bury me in this dress

Ack! I’m such a geek. I tried to make a firefox search plugin for jdorama.com and was actually able to make two. It wasn’t hard but it required some analysis. Hmmm. I’m actually proud of this accomplishment but it goes to show that I have too much free time. Well, the plugins are here in case you’re a jdorama.com user or fond of doramas and japanese artists.

My next project is quite easy but I really like it. I’ve been exchanging emails with Estelle (formerly of the band Brittle Stars). It started when I wrote to shelflife asking if they know where I could find lyrics for Brittle Stars’ songs and I guess they forwarded it to Estelle and she wrote to me saying that she’ll send the lyrics of the songs I want. So I told her some songs and asked if I could post them on my website. Today, she sent the lyrics and said that it’s okay to post them. Well, I want to take this further and make a small tribute page to Brittle Stars (they’ve disbanded). I will host it here and I’m trying to decide how it looks. I’m not a good webdesigner (just look at this template! it’s messy!) so I should just stick to a simple design. I haven’t started on this project but I will soon. And I hope to actually complete this. I have a bad tendency to leave projects half-finished.

I just learned that Neil Gaiman (famous for the Sandman comics) will be coming to the Philippines. He’ll be signing books in the following Fully Booked branches.

Rockwell - July 9
Greenhils - July 10
July 11 - July 11

I don’t know the exact time he’ll be there but I want to see him in person. I’m not a big fan and hardly read Sandman but I’ve read all his books and loved American Gods. I’ll probably make him sign my copy of that or my hardbound Coraline.

I was in Rockwell’s Fully Booked earlier and saw Tim Burton’s “Match Boy and Stick Girl Box Set” which I have on my Amazon wish list. They’re selling it for P1,350. I was already in the queue for the cashier but decided not to buy it since I still have a sizable credit card debt. Oh well.

I think it lacks taste but informative nonetheless. Here’s a list of uncircumcised male celebrities which i got from the popbitch newsletter.

I just got back from watching Batman Begins. So what’s my opinion on it? Well, it’s okay. Quite disappointing because the story has so much potential but some parts of the movie just didn’t work well. Some elements were quite confusing. The director could have banked on how Bruce Wayne and Lucius Fox worked on each of Batman’s weapons and gadgets. An example is the sonar device for the bats? I was thinking ‘where the hell did that come from?’ when the bats suddenly appeared. I also think Ducard lacked motivation for destroying cities. The thing I found appealing about the film is the appearance of Dr. Crane simply because he looks like a dreamboat. He’s so pretty but I got unnerved with his eyes. Can eyes be THAT pale blue? He was ugly in 28 Days Later so what happened? Did he get plastic surgery or something? But I digress. Batman Begins is a film with a lot of potential which the director wasted. I don’t know what he intends to do with the sequals but he better get his act straight cos the film bombed in the Philippines and I believe bombed in other countries as well.

androgynous dreamboat Cillian Murphy as Dr. Crane