Paint preference part 2

Well, it has been a bit longer than a month but, as promised I have started trying to use the Delta Ceramacoat paints in my daily painting routine.
I didnt get quite as many different shades to try out as I would have liked but I did get around a dozen or so.
I have mixed feelings about them but, they are mostly good. I dont think I will ever be using them for basecoating models, as the pigment ratio still isn't as high as the upper end game paints, they do however work very well for adding highlights to basecoat colors, and they make great washes! The best part(in my mind) is the array of colors, there are dozens to choose from and tons of different shades for each one.

So, after all is said and done, I will definitely be selectively adding them to my collection. It will just have to be hit or miss on the colors, for now, as I said before , I am just going to stick with the earthy, natural tones.

Why can't we be happy all the time?

Wow. I’m so happy just now!


You know those days, where you just smile constantly, whether it’s on the inside or on the outside. Your thoughts are clouded with optimistic beliefs. You listen to happy songs and you bob your head along, grinning. You think about the future, you live in the present, the past stays there: In the past. 


It’s the way to live for sure!


So why don’t we all feel like this? Why don’t we feel like this all the time?


The constant pressure to conform, the feeling that we are not in control of our own life, knowing that so many judge us for who we look like rather than who we are.


We have been lied to.
We have been deceived.
We have been abandoned.
We feel upset sometimes, but we’ve been told to smile.
We feel angry sometimes, but we’ve been told to hold it in.
We dream sometimes, but we’ve been told to keep our feet on the ground.
We have been told time and again that we are not good enough, that we are too young, too old, too fat, too thin, too boring, too weird… 


I am here to tell you that this is normal. We’ve all felt like this, or been told this at one time or another in our lives, no matter what our background or social status is. 


I am also here to tell you that you shouldn’t have to feel like this.


You are beautiful and you are unique. People shouldn’t lie to you, or deceive you, or abandon you. You should be allowed to cry, or scream, or follow your dream if that is what you really want. You are good enough. You are not too young, or too old. You are not too fat, or too thin. You are not too boring, or too weird. You are you. And no-one else is allowed to define who you are other than… you.


Sometimes, we lose friends, we fall out with family, someone who means more to us than life itself dies, or life throws us a curve ball in general. And this knocks us to the ground. Sometimes, it feels as though nothing will help us overcome this hurdle. Sometimes, it feels as though there is nothing left in your life that is worth picking yourself up for. Sometimes… you just want to stay down.


I’ve felt like that. Believe me, I have. But the fact is, life gets better. You lose friends, you gain friends, you fall out with family, you make up with family, and sometimes the death of one person equates to the birth of a new you. A beautiful, new, positive “Carpe diem” attitude towards life and love springs out from the grief and suffering. 


Whilst putting on my socks yesterday morning, I had an epiphany (yes, you can have epiphanies when doing mundane tasks):


My life is the best it has been in such a long time.


I’ve made so many wonderful friends in my short seventeen years of existence. I have been so blessed to be born into the family that I fondly call my own. I have become an obsessed fan of one of the sweetest bands that have the nicest fan community I have ever heard of and to top it all off, opportunities keep falling in my lap.


I don’t know if there’s a higher being. Maybe there’s a God, or Gods. Maybe there’s such a thing as Guardian angels. Maybe the people you lose in this life help you in the next. Maybe there’s nothing but this (whatever 'this' is). If there is anything “out there”, then thank you so much. I don’t know why I deserve this life. But I’m truly thankful for it.


If you don’t like your life, then change it. But whatever you do, please don’t throw it away. 

Blech! Lemons.

I licked a lemon yesterday.


There was absolutely nothing to do in the house.  I saw the lemon and I’m like “Sure… why the hell not?”


So I licked it.


Several times.


I wouldn’t recommend it.


Know what else I wouldn’t recommend it?


Squeezing the very essence of life out of the lemon after you lick it.


These hands will never not smell like lemon *cries*


That’s your tip of the day: Don’t lick lemons.


Lauren xxx

Wrong place, wrong vehicle.

When something really crazy happens (like a flashmob of people, standing around a carpet in General George whilst holding bananas), people are quick to point the finger of blame towards twitter.

Nine out of ten times?
Twitter is to blame for these events.

But when fifty eco bikers turning up in Aberdeen town center wearing Tiger onesies and sporting bright purple hair? Yeah. We're not taking the blame for that one.

Had a brilliant day on Friday (Yes, I'm falling behind... again) with my buds!

Going to list the people I was out with on Friday night:

Halle, Sara, Andrew, Abie, Kyle, Kristina, Lucas and Lewis.

Love these guys and girls so much, had a brilliant time!

First off, Me, Halle, Sara, Andrew, Kyle and Abie went to Frankie and Benny's for Dinner. We had garlic bread (have you ever had the garlic bread from Frankie and Benny's?! It's heavenly) and the plate that Abie, Halle and I had to share lasted quite literally three minutes, at the most. 

It was so good.

Our waiter ended up being one of the guys that Abie and Halle work with at Pittodrie. It's a small, small world after all!

Abie got a pint... of Coke. So classy, haha! It was huge. 

As usual, the friendly banter got out of hand, and it ended up putting Sara off of her Pizza.

ABIE: I want to see "Black Swan".

ME: It's so good!

KYLE: Isn't that the one where she fiddles with herself?

*Sara looks put off her pizza*

ME: *pulling a face* Yeah, with her Mum watching... Just a little awkward.

KYLE: *makes the wank gesture* Oh hey Mum! *goes back to gesture*

*Sara puts her knife down* 

ABIE: *picks her fork up* Stop it! You're going to scare Sara away!

ME: Woaaah...

KYLE: I thought that fork was for me there!

ME: Me too! 

After that, we met up with Lucas, Kristina and Lewis and tried to get tickets to "The Hangover 2"...

We failed to get tickets to "The Hangover 2".

We tried at the Vue, still nothing. 

So we headed to the beach, with a plan (and a back up plan):

Plan A: We get tickets to see "The Hangover 2" at the beach.

Plan B: We go Mini-golfing/Bowling

We walked past an Irish pub, and Abie being Abie, she slipped into an Irish accent:

ABIE: Top o' the mornin' ti ye', can I getta pint o' Guinness?

I've heard worse attempts at Irish accents, but the fact that an Irish woman overheard Abie's stab at an Irish accent couldn't have helped the situation.


She laughed though, It's all good!


Then we bumped into the "Biker crew". 


Haha.


Sorry, The Biker crew sounds awesome, but these weren't Motorcycle owners. Oh no. Just ordinary bike owners...


Or should I say extraordinary ordinary bike owners?


One of the girls reminded me of the girl from "Scott Pilgrim"... SUCH bright hair! 

One of the boys reminded me of Ross because he was wearing a tigger onesie.

LUCAS: Why aren't you a part of this? It must have been organised on twitter!

See what I mean? We always get the blame.


On our way down to the beach, there was an unattended Motorcycle...


If we had post-it notes on us, we were going to write "Wrong place, wrong vehicle" on it.


Better to have the wrong vehicle in the wrong place than have (what my Best friend so delicately put as) a "Bucket of shyte" of a car.


It was really disgusting though!


Silver, cheap looking wee car with one of those redneck horns and a blue replacement panel...


With what looked to be an air freshner attached to the back of it.


And chavs driving it.


Now, you know me, I hate labels, but when it comes to chavs, I make an exception. Stop acting cool. Stop driving crappy cars. Stop with your ridiculous swagga. And for goodness sake, STOP HANGING OUT OUTSIDE McDONALD'S!!


They just drove past and Halle automatically went:

HALLE: What a bucket of shyte.

Haha, I love that kid. 


No seats at "The Hangover 2" in the Cineworld down at the beach either... Such a popular film! So we decided we were going to go Mini-golfing.


I was in a team with Kristina and Halle, it was hilarious! 


We didn't take it seriously... at all.


At one point, we put the clubs in between our legs and attempted to hit the ball like that. 


Needless to say, we didn't do very well golfing like that.


All of our team got a hole in one however!!

Sara wasn't so lucky (bless her).

ME: How did you get on?

SARA: I got the number that you taught me last week...

69... *tries to keep a straight face* 


I don't know what I got. We didn't keep score.


At the end, this conversation happened:

KRISTINA: And the winner is... WE'RE ALL WINNERS!

US: Yaaaaaay!

*Group hug*

Although, at one point, my ball managed to end up in the bushes... what tae fook? Is that even possible?

I also tripped over the bumpy terrain about twenty times in the space of those eighteen holes. 


Grace? I have as much grace as someone who is ironically named Grace (i.e. very little)


After that, Kristina, Halle, Andrew, Sara and I headed to the beach whilst the rest of them headed to the Boardwalk to play Lasertag.


Took some photos and had some lovely banter :)

Oh, got stuck in some quick sand too... that wasn't so fun.


I love life right now. I thank my beautiful friends for that.


That and Lady Gaga's new album. Cause it's just so happy. Especially "Hair" and "You and I". 


Everyone seems to be writing about "Born this way" so I thought I'd join in.


So... laters?


Lauren xxx

L.A. Noire

I finished L.A. Noire at some ungodly hour last night and overall I really enjoyed it, visually it's the most impressive console game I've seen in some time but in terms of story I guess what was going on and why early on during the game, this is a problem I often also have with movies and TV shows as well so rather than assume it's a problem with this excellent game I guess it means I've watched or read a lot of similar material.

Since L.A Noire is a game that's based more around investigation than action I'm not sure there is much replay value in this game but I think I'd like to see a sequel set in the same environment, there was certainly plenty to see and explore and it seems like a shame to not return to L.A. in the 1940s for more adventures.

If you haven't already rushed out and bought the game like I did I'd suggest waiting until it's on sale or has a price reduction, once you've solved the game there isn't a lot of replay value, sure you can go and hunt for any collectibles you might have missed but I'm not sure what the point of replaying the various cases would be once you've already solved them.

L.A. Noire was certainly a very enjoyable game set in a wonderfully detailed environment but like so many other things doesn't live up to it's hype.

You want to buy the cheese surprise?

The surprise?

It's not cheese.

When you have friends like I do, studying is never dull.

Then again, when you have friends like I do, studying never actually happens.

But studying only helps you pass exams. Banter helps you form brilliant relationships which is, in my opinion, (but don't tell my parents/teachers that I told you this) more important to your mental wellbeing and your life in general!

Oh yeah.

Went into school with Abie and Lewis today, was fun just to have some random banter with them!

Ended up talking about cow farts.

*rolls eyes* Why do so many of my conversations end up here?!

FACT: Methane contributes to Global warming. Cows produce Methane when they fart. 

Connection: Methane causes global warming, cows produce methane, global warming is bad therefore cows must be bad too.

Counter connection: Methane causes Global warming, without global warming, we'd freeze our asses off, cows produce methane, cows also go "moo", "Moo-ing" is fun, therefore cows must be good.

Me and Abie decided to draw a picture...

"Pfft George, was that you?!"

"Sorry Bill!"

Haha, you need to hear Abie doing her cow accent (yes, she has a pretty amazing cow accent... yes, there is such a thing as a cow accent) to fully appreciate this picture.

Went to the Hotbar for Lunch... sorry, went to the Hotbar at Lunchtime, I'm intelligent enough not to eat Lunch there anymore after hairs were found in food, past disasters involving food (can you say "Meatball melt"?) and a water to pasta ratio that would disgust you... they don't use sieves when they scoop out the pasta... *shakes head*

Mrs Fulton wasn't terribly impressed with the "cuisine" either.

MRS FULTON: *whispering* What is that?

ME: Uhhh... *looks at a burnt, orange heap in a plastic container* Do you really want to know?!

MRS FULTON: Looks like cheese on cheese....

ME: Just eat it, don't ask any questions! You are better off not knowing. 

The food may not be great, but the company sure is. Hung out with Abie, Lewis, Calum, Sophie, Chris, Struan and Danielle.

Danielle has a new hair colour and it's pretty amazing ^_^

Her hair colours always are though! She's like the Aberdonian version of Hayley Williams, always changing hair colours, always managing to suit them.

Abie and Lewis had a fight... God knows what it was about, but there was a lot of shoving, pushing, falling off of seats and some biting.

Lewis bit Abie. Abie pushed Lewis off of his chair. Lewis went away. Chris wrote some nasty comments in his book. Sophie asked Chris to stop because he was "Wasting paper".

Makes sense, right?

Abie knocked her strawberry flavored water all over the place after that.

MOVIE GEEK SUGGESTION:

Always screw the top of your water bottle on when not drinking to avoid accidents such as these.

Lauren xxx

Love this!

LOVE this video!

The face at 0.57 slays me, every single time.

I love movies like this. Simplicity rocks. The fact that these oranges had much more depth than the characters in  "Hanna" makes me upset.

Lauren xxx

Pumpkin Scissors

If you are anything like me you're probably thinking WTF is Pumpkin Scissors ?

Well as it turns out it's an anime series that is set in a country that seems to resemble post war Europe and featuring a group of elite intelligence agents who's job it is to resolve various problems and restore their country to it's pre-war glory, of course along the way they discover a conspiracy and they also need to unravel the mystery of who or what their latest recruit actually is.

Today I watched the first volume ( episodes 1-4 ) and to be honest I though it was fairly bland at least until I got to episode 4 where some plot elements started coming together and things started to get interesting, interesting enough that I'll probably order volume 2 sometime soon or maybe a box set if I see one going cheap.

This is a series I think has a lot of potential, I'm hoping it lives up to it.

Ghost in the Shell 2.0

Last night I watched Ghost in the Shell 2.0 on Blu-ray, this isn't as you might imagine the sequel to the anime classic Ghost in the Shell but rather a George Lucas like reworking of the original film, while the restoration work, recoloring and new soundtrack were all impressive the transition from traditional animation to CG animated sequences and back again was often jarring and in my opinion a bad idea, at least for those who prefer it the original version of the movie is also included on the disc.

Hanna Review

Anyone who reads my reviews will know that I have never wrote a scathing review about a movie and that (most times), I end the post with “I recommend you see this film”. So, I assume you must think that I am a soft reviewer? That I am incapable of writing a review on a bad movie? 


By the end of this post, you will have to re-evaluate your opinion on me.


“Hanna” follows the eponymous main character on her mission across Europe to kill a CIA agent called Marissa. After growing up in the middle of nowhere, with her father as her only source of companionship and having absolutely no childhood as a result of her brutal training regime (becoming the perfect assassin doesn’t come naturally you know), adapting from living in seclusion to becoming surrounded by electrical appliances and people is no easy task for Hanna. The rest of the film is balanced between Hanna attempting to adapt to the modern world and cement friendships and the thrilling action sequences that remind us that in Hanna’s world, danger is around every corner.


To be honest, I could have stopped after the first sentence on the synopsis and you would have been able to understand precisely what “Hanna” was about. That’s it. In terms of plot, there is very little for the audience to feed upon, or think about. The characters are so one-dimensional and ruthless that it becomes incredibly difficult for the audience to sympathise with them. The murders that they perform go by without an explanation to why they killed their victims. Unless I’ve missed something, the person that Marissa shot seemed to be killed for the sole reason of giving Hanna a reason to want to murder her. Characters were brought in to show how incompetent Hanna is when it comes to social interaction, and were murdered or were not heard from soon after. They were given no back story. Their characters had very little purpose other than helping Hanna or as a comic relief. If there’s one thing I can’t stand, It’s pointless characters.


The acting was good. The characters they were given were so impersonal and out of tune with reality, all they had to do was become very in-emotive and they would be able to nail their roles.  My friend came out of the screening and said “I only liked Rachel”. Rachel embodies every single teenager who has ever appeared on “My Sweet 16”. She talks about boys, clothes, plastic surgery and uses the term “vomorama”. There is something far wrong if this is the only character you can relate to, or like. Cate Blanchett and Jason Flemyng did do a great job with two villainous characters, a commendable effort in the midst of the forgettable roles for a cast that are capable of so much more.


The only thing I actually liked about this movie was Joe Wright’s direction. It was a unique perspective that is reminiscent of Tarintino’s “Kill Bill” and would happily fit in with the art house scene if given half a chance. The viewer was quickly thrown in Hanna’s mind, and through a series of quick cuts, clever sound editing and dizzying camera rotations, we began to appreciate her confusion of the modern world and it’s noise. A sense of paranoia was subtly instilled throughout the film, through location shots (When Erik moving towards the train station, reminders that he was being watched were literally graffiti-d all over the walls). The direction reminded me greatly of Tom Tykwer’s work on “Run Lola Run”. That’s a compliment to Wright.


If you do see “Hanna”, expect long, dragging scenes that add very little to your appreciation of the film as a whole and a story about one girl attempting to adapt to the big bad world instead of the action flick that the trailers had you prepared for.


Do yourself a favour, give it a miss. 

Monday blues? Monday yellows!

IN YOUR FACE, SADNESS.

Yellow is a very full on colour right?

I like it. Just not on clothing.

Some clothing, sure, whatever, it's nice! But on most? It's.... eh.

Anyways... onto the original point of the post... this Monday has been an amazing Monday!! 

Okay, so I literally had four hours sleep, but I was happy!

If a cinema trip wasn't planned in advance, I could have easily went back to sleep... the rain and the wind outside was just terrible.

But I braved it (the idiotic choice that may be)

 much like this guy.

And I got blown away...

much like this guy.

Went in for Michelle, and she came to the door with a flimsy (but very cute) brolly. 

Looked kind of like this.

You want to buy that umbrella?

You can find a broken one on  one of First's Aberdeen buses.

Or... you could always buy it from here... If you are not a cheap-scape.

Anyways, she came to the door with that umberella and the little voice in my head just said:

"You idiot."

I mean that in the nicest, most respectful way possible. Wind and flimsy brolly's don't mix. As Michelle soon found out.


She literally walked out of the house and "WHOOSH". Umbrella was inside out already. 

And it becomes less like a device to keep

you dry, and more like a fashionable bucket.

It didn't help that it had a leak in it.

Being the girls that we are, we decided to run away from the rain (like that's ever worked out) and I still had my umbrella up, so my vision was impaired fairly dramatically (i.e. I couldn't see in front of me at all).

Can you see what's coming?

Boom. Face. Meets. Lamppost.

It pains me to have to type that. What sort of nerd runs into a lamppost?!

Went to see "Hanna" in the cinema. I reviewed it last night, but I didn't have internet connection so I couldn't post it. Soon. I'll post it soon. I had difficulty pinpointing what I hated about it. The direction was the only thing I liked about that movie. If I didn't have this thing about not walking out of movies, I would have been out of there within the first ten minutes.

We had a Frankie and Benny's after that. Fine as always! Had the BBQ Chicken pizza (what's new there?) but had extreme difficulty attempting to cut it up. I needed a chainsaw to break that MoFo up!! 

MICHELLE: Is it sharp?

*I attempt to cut my finger. It fails.*

ME: Nope.  Not at all.

Gah.


She then told me about the legendary facebook statuses.

MICHELLE: There's this girl who was saying "I'd love to take a trip down the canal" and her boyfriend replied "Take away the C and we have ourselves a date". 

This kid is hilarious. I miss not seeing her everyday, but It makes the times I do see her even more awesome.


She was attempting to try on a shirt in Vero Moda's changing room (a shirt that she picked out and I immediately went "Oooh! I want that shirt". Why does that always happen?) but she was confused by the whole concept of them.


You see, Vero Moda have weird changing rooms. Essentially, they are leather showers curtains. 


Seriously.


So I had to sneak under the curtain and unhook it, which somehow resulted in me managing to hit myself on the head with the hook.


My life people. My life.


Speaking of my life, Michelle and I were trying to determine what we would call our autobiography's.


Michelle's would be:

 "...And then two came at once" 

Because we used to talk like old ladies when we were waiting for the school bus in the morning.

MICHELLE: Two 3's and no 21's!

ME: That's been half an hour and no 21's!

Our moaning knows no bounds when it comes to buses.


Mine's would be either:

"307 pages of sh*t"

or

"How to survive a mutant duck attack".

First one is incredibly literal. Second one is a prviate joke...


Which I agree to share with you.


Reminiscing colour is blue by the way, just so you know.


It was Third year (perhaps it was fourth, it was a while ago, let's lay that down if nothing else) and we were doing talks in English.


It was a pretty epic idea to base talks on. We were role playing (Do NOT give this story some sort of kinky flare. There was none) and were given a job. Some people were pilots, some people were postmen, some people were Nelson Mandela (because apparently, that's a job title). We were then put into groups of four and were told that we would be pitted against each other in an attempt to survive (as we were fighting over the last remaining spot in a nuclear bunker before a nuclear bomb killed the earth... did I forget to mention that?)


Anyways, I was a soldier. And I don't prepare my talks, I wing it. I wing it like a chicken wing.


I did have ONE line prepared however:

"Most of the people I have argued against have tried to convince you that soldiers are violent murderers but think of this... we don't start wars. We finish them."

So proud of that line. Then Dougal stole it *sticks out tongue*


Turns out,  I should have prepared a lot more of that talk.

"And I'm strong, so I will be able to open the tin cans of food and I will be able to fight off the mutant ducks..."

Yes. In the future, when the bomb detonates and the world is thrown into nuclear holocaust....  there will be mutant ducks. And you will die unless I am there to protect you.


My class saved Nelson Mandela.

 "Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world"

Hope those quotes help you while Mutant ducks are chowing down on your asses...


Me? Bitter? NEVER. 


Lauren xxx

Paramore's new song!

As you all know, (if you know me at all, that is) I am a huge Paramore fan.


So when, in the early hours of Monday morning, it was announced that a new song was to be released "very soon", I took a minor freak out.

 Looked like this whilst doing this:

Then I stopped whilst I still had my dignity...

THEN I did this...

For ten minutes.

So ummm... yeah. Minor freak out.

Turns out, the song is called "Monster" and will feature on the "Transformers: Dark of the moon" soundtrack.

Hayley, Taylor and Jeremy have already released some of the lyrics of this new song, which can be seen below:

"I'm only human, I've got a skeleton in me
But I'm not the villain, despite what you're always preaching
Call me a traitor, I'm just collecting your victims
And they're getting stronger

I hear them calling"

But the sneak peaks don't stop there! Yup. Jeremy has actually posted a very short (but epic sounding) video of him playing the bass to "Monster". Want to hear it?

The soundtrack will be released on the 7th June, but it sounds as though we will be allowed to hear Paramore's song before then. It sounds amazing, so I really can't wait! The lyrics are killer if nothing else.

Oh, and one last thought... 

They are making a video.

Scheduled to be released, next month, shot in L.A. That should be fun! What do you guys think, Transformers or no transformers?

If there are transformers in the vid, then this

would definitely be Jeremy's.

He really loves the ":l" smiley

Here's the rest of the soundtrack, just in-case you are curious:

1. Linkin Park – Iridescent2. Paramore – Monster3. My Chemical Romance – The Only Hope For Me Is You4. Taking Back Sunday – Faith5. Staind – The Bottom6. Art Of Dying – Get Thru This7. Goo Goo Dolls – All That You Are8. Theory Of A Deadman – Head Above Water9. Black Veil Brides – Set The World On Fire10. Skillet – Alive & Awake (Remix)11. Mastodon – Just Got Paid (ZZ Top cover)

Not a bad soundtrack in my opinion (but as a Parawhore and part of the MCRmy... I suppose I'm slightly biased)


Lauren xxx

L.A. Noire, Stargate Universe, Supernatural and a bunch of other stuff.

Well the Man Flu seems to slowly be improving but over that last few days all I've really done is watch some more of season five of Supernatural and a bunch of Stargate: Universe season one episodes along with a few movies and play L.A. Noire, lots and lots of L.A. Noire.


Supernatural

Supernatural season 5 started of pretty weak in my opinion and it took until around episode 9 for things to even start to improve, I've always said this show mostly failed to live up o it's potential but this is the first time I've felt it has suffered a prolonged drop in quality, I'm really hoping things pick up during the second half of the season.


Stargate: Universe

I've watched 7 season 1 episodes of Stargate: Universe over the last 2 days, I wouldn't say any of them have been anything special but I've at least found most of them interesting, it's easy to see why the show struggled to find an audience and was ultimately cancelled but the show has managed to keep my attention.


Centurion

I really enjoyed Neil Marshall's first three movies and while I was aware that he was working on Centurion I had no idea that it was actually finished let alone been released on Blu-ray, after watching the movie I can see why it came and went without leaving much of an impression, it has all the stylistic hallmarks of Marshall's previous movies but it just wasn't as much fun, there are plenty of movies about a small group of people trapped in enemy territory, there is more fun to be had watching The Warriors ( original theatrical version of course ) than this unfortunately disappointing film.


Mindhunters

I guessed who the killer was fairly early on in the movie but I still enjoyed it and at the end of the day that's what matters, it's worth a look but it's not really worth owning.


Machete

Oddly not as action packed as I expected it to be but still fun, certainly not a family film and not for the squeamish either but I enjoyed it, if only this had been released as part of Grindhouse instead of the awful Death Proof.


L.A. Noire

This is a good game it really is but it's not deserving of a lot off the hype it's been receiving, the performance capture technology they developed for the game is impressive, it occasionally produce rather exaggerated facial expressions but for the most part it works rather well, this really is a good game and I'm glad I bought it but I think I'd recommend renting it and having a look at the game before buying it because it simply isn't the genre defining game a lot of people are claiming it is.

Breaking the rules. I'm a rebel like that.

The only rules I am breaking is the first two rules of Fight Club...

The first rule of Fight Club is: you do not talk about Fight Club.

The second rule of Fight Club is: you DO NOT talk about Fight Club!

Damn. I've broken the rules five times in three lines... Tyler Durdan is totally going to come after me now.

...

Maybe that isn't such a bad thing.

Pointless post to say... we are still alive!!

No rapture. 

Which is good (unless you are Harold Camping, then... third time lucky?) 

I'm thankful the end of the world wasn't yesterday! I still have a lot planned for the next year and a half...

Watch movies. LOTS of movies - I have a newly re-newed cinema pass and I will be deeply annoyed if my life expires before it does.

Go to the beach - Feeling the sand in between your toes. Words can't describe how awesome that feels.

Finish school - Thank God? Haha, I don't want to still be in school when the world ends!! Imagine how depressing that would be.

See Francesqa play live - First time I'll ever see Francesqa live, and also the first time I'll have ever have been in Cafe Drummonds. I've lived in Aberdeen all my life, and I still haven't been there? Ridiculous.

Get a hug from Katy Perry - Determined to make this happen. Going to see her with one of my best friends ever in October. We'll be right at the front. We always are. Hopefully, as a reward, she'll come down to see the front row folks and then... WE SHALL POUNCE.

Go on holiday - It's been far too long. I'm thinking of Hawaii... or New York. One of the two extremes: Either complete tranquillity or busy busy busy!

Finish off one of my scripts - I'm really making NO progress on them. Hit me over the head with a keyboard!!

Buy a bass - Playing bass tabs on guitar... just doesn't cut it anymore!

Watch "The Dark Knight Rises" - So psyched for that film. It's unreal!

Watch "The Dark Knight Rises" getting filmed - Oh yeah! Planning on doing this!!

What have you guys got planned for the next year and a half? Don't be shy, comment! 

I promise. I won't bite.

Lauren xxx