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Tinker Tailor Soldier Snore
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is what they should have called Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy which is a movie starring a bunch of really amazing British actors which fools you into thinking the movie will be anything but slow-moving, dull, tedious, and a lot of other synonyms for 'boring', which is what it was.
the picture above this text is a lie, or at least a partial one. the first bit is interesting but then it goes on forever and we just couldn't deal with it anymore.
in case you missed it, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy vs Spy is a film based on what is apparently a great book by John LeCarré which is about british spies and the amazing Gary Oldman stars a spy who comes back to start spying on a bunch of other spies of whom he used to be a part of, but isn't anymore due to a big complicated plot that I don't feel like going into because the plot managed to make a movie which is under two hours feel like four hours, which is why we didn't finish it.
the reason we started watching was 1. because we had just watched TMNT and wanted something "more serious" and 2. because I am addicted to watching Benedict Cumberbatch and now that Sherlock is between seasons I need to get my BC where I can get it which is apparently in Tinkerbell, Tailor, Soldier, Spy which is unfortunate because even his prime acting and sharp suits didn't save it.
but with a cast line-up including Gary Oldman, The Big BC, Colin Firth, Tom Hardy, John Hurt and more, Tinker, Taylor Swift, Soldier, Spy should be great, and the first part is except for the fact that it cuts between past and present tense so quickly that we had to stop the video and double-check that we weren't both confused about what was going on. which we usually were. maybe that's the point but there's only a year between both timelines so it's not even like you can really use style as an indicator, just Gary Oldman's hair colour changing back and forth.
maybe the book is better and certainly the film adaptation of The Spy Who Came in From The Cold was amazing but basically this film felt like a big circle-jerk about uppity slow british dramas and an attempt to see how long that people would sit in their seats and endure the whole thing, which was 2/3 of the way through for us.
and thanks to wikipedia I still get to know how it ended. which was how we both assumed it would end.
save yourself some time and read the plot here.
I never got to be on the Birthday Boat
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but one time I drew a picture of Beav and Buckley and they showed it on-air
and I was the happiest kid around
because in the 90's in Winnipeg MTN Kids was the shit.
I miss my childhood.
today is my mum's 30th birthday
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just like it was last year.my mum is actually from a teeny town in England called Stourport-on-Severn where she lived until she was eight and my nan and granddad decided to jump across the pond and landed here in Winnipeg. last week she came by for tea and we went for a walk and she showed me the house the first lived in when she moved here, which is just up the street from where I live now which is weird to me. she told me about moving here in february and how cold it was and how she used to count the mosquito bites she and my uncles would get during the summer because they don't have mosquitoes in England, you fools.
but my mum didn't always live here, she traveled around with my grandparents through Alberta and lived in a trailer in the rockies with mountains right out her front door and eventually went back to England in her teens. but she missed all her cool Canuck friends and Canada's wide open spaces and when she was 19 she got on a plane all by herself and left her whole family to come back to Winnipeg which takes the kinds of balls I can only hope that I grow someday because, wow, that must have been hard.
one day my dad saw a gorgeous lady with big hair at a social and they danced to the rock lobster and a few years later your truly came along. next came Mike and she had prepared all these VHS tapes with all my favourite shows and made a list of which episode was which so I would have something to do while I was babysat during her delivery but I slept through the whole thing like the a-hole that I am.
after came Alex and my mum is so sweet that she didn't even get mad when, while she was pregnant, I told her that if she didn't have a baby girl I was going to hate it. she knew kids (especially ones with names that sound like Shmalyson Shmane) are stupid.
before I moved out of my parents house I used to go upstairs in the evening before bed and harass her while she was trying to watch some show about renovations or selling houses or crap like that because for some reason it was fun to watch tv with her even though I don't think she liked it.
she used to watch Star Trek: Voyager and used to get into arguments with this boyfriend I had about whether or not it was one of the shittier Star Treks, which is is (sorry mum). but she likes all the Saw movies which is both weird and awesome and makes up for her lame taste in Star Trek series.
there used to be a time when I never thought my mum and I would be close, which I guess is normal for every child especially the crazy female kinds and I think there may have been a time when she wasn't proud of me at all and wished that she'd never danced to The Rock Lobster and had this shitty kid. but she did and here I am and now that I'm trying to figure out what the hell I'm doing in this big, wide world she tells me that she's proud of me for doing it, and how I'm doing it, which means a lot. because I'm really proud of her, too.
happy birthday mum!
I love you,
Alyson xoxox
Hip Hop Sunday #32 Blu & Exile - Blu Collar Worker
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I love hip hop artists on bikes
Happy Hip Hop Sunday!
I don't always watch sports
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but when I do it's sitting in a pub somewhere filling my face with wings and Half Pints creeping on first-year film students who have to listen to our booth getting progressively more obnoxious and rowdy the more beers we have the better the Jets play
and I drink this Half Pints because it's the best beer out there which makes the fact that the Garbonzo's on campus only carries their Bulldog Amber and had the gall to run out of it towards the end of the evening.
and I hang out with these two fools and argue about politics despite my best efforts (for once) and swap stories because we almost never see Will because either I'm too busy being a student or he's in Vancouver, again, so when I had to resort to hanging out on twitter because they were talking about cameras and video editing software it was like a warm, familiar, annoying hug.
and I make this is the stupid face after a bunch 'o beers when the Jets are destroying the Panthers which is a combination of beer, joy, spicy hot wing coma, and disbelief over the fact that I actually knew which two teams were playing
and I don't even give an f that it's going to snow like a mofo overnight and I'm going to slip three times while walking through this to get to work
I haven't edited my photos from the Festival du Voyageur
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which is just another thing to add to the pile of things I haven't done that I need to get around to, such astranscribe my Thomas Dolby interview
write two term papers
edit all the photos I've taken over the last month
get my notes together for tomorrow's MEME 2012 meeting
hit the gym so I can indulge guilt-free in wings and beer with Tyrone and Will tonight
file my taxes
find a summer job (wanna hire me?)
buy a bday gift for my mum
get my picture taken for an article in the The Metro
make more time for more sexy rumpus
among other things
if I were a responsible student I'd be more on top of these things but honestly I think I manage to keep my shit pretty much together while working and partying like a rock star on the weekends (not pictured due to laziness)
which is pretty good considering all I want to do these days is have Daft Punk dance parties and drink whiskey and have 'play dates', Elmo stylez.
How messed up is it The Lorax is endorsing SUVs?
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I'm not sure how an SUV is "Truffula-Tree Friendly"
or how bastardizing a children's book that talks about
conservation
and preserving our resources
and being responsible
for future generations
can be made into a zany capitalism-hugging monstrosity
but it's happened
and in the words of the great Doctor:
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot
nothing is going to get better. It's not.
