Ms. Cawkwell has a new website, she’s very good, if you’re in London or anywhere else really, you should hire her for all your print design and illustration needs.
7th Floor.No! it’s Iris Fry…
…not really sure why anyone would need a Raisa Gorbachev lookalike or even if Ms. Fry is any good at looking like the former president’s wife but there you go.
The story : Noirish yet geeky house husband of the near future Jeremy Northam gets a job as a corporate spy, finds out with the help of noirish yet mysterious Lucy Liu that he’s being brainwashed. So he gets employed as a spy by the other side, now everyone wants him dead for a variety of dull reasons. He can’t even trust Lucy Liu even though she saved him. He questions his own identity and is generally confused. Anyway, he ends up in the layer of the shadowy mr. Rook who’s apparently orchestrated the whole sorry mess from the start, Lucy Liu tells him to wait in the hall way [cut]
[paste] Lucy Liu comes back into the hallway and guides him blind folded into the sitting room, whips the blind fold off SURPRISE!!! it’s all been an eleborate ruse to get Jeremy Northam to attend a surprise birthday party in his honour, evey one has a laugh and a drink and the credits roll. The verdict : Hard as it may be for you to believe, whilst this sudden change of direction seems fairly implausible, it is in fact much more plausible and enjoyable than the actuall ending of the film. 5/5 for the first half hour 3/5 for the middle 0/5 for the ending (worth seeing if your me though).30th - Carousel. You know, like in Logans Run. Young Jenny Agutter, diaphanous material, 60s design, flashing lights etc. No immolation at the end though, just a steady decline.
42nd - Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy. The host spends the evening insulting all the guests in alphabetical order.
2001st - A Space Odyssey. The celebrant sits in a strange white room. Everyone says it’s the best party ever but they don’t enjoy themselves that much.
That is all.
This photo nicely illustrates everything I hate about Glastonbury. Mud encrusted hippies, fresh from their art history degree in Bristol rolling ’round in raw sewage in what appears to be a construction site before going to watch Coldplay, very spiritual, very counterculture. Stuart Campbell also raises some interesting points.
About 2 weeks ago I ordered Fire Emblem from an Amazon market place seller. She didn’t have great feedback but everyone on the list seemd to have recieved their goods eventually so I figured I could save a couple of pounds and wait a couple of days longer. As expected I had to email her a couple fo days later and ask where the game was;
‘I ask my customers to wait 28 days for delivery don’t worry though, just sent it off this morning’ (or words to that effect) well actually, sellers agree with Amazon to dispatch their orders within 2 days of recieving them so what she asks means fuck all (she didn’t ask anyway) but I bit my tongue (?fingers?), said ‘thanks’ and went back to waiting. It arrived on Saturday, having paid 1.99 for postage and pagaging I was surprised to find the game boxed in an old pasta packet with a second class stamp on it (65p) . On opening it I found that not only was it the wrong game, Fire Emblem sacred stones the sequel which has yet to recieve a European release, but with my keen eye for print quality I immediately noticed the box looked odd, my suspiscions were further piqued when I noticed that the cover of the manual was printed with a slightly squished aspect ratio and confirmation of my fears of piracy was in the fact that the Nintendo on the back of the cartridge was in the wrong typeface, it was good enough to fool most people but not good enough to get past my masterfull detecting skills.
Obviously I’m annoyed, regardless of legality pirate cartiridges have a habit of running out of memory battery because they’re made on the cheap and anyway. Also, having paid £20 for something I expect what I ordered, if i wanted a pirate cart I’d go to eBay and find a £5 ‘buy it now’ version.
So I emailed back politely saying that if she gave me a full refund we could end the ‘confusion’ but in 2 days she hasn’t replied, so these are the options. 1 I could wait ’till 30 days after the order date and complain through amazon using one of my 5 lifetime A-to-z Safe Buying Guarantees then leave some daming feed back. 2 Report her to Amazon straight away for suplying pirate software and risk not getting my £20odd back. I had a 3rd idea but I can’t remember what it was. My feelings at the moment are towards 2 as it’s a bit shit that less observant (less geeky) people could buy these carts unaware that they’re a bit crap.
Incidentally the name of the seller is MysticEnchantress and she has an AOL email account, I should have known.
In Nintendonian cosmogony the universe is created for the purpose of Mario, the very name of the land is testament to this belief. He can travel to any realm within the Nintendo worlds, and on occasion is able to manifest in our own world. Whilst central to the mythos, scholars in recent times have dismissed the idea that Mario is the king of the gods, instead tending to think of him as a caretaker deity or nature god within the Nintendo pantheon, his exploits often concerning the cleaning and stewardship of the land. Mario can be seen to represent the status quo and is the patron of manual workers.
Link’s mythology is a rich and complex one. As a mortal, his travels and adventures are legendary, he is the quintessential hero. Link is particularly interesting to Nintendo scholars as the nature of his legend has changed subtely over time. In traditional tellings he is a fated individual, destined for greatness and set appart from his peers by divine purpose. More mature tellings tend to place emphasis on Link’s humble origins and young Link may even be disadvantaged in some way in relation to his peers. Link’s journeys and labors can be seen as an allegory for coming of age, gaining independence and exploring the world.
Though link is traditionally depicted with a legendary blade he is also commonly associated with boomerangs and explosives.
In Nintendo mythology Wario is a classic trickster figure in the mold of Loki in norse or Coyote of native American myths, not a figure of evil but a kind of cosmic con-man he challenges the structure and order of the gods, and is necessary in bringing about change. Often portrayed as being obsessed with material wealth, Wario is the associated closely with hedonism, commerce and progress.
Best known as the messenger and herald of the gods Yoshi is often depicted as a fertility god, carrying and protecting children or eggs. As herald he combines patronage of music and eloquence, and as divine messenger he controls dreams and omens. He is the patron saint of travelers.
