Scoundrelly Aristocracy: May 2006

Tuesday, May 30, 2006

Sneak-ery Fills Me With Glee

Tommorrow is opening night for ABJ's production of 'I Never Saw Another Butterfly'. Teea is in it so obviously I agreed to attend despite my deep-seated dislike for my ex/her current Drama teacher. Since I was working Teea had to buy a ticket for me, today she sent me a txt message that read, 'Your ticket is taped to the inside of locker *** (skid row) and the combination is **-**-**' so today during an MSN conversation....

...the best life never leaves your lungs... says:
And you got my text, dear?
Burning Schoolhouse says:
indeed
Burning Schoolhouse says:
it made me feel like a spy
Burning Schoolhouse says:
I am saving it

and at the end of the convo....

...the best life never leaves your lungs... says:
Night love See you tommorow
Burning Schoolhouse says:
goodnight sugarfluff
...the best life never leaves your lungs... says:
And remember, your ticket is in my looocker and you have the com and everything
Burning Schoolhouse says:
yep
Burning Schoolhouse says:
I am a spy
...the best life never leaves your lungs... says:
Should you have a problem text me
Burning Schoolhouse says:
I am such a sneaky spy you don't even understand
...the best life never leaves your lungs... says:
Yes I know
Burning Schoolhouse says:
sneaky sneaky...
Burning Schoolhouse says:
you'll see one day
Burning Schoolhouse says:
one day very very soon
...the best life never leaves your lungs... says:
Just do not refuse to diffuse the bomb first
Burning Schoolhouse says:
ha
...the best life never leaves your lungs... says:
Oh and the ticket self destructs at exactly 7 01
Burning Schoolhouse says:
got it
Burning Schoolhouse says:
I am a sneaky sneaky spy
Burning Schoolhouse says:
you'll see
...the best life never leaves your lungs... says:
Not if you are sneaky I will not
Burning Schoolhouse says:
ha. true dat
Burning Schoolhouse says:
ha!
Burning Schoolhouse says:
sneak
...the best life never leaves your lungs... says:
It sounds like you need as much sleep as I do
...the best life never leaves your lungs... says:
Good niiiight
Burning Schoolhouse says:
nite nite

It make me laugh because me and Amy already broke into her locker after she left school today and took the ticket....

ha.

Labels: Kelsey Laughs Like a Maniac, MSN Convos, Pure Brilliance

Apparently I have a singular talent.....

...the best life never leaves your lungs... says:
So has ***** attacked himself to your posterier again yet?
Burning Schoolhouse says:
close but not just yet
Burning Schoolhouse says:
attacked himself?
Burning Schoolhouse says:
ha
Burning Schoolhouse says:
I wish
...the best life never leaves your lungs... says:
err
...the best life never leaves your lungs... says:
attached
...the best life never leaves your lungs... says:
It's late
...the best life never leaves your lungs... says:
You want him to attack himself... while going towards your posterior?
Burning Schoolhouse says:
it would be funny to watch
...the best life never leaves your lungs... says:
But what would he do once he reached your posterier? It may be way worse that attaching himself... although that carries pretty horrible connotations
Burning Schoolhouse says:
My rump has a forcefeild. Any male who dare disturb it's radius is befallen by a horrible fate
Burning Schoolhouse says:
it's a curse really
Burning Schoolhouse says:
curse for them anyways...
Burning Schoolhouse says:
ha
Burning Schoolhouse says:
Sometimes I think I'm funny
**Teea logs off.... then comes back a minute later**
...the best life never leaves your lungs... says:
BLAAAG
Burning Schoolhouse says:
so I am not funny then :(
...the best life never leaves your lungs... says:
I didn't hear you
...the best life never leaves your lungs... says:
Oh goodness
...the best life never leaves your lungs... says:
Did miss kelsey make a fancy fart joke
Burning Schoolhouse says:
I was rambling
Burning Schoolhouse says:
what?
Burning Schoolhouse says:
wow... I didn't mean to make a fart joke
...the best life never leaves your lungs... says:
But you totally did
Burning Schoolhouse says:
apparently I have a singular talent, unknowingly making fart jokes
Burning Schoolhouse says:
why.... that's excellent!
...the best life never leaves your lungs... says:
Ahahaha
...the best life never leaves your lungs... says:
It is sideshow worthy
...the best life never leaves your lungs... says:
'See the amazing Kelsey, and watch her consistetly and subconcioucly make polite folks uncomfortable with her subtly rude comments'
...the best life never leaves your lungs... says:
Yeah
...the best life never leaves your lungs... says:
I'm unamusing tonight
Burning Schoolhouse says:
ha
Burning Schoolhouse says:
no I meant something like... if they try to grab my bum..... BANG!
Burning Schoolhouse says:
plague of crickets!
...the best life never leaves your lungs... says:
...
...the best life never leaves your lungs... says:
...
...the best life never leaves your lungs... says:
I REFUSE to say it...
Burning Schoolhouse says:
or itchy hives all over the skin on the inside of their knee....
Burning Schoolhouse says:
that would be sooooooo annoying
...the best life never leaves your lungs... says:
That is probably the worst place for itchy hives
Burning Schoolhouse says:
I should know, I have a mosquito bite there right now
...the best life never leaves your lungs... says:
So it is on your brain constatly?
Burning Schoolhouse says:
I am slowly develeoping a twitch
Burning Schoolhouse says:
*scratch scratch scratch*
...the best life never leaves your lungs... says:
Aww
...the best life never leaves your lungs... says:
How... neurotic

Labels: MSN Convos

Saturday, May 27, 2006

X3: The Last Reveiw

....lame title I know, sorry but it was the best I could come up with....

Being the avid X-man wannabe I am and having loved the first two movies, I will admit to feeling a little nervous when I heard that Brett Ratner would be replacing Bryan Singer as the director. However after hearing about the concept of a danger room sequence and the fleshing out of Kitty Pryde I decided to forget the internet gossip and wait till I saw it for myself. So yesterday, May 26th 2006, I was more than happy to toss on my black leather jacket (The 'X-jacket' as I dubbed it a year or two ago) and head to my local theater opening day.

WARNING! The rest of this article will contain spoilers. If you have a problem with that stop reading riiiiiiiight.......

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Alright, although I loved this movie, I must admit it wasn't as strong as the first two. First off, take the much talked about Danger room scene. It started off with no explaination, clearly meant to surprise the veiwer, but to anyone who knows anything about the X-universe it was pretty obvious as far as what was going on. To me the whole scene felt cheap, I just can't put my finger on why. They only thing that saved it was Colossus and Wolverine's 'Fastball Special'.

Truly the stuff of legend.

For me, as a comic fan, one of the best parts of the X-men movies is trying to spot the cameos. And while a few cameos from X2 were fleshed out as major characters for this film (Beast, Kitty Pryde and Colossus) and of course, some entirely new characters were brought in (Angel, Callisto, Juggernaut, Multiple Man, Kid Omega, Arclight and Leech) So here's the break down. I was a little put off by the whole 'Kelsey Grammer as Beast' thing but he did a passable, if a little stiff job. Ellen Page was a fairly good Kitty, I am not going to complain but I won't rave either, she was very cute. Our two tough guys, Colossus and Juggernaut were great in my opinion, but of course keep in mind that muscley action men are clearly not the most challenging of roles. Cameron Bright was quite adorable as Leech and I did enjoy Multiple Man as played by Eric Dane. However none of our other new characters did it for me. I found them all a little boring.

I will point out again, despite all the nitpicky negative stuff I am saying I did enjoy this movie. The action scenes where quite well done and most of the costuming was superb (what? costuming is a big deal with me, okay?) except for one tiny detail. Why.... the hell...... was Callisto not wearing a damn eyepatch!?!? Ahem.... sorry about that..... it's been bugging me since I first say the photos in Wizard magazine.....

As far as returning actors go Hugh Jackman, Sir Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart, Anna Paquin, Rebecca Romijn and James Marsden all did great jobs once again. Famke Janssen absolutely blew me away as Jean Gray/The Pheonix, she was terrifying. I loved it! Also I was happy to note that Aaron Stanford and Shawn Ashmore are still as stunningly good looking as ever. They also did a great job in this film, but hey! Even if they stunk I honestly would not have noticed or cared. And as for Halle Berry? well let's just say that everytime I see that woman play Ororo Munroe I die a little more inside.

The one last thing that bothered me about this film was the Rouge-Iceman-Shadowcat love triangle. I realize the whole thing was concocted by the scriptwriters but still. Here they had both Kitty and Peter! they are the ultimate fairytale X-men couple! how could they not even hint at it? I don't understand.... Also found it funny that even though Kitty was barely mentioned in the other two movies in this one she is suddenly a full fledged X-man. In the comics it was such a big deal as far as how Professor X underestimated Kitty and she had to work so hard to prove herself. I really wish they had taken that oppurtunity and given Kitty's role a little more meat. but underfortunately they ignored that fact. A mistake on their part I would say....

Of course, as I said before it wasn't all bad. Among the high points where some great cameos (Siryn and Psylocke! hoorah!), the 'Fastball Special', the final shot of Magneto's chess piece (Oh.... My...... God.....), The surprise scene after the credits, Bobby Drake 'Icing' up, Vinnie Jones' exclaimation of 'I'm the Juggernaut, Bitch!', Famke as the Pheonix, Hugh and Famke's onscreen chemistry, Colossus carrying the huge TV around (I don't know why it was awesome, it just was), the costuming and the classroom scene with Prof X (I love the little moments)

Over all I love this movie and highly recommend it but don't expect it to surpass the first two because you'll end up hugely dissapointed.

Snuggles and Superpowers,

Kels

Labels: Geekery, Movie Reveiws, Real Articles

Wednesday, May 24, 2006

An Asexual Bird Of Prey

So Basically one of the original reasons I wanted to start a blog with Teea was that well, we are both writers of sorts but alot of our writing gets lost in the shuffle so to speak. So we needed some place to show it all off. But as great as that all sounds the bigger reason is that we always have these awesome MSN conversations that should clearly be shared with the world. So in order to start our blog with a bang I am choosing to post this one. I am Burning Schoolhouse, as always, and Teea was 'the best life' that day.....