2001-06-05 - 1:33 p.m.
#70: No Need for Return After a Short Period of Absence
Note to self: Yes! My computer returns and it is even more shiny than ever! My widdle Gina-chan, I missed you! What? What did you say? *puts my ear to the casing and listens* AWWWWWWWWWWWWWW! I wuv you, TOO! *smooch smooch kiss kiss hug hug* Ahem. Well, anyway the bad news was that the CD-RW really WAS dead (as a doornail, as a Shizuma drive in the wake of etc. etc. etc.) which meant that getting a replacement was a mite bit on the pricey side.... On the otherhand, the good news is that I can now write CDs at 8 speed rather than my old drives 4 speed. Which means basically, more CDs in less time. Gyeeheeheeheeheehee. It even SOUNDS faster, and doesn't have a rickety sound whenever it starts up like my old drive.... In fact it sounds vaguely like KITTs engine from Knight Rider. Time to go nuts on the CDs I borrowed off Josh and Michael (whose collection I borrowed is essentially an extension of Joshs. Since it's like, his CDs and all. O.o). I leap like crazy now. WOOHOOHOOHOOHOO! I'M A MONKEY!
Geez, on the weekend I'm missing a computer I suddenly do a whole lot of stuff that would make good journal entires, including Chris' B-movie marathon (well, three movies. and one extra for fun) on Saturday and Nadea's Hentai night (not Zeb's, though I'm sure she had a hand in turning poor sweet innocent Nadea to the dark side. RIGHT) on Sunday and.... my lazing around and trying not to think about the absence of my computer on Monday. Couldn't pick it up from the shop then because it was a public holiday. Lousy Queen's Birthday.... *gnashes teeth* So, I might as well go through the events as they occured chronologically.
Saturday.... Woke up early to haul the computer to the store where I bought it from, and left it there for the people to look at it. Still turned up one and a half hours late to Chris' movie marathon though, at 12:30PM as opposed to 11AM, and caught Chris and EB in the middle of watching Murder Can Hurt You! as brought along by EB. For its title, it was surprisingly good.... In an "80s all-star TV comedy movie" kinda way. The kind of movie that couldn't possibly exist on TV now unless it was a courtroom melodrama and one of the defendants has AIDS or some other life threatening syndrome. Anyway, EB was obviously not going to win with that particular title (even if it wasn't an "official" entry) due to the fact that the actors were obviously not taking their roles too seriously; just seriously enough to enhance the general sillyness of the entire movie. After it finished Josh, Nadea and Zeb wandered in about this point, so it was time to start the competition proper with: I Bury the Living also brought along by EB.
Unfortunately, this video followed the same fate as the last.... Being extremely silly in title, but actually rather interesting and good in content, if a little bit dated. Saying it was a horror movie would be pushing the definition a bit, but it was still pretty suspenseful and had its moments. And that damn map that looked like a pair of eyes at certain angles gave me the heebie jeebies. Not too shabby for a film that's nearly fifty years old; but then again, I scare pretty easily. So no free meal at Asukas for EB (the prize for the marathon) for the film was of too decent a quality despite the rather gmmicky premise, and the actors again only took themselves so seriously. Plus, there was a distinct shortage of classic lines like, "Graaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaverobbers from OUTERSPACE!" and "Murder? Someone's responsible!". Up next was my offering, Forbidden City Cop which was also of too decent a quality and produced too many intentional laughs to be counted as a "true" B-movie. It also had the unintentional side effect of making Zeb swoon over a rather hot looking chinese chicka in a one piece black bodysuit, a drawn on moustache, and a really big cigar. Ah well. These things happen I guess. @_@
And finally came Chris' offering.... And it won, hands down. W is War won't exactly be remembered as a classic B-movie, but it had the right elements: too serious actors, too silly a storyline, and too unintentionally amusing. It looked like some English dubbed film from the Phillipines and its plot revolved around a newlywed police officer who had his penis cut off by some black leather garbed, facepainted gang who were taking revenge for the dead brother of the gang boss whom the officer had killed. If the sentence above is confusing, don't worry.... Brainpower is not really required in this movie. It's as if the makers of this film tried to pastich a variety of cliche Hollywood action movie situations into one massive one, imagining that somehow this would make them A grade movie makers as well.
It throws everything into the story: a vengeful cop (with no penis), an underground organisation whose only goal is total world domination, a cop who loses his badge, an unfaithful wife who sleeps with one of the cops friends, a former gang member who falls in love with the cop, a hostage situation, a long, long, long (and long) final showdown, which is a confused mix of Mad Max car chases and Dirty Dozen storming the castle.... In which none of the hero's team gets hurt. Except for the one guy who limps a little. And through all of this the 70s soundtrack moans "wang WANG wang WANG wang WANG" as if mocking the hero's lack of Mr. Happy. So, basically, Chris won without much of a fight. And then we all left quickly and didn't contribute to the prize money pool for his free dinner at Asuka. Like, oops. ^^;;; So anyway, we all left after that, and I ended up at my uncles place for dinner.... Where I promptly nodded off to sleep on one of the couches. Afterall, had to conserve my male energy for the next day. hee. hee. heeheeheeheeheeheehee....
So. Next day opens on a beautiful Sunday morning, to be ruined completely by closing it with anime women getting jiggy with it with many, many slimy tentacles. ^_^ Yes, Nadeas Hentai night at her new place was a rousing success, with 11 people turning up to partake of its goodness. Their names will be withheld to protect the innocent. *sniggers* Actually, considering the early start of 4PM, and the late finish close to midnight, we didn't really see all THAT much hentai.... It was just too.... exhausting. And not in the way one might think, neither. O.o First up was Venus 5 which was basically Sailor Moon on hentai high. I mean, more hentai than usual. It even had the basic Sailor Moon setup: five female warriors destined to protect earth, helped by a cat guardian, fight the forces of evil that have recently come from the underworld etc. etc. etc. They even have the silly "I fight for love and justice!" schtick, which was rather more painful than the actual hentai, since we had to listen to English dubbed actors try and force their voices way too high in order to be "cute". One doesn't watch shows like these for the story, but even so, it was quite the mind numbing experience. By the end, we realised why we don't show hentai regularly in the AAC; I mean, besides the fact that there are minors in the group that is.
We needed a silly break after this, so popped in a fantasy RPG/comedy styled anime whose name I can't rightly remember at the moment. Just think Slayers with sex. .....Or errrr.... Maybe not. Anyway, it was pretty funny for the one episode we saw, and intentionally too. All about a fighter human who goes on a quest to find a potion to increase the size of his elven wifes vagina. Yes, the elf wife is too small to accept his Mr. Happy. Which is.... different. Usually, these sort of macho quests involve men trying to make their own equipment larger. @_@ So.... amusing sexual misadventures are a go from that series. After finishing that off came Twin Angels, which numbed our brains almost as much as Venus 5.... It even had almost the same setup; only this time with two female warriors who were not so much chosen as they did inherit their status. But still the same tentacles and demon orgy scenes. Those Japanese with their one track mind for demon tentacle sex. @_@
After that, we decided to have a break and make a stop at the local Foodtown. I, with my luck, got in the car that got totally lost and ended up in Howick. O.o Oh well, decided to pick up my copy of Wicked City from my house and wandered over to Botany Downs to pick up some Nando's Roast Chicken, which if you haven't read this entry is quite tasty. Num num num. Arrived back at Nadeas place about an hour after we started up (got more lost) which is uh.... Pretty bad since everybody else had come back already. Settled down after a bit to watch Wicked City which is a pretty classy way of depicting "humans vs demon" style action. And some hentai to suit the night, of course. The night finished rather late thanks to the one and a half hour long movie, and we all split up and went home after it was all done.
Whew. Finally got all of that down. May not sound like the most interesting weekend to everyone, but it was fun running around to all these events over the long weekend, including the night at my place on Friday. Spent most of Monday moping around and getting in touch with my TV side to wile my computerless hours away.... And now here we are. My computer is back in order (with a new CD-RW drive! LUCKY!) and I am burning CDs as we speak. Ahhhh.... Getting back into the rhythm of things is good.... If only I didn't have so many different places to check up on now that I'm behind. @_@
