20 posts from May 2008

Myke realizes that I am a Gaius Baltar figure of +1 godness, making this shrine photo of me.

(just kidding Myke, but if that was your intention that's totally cool)

The most disturbing thing on YouTube, but you can't look away, and if you're twisted enough you might just argue it's actually pretty good.

Hughurd does the Battlestar Galactica theme.

And damn, this stuff is scary.

I've written on this blog more times than I've ever written all year. 18 blog posts and counting in May, beating February's total of 17.

My God, I blog too little.

I've got the feeling my blog is mostly photographic nowadays, so it's time to balance.

The week beginning 19th May and ending 25th May was our auditions week, a hectic time which involved lots and lots of running around and shouting for things. Funnily enough, it seems to have worked just nice. We got a large number of auditions, some serious, some not so serious. Our publicity booth in the canteen foyer was also a hit. We had performances on several days, some of which involved singing, some of which involved dancing, and one in particular was a rendition of The Cranberries' Zombie, which involved lots of jumping and shouting to the chorus.

Now, this week, the week beginning 26th May and ending tomorrow, was a less hectic week, but one that involved regular meetings and irregular classes (we had four scheduled, yet only one actually happened: a classroom lecture on Malaysian Constitution, sarcasticyay). We had our committee photoshoot on Thursday, which was another exercise in legally allowing Amirul to wear a suit everywhere he goes. That photoshoot was fun in its own right - we had free makeup and free hairdo styling, for which makeup involved three makeup artists arguing which shade of foundation looked best on me (I Am Not Making This Up), and the hairdo involving about three minutes of a style known generally as Making Amirul's Hair Look Kinda Like His Hair Already Is, But Marginally Messier. It's a hallmark in hairstyling. I have yet to see the photos, but some comments I heard were positive, and some were negative. Ya win some, ya lose some.

I watched some of the finalist training on, um, Wednesday, wasn't it? They somehow did the impossible task of exasperating Andy our emcee trainer, who happens to be one of the nicest, most gentlemanly people I know, even if his favorite greeting to me is his original song Amirul, which involves bawdy rhymes with my name. So the finalists needed some kicking here and there, and I gave my all in trying to maintain a serious look of +1 leadership.

Oh, screw the words, let's have some photos, and photographic descriptions, before I have to go down and do some laundry.

Julia took this photo in late April '08, cementing her status as Favorite Photographer, capturing me here in my Winter Communist look, despite the  fact that the surroundings are anything but winter (or communist, for that matter).

Myke is the loveliest person in the world, because she was born on February 15th. Here she is taking a photo of me with Julia's D50, which she swears never to lend to people.

Jeff is a photographical whore. That's the correct expression right? Photographical whore. Thoroughly nice person, very responsible, but never ever give him a camera.

The briefings during Audition Week. Andy, the guy standing there in the slightly-off-center, is the emcee trainer mentioned previously. Also in the shot is Michelle, leaning against the desk, who is also pretty awesome, simply because she has a car and is completely willing to drive me around.

Stacey, our PR Director, seen here talking on the loudspeaker trying to bring people to either our booth or our auditions room. I assume she succeeded very well. You may have seen Stacey before on this blog. She had a guest starring role as Stacey, Amirul's Date in the episode "Accounting Night" earlier in this season. Her success on that episode sees her taking a recurring role this season. In fact, so recurring, she's going to have other photos on this post.

The crowd of white-dressed people are either our crew, our committee members, or random people dressed in white.

I've done a lot of movie watching these last weeks. My MacBook is now my entertainment machine, a fact solidified by not being able to play any games anymore (except Peggle).

Through Julia I now have a copy of The Godfather and The Godfather: Part II, of which I've given the first a thorough viewing. Epic, of course. I haven't watched The Godfather in about four years, and the last time I did, a three and a half hour movie kind of ruined your attention span and all.

Having watched all the movies on my previous list - refer to blogposts before, I'm heading straight on a Stanley Kubrick filmfest, with A Clockwork Orange and 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Now, Kubrick, he was a genius. Clockwork Orange - can I say "banned"?

Also, following through the David Bowie theme of the last few blogposts, next on the list will be the Bowie and Jennifer Connelly film Labyrinth. Quiet down! He's Jareth the Goblin King!

Yeah.

A movie that isn't all that old but something I want to watch all the same: I'm Not There. Bob Dylan played by Cate Blanchett (and others too). Yes.

Now, something I've been dying to watch for the longest, longest time - Blade Runner. Very much necessary.

Edward James Olmos yay! Tell me you're not extremely excited at the notion of him flying a Raptor in the latest episode of Battlestar Galactica, finally admitting he can't live without President Roslin, and letting (now Admiral?) Saul Tigh get away with impregnating Caprica-Six. Oh, and Lee Adama's the President. Allow me here a moment. ZOMGWTFBBQ ROMO LAMPKIN'S CAT! I'm going to watch that episode again, dammit.

Battlestar Galactica is tight.

And so are movie-films.

What nobody understands is that most often, codes are not ciphered for the public, but often references for one and only one person.

Or something like that - go read House of Leaves again.

(Yes, I know, mine isn't the Pro, I'm not Pro enough for the Pro)

Now I know how to scroll on my MacBook.

TWO FINGERS UP DOWN LEFT OR RIGHT.

Congratulations to the new Champions of Europe, 2007/2008.

Because Jim hasn't uploaded his Pentax K10D photos from yesterday yet (Coming Out Of The Closet - The Play review up soon!).

I've been listening to David Bowie's Space Oddity over and over this last week, possibly because I hadn't updated the Isabella (yes, I'm going to refer it like a ship) with my ginormous MP3 collection from the desktop (which isn't officially named, but I think is the Camille)

Some lyrics from it just resonate greatly within me.

This is major Tom to ground control, I'm stepping through the door
And I'm floating in a most peculiar way
And the stars look very different today
For here, am I sitting in a tin can, far above the world
Planet Earth is blue and there's nothing I can do

Though I'm past one hundred thousand miles, I'm feeling very still
And I think my spaceship knows which way to go
Tell my wife I love her very much,

(she knows)