yawn of the dead

end of july is really something worth celebrating. on the 30th there was my dad's birthday, which was celebrated with a two-and-a-half hour drive to a city which normally required nothing more than forty-five minutes to travel to. and until now i still have no clue what caused that fifteen-or-more miles worth traffic jam. i got him a beatles anthology set of 8 VHS tapes. i hope he still has that dinky VHS player at home.

i also drew him a last minute christmas card. last minute here implies that it was not well-planned, but hey, it's always the thought and the effort that counts. not the end result. click to enlarge.



we had a good dinner at the elephant's bar. the food was pretty decent, but maybe i should've gone for the salmon instead of the chicken.

also to celebrate this end of july is the release of awesome DVDs. 300 is out, but i have yet to pick that up. i like the movie, but i'm not so sure about owning the dvd. the thing about owning a dvd is that it has to be a movie that i'd want to watch over and over again, and if not the whole movie, then maybe parts of it. 300 was amazingly brilliant, but i think watching it once was quite enough for me.

the number 23 is out too, so i picked that up since i missed out watching that on the theaters. probably not a movie i'd want to watch over and over again, but this one got picked up for the simple reason that i've never seen it and tv-links hasn't got it. i've always been a jim carrey fan, though, and thoroughly enjoyed his performance in 23. it's got alternate endings which i have yet to check out, so maybe the dvd is worth having anyway. alternate endings always peak my curiousity. only zarquon knows how many cats i've left dead because of that.

side note: this has always been bothering me, but when they say "curiosity kills the cat," i wonder why no one has ever asked "whose cat?"

the highlight of the end of july, however, is the release of HOT FUZZ. i bought fuzz on tuesday and re-watched it right after. not only that, but the dvd is DEFINITELY WORTH HAVING. the bonus has a 20-minute video on edgar, simon, and nick's tour in the US for the fuzz's screening, and it was hilariously brilliant. there's this bit when they had a phone interview, and out of boredom they just decided to strip down to their underwear. then after 15 or so calls, a lady came in to tell them that it was the last caller, and the look on her face was just priceless. the deleted scenes were even more hilarious, and the outtakes were mind-blowingly awesome. it's just amazing how much these british cuss. fuck, cunt, bollocks (what is that, anyway?), shit, motherfucker, and all sorts of other words i never even knew were cusswords. i guess they probably realized that they cuss too much, so as one of the extras in the dvd, they included a "MILD TV VERSION" of some hotfuzz scenes.

"police work is not about proper action or silt!"

"he sounds like a good bloke."
"actually, he was arrested for selling drugs to students."
"what a clunt."

"hey, watch this---- AGH MY EYES"
"PEAS AND RICE!!"

"you're a doctor. DEAL WITH IT."
"yeah, MOTHERHUGGER."

the motherhugger part i'll never get over with.

to top off the whipcream with a cherry, this afternoon my SHAUN OF THE DEAD DVD arrived on the mail. funking brilliant. what could be better than rampaging through town smashing zombies on the head with a cricket bat? i have yet to see the extras, but i'm sure they'll be as delightfully smashing as the extras on fuzz.

it's almost 2.30am. i'd better go to bed before i exacerbate matters.