Dear Diary, Astronauts, Bands, Movies and life

[samvara]

• Attended Dr Megan McArthur’s talk for Science Week about her trip into space to extend the life of the Hubble Space Telescope. I have a HUGE crush; her talk was accessible, inspiring and interesting and I want a spaceship of my own.
• Saw The Chemist play at Amplifier and enjoyed their singer’s amazing voice.
• Digitised the remainder of my CD collection
• Watched Blood: The Last Vampire (Japanese vampire horror with very stylised violence) which was not great but did have the enjoyable quality of being a story about a girl, and her (female) adversary and another girl which was a pleasant change.
• Installed three little shelves in my room (finished painting)
• 3 hours of OTW meetings
• Went to the Families for Freedom picnic and got cuddles and rained on followed up by an amazing mango & ginger lassie

Comments

[onceamy]

Yay for digitalising everything!

Female-focused horror anime-wise, Elfen Lied is fantastic. Very gory, but a brilliant story.

[samvara]

I had most of them done but it turned out I missed a few CDS, all tidy now!

Elfen Lied - I'll have to have a look

[angriest.livejournal.com]

Is Blood out in Australia? I hadn't seen it, but wanted to (I really liked the anime some years back).

[black-samvara.livejournal.com]

Japan 29th May, Singapore June 4th, UK June 12th, no Aussie release date that I can find.

I was exposed to a pirated version of medium quality and I found out about it from the back of a Buffy comic. I can't recommend Blood as a film, it's full of cliches and has weirdly unexciting fight scenes - although there was a strong vibe of alienation that I found appealing. The CGI was erratic as well, it didn't feel smooth enough to be a conscious stylistic choice.

[angriest.livejournal.com]

I figured it'd be an average rather than brilliant movie. Odd production history too, from memory. It's a British/Hong Kong co-production of a Japanese story made for Americans, or somesuch.

[creativemeans.livejournal.com]

Speaking of astronauts, I wrote another story: How does an oceanographer end up in space? (http://www.sciencewa.net.au/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2709:how-does-an-oceanographer-end-up-in-space&catid=198:News&Itemid=200074) :)

Shay tells me the pics will posted to a UWA site, so I'll try and find out about that tomorrow x

[black-samvara.livejournal.com]

Thank you I read it :)