Don't Blink!

[angelophile]

So, yeah, I've been quiet most of the weekend. In combination between deadline snowballing into Saturday (and then Saturday night) and... other stuff I've been in a BAD PLACE™. There were highs (yesterday I had a nice day with the folks and spent most of the day sunning myself on the beach) and lows (please do not ask about last night as emo Matt often offends).

Thankfully I'm feeling better today, looking at things afresh and wondering where to go from here. Yes, I'm being cryptic AND ranting. Gotta love it, haven't you?

So, random distractions:

Rich Johnson's new comic site's launched - www.bleedingcool.com I like Rich, have enjoyed butting heads with him on the occasions we have and wish him luck with his new site. He's rarely anything less than an entertaining read, even when he's completely and utterly wrong.

I managed to miss the actual announcement of the winner of Britain's Got Talent as I was on the phone to our printers, sorting out a major crisis, but walked in to see Susan Boyle's face as the Diversity boys celebrated. I have a few things to say on this - frankly I wouldn't have been disappointed if any of the final ten acts had won it - everyone was very good at what they did, but that said, i thought that Diversity were worthy winners, who upped their game for every performance and created a completely original routine each time. And the final performance was mindblowing. A lot of the other performers came out and repeated the routines that had got them through the auditions (with the exception of Stavros Flatley, god bless 'em), but for delivering something new each time, Diversity deserved the win.

Which leads us to Susan Boyle who, this morning, has been sectioned under the mental health act and booked into The Priory after an incident with the police after her running wild in a hotel. Now, I do feel sympathy for her, as she clearly believed everyone telling her there was no way she couldn't win. And then didn't. Clearly she's ill equipped emotionally to cope with the pressure that has been put on her. I'm not entirely sure whether she's disgruntled over losing or blown away by the multi-million pound contract she's just signed, but either way, I can understand her struggling to deal with it.

But at the end of the day, as she said herself, the better act won.

In other geek news, Tom Hiddleston talks Thor’s Loki. "Ken wants Loki to have a lean and hungry look, like Cassius in Julius Caesar." Sounds good to me.

And, of course, Doctor Who has his new companion. And, much like the new Doctor himself, I don't really have a clue who she is. Chalk this up as a good thing, in my mind. General opinion appears to be OMG SHE'S SO YOUNG!, which I don't really see myself. She's 21 and looks it.

Looks like Wolverine's still ahead of Star Trek in the worldwide box office. I'm not sure what this tells us, but it's probably not great.

Meanwhile, The Daily Mash tells it how it is. "SEVEN million people in the UK are illegally downloading the sort of music and films you wouldn't pay for even as you heard the ominous click of a gun being cocked."

Oh, and FilmDrunk can always be relied upon to deliver the best summaries of Twilight sequel news. Vampires are so dreamy!

Was that really a No Country For Old Men spoof in Benidorm last night? Fair play for them for including an extended joke only about 2% of the audience actually got. The Die Hard gag? Probably more obvious.

And Michael Caine is epic.

Comments

[uncanny-rman.livejournal.com]

That was totally a No Country For Old Men spoof in last night's Benidorm. I got the joke and I haven't even seen the movie it was spoofing.

[kirke-novak.livejournal.com]

I was watching the finale with a sinking feeling that they are all SO GOOD that I'm unable to pick the favorite. I even said to myself "Ok, I'm voting for Stavros, it's the only fair". And then The Diversity came along. And I died.

I wanted them to win so badly that when they were announcing the results, I stood in front of TV, repeating "Come on, Diversity". It worked!

[angelophile.livejournal.com]

I have to say, there's no doubt that they were best on the night. I would have been happy with any of the ten (well, most anyway) winning it but I was especially happy it went to them. They deserved it most of all. I voted for them and Stavros Flatey, personally.