Thoughts of a dying humourist

Monday, February 27, 2006

Just came back from my class for the day, Metascience 314 , where I
a) didnt listen to the lecture because it was on epistemology (again)
b) wrangled my eyeballs to catch a glimpse of teddybearman, who was sitting in the same aisle as me.

Due to all of this (the driftings from the lecture and my sore eyes) I've come up with various things I want to share.

1. Isnt Michael Jackson just a modern-day Socrates? Socrates got stoned to death because apparently he was corrupting the youth with his philosophical teachings. Replace the teachings with Neverland ranch and you have a decent comparison. But at least Socrates had a nose.

2. Tautology in the classroom can be so much fun. Our lecturer was trying to explain how Semmelweis developed the idea of using antiseptic, and he said "..the ward where women give birth to babies."
Oh you mean as opposed to the ward where women give birth to Lego soldiers and Furbies?

3. Now stepping down from all the ranting , there are a few people whose jobs I would love to do.Like this one:

a) The announcer man on movie trailers. He's got such an engaging voice, always riddled with suspense. I'd talk such crap in those trailers.... "From the producers of Chicken Run...you'll see nothing but utter bollocks this year"
or
"Just when you thought you were alone....you develop another personality very much like the fat guy from Little Brittain, only more lame and bald."
Fun.

Anni
12:56
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Sunday, February 26, 2006

FUN THINGS YOU CAN DO WITH YOUR ARM
Gotta love boredom. With a decent amount of it, a camera and photoshop, you can make things like these:

Anni
18:47
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Thursday, February 23, 2006

Weeellll, seems that the poetry went down about as well as castor oil on a hot day,so Im back to ranting about various things that are unimportant to society.

Like the fact that the current patriarchal system is brainwashing women into convincing them it'l be fun to marry a fat idiot.
Case in Point :The Simpsons + Family guy.
In both cases the woman is relatively ok looking , with the only vice being a bit of a stepford wife (except Lois, who's a bit wilder than Marge...).
Sure the husband makes for many whacky adventures, as his wife tirelessly tries to get him to behave normally. This may look like fun, but after the third day, the fact that your husband pours wafflemix into the toaster, if and when he does attempt to make his own food,
is going to become annoying. Also the fact that he attempts hair-brained schemes and drinks his liver into organ-hell every day. So are we subconsciously becoming accustomed to the fact that husbands are allowed to be ambitionless drinkers who probably wouldnt have done much better than the wife he ended up with? Is a woman's sole duty to take care of every single aspect under the family roof?

The kids arent a whole lot better.
There are specific archetypes to which the two series subscribe:

-The problem kid : the fault may lie with a penchant for trouble or just plain idiocy (Chris and Bart)
-The social pariah (Meg and Lisa)
-The underestimated baby (Stewie and Maggie)

-> also The neighbour that is a notch more sophisticated than the family in question: Ned Flanders and Joe Swanson (I had to leave Quagmire out of this one ;P )

So you can see how the two series are built on roughly the same formula. Except I'll have to award points to both shows on different accounts : Simpsons is more established, but Family Guy is way funnier and more random.

So wether you agree or disagree, fire away with comments :)

Anni
09:05
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Wednesday, February 22, 2006

Goodnight, mine.
the backlight fades as titanium etches a shadow into my hand
but youre asleep and so am i

ripen this pomegranate of games
relieve it sorely from my mind
because you mean too much
voicelessly evading caress and touch

dawn presses the horizon awake
and day brings nowt new weather nor pain.
just the trite routine of everydayness
and the persistant dream of a life less
down

Anni
15:27
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Monday, February 20, 2006

Where the world is cataclysmic in its drunken stupor
And tripping on its own laces of substance
These two find faked sanctity in each others arms

Reason makes a hesitant lullaby
So they abandon its clawing
But still unrested as they know that the love they share
Is as skewed as their vision

In the morning
Recollection settles
The covers of the bed is still unmade
The minds still unmade

Just that one night
Is all.

Anni
11:56
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Wednesday, February 15, 2006

New Post!

Finally! Blogger works again!
Ok, where were we......
Valentines day was again non-existent in my world, hope you all had a good time. We (me and christine, because both of us like people that are currently geographically challenged) ditched our cocktail idea last minute to go to the cinema, saw Fun with Dick and Jane. Despite me not thinking Jim is the funniest man alive, the movie was ....well...funny. Not like curl up in your seat and laugh until your tear ducts give up the fight, but entertaining enough.

One of my friends are engaged! Im happy for her, although I knew it was going to happen this year. In all due respect, she always wanted to get married as soon as possible. Not to her dream man necessarily. Just married. Then start with her life. Little does she know marriage is the end of your life and after that its dishes, laundry, kids and cutting your hair into a short, unflattering style.
So for now im sticking to blogging and having fun without a ring on my finger.

Ah so there's a bit of namecalling on the tagboard! :D

. All im going to say is, if youre chickenshit enough to use a nom de plume , without revealing your real name, youre in no position to be calling people genitalia.

In other news, I recast Fiona because if you look at the preview movie carefully, she's shiny and gold and sticks out too much. I still havent figured out where im going with this movie, but anyway. Any ideas?

Ok kids. Behave.

Anni
14:14
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Wednesday, February 08, 2006

This is it. Finally. Its called Escape and at first it started out as a movie about domestic abuse but then after a while it sort of evolved into my mind into something more contemporary...its the whole fact that someone may think that they're the exclusive victim , like the woman in this movie, but she's similarly abusing her husband emotionally. So essentially its like Matt (Bellamy) wrote in the song used in the movie, where he says "You and me are both one and the same" .
She's trying to escape but 50 % of the problem is her own destructive ways.And I just felt it necessary to explain the movie shortly cos I know full well that its not perfect, in fact its patchy and vague here and there, but fill in the blanks and you could actually enjoy it.
Tell me what you think! Appreciation, disgust, awe, or just general ranting is appreciated.Im starting out with The Flatmate chronicles this week :) (and trying to refine my cinematic techniques)
Please take a sec and pitch an idea for the next two characters to find themselves in the movies.You have to eliminate some characters and come up with an interesting story.The nominees are Catherine, Fiona, Halley, Sebastian, Lucas and Alex.

And don't be biased, you little buggers. much love , me.

Anni
09:41
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Monday, February 06, 2006

The Weekend of Not Remembering where you parked your car.

Now the fact that I don't actually have a car, is very much besides the point. First, I want to rant about how unfair everything is. I don't check my mail for a damn week and there's nothing. Nothing! I feel so unloved!

With that out of the way, I shall begin chapter 1 : the weekend.
Uncharactaristically I went out for three nights in a row, and its agood example of quality over quantity being the main objective. Thursday night we went to watch the carnival shows, which was great, I'll post some videos as soon as I get hold of them. The town was crowded and so we had a fairly early night. Friday night had me upset and peeved off because of some guy. He was standing in the middle of the sidewalk where I was walking past and he stopped me. Now he had a heart-sign on his chest saying "Looking for Love" and when I asked what my name was I said, "Oh, sorry Im Lust, but I walked past Love just a while ago, she's in the next street."
And it all went downhill from there. He wanted to take me out and start a bloody relationship. When I said i didnt want to , he began the whole thing of "Youre scared." "Youre scared it works out" F&*($(*#*(*#%. I Dunno why guys try the psychoanalysis thing when they don't succeed! I wasnt scared, I just wasnt interested! (Just makes me mad thinking about it)

chapter 2 : saturday night.
Met up with Benita, Wian, his two brothers,Marius and Jaco, and Johan and Will for some old school debauchery. It was alot of fun, you just have to look at the picture to see that the Will and myself were like kids, messing about and taking pictures of us looking stupid. We discovered that creme soda and a double southern comfort is actually quite delicious. ;P

We came home at about 5 and it took the better part of the day to recover. Ah well.

In other news....I have a class with TeddybearMan!!! whoohooo!!!
Never have I derived such joy from staring at the back of someone 's head...but hey....its the small victories in life that make it worth living :)

Anni
12:31
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Thursday, February 02, 2006

Some bloke on faceparty just sent me an email and adressed me as "babe" , regardless of the fact that he's never met, spoken to , or msg'ed me. That's a pet name reserved for a certain person that calls me that. NOW im ticked off....!!!

Anni
14:45
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Some News from the Vortex of Student Life!

Hey all!! Long time no post, I know, but its not fun walking around in a big town that is marginally hotter than hell. February is a bitch to experience.
Things here are quite crazy, because its Carnival ....there are trolley races and shows and just alot of things going on. As for settling in in my new flat, the room is nice but the people next door play loud music (and by loud I mean you can't hear yourself think) until 3:00 in the morning. I know this is accurate because I was still awake until then. I live with 5 girls, mostly first years (the young blood with inevitably bring my male friends scavenging...) named Belinda, Louise, Jinxie, Anneli and Nicci. And they're all quite nice and pretty and pleasant blah blah blah. But we don't see each other much cos of carnival and everyone's in and out.

I'll post some pics or videos that I can manage from tonight. The plan is Will, Johan , Thinus and his friends and me are going to roam the streets with 20 000 other people (yes, this the estimate) going from show to show. Probably with a few drops of Southern Comfort in the veins, but hey.

It occured to me yesterday that I have a very unbalanced friend-crowd. More males than females. I think the ratio is roughly 30-70. Its just that I get along better with guys....girls arent easy to make friends with as you might think. I really don't have any fun news at the moment. But as soon as I can get a cushy computer open in our pc centre I'll blog more extensively. lotsa hugs

Anni
14:33
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