o/' You - won't forget about me, I promise you this, as long as you live.... o/'

Title is from Dannii Minogue's You Won't Forget About Me! :) Cool song!

I'm back from our yearly weekend-in-Solomons Island jaunt, woo-hoo and huzzah. ;) It's one of those family traditions that no one knows how it got started. My parents got married October 16 several centuries ago [ ;) ], and for some reason, we stay for two nights at Solomons on or around Oct. 16 every year. I think we must have started going sometime in the early 90s, because I remember going there before my brother was born... ah well, anyways. It was nice to see Solomons again, although because we've been going there for ages, I could find my way around there blindfolded. :)

I was of course nervous about going - I haven't even been out of the house for, what, 2 weeks or so? And indeed, I did have trouble with anxiety and... well, you know, everything. At the little shops along the boardwalk I kept having to go back outside to get some air, because I kept feeling light-headed. Nerves. But aside from that, it was kind of nice. :/

Well, let's think about happier things now, shall we? :) I visited Outpost Gallifrey today to see if there have been any new developments with the new Doctor Who series, and found out that the new logo for the series has been revealed:

A wise man (Peter Davison, Doc # 5) once said "It's CRAP!", and I think it kind of applies here. The lens flares are... gah, lens flares....! The font... oh geez, come on BBC, couldn't you have picked something - or created something - more distinctive than that? I realize that the BBC and the new Who crew (heh, "new Who crew"!) want to "modernize" the show and sort of distance itself from the Who stereotypes from the past (quarries, Daleks that can't climb stairs, quarries, Jelly Babies, and we can't forget quarries), and a logo quite unlike any of the logoes of the past certainly wouldn't hurt - but this new logo looks too common... I'm being a bit over-the-top, aren't I? Well, Who is something I care deeply about, and goodness knows I'm obsessed with fonts and graphic design, so pbfft!

Of course I won't be completely against the new logo, I'm not a weirdo fan like that. I just think that Who needs a really distinctive logo, and that one isn't very unique. It might look kind of neat all animated, like in a title sequence, reflecting light and all that... but as a static image, it's... gah, lens flares!!!

.....Let's see, what have I been doing, apart from coping? I redesigned my Kylie site, so it's all spanglified and such. I've been listening to her two new songs (i Believe In You and Giving You Up), and am SO HAPPY with them! Although I do like Body Language, her most recent album, it's not really my cup of tea. A lot of Kylie fans were disappointed with it as well, and I can understand why. It's good, but not good. You may remember my rants about Kylie's lack of Impossible Princess-esque material? I can rant no more, for these two new songs are VERY IP-esque, particularly GYU, which I personally think would sound amazing done with live instruments, not synths - you know, guitars, bass, drums... GYU sounds very 60s actually, which is cool. :D IBIY is just perfect, and instantly catchy. Kylie, fill your next album up with goodies like these two gems! :D

Dannii Minogue's new single, You Won't Forget About Me, is excellent! I can't wait for the maxi single to be released with the remixes and video, can't wait can't wait can't wait! I only started listening to Dannii last year, when she released Neon Nights, her most recent album - and, I'll admit, the only reason why I picked up one of her singles (I Begin To Wonder, a great song!) was because I knew that she's Kylie's sister. But Dannii is quite different from Kylie, because while Kylie seems content staying within the realms of pop, Dannii tends to make dance/club tracks (which is fantastic!). Anyways, that's boring...

This is going to be boring too, but... um... well, I warned you. I'm contemplating whether or not I should create a fansite/fanlisting for Bedazzled, the 1967 movie starring Peter Cook and Dudley Moore. I love the movie muchly, which you may have notice as I tend to quote and reference it in passing in several of my blog posts, but there seems to be a tremendous lack of material about it online. I've yet to come across a fansite about it. I'm not picky, I'd be happy to see even a rubbishy fansite with two quotes and a grainy GIF image (that's what my idea of a rubbishy fansite is, at least), but no - nothing. Which is odd, considering that it's such a funny movie. I'm not sure if it's even got that cult status thing that some movies have, like Withnail and I (<3), because it's so obscure - it tanked in the theatres when it was released, despite its greatness, and my guess is that not many people know about it. Makes me sad, and it also makes me want to create a fansite about it. But, considering that there's nothing about it online, and I don't know anything about it except for what the movie case (jacket? box? Box, that's the word I'm looking for, I think) blurb says. (And the blurb is pig doots, because it makes a big deal about how Raquel Welch is in it (probably to appeal to American consumers who have no idea who the heck Peter Cook and Dudley Moore are, you see), when she spends a cumulative total of about 8, 9 minutes, tops, on screen. And several of those minutes are just her dancing on a table. Yeah, dancing on a table.) If I can get my screen capturing thing hooked up to my VCR again, and can get it to work, I may start a site about it, because at least I could post screen caps from it.

I know, that was really, really silly and pointless, but you just wait a minute, because I've got one more spectacularly pointless thing to say - if I were to make a fanlisting for it, there would be a Join form, right? And on the Join form, there's the "Submit" and "Clear" buttons. You can customize them and change the text to personalize it a bit, so they don't just say "Submit" and "Clear". Here's my pointless, yet brilliant, idea - I would change "Submit" to "Julie Andrews!" and change "Clear" to "Pbfft!" !!!

Brilliant!

(OK, explanation - the devil, George Spiggott (Peter Cook), says "Julie Andrews!" to make Stanley Moon's (Dudley Moore) wishes come true (go figure). To get out of a wish gone awry, George tells Stanley to just go "Pbfft", so Stanley goes "Pbfft!" a lot throughout the movie. I probably just made this a lot more complicated than it really is. Sorry about that.)

Cheery bye, Scarlett




//Listening to:
Who Wants To Live Forever (Sarah Brightman version)
//Currently amused by this quote:
Again, from the RADW Quote File
[Subject: Re: A title or a tittle?]

Kelly Robinson wrote:
> "Four to Doomsday" has several hidden meanings.

> * Monarch the Frog has been to Earth 4 times and is coming a 5th but
> wanting to stay for good and destroying mankind, hence doomsday.

> * Monarch's ship is 4 days from earth. Monarch is not a good frog so
> that's where the doomsday aspect comes in.

> * This story is 4 stories away from Adric's death: "Earthshock" - cool,
> huh?

> * There are only three other [Non-Dalek] stories in Dr Who's history
> whose titles have hidden meanings. The viewership is so thick that
> straightforward titles are almost required as necessity instead of the
> typical straightforward rubbish like "the Ark in Space", "Robots of
> Death", "Inferno", "The Silurians", "The War Games" - it goes on and on
> and on. ;-D

I think that this proves, persuasively and conclusively, that Paul is dead.

Charles Martin 26/12/99

(Yes, that is terribly fanwanky quote, which is why the reply about Paul is so genius!)