Faintly there comes the dull rattle of machine-guns

Last week I mentioned something about moving house by the end of January. Hasn't happened. Quite frankly, this is a good thing; the house we are going to move into isn't ready, my bedroom-to-be (???) still needs wallpaper stripping.

We no longer have to be out by January anyway because one of my neighbors has signed a lawsuit, or something, so that the person trying to buy our place basically can't until stuff is sorted out properly. Even though said neighbor was offered something like 35 grand to move to a new place, and the person buying offered to help find said new place for him.

So yeah, anyway.

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I think I watched the worst film I've ever seen last night. It was called '2012: Doomsday', obviously to cash in on the success of '2012'... by trying to fool people into thinking they;re buying a copy of '2012'? Seems to have worked, cos my dad brought it. Not surprisingly, it had an apocalyptic theme that was set in the year 2012. However, probably unlike '2012' -I have to admit I haven't actually seen '2012' yet- 'Doomsday' turned out to be a story about faith and god killing nearly all human life on the planet so that human life could 'start again', like a second Noah's Ark flooding thing, just with everything else as well. Aside from the terrible plot, the film was absolutely jam-packed with cheap special effects ('special' as in 'special needs' perhaps?), bad acting, bad direction, stereotyped characters, and more pretentious christian faith stuff than you can shake a crucifix at.

For god sake, save yourselves and do not watch '2012: Doomsday'.

I might revise that and put it in a magazine.

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I'm listening to 'Mechanize' by Fear Factory while writing this. Don't normally listen to much metal, but I'm kinda liking this.

www.myspace.com/FearFactory

Check them out. They pioneered melody in death metal and seem to enjoy making concept albums, so you could argue they're sorta like Pink Floyd for metal?

Thank Myles Dyer for making me aware of them. blade376.com/

'Final Exit' is brilliance.

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I just finished writing my Literature essay about Journey's End. I'm quite pleased.

For those who are curious, Journey's End is a play set in the First World War written by someone who fought in it, based on their experiences.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey%27s_En Here you go, can't be arsed to write about it again.

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"Very faintly there comes the dull rattle of machine guns and the fevered spatter of rifle fire." - Extract from Journey's End.