There are two shopping centres that we could reasonable refer to as our locals. One is a testament to the glory of consumerism and commerce. The kind of place that fills in the gaps on the second floor just so they can squeeze a couple of other cart vendors in and block people’s natural passage throughout the centre.
The other centre is what we refer to as the dirt mall, well that’s not entirely true the second centre is actually made of three crappy shopping centres kind of strung together. One of them is particularly dirt mall’ish and the rest is like dirt mall made up to look respectable. If you live in Brisbane try and guess which centres I’m talking about!
Now it may sound like I’m being harsh on this dirt mall and I should point out that we tend to frequent this establishment a lot more than the shiny one. We like that it’s quieter than the shiny one and it generally has everything that we need and it is close.
Something that does differentiate the dirt mall is the sheer number of those grabber machines. There are two chocolates and lollies ones, one with comic book character soft toys and scales to measure your height and weight.
This isn’t unusual at all however people line up at these things at the dirt mall. Seriously the majority of shoppers out there can’t walk past them without pausing. I’ve never in my life seen these machines so used. They should put fruit in them so people would get some vitamins and minerals occasionally.
I have a theory about the machines though. I figure that the people using the dirt mall are slightly more primal than the ones in the shiny place. This is by no means me casting aspersions on the dirt mall people as we shop there ourselves and really a little less delicate and pretty than the Eloi at the other centre is preferable in my books.
No I think it goes back to our hunting and gathering instincts. We want that Batman soft toy but we want it from the machine even though it’s over at K’Mart for five bucks. It’s an achievement to get that damn claw to hold onto the toy. I lousy at them too, I haven’t used one in about ten years so this is all from observation only.
The clearest example of this has to be that it costs more on average to get the chocolate from the claw machine than from the supermarket not thirty metres away.
This appears to be the phrase of the week. At least here it is anyway. I think we first heard ‘man up’ used on Big Brother… yes we watch Big Brother… no we’re not addicted. We can quit any time.
So now things like ‘I don’t feel like cooking tonight’ is countered with a ‘man up!’
I don’t know, it’s probably not as good as the six months we wandered around saying ‘give it up, you’re too old. No one listens to techno.’
In the mail today my brand spanking new pick me up arrived. The House of M Iron Man figurine. It’s better than I hoped for actually, it’s a really big figurine and highly detailed.
Not as keen on its stand because the figurine is quite heavy and bulky so is very easy to tip over.
I’m so excited over the potential figurines that will be coming out of the Iron Man film. If these match up against the Spider-Man and yes even the Ghost Rider lines then I’ll be a happy man.
I’ve got my eye on a couple of other Iron Man related pieces, the Alex Ross Iron Man helmet and series 1 Iron Man suit as well as its gold variation.
After several disasters involving the availability of flour throughout the house, there were bugs in my stockpiles I made some of the tacos that Robert Rodriguez has in the Sin City DVD and they are as good as the movie!
I had to use ashamedly the store bought flour tortillas despite Mr Rodriguez suggesting otherwise (we work with what we got!). Next time I’ll be making his bread which is a variation on the type of breads we already cook.
I love Rodriguez’s thoughts on cooking and how to learn to cook. He says that you should pick the three meals that you really love and you should learn to cook them really well. Cook them once a week or so and really practise!
His other idea is to do up a little house menu that lists the specialities of the house and whenever someone comes over they can pick something out and know that it’s going to be kick ass. When we get our own place again I’m so going to do that. I’ve already got my breakfast menu planned.
I make the best fried mushrooms.
The other note I have to make is Becca over at the skullcave the other week did a movie quiz. Now I kill at movie quizes. I KNOW movie trivia and I happened to answer a few of the questions and was rewarded for my effort!!!
Allow me to present the Henry Swanson award for movie excellence!
“Henry Swanson is my name and excitement is my game”
The other great thing I learnt at the Skull Cave is the fact that Robert Rodriguez is looking after the Barbarella film!
Well I went and upgraded my wordpress to the newest version and it broke my old template and really I could not be bothered going back and trying to work out what went wrong with it. Last night we watched Sin City and it got me all inspired to go with a really dark looking template for a while because I often go for very zen white like ones and I feel like a change.
Did this template from scratch, well from scratch as far as I modified the default template heavily.
So I hope everyone doesn’t hate it and if you’ve never read or seen Sin City then shame on you and you should go and rectify that immediately!!!!
In honour of the new template and the wonder that is Sin City tonight Tracey and I will be dining on Sin City Tacos! An amazing recipe that can be found on the second DVD in the special edition pack.
Well I ‘m having a really hectic week. On Monday I started work contracting for a government department and they have plenty of work to keep me occupied for the next six weeks. Tomorrow lunchtime I’ve got my last exam for the Fall of the Roman Republic and later tonight I’m catching up on all the work I’ve got to read for that! Then tommorrow night I have to write my X-Men assignment because I won’t be home early enough to get in on Thursday.
The Reno 911 report will have to wait until I can catch a breath!
The new Batman film has started its internet campaigns with the Harvey Dent website - http://ibelieveinharveydent.com/ which is an election image for the future Two-Face.
OK it’s really late at night and we were flicking channels. This is never a good thing.
The first channel we come too there are two military types making out in a very bad scifi set. Moderately bad science fiction porn is a very hard thing to go past especially when the dialogue is as awful as this is. Well the gentleman of the piece starts to scream and grabs his groin. He falls back and then a leprechaun literally comes out of his pants and makes a joke about condoms and wanders off.
Welcome to the world of Leprechaun 4 Space Platoon (or otherwise known as ‘In Space’).
If you have ever found yourself watching Friday the 13th 10 Jason in space and thought to yourself is there possibly a worse film mixing science fiction and horror then the answer is here.
The magic money character though is Dr. Mittenhand who is played by the gay nazi from Allo Allo and really little has changed apart from now he is more machine than man and a little more naked than I’d like. He screams every second line, often for no real reason.
As I write this the girl who was making out with the guy who died from the leprechaun coming out of his penis just asked if the commander thinks it’s her fault that he died because she gave him the boner.
Good grief.
Forget your Blade Runners and Matrix films Leprechaun 4 is the best scifi film ever.
Don’t ask though:
WHY IS THERE A LEPRECHAUN IN SPACE?
WHY DID IT COME OUT OF THAT MAN’S PENIS?
From the producers (I use this term loosely):
“On a planet in a distant galaxy, a power hungry Leprechaun (Warwick Davis), holds a beautiful alien princess (Rebekah Carlton), hostage in order to marry her for her royal title. With her title and his beloved gold, he’ll be able to rule the universe. While making his maniacal plans, what he doesn’t count on is an invading platoon of marines from Earth, to save the princess and foil his plans. An accomplished trickster, the Leprechaun stows himself away on the orbiting spaceship and wreaks havoc on the crew in an attempt to recapture his bride.”
Now it may sound like I’m being harsh on this dirt mall and I should point out that we tend to frequent this establishment a lot more than the shiny one. We like that it’s quieter than the shiny one and it generally has everything that we need and it is close.
I have a theory about the machines though. I figure that the people using the dirt mall are slightly more primal than the ones in the shiny place. This is by no means me casting aspersions on the dirt mall people as we shop there ourselves and really a little less delicate and pretty than the Eloi at the other centre is preferable in my books.
In the mail today my brand spanking new pick me up arrived. The House of M Iron Man figurine. It’s better than I hoped for actually, it’s a really big figurine and highly detailed.
At one stage the marines are dancing at some on board nightclub that looks like the worst school disco. The marine commander has half his head made out of metal and wavers between screaming every military cliché possible to some of the worst attempts at humour.
