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Apologies for the two week hiatus. Just a little randomness to escape from boring reality. We all can use it.



I have to say, for as much as I like Harry Potter (er, the books) this is pretty freaking accurate.

The people that create these videos though... They possibly and most seriously have nothing better to do with their lives. But I must say, they sure know how to waste their time inventively. Orson Welles applauds.



Some more gems just for the heck of it (the Les Mis one is totally worth it, pretty much supports the idea that this movie should have never happened):

Opening night was last Thursday, 11 April at the Shubert Theatre! Alright, I'm late... been caught up with something called Life.


Asides, there's rave reviews fucking left and right (okay, some people just like to be dicks for the sake of being dicks but their opinions technically don't matter). At the moment, what can be more Totally Awesome?


In case it isn't immediately obvious for some, yes, this is THE Matilda, Roald Dahl's Matilda - in other words, one of the most fantastic, creepy, abusive children's books ever invented and now it's one of the best musicals ever being performed.

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Even Snape is happy about that.

I know a lot of people probably can give a shit less who this guy is/was, but for fucking real - outside of Harry Potter, he was one of my all time favourite actors even though I never had the opportunity to meet him. And just not two days ago, I was revisiting some old Tony Awards videos where he presented at the 2007 ceremony with Daniel Radcliffe. He was ALIVE not two days ago!!! So naturally, this news is pretty fucking shocking, excuse my broken French. The emotions I'm feeling right now is just... full of complicated, incomprehensible crap.

Richard Griffiths, Dies Age 65

The actor Richard Griffiths, best known for his roles in The History Boys, Withnail & I and Pie In The Sky, has died.

He died of complications following heart surgery. He was 65.

Born in Thornaby-on-Tees in North Yorkshire in 1947, Griffiths established himself as a much-loved character actor in dozens of films and television series over five decades.

His best known roles included his turn as the lascivious Uncle Monty in the cult 1987 movie Withnail & I and as Hector in the film version of Alan Bennett's The History Boys.

He had recently been introduced to a new generation of fans with his performances as Vernon Dursley in the Harry Potter films.

Griffiths worked with big-name Hollywood directors - appearing in Martin Scorsese's Hugo and Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow.

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Source: ohnotheydidnt

Harry Potter actor Richard Griffiths, Vernon Dursley in series, dies at age 65

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Tony-award winning actor Richard Griffiths, well known to Harry Potter fans as playing Vernon Dursley in the film series, died after complications following heart surgery this Thursday, the BBC announced on Friday morning. He was 65 years old.


Griffiths' Harry Potter costars Daniel Radcliffe and Warwick Davis were among those to comment and commend the actor:

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His Harry Potter co-star Daniel Radcliffe - who also appeared on stage with him in Equus - was among the first to pay tribute, saying: "Richard was by my side during two of the most important moments of my career. I was proud to know him."

Actor Warwick Davis told BBC News he had the upmost respect for someone with such a great filmography behind them.

"You got a great deal of support (as an actor) for having Richard about.

"He was lovely, he would always make time for his fans, that's what makes a great actor, it's about having a good persona."

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Radcliffe said Griffiths had supported him at two key points in his career, when he first played the young Harry Potter and later when he made his stage debut in Equus.

"In August 2000, before official production had even begun on Potter, we filmed a shot outside the Dursleys', which was my first ever shot as Harry. I was nervous and he made me feel at ease," he said.

"Seven years later we embarked on Equus together. It was my first time doing a play but, terrified as I was, his encouragement, tutelage and humour made it a joy. In fact, any room he walked into was made twice as funny and twice as clever just by his presence. I am proud to say I knew him."

UPDATE: Griffiths' on-screen Harry Potter wife, Fiona Shaw, who played Petunia Dursley, had a few kind words to say about her costar as well:

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"He was a philosopher clown," Shaw said by phone from New York. "He was incredibly knowledgeable about history, science, almost everything. He had a huge ambition and was a total delight in what he did. And that's what was clearly communicated to audiences. He dedicated himself to the theater."

Shaw said that Griffiths was "incredibly funny -- sometimes he would hold up shooting on 'Harry Potter' so that he could finish a joke. His mind was a weaving of many different stories."

Among Griffiths' stage and screen performances included Chariots of Fire, Superman II and Gandhi, and his Tony-award-winning The History Boys. He is survived by wife Heather Gibson, whom he married in 1980.

Please feel free to leave your words of love and condolences in the comments below. Richard Griffiths will indeed be greatly missed.

Source: SnitchSeeker.com


So, please excuse my butchered feelings...

The train wreck of films that was 2012 is over, fucking finally (kiss your arses good-bye ArgoFuckYourself, Nay Miserbales, & Breaking Yawn: Part II). I can’t say the 2013 Movie Year will be any less of a batch of hot messes since there hasn’t been enough info/trailers released yet on the new hell spawns for Oscar season (although browsing the list of new failures, everything looks/sounds like utter shit). But there is one film making its rounds which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival 2013 and opened March 1st in select cities. It has just earned a golden spot on my list of Most Anticipated Films for this year (also including Andrea Arnold’s Wuthering Heights from the previous two years depending on the release dates – no I haven’t seen it yet, Kill Your Darlings – another 2013 Sundance film, Separate We Come Separate We Go with David Fucking Thewlis, and I guess I can add Ben Ockrent and Jake Russell’s Dust here too, at least that’s all I can think of for now). Although, the film I’m talking about here will sadly most likely be forgotten by the time Oscar season arrives (well fuck it, I can’t stand the Academy Awards anyhow, ironically enough since I somehow manage to still watch it but I think I hate it more and more every year; don’t get me started on the last ceremony and its explicit sexist/ageist bashing). So… Has anyone here heard of this?



Who has, let’s be honest?



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So, stay tuned for a sort of movie/script review…


GIF courtesy of qn128, thanks love

Original Synopsis via the Official Site

TODD, a 60-something loner with a twitch, follows young JESSICA (7) and her MUM home from school. He waits until nightfall before breaking into their house and creeps into Jessica’s room. Lifting the helpless, sleeping child off her pillow, he locates… a tooth! In a fit of compulsion, Todd crushes the tooth and snorts it from Jessica’s bedside table. Wings burst out of his back and he leaps from her window, freed for another short while... until his tooth fairy addiction hits again. The next day after school, Jessica heads towards an ice cream van, a gleaming new coin in hand...

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This sounds/looks kind of intriguing (and perhaps a little stalker-dude-creepy) even though the film is under 10 minutes long. Hoping there will at least be a 2 minute trailer out soon.

Edit: I'm sorry about the first source links, mods. If there's still an issue with the sources, please let me know so I can fix them. Thanks.

Thanks BroadwayWorld.com for stealing borrowing this post as your own. Spread the news, guys.

Cross-posted HERE @ ohnotheydidnt

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Cross-posted HERE @ deviantART

I skipped class today. I've been working myself sick. I'll come back after I lay down but in the meantime feel free to (insert whatever you want) this post:

This semester I'm enrolled in a sort of Women Studies class (yes, it sounds misleading, believe me I judged it too, like hell I wanted so sit in a girls-restricted classroom but oops I was wrong). More or less specifically, it's a social science course studying Gender, Race, and Class (from a feminist perspective but masculinity is acknowledged too because ''feminist'' has nothing to do with women's-only politics, truthfully - or it shouldn't be). I'm surprised I'm enjoying the class so far however, this past week has been a bit uncomfortable for me because we've been discussing Gender Identity and umbrella topics (Transgender, Intersex, etc.) as well as some renowned names (Brandon Teena, Thomas Beatie, David Reimer). As far as some of you may know, I identify as genderqueer which is really hard to explain in proper words since I myself am still trying to understand my situation. I didn't share it with anyone of course, it's only week 7 but I was a little shocked to see that hardly anyone in a college level class really knew the difference between Sex and Gender Identity or what Transgender is (gladly ignore the ''Gender Identity Disorder'' term because this is truthfully inaccurate). She probably didn't mean to but one girl kept confusing the pronouns, saying something like: ''She's now a she but she was really a he'' so ''he yappety-yap'' in reference to a Transwoman on Instagram (well, if she's a Transwoman then obviously she's a she regardless if she had a penis and even if she still did she would still be a she). And another girl asked about something in reference to Thomas Beatie's pregnancies (not like he was the first Transman to be pregnant but he did successfully commercialise it), saying something on the lines of: ''But does he have a penis or...'' Um, no. He's a man but he was assigned as a female at birth; he still had his vagina, his uterus and ovaries while pregnant (obviously, you need these organs to become pregnant) but he was always a man. Him carrying his partner's children didn't/doesn't make him any less than a man. I personally stan for this quote he said: ''I feel it's not a male or female desire to want to have a child, it's a human desire.'' The confusion was too much to handle, I admit - as if these people have never been exposed to anything other than Man and Woman! Apparently, or I generally assume these people are cismen and women otherwise they wouldn't have been so hopelessly confused. Maybe I shouldn't be too shocked but with countless of coverage on it lately... ack! My instructor on the other hand has been studying this area for years to come so she knows her shit. And she openly admits her faults, saying she is a ciswoman and although she doesn't question her Sex Assignment or Gender Identity she's still learning and whenever she does accidentally slip up the preferred pronouns of Transpeople (she has quite a plenty Transgender friends), she goes on to say: ''Oops, sorry. I know, I'm an asshole.'' So, with that said I remembered this illustration - simple and cute for heavy subject matter but it gets the point across better than I can with my ranting:



Because Society is an Ass when it comes to Gender not fitting in ''neat little constructed boxes''; however Gender is much more complex than what we normally give it credit for. Sex is what we're assigned at birth given the appearance of our genitalia and/or medically tested chromosomes, etc. (fuck those shitty doctors). According to Society only two boxes exist: Male and Female - biologically and by reproductive means, yes I suppose (and Intersex is almost always ''corrected'' without the consent of the child, seriously fucked up beyond fucked). We're then expected to act in a socially constructed way based on these two labels - Man/Boy, Woman/Girl - that will follow us for the rest of our lives unless we make full surgical transitions that hardly anyone has the money for and not everybody wants (because truth be told Transphobia and other phobias do exist in the medical field so these doctors aren't always willing to make your new bottom parts pretty). Gender is separate from Sex; it is an Identity within the brain and is totally accurate regardless of Sex. And Sexual Orientation is also different; it can be whatever it wants to be regardless of Gender Identity. Though regardless of whatever labels out there exist (there's too many to count), we're all just People no matter what. Our whole Society is based around who-is-what and what-is-this but this little cute comic really goes to show any of this is not that big of a deal and Sex shouldn't be used as a tool to judge the Human Race. But sadly, it persists.

(I apologise once again for disappearing in the Department of Mysteries. I solemnly swear I will get caught up with everything as soon as I can. But first, a quick update. No need to comment because I’ve been an awful bitch with doing so myself. Read if interested.)

Bold text in case of reading comprehension failure.

I know, I know… I have a lot of projects going on right now. It’s confusing as hell, likely. However, unlike the Post-Apocalyptic Project – Info, Sneak Peak (which will probably be posted this summer) and The Metallic Dollsman (which I will finish up after Post-Apo) that I’m writing for the sake of writing, I’m writing this project for my Intro to Screenwriting class I’ve enrolled in this semester at UNLV (it’s mostly review for me as far as basics go but it’s still very helpful because my awesome instructor really knows his shit unlike my senile art professor from last semester). Anyhow, by the end of the semester we are expected to finish and finalise a 25-30 page screenplay (my muse just died a little inside). Right now, we’re preparing to pitch ideas.

It took about a week to figure it out but I believe I know for sure what I want to write.

Now, without getting too wordy because that’s like literally my worst fault:



The working title: Crimson Sage – The idea is heavily inspired by the Steubenville, Ohio Rape Case as well as the India Rape Crisis (2012 Delhi Gang Rape) (please click that link if you don’t already know; this still disgusts me to no end, I’m never going to let this go).

If our own Fucked Up System couldn’t be any more fucked up than it already is, welcome to this Dystopian Society.

( Rape doesn’t legally exist in this Society. So how can anyone truly fight against it?Collapse )

I have no bloody idea where the hell this story will go in the end or when this will be ready to share (for anyone interested) – most likely by the time the semester ends which is the end of May. I’m planning out some conceptual artwork for this project right now so stay tuned…

Cross-posted HERE @ deviantART




( I wanted the mock soundtrack to have a doll-like quality; mechanical; electrical; ethereal perhaps; maybe even partly Gothic in nature; music box-esque; creepy/eerie; horror/macabre; and fantasy/sc-fi. I basically selected the songs based on that. Most of these are just reprises so feel free to skip around and/or sample longer songs.Collapse )

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