Susan Hated Literature

EDITED cause I am a total div who put down that a goal is worth two points, when in fact it is three. Which i totally know. I mean, duh! Of course it’s worth three points. What else would it be worth?

Bank holiday tomorrow, but I’ll be working. Exam time means those students need the library open. They’d better come in. Was quite empty on Friday, maybe due to the good weather, but I was still surprised there weren’t more around studying.

Long term readers will know I’ve an interest in [tag]show-jumping[/tag], and this week saw the FEI World Cup^[1] competition. And Ireland’s [tag]Jessica Kuerten[/tag] ^[2] was tipped by many to win, but that was before she decided to leave her top horse at home due to the Quibell’s dislike of airplanes. The competition in Kuala Lumpar ended today with Jessica taking second place behind Germany’s [tag]Marcus Ehning[/tag].

Today also saw the National [tag]Hurling[/tag] League final between [tag]Limerick[/tag] and [tag]Kilkenny[/tag]. It’s only the league, so not really the big competition, but I tuned in anyways. Cheering for Limerick, of course, as thats where de mudder is from. But as all the teams presumably want to peak for the Championship is wasn’t the greatest of matches. Still, [tag]Henry Shefflin[/tag] more than deserved his Man of the Match award, and Kilkenny deserved their win^[3] Then again they didn’t really score much more than Limerick, it just so happened that they scored three goals^[4] whereas all Limerick’s were points. Its the first hurling match I’ve watched in a while, but that Lucozade ad with Ronan O’Gara is totally correct, them hurling boys have some skill.

In yet more sports news that Brother #4, may be heading for South Africa with his [tag]rugby[/tag] team. They’re picking names out of a hat for a summer tour, I think, so he’s pretty hopeful. And Brother #5 was playing in the [tag]Connacht[/tag] U18 final today. Don’t know how they did yet, but the opponents Ballinasloe were favourites. No results on the Connacht rugby site^[5] which really needs to be updated more.

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ISBN:1563899426
Author: Bill Willingham Penciller: Lan Medina Inkers: Steve Leiloha & Craig HamiltonColourist: Sherilyn van Valkenburgh Letterer: Todd Klein Original Series Covers: James Jean & Alex Maleev
DDC: 741.5973

Once Upon a Time in a fictional land called New York City. Chapter One: Old Tales Revisited. In which we meet many of our principal players and get just the first hint or two of some of the myriad troubles to come.

Legends in Exile is the collected first five chapters of the whole Fables series. In it we are introduced to the fables, a collection of characters who have settled in New York. Originally these fairy tale legends lived in their own worlds, but were driven out by The Adversary. Now they must live among the mundanes, never letting any but their own kind know of who and what they are. And now it seems that there is a murderer in their midst, and everyone wants to know who killed Rose Red.

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Dir: Christophe Gans
Writ: Roger Avery, Nicolas Boukhrief, Christophe Gans
Starring:

• Radha Mitchell - Rose Da Silva
• Sean Bean - Christopher Da Silva
• Jodelle Ferland - Sharon/Alessa
• Laurie Holden - Cybil Bennett
• Deborah Kara Unger - Dahlia Gillespie
• Kim Coates - Officer Thomas Gucci

The phrase, based on a computer game don’t really inspire much confidence do they? And I’ve never played Silent Hill, but, you know, a creepy film. Sean Bean. Its free. I figured I’ll give it a go, despite the many bad write ups.

And I’m glad I did, because while it was far from perfect it was still an entertaining, albeit slightly long, two hours at the cinema.

Silent Hill tells the story of Sharon Da Silva, a young girl whose constant sleep walking is putting her in danger. So when she mentions the placename Silent Hill on a few occasions her mother, Rose, decides the only thing to do is take her there. Confront the past and see if that will help. Her father, Christopher, doesn’t seem convinced, so Rose heads off without telling him.

Silent Hill was the scene of a massive fire, and one that is still burning underground. It is a ghost town, closed off from the population at large because of its toxic fumes. So when Rose is persued by a motorcycle cop she decides to floor it, and crashes through the barrier heading for Silent Hill. Only to see a figure run across the road in front of her, causing her to crash. And when she awakes her daughter is nowhere to be seen. And pretty soon Silent Hill turns out to be a lot worse than simply an ash-filled town.

Overall there is quite a lot in this film that works really well. The whole style of the town is extremely well done, with the floating ash reducing visibilty yet keeping everything strangely bright. And those few seconds of total darkness, which may work better without illuminated fire exit signs, but these are the burdens cinema goers must bear The sound effects are also fantastic. Sometimes deathly silent, sometimes letting mundane sounds echo loudly, and sometimes just loud.

The actors all do a good job. Radha Mitchell is very believable as the mother searching for her daughter. The young girl playing Sharon does a good job, both as Sharon and as the creepy “dark side.” Sean Bean is fine, though his storyling seems very much an afterthought, and I’ve read that it was added after the rest of the film was finished. And his accent kept getting in the way. He didn’t actually have enough lines for me to get used to it, and it was slightly jarring. But overall all the actors did a good job.

But the storyine itself was a bit flat. Yes atmospheric and creepy in parts, and gorey in others, but the film dragged a little in places, and as a whole it didn’t really work. That may be because of the source material, and there may have been nods to the fans in there. I never played the games so can’t comment on that.

Better than the reviews’d have me believe this is a good solid film, although I was a bit disapointed with the ending, partly due to its similarities to the recent film The Dark.

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There are many little things running around my head. Like Black Books.^[1] My dislike of labeling.^[2] The sunny weather. The fact that I was stoopid enough to record the brand new Sharpe programme on ITV over the weekend, but then forgot about the second part. How Veronica Mars is all exciting. How Bones although light and fluffy^[3] it is still quite dark.^[4] How House is really good. Hmmm, most of these thoughts seem to revolve about TV. But there are others here. I swear. Books! and annoying students. And rugby. And taking time off. And, and and….

They are running too fast, I’ll have wait a while til they settle down a bit. At the moment, if you could see them, the thoughts would resemble rabid squirrels chasing each other round and round in circles. So fast they actually can’t be seen. So for all you know they aren’t really there :what: Yes, that makes sense. Of course it does.

Oh, which reminds me, must investimigate^[5] getting my paws on some more Fred Vargas books.

Oh, and that show on Bosco set in the garden, with the dog called Flaherty^[6] Remember him^[7] “woof” said Flaherty. And there was a cat and a magic crow? Cornelius?

Today’s insanities were brought to you by the letter hyphen and the imaginary number

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Especially for you Anne, and all the other furrin types who may have had different google results:

Aren’t you glad its Friday? I know I am. And not just because it means no work tomorrow, but because it is never as busy at work on a Friday. You’d think today’d be different. I mean, exams start on Tues so all this week we’ve been very busy. But not too many today. We’re still busier than a normal Friday, but so far there has been considerably less people than yesterday. Wonder how busy we’ll be on Monday?

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Story bud? Or should that be buds? Who knows. Should one^[1] write to one person or to many? Sorta^[2] like the you or ye issue I suppose. I’ll solve it and say y’all. So, to recap these first few nonsensical lines, any news y’all?

I’ve been in really good form these past few days. Not that I have wild mood swings, or that I’ve been in a bad mood before that. I don’t really do ups and downs, to paraphrase Lisa Simpson, I know neither highs nor lows

And if I’m honest I should be in a bad mood cause the saga of the laptop has gotten worse. Now Pavlov won’t even recognise audio cds, which was a frackin issue seeing as I’d just bought a new album and wanted to mp3 it all and listen on my way to work this morning. Instead, I had to bring it back into work and try three different computers here. One wouldn’t read the cd, one wouldn’t read the mp3 player and the third was just fine^[3] So I’ve just finished transferring songs over and will get to listen at lunch, or maybe on my way home this evening.

But the hassle. The hassle

Not enough to dent my good mood though. Even the sight of three billion coffee cups and numerous scattered newspapers all over the library this morning didn’t make me want to issue a red alert and crack down on eating and drinking in the library. Nope, I just laughed along with Gift Grub and binned it all.

Which reminds me, Gift Grub you were a lazy bastard today weren’t you? First of all to still be going on about the rugby match. Who on earth would still be smiling everytime they see the buses with the Munster lads on the side^[4] But then to use the internet as the source on your inspiration^[5] Tut tut tut. Cause first of all they told the nation about google’s bias, which I was first alerted to via In Fact, Ah, go to google and search for Leinster Supporters Club: Now read that first line. hee

And then there was the fact that Jay did the Choose Leinster thingy thats been doing the email rounds.

Ah well, it was still funny. Jay has to be one of their best characters, and him constantly telling yer man from The Thrills^[6] to Shuddup, jus’ shuddup was great.

Hmm, I’ve gone off-topic, not that I was ever really on a topic in the first place, but I wasn’t actually intended to bore you all with yet more rugby there’ll be plenty of time for that come May 20th.

As well as the soundtrack to Merry Christmas I also got my first vol. of [tag]Bill Willingham[/tag]Fables which quite^[7] a few^[8] people^[9] have been saying is really great. I didn’t get a chance to read much as I was error checking registrys and enabling and disabling, uninstalling and reinstalling drives^[10] and oher such things in a futile attempt to get Pavlov back in working order. But what little I read seems really great. Course the second vol has been delayed in Amazon-land for some reason. So I won’t rush the first one.

And thank the gods^[11] for Firefox’s tab saver extension. Cause the pc just crashed, and I’d've had to come up with all this all over again if I’d been using IE.

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