Aye, I am wearing green, as I should be. *laughs* So what if I am Irish by heart?
Blogging just a short entry here, a new lay coming. Back to work on it.

Renny-Alexander.




11/03/05 *sigh*

Tell me, oh, pretty please, where can I book a passage to Coruscant? I so need to go there, I want. I must get there. I feel like Padawan-learner without her Master.
I should not go surfing on Liam/Qui-Gon sites, nope. If I had one wish in this world, it'd be that when I die I get to go to Coruscant and begin my training as a Jedi. That's my wish.
/geek

Yesterday I made an instant decision to visit mum and on the train Rika and I hopped. I know, I have my trusted Blue Max, but since I planned to take the train I'll be working on Monday night it is the sensible choice. Ach, I know, the writer's course is tomorow and I actually sent the next 'episode' of my story to them for reviewing and then mailed them that sorry, I'm not coming. So sorry. Mum tops up them all. *grins* Must go, Tinttu is coming to pick us up.

Renny-Alexander.




08/03/05 New comp

I got the new piece of hardware home last Thursday and not a day too soon, it turned out to be. The old died in my arms, system 32 errors and for this it will be restarted. Grand. Just hit F8 and start on safe mode but it will do no good because I was in the middle of creative period and was afraid that my head would actually explode because I was banned from writing. No sweat, all fine now, new comp is working mighty fine thoug I still owe the company an indecent amount of money, much more than I have afford to, at the moment that is. I did get to write the story and my head is still very much attached to my shoulders.

Yesterday, driving home from dad's we got into this unofficial Lahti-race through the city. Doing ninety across the city, trying to get past the others and getting pissed for it did not work. ;) Aye, we got home safe & sound but things like Lahti-racing are good pass of time, as long as it doesn't get out of hands.

Uh, coffee's ready, must go. It is snowing and Rika's here. Gazillion things to do today.

Renny-Alexander.




27/02/05 Prok-ed

First things first. I ordered the new comp Friday, minutes before running on train. I didn't get the exact same as they had promised in the offer, I got a bigger one, in the sense of motherboard, 200Gs instead of 160. Add another 5 euro, or so. Don't really care, why not get a decent one that'll last the next five-six years and pay a little extra? Still, the new comp will cost an arm and a leg. Never mind, I need it.

A bit I read on 7 päivää, a tv-guide-ish magazine, most often waste of corporate and my money/time, thus I don't buy it, only read it. Compliments of the House. Right, to the point, did you know that there is a brand new Star Wars film coming out this summer? it is called: Episode III: Revenge of the Seth Yes, that's what it said and I was laughing my head off. Right. The last I looked, the film was called Revenge of the Sith and as far as I know the film is due to release in May. *rolls eyes* The accuracy of the mentioned magazine has been challenged before!

Uh, concerning the title, Prok-ed, I saw Kinsey Friday night and well, uh, I was unable to think straight for the next two days. Still can't very well. Straight...uh... Blasted! Moving on.
The film was every bit good as I thought it would be, oozing sex talk and that but I wasn't quite prepared for it all. Nope, uh-huh. I got good laugh, though. I think I was cracking up in all the wrong places, giggling half through the film thinking that people just cannot have been that ignorant. Apparently they have been and this was just, what, half a century ago? Thank god for Cosmopolitan! *laughs*
There were a couple of scenes that have been haunting me for the past days and certainly the nights! Thank you oh so very much Liam! I cannot sleep. All right, after seeing Alexander and reading a pile of m/m fic, I thought I was ready for just about anything... Riiiight. I know nothing more erotic than two straight guys kissing. Aye, the hotel room -scene. Oh, I knew what was coming and I was, I admit, mumbling something like 'ohnonononodon'tdoit!Shite!Youdidit' and the very next though was why am I not in that scene? *phew!* That was extremely hot. Blew my mind up on the orbit. I can't get over it, nope.
*grins* Guess I have to see the film again. And though it was the opening night, there were just a handful of people in the cinema, which was good, actually. I could go bonkers whenever I felt like and not bother anyone. I'm sorry Liam, seems that you're not so popular here. Or then the reason might be that since the film is shown only in two cities in southern Finland, the northen fans will just wait for the film to come out on DVD. I don't know.

Renny-Alexander.




20/02/05 New comp....

It is official now, Friday at six in the afternoon (night?) I will be in watching Kinsey! At long last. *beams* The next morning I must go to work at four in the morning... I just bet that I am unable to behave rationally and that I will be tormented(?), haunted more likely, by Liam's voice, again! But do you think I care? Nope! I am a teenager, aged 12 or so.

Something not so pleasant, my comp. Oh, I've known for some time now that this version of my trusted piece of machinery has quite come to the end of its journey. Old hardware + new software = schizophrenic comp. Rather, think of Millenium Falcon and you get the idea, 'tho so far I haven't started my comp by hitting it! So, tomorrow it is the beginning of the New Comp Hunt -seasaon. *grins*

So sorry Tommi, the firewall you installed was getting on my nerves. I ditched it! Goodbye! I got another instead and apperently, although it is 'firewall for dummies' -type of a thing, I still did not how to use it. That was last night. Today, no problem. Guess I'm not that stupid.
Right, sure I'm not...
Enter virus scan and I don't know my arse from my elbow. Aye, I feel just splendid, top of the 'werald'. /sarcasm.
So, I booted my comp like 45129345456653458242 times and still no luck, it was no go for all systems. *grunts & unprintable language* So, what I do is to phone Teh Teemu and ask for advise. He suggest that I uninstall the virus scan and try again. Good piece of advise, only that I am unable to perform the simple thing for the comp just dies! The desktop freezes and nothing works. Slpendid! No worry, I restart on the Safe Mode and ditch the virus scan for good. And so far, all systems are go.
Live and learn. But tomorrow I start looking for a new comp in earnest.

Renny-Alexander.




18/02/05 Another week to go....

Thank you Sari! It seems that there are some intelligent film-people in Finland after all! I get to see Kinsey in theatre. So, tomorrow I will go at the ticket office and whine when will I see the film. I've been going bonkers all day because of this, told so many people already that I just don't have the energy to rave about it anymore. I'm just glad that I get to see it without any further delay. 18 months or so is enough. And yes, it was different with Star Wars and 16 years. *rolls eyes* Right.

Uh, yes. That's it, I guess. I've been working too much lately, on the tracks and with my story. I need to write the next chapter this weekend. No much, but the 'editing' phase will take a lot of time. I want to make a new lay too, but have no idea how to begin. Blasted! New lay has to wait, writing's got to be priority 1.

Oh, the mean chili... It turned out to be very mean. Really. Not in the burned sense of taste -style, but well, er, yes, you know you've been eating mean chili. At least I do. Beans and me are very no-no.

Rika'll be here in two weeks. We go for a pint when you get here?

Renny-Alexander.




10/02/05 Over-tired

Aye, It was little over 24 hours since I woke up in Kolari. Night train, people. Since then I have taken a short nap, just 45 minutes so that really does not count at all. Eh? I am surprised that I have not fallen asleep on my feet and that is known to have happen to me. Thus I would like to extend my very warm regards to Tommi, who has apparently all forgotten me!

Anyhoo, Sanna & Teemu are having a Dutch party (?) tomorrow night so I made really mean looking chili con carne. It's red, it's hot and it'll most propably burn your sense of taste to Pluto. The name says it all: Chili with beef. I made some guacamole too. Any of you who has ever scooped the avocadoes know that the green goo right under the skin really does not look that appetizing, ... Ick!

*jumps up & around* I got the brand new Star Wars novel today! The Labyrinth of Evil by James Luceno. Now the only problem is that I must read it before I see the film, but I also have another book to read before this new book: The Cestus Deception by Steven Barnes. I was entertaining myself with the thought that I'd start with the Jedi Apprentice series and go on reading everything before seeing ep.III. I don't think I have time for that, so I just settle for the two mentioned books.

I think I go and get some sleep, like right now. My head stopped working all of a sudden.

Renny-Alexander.




06/02/05 Drained

...Out of all ideas. I did finish the latest part for my story last night. Sad attempt, but it will have to do. Just 11 pages of pieces put together, one after another. I am not really satisfied but as I said, it'll have to do. And on to write the next part. *sigh* No rest for the wicked. (?)

About music, thanks Rika! I dug up my old LP's, namely Jean-Michel Jarre's Oxygene, the LP, not the CD (which I also have). So, I put it on, got down on the floor, closed my eyes and just listened. I haven't done that for a too long time, because that LP always brings back strong memories, strong images. Or it used to. Oh, the memories are all there, but there were new images. Water. Wind. Sea-gulls. Quite the obvious things but something else; a golden beach, a lagoon and a green forest. I know where that place is, and it is not only in my mind.
So, before I forget, I'd like to say hello to an old, old friend of mine, someone I got to know about ten years ago on a dark winter's day. I think it was Tuesday. A blond man with silver Honda and a charachter of Calvin! The very same man who wrote on my 'camp diary' that he is three years old. I still have the two things you gave me, the Calvin & Hobbes comic book and the Blue System album Body Heat that even now has your sticker at the back! I did not scratch it off because the nasty glue stain it'd leave behind, so don't get any ideas. *giggles* You were the one who introduced me Jarre's music, not that I'd have many of his albums.
We did have a great time that spring, long ago. Loads of laughs. And the 'camp week' the following summer! I haven't thought of all this for a very, very long time. *sighs* Well, it all happened in another lifetime, but one thing I remember, a year after you'd left the town we both lived in. I had just found someone and then, quite out of the blue, Rika and I spotted you and I remember how your face litteraly sank as I told you the news. Oh, you did a fine job in hiding it, but I was watching you, very closely.
No more will I say, I shall let the past be dead and buried, but I'd very much like to have my friend back. You're gas!

*grins* I almost managed an entry without a word of *squee!* lovely Liam! I just counted the Liam-films I have, seventeen out of fifty-five! *dies* I think I'd sell Rika to mr. Farrell for the ten oldest of them! Films that are like *gasp* twenty-five years old! *laughs* Colin, I dare you!

Renny-Alexander.




04/02/05

I was so happy that I would actually get to see Kinsey on big screen but guess what! The bloody idiots on S-M decided to take Kinsey off their list and since they are ever so immensly polite & nice people, they have not returned my e-mail on why this has happenend. This is NO customer service. *pout* I want an answer and I need it now! I am seriously thinking of getting a boat/plane to Sweden just too see the film, and if that is not possible I will fly to England/Ireland just too see Kinsey. Believe me, I will do so. I will NOT wait another month, I've waited 18 months already and no more is not an option! ENOUGH!!
What is wrong with you people? Liam is not only a big star, but also a very, very talented actor, can any of you fools spell Schindler's List??? HU? Hello! There are many of us who'd want too see more of his films in this sad-excuse-of-a-country but there seems to be too many ignorant people, people who don't see that there might be room for something other than action/adventure films with the same cast over and over again. If there is off-mainstream films, then these are in the theatres like six months. Like who cares? At least Kinsey is something different...Oh, come on! It is different, the whole film is oozing sex, the lines and the topic, it has nothing else but sex. And I am dying to hear Liam talking about it, to be honest and THAT is why I'm having this tantrum and getting bonkers and all but I WANT TOO SEE THE FILM!!! Do I make myself absolutely clear? No is not an option! I will do anything, beg, steal, lie, decieve, even murder is not excluded.
*looks around and laughs* All right, I think I made my point, Kinsey on big screen, ASAP!
/tantrum.

I go now, calm down or something. Later.

Renny-Alexander.




01/02/05 Frustrated & torn apart

So, Blue Max did not pass the inspection. There is this break-thingy that is jammed. Shite! Oh, I have a month to fix it.

More pressing matters.
I had resigned that I must wait untill Kinsey comes on DVD, in eight months or so. I was bitching about this to some of my friends, like the only film I'd really, really like to see on big screen and the I don't get to see it and allbecauseLiamisnotthatbigofastarhereinthisGod-forsakensorryexcuseofacountry and yap yap yap... da Capo al indefinate. What I, in my absolutely spendid mind, forgot to check, was the IMDB site and the 'release dates'. Feb. 25th it said and I was panicking like wherewhathowwhy??? And in general getting a very teenish/fangirlish -attack and forgot ALL about keyb. (Where's 'a'?) The trusted Finnkino had no knowledge of Kinsey and I was freaking out. So, fortunately I remembered that there actually is another company that has its site on the Net. Then to Sandrew Metronome and there it was. And now you think I did not go bonkers? Wrong! I did! And I cannot wait. Another three weeks & two and half days to go. *sighs* I must be off that day, no matter what. I cannot, will not wait any longer.

So, Liam has a bad influence on me, I tend to loose my mind, slowly but surely. *grins* Thank you ever so much mr. Neeson. Rest assured that when I die prematurely, because of you, I will come back and haunt you. *laughs*

Another thing that makes me explode is, quite expectedly, Episode III, and all and everything concerning Star Wars. Today I actually went to the hardware store to hunt down some crucial bits and pieces of varios shapes and sizes of metal 'pipes'. Oh, I found a whole lot of them, but none that would have suited my needs. Either they were the wrong size or then they were too heavy and the thing I planned to, uh, make(?), is supposed to be elegant and the material I had, well, was not that elegant and wayyyyyy too heavy. Of course, I will keep on hunting these items down. But even if I get all the bits and pieces, there are still, at least, two parts that I cannot aquire here. One, 'small, portable nuclear power plant'; and two, Ilum crystal. Yes, I am building a lightsaber, like any padawan-learner with the least bit of self respect would do. *grins* I know, I am two or three fries short of a happy meal, but do you think that I care? Really care? It is so relaxing to walk with the whacko-papers in your pocket than trying to be so mature & serious. There is too little fun in the world anyway, but this does not mean that I don't care about serious issues. I do.
So, I get home feeling dwarfed by the magnitude of the task but I will not give in. Frustrated is a kind word, people. Then, in this state of mind I consider torturing my heart & soul a bit more and I seriously think of watching The Phantom Menace and crying my eyes out tonight. Uh-huh, I cannot do that, no, no, no. Just to think of the film and the end makes me sad 'though I much long to see it again. Yes, fifteen times is not enough but as much as I want the end to be different, it never is. So, after the film I'd have two choises, one, be miserable for the next five days, or thereabouts; or two, join the Council of Denial. I choose neither and the DVD stays on the shelf.

I think I leave now and go bonkers someplace else. Good Night world. *g*

Renny-Alexander.




27/01/05 Hopeless!!!

The news block will not work! Who was I kidding? I would have unsubscribe from various mailing lists and stay at home in order not to know anything and that would cause a cardiac arrest at the very least. I. Can. Not. No.
Excuse me, I will go bonkers for a moment.
Gazillion of film magazines and ALL of them screaming Ep III. *shrieks*
A brand new Star Wars novel, Labyrinth on Evil by James Luceno. *shrieks again*
Thus, be still my pounding heart!
*closes the fangasm can*

Ugh, does any of you have any idea how long it will take to dig out a fairly big car that is buried under a foot of snow? Anyone? The answer is, long enough. I did that today. I thought I'd take Blue Max to the inspection, at long last, but no. There is this test that has to be made before, a test that tells wether the exhaust 'gasses' are within the legal limit. No, don't ask, it just has to be done. Stupid thing anyway. So, I went to this garage I know and ask if it is possible to get it done today. No, tomorrow at the earliest. Fine says I. We agree on time and then the lad asks what kind of car I have. Turns out that they cannot do it, because Blue Max is a diesel. Wtf??? So, the lad says that there is one place where they can do it for a diesel so I phone there. Tomorrow suits them, fine with me. And out of curiosity I ask that if there is something special about diesels when it comes to this 'test'. This lad says no, it just takes more time. And I'm like Teh Fudge????? Excuse me??? Takes more time? And THIS is why they don't do it at the other place? Because is takes longer?? F***ing p**cks!!! It would be the same if I told a customer that no, I do not serve you two pints at once because it takes more of MY time. Holy Ketchup bottles, Batman!

Had to share that.
I found my lost spark for writing, so, back to work.

Renny-Alexander.




23/01/05 News block.

Yes people, I declare a news block. But only until May 19 and only when it comes to Star Wars. I want to hear nothing of the last (?) episode, Revenge of the Sith. Nothing. Nada. Rien.

I have become an owl, I stay up all night and sleep all day. And guess what, tomorrow, and no sooner, I must be up from half four in the morning until nine-ish in the evening. Work! And Pendo. I suppose I need not tell that when in comes to Penos, there is one major 'if' in the equation. Seriously, one broken relay will do it, the whole piece of trahs stay where it happens to be at that precise moment. So, I'll be lucky if I get to bed at all tomorrow. *crosses fingers*

One more thing, before I hit the tracks again:
To Richard Dean Anderson, my teen-age hero & mentor: Happy Birthday!!

You seriously didn't think I'd forget a thing like this? Never! *grins*

Renny-Alexander.




17/01/05 Stupid

Rika gave me The Da Vinci Code last night and I just finished reading it. It was just as I expected, in the beginning of the book I was reading it as fast as I could and the more pages I read the slower I turned them. The dilemma of a good book: I don't want to finnish it and I want to know how it ends. *sigh*
What can I say about the book and not spoil the thrill for those who have not read it yet? Some of the things introduced in the book I knew in advance about, but I had nerver thought of them from another perspective. Some events I had read about but never thought the reason behind them why they happened the way they did.
Let it be known here and now, and for the record, I am a 'pagan'. I have done my best to understand Christianity and to a certain level I do so, but there are things I cannot understand and believe in. So, I have no difficulty to believe that there is a great deal of truth in this book. Dan Brown says, and I am quoting him, from the bottom of the page titled FACT: "All descriptions of artwork, architecture, documents and secret rituals in this novel are accurate." On this same page he claims that The Priory of Sion and the Opus Dei are real. I, personally, have not heard of either of them before, but that does not prove anything but I have head of many other things mentioned in the book, in quantities, I have read about them.
Now, I am not saying that Dan Brown is right or wrong, but consider the uproar this book has caused!
And I am going to shut up about this now, before I spoil the thrill for those who have not read the book.

I think I just go back to hiding and write. A never ending challenge, who will win, me or the text? Or am I just coming up of excuses not to write? Propably. Spineless me. I ought to be horsewhipped for that.

Renny-Alexander.




13/01/05 (sad) Excuses

Apparently Tatu did not explode for I saw him last night. He calls me 'muru'. (honey?) Oooo!
Tomorrow on night train to Kolari and back again. *sigh* I am so certain that the train is sold out to the last seat & bed and I am all alone with 300+ people. I can just bet that in the morning I will run out of coffee constantly because the thingy is not fast enough. And the sandwiches will all be gone in a matter of minutes. Bloody vultures! *grunts*

Request to all people: Please, a bit of perspective would not be a bad idea! Seriously, if you are home little later than you thought to be, it is not the end of the world. If a technical thing, like a train, just dies and all that can be done there and then is done and it still is not enough, there is no reason to bitch about the situation to someone who has done all he/she can to arrange and find out how to continue one's journey. Certainly not to someone who's got nothing to do with the original train. Don't get me wrong, I would be irritated too, but why bitch about something that is beyond my abilities to fix? About something I cannot do nothing about at all? It would be the same as to bitch about the weather. For the record, as far as I know everyone got home.
So, about the perspective, I do understand it is annoying when your travel plans change but consider this:
You will get home. There are 200 000+ people who will never again get home. There are people who have lost loved ones by dozins, whole families disappeared and all that. So, compared to that, getting home a bit later really is the end of the world! The worst thing that can happen! /sarcasm

I slept until two pm. today, I am trying to shift my daily rhythm 12 hours forward, i.e. staying up untill four in the morning and sleeping as long as I like. Helps with the night trains and since I have two of them almost one after the other, it really don't matter much. The real problem is when I shift back to the 'normal' rhythm. Uh! I am a night owl, always have been.

No more excuses, I go and write now. *sigh*

Renny-Alexander.




10/01/05 RanDom thoughts

One of the simple pleasures of life. Load something un-common in the cd-player (something one likes) and turn the volume as high as one dares. Just to piss the neighbours off. Ha!

The day before yesterday I had eye-candy in the bus, the driver. Just that, nice to look at, but nothing more.

Updated me. Nicked the questions from Sister Dear. Aw, it is Monday, so don't expect the answers to be all true.

I should write my story, the sci-fi/fantasy/fan-fic for the writer's course but I always end up staring at Liam and my mind goes blank *zap!* I am hopeless, helpless and a boob. Does that cover eveything now? *scrathes head* I suppose.

Kalle made me laugh yesterday. He was being sarcastic to the point of being cynical. He said that we could go to the toilet together and turn off all lights and I said that we could make animal sounds and he was like yeah. Then again, said he, someone might report that. I guess so. We did not do that, but we did exchanged phone numbers and two hours later he phones me. Already? Did you miss me? Nay, he just phoned to bitch about that I was on the wrong train, that he'd been very busy and all that. Right. So sorry, Kalle.

Calling Tatu!!! Lad, where are you? Did you swallow a piece of soap and explode?

And Pekka, I heard you're back. Give me a call when you're around? Let's go for a cup of coffee & catch up?

Now, I must go and at least try to write, no more excuses left. *sighs*

Renny-Alexander.




09/01/05 Singing Keane

Aye, people, I am 'trying to stay awake and remember my name', at the very least. Or rather I was. I could not sleep last night but two whole hours. Yay! Good that I had just a short shift, five hours.

Now I am just getting ready for this 'unusually strong winter strom' that is suppose to hit the coast sometime during the night. And guess who's off to work tomorrow? Aye, me, and I can just bet that some trains are cancelled and those running are late. Hmph, I really could not care less how Helsinkin is prepraring for this storm, I'd much rather know how things are in Ireland. *swithces to BBC* I so forgot that I had this source...

The other day I was driving, to work, I think, and whatdoyaknow, the radio (I have no CD player in my car, yet) plays this old Love is all around -tune. Me, being somewhat a film-freak, I can only think of Billy Mack ! There I was, sitting in my trusted car, laughing and making a spectacle out of myself.
What is that everytime I am in public place, say at work, when all of a sudden I get this image of Liam, explaining about the way they do trading in the market place in China, the calculator and that. If you've seen that Leno, you know what I am talking about. Anyways, this image gives me a sudden urge to grin madly. It is actually not that funny but odd things amuse me.
Blame it on the sarcarstic sense of humour.

You, what is this you coming over here -plan I've heard nothing about? Not that I object, but I was under the impression that we'd go off somewhere else? I am sadly mistaken, I see. So what, come over and we'll have a blast, get drunk and save the world. Deal? Take Colin too.

I should take Blue Max (my car) to the yearly inspection, AKA get the 'fault-list'. Blah! I am mortally afraid that they'll find something terrible under Blue Max, something that has to fixed yesterday and will cost too much and then they ban Blue Max from driving before it is fixed and I will get more gray hair! *weeps*

I go now.

Renny-Alexander.




03/01/05 Feeling dreadfully old

48 hours of which I napped about 8 in fragments of max. 45 minutes. And then I slept for 18 hours nearly straight. I am getting old and that worries me than I am willing to admit, even to myself. *sighs* Take me to the nearest Natural History museum and, please, set me next to T-Rex, I feel that old. Seriously.

So, Ireland is off the travel list. *deep sigh* Unless a miracle comes along in the form of a
1) a win in Lotto (not likely)
2) a rich and kind sponsor (none to be seen in the near vicinity)
3) a win in Travel Agency draw (not with my luck)
Oh well, it is 'Ireland Blues' -time anyway at this time of the year, January 16th is The Day and then it'll be, considering the time off I have to think about it all, some four weeks and then it'll be all over, for the next time.
There are days when I just wonder that why the fudge am I still here in this sorry excuse of a country? Why am I hanging around when for the past four years I've know that I have no future here? Why? Why in the love of strawberries have I not have my stuff packed & shipped to somewhere, anywhere, in Irleand? *rips off hair*
Because I am a no-good lazy arse! *pout*
I mean, there has got to be an easier and more pleasant way to commit suicide!
Seriously, the biggest reason for me still lingering here is not that I am afraid to leave, no, it is simply the fact that I have yet to find a place to work in Ireland. ...talk about lousy excuses! *rolls eyes*
You don't have to feel guilty about getting that new pooter, I know it is much more important than a long-ish week-end in Ireland. I'd get the 'Ireland Blues' anyways, not your fault. Besides, Ireland is likely to stay where it is for a while longer, the same cannot be said about your pooter, that, as I understand, is about to explode in any given day now?

Enough of whining!

I think I will go and play with Liam now. *grins*

Renny-Alexander. Still no Mao -watch




31/12/04 Life after Boxing Day...

I will not go into details and long explanations on what happened in Asia, it's all over the news and I have BBC on 24/7. Terrible thing, over 100 00 dead and more are to die. My childhood friend's uncle and his family are MIA and I guess I need not say more of it.

I was over at mum's the Yule time, Rika has more details, but I also got the ToeSocks and nothing else, no matter, that is enough. The whole point of Yule is to get together and eat good food. Althoug next year we thought to have a 'theme Yule'. The usual weight-gain happened again so now it is, as usual, a struggle to loose the extra. *sighs*

I drove 600 km to Rika and the first thing she she had me to do was to sit down and watch Colin Farrell, Billy Connolly and *sqeee!!* Liam Neeson! OMG!!!11 *faints*
It is just as thought, Teh Lad has just as twisted & weird sense of humour as I have. I mean Chairman Mao watches for Christmas presents? "Only for you, only today, get 12 of them with just 15 dollah!"
Crickets fights in Shanghai? 'How do you know who wins?' says Leno. Liam gets on the floor, on his back, hands & legs in the air and freezes for a moment. 'When they die, they do this.'
O_o *laughs*
Can I just , please?
All right, Conan O'Brien & Liam, this one is for ye:
'A big girl's blouse: a man or a boy who behaves in a way which other men think is how a woman would behave, especially if they show they are frightened or something.' Quote from the Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms.
'Bold stump' I could not find, laddies, sorry, but I will keep on looking. *winks & grins*
I just could not resist. No pun intented.
*sighs* Santa did not bring me my prefered present. Maybe he was all out of them? I have too keep looking for this 98% copy on Liam.

Renny-Alexander, who would not be sorry to have a Chairman Mao watch.




18/12/04 Sinking...

How low can a person sink? The problem is (in)significant (?) in its simplicity but to carry it out...well.
This week on Wednesday night: nothing on telly, so I decide to watch a film, a Liam film preferably but there are a few drawbacks. I already have all the films that Makuuni has to offer and the ones I do have I have seen them not so long ago and/or too many times, Rob Roy: 6 times, Michael Collins: 4 plus it gives me the 'Ireland Blues', Love Actually: 4, Schindler's List: twice, Les Mis: 4, K-19: 3, The Haunting: 3, Gun Shy: 3, Excalibur: once was enough, thank you very much! (Postcard!!!) and the only Liam film I've seen waaaaaaaay too many times, Ep.1 The Phantom Menace. Or how does 15 times sound to you? Seriously! Nothing compared to the 30+ times I've seen Ep.4-6. I have not seen TPM for two years now, I think, but I have no heart to watch it. There are more convenient and less painfull ways to commit suicide, you know. And that film needs a certain mental state, and I am certainly at that state after 14 hour day, nope.
I just hope I got all the films and links right...

So, what happens is that I rent out two films.
The other is Lasse Hallsröm's Shipping News of which I had seen like half. Very not like me at all. It is all the same if the film isn't that good, but I liked this one and I wanted to know how is ends. Well, of course, there was no other way. So, then there is this friend of mine who said that she's read the book and that she was disappointed that Quoyle was not as ugly as he had been described in the book. I am disqualified to say anything on that matter, but I guess I have to read the novel now.
The other I rented out had a little disturbing and unnerving title: The most fertile man in Ireland. *rolls eyes* I know, I had my doubts about this film but I thought that it cannot be all bad. Hole in one, not bad at all, hilarious would be closer. I cannot say if it is actually about serious matter or not, I guess it is, but the sarcasm & humour in that film is unbelievable.
I know, my taste in films is a bit twisted and weird but a good film does not need to have a chase, explotion, murder or any combination of the three mentioned. Like The Twilight Samurai (Tasogare Seibei) in which nothing, and yet all, happens. There was this one scene where Seibei Iguchi gets ready to go home and puts away his papers, ink bottle and quill and then he leaves. This same scene is repeated twice or three times but it does not make the film boring, on the contrary, it adds another dimension to it.

So, back to the Liam films...*weeps* There is just too many of them! And I have no Visa/(Jedi)MasterCard so I could order them over the Net. *weeps more* Seriously, I have been hunting them down on my spare time and occasionally I stumble on one or two. But not recently. *sighs* I would sell my sister to get 10 of the Liam films I don't have. (Rika'd sell me for a bunch of Colin Farrell films!) And I would sell my mother for the whole lot of it, films, documentaris, all! Of course I'd let my mother to choose whom I'd sell her to. *wink*
Just imagine what I would do to get Teh Man...*points left & grins*

Renny-Alexander out & off to wrap presents




12/12/04

I just could not resist and I wanted to make a new lay. I know, it is Liam again but I really could not care less.
I had another version of this same pic and I was weeping over the stripy quality of it, cursing people who don't know how to make a good scan. Last night I went over to the 'official' (?) fanpage just to see if there were any good pics and whatdoyaknow! I nicked this one! At first just for me, but I kept on flipping back to this one, again and again. *sigh* I cannot fight this man, thus, I give you a new lay.
When he says 'frog', I jump.

Renny-Alexander, off to eat