[	Tags	|	blurb, not m'era luna., orange	]
[	Current Location	|	Working Pod Zero	]
[	Current Mood	|	chipper	]
[	Current Music	|	Fortification 55	]

...That comes later.

But for now... Most of you will know how annoyed I am with work. Yes - I'm still here. Every time I tell them I'm quitting, I get tossed a bone, and reminded it's almost Uni-time again... and I go and do some more photos and/or DJing and forget my woes. Recently the annoyance has been too much to bear.

Awhile back, after all the MySpaces and etc were blocked here, our company raised a knock-off in-house version, which was mainly just a preference-generated blurb and picture. We all quickly decided to mock the thing, and I uploaded the picture of me in my Ninja Mask with some guns, and fiddled about with the blurb to read:

'I am myself making the world a more awesome place through the power of my own righteousness.

I am salvation in the midst of darkest depression.

I am heavy weapons and spaceships and cyberpunk awesomeness.

I. Am. Wesforce!'


... Now, months later, I found a package on my desk.

My own personalised little notebook, with all that on the cover, in orange writing on black.

I've been all :) today.

[	Tags	|	americans, black planet, dj wanderlust	]
[	Current Location	|	Deadford	]
[	Current Mood	|	accomplished	]
[	Current Music	|	Curve - Dog Bone	]

-------------------------------

-------------------------------

Aside from that, life goes on - Did some more photos at the weekend, with a cyber/industrial/urban decay theme, which should be good - still eagerly awaiting the ones I did in London with Benjamin Kaufmann, who is currently somewhere in Botswana. I'm to be at Santa Pod on the 20th of July to be a Gothic Alice in Wonderland - which should be fun. Anyone fancy coming along?

Also: M'era Luna and Infest soon! I cannot wait. Who's coming? :D

Because I'm too written-out to do a write-up of Leipzig yet!

 

And what a bloody week it was!

So now... The adrenaline of Birthday Week is over.

Bring on the white-knuckled intensity of Post-Birthday Week!

[	Tags	|	cinderella, coven, golden compass	]
[	Current Location	|	Writing Pod One	]
[	Current Mood	|	thoughtful	]
[	Current Music	|	Curve - Cuckoo	]

First up: Cinderella.

***

I saw, on a whim, The Golden Compass. I was expecting something bollocks, derivative and childlike, like Harry Potter, but the amazing visuals had suckered me in. Now I wish I'd read the original books - this is an intelligent fantasy film, a well-realsied alternate Earth - see a Steampunk-esque London which has St Paul's and The Gherkin rubbing shoulders with baroque fantasy towers. The quirk where every human has an animal 'Daemon' counterpart as their soulmate (literally) is well done, and oozing metaphor. Guards and soldiers are paired with Dogs. Slimy scumbags are paired with snakes. The main character's Daemon is able to change form, spending most of his time as a sort of muskrat thing, or Cat. Oddly it continually reminds me of  Green Dreads/Stephan. 

 What's more, there's a pretty high bodycount for a PG film. Every time someone dies their daemon vanishes in a puff of golden dust. In later scenes when those dastardly Catholic - Uh, Magistyerium scumbags get a good kicking, there are showers of the stuff. Stirring. If only the Catholic Church had had a kicking like this in real life... Bah. I hate religious upbringings.

Anyway. I recommend this film, and await the sequels.

***

Pretty good time at Coven last night. Good lot of people in there, good atmosphere. Good SWANK too, though I couldn't really dance to them in my pole-dancer shoes. A lot of people seemed nonplussed by them too. Screw 'em if they can't enjoy a SWANK with the rest of us :)

[	Tags	|	charles de gaulle, france, gay paris, goths, meandering bollocks, rosa crux, travel	]
[	Current Location	|	Paris	]
[	Current Mood	|	accomplished	]
[	Current Music	|	Rosa Crux	]

I've just got back from Paris.

Now... Coven this weekend, with SWANK down at the Hat Factory. Who's coming? :)