nigeltde: if trixie could just think hard enough she would undo everything (harley wtf?)
Oh my lord, what the hell has happened to my beautiful tvtome.com? It's turned into a huge, wanky monstrosity that takes ages to load, especially on my slow computer, fucks up with firefox and tries to be all cool and space-age but is really just all-around LAME. A window popped up and asked if I wanted to take a survey--"your contribution is important to us", it said--so I thought hey, feedback! I can tell them what an how tvtome was such a great, convenient, quick resource just chock full of data and how all the bells and whistles are obfuscating that. But no. It was just a demographics survey for advertising. Goddamn!

First allmusic.com, then tvtome.com, if imdb goes the same route I will cancel the internet!

(OK, I'll admit I like the extra pictures. But they could have included that without fucking up the rest!)
nigeltde: if trixie could just think hard enough she would undo everything (kev facepalm)
Just got back from seeing Alexander. ARRRRRGH! So frustrated! I went in expecting it to be really abysmal and in some ways it was, and yet in others it had some promise, and I'm just like, oh, the wasted potential! It was at LEAST half an hour longer than it needed to be, and yet, as [livejournal.com profile] frostmourne said, that wouldn't have been a problem if it had actually been INTERESTING. But it wasn't! It was just boring and occasionally irritating! And I wasn't disappointed because I had such low expectations but the source material is one of my favourite ever books and so when they got a bit right, I thought, oh! Possibilities! But no.

Spoilers and ranting )
In short: train wreck, a veritable how-not-to of directing and writing. But good for Jared Leto perving!

Also finally saw the latest SV. John Pyper Ferguson, oh my god! Criminally underused (has about 5 min of screen time) but still good to see him. Amusingly, plays a psychiatrist/mental hospital doctor.
nigeltde: if trixie could just think hard enough she would undo everything (Default)
My computer totally kicks the bucket, so I get to use a temporary one we happen to have lying around but that needs to go soon. I spend all last weekend installing everything, getting it all properly set up. I settle down tonight to watch the new eps of SV, House, Scrubs, Carnivale I've downloaded and are rather excited about....AND THE FUCKER DIES ON ME! I CAN NO LONGER PLAY MOVIE FILES! I WILL KILL SOMEONE AFTER I HAVE CHEWED OFF MY OWN ARM IN FRUSTRATION!

ASSHEAD

Oct. 9th, 2004 10:35 pm
nigeltde: if trixie could just think hard enough she would undo everything (asshead)
God, you know, I expected it to go Howard's way but I really thought it would be closer. The amount of swing towards the Libs was just insane. I'm very depressed about it, to the point where my mum, who's just as keen on politics, told me to put it in perspective. But I mean, it's pretty friggin important, the guy in charge of our country for another three years is a narrow-minded, lying, fear-mongering, corporatist asshole. I just can't help thinking of all the people who are going to suffer because of these idiotic, narrow policies, and my God, will we EVER get to sign the Kyoto protocol now? And I didn't even VOTE Labor, but I refuse to feel guilty because the Greens pretty much match me perfectly principle wise, so I suppose I should be happy that they've done so well, but aaaaahhhh. I think Latham's actually a pretty good guy, and although I really disagree with some Labor policies, I think he could have done a good job. On the up side, I guess he'll be even better prepared next time around. I just feel like tonight was a turning point for Australians and we totally bypassed it. I felt like there was a lot of potential for us to have made this planet better and we fucked it up. I get it intellectually but I am having a great deal of really understanding how someone could vote Liberal (or Family First, like, how scarily well did they do?). When you vote you have to think about what's best for fucking Indigenous Australian infants dying at birth and Iraqi civilians being bombed and single mothers having to work for the dole and people locked up in detention centres for THREE YEARS and the gasping ozone layer and our depleted seas and so on and so on and so on. People think so NARROWLY and it kills me. OK, I'm going to stop now because I could go on for ever. I'm going to have my comfort fruit salad and watch a comfort movie, maybe Holy Grail or FotR. I could do with a fucking laugh.

Let's just pray that this isn't how the US election is going to go.
nigeltde: if trixie could just think hard enough she would undo everything (asshead)
OMG WTF has happened to my beautiful allmusic.com. It's hideous! It might as well be a pharmeceutical company website! It doesn't even work in Opera! And the shitty thing is I'll have to register and surrender my details to the stupid hole-riddled privacy policy because I'm fucking addicted to the bloody site.

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