So, there's this Facebook movie meme which went around AGES ago. It grabs a list of a whole heap of films and tells you that you're a loser if you've watched more than 85 of them. Most people I know have, but I think this says more about their age than anything. There are only a small amount of movies on the list that really show if someone has gone nuts and watched the whole series or all the movies by a certain person. The rest is just covering so many different genres that if you really have seen them all, you're either interested in way more than the norm or plain bored.

Anyway, me being me, I didn't want to mark x next to the films I've seen. I also wanted to post memeyness in LJ because that's what I do (It'll make its way to Facebook via rss magic).

I went and made a 'Facebook Movie Meme' list in Flixter which easily show the movies I've seen (and any I see after today). Also, it means my Flixter friends can play with it too. I'd show you the widget but LJ doesn't like them (and besides, it fills in "average" ratings if I haven't rated/watched it yet. That could accidentally lie to you about my taste).

So, uh, enjoy. It's long. :)

( And here's the text version of the meme )

It's the Bruce/Schrodinger code:

ON CATURDAY
IM IN YR BED
I IZ SLEEPIN!!10
VISIBLE "Z!"
KTHX
KTHXBYE

Stolen from bondchick_nett

( The Meme Instructions )



( Gory details of my results )

I'm no designer (You can tell?). I only decided to do this because I got such a cool quote for my album name. :)

Aargh. I hate it when international media makes everyone in Australia look like a bunch of wankers. Okay, so they may be right and all.

How ridiculous! The Daily Telegraph did a very limited poll - and by the looks of it they did it in the mall by asking the dumbest people they could find. And I really wonder about the survey anyway. If someone asks "What is the *insert anything* protocol?" you could be pretty sure it didn't have anything to do with cars or food, yeah? But since they were asking "What is Kyoto?" I really hope a few people mentioned it was a place in Japan.

But then again, maybe it's got a valid point. If ANYONE answered incorrectly they must have been living under a rock.

Either way, we have dumb statistics showing Australians to be dumb and now the dumb UK sensationalist papers have picked up on it. Dumb newspapers.

On another note, one lovely friend of mine pointed out something very interesting: Two months ago we would never have thought Australia would send a female, Asian, lesbian minister to ratify the Kyoto Protocol. My how things have changed :)

I just got all excited to hear that finally someone had proven that most modern art is just a little too abstract to show true vision and talent. Prove it for yourself by submitting your kid's artwork to an art exhibition. Okay, so the trick is to them an expensive canvas and some fantastic paint and let them at it. However, I'm actually really impressed with the photography used in the article.



Anyway, I mentioned it to Bruce and he thought it was this movie. Meh, so it's been done before. Maybe the point will get through this time.

It reminds me of the Martin Pearson track about the fact that there are 6 paintings in the National Art Gallery that are simply black paint on black canvas. And I recall seeing a broken bike wheel hanging from the ceiling there too. Now, next time I'm short of cash I really should remember to see if I can sell my old bike parts as art.

Art Shmart Bike Part. Ha.

(I guess I'm a modern poet now - NOT!)

*confuzzled*

Not quite sure what possessed me to say I would go to the show today, but I've said it now so I hope it's fun!

Also, lots of choir concerts coming up - all detailed here if you want to come. Most of them are free.

Hope everyone's enjoying the warm weather and having a ball. I'm thinking it might nearly be time to have a BBQ.. when things get a little less crazy! It'll be easier to fit everyone now that we've knocked the fence down between Damien's house and ours.

Showtime!

I've got heaps to say about IV.. so much so that I bet I'll never get around to it.

So, rather than leave you all wondering what IV was like.. I'll post a link to a post by one of the fantasmic freshers, Katherine. It pretty much sums up why we all keep going back to IV.

By the way, post-BIV-chorister-internet land seems to be on Facebook. I think all the freshers and choristers under 30 from IV are there, plus some of the more technically minded old farts are too. SIV is going to get all those freshers back, ready to party, in a big way. In short, facebook is doing great things for IV. Yay!

I'm collecting some of the pics going around in my own BIV Flickr collection, since we didn't have a camera there.

I promise to get out my ORGASM (that be the FIBS) and give everyone a day by day rundown of IV.. Soon. And I'll leave you with a picture of us..

Bruce and I are back home from BIV and full of *splat*. At some point soon we may get a grip on what normal life is like again and come out to play with people again... Maybe even update LJ with some sort of run down on the excitement that was BIV. You never know. :P

I've sort of vaguely checked my friends list but I'm sure I've missed stuff. If anything really exciting happened in the last two weeks then can you mention it again?? Hope everyone's well!

I've been reading Nick Hornby's "How to be good" and loving every minute of it (oh my poor deprived homework). But it occurs to me (every three seconds as I read) that this is the literary equivalent of listening to Tanya ranting over wine. If Tanya ever wrote a book it would be JUST LIKE THIS. So, there you go Tanya.. you don't have to write a book now. Someone did it for you!

All choristers should watch this!!

Thanks to cratuki for this one!

By the way, I have just spent two and a half hours cleaning the most feral fridge and microwave. No, it's not our fault they are gross - Bruce just got them back from someone. Anyway, I have never seen so much green slime in a kitchen before. Ew!! Boys are grotty!

I am still nauseous from watching this clip.


I found this post regarding a 17 year old girl being stoned to death.

I won't post the youtube clip. You can watch it yourself if you follow that link. Most importantly, there is a petition to help stop it. Hope it works.

*runs off to hide*

Edit: And here's another similar story

I sang, they sang, we sang, we drank, we laughed at the poor editing on the karaoke list, we got silly, we danced to Agadoo (in Public!), we were very silly, we applauded some of the worst singing I've ever heard, our throats began to die and then we went home in the rain with the crappiest songs stuck in our heads. Fun!

Happy Birthday Osk! Hope you feel older!

I forgot to mention that Bruce and I had a tyre blow out on Friday morning. We were doing 110km/hr with cars close behind us so we were REALLY lucky it didn't flip us over or cause an accident or anything.

So, when I went out to Williamstown last night I had no spare tyre. I also lent Bruce my phone and both maps I had of Adelaide went out of limits there. Needless to say, it was a little scary to find that I'd accidentally picked the route with kangaroos and the 4WD dirt road. I really didn't want to find myself out there in the dark after getting a flat tyre or hitting a kangaroo. It was a 15km walk to the nearest house in places.

But I survived..

The Hen's night itself was fun, but if you want to know what happened you'll have to get hold of the photos and ask Heather to explain. :P

My favourite bit was being led around the backyard blindfolded with a woman giving me directions according to the womad pass on my arm "Turn a little Womad.. now take a step.. then Not-Womad Not-Womad!" (This was because she was a little pissed and Left/Right was too confusing for her). This all started after her fantastic line of "Turn 90 degrees.. WHAT THE FUCK'S THAT?"

Tee hee!

Back to Womad today.. lots of catching up to do!

Okay, I have to update properly now. It's early on the Saturday of Womad.. I have a house full of people asleep who I don't want to wake up. Perfect time to get writing about the adventure that was. Photos are on Flickr in the Sydney Road Trip Set.

( We sort of got moving towards Sydney on Tuesday 27th )
( Thursday we actually left the state )
( Long drive to Sydney with a short stop in the Cowra Japanese Garden )
( Ikea Ikea Ikea Ikea )

Short interlude.. people are getting up. Will dispense coffee.

Right, back to it..

( Sunday was all geek and Ikea stuff.. )
( ..but we also happenned to get engaged! )
( And we went out to dinner )

Will get back to this in a while.. Pausing for breakfast with Womad guests.

( Leaving Sydney for Canberra )
( Canberra to Deniliquin )
( Deni to Adelaide )

We've been madly running about trying to catch up on our lives since we got back. Suddenly it's Womad and we're entirely unprepared. Last night we ducked in to Lorelei's exhibition opening before racing back to Womad. Her exhibition is great! And there were stacks of ancient FUCS choristers there. Fun!

Today I'm missing Womad cause of a conducting course run by Tim Sexton and Heather's hen's night tonight.

By the way, it looks like there might be an engagement party on one of the Saturdays in late April. Will give more details when we know them. :)

Bruce proposed to me on Sunday night in Sydney.. More details coming later (since I'm too tired from the trip to do a huge post right now).

Squee!! So happy!

Edit: Bruce has a post here with a pic of the ring on it. :)

There's this meme going around. It's sort of interesting and all. But I'm not going to do it. This is because I've already entered all that info into 43 Places and I can't be bothered doing it again. If LJ would let me put javascript in a post then I could show you a really pretty map of where I've been and where I want to go. Where I plan to go is far more interesting than where I've been, anyway.

PS. Yes, I keep promising a real post sometime. Sorry, I'll get to that later. Tomorrow maybe. I'm busy moving Bruce's shit out of boxes. :P

Thanks to matt_auc's Dad for that one :)

Yeah, I'll post a real post sometime.. In the meantime have a giggle.