Fanboys...?

I am so uncertain how this film has managed to slip my attention till right now, but I'm dissapointed in myself. Sigh.

So what is this film about? Here is a summary taken from various sources I could find on the net:

It's 1998, and Linus will not live long enough to see the release of Star Wars episode 1 - The Phantom Menace. Along with his friends Eric, Windows, Hutch and Zoe plan to break into Skywalker Ranch, to steal a print of the movie. They set out travelling across the country to get the film, so Linus can see it before he dies. Simple plot. But the cast... my God, it's a fanboys wet dream!

The main characters are all people you will recognise, but of the type where you have to struggle to remember why you recognise them. But the rest of the cast includes:

Seth Rogen
Carrie Fisher
Ray Park
Jason Mewes
Kevin Smith
Billy Dee Williams
Ethan Suplee
Danny Trejo
and
WILLIAM SHATNER

If you're not sure who all the above people are, then watch the trailer - it doesn't give their real names, but what the roles they're most famous for. Inspired.

The Best Of Both (geek) Worlds

So this coming Sunday in the UK is the start of yet another series of I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here!

This is a show where a host of (usually) C-list celebrities get stranded in an Australian jungle, and have to perform trials to earn food and luxuries. These Bushtucker Trials usually equate to getting covered in insects or snakes, and not panicking while a physical task is performed. It's actually quite good fun, and has produced the couple that dethroned the Beckhams as the UK's leading family, Katie 'Jordan' Price and Peter Andre.

This year, however, apart from the usual C-listers, it seems George Takei is taking part! Go geekdom!!

But who is George Takei, I hear you cry? And I reply with a shame on you, if you didn't know. Takei is Sulu, from Star Trek. And if that isn't enough, here's his pic:

In case you don't actually watch Star Trek (and for shame if you don't!) he has also appeared in Heroes, as Hiro's dad.



So, as you can imagine, this is the most excited I have been about a reality TV show since Dirk Benedict appeared on Big Brother. Roll on Sunday!

Sorry for the delay

Normal geekiness will resume shortly.

In the meantime enjoy this pic of a weird Spiderman tatoo. Some people are even geekier than me!

Nick and Anne

Just in case anyone wanted to know how cool Nick and Anne are, I can now state with certainty that they are very cool and also very awesome.

You want picture proof? I got your picture proof here!

Look at that sweet sisterly kiss I'm giving Anne - only cool and awesome people can share a moment like that!

Still, nothing says cool and awesome like dancing...

Look at me move! Cool



And look at Anne move! Awesome

And in the photo below, even when wearing wigs we both look cool and awesome!

Gangsters!

So in an effort to try some blog posts that are less geeky than the norm, I'm going to start off by discussing the weekend.




Friday Night is Gangster Night!

Friday was the "Gangsters" theme night for my wife's birthday. It involved everyone dressing up like a gangster (not a gangsta, but that would have been more cool). I didn't dress up, for the following reasons:

1. I had no time during the week to get a costume sorted

2. Gangsters tend to wear shirts, ties, etc., similar to how I dress for work. Thus dressing up in this attire has little appeal to me. I would basically have had the same outfit I wore for Sarah's police theme night, the one you can see here. I went as a noire detective, wheras everyone else went as English bobbies. I'm so original :)

But if I had known that the next theme night would have been gangsters, then maybe I would not have gone as the detective before.

Doesn't my wife look so hot in that pic?!?


3. I had approximately 18 minutes to get ready. Now, considering I got home at 6.25pm, and we didn't leave till 8pm, you may be wondering how 95 minutes of getting ready time disolved into a mere 18 minutes. This is because my loving wife invited her friends to get ready at our house; not just at our house, but also in our bedroom and using our en-suite. However, I'm not really angry that bothered.

First Stop - Isaac's
We started off in Isaac's, a bar on the docks in Ipswich. It used to be a Vodka bar with a vast selection of flavoured vodka, and was great fun. It's still not a bad place to start off for a nights drinking, but was particularly quiet. And cold. And in the middle of another refurb.

Notable things: my nipples after the first ten minutes; Nicola coming on to John (kind of); discovering that Tasha is in fact louder than most of the others; Kim mentioning her kittens to Katie; Katie deciding she would like a kitten; Sarah Panplimpinim dissapearing

Second Stop - Ice Bar

This was followed by heading to the Ice Bar, which is a run of the mill "bar-connected-to-night-club" sort of place, but I quite like it in there, especially as every drink was £1.50! Didn't matter what you ordered, it was £1.50. I'm not sure if all the drinks were supposed to be £1.50, but I have a feeling the pretty bar maids have trouble with the maths, and it's just easier to charge everything at £1.50.

Unfortunately for the hot gangster chicks we were with, there was an all woman toga party in Ice as well. And I have to say they were HOT

Notable things: John downing Sambuca (well, just the one) and doing a gas chamber; Anne's swimming dancing; John throwing up (is that notable or expected?); a bucket in the men's toilet, presumably because they knew John was coming

Laura, Sarah and Katie. John is just visible to the right. One of the hot toga girls is to the left.

Third Stop - New York Exchange Bar

We weren't in here for long; still not quite sure why we went there in the first place. The toilet is damn hard to find, however, and in the time it took me to find, everyone had finished their drink.

Notable things: John bought a round (no, seriously, he did); having to find the toilet by following Kim - unfortunately I followed her to far, but luckily nobody noticed I walked into the ladies room, and that is something I will take to the grave with me; John leaving at this point

Last Stop - Pals

I hate Pals. It's full of pretentious posers, all the blokes on the pull, ugh. But then, that's pretty much everywhere in Ipswich. OK, so Quilt never used to be full of pretentious posers, people that ugly couldn't possibly ever be called posers, but the door staff more than made up for all the uglies that drank there, stuck up pretentious twats. Must. Calm. Down. Pheww, there we go.

Anyway, we weren't here for long either; Katie and Sarah left first, followed by me and Anne. No, I am married to Katie, and not Anne, I have no idea why I didn't leave with my wife. There you go.

Notable things: Everyone leaving; some girls trying to take Katie's hat that I was wearing, some girl taking Kerry's hat that Stuart was wearing; Kim vanishing; Anne getting stressy at people at the taxi rank; getting home and discovering everyone was sleeping at ours, putting me in a foul mood and losing my bed to others. Bah.

So that was Friday night. Anyone who was there want to add any comments about the evening, maybe notable things that I missed off?

Too Geeky?

Apparently my blog has been described as *too geeky* lately; geez, as if there is such a thing! But never let it be said that I do not listen to my faithful readers. I'll try and post some more personal type blogs on here.

Happy now Sarah?!?