Murgatroid's Blog

Having Fun on Omegle

2010-12-30T10:37:00.002+11:00

Stranger: Hi

You: Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.

Stranger: Ok Inigo, that was funny!

You: Funny? I seek revenge for my father's murder. What is so funny?

Stranger: Your grammar is refreshing!

Stranger: Tell about your father

You: He was a wonderful man. The most talented sword maker in all the land

You: He was making a sword, when I was a boy. A beautiful sword, commissioned by a man with six fingers

Stranger: Really? Did he teach you to be that talented of a sword maker as well?

Stranger: What land would this be?

You: Florin, of course

Stranger: You speak Italian?

You: Unfortunately, When the Six Fingered Man can to collect his sword, he tried to pay only half the agreed price

Stranger: Your story is so compelling...

You: My father refused, which angered the Six Fingered Man, and he slew him

Stranger: And now you seek revenge?

You: I do

Stranger: The internet is the best way to do this of course

You: Since I was eleven years old I have trained day and night, in many different disciplines

Stranger: We must find the real name of the Six Fingered Man and then find him!

Stranger: What kind of disciplines?

You: So that when I meet the Six Fingered Man, I can avenge my father

You: Mostly sword fighting

Stranger: Describe this Six Fingered Man

Stranger: I will help you on your journey

You: He often wears rich yellow tunics

You: And he has six fingers on his right hand, of course

Stranger: Yes, of course. Any other distinguishing characteristics?

You: If you do one of those Google Image Searches on Six Fingered Man, the first image is a very accurate depiction of his face

Stranger: LOL

Stranger: ok I can't keep this up anymore.

Stranger: But you are too funny!

Stranger: I'm impressed

You: I don't understand what you are saying to me, but if you cannot help me on my quest to find the Six Fingered Man, you are no more use to me

You: Farewell

You: I wish you luck on your own quests

Stranger: All right, thanks for the laugh :)

My Letter to Christian Caldeira from OBatR

2010-08-31T23:14:00.006+10:00

This is a response to a letter Christian wrote recently.

Though it is sad that you will be doing your last show as Oliver Boyd and the Remembralls soon, I just wanted to let you know what a positive impact your music has had on my life.

I actually only discovered Wizard Rock a few days after Deathly Hallows, but it turned out that was when I needed it the most. Your music, especially (and I know you probably get this a lot) End of an Era. has helped me get through so many tough times, not just the end of Harry Potter. EoaE has become my sad times song. It helps me remember that I don't have to mourn the end of something good, I can celebrate it. Just the opening guitar strums can pull a smile out of me in my darkest moods. When your other instruments come in, I feel a whole sense of wellbeing through my whole self. EoaE is the theme song to the most important friendship I've had in my life. I remember sitting on a bench eating cake and singing it together, to each other, for mutual comfort. It's our song, and it will be forever, no matter what.

It's not just the lyrics (though they are amazing), the music you make is so beautiful it makes me cry in the best way. The way I cried when Harry used the Ring of Requirement to talk to his parents and Sirius and Remus. I can't stop myself from harmonising with you in Trio in Trouble. You inspire the music in me when I'm not even a majorly musically inclined person

Mischief Managed was my ringtone for almost a year. I had a happy dance for everytime I got a phone call, because that song just makes me so darn happy. You know you're good at the emotions thing, right?

I hope you read this, because basically I want to say a big fat happy thankyou.

You're awesome. I can't wait to hear your muggle music.

Love Kalinda

Sydney Supanova '10

2010-07-23T12:14:00.018+10:00

So, turns out a few people have landed on this here little blog after googling "emma frost supanova", so I guess it's time I updated the Internet on how my cosplay turned out.

In a word, FABULOUS.

I literally finished my costume the Saturday morning. It was a bit of a rush in the end (I made the pants and the corset in three days!)

but I think it came together really well for my first cosplay :)

Supanova was so so much fun, there were famous people and awesome shops and omg Artists Alley. I spent like, five hours going up and down Artists Alley. Mostly because the Doctor Who Club stand was there, and I became buddies with those guys over the weekend :)

I only went to a couple of the Panels, most of them on Sunday, when I wasn't cosplaying (turns out, when you dress up as a skanky superhero, people want to take photos of you. A LOT. Who'd've known!), and I missed out on Summer Glau :( I DID see Charisma Carpenter and Eliza Dushku, and Lou Ferrigno, and whatsisface the sound effects guy from the Police Academy movies. I guarantee I'll remember his name as soon as I click post. And while I was waiting for Eliza Dushku (you had to be there two panels early to get good seats for Eliza), I saw a couple of peeps who do the voices in a bunch of Anime. Mostly Full Metal Alchemist, I think.

And so much awesome cosplay! I'll but some pics below of my favourites (click for bigger versions)

So yeah. Awesome weekend. I think it's definitely going to become an annual thing for me, if I can afford it :P I'm totes already thinking about next year's cosplay.. Any suggestions?

~~Murgie~~

BLONDE

2010-05-30T17:50:00.005+10:00

So, just a short little update on my Emma Frost cosplay, MY WIG!

So people are aware, I generally have short brown hair, so this long straight blondness is a BIG DEAL. And it looks totally amazing.

As far as an Emma Frost wig, it's maybe slightly too straight, but I'm really not fussed. It looks so cool!!

Coming up, photos of a few little accessories, and news on the actual outfit!!

~~Murgie~~

Emma Frost Cosplay

2010-05-12T21:22:00.006+10:00

(UPDATE ON THIS COSPLAY HERE! PHOTOS!)

So, I'm going to Supanova in Sydney next month for the first time, and because I'm apparently batshit crazy, I've decided to be incredibly nerdy (coz like, I totally wasn't nerdy already for going to Supanova in the first place :P) and cosplay.

For my hundreds of readers who may not know what cosplay is, here's a Wikipedia link. Go educate yourself. I'll wait here.

K, so, accepting my unhealthy obsession with superheroes, I've decided to dress up as Emma Frost, White Queen, X-Man, and Mega Babe who can totally read your mind.

I've decided to go with one of these variations. Emma Frost has a new revealing costume every other day, but these X-Men ones are my favourites. I've mostly settled on the variation displayed top-middle by Diamond!Emma (Oh yeah, she can turn herself into diamond as well)

This is just an intro blog, I guess. I'll be keeping y'all updated on my progress as I get to making my costume!

~~Murgie~~

Hello 2:30 am, I think I hate you

2010-04-18T02:31:00.003+10:00

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It is 2:30 in the morning, and my head won't let me go to sleep.

Not like, just my brain. My entire head won't let me go to sleep, on account of this weird flu/cold/throat infection I have. Don't people usually get sleepy when they're sick?

So I thought now would be an excellent time to update this frequently neglected blog

You know what sucks? I was watching Indiana Jones (the fourth one. SPOILER: IT'S INTER-DIMENSIONAL ALIENS NOT JUST REGULAR ALIENS LOLZ!11!) earlier tonight and I kept falling asleep, which SUCKED because Indy is awesome and I didn't want to sleep. And now I'm so bored I've resorted to BLOGGING.

Well, that's all I've got tonight. Maybe I'll try watching Transformers. I have this HORRIBLE DISEASE where awesomeness makes me sleepy. Maybe it'll counteract my other horrible disease where my own head HATES ME.

Well. Night.

~~Murgie~~

Revives Blog

2010-02-09T11:18:00.006+11:00

GAH. I always do this. I can't go a month not blogging without it somehow stretching into almost 6 months.

But no matter. I am back, and this time it's not a cop-out youtube blog, it's a Real Blog!

So, as my entire reader base already knows, because I update my Facebook much more regularly than this blog, I have recently undertaken a mission to fold a thousand paper cranes.

Pretty :)

I'm just over halfway now; I'm trying to finish before I go back to uni in March. I reckon I might make it, maybe ^_^

In other news, for the past week or so, I've been reading Deathly Hallows for the first time pretty much since it came out TWO AND A HALF YEARS AGO (I still cannot believe it's been that long...). It's kinda brought on a Post Potter Depression relapse, it's so sad. I definitely don't remember crying this much the first time I read it, that's for sure.

Like, the first time I read it (SPOILERS, but it's been out almost three years now, so you're a dumbass if you don't know what happens. Just sayin'), in the part where Nagini pops out of Bathilda's head, and Voldie nearly catches Harry and Hermione right there in Godrics Hollow, and then Harry connects to Voldie's memory of the night the Potters died, I was still buzzing from the fact that a FREAKING SNAKE BURST OUT OF AN OLD LADY'S DEAD BODY to notice how sad Harry was, after reliving that memory from the point of view of someone who was old enough to actually remember it properly.

I hope they put the Nagini/Bathilda Bagshot scene in the movie. Just to gross out the people who still think Harry Potter is a kids' thing :D

But it's not just mourning the characters in the book (though I've been doing A LOT of that. WHY DO THEY ALL HAVE TO DIE????), I miss the books themselves, reading them for the first time. I miss not knowing what would happen next. And I think what I miss most of all is waiting for the next book. *sigh*

I hate to end a blog on a sad note, I prefer bitter sweet :D

NITWIT ODDMENT BLUBBER TWIT!

~~Murgie~~

Absurd Wizard Rock Lyrics of the Moment

2009-09-17T11:00:00.003+10:00

I saw you playin’ Quidditch way up in the sky
So I got my friends together, thought we’d say hi
I didn’t mean to scare you when you fell off your broom

You fell very far and you fell very long
You fell so long that I wrote this song
I’d just like to tell you
I’m sorry about your Quidditch match

Imagined us being the best of friends
Stay up late on the weekends
A round of Butterbeers without permission
I look at you
And you look at me
We get caught in the moment, it’s that easy
You lean in close, your eyes, tilt back your head and then, surprise

I’d suck out your soul
I’d suck out your soul

(spoken)
Stop, hey hey, come on, man
What?
Come on, I’d suck out your soul? Come on!
Barkley, we’re not supposed to deny our past!
Glenn, that is bush, we don’t want people to know!
Dude, what should I say? I don’t want to just lie to them
I don't know, uh... Let's just wing it, wing it, man
Alright
Alright

Just give you a kiss
I’ll give you a kiss (Dementor’s kiss)

Give me some sugar
Harry Potter (Harry Potter)

Come on now
Don’t be a cock-a-tease

Random Wizard Rock Song of the Moment

2009-07-08T19:31:00.004+10:00

(commentary below lyrics)

Got this bad feeling
About Professor Snape
Always punishing Harry
Unnecessarily
It's like
How many effed up things
Does he have to do
Before someone says
I don't trust this dude

But you get what you deserve...

Hey Dumbledore
Can you read the writing on the wall
On the lightning struck tower
Can't delude yourself anymore
Hey Dumbledore
Can't you read the writing on the wall
On the lightning struck tower
Can't delude yourself...
Anymore

You know he's got the Dark Mark
Right there on his arm (IT'S RIGHT THERE)
Right it off to vocation
It's all part of his charm
You know he's drunk with power
And he's on Malfoy's side
Been saying it since the first one
I don't like this guy

Albus why do you
Albus why do you
Albus why did you...

Hey Dumbledore
Can you read the writing on the wall
On the lightning struck tower
Can't delude yourself anymore
Hey Dumbledore
Can't you read the writing on the wall
On the lightning struck tower
Can't delude yourself...
Anymore...

SNAPE
SUCKS

SNAPE (imperius)
SUCKS (avada kedavra)

SNAPE (imperius)
SUCKS (avada...)

Voldemort's a f*ck face
Just as bad is Severus Snape
Yeah Voldemort's a f*ck face
Just as bad is Severus Snape

Stop, stop Severus Snape

~Snape by the Moaning Myrtles & The Remus Lupins

I freaking love this song. According to my iTunes, it's my first ever Wizard Rock song (apart from Save Ginny Weasley, which almost doesn't count) and I remember the first day I downloaded it (it used to be available from the Moaning Myrtles' MySpace profile) I had it on permanent repeat.

I don't exactly agree with the lyrics, especially after reading the seventh book, but I like them anyhow. It nicely summarises the whole "Snape Sucks" side of that debate, that was once so fierce.

~~Murgie~~

Harry Potter Quotes That Didn't Make Me Laugh The First Time I Read Them, But They Do Now

2009-06-27T09:46:00.004+10:00

'What are you working on?' said Harry.
'A report for the Department of International Magical Co-operation,' said Percy smugly. 'We're trying to standardise cauldron thickness. Some of these foreign imports are just a shade too thin - leakages have been increasing at a rate of almost three per cent a year!'

~GoF

Shut Up Shut Up Shut Up

2009-05-15T09:49:00.002+10:00

There's a baby Magpie outside my window. I think it's lost it's Mamma coz it is making a horrendously annoying noise.

Bubba Maggie - Blark! Blark!
Me - OMG SHUT UP.

Stupid Magpie...

Cracks Magical Whip of Awesome

2009-05-06T18:57:00.001+10:00

As of today, I have officially now watched ALL of the Indiana Jones movies.

And this is a very good thing :D

One day I'll be as Cool as Indy. And maybe, some day I'll even reach such cooleness levels that I'll be even with the likes of Stan Lee, J.K. Rowling, and Optimus Prime.

And Justin Long. He's pretty cool too.

Who do you think is cool?
~~Murgie~~

I Love the Internet

2009-05-04T23:02:00.003+10:00

In case you have not yet been exposed to the Funniest Video On Youtube Under 7 Seconds, WATCH THIS. NO EXCUSES.

Now. You have been educated.
Hooray!

~~Murgie~~

When On A Cruise Ship...

2009-04-18T12:53:00.002+10:00

So, I'm on a cruise ship at the moment, and today's a sea day, and to entertain myself, I decided to play Spot The Twilight Book.

I went for a five minute walk and saw 6 books from the Twilight series. Then, when I was coming down to the Internet Cafe to type this blog, I saw another. It just funny. Everybody reads the same thing.

It was cool when it was the weeks following the release of a Harry Potter book, and you'd get on a bus, and there was someone reading it. It was like a special club. With Twilight it just annoys me.

Not sure why...

~~Murgie~~

So, I Work in a Pharmacy...

2009-04-15T12:04:00.003+10:00

And we get all these companies who make clubs for us to join and answer questions and win prizes and such. One of these is an online monthly multiple choice club. You get points for every question you get right, and accumulate these points to purchase items from the online prize catalogue. Last year I got a $50 Borders voucher. Woot!

Anyway, today I was doing this months quiz, and the theme this month was DayTime Mersyndol. Which is a strong pain relief tablet. And this is one of the questions -

The wrong answers made me laugh.

And wish there really was a tablet for bad hair days.

~~Murgie~~

Why I Love Eli Stone (and Life)

2009-04-09T23:35:00.004+10:00

INT. SOME JAIL - DAY

GUY LAWYER and CHICK LAWYER have been put into jail because GUY LAWYER's crazy EX-GIRLFRIEND is a bit jealous. They are in separate but connecting cells. CHICK LAWYER is PREGGERS with GUY LAWYER's kid.

CHICK LAWYER
"Gosh, Matt, your ex is crazy! But it's weird for me to see you talking to her..."

GUY LAWYER
"How do you think I feel! Everyday I watch you go work with your ex-fiance! The love of your life!"

CHICK LAWYER
(sadly)
"Oh, Eli wasn't the love of my life... That position has yet to be filled..."

(PAUSE)

GUY LAWYER
"... Are you taking applications?"

CHICK LAWYER responds by flopping her hand through the cell bars.

Oh, the Corny Perfection.

I wish I lived in Eli Stone World. It's almost as Happily-Ever-Aftery as HSM!!!

Which by the way I bought on DVD today. The guy who checks bags at the door told me to hide it. I lol'd
And turned my bag around so everyone could see the big red letters "HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 3" through it. Cos I'm contrary like that.

~~Murgie~~

The Pop-Tart Effect

2009-02-23T23:53:00.005+11:00

A few years ago, Pop-Tarts were discontinued in Australia, because some people were stupid and over-heated them, then burned themselves.

Which makes me a little upset, and very mad.

Most people do read the instructions, and cook/eat their Pop-Tarts safely. It's not fair that the majority should suffer because of a few stupid people (Who, in my head, are all short skinny middle-aged men. I don't know why).

But hey. The minority has always controlled the world, ever since some caveman got a little too attached to his mum, and slowed his whole family down in their nomadic travelling to accommodate the old lady. Instead of leaving her to the mercy of the lions.

And I want to call it the Pop-Tart Effect.

Even though the rest of the Pop-Tart-Eating-World has easy access to them. Stupid Aussie safety laws...

~~Murgie~~

In Which Murgie Meets and High-Fives a Super Hero

2009-02-13T17:59:00.005+11:00

This week I went to the Gold Coast, Queensland with five girlfriends for a couple of days. The Gold Coast is mostly famous for its beaches, its nightlife, Schoolies Week, and the theme parks.

Well, we have beaches, and we have nightlife (sorta) in Newcastle, and we are too old for Schoolies, so all we could do was go to theme parks!

Damnation *cough*

It was quite possibly the number one best Holiday I have ever had. Dreamworld on Monday was superhappyfuntimes, with the mega fast Tower of Terror, and the fun spinny Claw, and lots of thrilly rides, and OMIGOSH THE CUTE TIGER CUBS, but MovieWorld on Tuesday, I'm pretty sure made my year.

Not just my day, or week, but the whole freaking year.

It started off fantastic, with a rollercoaster called Superman Escape (a bunch of insanely fast, red-and-blue fun) and just got better as we ventured through the extreme awesomeness of the ScoobyDo Spooky Coaster (say that three times fast) and the Wild West Falls (which we went on about 7 times, in search of the perfect photo).

But there were two things that simply outshone everything else that happened that day, hell, this week (even the boxed extended trilogy of the Lord of the Rings movies, and the official replica of Professor Lupin's wand that I purchased)

1. We were walking down the main street, when one of my friends yelled (screamed) out "OH MY GOD IT'S BATMAN!!!" and literally jumped on him. The other girls all got photos hugging him, but I shyly walked up to him and asked if he could give me a high-five.

AND HE SAID YES.

And just when I thought things could not possibly get any more awesome, (and who could blame me for thinking that, since I had JUST HIGH FIVED A SUPER HERO) A dude dressed up as Austin Powers starts driving around in a golf buggy with a microphone saying that the parade was about to start, and to celebrate, he was going to give free Cornettos to people who answered a quiz question.

I desperately wanted to win a Cornetto.

I waited through as Fake Austin asked the first couple of questions, kicking myself everytime he asked one, cause I knew all the answers, until finally I couldn't contain myself, and the next time Fake Austin asked who wanted to answer a question, I jumped out from behind some randoms and screamed as loud as I could, "PICK ME!!!!!!"

And since when I'm loud, I'm really loud, Fake Austin simply could not ignore me, and he asked me the next question!!!!!!!!!!!!

I can't remember much after this, Daffy Duck was in my face, Wonder Woman was in my face, my face was on the big screen, cause hey, a big camera was in my face, and the next thing I know, the Parade has started, and I have a Vanilla Cornetto in my hand.

Best. Day. Ever.
Of all time.

~~Murgie~~

Third Time Lucky, Sixth Time Picky

2009-01-29T19:23:00.004+11:00

So, today I went to the cinema with my friends, expecting to go and see Role Models, but ended up being convinced to see Twilight again instead.

Yeah. For the SIXTH time.

hoi...

The good news is, I was still grinning when it ended, and you see Victoria walking down the stairs all pissed off and devious.

Bad news, I've started picking at the movie. At the tacky effects, the weird casting (Charlie anyone?), the lack of any sort of explanation as to why the two main characters have fallen in love. And all the little sub plots ruthlessly extracted, leaving just the husk of the storyline.

And all the 'classic book quotes' that are taken right out of context. The whole "own brand of heroin" metaphor just falls over without the comparison to the brandy metaphor that the book has.

And don't even get me started on the whole dominant/potent thing. Obviously the script writer didn't bother looking up the exact quote from the book, but just copied it off the back cover. Grr.

Still

It is Edward :D

~~Murgie

Today

2008-12-18T09:11:00.002+11:00

shit

I'm scared.

Going to the movies with my ex-best friend.

haven't seen her for 6 months

scared. can we still be friends? I know i've changed a lot in 6 months. i'm sure she has too. she has bangs now.

eep
~~Murgie

Thought of the Day

2008-10-19T18:54:00.003+11:00

Blogs are easier to write when you have a larger audience..
I miss RD days :(

~~Murgie~~

Murgie's List of Movie Moments of Awesome

2008-10-09T15:18:00.003+11:00

I'm not really sure how I define a Moment of Awesome. A lot of the time, it's my favourite moment of the move, but not always. Sometimes it's a stroke of genius on the writer/director/actor's part. Most of the time it's the part of a movie that makes me laugh, or cry, or smile, or feel any sort of emotion.

I have to admit, I didn't just type all this up today, I've been working on this for months, every time I thought of something. This list is in no way complete, and I’ve mostly taken moments from my favourite movies, or one’s that I can remember. Feel very free too tell your own in the comments!

Also, before I start, a note: I’m not including the Lord of the Rings movies in this list, because it’s not fair to pick just one from the trilogy, or from each movie. Too many. Maybe I’ll make that a separate blog one day :D

Love Actually - When Sam, the little kid in love, is running through the airport, past all the security, to get to the girl. Everything about this movie moment just makes me so happy - the music, Mr Bean's cameo, the Christmas song playing on TV, even the kid's red hair. And he finds her, and SHE KNOWS HIS NAME!!! and my heart explodes from the cuteness. And then he does that number one finger thing to Liam Neeson and my heart explodes again. Also, I love Liam Neeson's accent.

Bring It On - "Aaron, you're a great cheerleader, but maybe you're not quite 'boyfriend material'." Youch! And the random chick on his room (while pulling her pants up) goes "You're a cheerleader?!" LMAO

Stardust - In the "final battle" scene where Tristan's being attacked by voodoo!Septimus and he cuts a rope, simultaneously burying voodoo!Septimus under a massive chandelier, and using the rope to fly/swing up the stairs to land on the witch, and save Yvaine. YAY! And also the bit when Yvaine finds out Tristan understood her when she was talking in the cart. LOL. And then sweet. I want to be a star.

The Princess Bride - Um. All of it?

Spiderman 3 - It's not my favourite out of the trilogy (SM2 FTW!), but I love the final battle scene in this movie. When Harry turns up to help, and it suddenly becomes a massively awesome, two-on-two, good-vs-bad final battle, which in my opinion is one of the coolest moments in movie history. I love the whole ambiguity of Harry and the Sandman. Like, for most of the movie, everything Harry does is from hatred, and everything the Sandman does is out of love. But who's the goodie, and who's the baddie, in the end? And Spidey vs. Venom? So cool. SO cool.

Get Smart - "Would you believe Chuck Norris with a BB gun?" Classic. In a third millennium sort of way.

The Lion King - The scene where grown-up Simba meets Rafiki in the field. And Rafiki's singing that "asante sana squash banana" chant. It's a hilarious scene ("Come on, will you cut it out?" "Can't cut it out. It'll grow right back!"), but there's a lot of wisdom in it too. In fact, I'll extend it to that whole part, where Simba finds his father within him, and talks to Rafiki about it after. Just coz I love Rafiki's line, "What was that!??!! The Weather!" And the bit where he hits Simba on the head with his stick thingy. I have so much respect for Disney, just for that part of that movie.

Chicago - The whole "pop. squish. six. uh uh. cicero. lipschitz" scene. I can't remember what they call the song, but it's freaking awesome.

Bewitched - Isabel's undone the hex, and Jack's back to normal, meaning, completely absorbed by himself. She calls him a jerk, gets super mad, and storms off the set yelling "you better call my agent!" The fact that she doesn't have an agent gets pointed out to her, and she yells back, "Then call my cable guy!" It's funnier when you see it...

Iron Man - This is a movie which is pretty much entirely made of awesome, but I've narrowed it down to two moments.
ONE. When he's in Gulmira, and he shoots a missile at a tank, then before it even hits the tank, he turns around and walks away without even looking at it!!! How cool must someone be to not even have to watch their own explosions? He just walks, exuding so much awesomeness, it's insane. INSANELY AWESOME.
TWO. This one's right at the end, when Tony is about to tell a press conference the big cover-up story, ("the truth is..") when he drops the speech cards, looks up and says "I am Ironman" and it cuts to black and the awesome guitar riff from the Black Sabbath song starts DO do DO doDO DOdoDOdoDOdodo do DO DO!! And I am squealing from the pure awesome.

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - While, in general, I'm not a fan of the HP movies, I have to give super duper kudos to whoever thought of the credits sequence for the third one. The feet? on the Map? INCREDIBLY AWESOME. I like how when the main actors' names are shown, their feet sort of match them. Like Hagrid's are big and clompy, and Hermione's are little. I've probably watched the credits more than the actual movie lol... Favourite feet include those belonging to two people standing *very* close to each other (lol), the ones that run from a Dungbomb storeroom, and the pair that mysteriously change into dog's paws (I wonder who that could be?)

High School Musical - (Yeah, HSM... so what?) The song "We're All in this Together" makes me wish I went to a school where everyone could sing and dance. And where singing and dancing was the OK thing to do after our school sports team won an important game.
OOH and also the bit where the basketball team have all those letters that spell out "GO DRAMA CLUB!" And at the end, Troy holds up the exclamation mark and says "exclamation point!" Silly American for saying "point", but it's funny anyhow. :D

Sky High - The line "Whatever you're teaching them, Jonathan, keep teaching them... it..."
Grammatical awkwardness amuses me.

Clueless - I have to confess, this is one of my most favourite movies ever. Mostly because of the ending, when they get together (FINALLY). All throughout the rest of the movie, Paul Rudd's character is all confident and cool about EVERYTHING, including Cher, until the end, when he starts to think maybe she likes him back, and they're sitting on the stairs and she's all "dad's not the ONLY one who cares.." and he's like, "are you saying *little grin* you care about me?" and he's so shy and cute and insecure, and they kiss, and I'm on the sofa, hugging every pillow I can get my hands onto, because I'm so happy.

Sex and the City - I don't want to spoil it, but for those who did see it, you'll know what I mean - the flower part. Specifically, the hitting someone with flowers bit. Pure, real emotion and it made me cry so much.

X-Men - When Wolverine/Logan is settling in at Xavier's school, he and Cyclops/Scott are already hating on each other, coz of Jane, and Logan says "aren't you going to warn me to keep away from your girl?" and Scott goes "If I had to, she wouldn't be my girl" and they exchange a few more catchy comic book lines, and Scott walks out of the room saying "Oh, and Logan? Stay away from my girl." Very snappy. I love X-Men.

Happy Feet - The line "This guy is so accidentally cool!" makes me crack up laughing every time. In fact, pretty much any time any of the little penguins talk. Awesome

Moulin Rouge - I have two moments for this movie, but they're kind of connected, because they're both from the same song.
ONE. The first time they sing "Come What May" there's a scene where Christian is at a picnic with Satine and the Duke. Christian and Satine are "practicing lines" (singing a love song to each other) and the Duke says "look, my dear, a little frog!" And then he hops like a frog, following the real one. It's only a second, and I don't think I noticed it until my friends pointed it out. I get so absorbed by the awesomeness of the movie.
TWO. The "Come What May" reprise, riiight at the end. Christian thinks Satine doesn't love him, and he's angrily walking out of the theatre, and she starts singing their song, and it's beautiful, and I cry.

Well, that's it from me ^_^

I don't think I've posted a blog this long since the good ol' RD days, and the extensive spell check I just performed on this one (until today all this was stored in a Notebook file... lol) makes me think I won't do another for a while.. hee

Anyhoo, what's your favourite Movie Moment?

have it.

2008-10-08T22:55:00.003+11:00

WHEEEE!!

I HAVE IRON MAN!!!

Ihaveironmanihaveironmanihaveironmanihaveironmanihaveironman
ihaveironmanihaveironmanihaveironmanihaveironmanihaveironman
ihaveironmanihaveironmanihaveironmanihaveironmanihaveironman

So freaking awesome.

THe shop had it out early.

wheeeeeeeeeee!

~~Murgie~~

(proper blog tomorrow, promise ^_^)

Night-Time Post-TV Blog

2008-10-07T22:38:00.002+11:00

I love NCIS.

So so much.

~~Murgie~~

Generic Blog Post Title

2008-09-30T11:13:00.003+10:00

Today means there is only nine days left of Iron Man-lessness in Australia!! All over the country, comic nerds and movie enthusiasts rejoice!

And for those people lucky enough to be both (i.e. me ^_^), the Ninth of October 2008 truly will be a Day of Pure Awesome. Capital letters and everything.

This little Murg is super dooper excited. The only bummer is that I wanted for Iron Man to be my first Blu-ray movie, because my Dad, technophile that he is, is going to get a player when we get our new TV. Except we don't have a new TV yet, nor a Blu Ray player, and there's no freaking way I'm waiting any longer than possible to see Iron Man again. Which means I'm going to have to get the DVD version. Buh.

Anyhoo.

IRON MAN! AWESOME!

lol

Changing topic, Top Gear Australia premiered last night, and I am sad to say that it definitely sucked. I super dooper LOVE the original Pommy show (and I really want to buy that "I LOVE THE STIG" shirt I keep seeing in the ABC Shop), and I had my doubts about an Australian version ever since they announced it.

And from the show I saw last night, my doubts were rightly placed.

I'm sorry TGA peeps, I'm sure you put a lot of effort into the show, but you aren't going to get anywhere pretending to be the originals. If I squinted my eyes a little, you even looked like them a bit. Which is weird.

And I may be wrong, but I'm pretty sure you're only airing in Australia. So there's really no need for all the tourist pleasing, over the top, Aussieness. Including that "Lets Get A Great White Shark To Attack This Car" stunt.

We know you're Aussie. We're Aussie too. We get it. Get over it.

To quote a Spanish friend of mine, who in turn, quotes our American friends -
*LE SIGH*

~~Murgie~~

Hold Tight!

2008-09-26T20:52:00.004+10:00

My younger brother finished school today.

Well, sort of, he still has exams and stuff, but they're spread out all through October and November, and they hardly count, but the point is, I am now old enough to have a younger sibling out of school.

It's not really that big of a deal, coz P. is close to my age, and I finished ages and ages (two years) ago, and I still have two more brothers that have to finish.

Hmm..

Moving on!

What is (was) up with the Spice Girls and their lyrics? I refer to, of course the lines "I wanna really really really wanna zigga zig ah" and "hi ci ya, hold tight"

Now, I'm all for making up new words and the such (ask me about "aphimogrination, plumpulserate, trippigate, blogstipation and more!) I usually make up words that mean something.

Similarly, I have no qualms whatsoever with musical nonsense sounds, as long as they are used as musical nonsense sounds, but it seems to me that the Spice Girls used nonsense sounds in a proper lyrics context. Which is just silly.

That said, they also were a very important part of my childhood, and I shall hear no bad mouthing of them at all! Unless it's about that movie. Bad mouthing there is ok.

~~Murgie~~

Pishy

2008-09-23T23:27:00.003+10:00

At my work, we have a fish bowl, containing a lone goldfish. His official name is Spicks-or-Specks (long story short, there used to be two fish called Spicks and Specks, one died), but I call him Pishy.

Pishy is a pretty awesome fish, by Nemo standards, anyhoo. His top fin has a big chunck bit out of it. We don't know why, but it makes Pishy look pretty badass.

Since Pishy is a goldfish, he is also pretty dumb. I mean, I think he's smarter than most other goldfish, since I've totally trained him to follow my finger around the glass, but that doesn't mean he isn't prone to the inevitable ultimate fish stupidity.

Pishy likes to eat bubbles.

And sometimes he likes to eat lots of bubbles.

And when he does, all those little bubble aggregate into one big stomach bubble and make poor Pishy stuck floating at the top of the water.

This is what happened to Pishy today. I felt so sorry for him :( He'd try to follow my finger down the glass, but as soon as he stopped swimming down, his bubble would float him back up to the top. And then he'd swim back down again, and repeat the performance.

If I didn't feel so bad, it would have been hilarious.

~~Murgie~~

Inheritance vs Twilight

2008-09-13T20:14:00.001+10:00

This morning I was listening to Mugglecast's interview with Stephenie Meyer from a few weeks back, and they were talking about how she is always being lauded as the "next J.K. Rowling".

And I started wondering, what does Christopher Paolini think of all this? Of Stephenie, and the Twilight Saga?

Because at one stage, he was being compared to Jo very frequently, if only for the perceived popularity of his books. And it's hardly a secret that he loved the attention.

But now, it's 2008, his last book was released over three years ago, the movie based on Eragon was crap and it bombed, and the pre-release excitement for Brisingr has been almost completely eclipsed (pun fully intended) by Breaking Dawn!

And on that note, Stephenie has had four massively novels out in the last three years, her magical creatures are original and unlike any others in literature, she is being praised as the new "next J.K.R." and the movie based on Twilight is looking like it's actually going to be watchable.

So yeah. I want to know what the Plaigarini thinks of Edward et. al.

Is he jealous? Is he wondering how to fit vampires into the fourth book?

I want to add, I don't hate Chris Paolini, not really. I love the Eragon books, and I'll be lining up to get Brisingr just like I did with HP and Twilight. But... It's a Mary-Sue Star Wars set in Middle Earth. Seriously. And he just bugs me.

~~Murgie~~

DVD

2008-09-12T17:58:00.005+10:00

I am so excited. I went to JB HIFI today, picked up a catalogue and saw IT.

The news of the year.

The most exciting thing since I remembered that Wall-E comes out next week.

The Australian release date for Iron Man!!!!

It's not till next month (9 October), but that's definitely soon enough to begin the countdown :D

27 Days!!!

I haven't been this excited about a DVD since Return of the King... whee!

In other news, the "R" key on my lappy's keyboard is being annoying. I think there's something stuck under it or something, coz I have to press it down for it to work. Which is bad. Grr...

~~Murgie~~

Top Class First Coolest Thing In The Universe

2008-09-10T22:42:00.001+10:00

So, I was looking through Paddy, my mobile phone (I give my technology names) and I discovered something strange.

Apparently I leave myself recorded messages on my phone when I am drunk!

Message 1 - 31 August, 2:03 am

*whispered* Come on, Optimus Prime. I mean, like... with... a name like Optimus... Optimus Prime, Optimus means like... optimum, which means like... top class, which means like, really really cool, and then there's, the second part his name is Prime! And prime means like first, like.... the top class first *I mumble something for about 3 seconds* ... coolest person in the whole entire universe!
Yeah. Optimus Pime. Prime. pfft, Optimus Prime. is.... relly cool.
The end. *I make two popping sounds with my mouth*

Message 2 - 31 August, 2:37 am

*much louder* I mean, with a name like Optimus Prime, how could you not be the coolest thing in the world?

Message 3 - 31 August, 2:40 am

*conspiratorially* Or in the universe!

I seemed to be very concerned with letting myself know of the awesomeness, excuse me, top class status of Optimus Prime. I don't actually remember recording these, but I do know for a fact that I was at my friends' place on that weekend and we all watched Transformers. And because it was a belated house warming party, there was alcohol involved.

So here's to Optimus Prime, the coolest thing in the universe!

~~Murgie~~

All On My Onesies!

2008-09-09T15:05:00.009+10:00

Today I went to the movies to see Make It Happen, and it was one of the best cinema experiences I have ever had.

It was an OK movie, I guess. A bit clichéd (i.e. the same story that's in every dancing movie, ever) but harmless, fun entertainment.

This wasn't, however the highlight of my trip to the cinema.

Well, what was? (I hear you pondering)

I was the only person in the theatre for the film.
Seriously. No one else.

I sat right in the middle seat on the middle row, and lounged out all over the seats, and laughed as loud as I wanted, and even sang along to the Mamma Mia songs that were playing before the previews!

Now, I go to the movies a lot. Very frequently too. This morning I bought my 24th movie ticket for 2008. I have never ever before been the only one in a theatre. I have been close, many times.

Last year I saw TMNT with my friend, and we were the only ones there when it started, but then someone came in (10 minutes after the start) (boo).

And the fourth time I saw Iron Man, I was sitting in the middle seat of the middle row, halfway through the previews, when a guy came in and sat RIGHT IN FRONT TO ME! grr..

So I was beginning to think that the elusive theatre-to-myself experience was impossible! Until this morning. I will remember this day forever, if not the movie.

And now for something completely different, I wish I lived in High School Musical World. Seriously, I do.

The end.
~~Murgie~~

Let's Have Beach Party.In London!

2008-09-02T10:00:00.000+10:00

1st of September

2008-09-01T12:20:00.004+10:00

I'm not (currently) a student, and I don't live in the Northern Hemisphere, so the beginning of September generally doesn't mean all that much to me. I mean, Father's Day is coming up, and Talk Like A Pirate Day, but that's about it.

So why, on my MySpace page (I'm going to skip the fact that I've converted almost fully to Facebook) do I have a countdown towards the 1st of September 2017?

Because I'm totally going to London, England in nine years, to be at King's Cross Station at 11.00am on the 1st of September. Because I am a super nerd. Hooray!

Harry Potter? The Deathly Hallows? The Epilogue?

Yeah. I'm going to be at Kings Cross station at the same time that the HP epilogue takes/took place. It's gonna be a super awesome big HP party. Good times ^_^

And it's nine years today! Whee!

~~Murgie~~

This is why I don't like Christopher Paolini

2008-08-27T14:56:00.003+10:00

He think's it's OK to dress like this.
Please don't make me explain any further.

~~Murgie~~

New Start

2008-08-21T13:46:00.003+10:00

So, I abandoned this blog.. But I fully mean to start updating here much more frequently. Like, starting now.

OMG RICKY GERVAIS DIED.

But not really.
I'm watching Stardust. Excellent movie. Anyway, Ricky Gervais' character just died. It's a rather comical death, as most deaths in this movie are. It's actually quite a morbid story, for a fairy tale. And yet very funny. I enjoy it a lot.

But yeah, Point of bloog - I'll be updating more often these days. Hopefully, eventually, everyday! Should be fun

~~Murgie~~

Segway

2008-07-05T10:59:00.007+10:00

As I have said in a previous blog, on a previous blog (sniff), people riding on Segways look silly. Even when the have official looking uniforms and big scary guns.

lol.

I want a Segway. *sigh*

In other news, Wizards use Bunsen Burners! Who'd have thunk it? Perhaps... no, I really can't think of a good reason for this.

Where does the gas come from? Can't wizards just make fire from nothing? Did the set designers even read the first book when Hermione clearly makes blue fire every thre pages?

I think I'm about to have a nineties moment...

HI CI YA HOLD TIGHT!

~~Murgie~~

Books

2008-06-21T20:04:00.014+10:00

I like books. I like a lot of books. I like books a lot.
I like movies too, but that's pretty much irrelevant to this blog.

So even though there are lot of books that I like a lot, there are only a few books that like so much that I say I love them.

These are the books that leave me grinning myself silly in the rare event that I find myself forced to take a break from reading them.

The books that I'm glad when they make me cry. The ones where the characters aren't just like my best friends, they are my best friends, because I care about them in the same way. I grieve and celebrate for them the same way I would if the things that happened to them, happened to my real friends. Maybe not with the same strength, but the same emotion.

When I read these books for the first time, it's like a religious experience.

When I reread them it's like I'm reliving magical history, and it doesn't matter that I know what's going to happen, I still get worried when they're in trouble, and I still hope, and I still cry and laugh and wonder and feel with the characters

I have about a hundred books that I call "my favourites" but there would be less than ten books that I love this way.

I'm not really sure what it is that makes a book so that I love it. An X factor, or something, but not like the TV show.

When I read these books, everything's ok.
Even when everything is not ok.

When I read these books, I'm happier.

I quit TAFE earlier this week. I've become a disappointment to my parents. I haven't talked to the person who I still count as my best friend for two entire months. We finally planned to go window shopping yesterday (via instant messaging and SMS) and her car broke down so she couldn't make it. Iron Man isn't playing at my local cinema anymore. I'm broke, because whenever I feel upset, I buy a DVD for myself, and on Monday I bought four DVDs.

But yesterday, after Gin (not her real name, her old Dissendium name) called tell me about the car, and after I ran to the cinema to watch my comfort film, only to discover it was no longer playing, I didn't go to JB HIFI to buy a DVD. I went to Angus & Robertson and sat down (coz I'm so cool I sit on the floor in bookshops) and picked up New Moon by Stephenie Meyer.

And even though I should be saving for World Youth Day (and I really am, I promise), I bought it, and took it home, and read it for the first time.

This blog is getting quite long...

I've owned the first one in that series, Twilight, for about a year, and it's of the books that I love. I've never felt the urge to read the others before now, because someone once told me they weren't as good as the first one.

I just finished reading it, and I'm happy. Everything's ok.

Well, it's not, but it will be.

:)

I love books

~~Murgie~~

P.S. Here's a song. It's one of my favourites in the world, because I think the lyrics are perfect.

Oliver Boyd and the Remembralls

oh em gee

2008-06-18T18:18:00.012+10:00

Yep, it's true.

PORCUPINES CAN FLOAT IN WATER

And they are also insanely cute when put in tea cups.

But don't put kittens in tea cups, because that's animal abuse and they'll break their legs and if you post a picture of them in your blog people will get angry at you.

Good times.. ^_^

~~Murgie~~

Elvendork. It's Unisex!

2008-06-13T10:03:00.002+10:00

Stuff "Ariana"

I am so naming my first kid "Elvendork"

yesssssss

~~Murgie~~

smirk

2008-06-09T22:38:00.005+10:00

This made me snort my strawberry milkshake.

lolcats

heh heh..

~~Murgie~~

Queen's Birthday Weekend

2008-06-08T23:35:00.008+10:00

Ugh, it's totally been a week since I last posted...

Anyhoo, this weekend is the anniversary of the epic Newcastle/Maitland floods and the amusing
grounding of the good ship Pasha Bulker. Good times.

It's weird to think that it was a whole year ago that it happened. It's still affecting peoples' lives (not everyone's insurance claims have been paid yet lol) and I have a theory that if you get any number of Novocastrians (persons of the City of Newcastle) in a room, they will eventually start talking about the floods

I totally wanted to have an anniversary party for the Pasha. Like, a bunch of us would get together, eat junk food and watch Titanic or something ^_^

...

No one else was really up for it :P

So yeah. 365 days ago, my city was in a big massive panic about pretty much everything, and also giggling quietly at the hilarity of a huge ship getting stuck on Nobby's Beach.

Good times :D

~~Murgie~~

P.S. New Poll!! Be polled!!!

"Water that is as cold as liquid ice"

2008-06-01T22:51:00.004+10:00

I just heard the narrator of some random doco on TV say this phrase, and it immediately made me angry.

Liquid ice. Yeah, we already have a name for that. It's called water.

And water, being a liquid, is not as cold as ice, otherwise it would be (yep you guessed it) ICE.

Stupid phrase. Stupid people.

And now for something completely different!

Lorelai and Luke!!!!!! Season 5 finale!!!!!! Makes me happy and smile. I know how it's all going to turn out in the season 6 finale, but I don't care.

Not up to there yet :D

~~Murgie~~

I Smell Like Boy

2008-05-30T16:18:00.004+10:00

Which, you know, could be interpreted as a good thing, had I actually aquired said smell from a real life boy. Which I didn't.

My Dove Shower Gel ran out. The pink, breast cancer fundraiser one that smells all pretty.

So there I was, standing in the shower, with clean hair, clean face and smelly underarms and all that was there was my brothers' Oxygen flavoured gel.

What the hell is oxygen flavoured????

Isn't the point of good ol' O2 that it is free of all fragrances??? My brothers' oxygen flavoured shower gel is definitely not free of all fragrances.

I can tell, because now, I smell like BOY

I need my watermelon body spray... I like smelling like a girl, thankyou :p

~~Murgie~~

Fwoop

2008-05-29T18:26:00.005+10:00

Hello Bloggy Internet Land!

I had a Blog. It was a great blog. I was proud of it. People read it, they commented. People wrote blogs about me and my blogs. My blog was loved.

But alas.. Earwax!

Or something equally as bad, if not worse than an earwax-flavoured jelly bean.

That blog is no longer in existance.

If you google "riddlediaries" my blog still comes up as the second result.

So anyways, recently, to lessen my bloog urges, I have been promiscuously posting MySpace bulletins, however, this has only reminded me just how much better blogging is compared to stupid ugly bulletins. So I'm doing the Blogger thing.

This blog has no purpose, really, but to commemorate my old blog and say "hey! Murgie has new blog!"

Which I have now done.

So.... END OF BLOG!

~~Murgie~~

Murgatroid's Blog

Having Fun on Omegle

My Letter to Christian Caldeira from OBatR

Sydney Supanova '10

BLONDE

Emma Frost Cosplay

Hello 2:30 am, I think I hate you

*Revives Blog*

Absurd Wizard Rock Lyrics of the Moment

Random Wizard Rock Song of the Moment

Harry Potter Quotes That Didn't Make Me Laugh The First Time I Read Them, But They Do Now

Shut Up Shut Up Shut Up

*Cracks Magical Whip of Awesome*

I Love the Internet

When On A Cruise Ship...

So, I Work in a Pharmacy...

Why I Love Eli Stone (and Life)

The Pop-Tart Effect

In Which Murgie Meets and High-Fives a Super Hero

Third Time Lucky, Sixth Time Picky

Today

Thought of the Day

Murgie's List of Movie Moments of Awesome

have it.

Night-Time Post-TV Blog

Generic Blog Post Title

Hold Tight!

Pishy

Inheritance vs Twilight

DVD

Top Class First Coolest Thing In The Universe

All On My Onesies!

Let's Have Beach Party.In London!

1st of September

This is why I don't like Christopher Paolini

New Start

Segway

Books

oh em gee

Elvendork. It's Unisex!

*smirk*

Queen's Birthday Weekend

"Water that is as cold as liquid ice"

I Smell Like Boy

Fwoop

Revives Blog

Cracks Magical Whip of Awesome

smirk