Justice - DVNO

It's always the same
always ashamed story telling
when I can't come in
To a hopeless troglodyte
But one more time
my answer stands
I swear I mean "no offense"
But you better learn to read
it's all 'bout membership

For the young & old
Ugly girls and boys
I put you on my list
And make you clap to this
Mayhem, I just don't need that trip
And only one can win
And soon you're saying different

D V N O
Four capital letters
Printed in gold
'Cause details make the girls sweat even more
while they're shaking their belt
No need to ask my name
to figure out how cool I am

Can anyone read, anyone feel
That I'm losing my patience
I just came here to bounce
Ladies are all waxed
They all now I'm coming
I'm losing my patience
I just came here to bounce

Enjoying my career?!

"A good classroom.. is one in which things are learned every day which the teacher did not previously know."

L. Stenhouse (1975)
An Introduction to Curriculum Research and Development

Lady Gaga's 'The Fame'

Very very very good.

But sometimes very very very... repetitive.

Not necessarily a bad thing. Well... yeah actually it is.

I know I will get bored of it.

Also, I know I have missed the whole point of the campaign when I prefer the ballads to the thick of the album.

Jack Hodson

NOW STOP READING MY BLOG.

Aimee Grimes

I love it when you realise someone is going to be around for a very long time.

I love ya, ducky.

You can ALWAYS wear your pants like that.

Britney Spears - Womanizer

I am such a slave to the media machine.

Things I like about this:
- Sirens
- 'WUMUNIZZUUUR'
- 'lollypop'
- constant unchanging beat. Not very Britney.
- The bit where she goes 'uuuh-manizer'
- The way it sounds like she has a stutter. VOCODER stutter?!

I am in love.

This is a test

And I'm losing my shit.

Batman: Arkham Asylum

This is a new Batman game based on the 'Arkham Asylum' comic series.
Refreshingly NOT a badly made (fingers crossed) film tie-in of the Dark Knight, but a whole new game based on the comics franchise, away from the plot of the films.

This is looking pretty hot at the moment, hope the gameplay lives up to the shots.
I've always thought Batman was cooler than Spiderman anyway.

YOU ARE A CHILD.

And I am a FUCKING IDIOT for expecting anything less than that.


DONT MUG YOURSELF, JAMES.

C86 Tees

I WANT THESE.
please.

Friendly Fires - Your Love

Very good indie use of the Candi Statton sample.
See also 'Jump in the Pool' for epic use of whistles.

Jemima

She is a common bush cricket.

She has a brutal horn which is actually an 'egg laying tube' which makes her look different from the boys, and far more brutal.

She is still young so her legs haven't grown much yet.

She is very exploratory.

Astounding Logic

“You can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig."

US Presidential candidate, Barack Obama

Now THAT'S the kind of logical thinking shrouded in metaphor that we need!
ON THE BARACK!

Lady Gaga - Brown Eyes

When your brown eyes, walked away
And your brown eyes, couldn't stay
In your brown eyes, you watch her go
Then turn the record on
And wonder what went wrong (what went wrong)

If everything was everything, but everything is over
Everything could be everything, if only we were older
Guess its just a silly song about you
And how I lost you,
and your brown eyes

In your brown eyes, I was feeling low
Cause the brown eyes, and you'll never know
Got some brown eyes, but I saw her face
I knew that it was wrong, so baby
Turn the record on, play that song

Everything was everything, but baby its the last show
Everything could be everything, but its time to say goodbye
So, get your last fix and your last hit
Grab your old, go with the new trix

Its no surprise that I got lost in your brown eyes
In your brown eyes...

Rain

A woman stands in the rain caused by the approach of Hurricane Gustav in Cuba.

Lindsay Lohan - If It's Alright

From the album 'A Little More Personal (Raw)'

I'm such a gaaaaaaay.


I should've known
The day we met
The way you turned and waved at me I never will forget
Two years later who'd of guessed
That we would make it this far just to put it all to rest

And if it's alright I'll stay until it's late until
You tell me that its time that we moved on
And if it takes all night I'll wait here till the
Daylight so that I can see that we just don't belong
Its alright we were wrong

If you're crazy then I'm insane
Two people with the same condition
It never goes away
It's not our problem anymore
But let's just call it even when I'm walking out that door
And oh it won't be easy cause it was hard from the start

We must have met for some reason it's in the sky something from up high
We must have lived for some reason
It wasn't a lie
It just wasn't right

And if it's alright I'll stay until it's late until
You tell me that its time that we moved on
And if it takes all night I'll wait here till the
Daylight so that I can see that we just don't belong
And if it's alright I'll stay until it's late until
You tell me that its time that we moved on
And if it takes all night I'll wait here till the
Daylight so that I can see that we just don't belong

It's alright we were wrong

I should've known
The day we met.

Is Lara Croft Sexist?

This year's Tomb Raider Underworld will be the ninth proper home console installment of Lara Croft's never-ending quest for booty. The buxom heroine first debuted in the original 1996 Tomb Raider, with developer Core and publisher Eidos drawing back the curtains on what would become a pop culture phenomenon that transcends gaming.

But Lara Croft is an interesting duality: on one hand she has served as a symbol of female empowerment--a strong, smart, sexy woman whose dual-wielding is worthy of a John Woo flick. On the other hand, Lara and her exaggerated womanly proportions have been viewed by some as an objectification of women--an easy way to exploit the raging hormones of the young, videogame-buying male demographic.

The question of whether or not Lara is sexy or just plain sexist is not such a cut and dry issue. With Eidos' introduction of a new living, breathing (gymnast) Lara Croft model, we asked women of the games industry about Lara's evolving role as the iconic front-woman of the hit Tomb Raider franchise.

Tracy Whitelaw, PR rep for LesbianGamers.com tells Edge, "...She's a dichotomy in our opinion. Lara was primarily viewed as an idealized female gaming character with an unattainable body. Her body shape is completely unrealistic and there's no doubt that her appeal to male gamers and the way this feeds into the male gaze is a dominant factor in her worldwide success and subsequent status as a cultural icon."

She continues, "However, and this is where we disagree with many feminists, what Lara did for women in gaming is provide great strides forward in including female characters as the playable character in videogames. Yes, we're still looking for more strong females in games, but without doubt there is an improvement in this area, no matter how slowly it moves, and Lara Croft and her success are responsible in part for this."

But Whitelaw concedes, "Sex sells as we all know and having a hot Lara Croft model for guys to have their photo taken with or to drool over is simply a sad fact of life. It's not empowering to women, it's demeaning if anything, but it's a fact. At least having a skilled model who can pull off some of what Lara puts out there is a step towards seeing her as not just eye candy, but as a capable, strong role model for young girls."

Some industry women feel that the live model "Laras" don't always stay true to the original essence of the videogame character.

Fiona Cherbak, VP of marketing for GameRecruiter and chair of the IGDA Women in Games Special Interest Group, calls Lara "gutsy, clever, physically adept and well-trained in weaponry and martial arts, and endlessly confident."

"What woman (or man, for that matter) wouldn’t want to be this character in real life?"

But she adds, "In terms of using a ‘live’ model who plays Lara Croft in real life, it becomes a sketchier proposition, since an actress is being utilized as a marketing device. How the marketing team chooses to represent her to their consumer audience determines whether they will stick to portraying Lara as the character that has been developed in the game, or if they will pander to more sexualized or limiting concepts that may alienate various players. Ideally, they will follow the established Hollywood model of ensuring that your live model is perpetually ‘in character’ and does not ever break from the known in-game protocols for that character, including costume, behaviors, and speech.”

She adds Lara is able to convey a sophisticated sexiness. "I don't think Lara perpetuates the stereotype of games being a 'boys club.' I think that would be a lot like saying any woman with large breasts (competent or not) perpetuates the objectification of women. If you were to dress her in nothing but leather straps, maybe, but despite the bodacious ta-ta's she is not a 'vamp' character. She doesn't shake her thang at the camera in cut scenes, she (or rather the animators) doesn't play up that role. Instead, even the places when she's dressed in evening wear or a skintight neoprene wetsuit, she is all business - the 'sexiness' of her appearance is incidental to the strength of the character they have created."

Ismini "Atari" Boinodiris Roby with WomenGamers.com muses, "Is Lara sexist? Did we even consider this question when she first appeared in Tomb Raider 1? No, we were just thrilled to be able to play a female character for once. If you are to question whether Lara Croft is sexist, you need to consider the time in which she originally appeared and how she has evolved over the years. When she first emerged, we could overlook her poorly designed torpedo breasts and tiny waist because we were tired of playing beefcakes. She was a breath of fresh air.

"Today however, we expect more. Over time her personality and look has migrated. Despite her original ridiculous body structure, her personality was more like a female version of Indiana Jones. Over time they've improved her body, but have, in my opinion, diluted her personality. They had an opportunity to develop something wonderful with her character, but dropped the ball to make her more sexy and appealing to their male fan base."

- EDGE, September 2008

Why I Love Wikipedia

Found this while snooping around on a page about the French Revolution, and the 'Reign of Terror' (don't ask.)



Now, while the second point may be valid given the context of the article, (if a little personally biased for an 'encyclopedia') and I do like the emotive little sad face, just to exaggerate it, the first point is just nonsense.

Sandwhiches after mass execution?!
Yeah, go on then.

For future reference, I will NOT be using a user-generated encyclopedia for a teaching reference.

Backlash?

Controversy courts controversy, clearly.
Even if it does have 80's Duran Duran guitars, you're still going to hell.



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Keep Laughing

"Nonsense wakes up the brain cells. And it helps develop a sense of humor, which is awfully important in this day and age.

Humor has a tremendous place in this sordid world. It's more than just a matter of laughing. If you can see things out of whack, then you can see how things can be in whack."

- Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Suess)

The Beach - S. R.

You say, that you wanna hide.
From every little thing, and every little one that hurt you.
And I say, little boy, don’t you cry.
All these little things, and all these little one’s just love.
You say, I cant help but try.
To question all the lies, question all the pain against you.
And I say, these people, do not lie.
They’re only looking out for the best ways to protect you.

But I can understand why you,
Feel the way you do.
Just look out to the sea.
Dreaming’s what helped me.
I can understand why you,
Take the moves you do.
Stand here on the beach.
For you nothing’s out of reach.

You ask, what’s kept you here to day?
The strength of life, the strength of love towards you?
And I ask, do you, believe in fate?
Do you truly understand, how angels keep their eyes out for you?
You ask, tonight, is it late?
It’s moving past twelve and the moon is shining down upon you.
And I ask, are you, feeling okay?
Slowly you shake your head, oh, I, wanna hold you.

Coz I can understand why you,
Feel the way you do.
Just look out to the sea.
Dreaming’s what helped me.
I can understand why you,
Take the moves you do.
Stand here on the beach.
For you nothing’s out of reach.




Where are you.
I miss you, so much.

The Animals

I Love Them!
Was fab to spend the summer with them.




Poppy.





Sir Bob Cummins.