Which Wonder Wifey noticed, eyes gleaming like spotlights.
"You can make That Cake!" she directed. "That Cake" is Roasted Banana & Walnut Bread with a Maple Syrup Icing. No walnuts in the Mansion - pecans will do as a substitute. Of course it has to be absolutely cold before the icing gets added, which time is a torment and a trial for Wonder Wifey.
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| Luckily I caught it before it got blackened. "45 minutes" my hairy white behind - 70 is more like it |
Productive Sunday
Conrad updated his list of military history books, which now stands at <hem> and <coughcough> three (look, that's one-seventh of what Andy Sangar has, never mind Jim Webster, so it's comparatively small). Then it was reading "Against the Day" - again, with a mournful dog being needy and either whining or wanting to sit on your author's lap. I have now reached the second part, "Iceland Spar". I have mentioned how tangential Pynchon's plots are, the novel has now come back to the Chums Of Chance after focussing on three other major players, and Tom also breaks the fourth wall; you can look this up to prove I'm not pretending to read it. Then it was time to take up pen and write more about "So You Want To Be A Supervillain?".
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| So much concentrated eeeeevil! |
Conrad then made a trip to Royton - not to buy anything, just to let the world witness My Awesome - came back and began That Cake.
FILMIC INTERLUDE
"This Is The End"
If you cast your mind back, "The World's End" came out at the same time. TITE is not based on the Doors song and is, indeed about the end of the world. Unlike TWE there is no deus ex machina* to save everyone, the world really does end in TITE. Except it's a comedy.
To be honest, it is funny, and I especially liked the bit where Rihanna** gets thrown to her death in a gigantic fiery pit. Thanks to the improvisation some scenes work and, by the law of averages, some scenes die a lonely death.
I know BOOJUM! avoids religion the way Goths avoid pink, yet I have to say that TITE will probably offend some people of extreme religious sentiment. Plus there is a lot of swearing, and cann - ah, no, that would be telling.
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| "This is the end, the only end, my friend" as Captain Willard - no, hang on - |
Condensed Films
Once again Conrad can explicate a fillum in five words, leaving you with the decision whether or not to see it.
THE FILM THE FIVE WORDS
Avatar Pocahontas In Outer Space
Scott Pilgrim versus the World I Really Have No Idea!
Twelve Monkeys Time Travel, Lunatics and Teeth
The Ring Unintentionally Funny Japanese Horror Film
Black Swan Um - Ballet? Something like that.
Spirited Away The Best Animated Film Evah
Where Eagles Dare Boy's Own Double-Cross Deathfest**
Battlestar Galactica
io9 reports that a film re-boot is in the works even as I type. Why? The TV Series just about stamped "Definitive Version No Need Repeat NO NEED! To Ever Muck Around With It In The Future"
In case you are wondering, I come from an alternative universe where the original series and that dreadful spin-off "Galactica 80" do not exist. There will be no further mention.
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| Battle Scars. Close enough |
Forbidden Planet
As any fule kno, this is one of Conrad's top films. I was just seeing how much dialogue I can remember since I have seen it (?50?) times:
Captain J J Adams: Fundamentally, it's a question of crude power, how to short-circuit the continuum on a four or five parsec level. Just to construct a bunker to house the main core would take three or four days."
Capt. Adams: Nice planet you have here. High oxygen content.
Robbie The Robot: I rarely use it myself, sir. It promotes rust.
| Robbie having a complete metal breakdown |
Doc Ostrow: You should see my new mind, up there in lights, bigger than his. Morbius was too close to the problem. The Krell had finished their project, but they forgot one deadly problem. Monsters, John! Monsters from the Id!
<Mister Hand intervenes, arguing that, while Conrad loves this, others have a life to live>
NORMAL SERVICE RESUMES
Rekorderlig
No "S". This is Swedish Orange and Ginger Cider. We shall see what it's like. See below for bottle protected by the cyborg sentry cats:
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| Touch at your peril! Those cats have lasers for eyes. |
The Banshee
In Celtic folklore, derived from the Gaelic "Bean Sidhe", this was a ghost that appeared and wailed, forewarning of the death of a person. If that particular person was great or holy, they'd get several Banshees howling over their death. The Banshee might appear as a horrid old hag or a gorgeous young thing, viz:
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| A little racy, perhaps, but the one from Deviantart - Oh my! |
Not reported as being seen any time after 1948, any surviving Banshees are probably collecting supernatural dole money. After all, when the postal system and the NHS came in, they were pretty much redundant, weren't they? Not only that, councils would serve them with Noise-Abatement Orders, because appearing in the small hours of the morning and wailing tunelessly - that's behaviour suspiciously like a refugee from a hen-party ...
Finally
Blog-pimp for daddy, Edna!
I shall be looking after her from next Saturday when Wonder Wifey goes off on her cruise, so we had a practice walk this afternoon. Nice and bright and sunny, which is all to the good. If it's miserable and wet and raining - ah, yes, that will test our mettle.
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| Edna Bedna |
* Get it? It's the Latin phrase, and there's machines in TWE - oh you do.
** My blog, my rules on novel words that happen to make the five word criteria.
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