A Risky Diss on Avatar

Avatar got nine Oscar nominations. This is fine. I think I might even get it. But is this a bad time to admit that I didn’t really enjoy it all that much? And am I alone in my indifference?

Now really – don’t get me wrong. I didn’t hate Avatar, and I in no way view it at all as an abomination of Twilight proportions (I may have to blog my Twilight views later) but was it really THAT great? What did I miss?

I would like to start by saying that the idea of body swapping was awesome. I did like that part. Very clever as far as gimmicky things go. Also – I LOVE Michelle Rodriguez so really any movie with her in it gets a bit of a thumbs up from me because she’s awesome. But come ON! The plot of the entire movie was completely uninspired and predictable. Fail Blog actually posted the idea that the writers had got hold of the script for Pocahontas and just changed the names a bit. Yeah….that sounds about right… (more…)

The Gods of Honesty Can Really Be Douche Bags Sometimes

Oh God! Seriously – I really do seem to have a knack for attracting the attention of the most random people and getting myself into the weirdest situations. And my powers of pissing people off impress even me in cases like this.

I have managed to have another hate post written about me. Ho hum. It might even be getting old. (Or young – If it feels like I’ve returned to high school does that make it young?)

Now, I must confess that this time it’s somewhat deserved. Bitterness is an ugly bitch and she always insists on an out. Piss her off and you get pissed on. Simple as that.

I pissed her off…

Sometime this week (I think it was this week at least…the timeline didn’t really attract the attention of my long term memory) a Facebook demon got hold of me and I aired my grievance on Twitter. An acquaintance posted on his status update about how he loves watching soccer players on the beach drool over his girlfriend and then shortly afterward posted a naked photograph of her lying in the water. I posted something arrogant and rather self-righteous like “nothing like watching a guy pimp out his girlfriend. It’s kind of making me nauseas”. I have almost a thousand followers on Twitter. I had no idea that his girlfriend was one of them… (more…)

The Not-So-Black-and-White Rainbow

I love South Africa. And not in a boerewors-en-braaivleis kind of way. I love her properly. In that innocent way that children love their parents, despite their faults. I make excuses for her. Our president has a dirty laundry list longer than his arm, and my heart goes, “That’s not South Africa, that’s just the president”. Bad things happen, and my excuse is that bad things happen everywhere. She embarrasses us. She lets us down. She seems irredeemable, unsaveable, lost in a downward spiral, and yet my love for her continues, steadfast and completely unshakeable.
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Psychics and the Psychos

Lately I’ve been considering going to see a psychic. I don’t usually do things like this, though I have on two random occasions had my cards read and found the experience rather interesting. I love stuff like this. I love weird spiritualities. I love astrology. And while I have no idea how any of it works I imagine that anyone who believes in anything spiritual needs to be open to the possibility that all these weird things do possibly exist in some sort of reality. I don’t know. I won’t pretend to understand it. But I am open to the possibility that certain energies can cause certain things to happen. I’m open to the possibility that energy flows affect our personalities. If MY mind and body are linked then it stands to reason that other energies are linked. If my body works better, feels better and looks better when I am happy as opposed to when I am indifferent or sad, the is it really such a stretch that the same kind of forces could be at play outside the body? (more…)

Goodbye ‘09

So we’re halfway through January and I’m only getting to my New Year’s post now. Yeah yeah – how typical. Initially I planned to do a “oooh look it’s my blog’s birthday” post. That never happened. Then I planned to do a 2009 sum-up. That never happened. Then I planned to do a Happy New Year thing. And guess what? Apparently I was busy. Doing what I’m not quite sure. Probably nothing. (more…)

Holmes & Wilson…I mean Watson….

Due to my serious addiction to way too many series that you now conveniently get on dvd I must honestly confess that I hardly ever watch movies anymore. This is kind of sad because obviously  I am missing out but the addiction is as strong as a case of OCD. I can’t help it. I love watching characters evolve and grow. I love questioning storylines and plots. I love observing dialogue. I love wondering what happens next… (more…)

Stupid people make the world go round

It was kind of my new year’s resolution to make fun of people less but sometimes the world does not cooperate with me on such matters and though this is generally my new year’s resolution almost every year the only change that ever happens is that the time between making and breaking this resolution keeps getting shorter as the years go by. It’s totally not my fault. The only thing I can think of that might help is if I pay less attention to people – but paying less attention would mean breaking my other resolution so I’m totally in a catch-22. But fokkit! After this morning’s conversation I think I’ll toss the being nice one and keep the attention one. It makes for more interesting life. (more…)

I wanna be an Avatar

Actually that statement might very well be grossly inaccurate since as far as the Avatar movie goes I have no idea what “avatar” actually referred to. It’s quite possible that I wasn’t paying enough attention.

Now I know we’re supposed to all be aggressively opposed to weird and barbaric science practices such as cloning and mind manipulation and all that stuff. TV certainly keeps telling us to be. It’s all ungodly. Or whatever. You know?? Cloning sheep and inserting probes into the brains of chimps to manipulate their personalities. It’s all very Dr. Frankensteinish and whatnot. Of course it is. I mean really! Maybe that monkey is completely secure in himself and quite likes his personality. Then some madass whitecoat goes and pokes him with a needle and he becomes all effeminate or something. That’s just mean right? (more…)

Under The Overshare

My friend Scott sent me a twitter message the other day informing me that some random was lacerating me on some now no-longer-existent website called “Thanks for Sharing”. Honestly? It doesn’t surprise me in the slightest that I would end up on such a forum. As far as twitter and facebook go – I overshare – a lot! And I’m completely in a bit of mock-trouble for it all the time. I am completely aware that I set myself up for this kind of thing all the time. And this person (whoever he is) could quite easily have been talking about a lot of things that I’ve said over the past few months I have spent tweeting. Ooooh yummy!! I wonder which one it was?!!

Unfortunately by the time I got the message and was able to go and check it all out, both the website and the twitter account had been shut down so I’ve been completely robbed of the opportunity to get all boo-hoo dramatic and self-pitying about it. Scott seems to be upset enough for the both of us though, so I’m just going to work on the curiosity side of things and try to figure out what’s got this boy’s nuts in such a knot. (more…)

Frogs don't hop they leap like spring hares!

So at about two am a frog jumped on my bed and changed the way I view  the world as a whole.

Last night I was talking to the man in my life and trying to explain to him how even though I don’t need him in a co-dependent useless-without-you cos I can’t make my own tea kind of way – I still need him in a way where  “need” translates more to want in a mad-possessive certifiable way that should probably not be tested for the sake of the safety and sanity of those involved in the equation – so actually possibly it’s the same thing and my attempt to differentiate between the two is a redundant exercise. I dunno. Somewhere along the line I managed some sort of independence that didn’t really need male validation to ensure it’s continued existence. Or so I thought. My attempt to explain this to him failed I am sure – since even now I am doing a ridiculously bad job. (more…)