Vicariously Prejudiced in a Perfunctory Manner

The main character in Witness looks exactly like sirotrax.  It was rather distracting.

This just in.  quantum_p's pretty fun to talk to.  He rubs my ego in all the right ways.

I watched Natural City last night, a Korean sci-fi movie from 2003 that's like a cross between Equilibrium and Doom.  It's pretty good, I should suggest it for the Independent Film Club.  I watched half of Jarhead tonight, it's well done and I'm enjoying it.

This is a pretty good song.  This is a pretty good bed.

Ask dr_dos about the man with three legs and two pairs of working genetalia who got married and had kids.  That sounds like that start of a joke, doesn't it?  Doesn't it?

I got this telegram on Nation States (yes I'm still playing even though you all left me alone with aplsos and quantum_p idiots):

The Black Hawks Ambassador of KriegerX
Received: 12 hours ago

Hello there my friend! I have a very special offer for you which will make your NS life a lot more entertaining and may even get you known in NS. If you are interested please reply.
Best.

I did not know that Nigerian businessmen played Nation States.

We dropped Lukas, my brother, off at Conrad Grebel today, which is part of the University of Waterloo. He's still in the same city as us, 15 minutes away by bicycle, but it's like a little part of our family died. On the other hand, I'm an only child now.

I spent last night watching Firefly, I finished episode 3 ("Bushwhacked") at 2am, was feeling decidedly creeped out so I watched the fourth before going to bed at 3am. The first and second episodes were fantabulous, 3 was spooky and 4 was over the top. I watched 5 earlier today, and I enjoyed it, and 6 is going well as we speak.

I saw Transporter 2 with friends today, it was positively terrible. The good kind of terrible, however, the kind you can make fun of. It had some of the worst one-liners I've seen in ages:

"Didn't your mother ever teach you to say thank you?" (after a death-defying cop chase)
"She tried, but failed miserably."

and about 5 seconds later:

"So we've escaped?"
(police chopped appears in front of the car)
"Think again."
(anorexic girl in lingerie with machine guns destroys chopper)
"Thought over."

The best line in the movie was definitely when "Frank" sped his car under a private jet that was taking off, jumped onto the landing gear, climbed into the plane and broke the co-pilot's neck, before confronting the villain:

"I'm sorry, this plane trip is cancelled."
(Villain raises gun)
"I'm sorry, you are cancelled."

There was a ton of product placement as well, there were Heinekin bottles in the fridge, an iPod that was featured for 10 seconds, and this gem of a line:

"Doctor is busy. Sit, listen Panasonic. Is American rap music, is good!"

Transporter 2 had the most improbable action scenes I've ever seen (including Sahara, which ended with the entire Nigerian army chasing after the heroes, led by the president from his missile-firing helicopter), but the trump scene involved a car with a remote-controlled bomb, and Frank flipping the car over in mid-air so that a dock crane just happens to scrape the bomb off of the undercarriage before it blows (the bomb, not the movie.)

All in all, a fun time. It was surprisingly missing any gratuitous sex scenes though, that's something the producers may want to consider for Transporter 3.

Several unrelated spewings follow.

There was a large spider resting on the wall throughout the Tae Kwon Do lesson yesterday.  It freaked me out.

Serenity trailer.  I still need to watch the series, which is sitting on my hard drive and coming home to Canada on the plane (7 days), but it looks heaps good.

Max Barry's Syrup screenplay.  First, if you haven't read Max Barry (Syrup, Jennifer Government), do so now.  Second, if you haven't subscribed to Max Barry's email blog then do so now.  You should also have realized by now that this is the same Max Barry who created NationStates, and the point of all this hyperlinking leads back to the fact that Max(x) Barry is working steadily on a screenplay.  This is good news.

I'm DJing a set on MZX Radio at this moment.  I had 3 listeners at one point, it's all good trance tracks, and a couple wacko drum & bass pieces as well.

I'm really going to miss awesome older people like Lauren and Will when I leave.  They're 21 and 20 respectively, I spent 5 hours with Lauren today and I'll be with Will for several hours tomorrow, getting in last goodbyes.  Beef curry is also a really great lunch, by the way.