My Uncontrollable Sexist Me

I was working on tils the other day at work (obviously). Now before I start I would just like to note that when I think of where I keep a radio in a house, it naturally falls into the kitchen area in my mind because people tend to eat and prepare food there and like that bit of background music or mood while doing these things....

Anyhoo, while at the tils a woman approached me. She gave me her catalogue number of the item she wished to order and I put it through. All was groovey. Before placing the final order down I always have to ask if this is the correct item just to be safe. In this case it was a radio, so I asked "It's a radio you want yes?" and she said "yes".

Now, in work we're also encouraged to make conversation with our customers to make them feel like an individual instead of just the "next" costumer. So I decided to apply this mindset to the current female customer in front of me.

I said "Oh so you're gonna have the radio in the kitchen yeah?", she looked at me with half a smirk and said "..no.. for work actually" and I thought aloud "oh, well that too!". Of course at this moment in time I was still completely unaware as to how sexist I must've sounded during this entire order. As she was walking away my snail paced mind clicked together, like to snails sliding into each other. I guess that's not really a click, more of a slow...slow slow slow thud.

Anyways, I turned to one of my co-workers at the til next to me and said "oh crap, I just realised how bad that sounded -" he was smirking at me and just said "yep!".

Oh what another shameful moment I handed to myself at work...

The Deathly Hallows Part 2

My Harry Potter film hype has gone into overload as of recently with the end of the film saga approaching quickly, yet still so far away at the same time!

I've always loved the openings of the films because they're always unique. The most recent two did a fantastic job with setting the tone of the films, which are progressively heading in darker territory every minute of their run time.

The Half Blood Prince had a fantastic opening in just the first 30 seconds where it briefly shows the after math of the battle with Voldemort in the ministry. It's effective with it's haunting score, Daniel Radcliffe's vacant expression after his traumatic ordeal and combined with the flashing of camera's riddled with Voldemort's intense battle cry, the whole sequence is quite unsettling and re rigs the franchise into the homestretch of dark things to come.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVHh_ldUF2U

The Deathly Hallows Part One had an equally unsettling and quite scary opening with the decaying Warner Brothers Logo floating out of the black clouds before fading to black. This is followed by a rising clockwork clicking (presumably of the locket), screeching and wilderness which becomes increasingly louder before cutting to the first scenes of the film. It's intense and signifies hostility the world has fallen into and how dark things have become. I find it remarkable that all of this is conveyed in just 30 seconds of screen time yet again.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGtms4B1pO8

And finally, to get to the point for which this post was made, a screen cap of the opening sequence of the final film has surfaced and it looks like we're yet again to impress with the most foreboding and violent title sequence yet. To put my thoughts into words, the wait for this movie is killing me inside. Feast your eyes:

A New Video

After labouring for a whole 2 separated hours in the evening and a few hours of editing, the fruits of hour crappy labour has finally paid off in a weird and wonderful way.... ENJOY!!

30 Day Music Challenge... IN ONE DAY!

I've been noticing on the ol' social networking website known as Facebook (you might've heard of it...) that many peoples are taking part in the 30 Day Music Challenge. Since that requires a certain amount of persistence (which I don't have) to put something new up every day, I have taken it on myself to list off 30 songs I've been addicted to as of late. They're in no particular order of preference, but I do like some more than others:

1)


I guess this is my favourite at the moment, it's total badassery


2)
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My walk and strut song


3)


Long, melancholic, haunting and sad but really really cool!


4)


Another cool Puscifer song, they need to make MOAR!


5)


If you haven't heard, I have a Battlestar Galactica Obsession


6)


I think everyone owes it to themselves to listen to this, it's friggin' cool


7)


A hilariously weird song about a robot obsessed with cake and death


8)


Silent hill, industrial grungy coolness


9)


Moar silent hillness

10)


Daft Punk's awesome soundtrack to Tron Legacy


11)


A depressing but haunting melody.


12)


Super cool song from Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World


13)


I don't really know what to say about this one...


14)


One to blow your head off your shoulders


15)


Half way there!


16)


I would put this whole soundtrack down, but then there'd be no variety!


17)


Battlestar Galactica's loud, middle eastern cover of All Along the Watchtower


18)


A really nice piece... It makes me think of someone running away from something.... with no sound :P


19)


My favourite piece of music ever created. I want this played at my funeral!


20)


Cool beat and cool song by Korn


21)


Probably one of the most uplifting songs I've ever listened to


22)


Love this one!


23)


This be Fightin' music


24)


Intro song to Season 4 of The Wire, really really groovay


25)


From Mad Men, that ridiculously engaging song at the beginning of every episode!


26)


It just builds and builds onto itself to an explosive ending.


27)


I think we all know this one...


28)


Really strangely uplifting track from Sunshine.


29)


More haunting tracks... I'm all about the haunting today


30)


This one I hold closely to my heart!


And there you have it, 30 songs/tracks/whatever you want to call them from me. I generally listen to movie scores so I really tried this time to find songs with lyrics, forgive me if this doesn't match your pathetic taste!

Just Chugging Along

    At work yesterday I inadvertently made a hilariously bad pun that confused both me and the customer at the same time. As I brought out a Chuggington Book thingy to a man I did my my usual "Hi, how are you?" greeting. He of course responded "Great now, yourself?". It didn't click with me straight away that I had made a pun, I think it just happened because I was reading the title of the book as I came out to the shop floor. My response was "Oh you know, just chugging along through the day". As I signed off on the receipt I couldn't help but notice that the man was staring at me with a rather large smile. An intense smile if you will. A BURNING smile. This confused me and and the customer, because I didn't acknowledge it immediately. Then I realised I had made a horrible pun. I responded with "Oh my god, that was a bad pun I didn't even notice I made". He laughed and said "yeah, it was". And then left me to grimace at my own embarrassment.

Damn it, it happens just too often.

On a side note, I love bad puns. As Eoin Kelly once said to me about 127 hours "it rocks".

25 Years of Zelda

            I usually don't post unless I have a long boring story all of you don't need to read, but since it has come to my attention that it's the 25th anniversary of the greatest game franchise EVAR, I thought it deserved it's own post to commemorate it. And I also came across an absolutely amazing picture only a genius could have made to celebrate this fact, feast your eyes on this amazing feat of artistry.

Sleeping Beauty and her Morbid Kingdom

My body's general disdain for me left me in a restless slumber last night. So in a race to fall asleep with myself I decided the best option was to find a classic Disney film to help me conk. Much to my dismay, this did not work.

The movie in question was Sleeping Beauty, surely a film about a woman going for a lengthy (albiet death inducing) nap would help drag a curtain over these eyes. Alas, instead I became enveloped in the film as I questioned the motives of the characters and plot for the 1 hour 15 minute runtime. For example, Maleficent, she's the villain of the film but I think she takes things a little over the top from the get go. I mean, she throws a hissy fit about not being invited to the christening of Princess Aurora. If this makes her angry, clearly she cares to a certain extent about what people think of her. So what does she go ahead and do? She puts a death inducing curse on the 1 year old child that will kill her at the age of 16, by touching an evil green spindle wheel. This is over not being invited. To a christening.

There must be no Sky Plus in her castle.

"Damn it! I missed Independence Day... AGAIN!"

Second of all, the King and Queen both do not care about their daughter nor have any quality talents themselves. They let the fairies morph the child's face with the gift of beauty and then tack on a bit of X-factor to her with the gift of song. The only really meaningful thing the fairies give is that she doesn't die from bad ass bitch Maleficent's curse. THEN when all said and done, they just give their child away for 16 years in a brief moment of not-my-problem-anymoreness. Why the fairies so blatantly ignore these unlikeable traits is beyond me. Anyways, they celebrate by burning a load of spindle wheels while stupidly overlooking the fact that both Maleficent and the three Fairies can summon things into existence at the wave of their wands. A kingdom of fools run by fools I tells ya!

"They should totally let this guy run the kingdom"

So for 16 years the fairies decide that the best way to protect Aurora from nothing is by dumping her in the middle of the forest and not using any magic at all. All of this is completely unnecessary because the curse doesn't actually have any effect until the moment she turns 16, and even then she'll still have to touch a spindle wheel for it to actually work. All they would have to do is make sure she doesn't go a little overboard on her super sweet princess 16th.

So yeah, whatever about being raised in the wild and being brought back to the castle once she was 16 . Just a bit of babysitting seemed to be the best remedy to the curse. However, in a wonderfully retarded tragic turn in events, they leave Aurora alone for no more than 5 mins before she goes ahead and curses the shit out of herself. Maleficent laughs, the fairies cry and decide that no one should figure out about their monumental failure that they had 16 years to prepare for.

So the fairies unintentionally take a page from Maleficent's book and put everyone into a deep slumber until Aurora is to be awoken again. Clearly these fairies never took a biology class. They did this under the belief that this period of slumber may be ever lasting. Ever lasting also means a whole lot of not eating for an entire kingdom.

"Well, at least they'd all be able to wear skinny jeans"

Luckily the kingdoms one hope, Prince Philip, happened to be gallivanting off in the forest with his unnaturally intelligent horse. He just happens to be in love with Aurora, for reasons beyond me as they only met once in the forest and even before that he only saw her as a 1 year old child in a crib when he was something along the age of 6 or 7. This also leads me to believe he's a pedophile. Anyways, Maleficent's steals him and locks her in her totally awesome castle of doom that would give Sauron a run for his money as evil overlord. Insert fairies here and large rescue scene to escape.

Now. Maleficent has clearly shown she is both powerful and quite evil. I do not know what her intentions really are, but usually people living in this mindset demand obedience and loyalty at inhumane expectations. In a heartfelt rage of the entire situation she turns her entire kingdom into a thorny inconvenient garden to hinder our young pedo-prince in his race to Aurora's aid. I guess you could say, she went a little.. Hay-BRIAR! And then she turns into a dragon and fights the prince with "All the powers of Hell!" as quoted. I don't know about you, but if I could turn into a friggin' DRAGON I'd be doing a lot more than sitting around and waiting for a curse to happen in 16 years.

Anyways, as it turns out, the powers of Hell are no match against Prince Philip's Olympic javelin skills. Sword, meet heart. Maleficent has an allergic reaction to this and disappears entirely, leaving behind her clothes. Then our horny prince proceeds to the top of the castle to take advantage of the sleeping 16 year old and ate the face off her.

"oh baby... the things I'm gonna do to you"

Maybe I was looking into the movie a bit much, but I leave you with a recommendation that this movie will most likely not help you sleep. Good night!