Dear Diary, Astronauts, Bands, Movies and life

[black_samvara]

• Attended Dr Megan McArthur’s talk for Science Week about her trip into space to extend the life of the Hubble Space Telescope. I have a HUGE crush; her talk was accessible, inspiring and interesting and I want a spaceship of my own.
• Saw The Chemist play at Amplifier and enjoyed their singer’s amazing voice.
• Digitised the remainder of my CD collection

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[angriest]

Is Blood out in Australia? I hadn't seen it, but wanted to (I really liked the anime some years back).

[black_samvara]

Japan 29th May, Singapore June 4th, UK June 12th, no Aussie release date that I can find.

I was exposed to a pirated version of medium quality and I found out about it from the back of a Buffy comic. I can't recommend Blood as a film, it's full of cliches and has weirdly unexciting fight scenes - although there was a strong vibe of alienation that I found appealing. The CGI was erratic as well, it didn't feel smooth enough to be a conscious stylistic choice.

[angriest]

I figured it'd be an average rather than brilliant movie. Odd production history too, from memory. It's a British/Hong Kong co-production of a Japanese story made for Americans, or somesuch.

[creativemeans]

Speaking of astronauts, I wrote another story: How does an oceanographer end up in space? :)

Shay tells me the pics will posted to a UWA site, so I'll try and find out about that tomorrow x

[black_samvara]

Thank you I read it :)