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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*

[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.

[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*

[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

[mrs-puppethead.livejournal.com]

Unicooooooooooo!

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

[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*

[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

[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...?"

[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.

[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*