would prefer to be street smart, instead of book smart. Least that way there's less hindsight face-palming

Kate Beaton is awesome

http://beatonna.livejournal.com/123828.html

And so is Jess Fink
http://finkenstein.livejournal.com/159103.html

Holy crap, as a followup to my previous post (http://xris60.livejournal.com/148687.html#comments) I came across this. Haven't seen it in years....

http://www.malevole.com/mv/misc/tribute/

This is

http://www.movie-list.com/trailers.php?id=clashofthetitans

Just saw it yesterday and I was impressed. VERY VERY indulgent doco on Beethoven and his life and works. If you're a classical music fan check it out, and at 139 minutes....you certainly gets your moneys worth. Plus some of the interviewees are pretty interesting :)


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Also, for you twilight fans/haters out there
http://io9.com/5399833/snl-gives-frankenstein-the-moody-teen-film-he-deserves

I'm doing Movember again this year (http://au.movember.com/mospace/130545/) and this time I'll be uploading a photo of myself every day when I get out of bed. Please forgive the crappy focus and bleary eyed expression on my face, but come and check out my page. See an Asian try to grow a mo! :)


( Movember spiel under the cut )

http://stuffwhitepeoplelikeinmelbourne.blogspot.com/

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In other news, I messed up at work, and i had a glimmer of the expression "falling on your own sword" really meant...

Director of Night Watch and Wanted has a new movie coming out, here's a trailer in all of it's unsubtitled Russian glory.

"This is a story of Moscow University's student who becomes the owner of ordinary from the first sight, been-used, but... able to fly "Volga" car. With this car he will be able to not only avoid Moscow traffic jams, but unexpectedly for himself turn to city's defender, mysterious fighter against Evil."



And I came across this thred in melbournemanic's which might be handy for my "more endowed" female friends...

http://community.livejournal.com/melbournemaniac/3167344.html

Red Dwarf is coming back!
http://www.sfx.co.uk/page/sfx?entry=red_dwarf_back_for_more

Superheroes on Facebook
http://www.comicsalliance.com/2009/10/05/super-social-networking-comic-book-character-facebook-status-u/

Tim Burton Fashion shoot
http://www.harpersbazaar.com/fashion/fashion-articles/tim-burton-halloween-fashion-1009

Queen plus Pheonix Wright + Elite Beat Agents
http://kotaku.com/5370889/queen-plus-phoenix-wright-plus-elite-beat-agents

20 costumes for your pet
http://scifiwire.com/2009/10/pet-costumes.php

Busy at work so needed a pick me up, luckily I came across these galleries of cats, have fun! :)

http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2008/11/02/neko-healing-gallery/

http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2008/10/15/neko-moe-gallery/

From an email I got


(  An Education tickets )

And for fun, here's a funny clip from L4D's new campaign, CrashCourse (adult language).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-KbxXIwvBg

After being inspired, I went back to the fancy french place and had dinner there, again. Man I ate too much...

Anyways, here's a link to a Tim Burton Photoshoot
http://io9.com/5369129/tim-burton-plays-dress-up-in-harpers-fashion-spread/gallery/?selectedImage=1

And here's some interpretations of Video Game stuff

http://thedesigninspiration.com/articles/30-various-styles-of-the-legend-of-zelda-artworks/
http://thedesigninspiration.com/articles/top-45-unusual-stylish-super-mario-brothers-artworks/
http://thedesigninspiration.com/articles/most-attractive-female-fighters-from-popular-games/

After talking about how uninformed I was culinary-wise, and saying that my family had NEVER had fast food delivered (i.e. ordered a pizza); a friend of mine was so shocked that he's resolved to introduce me to some of the finer forms of dining.

( French dining )

Then on the weekend I went to the Melbourne show
( Good times with animals (not in the dirty way) )

Going to make a mega sized post here as 6 weeks of socialising is waay long. I've gone out sooo much it's not funny. At one stage, over a 3 week period I had 4 days off.
But as writing it out fully would be much too long, I'm going to cut it short in an incredibly criminal manner.


( Hassan Chop )

And here's some links 'cos I'm a giving guy

Incredible Fashion photography - makes me want to update my wardrobe
http://www.thesartorialist.blogspot.com/

Cosplay from Comiccon
http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/comiccon_2009_cosplay_gallery_600_amazing_costumes?page=0%2C0

And finally check out this person's flickr account, amazing photography ranging from cosplay to steampunk etc
http://www.flickr.com/photos/27594459@N04/

Here's a hilarious short that I saw at MIFF a couple of years ago, watch it, it's awesome.

"Short film Royston Tan made in 2004 after "15" got 27 cuts from the Singaporean censors "


http://blip.tv/file/58458

Youtube versions (better quality)
Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JdfPl_TYHo

Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeMAGETY2hs

Part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qm0u7vL6vVY

A buttload of movies

( Miff 2009 Days 4-7 )