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Sunday, April 23rd, 2006
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1:44 am - Movement bent
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I'm now located on www.myspace.com/red_jon for all my journaling stuff...though so far i've not done much on it apart from it can take photos and movies rather than live journal which charges you for it.
mooooooo.
jon
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| Friday, March 10th, 2006
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1:21 pm - Quizzy quiz!
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| Thursday, February 9th, 2006
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12:30 am - Ring of Fire
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'Walk the Line' is great, a really enjoyable and well acted film, no real faults except not enough of ring of fire!
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| Saturday, February 4th, 2006
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2:38 pm - I fell in to a burning ring of fire...
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Shoop de doop, shoop shoop de doop, shoop de doop, shoop shoop de doop, YEAH!!
Going to see 'Walk the Line' Wednesday night/day with some friends, trying out my Orange Wednesday thing before they decide to revoke it. Looking forward to the film, as I like Johnny Cash, and Jaquailonainahgdsadfadhfsadhfsahgd Pheonix looked quite good from the trailer an clips I've seen.
Reading Stephen Kings 'The Tommyknockers', very good so far. Also read the play by Richard Albee 'Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf' which is now one o my favourite plays, reading 'Streetcar Named Desire' as well but I already know I like Tenessee Williams. Getting a graphic novel called 'The Walking Dead' which looks pretty good, theres 4 volumes so far.
'Yesterday night, and the night before, Tommyknockers, Tommyknockers, knocking at your door'
Jon
current mood:  chipper
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| Thursday, January 26th, 2006
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11:28 pm - Antonin Artaud
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I am questioing my own existence and whether my life is fated or not, all thanks to myself and Sarahs differing interpretations of Artaud's writtings. *BOOM GOES BRAIN* *THUMP*
Anyway, should probably give you an idea of what i'm up to right now. Well the biggest thing is that my play 'The Hunt For Aiken Drum' is being produced for the Wigtownshire 1 Act festival directed by Margaret Shankland and starring several of the younger kids with comedic timing...oh and my little brother an sister. As to Artaud, well google him then think of his theories on theatre in relation to Peter Pan and then turn that into a performance and you get an inkling of what I'm doing.
Also still at Uni (almost) working away at passing and going into the playwritting specialism, what fun, luckily I have a friend (Lindsay) who is keen on this as well, so I we can approach the monster together.
I'm still looking for a real life version of Catwoman..but no luck so far...heck I'd even settle for Supergirl, but something tells me she's a Lesbian. Huh.
Watch Arrested Development, best American sitcom ever! Also Curb Your Enthusiasm and Scrubs still goooood. Listen to Decemberists, CAKE, Counting Crows and the lord of solo artists Colin Hay.
Now my brain hurts so I'll away. oop oooop ond oooooooowoooooooooooooy!
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| Monday, June 20th, 2005
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10:39 pm - Best weekend of my life......Kinda
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This weekend was great! For a start I saw Batman Begins on Friday afternoon which is as perfect a bat-film! Not to mention a perfect super-hero film, bugger spiderman or X-men, this is the benchmark! Brilliant story, cast and of course ending! And what an end! Hopefully we'll see HArvey Dent (the District Attorney helpfully died in this one so that his place could be filled) and the Joker too.
Also on Saturday I had the pleasure of viewing REM at Loch Lommond and they were immense! It was sooooooooo good it was unbelievable. They played everything I wanted and more! Even my favourite REM song Find The River from Automatic for The People, YAY! And the Zutons and Feeder were good too the Zutons female saxaphoist being very hot is a short dress....ohh and theirs something sexy about a women who's barefoot. Myself and Joel were quite near the front too which helped. Everybody Hurts was played amazingly well though, with Michael Stipe saying Hold for about 3 minutes with the entire audience of 10000 or more people joining in. It was beautiful, and a momment I wont forget. I only wish I had had a girlfriend their as that song seemed to make the couples around us melt into one anothger, it was magical.
Electrolite was great too being the clearest of the songs, and of course Losing My Religion and the One I love being punched out by them. And their new stuff was great, I mean reeeeeeeeeally great! Despite what critics say avbout their album its brilliant live, as Joel will attest! I bought a great hat and Program too.
AFter the concert Joel caught a train, the supposedly last train, then i caught the one scotrail put on after they realized they had thousands of people in Balloch with no way out. So then I stayed at Kris's house near Kirkintilloch (which was reeeeeeeeally nice of him and his parents) and we came up with an idea for a show, but more on that when its finished.
Speaking of Shows my COmpany Of Strangers show at the Roxy Arthouse in Edinburgh was up two weeks ago for 4 nights and so far has had good reviews. It took several months of my life but was worth it simply for the people I was doing it with, they are a great bunch and I miss them already......apart from Guiaume that damn bananna eating Frenchman, curse him and his sense of humour (only kidding he's great). Also funny thing Josalin who's in the show went to Crossover last year (check past entry) and I didn't know it wierd huh? And she went last weekend too and met my dad. It sounded fun this year again but REM had me busy, but apparently Bono sent them a live message with a live video feed of their concert about supporting the rally next month.
So now I;m going to finish a letter for RAG and watch some Smallville, toodles!
current mood: content
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| Tuesday, May 3rd, 2005
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7:27 pm - Life is Wierd
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Haven't updated for a while but now I find myself with time having completed my last piece of work yesterday. It was shite.....I mean site specific shakespeare, which is shakespeare scenes performed outside, but not simply "ohh look its some play outside" its a different form entirely, having each scene change in relation to the site specifically, hence the title. Also we used one key idea to bring each scene together into some overall form, we used an idea of underground theatre which was a form of theatre during WWII during the Nazi occupation of various countries. We took this idea and used it to make a overall theme of secrecy around our show having the guides to each scene constantly remind the audience to keep quiet, or having whistles blowing in the distance etc. Which made it quite an interesting thing to perform. Also I decided to play my character, Oberon King of the faries from A Midsumer Nights Dream, as Emperor Palpatine from Star Wars, because I could and it made it easier for me to learn my speaches.
Also yesterday it was my friend Alex's 20th birthday and so she had a party last night which was themed around Disney, i.e. we all had to dress as disney characters... I went as The Mad Hatter with Kris and Peter going as the MArch Hare and Door Mouse. I had a giant top hat (Which Reka has stolen, curses) and Kris's costume was perhaps though the girls deemed cute was very saditic as he had taken a big fluffy white dog and rolled it up sowing its tail to the back of its neck then stapeling it to his arse, and as to his bunny ears, guess where THEY came from *snip* *snip* It was very amusing and we even had a tea set and sang 'A Very Merry Un-Birthday' to Alex then remmembered it WAS her birthday and took the cake that was undermy hat back off her, hehehe. But we didn't have teat in the pot, ohhhhh nooo. Alex was a pink princess from sleeping beauty? Simon her Boyfriend was Peter Pan including green tights, Sarah (Kris's girlfriend) was Tinkerbell, Rachel was a whore from Hercules (by her description not mine) Guillaume was the French candle from Beauty & The Beast (cause he's french) Reka was esmarelda from the Hunchback (despiute wanting to wear jeans) and the other Jonathan was Jafar from Aladin but looked more like Margo from the good life. It was a fun night where we gave Alex her reeeeeally expensive disney princess clock which plays music and such, which she enjoyed, but probably not as much as the cheap noise making stuff we got her, boy my ears hurt, as Peter said "She's just like a 5 year old, prefering the box" We then went into town changing mostly, not the girls and I kept my hat and tweed jacket which apparently suits me which is a...good...thing? Anyway people got drunk and Alex cried alot and then became happy again, wierd. Also David turned up with The Cheshire Cat saying he was the tree it sat in, almost as good as Jonathans origional idea to go as the guy who killed Bambi's mother, bwahaha. A Good night.
Also looking forward to Star Wars having booked my ticket already for 00.35 on the 19th of May, going after I've been to an Avril Lavigne concert, woot! Also I got a lightsaber! It's Darth Vader's which changes from Blue to red depending on your mood, Jedi sith jedi sith jedi sith jedi sith! I saw the trailer too and its just one shot of MAce Windu and a whole bunch of Jedi walking into Chancellor Palpatine's office and saying
WIndu - Chancellor Palpatine your under arrest.
Then Palpatine stands up saying: "Are you threatening me master jedi?"
Then he pulls via the force a lightsaber out of his cloak and charges at him going "hissssss", its a red lightsaber! And you just know Samuel L Jackson is gonna die. COOOOOOOOL!!!
Now I'm going to see the Ring 2 cause I'm bored, but hell after having a Zombie night on Sunday with Kris and Duncan (Shaun of the Dead and Spaced episode) then playing Timespliters 3 till 3 in the morining, i feel like horror!
Boo! BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!
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| Sunday, March 13th, 2005
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7:43 pm - I'm bored!
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I should be doing some course work but I can't be bothered. I have no sharpner so I can't draw any JMB's and my head hurts. Argh, also I sent a letter to the Galloway Gazette complaining about the lack of publicity they give to the NEwton Stewart Players but my mum seems to think it wasnt in, not that they bought a Gazette even though I told them to THREE TIMES! I'd ask shonagh but I have very little text money and who knows when I'll need it. Didn't get to Stirling this weekend either or Glasgow as too many people were busy so Kris cancelled his party. No JMB's till Friday from me, but Iain will be doing some. I hate pidgeons. Only two months till my course finishes, so yay, and boo, as it means I have to leave Edinburgh for the summer, get to see people at home, but less of my newer friends.
Hope to do a musical 'little Shop OF Horrors' in the summer so that could be alot of fun, lets hope we do it. Now I have application forms to fill out and then my DOS journal to finish, cursed work AAAAARGH JONATHAN SMASH! *CRUSH*
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| Tuesday, February 22nd, 2005
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1:05 pm - omygodomygodomygodomygod
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| Monday, February 14th, 2005
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5:39 pm - Cheoregraphed Improvisation
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Just been in class performing a task similar to simon says in a way but far more intricate or detailed. It started with us following the movements of one leader, which was me, as long as the followers could see them, also they could at any time switch to following another leader. Also we had each picked a playing card beforehand which gave us an emotion gender and status, which we had to keep to whatever movement we undertook, however wierd. So with all this in mind AND being able to be called upon to recite our text AS we were doing this, what fun! But being a leader myself I didn't need to say my text and just had to do what I wanted, aheh. It was an anazing thing trying to keep this character AND making up interesting movements to go along with it, its a wierd thing to do.
Anyway, its just Monday today, not Valentines day, don't care what logic dictates either! Stupid consumerist holiday! Happy millions commit suicide day! As you can guess I didn't get any cards, YAY!! Stupid day of depression and hell!
Well to distract myself I've tones of Uni work and the JMB comic which is taking up a lot of time, but doing well or wierd maybe? But I want more guest specials! Come on people open your comedy pores and e-mail me your contributes. I know Joel is doing one and Iain is probably doing another. Probably should see if I can pick up a cheap scanner or see if the IT centre has one.
Also finished The Dark Tower series completely, genius, brilliant! Read it, and the whole series, or basically anything Stephen King, he's a genius. Read a new version of Joker's first battle with Batman, which is out now why? So that people have a Joker:Year 1 as it were for David Goyer to adapt for the next Nolan Batman movie, so were getting Joker (hopefully this story which is genius) and not jack Nicholson. YAY batman begins in June!! Released the day before I go to see REM in concert at Loch Lomond.
TTFN
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| Friday, February 11th, 2005
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11:34 am - Watchmen
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| Tuesday, February 8th, 2005
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5:06 pm - JMB's
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| Saturday, January 8th, 2005
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5:03 pm - Drunk Duckery
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Okay JMb has now a spin off website at www.drunkduck.com/JMB so all my JMb's will be going there as well as icff. I'm branching out wahahahahaha!
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| Sunday, January 2nd, 2005
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2:06 am - Christmas: A perspective glance
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Well its really over now that New Years is past and what have I gained from another year? A cool purple tie with a big question mark on it, Alan Moore's pous graphic novel 'From Hell', a wicked ass batman calendar from ewan, the lotr extended dvd box thing, 'The Ladykillers' on dvd and a packet of crisps with my name on them 'Jonathan Crisps tm, Crisps For Snobs' What a great load of loot as Calvin would say (I incidentaly aquired a Calvin & Hobbes book from my parents and I think so did Iain and everyone else who Kathy knows as she go them in a sale)
What else occured this year? Well it snowed! It was bloody beutiful, and freezing yet not extremely cold, and so walking home in the moonlight (it was SO big) wasn't a crazed idea after all. Also played Ninja Burger which is fun, boy does Iain get competative, and sang carols at the square per usual.
Spent Xmas day opening presents then going to church, then walking to Iains for a non-existent present in a blizzared...of sorts, then a while at my Grannys, then to my Nana & Papa's to have xmas dinner with about 15 relatives. A loooooooong day, but a good one. Watched Spiderman 2 again and played with Connors eye toy which is really fun.
Have a cold now though no doubt to do with spending the days running up to xmas eve building a trainset in a freezing cold shed! Ah well at least the kitten likes chasing the trains, and her mouse fishing rod thing.....hmmm, how to catch a cat, put a mouse on the end of a rod!
Anyway, I here thunder and lightening so im orf before the electirckity goes bye bye.
TTFN
J
current mood: contemplative
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| Wednesday, November 10th, 2004
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7:41 pm - What Have They Done!!
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| Friday, October 29th, 2004
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12:50 pm - Something Iain had!
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I saw this in Iain's journal and decided to steal it for my won devices, Mwahahahahahaha! And I hope he appreciates being the star of my Jabberwocky JMB!
.x. [my name is]: Jonathan Whiteside
.x. [At night I am]: Edward Nigma
.x. [all i need is]: a green bowler hat
.x. [love]: shh! Its a secret!
.x. [im afraid of]: Corn dollies!
.x. [i dream about]: Things that wouldst warp thou!
Y E S . O R . N O -
.x. [you keep a diary]: Not any more
.x. [you like to cook]: not atall!
.x. [you have a secret you have not shared with anyone]: I'm a riddle trapped in a cunnundrum rapped in an enigma
.x. [you fold your underwear]: no
.x. [you talk in your sleep]: how should I know?
.x. [you set your watch a few minutes ahead]: nope
.x. [you believe in love]: must definately
- D O -
.x. [you wish you could live somewhere else]: Canada or Russia, I like snow and winter
.x. [you think about suicide]: On occasion, but not that much, I know people who are worse
.x. [others find you attractive]: Hah!
.x. [you want more piercings]: hate them and will never have any
.x. [you want more tattoos]: I want a question mark on my upper arm or at the base of my neck
.x. [you drink]: Not to any great excess, mainly cause it bores me
.x. [you do drugs]: no
.x. [you smoke]: never, disgusting habit
.x. [you like cleaning] I like things tidy, is that the same?
.x. [you like roller coasters]: I like small ones, but big ones freak me out
.x. [you write in cursive or print]: My writing is illegible in cursive
.x. [you carry a donor card]: nope
- H A V E . Y O U . E V E R -
.x. [been in love]: twice
.x. [cried when someone died]: not yet
.x. [lied]: Naturally, its sometimes the only way
.x. [fallen for your best friend]: On occasion, but my best friends? Not usually, not the MALE ones anyway!
.x. [been rejected]: Oh of course
.x. [rejected someone]: yes, heh, I don't know how THAT happened
.x. [used someone]: no comment
.x. [been cheated on]: cheated by friends but not ON
.x. [done something you regret]: yes'aroonie
-N U M B E R-
.x. [of times i have had my heart broken]: not badly but mildly twice, its doesn't last long
.x. [of hearts i have broken]: None, at least none that I know of?
.x. [of guys i have kissed]: none thank god!
.x. [of girls i have kissed]: i agree with Iain, I'm against statistics in love!
.x. [of continents i have lived in]: One
.x. [of close friends]: one-ish, but she's not really speaking to me much at the momment, maybe cause I'm several miles away?
.x. [of cd's that i own]: who cares? Bunch of REM stuff
.x. [of scars on my body]: Hmm, one on my finger which is permanantly broken, one on my knee where a stone cut a chunk out, one on my face where I feel on a rusty wheelbarrow when I was 5 and one under my right eye where Shonagh scrached me with a branch, psycopath that she is!
.x. [of things in my past that i regret]: Too many for my liking
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12:38 pm - Something to post.
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Well I haven't posted for a while but I guess an update is in order. I'm still on my course and having fun, reasons behind it will be attached to the end of this post, cause we had to write a side of A4 ish on our motivations for joining the course. I'm currently on the job search trying for jobs at the Playhouse, Dungeons and hopefully I'm going to get an aplication for Jenners too. You see I'm desperately poor at the momment, and I need money to buy comics (I blew alot of cash on the DC Encyclodpidea, but its great) and The Riddler Hush action figure!!
No sign of Joel or filming dates yet, seems like i just ceased to exist to my friends when I came here, as Shonagh doesn't talk to me anymore either (except when I meet her in Safeways) It's quite anoying really, but hey I've got alot of new friends anyway, AND I'm in a local panto as well, so its all good really.
Okay heres the motivation thing (btw Ed is my lecturer for the clss):
Motivations for Choosing DTA
In order to establish the reasoning behind this choice I must first of all give the context of how I applied and found out about the course, as will momentarily become clear. Up until the second week in August this year I was in fact going to study Social Sciences (history, politics, psychology, sociology and law) at Strathclyde University in Glasgow, and had all but signed my name on the dotted line and achieved the extra few B’s to confirm my place with them. So I had my entire mind set on going there, however, I didn’t do quite as well as I had hoped in my exams, gaining an A and two C’s rather than the two B’s I needed. Thinking I hadn’t been accepted I therefore decided to check my other options and through clearing on UCAS I was randomly searching for History degree courses to no avail. Then just to satisfy my curiosity I clicked on any theatre courses in clearing and the first name to come up was the DTA degree at QMUC, which I read over and realised was the prefect course for me. Ironically the day after I changed my mind Strathclyde decided to accept me after all, but after several heated hours convincing my parents that this was in fact a proper degree then that I actually wanted to do it, I began to find out about applying. To cut a long story short, obviously I was given a place (the only person actually) and I never looked back. My motives for changing stem from a love of drama since I was tiny apparently I always used to put on shows for relatives using my little brother and sister as extra’s (not to mention the cat), not that I remember. But drama had always been something I have done being a member of my local Junior Players for years, playing roles in pantomimes, musicals, plays and competitions. So acting has always been something I have enjoyed and studied at school, however, our headmaster didn’t particularly like the arts and so I was only able to study drama in my final year. So I only started to appreciate the theory and literary side of it after I had sent my UCAS form away. Also by this time I had begun writing more and more proficiently in various different genre’s such as standard plays, Christian pieces, film scripts, mock documentary’s and comic scripts. Thus, when I noticed the course allowed a specialism in playwriting it really pushed my decision over from a “this might be a good course” to “this will be a good course”. Obviously a further motivation was my realisation that I really didn’t want to study history for the rest of my life and become like a boring fossil myself, and a career in the arts would prove a lot more exciting any day. Another contributing factor could have been how well I actually performed for my Drama higher getting A’s and coming in top of my class, which wasn’t exactly a usual occurrence, conveying to me that perhaps I was far more competent in Dram than History. Reasons for not putting a drama course on my UCAS form initially and saving myself three weeks of unbelievable hassle would be due to my parents and teachers advice on how terrible a career in acting could be an dhow this wasn’t something Io should pursue, yet if I had explained that I wanted more than acting maybe things could have been easier, but never the less choosing DTA was a spontaneous decision, but I’m glad I did if merely for Ed’s classes (I studied well in sycophancy too).
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| Saturday, October 9th, 2004
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5:22 pm - Im SO FUCKING ANGRY!!!!! RAAAR!
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Guess what boys and goyles! DC decided to employ some of its crap and shitty writers in order to 'kill' of The Riddler from the batverse!
*Shoots random holes in wall and blows up various buildings*
Ahh, feeling slightly less volotile, but I'm soooooo annoyed I could scream! How could they do this?? If they had at least gotten a decent writer (not to mention artist) it may have been better, but they screwed up the whole characterisation of Nigma, making him some pathetic teengaer like thing! WHY!! But thats not the worst, it was Poision Ivy who 'killed' him, some dumb plant lady! Who could soooo easily be defeated, but nope, she is now apparently a 'super-villain' hell I thought she was classed as a second stream villain who wasn't exactly 'big' in the crime world. But no, some new writer comes along and decides 40ish years of continuity doesn't matter! Ahhhhhhh! Why do all this though? Simple, DC thinks every batman villain has to be an evil murdering pycopath like Two-face,joker and killer croc to be liked by the fans. The reason the riddler was so good was because he made Batman think, use the detective skills for which he is supposed to be so good. Nigma's reputation may have been crap, but that was because of some movies, in the comics he has really had some great stories, and they always make the reader think! But now DC intend to replace him with someone "more brutal than anything the Dark Knight has experienced with Edward Nigma" because we all OH SO want to see some more mudering lunatic, don't we?! RAAAAAR I'M SO ANOYED!!
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| Tuesday, October 5th, 2004
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11:10 am - Raaar
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Laptops been infected with a virus. Curses. But anyway I'm comming down this weekend for filming with Joel, so be aware, and some-one tell Eoin I want my HUSH graphic Novels back, okay!
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| Sunday, September 26th, 2004
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9:22 pm - We all FLOAT down here!
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Ahh IT perhaps the scariest film ever, and merely because of a clown. God Bless Stephen King! Anyone who hasn't read or seen this terror really should, one of the best book to film adaptations. And playing Pennywise the Dancing Clown is genius Tim Currie. I just finished the book a week ago myself and picked up the video today for £2.99, its goooood. In other news I went to see Collateral with Joel and Ben on Saturday, its resonably good, Tom Cruise acting like batman with a gun, funnily eough is how batman started out using it on a few criminals, heh. Also saw a play on saturday night at the Lyceum called the Madman Sings to the Moon, which was about a down and out who holds 4 people in a posh cafe because ethey wouldn't even let him have a glass of water. Naturally he has a gun, but he, makes some interesting comments on society, a truley interesting little play, superbly acted, especially by the actor playing Crawford the Astrology Lecturer. They even simulated the rain running down the windows, Brilliant. I also bought Kingdom Come which is far better than I imagined, as was Detectuve 27.
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