Painting the Horizon

So. I just saw Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man's Chest.

I'm not going to lie; I went for the Depp. And the Nighy, once I found out he was in it, of course, but mainly for the Depp. Never expected it to be a decent movie, and now I'm not sure if it appearing to be fairly decent was because I had expected less or because it actually was decent.

Also, Kiera Knightley confuses me. I look at her and see a girl who isn't actually all that pretty (though not ugly, either). Then I lean back and notice that she is quite pretty. Which would make her.. pretty in a not terribly pretty way? Yeah, confused.

May this day, February 10th 2006, be marked down in the history books as the day the Internet let me down.
Granted, there was that incident with the architecture of cathedrals a few months back - in October, I think - but that was somewhat understandable.
On this day, however, I have failed to locate the lyrics to a song I had believed to be known to pretty much every Finn. Back in grades 3-6, we used to sing it all the time at school. It's a nice, patriotic song about how Finns are gutsy and I'm certain I've heard it on the radio once or twice. That is, in the times that there was other stuff on the radio than the newest singles of Britney/Robbie/Evanescence/Antti Tuisku/Nightwish/whatever.

So, I went to see Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy on Saturday. I must say I was rather disappointed. The entire movie seemed somewhat lacking. I don't know what it is, really, I was just.. expecting something more, I guess. I think Zaphod's heads were all wrong. Aren't they supposed to be able to look at each other? I didn't like the dolphin song, either. Made me feel like I was watching a Disney animated movie like Little Mermaid or something.

I suppose the movie was funny, though. Judging by the bursts of laughter from the row behind me, anyway. I'd already heard every funny joke, of course, since they're in the book, so they didn't catch me by surprise.

I'm only 2/3 through Life, the Universe and Everything, so of course I don't know what happens to Arthur and Trillian later on, and I don't know squat about any other version out there, but I was a bit annoyed by what happened at the end. Eh, maybe I still haven't got over the suffocating amount of romance in HBP, but why does the guy always have to get the girl, huh?

Anyway, Marvin is still lovable as always. What is there not to like about Marvin? And Alan's voice could only make it better. Bill Nighy got a private little inward squee out of me, too. Honestly, all that guy need to do is show his face and I'm already in a better mood. Marvin and Slartibartfast, they made the experience worth it.

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Other things I've done lately include playing Tekken 5 to buy every single extra costume. I bought Ganryu's extra costume and it looked so stupid I thought I'd make him work to make up for the loss. In other words, I opened the Arcade mode and started going through Ganryu's move list - I can't believe I've never done that before, not even in T2 or TTT - and damned if he doesn't rock.

I am going to be one poor girl...

I was going to buy the new Batman/Superman yesterday, but as I was about to walk to the cashier with a copy, my eyes caught an awfully familiar figure in the cover of another comic book. It was Bearclaw. And since they apparently originally translated only books 1 to 5 of Elfquest to Finnish, I had to buy it. Now, add the monthly One Piece to that and I'm suddenly spending all my money on comics. I suppose I'm going to have to lay off the superheroes for the time being. I'm not comfortable spending almost 20€ on comics every month.

[Insert incoherent babbling about finding a copy of HBP in the most popular bookstore in town. At noon, no less. Also insert woe about the fact that it is little sister's birthday and assumed inability of reading and sociliasing at the same time prevents yours truly from reading all the time]