Up Front: The British Are Coming
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In the wikilink there is mention of a film version
Indeed -- but I'll be damned if I can see a way its going to work as a conventional feature (and with a budget lower than the GDP for a medium-sized country) without carving out everything that's interesting about the book in the first place. But we live (and die) in hope.
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but I'll be damned if I can see a way its going to work as a conventional feature
I've made it a policy never to go to the movie of a book I enjoyed, its just too depressing for words.
I nominate Craig as Zombie-flick-Reviewer-in-Chief -
Dead Snow, like Jem and the Holograms, is truly, truly, truly outrageous. Even if it does suffer from Idiot Protagonist Syndrome a little too much (but hell, it's a comedy).
One of these days I must acquire the audiobook of WWZ - Alan Alda, Jürgen Prochnow, Mark Hamill, HENRY ROLLINS among others - that would have to be worth a listen.
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I've pretty much conquered my fear of needles.
Sticking needles into oneself and having twice daily blood tests for two weeks did it. Thank goodness I have veins that even the most incompetent vampire nurse can get blood out of. Admittedly after two weeks of a double daily hammering my veins were getting a wee bit tough.
The nicest clinics have fun posters on the walls that one can focus on while the bottles are being changed. -
Dead Snow, like Jem and the Holograms, is truly, truly, truly outrageous. Even if it does suffer from Idiot Protagonist Syndrome a little too much (but hell, it's a comedy).
And where would the modern horror movie be without teenagers who get aroused by the most unfortunate things -- like dark corners and rampaging serial killers. :)
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Because Ant Timpson is a sick and twisted bastard
However, having my finger on the sick and twisted pulse of PAS, it's the film I've asked to review for the festival.
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One of the best songs ever by The Roches, 'My Winter Coat'.
"The fit is generous and loose / The coat is filled with down of goose
Should I feel guilty about that? / I wouldn’t wear the fur of a cat
The coat is black so in New York city / It doesn’t look dirty it stays pretty
The cuffs are purple which perfectly suits / A pair I already had of boots
Can’t help sharing on a personal note / A secret I have concerning the coat
One of the reasons that it got my vote / Is the way it lies open around the throat
For me the collar mustn’t come too high / Because well all right my skin is dry
So each morning I rub my face with oil / And the fabric you see the grease could soil
Can we speak a moment about the lining / After my own heart’s designing
It’s nylon so your skirts don’t wind / Up in a bunch around your behind
When the time comes for the coat to clean / You throw this thing in the washing machine
Drying you doubt but the filling does fluff / I’m here to proclaim this coat is enough
The length of the coat is below the knees / So in the cold your legs don’t freeze
I’m nuts about another one of it’s charms / There’s plenty of room underneath the arms
The coat’s not bulky it weighs about an ounce / And it’s practically void of any frivolous flounce
I will admit it has shoulder pads / All things considered it’s not so bad
It looks all right even from the side / I guess because the bottom isn’t overly wide
Okay so you say you’d prefer something hipper / But can I just tell you about the zipper
I searched for it for many years / Last one I had I tore up in tears
It turned me into jack the ripper / But now I stepped in cinderella’s slipper
It runs from the gullet to just south of the crotch / And workin’ it’s a task you can hardly botch
It’s made of a material that will not rust / It won’t get stuck you don’t get fussed
It undoes easily in the usual way / But you can also pull it up if you’d like to, let’s say
There’s snaps as well which I don’t even use / But they beat out buttons if I had to choose
I remember the night I went to the store / Fighting my way across the cloak-stuffed floor
Suffocating I was it seemed / When from a rack this last hope beamed
Of all my requirements I pursued the trail / To find furthermore the damn thing was on sale
It had a small chain at the back of the neck / So you could hang it on a hook but it broke what the heck
With the end of each sleeve I’m totally smitten / Ample space for to emerge a thick mitten
If you wanna be warm it wins far and away / It’s like walkin’ around in your bed all day
I know you’re not supposed to be so fond of a thing / But today this is my heartfelt inspiration to sing
I hope you don’t think I’m merely trying to be clever / I wish this coat would last forever." -
I nominate Emma as Zombie-flick-Reviewer-in-Chief
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I nominate Emma as Zombie-flick-Reviewer-in-Chief
Hoy! I've paid a non-refundable deposit on my new business cards, and the uniform! :)
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If we want to get artistic about coats then I suggest people read Nikolai Gogol's short story "The Overcoat".
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Regarding frock coats etc that others were wanting, my mother-in-law flicked me this website a few weeks back, which I took to drooling over. http://www.sharpe-designs.com/dragonesque-clothing-cloaks.htm It's English based, selling gothic/witchy style clothing, and has a few good coats. Obviously someone is picking up that some sectors want this sort of stuff. If only there is a NZ outlet.
Last week I was looking at sewing patterns (in the costume section of the pattern books) for a good long coat, and found one of Matrix Nero's long black swirling coat which I couldn't go past. Couldn't picture it in any other colour than black though. Now just got to make time to sew it, but at least it will fit me. -
Completely off topic, but too good not to share. Should a... be a criminal act in New Zealand?
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Hoy! I've paid a non-refundable deposit on my new business cards, and the uniform! :)
Keep 'em, they'll impress the boys
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Try - ta-dah! - kidney biopsies! And - later- dialsysis needles!
One of my family went through about a year of this nightmare, before getting an interfamilial transplant (hello, younger siblings! That was so great, so sweet, so cool!)
The bore on those kind of needles is ...horrific. Even when necessary (as in, you die if you dont-)
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Completely off topic, but too good not to share. Should a... be a criminal act in New Zealand?
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Okay, coat photo. Is not so grate, but shows how it glows when the sun hits it.
The gardasil injection was brilliant too, btw. The nurse couldn't find the injection site afterwards to put the sticky plaster on it. But we had to do the whole hand-wash and face-masks thing, which for a hearing-impaired kid? Is not great, not being able to see anyone's mouth.
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That is a nice coat
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Who's the bespectacled babe inside the coat?
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Try - ta-dah! - kidney biopsies! And - later- dialsysis needles!
I'm seeing somebody on Monday. Talk about such matters can resume Tuesday. Ta.
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Okay, coat photo. Is not so grate
But in gratitude, perhaps this one is clearer?
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/slideshow/ALeqM5hQfmxOt-sEpGdVrmohlBYg28yJuQD99ACU6O1?index=0&ned=nz -
But in gratitude, perhaps this one is clearer?
Is there something you're not telling us Emma?
Nice coat by the way
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But in gratitude, perhaps this one is clearer?
But that one has evil button eyes staring into your soul... and the coat is ugly.
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But that one has evil button eyes staring into your soul...
Only if your soul happens to be parked somewhere around your left shoulder.
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I need* a close-up of the boots, they look like my kind of boots.
* From Online OED " I. Necessity, requirement."
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Is there something you're not telling us Emma?
Almost certainly. Like, for instance, the fate of people who like to compare me to Sarah Palin.
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