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  • Dark Liquid 4:07 pm on January 25, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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    Dead-Headed Zombie 

    I thought I’d do some quick mini-reviews of things I’ve consumed recently. First of all is a little mini-series called Dead Set.

    Dead Set is basically bring brother in the aftermath of a zombie outbreak. It’s fantastic in many of the ways Peep Show is awesome: the terrible cringe-inducing stupidity and awkwardness. Plus anything where you get to see the vacous residents of that stupid show ripped apart and eaten gets an automatic thumbs up. As zombie stuff goes, it’s quite good with the right balance of cheese and seriousness and so me over the top effects thrown in for good measure without trying too hard to be taken seriously. It’s a black comedy really and it does it quite well if you can get over the initial shudder of watching Big Brother, even if only by proxy. Also, zombie Davina McCall automatically adds makes this a must see.

    I did enjoy this, not only for the above qualities but als for the apparent sense of disdain the creators have for Big Brother portrayed not only in the characters personalities but in lots of little things throughout the mini-series. Of course, that might be my own biases instead.

    Next up, Two-Headed Monster, Collide’s latest album. On first listen, I didn’t like it at all. It’s a departure with kaRIN’s usual almost ethereal style and I don’t like it at all. After a few more listens, about two songs came through as quite enjoyable but otherwise, no, I still don’t like it. I was quite disappointed. After hearing Collide’s work in The Secret Meeting, I was hoping for something more like that, but no, it wasn’t anything like it at all. Of all of Collide’s albums, Some Kind of Strange has to be my favourite and this new one had none of the qualities that made that album work for me. While technically, the album is of a good quality, stylistically it’s terrible and seems to be trying to be something it’s not. A disappointing release indeed. I really hope I get to see another album as strong as Some Kind of Strange released by Collide some time in the future and that this one is just a hiccup and not the start of a new trend.

    Well, thats it for now.

     

  • Dark Liquid 7:44 am on January 20, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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    Minor update 

    I’ve been getting back into my writing again lately and so I’m slowly picking up the pace on Protagonize again. There are some really awesome stories on there that I’m proud to say I’m a part of.

    Speaking of creativity, things are slowly being put in motion for HappyFunGeekTime, though I’d never have thought doing something like it would require so much organisation. I’m not good at organisation and consequently haven’t really done any. Hopefully things will pan out.

    Things seem to be going fairly well at work, we’re big on gems at the moment and boy does it make a difference having a nice, tested, gemified library at your back when developing apps. Gems make things so much easier because with later rails version you get all the benefits of plugins with the additional benefits of a decent versioning and freezing system as well.

    Well, that’s it for now.

     

    • Dru 9:46 am on January 20, 2009 Permalink

      No, you’re not good at organization. It’s a good thing I’m doing all the hard work then isn’t it? :P

  • Dark Liquid 10:58 pm on January 5, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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    7 Things (Meme Attack!) 

    The memes have attacked and once again my blog is another casualty! This time the onslaught was led by Bytey, supreme commander of the 7 Things meme army division.

    Well, as part of my surrender treaty, I’m doing the meme, spreading it further. It’s like aliens implanting their eggs in you, except instead of aliens bursting out of your chest, memes burst out of your blog.

    1. I was once a temp waiter at the Southport Flower Show. It was my first real job (I went to the job centre for it and everything!) and I earned about a seventh of what I earn a month now for three days work.
    2. I had an absolutely terrible attendance rate at school and at college. In all cases I have felt justified. At school I felt everything was too easy and I got bored easily. I didn’t bother turning up because I felt endlessly practising the same things over and over was a waste of time. I’d rather stay home, pretending to be ill and teaching myself matrix math so I could code mods for Quake 1. There were threats of legal action from the government against my mother so I had to go back and keep up my attendance rate. It was much the same with college, but at least I was allowed not to turn up, within reason, and at worst I would have been kicked from the course rather than suffer legal action.
    3. I thought I was the coolest kid on the block for having an Amiga 1200 with a MASSIVE 20MB hard drive!
    4. I have to have cold drinks in a glass and hot drinks in a mug. I feel really wrong drinking something like squash or cold milk from a mug.
    5. I have two extra ribs.
    6. I’ve actually been roleplaying for a really long time since I was around 12 I think when I was doing freeform, no-dice, speech only roleplay in the playground at a school in Bournemouth when I was living in Pokesdown. I’ve lost contact with the guys I played with then, Richard (last name of Hohne I think) and Dominic (whose last name I can’t remember at all).
    7. I’ve always wanted to live in a house like the one from M. C. Eschers House of Stairs, minus the weird bug things.

    And tagging. This is the hard bit, I’m not sure I actually know seven people that have a blog and actually use it.

    1. DruidX – my darling wife
    2. Bytey – right back at you (yes, it’s a cop-out I know, give my antisocial arse some slack)
    3. Lost Process – one of my best friends and my best man
    4. Devo – my brother
    5. Bloodred1889 – my friend Jade
    6. Urbanvoodooman – another long time friend of mine
    7. Dan Wentworth – a cool guy I met at LUGRadio Live that turned out to hail from Dorset as well!

    And now the rules:

    • Link your original tagger(s), and list these rules on your blog.
    • Share seven facts about yourself in the post – some random, some weird.
    • Tag seven people at the end of your post by leaving their names and the links to their blogs.
    • Let them know they’ve been tagged by leaving a comment on their blogs and/or Twitter.
     

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