On account of the fact that pirates are cool, and that I really enjoyed POTC: AWE I give you this week’s Thursday Thirteen: 13 items of piratey goodness.
Yes, the product of a google image search, but still, look pirates! Garrrrr.
Pirate flags. They’re so cool. This one was flown by Calico Jack
Calico Jack, aka Captain Jack Rackham, had an affair withAnne Bonny.
Course, Bonny wasn’t the only female Irish pirate. The most famous is probably Gráinne Nà Mháille known as Grace O’Malley in English, also known as Granuaile or Gráinne Mhaol.
Thats her meeting with the ebil English Queen Elizabeth.
And Elizabeth had pirates of her own, only they were able to rob legally because they had letter of marque. Her most favourite “privateer” was probably Francis Drake.
Samuel Bellamy lasted only a year as a pirate, but became much famed for his mercy. His crew called themselves Robin Hood’s Band
Such mercy wasn’t always usual among pirates. The more famous are remembered for their reigns of terror. Like Edward Teach who may be slightly better known as Blackbeard
Blackbeard was said to have had Captain James Hook as his bosun.
But one of the most popular fictional pirates has to be Robert Louis Stevenson’s Long John Silver, what with his crutch and his parrot. One of the most famous pirates who never was
Course nowadays, Capt Jack Sparrow is probably more famous than Long John Silver. And sure who doesn’t love Witty Jack?
Well I suppose maybe Captain Barbossa might not love him. And I’m guessing Davy Jones might not be a fan either.
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Dir: Gore Verbinksi
Writ: Ted Elliott & Terry Rossio
Johnny Depp … Jack Sparrow
Geoffrey Rush … Barbossa
Orlando Bloom … Will Turner
Keira Knightley … Elizabeth Swann
Jack Davenport … Norrington
Bill Nighy … Davy Jones
Mackenzie Crook … Ragetti
Stellan SkarsgÃ¥rd … ‘Bootstrap’ Bill Turner
Naomie Harris … Tia Dalma
Chow Yun-Fat … Captain Sao Feng
Keith Richards … Captain Teague
Surprisingly I liked this. I loved the first, but was bored during the second, so I wasn’t expecting great things from the third in the series. Maybe this was the reason I liked it, low expectations and all, but whatever the cause I’m glad.
It isn’t as good as the first; I don’t think I’d be bothered to rewatch it. Maybe if it showed up on telly, or I wanted to waste three hours, but I wouldn’t be pushed either way. Still it more than did its job of entertaining me throughout the film. And earned a few laughs as well. So thumbs up I think.
And then there is the whole look and feel of the film. It is fab. Honestly. I loved Davy Jones’ locker, and the hallucinations of Jack Sparrows. Fantastic. Surreal and trippy, but wonderful.
That being said, there were bits I didn’t like, but then again what film is perfect. Especially if it has Keira Knightly in it? I’m not a fan, but she did okay, nothing to complain about[1] I feel kinda the same about Orlando Bloom, I’m not a huge fan, but he did the job, although he really wasn’t in it all that much, despite being a principle character.
Yes, there is too much going on, and plots that go nowhere, and senselessness, but it doesn’t really matter. Jack is cool. Pirates are piratey. So it is all good.
Yo, ho, haul together,
hoist the Colors high…
Heave ho, thieves and beggars,
never say we die.
And while I’m here; the opening was a bit dark wasn’t it? I mean, the hangings of huge numbers of people, including children, but cunningly filmed so it only got a 12s rating.
So I’m working late tonight, and as it is kinda overtime that I won’t get paid for I’m doing nowt but surfing, and have spent way too much time browsing hrough ask metafilter’s animal section. Where I came across this.
I didn’t watch the rugby documentary[1] last night. I was watching Medium and the Heroes. And can I just say one little thing to scifi uk? Your ads are the worst, and I will never ever buy the new Tomb Raider game, nor the previous one you advertised, Sparta, or whatever. And why? Because you try and deafen me. Just be glad I’m not in the army or there’d be suing[2] going on[3] .
Medium is a strange mix of telly. In one way it seems kinda relaxed about stuff[4] but on the other hand it seems a bit on the right, politically. You know, with being pro-death penalty and whatnot. But then again, who am I to say you can’t agree with drinking and cussing and be fairly liberal while wanting to kill peoples. It’s all good[5] .
Heroes, as I said before[6] I do like and enjoy. But I don’t really like any of the characters, so I’m a little meh. But it is entertaining and stuff happens[7] and it has Christopher Eccleston[8] in it, even if his character does have a silly name[9] But he is good and grumpy so I likes him. But not a huge amount. And I don’t like cop guy. He’s annoying. I do like Nathan, even if he can be a selfish bastard at times, but he isn’t quite selfish enough to have the “love to hate him” thing going on, and he isn’t “heart of gold” enough to love him. Peter is improving. I didn’t like his do-gooder-ness,[10] but know that he is developing a bit of a backbone its all good. Nikki/Jessica, meh, could do more. The kid is alright, the father a bit of a nothing character so far. Hiro I’m not sure of yet. Claire I do like, and her ebil father.
Almost forgot, the girl, Sara, on last night’s episode[11] of Medium also showed up in an episode of The Inside[12] where she played an evil murdering child. So even though she played a victim here I so didn’t trust her. Evil child.
Anyways, back to the rugby, I have it recorded, but I’m probably going to buy the dvd as it looks more than entertaining, and in a way, better because it recorded the failure to achieve the Grand Slam. I did catch a few seconds and watching the faces of the players as they watched the final few minutes of the France game… excellent telly. And speaking of excellence, did anyone else catch this morning’s Gift Grub[13] ? A day in the life of Paul O’Connell. Genius.
So the voting is over, and the counting is over, and bloody FF got in again[1] Friday morning was not a good time to be around de mudder as the meeja were all saying that FF would get in with an overall majority.
Luckily that turned out to be not the case, they’ll still need someone’s help, maybe Labour, maybe the Greens. Who knows.
B #1 voted FF. But everyone else in de family went for the others, and wasn’t there much rejoicing[2] when Michael McDowell wasn’t elected.
Remember when I may possibly have aided and abetted a mouse murder?[3]Well on Sunday I may have done enough to redress the balance. Whiney cat came racing towards the house, pursued by two thrushes and carrying a third in his mouth. We’d've ignored the drama outside but then spotted that thrush #3 was still alive. A wee baby bird. Well, not too much of a baby, it had feathers and could flutter a little. So I nabbed the cat and brought him inside while we waited to see if the parents would return. Whiney cat was not at all impressed by this development, and he wanted everyone in the world to know. Whiney doesn’t even come into it, he moaned and demanded to be let out for half an hour, running from one window to the the next and then to the door.
Eventually, as we couldn’t spot the bird we let him out. Can you guess what happened next? Yeah, he caught it again, and once more dragged it towards the house, again being chased by the parentals. So we said we’d give it one more chance. And put up with the non-stop griping from the cat. It may have worked this second time as there was no sign of the bird after that, and on his next trip outside there was plenty of searching but no finding.
Course, one of the neighbouring cats could have got the bird either. But you know, I think we deserve marks for effort.
The cat has now also been collared and belled. Though what difference that’ll make is hard to say.
Oh, and I’ve also installed a plugin thingy that’ll publish these posts across on the livejournal as well. Because, sure I might as well.
Linknotes:
yes, yes, there is the slightest of slight chances that FG will do it, but realistically speaking it is going to be FF ↩
I had a teeny bit of sympathy for him too, which was surprising ↩
