What Jan is saying right now

Imogen: "So what are the tests you have tomorrow?"
JAN: "It's just a one and a half hour close reading test... so you have to pick passages and have a close reading of them."
" So how many passages are there to check?"
"*laughs* I'm going to pick two from the novels that I've read and one from an unseen poem."
Why yes, the poem is unseen.
"Aaaaaand what do you want to say to the world right now."
Jan squeams like a dying pig at this point:
"I'm not a blogger! I dunooooooo!"
The child.
He needs to grow up.
And he's already 21.
*Jan laughs some more.*
* then he laughs at that.*
Imogen kisses him
Again.
"Later do you wanna watch more, um..." *sees that she is typing this into his blog*
Imogen: "...Cadfael?"
Jan: "YES."

Cadfael= awesome.

Catching up

It has been brought to my attention that I have not updated my blog for a while so I'm doing that now. Last night I saw 'Brokeback Mountain' which I have been meaning to see but unfortunately the film was crap. The story line did not really interest me (Two gay cowboys cheat on their wives and one of them gets killed.) On the plus side I have seen other better films as well. 'Revolutionary Road' was waaayy better than I thought it would be. However I did also get to see some cool action movies like 'No Country for Old Men' which had an annoying ending and 'Black Hawk Down' which I had never seen before until this year.

For Uni I am reading "Plato's Republic" which is very awesome and unlike D&D it makes sense spending time on it. I love seeing Socrates trying to defend Justice while at the same time setting up a hypothetical nightmare of a "Just City" where the literature will be controlled and the basis of society will be a "Grand lie". For english I read 'Old New Zealand' which was a racist but funnying perspective of Maori by the Narrator who claims to be F. E. Manning. Also I have read some of Katherine Mansfield's short stories which I ardently dislike because every sentence is a symbol or metaphor for something else. The result of this is a story full of apparently ordinary happenings and a tutorial full of students speculating on the meaning of one of the characters going to the toilet at that particular time. 'Oh why did that man just pick his nose, you know I think he was trying to pull out the evil in his brain'. My Chaucer paper will involve me learing to read Middle English which looks a little hard but I should be fine with that.

okay thats all I have to write for now

Tigers are distracting

Would you believe sometime last week I was sitting at my computer about to begin writing my blog when I saw a tiger run down the street in a blur of orange and black and that is why I got distracted and didn't update my blog? No? Okay so maybe it wasn't a tiger but I've still been busy. I went to your house Imy and saw alot of your family. I was a little freaked out by all the people but that's more me than them. They were nice. I also went to Tahranui or whatever its called and that was very fun. I'm going again tomorow if the weather is good. I have written more of my vampire novel although I didn't write that much. Hmmmm what else. I saw Misha again after ages and I have decide there is no point coming into contact with the guy. Also Andy appears to be a ghost and that's just fine by me. I don't say that because I'm angry with him I say that because it really is fine. My dnd game has been cancelled because there are not enough players and I'm making another campaign just for fun. I still don't know whos going to play it but I at least have one player now-Imy! The players are a band of raiders who go around taking whatever they want from the weak and divided villages. Their plans for easy living are however threatened when a soldier with a gang of men decides it would be a good idea to unite the villages against raiders and other monsters. I thought it would be fun if the villain was a hero while the players were evil although Meredith has a campaign like that for her starwars game. The first game of that campaign was fun but the second wasn't really. The main problem was that the action of the game was at a crawl. We shouldn't spend 30 minutes running and crawling through grass or an hour fighting one monster. That may sound like harsh criticism and maybe it is but I'm not saying my games are flawless either. I'm sure there's plenty of problems with my dm style not the least of which is under preparation but with this latest game I think I've prepared the first bit well. In my experiance it is extremely difficult to run a interesting and fun dnd game but Imy does tell me I am easily bored. I like dnd because I like stories and what I like in a story is epicness, awesome heroes, awesome villains, and awesome story. At least that's what I like in a dnd story. Hmmmm it is fun to ramble. I saw die hard recently for the first time. Bruce Willis was very funny and Alan Rickman was awesome. The movie was tense, action packed and also hilarious. It had crack up lines like "Looks like we may need more FBI guys." This was said after a pair of arrogant agents got blown up by the terrorists. I had seen die hard 4 before this first one and thought that was very cool. I wander if the others are as good. Anyway I think that's enough rambling for one blog.

The awesome weekend of awesomeness

Last weekend was very cool. On Saterday night was Imogen's 1920s birthday party. I am glad to say that it was very fun and not dissappointing, you know how it is when your expectations are not met. But anyway it was very nice, very tremendous, very awesome. There were alot of good costumes and interesting people. I got to see Sridat in party mode and Meredith dance. There were alot of good piano players. I got to see Ben play Nick Cave's 'Weeping Song' on the piano. I missed some of the other piano players unfortunetly because I went with Gene to get some food. It took us an hour but it was worth it when we sat on the porch and made these sandwiches. It was awesome. The other clothing option for people at the party was to dress up as pirates which some people did although it was a shame Jack didn't turn up as a pirate. The next night Imy went to my house to have dinner and meet my parents. That went well. Hmmmm, okay that's all I have to say really. Tonight is one of Jame's one off games so that should be cool.

My First Post

Hello and welcome to my first post. I am a writer...of sorts and of late I have been trying to write a story about a man who gets conscripted but instead runs away from his responsibilities, well that's just boring. So I have decided to write about something that I really like. What I really like in a film or novel is a good villain. I hear that villains come in three flavours. There are the sympathetic ones like Darth Vader or Roy from Blade runner. These are the ones that you feel sorry for and hope will turn out good in the end. There are the really bad ones you hope get their butts kicked by the hero, such as hmmmm, that guy, you know that guy from Dune- baron whats his face with the... Harkonin! Yeah, Baron Harkonin. Lastly there are the villains that are so cool you want them to overcome the hero. Let's see that's probably the Joker in the new batman film and like maybe Aku the Great Shapshifting Master of Darkness!!! So my main protagonist in my new story is a villain and hopefully if I do a good job he will be the third class of villain. He is a vampire in Victorian England. Vampires are awesome and I love a good villain character so why not have the villain be the hero and the hero be the villain. Anyway sometimes it is hard to distinguish between the two although admittedly the guy with his fangs in the pretty girl with the white dress now turned red is most likely a villain. A story without a villain can be good, I was just telling Imy this morning about a film called 'children of men', no villain in that story, just a crazy world, same as gattaca really, society is the villain in those films I guess. I was pleasantly suprised recently by a series called 'dexter', the main character is a serial killer. I thought this was so odd. You see these crazy killer villains in films like 'Red Dragon' and 'Silence of the Lambs' and they're great to hate, but a sympathetic killer, you got to be joking. The way they make him sympathetic and likeable is that he satisfies his murderous desires by killing other bad guys. He is also very cool in that he's smart. Anyway I thought it was cool how they managed to make a serial killer a likeable and workable protagonist even though I would hate to meet this guy on the street and definetly not in a dark alley. Hmmmm I think the topic of this post is villains in film and literature. Yes. I love a good villain.