News news, and erhm news i think

Not really sure if this qualifies as news itself, but I just need to babble at least so somethings might be, some might not be.

UH UH UH first of… Manchester United won the Premier League just today ^^ Fantastic, after all their my team, now we just need to bring home the trophy from Wembley on the 28th. Thank you a lot.

Secondly, there was a new guest annouced for London Film & Comic Con (LFCC) just a few days ago. It started Wednesday with the announcement that an announcement was coming Thursday. The guest was described as “amazing” and “fantastic guest announcement for all you Sci-Fi fans” plus it was a first time signer.

It was revealed to be Karen Gillan… Now if you like me went “Who?” Then either you are right or confused. Apparently she is the current female lead in “Doctor Who”. I’m not a fan of the series, as I have never seen it. But I am very happy for the Who fans out there thats going to met her, as apparently a lot really were interested. And kudos to Showmasters for booking her, its really well done.

However, this is the part were I get a bit annoyed. The guest was described as amazing and fantastic, plus a treat for all Sci-Fi fans. Now those words i usually think of when its someone really big and possibly major actor. Something in the league of Christopher Lloyd thats attending the con. He alone is a legend for his portrayal as “Doc Brown” in “Back To The Future”, and he holds a résume that allows those words. Karen Gillian pretty much has 28 episodes of “Doctor Who” and a few episodes of a few different series, according to IMDb. Thats not what i consider amazing and fantastic, and not a something for all Sci-Fi fans.

Again, don’t get me wrong, I am very happy for all the “Doctor Who” fans out there. They are very very lucky. All I am implying is that the pre-announcment should have been handled differently or not made at all. It made a lot of people think it was something a lot larger than somebody with such a short career. Somebody closer to “legend” status.

Now grumpy hat of.

Re-read “The Bro Code” the other day… Ohh how this book is simply fantastic (BTW: Girls its fictional, it doesn’t exist), such a book to live by and hold in higher regard than any religious/fictional work. The follow ups “Bro On The Go” and “The Playbook” are just as awesome, and I hold them dearest of all my books.

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So whats this week?

Even though the week is still young, quite a few things have happened already:

First of my boss; the one in Gamestop; got a transfer to another store in his hometown. That means he doesn’t have to spend an hour each way each day for work, which is pretty neat. Sadly it also means that I wont see him very often anymore, as he is actually an awesome guy (Yes a store manager at Gamestop even can actually be awesome and be considered a friend, this isn’t America). But it also means that the manager position at our store had to be filled. This was given to none other than my best friend, which he have wanted for quite some time now, so big celebration is indeed in order 🙂

This also means we can go onwards with our plans of finding an apartment we can share, which is great. I am looking very much forward to that myself, and I’m sure he is to.

Secondly we had to turn in our project at school, our exam projects in media class. I had the fortune to be in a group with my brother and a girl called Kris, both of them are unlike many in the class pretty dependable and focused when we have important stuff ahead of us. For our project we choose to do a remake of the classic Charlie Chaplin “A Beautiful Sunday Morning”. Funny thing was our project began on Chaplins 138th birthday I think it was.

Our remake is not meant to be exactly the same, but have the overall idea of the first, in a more modern setting, with some of the classic tidbits here and there. Also we kept the music the same, and we filmed it in black & white and made it a silent film too. Overall, it received some pretty good feedback, and we will have to see how we fare if this turns out to be and exam class.

In the role of the angry boss is my brother, behind the camera Kris and in the role that Chaplin played, I star. 🙂

Link to the original first of, and then to our remake:

Let me know what you think ^^

Also, I’ve finally pulled myself together to start sorting out all my Pokémon cards, which is great… But dang it theres a good bunch. So far I’ve reached sorted out Kanto, Johto, Hoenn and currently working on Sinnoh. Trainers and energy cards were sorted out too. Once I’m done it will be good, the folders are going to be a blessing for my order. All i need now is to finish Sinnoh and Unova plus find some way to sort out all the coins, battlemats and stuff. Probably have to buy yet another folder for those. Just as a quick note, the Pokémons themselves I am sorting by their regional numbering ie. Bulbasaur 001, Ivysaur 002…

It helped a lot that I was watching quite a few episodes of the Indigo League/First Season of Pokémon while I was sorting. I’m only 14 episodes short of completing it now, and then moving on to the next season.

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Lost the damn signal

It’s been a long time with no updates from my side, way way to long already

So what happend? I always thought that “you can’t stop the signal”, but i was somewhat wronged.

I’ve been visiting a friend since around Friday where i planned to do a post, but got called to work, and suddenly, time was gone. So I left in a hurry and didn’t get time to post what i intended(which I’ve also forgot what was in the meantime). But why didn’t I just post it Saturday then you ask?

Well you see my friend does not live in a city… He lives out in the country pretty much, and for some apparent reason my phone company and my iPhone cannot get any good signal out there. “But Martin, you could just connect to his wireless internet for connection”… Yeah see thats where it gets interesting. His internet is not on at all times, its not a modem (at least I think not), but its switched off and on when needed. He is very against the use of Facebook, Homebanking, Paypal, and such things… Which is actually fair enough, it leaves me a little puzzled (Especially when I have to order stuff from outside of Denmark for him), but I let him be his kinda weird, because I have my weird little ideas too. So that means I had connection from time to time, but not often nor on regular basis.

But I was not there to be blogging either or something that has to do with the internet. Him and I are currently building Mandalorian Armor; in case you don’t know, its a Star Wars costume, think Boba Fett/Jango Fett; and actually we have been at this since sometime late summer last year. However over the last 6 months we have not really been making any progress except ordering our helmets and a few things. So we had 4 days to do some work in, and we actually did get pretty far, I haven’t transferred the pictures from my iPhone to the computer yet, so bear with me ’till i get that fixed up.

We did get the first few pieces painted (about a quarter of my costume actually), and we finished did do a start on a flightsuit. Big YAY for getting that much further, hopefully both costumes will be ready by the end of May for a convention we are going to attend. Despite my friends optimism I however lack the faith it will be ready by then, but hell you can always hope.

Apart from that not much have happened the last few days, a bit of work, me putting together some warhammer figures for the first time in about a year, playing some DS, watching Firefly again.

Not really much.

So untill next time, happy Easter to all ^^

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more London Film & Comic Con

Another guest has been added to the already exciting London Film & Comic Con line-up. This time we welcome another Fett to the show. Our favorite Boba Fett Mr. Jeremy Bulloch will be available for the show. No news on what days or times yet, and not any info about photoshoots either.

I had the great fortune of meeting Jeremy back in November at Collectormania Copenhagen II, and i have nothing but nice things to say about this man. The show was not very busy so he had good time to chat with guests and share stories, which is what i love in the smaller events, when theres time for the actors to meet the guests and talk a little in between writing autographs. I realise that this might not be possible with London Film & Comic Con, as there will be a larger amount of attendees, but if your around the event, take the chance to meet this amazing man.

On another note regarding this event, I recieved my ticket for the photo shoot with Christopher Lloyd a few days ago. You know, the photoshoot with a Delorean Time Machine 😉 This is going to be the highlight of the year for me 🙂

Link to the show
http://www.londonfilmandcomiccon.com

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Framed Pokemon ^^

Yeah, I actually completed one of the Legends twin-cards from the Pokémon series. And obviously I had to frame it, as it looks amazing.
Heres a picture for your enjoyment

 

Look’s absolutly great, now I only need to get the top half of the Lugia Legend card so i can frame that besides this one 🙂 At least thats one goal down by now. On another Pokémon note, I got myself Pokémon Diamond and Platinum today to add to the collection.

 

Ohh and regarding London Film & Comic Con, they just announced another cool guest ^^

Tom Sizemore, who plays one of my favorite characters in any warfilm, (actually he is in quite a few of them :P) Sgt. Mike Horvath in Saving Private Ryan ^^ Looking so much forward to meeting him 😀

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