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The me stuff
> House hunting is the worst thing ever! Everything is way overpriced, places are tiny or filthy or both. Open houses are flooded by people (we counted 45 not including us at one). Not a single place we have looked at would be suitable. Fortunately, there's a guy at work moving out of a place in Albion. We had a look at it and while it's not ideal, it is by far the best thing we've seen, so we went into the real estate and put in an application even though it wasn't advertised. Hopefully that means we have it, fingers crossed. So the packing & cleaning starts ... the whole moving process is so yuck.
> I unexpectedly won the first poker night I've ever been to, what a champion! I've never really played before, my brother plays and he gave me a rundown of the rules the other day but I never for a second thought I'd be any good at it. Obviously the people I was playing with weren't professionals but even so I was pretty chuffed - winning $70 helps too. Of course, now I'm hooked and I'll probably lose all my money forever more.
The music stuff
> I have got my mitts on a ga ticket to Justin Timberlake on the night of my birthday! Hell yeah! I originally decided not to get tickets cause they were too expensive but I have been sad about it ever since (and torturing myself by constantly listening to the album). Friend of the flatmate has double booked - obviously not realising the potential of the ticket offered it for half price just to get rid of it! Unbelievable, I almost feel bad, they could have got full price without trying but I don't know them so not my responsibility to point that out. I am SO excited! Now I just need to get a second one for the best mate...
> god the vma's last night were a joke. Some countries cut Britney's performance out ... not us, channel 10 actually used only that to advertise it. We are so classy. The seperate party things were weird and it pissed me off that the only one I wanted to see - the Foo Fighters one was the one they crossed to the least (poor fooies). I cannot stand Fallout Boy.
The movie/tv stuff
> Saw some good dvds on the weekend:
1. Pans Labyrinth - holy f**k is this movie brutal, brilliant but brutal. I had only heard about the fairytale aspect of the movie so I wasn't expecting it. I liked it but I find violence really hard to watch and some of it was disturbing. I totally loved all the fairytale side of it with the little girl. I would recommend it but I won't be watching it again any time soon. Watch it with a pillow to cover your eyes :D
2. Stranger Than Fiction - I loved this. Will Ferrell is suprisingly good, he's very convincing as his character. I thought Emma Thompson was brilliant. The narration scenes were very funny. I love Maggie Gyllenhaal and I loved her character in this but I didn't buy the relationship in the story. I don't know if it was just poor chemistry but they didn't strike as a couple that would really get together. This one I would really recommend.
3. Running With Scissors - this is based on the childhood of author Augusten Burroughs and what a crazy, intense childhood. Brilliant performances from Annette Bening as the schizophrenic artist mother and Dustin Hoffman as the crazy therapist she palms her kid of with. Joseph Fiennes plays a totally messed up, schizophrenic gay man and I adored him, something about that character has really stuck with me, dark but beautiful. Gwyneth Paltrow was in it but fleetingly and kind of redundantly, I could have done without her. It's nowhere near the best movie I've ever seen, something about it is kind of messy but it's endearing and the fact that it's based on someone's life makes it worth watching.
> the first episode of Prisonbreak was an absolute killer(no pun intended). I can't express how much I love this show, it just gets better and better. I'm gonna love sona. Heroes is starting this week too so TV's looking up, even Idol was suprisingly good last night. I cannot believe that a Damien Rice song was done on idol, I'm not a matt fan but he does pick suprisingly good songs. At the moment, carl's my fave and tarisai is my least fave.