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Save me Illuvatar, from the pillocks who insist on calling TTT the Twin Towers, before I can longer control myself and punch the next one right in the nose. Arrrghh!

Anyway. :)

Does this ever happen to you? You're watching tv, flipping channels, and you think you've come across a very underbudget but mildly interesting parody of Planet of the Apes, and just when you're starting to chuckle at the outrageously campy costumes and fur-clad bikini women -- oh, wait, that bikini woman is taking off her top and starting to snog her neighbour, whom you've just noticed is wearing a dog collar and is chained to yet another bikini woman. Oh. *snerk* No, I did not keep watching (for very long), but I did laugh outloud at this charming piece of cinema verite:
Bikini Woman #1: Brr! It's so cold here.
Bikini Woman #2: In Russia, we used our bodies to keep each other warm. *moves to stroke #1's knee*
Bikini Woman #1: HEY! I don't go in for that kind of thing.
Bikini Woman #3: I'm so lonely... *grabs #1 and starts snogging her with copious amounts of tongue*
Bikini Woman #1: Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...

Am I the only one who finds this complete turnaround in less than five seconds amusing? *grins*


Also on the weird tv front, I stumbled across something that I thought was Fushigi Yuugi (in an absolutely APPALLING English dub, never heard anything quite so atrocious. Thank god I have it on dvd), but after about a minute I became utterly confused, and kept repeating to myself 'What the hell is going on!?' Tamahome is mistaken for Nakago? Tama kills Koiji? Yui's back in the book? WTF?? I knew it was an OAV, but that didn't prevent me from being totally flummoxed. Sadly, I only saw the one episode, so I have no idea what happens next. Not that I really wanted to continue watching anything with such dire voice actors.

I also watched The Fantastic Adventures of Unico and Unico and the Island of Magic, the latter being the most terrifying children's film ever made. Seriously. The villain scared the shit out of me when I was five, and he still frightens me. Unico is obnoxiously adorable of course. I used to have a Unico sticker book (appropriately titled 'My Sticker Book') which I loved, and a whole bunch of other Sanrio goodies featuring the ickle unicorn. I wonder what happened to them? Probably thrown out by my father, who took all the things he considered 'rubbish' (original Star Wars figures, first edition children's books, all kinds of early-mid 80's toys and promotional items) and put them in the garbage, all of which would of course now bring me a small fortune from eBay. Damn him.


In other news...Happy Birthday sheldrake, squeetard and sillypants! *brings a very sibalent cake for you to eat* ;-) And welcome new friends cenire, copinggoggles and mermaiden! Making new friends gives me so much joy. :)

And speaking of joy, I spoke for over an hour last night with my beloved brandybuck, which definitely rates uberhigh on the HAPPY-O-Meter. *giggles* *snogs her senseless* :D

Comments

[soupytwist.livejournal.com]

Eugh, "the Twin Towers" people. Did you see some of them going around trying to get the film banned because of that?

*HUGS you*

[angelislington.livejournal.com]

Of course. *grr.arggghh*

But these people are almost worse, because they actually believe that's the title of the film. Every time I correct them, I have do so in a VERY constrained voice, trying not to be either too patronizing (or more usually) too angry. It's just so infuriating! I know I've actually snapped at a few people, and launched into a bit of a tirade about the title, but thankfully the managers were never around to hear me get shirty with a customer. But they SO deserved it.

[soupytwist.livejournal.com]

I can totally see that - it does seem kind of, well, lazy, and that in turn says that it's not worth caring about, which implies that you're stupid for doing so. Annoying to the max, man.

I do reckon that it probably shouldn't be a hanging offence, though. :)

[trianne.livejournal.com]

Someone countered that petition re TTT with an angry "rant" that they should reconsider the title of "Return of the King" as it was obviously disrespectful to the memory of Elvis...

[sophistry]

They would, woudn't they? Thankfully, in Ireland, I've only come across it once or twice, but yeesh...

Also, on the icon front, omgyayStephenFry*superglomp*!

[soupytwist.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I feel very glad that being a Brit protects you from a good deal of that kind of scariness.

(The whole Princess Di thing, on the other hand...)

And eee, yay, you appreciate the Stephen too! He is lovely and fabulous. Have another icon of him. :D

[angelislington.livejournal.com]

*kurtstephenfryGASM*

Hee. :)

(Did that only make sense to me? No matter. I shall continue gasming away...*giggles*)

[jaenanda.livejournal.com]

...was that the one with the bad monkey suits and pink gorrilla?

Now that *I've* ever gotten drunk and stayed up late at night watching silly porn, no, not me.

[angelislington.livejournal.com]

*laughs*

Yes, it was! Campy pink gorillas, men in really bad monkey masks wearing jeans and lumberjack shirts, women in furry swimsuits...yep, it's SillyPorn alright. ;-)

Of course, I don't have the drunken excuse, there was no reason I should have been watching. And I didn't for very long. I swear. No, really. I didn't!

[ashfae.livejournal.com]

We do not speak of the FY OVAs, for they should not exist. *shuddertwitchshudder* Yeesh, they make a lovely show based on the first third of the manga, and then try to slam the last two-thirds of the manga into an hour and a half long OVA...brilliant idea, really. *snorts*

[angelislington.livejournal.com]

I thought we had watched the OVAs, and that they were set in modern Japan with Miaka and Tama at school together?

But no matter. I shall, like you, pretend these atrocities do not exist. :)

[cenire.livejournal.com]

My mom constantly refers to the film as "The Twin Towers." It drives me insane. She also calls ROTK "Return of the Kings", and I can't decide which is worse!

What you described has never happened to me, but I certainly wouldn't mind! ;D

[angelislington.livejournal.com]

You should start charging your mum fines -- every time she says Twin Towers she needs to either put money in a jar or take you out for ice cream. ;-)

[mrs-puppethead.livejournal.com]

Unicooooooooooo!

*sings* I'm Katy the kitty-witch...

I've been singing these songs ALL weekend *laughs*

[angelislington.livejournal.com]

My ribbon's red
My whiskers long
My paws as white as snow

And every day
I sing this song
No matter where I go
I'm a cat!

Katy is so cute with her wizard's hat on. Awwww. :)

[autumnfaerie.livejournal.com]

ahahaha, I think I saw a little bit of that movie on Skinemax Cinemax! I watched about 5 minutes of it and it got to be too much even for me.

Not that I watch porn, of course. *cough*

[angelislington.livejournal.com]

I'm sure you don't watch it, but if I were to rummage through your fanfiction...what would I find? *smirks hugely*

Oh, Sam!
Oh, Mr Frodo sir! Tie me up with that elven rope, I promise this time the knots won't come free!

;-)

[silverowlwings.livejournal.com]

Save me Illuvatar, from the pillocks who insist on calling TTT the Twin Towers, before I can longer control myself and punch the next one right in the nose. Arrrghh!

Okay, I haven't done that per se, but I have been known to call the WTC Towers the Two Towers. So that's the other way around and just as bad (if not worse), I suppose...instead of letting reality invade my sense of LotR, LotR obviously invades my sense of reality.

Aaand that made very little sense. :D

[angelislington.livejournal.com]

*laughs*

It made fine sense to me. Am definitely worried about this. ;-)

[galador42.livejournal.com]

Everytime one of my store's guests asks for the Twin Towers, I reply, "The Twin Towers fell on September 11th." [pregnant pause] "Would you like the Lord of the Rings movie The Two Towers...?"

[angelislington.livejournal.com]

*grins*

I have said nearly the same thing on many occasions. Maybe there's just something about Hollywood Video customers...? ;-)

[terratheelf.livejournal.com]

The FY OVA is actually not bad, in its original form and if you watch it from the beginning.

DVD's are your friend, plus they have the amusing bus trip ova on them and some Fushigi Akugi stuff too. Hehehe. Fushigi Akugi was something Yu Watase did in the manga. Basically rewriting dialog and whatnot to make the scenes seem amusing and funny.

And the full ova is 9 episodes. Not one and a half hours but nine 30 minute episodes. Yes I know in Japan it was probably more than one OVA but here it is listed as one. It comes a nice box set, I paid 90 canadian for it, but its probably only 40 to 60 in the states.

[angelislington.livejournal.com]

I think I shall look on eBay for some cheapish dvds -- I found the two FY boxsets for 30 dollars each, which I gather is about the best price going.

More FY, no matter what the form, is GOOD. *loves* :D

[queeniefox.livejournal.com]

I haven't actually met anyone who thinks its called the Twin Towers.

I'm not sure if you had left by this point, but at the TTT premiere an American woman asked me what we were all waiting for. I told her it was the premiere of the new Lord of the Rings film.

'Lord of the Rings? God you Brits are behind, that came out a year ago in the states.'

*head desk*

[angelislington.livejournal.com]

*LOL*

I think I had probably left, but I'm sorry I did! Bwahahaha. That poor, clueless woman. *shakes head and laughs*