Archive - Jun 2006

Capricornia

A couple of minutes into the show and one of the characters has already bagged out the Germans, as I sat next to JPB who has some German heritage (just don't call him that...). Later on the Filipinos cop a bit of abuse too (that you can be a loser in Australia but still make it in the Philippines... hmm...). Its the thirties and the half castes are having a hard time but even they bag out the Chinks, who in turn bag the Japs. The whitefellas cop a pretty stern lecture from the main character while he himself stands accused in court. So much hatred, so many deaths, so much drama, so very good theatre.

I absolutely loves Lilian, she made me laugh, she made me sad (I didn't cry, though, but I'm a tough bitch) and I loved how one of her characters, Fat Anna, turned the whole half-caste-chinks-japs loop of hatred inside-out by admitting she herself has a bit of Japanese in her. I loved Ursula as Tocky as well, when she was being cute and when she was losing her mind.

Three hours and the revelations just kept on coming, it was hard to get bored.

Tags: Capricornia, Company B, theatre.

Saw Stick It with JPB. Wasn't too impressed. It's supposed to be the next Bring It On but wasn't anywhere near as fun. There was a bit of a story, I guess, but that wasn't very interesting and when we finally get to the good stuff, the tricks, it's all so brutally chopped up that it loses its effect. And in any case (SPOILER ALERT!) at the end just about all of the gymnasts walk so you don't actually get to see much. Spirit fingers in Bring It On were daggy in a good way, the "radical" routines in Stick It were not.

What's going on? I had also recently seen and was quite disappointed with Take The Lead.

AND WHAT'S WITH ALL THE ANIMATED FEATURES THAT ARE ABOUT TO BE RELEASED? Just about every preview we saw tonight was an animation, y'know, CG and cute furry characters with attitude. Nemo was good but for god's sake move on! I was going to see Cars but I think I'll plan a Stick It style rebellion against all of these animations. Who's joining me?

PS sorry about the spoilers...

Tags: Movies, Stick It, Bring It On, Animated Features.

Firefox was rendering my site quite nicely. I had all just cleaned up the mix. I had set up some of the blog topics and had categorised some of the posts into them. I had set up a link from the old blog to here so that all my readers knew where to go. All was well...

Until I checked the site out on Internet Explorer.

The sidebars were in the wrong spot and Internet Explorer had decided to add indents to the start of each post. Initially I wasn't too concerned with the indent and wanted to fix the sidebars but it took an hour to realise that the indents were causing the problem. Once that was fixed, all was fine (well, not quite... but I'm not telling you what's wrong! It'll all be fixed soon...) but it sucked that it happened in the first place. And I've only checked it in ie6 and have not had a chance to look at it in ie5. But do I really care? If you're still using ie5 you obviously don't care that much about the internet so there's no point in hacking the code for you lot. Upgrade goddammit! If not Firefox then try Opera. It would make life a whole lot easier!

Tags: blog, browser, internet explorer, firefox, opera.