Monday, September 20, 2010

Some People deserve to be shot...

...that way they could see what it feels like.

In Carolina, USA, over the weekend a female alligator hunter caught and killed a 465kg alligator. Mary-Ellen (with a redneck name like that maybe it shouldn’t surprise me she hunts and is that stupid) caught the gator on a hook and then roped it onto the boat her, her husband and a hunting guide were on. Where they wrestled with it for hours before securing it on their boat with rods and snares before shooting it no less than EIGHT TIMES!

Then, because the alligator was still alive Mary-Ellen had to stab him several times and finally cut his spinal cord.So after torturing the creature for hours, finally she killed him.

After all of this when talking to media and stuff about the hunt and kill, she explained that she hunts “because I want these creatures to be here forever”.

What?!?!

Okai, so some may think I’m off my nut or something but doesn’t killing something mean that it won’t be around anymore, so how exactly is this meant to be helping ‘these creatures to be here forever.’
In order to keep alligators around forever, she decided it would be the right thing to kill a alligator....yes oh perfect sense >.< RETARD!

Things like this make me wish it was legal to shoot people sometimes.

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/7964052/outrage-at-womans-sick-killing-of-alligator

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

When my dog yawns in the middle of the night it sounds like the zombie apocalypse is finally upon us!

Invasion movies are a dime a dozen, and more often than not you find yourself watching the characters attempts and survival and saying how you would do it differently. Imagining yourself in those situations and thinking about all the things you would and wouldn’t do.
Anything from homes being invaded by bugulars, and towns being overrun with infestions of mutant creepy-crawleys to the Earth being underseige by aliens or the fail of the human race to the perils of a zombie outbreak.


So with the success of Tomorrow When the War Began here in Australia, ninemsn have seen fit to compile a gallery that utilises some ‘invasion’ movies to show us some of the do’s and don’ts of survival in invasion situations. The Gallery covers everything from Military and Home invasions, to Robots, Zombies and Monsters to Aliens and Vampires.



http://yourmovies.com.au/slideshow/?site_section_id=922&start=1&action=view

Monday, September 6, 2010

Simple ways to feel pretty!

Nail polish it’s been around almost as long as civilisation. In ancient Egypt, the Egyptians would colour their nails with reddish-brown stains derived from. The Incas painted eagles on their fingertips and the Chinese used lacquers made from anything from mixtures of egg whites, beeswax and gelatin to crushed orchid and rose petals and alum to decorate and tint their nails.

This ancient practise while used to protect the nails is usually used most simply for appearance.
Nail polish has the effect of brightening up your day and giving you that little bit of a pick me up, especially on those days when you really need it. It can show a side of you, you don’t often let out or it can put across an air of polished, coiffed elegance. Simply put, it can make you feel pretty ^_^

Of late my girlfriend and I have become, for lack of a better term, obsessed with painting our nails. We delight in the girlish moments of painting them and then the final results. In the past 7 days we have tried a combined total of 10 different colours.

 

The bursts of personality and temperament that wearing a particular colour or shade of nail polish can exude and in some cases make you yourself indulge in is delectable.

Nail polish is a cheap but extremely effective way of changing it up, without much more effort then a few brush strokes.


Saturday, September 4, 2010

Friday, September 3, 2010

Tomorrow When The War Began Review

I haven’t actually read the John Marsden books, but my fiancĂ© James has and is a HUGE fan. So as soon as it was mentioned that they were even making a movie adaption of ‘Tomorrow When The War Began’ he was excited.

John Marsden wrote seven books in the Tomorrow When The War Began Series, each following the main character Ellie, through her and her friends guerrilla warfare against an invader army in attempts to stem the war and save the ones they love.



The reviews when the movie was first released all sounded quite positive. So we were excited to finally go and catch the flick. Finally today we did!

Basically the story goes, Ellie and her best friend Corrie plan a camping trip into ‘Hell’ over the Australia day weekend with 5 of their friends. While further up the river then they’d ever been before war breaks out. They return home to find their families gone, dogs dead and the town being held in a prison camp at the showground. It follows Ellie and the rest of the group coming to grips with what has happened, hiding from the enemy and basically staying alive- which means kill or be killed.

According to James (and most of the reviews I’ve read) it’s a faithful adaption. Full of action, drama and great Aussie scenery. I personally have been putting off reading the books unsure if it’s something I could get into, but if the movies anything to go by it’ll be intense and well worth it!

All in all the movie is well worth a watch, for both people who have and haven’t read the books. Stuart Beattie best known for his work as a screenwriter (he collaborated on the Pirates of the Caribbean movies and wrote Collateral) makes his directorial debut with this movie and in my opinion does an excellent job. It’s action packed and filled with some drama. The acting within the film for me was patchy in parts due to particular characters, I found Robyn played by Ashleigh Cummings to be very wooden in most scenes, but alternatively Caitlyn Stasey as Ellie and Deniz Akdeniz as Homer were excellent, as was most of the rest of the cast.

I give it 4 and ½ stars ^_^

http://www.twtwb.com/