Slack? Me??

I know I know, but sometimes I just can't face having to TYPE things. We now have the full set of Series one Buffy figures. They're very silly. I had a mad urge to make a stop motion animation with them, getting Ollie and Helen to orchestrate it etc. but mercifully it passed. In the meantime, Ollie's camera started being WEIRD. It's a wonderful effect but not really useful for normal photographic purposes. So there goes my experimentation with HDR...

Oh well. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is a touch controversial. I had read some VERY mixed reviews of the film, with a bias against it overall (especially as there is a gradual Tim Burton backlash due to him being a little formulaic/repetitive/always casting JD & HBC) and so was delighted when it turned out to be rather enjoyable. Sure, the characters a all thoroughly unlovable and the cast aren't exactly singers but the musical really could have been written for Tim Burton to film. Although HBC can't possibly compare to Angela Lansbury's original performance:

So now I can alternate between a jolly happy chubby feelgood musical about how if you just TRY HARD then you can make the world a better place, and a miserable, misanthropic, bleak and bloodthirsty musical which tells us that everyone is shit and we all deserve to die and BTW whatever you do you'll be betrayed and end up being the cause of your own downfall. Hurrah.

Polymer Slayer

On a recent trip to Forbidden Planet I encountered some amazingly tacky Buffy figures, reduced to £1.99 each. So I had to get one, or rather, three. This was the 'Season one' set which offered Buffy, Willow, Xander, Giles, Darla and The Master. I got the girls. As a gift, of course!

They're really really hideous. And make the Battlestar Galactica models of Boomer and a Cylon seem teeny in comparison. Perhaps the Galactica humans are smaller than we are...

After much mockery of the plastics, Ben and Ollie nonetheless took much pleasure in playing with these tiny new friends, mixing their clothes and accessories around to much amusement. So I think I'll have to pick up the toy boys (ah ha) if they're still available. After all, the model of The Master came with a see-through skeletal version as well!

I do hope they get as far as Season five. I want a model Glory with a hundred different outfits and snivelling minions.

The last few times I've been to Ollie's house he's been flashing me. With Hiragana flashcards. As a result I appear to have now pretty much learned the script, although I still get a little confused when trying to write them down since some of them really are just nonsensical.

This does mean, however, that I'm about 20 months ahead of the game; when Stephen started his Japanese degree he knew none fo them and had to frantically learn them all really quickly. If I can keep this up I'll have Hiragana and Katakana well learned by then, along with a bunch of Kanji and perhaps (?) even some grammar and vocab!

On the down side, I left my charger at home and so I can't spend all day watching House and also will have no battery left by about 20:00, meaning that my planned trip to the gym would be a TORTUROUS TEDIUM and thus, cancelled.