! I'm intrigued by the new family and their secret though - always good when the show has a mystery and retains some of it's more mainstream suburban Twin Peaks roots, instead of just being a straightforward comedy soap opera (which isn't that much different from a real soap opera). Nice to see Nathan Fillion in the cast now.

Bionic Woman 1.2 was enjoyable. The show really seems to be going down a Alias/Jake 2.0 route. Jamie's ribsnapping encounter with "Mr Right Now" was amusing. ( Read more... ) Oooh, last week the New York Dolls and this week the Noisettes! Nice work out, Jamie *g*

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Gossip Girl is really growing on me with it's third episode. I'm starting to get more involved with the characters and their interplay.

Reading Books And Being All Literary Face:

It does NOT look like my Le Tigre face dammit! There's a whole range of different emotions being displayed!

Finished both books I was reading yesterday. George Orwell's Burmese Days despite being his first novel, is still an impressive read which shows off the author's considerable skill in telling a story. Ultimately it's a bit downbeat (such a shock after 1984 *g*). The way a central character's story ends up was a bit of a surprise after things had been going alright for a while though and is a moving portrait of what happens when a man falls too far astray of life or women. There were some amusing bits too, like when Flory couldn't work out why his attempts to introduce Elizabeth to the the native culture kept failing. Like many books, it became more interesting and involving as it went on. Despite being a fairly straightforward appearing slice of life novel, the story took some surprising turns for me (like the way things can be looking good one moment and all in tatters the next) and although a fairly quiet uneventful book, there was even some action, particularly in a chapter where I even got concerned about what was going to happen to the Imperialist obnoxious white folks at the hands of angry Burmese. I had thought that Orwell's description of a man's execution was from this book, but I was wrong (well no actually, that never happens!).

Also finished Chas Newkey-Burden's Paris Hilton: Life On The Edge on the same day. There's bits of the book that I'd be full of praise for. But it was a little frustratingly uneven in places (and sometimes wasting too many words on subjects like Paris "lookalikes" *yawn*). For instance the book wastes pages telling just about everything that happened onscreen in the first episode of The Simple Life, but then skims over the other seasons without any real detail or analysis. There are nice little anecdotes or new information from behind the scenes of The Simple Life (nice to know that Paris actually did date "Chops" for a bit and even had dinner with his family) and House Of Wax, but it kind of makes me wish there were even a few more pages devoted to such things. The writer is a true Parissend in that he doesn't bash Paris over stupid little things and isn't afraid to give her kudos or good points. As I probably said previously ("just a few million times!" - Django's ever so charming readers :P) the book won me over pretty quickly in the introduction by early on stating many facts and quotes about Paris that refute all the bullshit lies and misconceptions that haters like to spread. The book was also a good anecdote at times to reminding me of Paris's many successes, good points and triumphs over her naysayers and critics. In other words, a nice anecdote to all the crap that tends to dominate coverage of her on the internet and in the media. The last chapter was pretty depressing though in reliving that whole terrible time of her court appearances and unjust inprisonment. I really didn't need to relive that again, as it never fails to make me enraged at the vultures, moral cowards and worthless scum that took such glee in her suffering. Still, all's been good since then and Paris continues to shine while her haters moan on their worthless deranged asses. As an example of where the books scores on the side of truth, I loved the writer's rebukes to that idiot who tried to sabotage Paris's CD release with his infantile spoiled attention hungry brat stunt (I won't use his name and give him even more fame than he deserves): "It was a silly protest from a silly man" and "and his mocking song title, What Have I Done? Well [], what she had done was start several successful companies, release an album, write a bestselling book, and star on a successful reality television series and in a series of films. Next to all that, what have you done?" Here here, and a rebuke that would serve just as well to all her critics. Added to that, I'd say that Paris in her work and personality has often cheered me up and provided comfort or inspiration to me when I've been depressed or in need of a friend. What have her hate filled, miserable, often misinformed and jealous critics ever done that was so uplifting in someone's life? *tumbleweed goes past as haters stare blankly and drool down their shirts*

Now I've started reading Antonia Fraser's Marie Antoinette: The Journery and about to start Mickey Spillane's My Gun Is Quick (which I've already read twice in the past, being the only Mickey Spillane book that I've previously read).

Heading out in a couple of hours to The G.C. again. This time to meet my longtime Bronzer friend (the first one I ever talked with more than once I believe)kronos. Then we're supposed to be off to some sort of BBC Glasgow Film Festival, or that's the plan. Don't know what to expect as I've never been to a film festival and can't say I'm particularly festival-ed up in any area. However, kronos is sure to be a bad influence as usual and this will be my first meeting with a Bronzer or an internet friend since Bronzers Do Bridlington (so many years ago that I can't remember which one). The plan is that she'll be staying the night and having to catch an early train (not because I'm a bad landlord but because of her pre-booked ticket). So I expect I'll get a bit behind in my friends pages and all that for a day or so.

About halfway through reading Mickey Spillane's "I, The Jury" which of course is enjoyable stuff. Also started reading the biography "Paris Hilton: Life On The Edge" which so far has been a great thing of beauty. As Winston Smith once pondered, the best books tell us what we already know. Little of what I've read is particularly new or surprising, but within it's first few pages, it's already refuted many of the common lies or misconceptions about it's subject. Nothing new to fans then, but I'd love to lock and chain up Paris Haters in a room and force them to listen to this book's many positive facts and quotes about Paris and her true nature over and over again.

Speaking of Paris (which is almost unheard of around here of course :P), there's talk of her going to Rwanda next year on her charity work. And of her work for kids with cancer whose parents can't afford treatment, Paris said something to the extent that a price should never be put on someone's health. How I wish the bloody American health service and the politicians who protect it would wake up to such an idea, instead of letting so many of it's citizens die needlessly.

Django's Week In Music (coming soon to an elevator or supermarket near you!):

Kenickie - At The Club
Slayer - Hell Awaits
Manic Street Preachers - This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours
Blondie - No Exit
The Clash - The Clash
Transvision Vamp - Baby I Don't Care
Hooverphonic - No More Sweet Music (CD2)
Iggy Pop - Naughty Little Doggie
Liz Phair - Whip-Smart
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground/Peel Slowly And See (CD 4)
Richard Hell & The Voidoids - The Blank Generation
Deee-Lite - Dewdrops In The Garden

RIP the legendary Hilly Kristal :( He and his equally legendary also deceased New York club CBGBs played such an important role in my music, in providing a place for the early punk groups and their growing audience to perform and meet. New York will never seem as exciting again, but at least CBGBs and it's owner will live on in spirit, in the eternal timeless music of Blondie, the Ramones, the Dead Boys, Patti Smith, Richard Hell & The Voidoids and others.

LOL, since getting the ink catridges on Wednesday I've been busy. I had liked the idea of adding a few new pictures around my room for a while. But I ended up getting more and more ambitious, taking down some old pictures (keeping a few of my main ones of course) and adding even more. I ended up printing out about 68 pictures (about 16 subjects) from my computer and disc collection (the ink started to go a bit streaked and bleeding on the last one though). I also ended up ripping out four pictures from calendars (two from an old one and two from a current one's months gone by). Still have a little space here and there, but I'm thinking I'll be needing a new colour catridge first. Anyway, it's nice to have a change of walls now and again.

At present, around my personal shrine of a room I have:

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Yes, I know some people think that having pictures around your room should stop when you're a teenager or something, but I've never considered myself part of said detractors and see no reason to let them encroach my personal freedom.

And yay Paris for suing Hallmark :D A couple of weeks ago I reported at http://www.parishiltonsite.net/forum a story I saw about Hallmark's new or forthcoming line of cards making a distasteful remark about Paris. Apparently, like so many "people" out there, they think it's alright to publically mock and abuse Paris because she apparently doesn't have any feelings or rights. Well now it seems that Paris is suing over another card they made on copyright grounds of their use of her image and "That's Hot!". I hope she succeeds all the way and that this will teach the scum at Hallmark a lesson about using her for their cheap tacky "humour". All Power To The Paris!

Recently finished reading Arwen Spicer (labingi on LJ)'s Perdita. I rarely read pure sci-fi/fantasty novels and this is the first one in years. But it was an interesting epic read, with some exciting or engrossing chapters along the way. I was reminded a little of other writers (Ursula K LeGuin for example) and their universes just a little in feel at times. If you're a fantasy or sci-fi fan then I'm sure it would be worth a look. Unfortunately, one of the book's greatest strengths is the amount of times it surprised me, took a turn or development I wasn't expecting or turned out differently to any expected storytelling formula in my head, so it would be an injustice on my part to talk about the book in too much detail. The basic plot though is one of division and culture clash, with a family crashlanding on a planet getting exposed to the world's people, while getting unwillingly drawn into the predominant pro and anti tech feud. Expect politics and divided or changing loyalties along the way as characters are changed (sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse, often in between) by events and their surroundings. A well written book that obviously had a wealth of love, thought and planning put into it.

I haven't been very comment-y or reply-y today, so sorry about that. I've been a bit mentally drained (luckily not eligible for speaking at beauty pageants though *g*), easily frustrated and been saying more "Hail Satan!"s than usual.

From the wonderful harleen:

Go to your Start Menu

- Go to 'run'

- Copy/paste the following command: telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl

- An MS-DOS window should open. Give it a few moments to start

I had no idea about this and it's an astonishing piece of work! I've no idea if it's the full movie or not, because I have a version of it on DVD anyway *g* If anyone does watch the whole thing, I would be curious to know if Han shoots first though.

In other news, I couldn't help seeing that there's an unconfirmed report that Queen Of The Universe Paris Hilton may be lined up to star in a West End London musical based on the cult Australian soap Prisoner: Cell Block H.

This makes me officially jealous and resentful of Londoners, people who can afford travel and hotels and people with credit cards of course, if it's true. Normally I'm pretty meh about who's walking the boards in some play or musical or other, but this isn't some mere mortal we're talking about here.

As ever from the ever reliable http://www.parishiltonsite.net :

The 26-year-old has been keen to strut her stuff on the London stage for a while and has now bagged a role in the show, reports the Daily Star.

The paper says the socialite’s casting in the musical, based on the long-running TV series, was a “major coup”.

A source said: “Everyone is very excited. There was a real buzz around the show when we thought we would get some well-known Aussie soap actors but Paris is a major coup.”

The blonde apparently “swotted up” with DVDs of the original TV series.

“She absolutely loved it and thought it marvellously camp,” the source added.

“Paris is keen to stretch herself as an actress. She’ll also get to stretch her vocal chords and she loves that.” thisisnottingham.co.uk"

I used to enjoy the original TV series when I occasionally watched it on late night ITV and my mother was an avid viewer. However, being diplomatic about the cast, Paris isn't exactly anywhere near the type that the casting director seemed to go for *g* So I'm guessing this might be going more in a AIP early 70s drive in/Jack Hill direction.

I've also been revisiting the Homestar Runner site after a long absence. I love some of the silly little games, like the one where you have to audition for Marzipan's band. They have a new game now called Where's The Egg? which reminded me of the old Spectrum game Movie a bit (except not 3d bird's eye view). I had to look up HR Wiki to figure out how to play, but it wasn't too long before I actually won a game afterwards. I was disappointed to see that Strong Bad had a boring office job - another illusion shattered (it's Quadrophenia's Ace Face all over again)! LOL at his employers putting a firewall on employee imagination though (I expect that goes on in all jobs).

In this post I'll be setting out to prove that a Django by any other name, would still be able to cobble together enough spare parts to make a post out of.

Sci-Fi

Yesterday during my YouTube sponsored Tom Baker day, there was one comment, that I couldn't help scratching my head at. It went something like "I have this story on DVD along with Logopolis and Castrovalva. They're great stories lmao!" For the life of me I just can't figure out what was so side splitting about the whole thing. Finding something on YouTube that they had on DVD? Thinking that something is a great story? Maybe the joke is just too subtle for my ickle hick mind *shrug*

Meanwhile, according to some panel at Dragon Con, the final season of Battlestar Galactica will now be shown over two years with only 10 episodes per year over 2008 and 2009 *headdesk* If season four is to be the last, why can't they just give it to us like a proper season, instead of making us wait a year? Grrr, as others have said Sci-Frakin'-Fi have done their best to kill this series. Apparently at the panel, Jamie Bamber remarked that Sci-Fi aren't used to making high quality shows and when they get one, they don't know what to do with it. I have to concur (wasn't it their disapproving of a story arc that led to season three being so uneven and having too many stretched out filler episodes?). Making loyal viewers wait a year longer than neccessary for more than ten episodes just seems so wrong.

Religion

No sooner had I heard that "A group calling itself The Brotherhood of Fantasy Creatures is looking to open up the Unicorn Museum somewhere near the new Creation Museum in Petersburg, KY." ( http://www.unicornmuseum.org ) than I find out that the museum idea is a hoax and isn't going to happen :( For shame! I heartily applaud of such a thing and see no reason why more such museums shouldn't sprout up, in the wake of ludicrous creationist museums trying to turn people more backwards. Why not a Flying Spaghetti Monster Museum? Maybe I could even open my own Hilton-ist Museum where I use mountains of scientific evidence to prove that mankind sprung forth from the ribs of heiresses.

In other news, I find from the ever reliable http://www.parishiltonsite.net/ that Queen Of The Universe Paris Hilton is off to the island of Mallorca to attend a three day charity summit for kids - "The theme is “Playing for Good”, on how to best help needy children and their families.". I feel it's important to mention such things because most of the biased media usually doesn't or very barely compared to their usual mudslinging and invented stories from unnamed sources with their own agendas. It doesn't fit in with their image of Paris after all and apparently if it doesn't come from an "unnamed source" or "an insider" then it isn't true (and maybe finding out about it in the first place would take a few seconds more than they're prepared to do on their "research").

Literature

After neglecting my reading for the last couple of days, I picked up James Ellroy's The Big Nowhere once more and found myself unable to stop, no matter how bleary eyed I became, until I'd finished the last 40 odd pages. Now that's momentum for ya! A good book overall, if not always what I expected from it, although I probably didn't enjoy it quite as much as his version of The Black Dahlia. And oh how I squeed through my tiredness to find that both Compton and Lincoln Heights (two of my favourite places in America) got mentioned mere pages from each other :D With me similarily near the end of Arwen Spicer's Perdita, this means I'll be looking for a new pile of books to occupy me soon. One of Django's patented shopping trips or Amazon care packages may be in order.

In other news relevant to great literature, you've reached the bottom of my latest post ;)

Finally! Water, water everywhere and not an episode two of Flash Gordon in sight! Even although it was on on Friday night in America. But finally land has been sighted on that score and we might just get a good strong wind yet!

Oh and I love Stan Lee. Here he is talking about Paris Hilton: "This is a charming, very likable person. Sophisticated. Great comedic sense. A fine voice. And seriously hard-working. Totally unlike whatever the public is led to believe." Of course I already liked him for giving the world Spider Man and such, but this is just the icing on the cake. LOL at the trouble Stan The Man originally had getting Spider Man past his bosses. Apparently superheroes couldn't be teenagers (they could only be sidekicks) and they weren't allowed to have any kinds of personal problems (always supposed to be perfect) - proof positive that bean counter and committee positions are only given to those who failed janitor school ten times in a row (I'm only on my ninth failing and plan to study hard *g*) :P

Well apart from the latest Flash Gordon episode, I've no idea what I may or may not be writing about later, but as this is a relatively new journal and I haven't done it here before, here's my list from the last time (April) I worked out my top 100 all time favourite albums (and as I had to keep reminding my friend Stephen, it's my list, not Q's or Mojo's or what some other music magazine wants me to think):

1. Blondie - Plastic Letters (1977)
2. Blondie - Blondie (1976)
3. Iggy Pop - The Idiot (1977)
4. Garbage - Garbage (1995)
5. Wire - Pink Flag (1977)
6. Rachel Stamp - Oceans Of Venus (2003)
7. The Stranglers - Rattus Norvegicus (1977)
8. The Clash - The Clash (1977)
9. The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967)
10. Siouxsie & The Banshees - Juju (1981)
11. The Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks (1977)
12. The Doors - The Doors (1967)
13. Siouxsie & The Banshees - The Scream (1978)
14. The Stooges - The Stooges (1969)
15. Kate Bush - Hounds Of Love (1985)
16. Patti Smith - Horses (1975)
17. The Doors - Morrison Hotel (1970)
18. New York Dolls - New York Dolls (1973)
19. X - Los Angeles (1980)
20. Paris Hilton - Paris (2006)
21. Sophie Ellis Bextor - Read My Lips (2001)
22. The Bangles - Doll Revolution (2003)
23. David Bowie - The Man Who Sold The World (1970)
24. Blondie - No Exit (1999)
25. Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible (1994)
26. No Doubt - Tragic Kingdom (1995)
27. David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust (1972)
28. The Doors - L.A. Woman (1971)
29. Portishead - Dummy (1994)
30. Jem - Finally Woken (2004)
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Maybe someday I'll even get round to doing a commentary for the list. Yeah, because everyone loves a special edition with extras coming out after you've already got the vanilla version *oooh, Django gets political* :P

They say that misery loves company. I don't in particular. When I feel that dark cloud or chemical reaction of depression, frustration, negative feelings and constant irritation come over me, I rarely look to inflict it on others or waffle on about it to other people who have their own problems and mood swings. So when I get that way (often nothing specific, more a culmination of little things that shouldn't bother me in the first place), I tend to just withdraw, back off at least a little from the internet and find other things to do, just waiting for the mood to pass so that I can get back to feeling reasonably enthusiastic or normal about things again. But sometimes there's always the latest minor irritation to come along that just makes me see red all over again. And so it was this morning, when I found out that GreatestJournal has decided to (completely news to me as I don't keep up with news posts) suddenly downgrade icons from 2000 to just 100. This pisses me off, mostly because (apart from being the latest "trivial little thing" to fester my ongoing mood), the bottom line is that the original allowance of 1000 icons was the big draw that made me open an account over there anyway. Back then it seemed a infinite amount, and indeed it certainly took me a few years to surpass. Without that draw, they're just another journal site like any other (now with the same amount of icons as InsaneJournal) and so now I just feel "do I really need a third journal, especially one where only a handful of people on my friends list still update at all?" I can't help feeling that GJ are idiots (must be contagious among journal sites) in taking away the very thing that made them more unique from the pack. But it's their funeral.

Anyway, in the meantime here's a mixed bag for you. Movie reviews, celebrity news and some useless little facts about me. Don't get sick on too much candy :P Transformers reviews will probably follow on later.

Watched Disturbia yesterday. I know it's from 2007 but I've no idea how long the movie's actually been out. Anyway, this is a film that manages to rip off Rear Window (already remade with the late and great Christopher Reeve), The Girl Next Door (itself pretty much a melding of Something Wild and Risky Business) and Fright Night. It stars Sarah Roemer, who shall be forever remembered for wearing a cheerleader outfit in The Grudge 2 (immortality - it's a gift *g*) as... er, Elisha Cuthbert (she also reminded me a little of early Marissa in The O.C.)? Shia LeBoeuf plays the main role of the teen who's confined to his house (this time for house arrest rather than any leg injuries etc) and takes to spying on his neighbourhood and thinks he's uncovered a murderer. I loved the bit where Shia pops his teacher, lol! There's a few tense scenes and at least one twist on the ( Read more... ) theme. Average suspense, although a bit hard to see some of the darkly lit scenes at times. Not bad, but nothing new or essential as such.

And in other news... It's great to see that the ever wonderful Paris Hilton caused absolute gridlock and overcrowding, when she unveiled her new personally designed clothing line at a trendy boutique in L.A. on Thursday. Apparently her latest venture is already a roaring success with the clothes flying off the hooks and even later shippings being sold out. Apart from Paris spending an hour attending to two kids with cancer at the event, 20% of proceeds are going to a children's hospital (I like to report at least some of this stuff because I know the various talentless famous for nothing media outlets would rather just slag her off, criticise every breath she takes and jump to report every "one unnamed person said it, so it MUST be true" slander that gets made up against her, without ever bothering to check their sources *fume* A bit like the oh so intellectuals who write articles about how wrong the latest Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens pro-atheist books are... without actually bothering to read them!). So that's one in the eye for the whatsisname ex-boyfriend from some manufactured pop group (y'know the BIG MAN who left bruises on Paris's face over some rumour - that's the kind of thing people should be arrested for!) and others who like to think that noone is interested in her (don't you hate when people assume they're talking for everyone instead of just themselves?).

Meanwhile, We Couldn't Afford To Interview A Real Heiress Magazine seems to have decided that I'm the most wonderful person in the world and should have every little detail about me chronicled! And who am I to argue *g* Either that or I decided to steal a few memes or quizzes from other people's journals (that option would probably save me writing out more cheques at least *g*). Anyway, believe which version you want, I'm always about the Choose Your Own Adventure in my posts ha ha :P

How many different drinks have you had today?
Since today is fairly early on, just some cola and black coffee.

Do you feel safer in the writing world or are you at ease too with speaking? What is the difference for you?
I vary. Sometimes I feel comfortable, enthusiastic, relaxed and confident in both, sometimes it's easier to feel that way in writing. I do go through periods of wanting to withdraw from one or both though, when I'm feeling more vulnerable and getting attacks of inappropriate rage and hurt, I've been disappointed somewhere or just feeling general depression. It soon passes (often without me knowing exactly what started or sustained it).

Do you re-create another world, or another self in writing? Is it an escape or a way to dream? To find some peace of mind?
I write for different reasons. Sometimes to express something (even if it's just how much I loved/hated a movie or something more serious like a religious/political/injustice rant) and more regularly to entertain myself and anyone reading, or to escape from the mundanity and banality of life. I have taken out some frustrations in my fiction at times of course. In my fanfics, I borrow from a lot of different things (that was probably true of original writing too, probably why I struggled with that more) and I do like to have shamelessly but tongue and cheek Mary Sues of myself in there, as opposed to conventional fanfics.

( Read On Josephine )

Anyway, that's enough chasing the dragon for one post ;)

While I'm waiting on the pilot episode of the new Flash Gordon magically appearing in a puff of smoke, I'll seize on yet another way for me to make a nuisance of myself :P As InsaneJournal seems to attract a lot of interest in fanfics, I'll give a history of my own history of fanfics.

Earliest examples of what could be called fanfics for me, were in school. We'd be given time each day to write what was called "news" about our lives, but my friends and I would usually prefer to make up our own stories, complete with comic strip and cliffhanger chapterplay conventions of continuing storylines which tended to stop at an exciting place (we usually acted our stories out as actual cliffhangers too at play time, lol!). Some were straightforward new Star Wars stories or something of course, but more usual was for us to take something like Nyoka & The Tiger Men or Sinbad & The Eye Of The Tiger and do our version, starring ourselves against the villains.

More conventional fanfic (before I knew such a thing existed and was widespread) was in the late 90s. For a Blondie/Deborah Harry fanzine, I created a serialised action parody called The Debbie Squad. The first serial dealt with alien invasion and brought Deborah Harry together with some of the characters she played in movies (Hairspray and Heavy, with cameos from her Videodrome and Tales From The Darkside: The Movie characters) to combat the alien menace. The editor was initially enthused about the idea and ran the first five or six of seven episodes. I ended up writing three serials, but for complicated reasons involving the fanzine going semi-official and relaunching, audiences never did get to see the aliens eventually defeated in the first adventure.

Later, once I was more immersed in the world of the internet, I wrote my first proper fanfic for a annual competition at Buffy The Vampire Slayer message board, The Bronze Beta. I wrote a Spike and Drusilla story, also featuring the group Rasputina. After being unsure if I would be able to come up with anything, I was surprised by how quickly I knocked the story together, much of it written during an afternoon in my local pub.

That first Buffy fanfic later led to the creation of my own shamelessly Mary Sue offbeat tongue in cheek series: Django & Drusilla. The title characters got romantically involved in the first story When Django Met Drusilla: A Tale Of Two Loonies and went through the usual relationship ups and downs (Django drinking too much and gettin hangovers and worse, Django feeling jealous of his vampire girlfriend's demon friends etc - we've all been there *g*). Later stories, starting with Django & Dru: Reloaded kept the tongue in cheek humour and romance, but followed far more action orientated storylines, including the characters being hunted around the world by demon hunters and even ending up running a hotel in Haiti. Additional character appearances occasionally included other Buffy characters, including Drusilla's former lover Spike in flashbacks, as well as pisstake versions of my real life offline friends (one of whom roared with laughter on reading it at how familiar and accurate it all was) and a demon hunter rival for Django called Mary Sue (oooh the postmodern irony!). This even led to an epic storyline known as Vampire Wars where each episode seemed to get even more Russian novel length in the last. The action moved from demon run slave factories, all over France to Seattle and would have ended in a worldwide battle against the demon forces of an old enemy of Drusilla's. I fell away from the project however, about halfway through the last instalment and the more time passed made returning to that story universe unlikely.

My next attempt at fanfics grew out of my involvement with a friend's mailing list multiverse RPG. Doctor Django was the twelfth Doctor Who (following in the footsteps of Paris Hilton as eleventh after David Tennant), who tended to be a bit scatterbrained and all over the place, as the result of too many mad adventures. Initially Doctor Django was without his TARDIS, after it had been stolen from him. Instead he met a nice sweet girl called Lynda with a Y (nicked from two episodes of the real Doctor Who series, although not the exact same person continuity wise) and even joined a circus for a while. Doctor Django's first story adventure pit him against Highlander's Kurgan, before another immortal entered the storyline. This was followed by The Saturday Invasion, in which a dastardly voodoo witchdoctor called Baron Saturday was trying to take over the world via Amsterdam, with the use of giant snakes, zombies, devil dolls and his own particular brand of marijuana. In the RPG, Doctor Django eventually got his TARDIS back and in a time travelling escapade which ripped off Fifth Doctor adventure The Visitation, inadvertently kicked off The Great Fire Of London. Doctor Django and Lynda created their own K-9 and were joined by Lost characters Shannon and Sayid, plus two original female Time Agents called Lady Desire and Donni Matrix. Meanwhile in my journal, I created my own retelling of First Doctor adventure The Chase, using my own regular cast.

More recently, in LiveJournal and GreatestJournal, I hit on the bold and perhaps crazed idea of mixing together normal journal posts (movie and TV reviews, celebrity gossip etc) with fictional third person adventures that mixed together the styles of Raymond Chandler/Jame Ellroy hardboiled crime fiction with comedy reality show The Simple Life. And voila, The Noir Life was created. Cynical private dick Django would pepper his discussions and arguments with bar patrons and the District Attorney with reviews of the lastest movies his writer had been watching, or else sorting the truth from the media lies of the latest Paris Hilton gossip. Although not set in the same universe as Doctor Django, quite a few of the same characters ended up making appearances. That's Hardboiled!

My fanfics tend to be very tongue in cheek, shamelessly Mary Sue and filled with injokes, references and steals from everything that interests me and takes my fancy. I've had some positive feedback and picked up the occasional fan on the way, but mostly they always seemed too strange for most or maybe they just didn't give the stories a try in the first place (some people do take fanfiction writing/reading way too seriously at times and probably don't appreciate the more fun approach). And eventually I end up burning my creativity out and leave stories forever half finished. Fangs for the memories *g*