Tuesday, May 17, 2005

"Back once again for the Renegade Master, people damager, powers in the people. Back once again for the Renegade Master, people damager, with the ill behaviour."

So that solves that question, the lyrics of the above have often troubled me - only a google away and there we are, on a similar vein, heres the lyrics (apparently) for those particularly angry chaps opus otherwise known as Killing in the Name of....went something like this

"Those who died are justified, for wearing the badge, they're the chosen whites.....You justify those that died by wearing the badge, they're the chosen whites" You get the idea, all I remember is staggering off the dance floor after having fought my way through this song, still, that was a long time ago.

So the big event of the last few weeks (other than moving, but hey, thats old news now) was the Scandinavian Science Fiction Convention which - has luck would have it -was right next door in the handly placed convention centre. The big news at this event was, of course, the presence of a pissed off looking David Carridine, a very hairy Peter Mayhew (chewbacca), and John Rhys Davies (Asps, very dangerous - you go first). Actually, for someone who promotes a daily tai chi workout video David C looked very much the worst for wear, not so much a grasshopper but more a chopstick, or something. The convention itself was very geeky, and hence a lot of fun, the room being largely dominated by stalls selling star wars figures, piles of old slasher movies and some very realistic rubber swords. I managed to stumble away with a number of Samaurai movies, a collectors edition of Hellraiser and a rather odd comic book (which, it was alleged, was on a par with Watchmen but sadly was nowhere near) called the Filth. Speaking of hellraiser they had, in the prop exhibition, the suit which Pinhead wore in the first Hellraiser movie - very cool, all hooks and rubber. I could go on, but you get the picture. Geeky

Significant event: Passing my theory test brings me one step closer to my driving licence, finally, but every is so slow, patience sorely tested.
Book: Genome, by Mark Ridley - very good (though a bit old) whistle stop tour through the human genome.

......and I've completely forgotten what else I was going to add there so that will have to do for this evening..........proof of the distracting effect of television.

"One nation under god has turned intoone nation under the influence of one drug
Television, the drug of the nationBreeding ignorance and feeding radiation"

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