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[some rambling on X-Men 2, no real spoilers]

Today I went to see X-Men 2. That movie rocks me socks. Been looking forward to it for months. I want to have Nightcrawler's children, seriously. His scenes are simply beyond cool. Even though they interpreted his character different from what I would have done. He was a bit shy and sometimes even silly. Okay, he is silly in the comic, but he never struck me as shy. I thought that was a bit odd, but it made him the more loveable. I liked his deep religiousness and his praying. And his scenes... just wow. It's funny, bro and I read an article about the movie before and it said that the sound Nightcrawler makes when teleporting was "BAMF". Don't ask me. But we laughed a lot about it. And when we heard it for the first time, we both looked at each other and said "BAMF!!!!!!!" LOL.

What annoyed me greatly was that somehow the audience cracked up every time Nightcrawler said his real name, Kurt Wagner. Why the fuck is that so funny? I don't get it.

Wolverine, bad ass, as ever. Love him to bits. One of his scenes made me turn to bro and squeal "He is SO cool!" *g*

Oh, and what pleased me greatly was that when in this one seen when someone scrolls through a computer file you can see a bunch of mutant names and one of them is "Le Beau, Remy". *le squeal* Maybe there's a chance they'll bring him up in a third part or so. That'd be awesome. The movie certainly left enough potential for a sequel. Am deeply puzzled and saddened and a bit disappointed but kinda expected it.

What else did I do today. Parents were away on some bike trip. Weather was wonderful. I started making papier machée which I had prepared the other day by shredding newspaper for 2 hours and soaking it for over 24 hours. I made very fine, mouldable papier machée which required lots of preparation, cooking even, squeezing, adding of stuff etc. In the end I had great, claylike material to work with. Only, it wouldn't allow any interruption, which I hadn't expected. So I worked on sculpturing for 4 hours or so, making lots of things just because I had way too much clay and didn't want to waste it. So I made my picture frame which I want to give to my tutor as a thank you for working so hard on my story with me and I made a little crow sculpture, very small and cute. Then I still had lots of clay left, so I made an ugly cat sculpture. I'm saying ugly because even though the sculpture is done expertly, if I may say so, it turned out to be an ugly cat. I feel very sorry for the cat, but it just has a big nose and all. Oh well. I'll see if I can fix it once I paint it. ^_^;;;

*yawns* That's it, basically. My fingers look horrible. Stupid ink from the paper. All black. Hm... tired...

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Great. Some kids stole our mailbox during Valpurgis Eve (along with throwing an egg against the window, smashing some flower pots and wrapping the cars in toilet paper). Anyway, now that the mailbox is gone, we don't receive any mail! This sucks buckets. And I TOLD my dad to take off the damned mailbox because it's way too exposed and way too tempting not to. But nooooo, he rather chained up the gates which were securely fixed anyway. So now he's all surprised that someone actually tore off a mailbox that's exposed on a pole for everyone to see. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

I really don't get it. It's all fine and dandy to roam the streets and pull a couple of good-natured pranks on people. The egg is okay. No problem with that. But they shouldn't throw eggs against the wall, as they did to the neighbor, or on cars, which always messes up the air condition. Toilet paper is okay too, I guess, if it hadn't been raining so much >_<. And the whole mailbox and gate stealing business is okay, too, I guess. It's tradition. But kids don't understand this. They just hear they can go wild and so they do it. And then they spray paint on cars and doors, damage cars, tear off mailboxes and gates, causing lot of damage and instead of just hiding them in then next bush they take them away. AND they steal sewer covers, which isn't funny at all, but in fact very dangerous. People could fall in there and if a car's wheel gets caught in it in can cause severe damage to the car.

It's really annoying when kids take the whole idea of Valpurgis Eve and pranks way too far. >_<

>_< !!!!!!!!!!! And now dad just said he'll repair the mailbox tomorrow!! That is TOO LATE! I want my mail TODAY! >_< Then we won't even get our mail tomorrow morning. GAH!!!

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Today I had a lot of fun. I planted some flowers and I climbed the roof of the garage! Dad was trimming the hedges and I wanted to talk to him, so I climbed the roof. It was quite exhausting and I had to hold on to the lightning rod and that's not a good thing. And getting back again was quite strenuous, so I don't think I'll be doing that a lot ^_^;

Of course, Sher had the need to show off when I climbed. He saw me starting climbing and made a dash for the tree next to the garage, speeding up there within 20 sec. Sucker -.-

But that was cute then. He was all cuddly and loveable. He sat down next to me and snuggled up. Then he almost rolled down the roof when he was cleaning himself, so he leaned against me for security. But then he tried biting me and I told him not to or else I'll throw him down. That worked and then he was all cuddly again. XD! Later he climbed down with me again and sat down on the iron chair he wanted to be on from the start.

What a cutey.

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

I saw a trailer before X2 about a movie I had never heard of before, which can't be, because I always heard of movies before. And that movie is fantastic! I gotta see it! NOW! It's awesome! The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen!

It must be some sort of Indiana Jones typed movie. There's a great, but aged hero like Indiana Jones in the past (1920s or so). His name is Quatermain, which you might remember. There used to be a movie with Richard Chamberlain in the 80s that tried ripping off Indiana Jones, but failed. Anyway, he (played by Sean Connery! *murrs*) is asked to investigate something and he enters the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, which is a club of men (and one woman) who have special powers, like the X-Men! And I think they're criminals. not sure. But they fight for the good side this time.

There's Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock Holmes' brother (which kinda dates it) and there's Dorian Gray (from the Oscar Wilde story, I assume, which means it's a young man who doesn't age or die), there was a woman who could dissolve into bats, Captain Nemo, and some Hulk-like creature who's the Hyde to the Dr.Jekyll I assume, and a guy who turned into a demon, and one who was always invisible and painted his face white to be seen (from the H.G. Wells novel I think even though the name was changed).

AWESOME! I must see it NOW or I'll die! *drools*

Edit: Just inspected the official website! The bat-lady is a vampire and called Mina Harker! *squeals* And that other young man is called Agent Sawyer who grew up on the Mississippi area! XD Oh this SO satisfies a lit-geek who loves superhero-movies I can't wait!