I'd like to think I'm more of a "jovial nuisance" than an "evil genius".

[alexsarll]

Oooops. Last night was meant to be my night off, but that bad lot vivid_blue is back from holiday, which rather put the kybosh on that plan. I didn't even get to finish The Pirates! in an adventure with Whaling, which thus far seems to be even more splendidly deranged than The Pirates! in an adventure with Scientists. I have also finally got round to checking the associated website and, wouldn't you know it, the Pirate Captain has a Livejournal.

The problem with We Are Scientists' debut album is not that its bad; on the contrary, it's one of the better products of the current resurgence in post-punk pop. The problem is that it's not quite as good as the single 'Nobody Move Nobody Get Hurt', which heralded it and with which it opens, and as such it cannot help but disappoint, which is really a little unfair. Great website, though.

There's a 2000AD artist called Peter Doherty; I'd always thought he was very different from his namesake, because he's a competent and reasonably talented professional. But on the new lunar murder mystery Breathing Space, which he co-created and which I had thought he was meant to be drawing, he's now only doing colours. And I suppose it makes sense that if names do influence character, then the presence of a particularly famous bearer would create changes even on those who bore the name first. But just imagine that, being dragged into flunking commitments by some nominal ideaspace cousin of the morphic field.

"Mr Lebryk said the US mint would defend the lawsuit vigorously. "There's a principle at stake that we shouldn't be encouraging people to traffic in stolen property, and that no-one or their heirs should be able to benefit from that"." So we can expect the European-descended inhabitants of the US to return the land to the natives forthwith, then? Sure, the law should be against theft, that much is blindingly obvious. But there comes a point when enough time has passed that you have to normalise the situation.

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[electrodeserter.livejournal.com]

And I suppose it makes sense that if names do influence character, then the presence of a particularly famous bearer would create changes even on those who bore the name first. But just imagine that, being dragged into flunking commitments by some nominal ideaspace cousin of the morphic field.
Lord I hope this is not the case. The two published authors named Steve Devereux are an-ex SAS type turned private bodyguard who might charitably be described as a bargain-basement McNab, and a guy who writes technical drilling manuals (weirdly he's the one with a website full of stuff about forming your own militia); I should shudder to think either is exerting any sort of influence through the link of our shared nomenclature.

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

Perhaps I will gain a resembelance to the actress who bears the same name as me in that 24 telly programme thing! The rest of me on the internet appears to be dead Americans.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

It would be unfortunate if you became dead, and just plain confusing if you became American, but I'm confident that it wouldn't work that way.

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

WORSE THAN DEAD AMERICANS: once you get past all the actress hits I get... someone who appears to work in market research (no offence freakytigger).

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

If a member of the undead, American or otherwise, attempted to survey me, I would be much more likely to co-operate than I am with the predictably alive researchers.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I have no immediate plans to convert to Islam.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

I think he saved you by his change of name.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

I don't think either of them's big enough to start exerting a significant pull, though. But are you saying you'd object to a sudden ability to enact SAS-style feats of derring-do?

[electrodeserter.livejournal.com]

This fellow comes across as more of a shaven-headed grunt than someone to aspire to. His nickname was "Spud", ferchrissakes. Ah, further Googling reveals that "Steve Devereux" is actually a nom de plume and that his real name is Nigel "Spud" Ely. Perhaps I am saved.

Nigel Ely

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

There may be less inspiring names out there somewhere, but there surely can't be many of them.

[my-name-is-anna.livejournal.com]

I have Take That's 'Could It Be Magic' going round my internal jukebox.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

It's the same song. I was listening to a Donna Summer compilation I grabbed from the free box yesterday. It is very, very gay.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Last night I read The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe in about 2 hours. It was lovely. And then I was sad that I didn't live in Narnia, although I wondered why the beavers were eating ham.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

The film, then - is it going to suck?

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I saw the trailer before Sin City, and it *looked* nice, but I don't know if they've changed the plot at all or if the dialogue or acting is going to be terrible. I think they make more of the beginning, how Mrs Macready is Proper Nasty Like, and how Being Evacuated Is Scary.

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

What does the Lucy look like! I remember being very grumpy with the BBC Lucy as she was my favourite character but the BBC would only let SUSAN look nice and Susan was rubbish and goes to hell anyway as she likes lipstick and nylons.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

AS IS ONLY RIGHT AND PROPER.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

BBC Lucy had one scrunched up bratface. "Oooh, oooh Mr Tumnus, o noe"

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

AND as a matter of fact he was rub too. And I can't even remember what a bish they SURELY MADE of the badgers. Nice "stirring" music though.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

When reading said book last night, I had to go back and check. Does Susan actually use her arrows? She uses teh Horn (ehheh) but couldn't find arrow-usage anywhere. And does Lucy use her dagger?

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

Is this a test? I believe Lucy uses the dagger like, once or twice to impress on us the seriousness of Fighting for your cause even if you are but an innocent hippypacifist like wot Lucy is. Usually she just uses her vial of bitter gothic tears or whatnot to heal passing ferrets/weasels/other mustelid of choice. I can't remember specific arrow usage of Susan's but I remember a part where she creeps through the forest and starts lisping in order not to resonate so much through the forest as SHE IS GAINING THE WISDOM OF A FOREST-MAID do you see.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I must have missed all that. Then again I was a bit UTI last night after 2/3rds bottle of red.

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

The Lucy in the telly version was a wet and a weed and needing tuoghing up. Preferably via a blow to her head with one of Mr Tumnus's horns.

christ on UNE VELO!

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

They were all very small. I must be getting old, or have turned into A Giant. I can't really remember a great deal about, but I do remember that most of the trailer was just about four poor kids who were being evacuated and feeling pretty miserable, and I had no idea at first that it was Narngia until they found a big long room that was totally empty apart from 1x Big Old Wardrobe!

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I only knew because I was aware that the Narnia film was coming, and even then it did take me a little while.

[ex-dumbgenius.livejournal.com]

Man, I loved BBC Lucy! I thought she was the prettiest and best character.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

I think that's the same trailer I saw. Effects are good (as one would expect from Weta) but there's everything else still to play for.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Fingers xd. Am trying to find the trailer online but everywhere seems to be either rub downloadable (which cannot do at werk, only Media Player streaming) or just not working at all.

[culturedgoat.livejournal.com]

I love the irony in the coin story, that by making a big fuss about it and confiscating the coins, the US mint is actually boosting the value of the remaining coins in circulation.

The manager of House of Fraser in Oxford Street is called Peter Doherty. House of Fraser? House of SMACK more like. Possibly.

xxx

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

The manager of my Tesco is called Jason King. He doesn't look like much of a ladies' man, OR a secret agent.

[tintintin.livejournal.com]

The artist Peter Doherty (as opposed to the piss-artist) used to be bloody good. Backgrounds a touch rudimentary, but nice fully-painted stuff. YOUNG DEATH was him, as I recall, as was DREDD: JUSTICE ONE. He's a top bloke as well; I got rat-arsed in his and Jamie Rich's company at bristol in 2002.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

The first episode of Breathing Space was credited to him, iirc, and that looked pretty good. But the odd thing is, the look hasn't changed much though the credits have.