Finished watching BHD yesterday... haven't found any links yet.

Although Eric Bana's hick accent cracks me up like all hell. :P

What makes it even funnier is that it's not his real accent, but his Aussie accent does sound close enough to it, lol....

And even better yet, the end credit song is this old-military sounding thing; like from the late 1800s, with the cavalry and their drummer boys and fiddles. I thought it sounded lovely, really fitting, although I couldn't make out most of the words, and then suddenly, the last two lines were really clear, and I *recognised* those last two lines, man.

I read the lyrics of that old song in an X-Men 2 fic once, and I loved those lyrics and the song even before I ever heard it, and yesterday I was so goddamn happy when I heard it on the end of the BHD movie, man!

It's a wonderful song; had me obsessed with the idea of minstrel boys and too-young boys going off to war, for quite some time.

Band yesterday was fun... more fun than last week, at least; last week, Alvin was all stressed and tearing his hair out; kinda the usual thing when there's a performance coming up. Got used to that after two years.

Hm.. what else... oh, Wei Jian's back. Which is odd, coz he said two weeks ago that he wasn't gonna be playing for performance. Or maybe he's just like Kwan Chin, just coming back for fun, but might not be playing. Meh. Some people are too free. :P

And, Soon Aik messaged me this morning; apparently she's back in Singapore, and hey, I think she's coming for our performance. :D Which I think is at SJI.

Eck. Never really liked SJI's PAC... Didn't like the stage all that much. Or the place in general. Ah heck.

Bored. Gonna go to Band World at IMM later, and after that, gonna go to Botanic Gardens and watch the PhilWinds play stuff; my sis says that their repertoire includes the POTC suite and Instant Concert; that's fine by me.

And in closing, I shall leave you the lovely song from the end credits of BHD. :)



Minstrel Boy

The Minstrel Boy to the war has gone
In the ranks of death you will find him
His father's sword he hath girded on
And his wild harp slung behind him

"Land of Song!" said the warrior bard
"Though all the world betrays thee
One sword, at least, thy rights shall guard
One faithful harp shall praise thee!"

The Minstrel fell, but the foeman's chains
Could not bring this proud soul under
The harp he loved never spoke again
For he tore its chords asunder

And said, "No chains shall sully thee
Thou soul of love and bravery!
Thy songs were made for the pure and free
And shall never sound in slavery!"

I remember what I wanted to ramble about last night!

All right, see, thing is, "gay" means happy or fun, right?

So whoever came up with the term "gay" for homosexual relationships must've thought that they were a helluva lot less boring/sad than normal hetero relationships, hm?

And you know, I was thinking, homogenous means something like "same concentration" and homosexual means "same sex", so it's obvious that the prefix "homo" means "same", so why do they call humans "homo sapiens"?

I mean, I'm taking the meaning of "sapiens" from the word "sapient" here, which means "acutely insightful and wise". Hm. Well, that explains why we're so bloody full of ourselves... we think that we're "acutely insightful and wise"???

Ah, back to the point.

All right, so that'd mean "homo sapiens" means "same acutely insightful and wise"; how's that possible? Everyone differs in terms of their abilities, physically and intellectually. So the scientific name for our genus doesn't make much sense, does it?

And also, since you have the word "homosexual" and the opposite is "heterosexual", do you think the opposite of "homogenous" is "heterogenous"?

*goes off to look for dictionary*

Oh, there is!!! And it means just what I think it means!! Ha, I'm a genius; I could just go on adding prefixes to words and come up with new ones, haha....

Oh wait, that is the way that most words are made.

Actually, wait. Nah, most words in the English language are stolen from everywhere else, haha. The "bastard language" indeed. :P

All right, done quite enough nonsensical rambling for so early in the morning... going off to find slashy fics now. :) Lalala...

All right, so I went down to the video store earlier in the evening, and got three VCDs... got "The Emperor's Club" and "Bend It Like Beckham" (once Pam knows that I got that, she'll be pretty happy) and... wait for it... "Black Hawk Down"!

Ha. And I was just saying a few days ago that I needed to watch "Black Hawk Down"... :D

Orlando Bloom's first line in it is "That's a nice beach; how's the water down there?" and he's got a half-believable Yank accent, haha. Eric Bana too. The both of them... pretty damn funny, coz their accents keep switching in between their own accent and Yank accents in sentences! Haha....

Haven't finished watching it yet. Maybe I should go now.

I was gonna ramble about something. Forgot what it was. Well, I can ramble about something else, I s'pose... Like the fact that this morning, I went back to AFF.net, and found that hey, there's a Troy section, and even better yet, there's this one author who writes *nothing* but Hector/Paris slash, and Jesus Christ, I'm damn effing happy. :D

I've gone through half of them already. :D

Even FF.net's Troy section is like... multiplying; it's grown by ten fics in the last two days.

Right. Nothing else to say right now... maybe in the morning I'll remember what it was that I wanted to ramble about, and I'll ramble about it then. :)

Ta.

Fell asleep at some amazingly early time last night… Yes, I actually went to bed last night, as opposed to this morning. You know, like about half the working people and students in Singapore; we go to bed the same morning that we wake up, y’know?

Anyway, coz of that, I woke up at 3.30, and couldn’t go back to sleep again. Spastic, I tell you. Which means that I was lying there, thinking random thoughts and just wouldn’t go back to sleep, and outta nowhere, the thought about links between Orlando Bloom’s movies comes to mind, so I just go off chasing that thought for a while, and y’know what? There are links.

Seriously, allow me to demonstrate:

Firstly, let’s just take all three “LOTR” films as one movie since they’re all basically the same story. Remember the last film, in the scene where the black corsairs sail up behind Minas Tirith where a huge orc army’s awaiting them? And then this particular orc, the lead orc, I guess, strides forward and yells: “Late as usual, pirate scum!”

And “pirate” equals link to “Pirates of the Caribbean”. So already, there’s a link from “LOTR” to “POTC”.

And then in “POTC”, in the night shot outside the Isla de Muerta Caves when Pintel and Ragetti are rowing out as a decoy to distract the British Navy, here’s what that moron Ragetti says to Pintel:

“Oh, this is just like what the Greeks done at Troy! ‘Cept they were in a horse. Not dresses.”

Fairly obvious link. “LOTR” link to “POTC” link to “Troy”.

And in this tiny bit that I saw in the “Calcium Kid” trailer, Orlando Bloom’s character’s sitting at a table, and he’s sorta mumbling to… someone off screen, I guess, about how “(he) feel(s) like Rocky… when he finds out that he’s gonna have a pop at Apollo Creed.”

At least, I think he says “Apollo Creed”. That’s what it sounds like.

And Apollo happens to be the name of the patron god of the Trojans.

“LOTR” link to “POTC” link to “Troy” link to “Calcium Kid”. Or vice versa for the last one.

See! Interesting links all over the place. Maybe the script writers for those movies saw glimpses of the future and snuck it into the scripts of those movies that he was in as hints. :D

Haven’t seen “Black Hawk Down” or “Ned Kelly”… maybe if I ever watch those, I’ll be able to draw links too, haha… Or maybe I just need a transcript…

*goes off to scrounge web for movie transcripts*

Hm… wait. Just remembered that “Black Hawk Down” has Eric Bana in it too.

Ah. Well. All right, Gerri needs a “Black Hawk Down” DVD now… :D

Hm. Another random thought: am convinced that Orlando Bloom is wearing eyeliner in some of his "Troy" scenes. No way his eyes are naturally that dark. Unless they're really dark, really conveniently-placed dark circles from lack of sleep or whatever. Which isn't likely. Eyeliner! Ha!

All right. I'll go poke around elsewhere now...

Like the new quote? It was in yesterday's paper's Life! section, haha. The quotes section always follows really closely whatever happens to be popular or "in" at the moment; last week there were two quotes from Brad Pitt in two consecutive days, so I was just waiting patiently to see when Orlando Bloom would get one in or get a mention in one, and ta-da, here it is. Isn't it so cute...

Maybe there'll be one with Eric Bana soon!

Oh, yes, speaking of that... I think there must be something on Orlando Bloom's face; something which when you see him in person, just screams "Hug me!" or "Kiss me!" Coz everyone seems to go around kissing him, like his LOTR co-stars (the Dommi-licious kiss, haha!!) and now Eric Bana's joined the club! And he always looks so cute when he's getting pecked on the cheek or forehead or the lips, haha...

It's hilarious and oh-so-adorable; no one kissed each other or jumped on each other at premieres till the LOTR folks came along, haha.... Must've been the 18 months stuck together, lol. :D

And someone has finally written Hector/Paris slash!! *Does a little dance* Oh, yes, Gerri is very twisted and very happy.

Alexandros. Hm. That's what Paris' name was before he became uh.. Paris. Interesting name, but doesn't really fit..um.. Paris. Or maybe I'm just talking with Orlando Bloom in mind.

Hm.. well. Gerri is strangely happy this morning.

Went to watch "Troy" earlier today with my sis and her two friends.

It was the most tortuous 2 hours and 45 minutes that I've ever had to endure in my life.

Don't get me wrong, the film was fantastic, it's just that I wish that I'd never known the story beforehand!

Coz it's like you know everyone's gonna die, and it's like they're lemmings, you know, all just running towards their death, and all you can do is sit there and watch and you can't do anything about it!

Like when Hector goes out to fight Achilles and I knew that he was gonna die, and every SINGLE blow from Achilles looked like it'd finish Hector off right then and there; spears and swords thrusting and poking and it looks like anytime, someone's gonna hit something, and I was so damn scared but I knew he was gonna die, but I couldn't do anything; but no, parry, feint and thrust and almost hit, and not yet, not yet, and then suddenly, it was there, and Hector was dead, and god, it was so heartbreaking that I cried!

Yeah, I was right about that yesterday; I knew I was gonna cry when Hector died, but the tears didn't really spill over, they just welled up and stayed there.

If Eric Bana doesn't get a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination next year, I'll send hate mail to the damn stupid Academy!!

And the bit where they found the Trojan Horse and they wanted to drag it into the city, I wanted so badly to scream, "GODDAMMIT, DON'T BRING IT IN!!", but I couldn't and it wouldn't have helped anything anyway, and they brought it in anyway, even after Paris told his stupid father to BURN IT!!!

That's the only thing that I hated about Priam, him going on and on about his gods, and he NEVER listened to his sons! I can understand why he wouldn't have listened to Paris, but not listening to Hector?!? And the one time when Paris was right, when he asked Priam to burn the damned Horse, Priam didn't listen!!

I was actually considering watching Troy a second time, but now, after I've watched it, I NEVER want to see it again; I could NEVER sit through watching them drag the Horse into the city and seeing Hector die again!!! *wails*

Oh, and when we were watching this afternoon, the whole audience was snickering and laughing during the run-up to the Paris vs Menelaus battle, coz Paris was just so unsure of himself, when he was the one who wanted to fight and everything! He was babbling and wide-eyed and just nodding absently when Hector told him to "think about your sword and his sword, and nothing else, do you understand?"; so adorable! And he was getting hit more often than he was managing to hit, and then nearly towards the end of the fight, he suddenly swings out hard with his left arm and manages to land a really hard punch in Menelaus' jaw, and Menalaus spits teeth and blood for a few seconds, and the audience was like "Whoa.... pretty boy does have some spunk, after all!" The funniest thing of all at that point though, was that even Paris looked kinda shocked that he'd landed it, haha.

Oh, and I think Orlando Bloom's acting is much better in Troy than in Rings and Pirates; he's not as stiff as he was in Pirates, which was somewhat awful. I loved the bit where he went scrambling back to Hector; thought he did that very well.

Oh, and the whole audience was clapping and cheering when Hector stuck Menelaus with his sword! And of course, I was only too happy to join in, haha....

Thing about the film is, during the first half an hour or so, there're so many subtly funny moments that for a moment, it seems a bit like a twisted comedy. It goes from cheesy (with Helen and Paris going on and on with their various different ways to say "I love you" and "no, I love you more") to gory (with all the battles, which was really cool; Hector is a fabulous commander) to just absolutely saddening; when Hector died, everything just went downhill from there.

Went walking around Orchard for a while after the film... went to Kino and Borders and finally went to the toy shop where Pam said she bought her LOTR card, and when I saw all the cards they had in there, I wanted to rob the shop right then and there!

And next door was a shop that sold weapons; all those movie kinda props, and I saw Hadhafang for real, right before my eyes and it was in this beautiful display case, and it was absolutely wonderful.

Oh, yeah, my sis and I met Yien Li in Borders! Haven't seen her since I left IJ, and I remember when she used to be so small when she was Sec 1 and I was her Peer Support leader in Sec 3!

"Troy" opens tomorrow!!!

Yes, indeedy it does, indeedy indeedy indeedy, yippee, yippee, *bouncebouncebounce*

Happy!! So happy that I'm just about bursting, haha... And to add to that, I'm decidedly incoherent right now too. Shows just how happy I am.

Opens tomorrow!! YIPPEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh, but I'll be watching it on Friday with my sis and her two friends. And then I'll probably go for alumni band on Saturday and not be able to talk about anything *but* it. Haha.... and I'll probably drive Pamela insane with all my blathering. I say Pamela coz I wouldn't blather to anyone else in alumni band; they're all mostly seniors and everything and I don't know them! Haha. Well, I don't know them that well, that is.

Lovely Interesting article in the newspaper today; interviews with Brad Pitt and Eric Bana and Peter O'Toole.

Peter O'Toole has beautiful blue eyes. Like Elijah Wood. 'Lija Wood, haha. Elwood! Sorry. Couldn't resist. But Elijah Wood has really um... luminous blue eyes; they're scary sometimes, with the right lighting. But Peter O'Toole's are this amazing light blue, silvery, if you like; really beautiful. :)

And Eric Bana doesn't have a stand-up comic's kinda face. It's terribly difficult to imagine the guy doing stand-up comedy and doing hilarious impersonations of Orlando Bloom and Brad Pitt and Peter O'Toole and everyone else on the Troy set, although it's probably quite funny and endearing. :D

I'm starting to think that I'll start crying when Hector dies in the film; Hector's death is a real tragic waste of nobility; I feel more for Hector dying than any of the other characters. Sigh.