An open letter to the person on msn who just wont shut up.

Dear Sir/Madam,

It has come to my attention that you are annoying me at this second. I’m trying to read my blogs whilst listening to music and posting of forums. I’m finding it increasingly hard to do so with the constant beeping of Microsoft Messenger for Mac. I have come to the conclusion that you are the single cause for this annoyance and I would like action to be undertaken immediately to resolve this problem.
I know you are having problems in life at this moment, but believe me there are bigger problems. Take Haiti for example, nobody can pronounce the country’s name! Don’t you think their problem is much worse than yours?
Although I do enjoy chatting, I have just finished work; and a full day of work followed by your self pity is something i can evidently live without. Take it from my perspective, you’ve just finished a 10 hour shift at work, you’ve had to clean up baby spew, deal with angry customers and had chicken blood spilt on your shoes. Combine the above ingredients with the added customers for no particular reason at all and you’ve got a bloody great day at work! Now, how would you like me to come to you while you’re enjoying your alone time after said day, when you only get so few entertainment hours between work and complain how bad my life is to you? I’m sure you’ve got bigger problems to worry about than ‘PWNing Newbs’ and such, but please back off and let me breath.
I’m sure you’ll understand, I mean you didn’t seem to get the idea when I only replied with 3 letter 1 word answers; but this letter aims to help you understand a little bit better.

If you’re wondering why this letter doesn’t make sense, it’s because i’m tired. So if you’ve got anything you’d like to ask, ensure you hesitate to ask.

Well today I’m sick *cough cough*

And what do we do when we’re sick? Pixelmate! (formally photoshop)

My friend Helen in a Japanese sorta looking image

My second attempt at making my name look cool in a bloody way

My first attempt at making my name look cool in a bloody way

My name on a sticky note, it had a problem during the exportation process which is why it doesn't look all too good.

My friend maria done using a tutorial, made her sort of an asian god sorta thing

My friend maria, this is one of my favourites

Have a great day guys!

After a months haitus I’m back!

Due to some stupid issues with the domain provider I was unable to renew my service, but now I’ve got it all sorted out and it’s awesome!

I really missed my email. But I also missed owning my own domain, it’s weird but you know having a domain is almost like having a kid. You pay for it, you name it and you embed BBcode into it and watch it grow! Lovely!

Whether we’ll be seeing a whole lot of activity is another question, I though I might be more active due to the fact that I no longer have school, so bitching about working will be at an all time high! Stories about my recent one month of nothing shall follow. Stay tuned!

Due to absolutely no demand whatsoever i’ve decided to change the colours of the theme.

I was getting bored with the plain orange dealeo and decided i wanted something more simple, classic and less of an retina buster..

It’s still sorta Orange (I didn’t really change the colour just the colour saturation) so it still keeps with me.

I like it and that’s all that matters

Wow…

So I received five free advanced screening tickets to see Paranormal Activity tonight and I was simply amazed. I decided to take along four friends and we all had no idea what to truly expect. I had read online several reviews of the movie and each said not to watch the trailers for the movie. So I followed their advice and pretty much went into the movie with barely any knowledge whatsoever about what the movie was about.

The movie is set in an American Suburb with a young couple as the main protagonists, the film has only one setting — the house — and only explores the setting into only a small amount of depth. Along with the vague amount of knowledge given to you about the couple’s background, throughout the movie you’re left with a sense of naivety which only heightens the film’s drama and suspense. We learn as much as the couple’s names (Katie, Micah), their professions, how long they’ve been together and only as much as Katie admitting that the hauntings have occurred periodically since the age of eight.

The movie beings with Micah meeting Katie in the driveway of their house (one of only two times the camera leaves the inside of the house), it continues on with a rather lengthy discussion of why the camera was purchased, how awkward the camera is and a brief description as to what they think may be causing the problems around the house. That night they record their sleep for the first time and really nothing all to interesting occurs. From here onwards it is basically spoilers, and with the fear of the movie (which i only saw two hours ago might i add) still lingering there is only so much I can really remember other than the fact that the movie scared the living crap out of me. And quite frankly, I’d rather not ruin the rest of the movie as it really does take a tad bit of naivety to get the most out of this movie.

Scene from Paranormal Activity

There has never been a time where I’ve witnessed an entire, full, cinema share their fear, screams and angst as an entire entity. This really was the sort of movie that nobody was safe in. There were the big macho AJ’s sitting behind us, an elderly couple to our bottom right, some teenage girls and a lover or two to our left, and a gay couple in front of us. Every single one of those people screamed, jumped or considered leaving during the movie. The movie really does set a pattern in how it operates, like many thrillers it would set the scene and let the viewer into a false sense of security only to then set the action full throttle to get the most out of the viewer (this method is tried and tired and quite frankly predictable), but unlike many current thrillers at a certain point in the movie (no mentions where) it just keeps you tense for the rest of the ninety-minute film.

The night scenes within the bedroom are where nearly all of the action is taken, this works well as the camera is placed at the footing of the couples bed, showing the entire room and outside of the open (who leaves it open?) bedroom door into their hallway. You soon begin to dread when the couple get ready for bed, as you’re not sure as to what the thing doing the haunting is going do. Scenes in the bedroom range from the spooky to the downright scariest shit you can imagine. (Two particular scenes come to mind with me checking my bed as I’m writing this)

The actors are brilliant, two unknown entities are shoved into the limelight and many question whether it was real footage or merely the brainchild of a psychotic screenwriter. Their onscreen chemistry would make you think the pair really were a couple, and their performance and reactions to both the dialogue and action within the movie really involve the viewer and make the movie seem all the more realistic. The choice of a handheld camera, as previously mentioned, also helps retain the movie’s realism and really wouldn’t be the same if it were filmed in a different sense. In fact, the movie is so realistic, the term ‘Micah Sloat dead’ has become the most Googled Query over the past couple of weeks.

This is the sort of movie that keeps you on edge once the action begins rolling, the sounding is crucial to the movie and without it you would just not have the same effect. The sound works so well, the usual covering of the eyes trick in hopes to nullify the shock just doesn’t seem to work. The atmosphere of a cinema with surround sound, freezing cold air conditioning and the dark surroundings are vital to add to the setting and the full effect of the audio and visuals would not be as effective on a downloaded or pirated copy. If you really to experience the movie in it’s fullest you really must see it in the cinemas, or at the least Blu-Ray with surround sound at midnight after either the consumption of alcohol, smoking weed or three cans of Red Bull.

There’s really not much more that can be said around this movie. In short, the above really just says it’s scary, freaking awesome and must be watched in the movies. But i wouldn’t have been able to clear my mind and make myself sound oh-so pretentious if i just posted a one sentence blog.

Not going to sleep tonight;

Maybe this will cure my insomnia.

Due to my insomnia I’ve decided to take to my blog to release my thoughts to the entire interwebz and to free up my conscious mind on what epicly great movie I have just consumed..

Donnie Darko.. I’ve never seen this movie before, and now I look back at it, I think, what a shame..

In a vague attempt to get me to fall asleep before 4am I decided to try to get myself to sleep by watching a movie.. What a mistake!

Donnie Darko is the kind of movie that really keeps you involved, you just want to try and get your head around to try and understand the situation. And even at the very end you’re still left wondering: What if? Why? and How?

The movie was generally very good, the characters were well developed, the storyline was well thought of and thourough, and the depth of the psychological torment that you could feel from Donnie… Gah! You felt like you were him!

The only thing negative I’m left with is, as to why the director put so much depth into characters which were not needed. The story could have been done with fewer charcters which still had major placements within the movie when they could have been removed without having a whole great of a deal into the main story line.

Another minor thing is with the storyline, althought very thorough, it still contained a paradox and several loose leads. As to whether these were intentional or not is another story, as you only pick up on these at the end, when you thought they would make a difference to the ending.

Other than that I loved this movie, it may have been a little confusing but that’s what keeps you interested, and totally keeps replay value! The theme of the movie is very dark – so dark I’m now a little warry of walking outside with the lights off, as I’m afraid a giant freaking bunny will come out and tell me to burn down a pheadophiles house – the theme also works very well in favour of the movie.

If I seem as if I’m writing a tad pretentious – good! I’m tired, unable to sleep, sick and taken aback by this movie. So if my writing skills were to give off a slightly pretentious undertone then it means I’m writting exceptionally well for a person in my position!

May I add that my spelling may be slightly (totally) off, my apologies as I’m on my iPhone (prentious yet?) and I don’t have any real sort of spellcheck other than that of Apple’s suretype (is it Apple or RIM that has suretype?)

Well I think my mind is clear enough of this matter, I’m finding it somewhat hard to find a way to finish this blog which would keep this post ontopic.. Meh.. Who gives a shit?!

(from his iPhone (wondering where the formatting buttons are))

This morning in my state of insomnia i decided to take the leap and Jailbreak my iPhone.

My friends with iPhones have all been bugging me to jailbreak – they’ve all done it and they’ve all had no problems; so i decided to try it myself.

To start, i had very little idea what i was doing, so i relied on several blogs with their instructions on how to do so. It was a whole lot more easier than i first expected and it wasn’t as scary as some people would make it out to be – although i squirmed everytime it would restart itself or became seemingly unresponsive. Then it was the installing of the applications which was (is) a little confusing, I’m still having a little trouble getting it all sorted but I think i’ve gotten my head around most of it (although, i must admit i’m still relying on blogs to help me).

Overall i only needed to install blackra1n on my Mac to do it, after that everything was surprisingly device-based. It was a reasonably quick and generally painless process (the pain coming from the fear of turning my baby into a braindead brick) although it is still a whole bit confusing.

Pictures tomorrow;

I’ve been having fun making twitter backgrounds lately.

They seem to be just another distraction which i find when i can’t be bothered doing anything else – Namely, homework.

Here are my latest two:

Old, Orange, Twitter Background

Latest, orange, white, and black background.

I’m quite happy with them

I’m one of those cheap people that often waits till i can get a movie for either cheap or for free until i see it, unless i really wanted to see it.

Coraline was not one of those movies, it just so happened I never go the chance to see it – Now i regret not seeing it in the cinemas.

Coraline is one of those movies which are so freakishly cute animations that you just know they’re not actually made for kids. I may be biased, but to me stop-motion technology has always seemed to produce scary movies for me, there’s just something about clay and other materials coming to life in a series of billions of frames which really seems to creep me out – but from the opening scene of Coraline you realize that your six-year-old sister is going to have nightmares for years, and you also ask yourself ‘did Tim Burton change his name to Henry Selick by any chance?’ With a creepy opening sequence of metallic needle-like hands pulling apart and subsequently sewing back-together a rag doll, you would really ponder the likelihood of the above question.

But if you didn’t know, Selick and Burton may not be the same person, but he was however part of the genius behind the other movie you may be thinking of – The Nightmare Before Christmas. In The Nightmare Before Christmas, Selick worked alongside Burton, but with Coraline Selick flaunted his directional abilities and proves that he doesn’t need Burton’s help to create one hellova creepy animation.

Coraline is apparently based on a book. And as with many movies which are based upon books these days, I had absolutely no idea it existed – But, apparently, everybody else knew about the existence of this tasty Hazelnut Novella, as it has won more awards than i can count with two fingers (it’d be too much effort to name what awards and the amount of them, as that’d mean i’d have to do some research.)

To put it simply, Coraline can be compared to as two other movies that I can think of at this time of the night, Alice in Wonderland, and The Nightmare Before Christmas (maybe even MirrorMask..) The most obvious comparison would have to be with Alice in Wonderland, as Coroline follows some drugged up rat into a hole where most of the movie is located, there’s a cat which gives you the creeps, some people you don’t know whether you can trust, and a Queen (or robot/monster/witch/whatever) which rules the entire alternate universe.

Good: Cute, yet scary. Great storyline, Dakota Fanning.
Bad: Sometimes too creepy for the PG rating, almost like a Tim Burton drug trip.
Overall: In all the movie is almost like somebody ate Alice in Wonderland with a side of Nightmare Before Christmas, took some Acid, vomited it up, and this is the remnants – However this isn’t such a bad thing. The movie is cute, it holds its charm throughout the movie and the creepiness is cute – for a dysfunctional teen. Not necessarily a kids movie, so i wouldn’t recommend taking your younger brother or sister to see it.
Rating: 82.5/ 100

Procrastination to the rescue!

Due to complete and utter disregard for my education i decided to create myself a new logo for the blog.

Site Logo

So there we have it, it kinda reminds me of Krispy Kreme?

What do you think?

Back to homework now,