Sci-if and Me

I thought I'd add a video. Just for the heck of it really.

2007-08-05T15:23:00.000+01:00

2007-06-23T00:35:00.000+01:00

I came on here to update, but I don't really know what to update about...ok. How about the new Doctor Who series. This is meant to be a blog about sci-if after all you know.

Alrighty then...series 3 and we have the lovely Miss Jones as the new companion for the Doctor.

Episode 1 was ok, but mind you I did miss the beginning of that one. Martha Jones is training to be a doctor when she encounters the Doctor running like a loon to get a tie or something (You see I missed that part, but it's referred to later in the show twice) and then again at the hospital she is training at. Suddenly the hospital is moved to the Moon by the 'space police' who are looking for an alien, this means trouble for the Doctor who manages to get Miss Jones caught up in helping him find the alien the police are looking for and also save his ass (and what a lovely ass it is...*cough*).

Of course they save the day and the police put the hospital back just in time to stop everyone in the hospital die from lack of air.

Due to the help Martha gave the Doctor he offers her a trip in the lovely blue box we know and love, but first he has to prove to travel in time and space, so he goes back in time to get a new tie. Then the adventure begins!

Episode 2 .... Well, I completely missed that episode, so I can't comment on it.

Episode 3: Seeing as Martha was given a trip back in time the doctor decided to extend the trip with going forward in time and back to New Earth. Martha was not to pleased to find he had been there before with his previous companion, but she has taken quite a shying to him.
Martha is kiddnaped and the Doctor goes in chase after her, in the process he comes across 'My Hero' who is a Cat, but many will remember him better as Dougal from 'Father Ted'.

Meanwhile, the Face of Boe has felt the Doctor's presence on the planet and wants to tell his serect before he dies and so sents Novice Hame to find him and bring him back. Which the Doctor is not to happy about because he wants to save Matha from a load of huge crabs (Macra) that are attacking the car she is in. Lucky he is able to do that from the control center the Face of Boe lives in, but at the price of the Face of Boe's life. Before he dies he says to the Doctor "You Are Not Alone".

Episode 4 and 5: I can't remember the reason for why the Doctor extended his 'Thank you' trip for this one...maybe it was an aploisy for allowing her to be kiddnaped, but that would be a werid way of doing it because they come up against the Daleks, who are in New York...the real New York not the New new new new new new etc new York.

Anyway, it's the four Daleks from the finial episode of the last series and they are trying to evole or at least one of them is till he is killed...I don't know what happens at the end because the recording I had of the two episodes cut off the end.

Well, I'll continue this later...I'm sorry but it's time for bed or I'm going to be really tired at work in the morning. Bye for now!

A piece of art...

2007-03-30T00:28:00.000+01:00

Last week I had this image in my head and finally on Tueday night I got it on to canvas using oil pastals...I'm surpised I managed to do it the way I remembered the image. I didn't notice till later that if it's on it's side, it looks like a face.

Yes, I know I haven't updated recently!!

2007-03-29T13:11:00.000+01:00

Yo! I'm totally Knacked! Monday-Wednesday I have been editing my documentary project for Uni, called "Danger: Drink Driving!!". I have finish making up the dvds with menus, labels and dvd covers. Ah, now I can rest for a short while...darn, I have to do the notes to go with the dvds.

Well, I've added the picture of the limited edition discs of which there are only five...
1. Hand in to uni
2. Police
3. Hospital
4. THINK!
5. My own copy

The Life of a Stalker

2007-01-11T21:11:00.000Z

The Craig's biggest fan's bedroom is now viewable for you to mavel at in the Pictures below.

Donie Girl's birthday

2007-01-11T18:29:00.000Z

*Ugh...Why did my alarm go off? So sleepy...Need more...zzzzzzzzzz.*

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2 hours later

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*Why didn't I wake up earlier!? I was needing to do some work...grrr to self!*

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Anyway, I was no where near to being late, in fact I got the train before the one I was meant to get.
At least I had my Clarkson book to keep me entrained for the journey and the train stations. The trains were nice to me and were only 3 minutes late. *Ah, I'm lucky with trains*

When I arrived at Doncaster I when to the Ladies loos to find a 40 something woman washing up her cups and plates in the sinks...It was different, and a interesting way of being greeted to a town.
When waiting for Kristey to arrive I sat next to an automatic door that didn't open and many people walked straight into, which was quite amusing. I did tell some who did that it was broken before they were that near, but in the end I gave up and watched or read my book.

I was later collected by the birthday girl to go to her house to get ready, talk to her family and also marvel at her Craig Charles plastered room, which I was to sleep in.

The party was at the pub in a side room with karaoke and many of Kristey's friends already drinking. The girls out numbered the 5 lads. It was a very jolly night...Kristey's brother Mark was up for any song and her dad even did two too.
The Craig cake was a masterpiece, which the next day I got his elbow :D.

It was a great and strange day, but what do you expect from the birth date of Donie Girl!

So much work, so little time.

2006-10-17T00:54:00.000+01:00

Tomorrow I start my new job at the cinema. But first I need to make sure I know what I am doing for one of my projects by tomorrow, but I need sleep.

Also, by the end of this week I have to get the book cover finished for a friend to publish his book.
(I'll see if I can show the pictures of the work I have done on it at some point).

hmmm...night!

Random stuff in the early hours of Saturday.

2006-10-14T02:01:00.000+01:00

What is with me and posting on here in the early hours of the morning!?

Well, anyway, as I said "Random Stuff":

I have noticed I haven't been keeping up to my promises on the internet, but I do hope to complete them soon...I get distracted easy, so it can sometimes take a while.
I have happy news! - I have a job! Yay!
...I don't know what the third would be...Oh well!

So this is a nice short one...So I'll add a picture just to make it look more interesting.

The picture is me pretending to have my own Q&A...nar, really I was just mucking about on stage between two Q&As at DJ XIII because I was bored and my camcorder was charging up. ...The picture was taken on the Saturday, so I was happy with no hangover at that time.

Weird dream.

2006-10-11T19:21:00.000+01:00

I tend to have many weird dreams, but I'm just woken up from a nap I finished have just a few minutes ago.

I seemed to be jumping dreams as if I had stumbled across someone else's dream because in one of the dreams I'm not too sure it was my own. I heard music that I had never heard before and then David Hewlett sat down with our little group (people I don't remember) and started singing to the song that had just played and then the music came up as backing with crowd chanting but with out crowd. Because I didn't know the words I pretended to play the drums with my hands, which was likely to look uncool to everyone there. The song seemed abit like an anthem of some kind and I've been told that no one was playing music while I was sleeping, so I don't know where the unknown music came from.

Then, another part of the dream I remember was all about some experiment where apparently they radiate rats, mice and ducks once a year at some lab to see what would happen. I was told that one year they had rats give birth to small grey mice. Near the end of that dream bit I was bitten by a talking rat that was pretending to be one of the radiated rats.

Also, earlier on in the dream I was trying to watch anime with friends, one of who I know as a friend and the other I'm not sure I had met, but they seemed always to hide in shadow so.

Well, that's most of what I remember of that. But I do have to say it's not the weirdest I've had.
I just thought I would share that with you.

Note: Oh! The picture is from the Sims. It's the first there being a bear in the Sims for me, so I thought to put it in.

What with me and late nights?

2006-10-11T02:43:00.000+01:00

It is 2:38am and I am wondering why do I seem to post here during night time hours?

Today, after an interview at a cinema, I watch three films there:
Click
The Devil wears Prada
An Inconveinent Truth

I will review them at a later date for you.
That is all!

I've done a stupid thing

2006-10-08T07:23:00.000+01:00

It's 7:18am in ...erm... I'm not sure what the weather is like at the moment due to the curtains being closed and too far away from me to look behind them. Plus, the shock of natual light might be too much to handle for the moment... Anyway, In England...rainy, sunny, cloudy, who knows?...I don't.

Anyway, the reason to why I have entitled this what I did...well, I've been playing The Sims all night through...Yes, yes, I'm not up to date! I don't have The Sims 2 because it doesn't work on my computer so I got The Sims and The Sims Hot Date instead. At least it's cheaper and I know how to play it.

Well, off to my normal rambling:
erm...hmmm....oh, shoot! I'm just too knacked to. I can bearly keep my eyes open....I should really....erm....something...errrr....sleep....and stop going to bed so late....it's just, I forget...like, to eat...I just forget now and then....I don't notice at all at times till someone tells me they haven't seen me come throught the kichen for food that day. I should write reminders for myself.
But don't worry it don't always happen with food...it normally just sleep, not that I get much if I go to bed at a normal sort of time.

Well, best get some shut eye!
7:33am

It is past midnight and I'm doing laundry

2006-10-06T00:36:00.000+01:00

Yes dear readers of my blog. I am a twit!
But it still doesn't stop me loving sci-fi.

Okay! Tonight I will talk about GalaxyQuest:
Now I first watched this film on a plane years ago and then a month later it came out at the cinemas, which confused abit. I wish I had gone to watch it at the cinema as well, but I was skint at the time.

Anyway, this film stars:
- Tim Allen (The man who play santa in the "Santa Clause" triogy and a man who can change in to a dog in the "Shaggy Dog". Please do not take these in to account before thinking of watching GalaxyQuest because if you do then you'll miss out on a great film. Mind you I like those other films, but some don't. I think I'm a child at heart.)
- Sigourney Weaver (From those cool "Aliens" films. In this she get to play some different, which is nice.)
- Alan Rickman (from so many films. Many will know him as Snape in the "Harry Potter" films. One of my friends has a massive crush on him)
- Tony Shalhoub ( from the tv series "Monk" in which he plays brilliant San Francisco detective with obsessive compulsive disorder)

Four main brilliant actors in a sci-fi comedy, which is by most seen at a sci-fi spoof, but it many ways it's also saying how cool sci-fi is. What would it be like if what a sci-fi programme turned out to be real? Which has also been a question that is asked in Stargate SG-1 afew times because there's afew episodes where they is a television show inside the programme based the stargate. *I've confused myself in that sentence*

Well, I best tell you what the film is about, so I'll quote what IMDb says because it saves me time and effort, and plus you get a better description that I could make at the moment because my eyes have gone funny:
Eighteen years after their sci-fi adventure show "Galaxy Quest" was cancelled, actors Jason Nesmith, Gwen DeMarco, Alexander Dane, Tommy Webber, and Fred Kwan are making apperances at sci-fi conventions and store openings in costume and character. They're wallowing in despair and at each other's throats until aliens known as Thermians arrive and, having mistook the show for fact and consequently modeling their entire culture around it, take them into space to save them from the genocidal General Sarris and his armada.

And that's it!

Just got back...

2006-09-27T15:44:00.001+01:00

to the armpit of England, Middlesbrough.

Now due to the fact I don't have the internet in my apartment (Oh posh!) yet, it is really a few days after I first wrote this down in my random stuff on Monday afternoon.

Well Dimension Jump XIII (Red Dwarf convention) was great! So I must congratulate the Red Dwarf Fan Club for that.

Let's start from the beginning on:
Friday:

After catching two trains to get to Peterbrough, the last of which was near to empty (ah! lots of space. Hmmm...nice!), so that was great as well because normally a train bound of London tend to be packed...erm...anyway, I managed to walk part way to the hotel, which was very hard with all the heavy stuff I had taken with me *Owie!*. So I phoned a taxi to take me the rest of the way and when I get there I find I can't check in yet, so I wait in the bar to watch Red Dwarf with a people I met.

Sometime passes and I see someone check in so I try again, but no luck, my room isn't ready yet. So back to the bar.

Just before two o'clock a group of us go to get the fan club to start giving our packs because we were just too excited to wait and to our joy it works.

After that I try again to check in, but this time I can't due to my card...*cries*... the machine says incorrect pin.
*What!?*
*I had just got that new pin!*
So I can't check in, but after a plee for help Graham (Pitbull on the webboard) takes a group of us in his car to Asda. So I manage to get money out of the cash machine with the pin, which was correct! And also 12 cans of Carling.
*I had 4 cans for myself, 3 for the SF guys, 1 for my Ex, 2 for Donie Girl and 4 for Rory of the Fan Club team because I couldn't handle anymore after saturday*.

So finally I get back to the hotel and get my room and find I have an executive room (Nice! How lucky!) with a mini bar, which I can keep my cans cool and the sandwiches I have taken there with me. :)

The night started with Hattie doing the quiz, which was great, but we lost on table H. Table B won, which was the table I was meant to be at for the quiz *Smeg!*.
Oh well!

The karaoke started up after that and the first lass to get up to sing won, because she was really good.

Chris Barrie was next with Q&A where he gave us tips about the media industry, got embassed about being asked to sing, told his tongue in cheek story (Craig's cheek), got annoyed with everyone one else at the scose heckler and then signed stuff for us before disappearing off to avoid singing at the second half of the karaoke.

The second half of the karaoke was still fun and Aimi and me got up and sang ABBA - Take a chance on me. Well, Aimi sang and I messed up the words, even though they were in front of me.

Saturday:

Oh my! This day was long but extremely fun, exciting and interesting.

Robert was first up even through he was late and surpringly Danny was early. Which amazed many, but it was his brother (Charles) who was driving so he must must been the one to get Danny to be ready early for starting the car jorney there.
...Anyway, Robert was first. He came rushing in with his camcorder and tripod because he's hoping to get his Q&A up on youtube.com, so I'll wait till his has gone up on youtube and then I'll put up mine...just search for rdpenny and you'll find me vids.
Robert actually got threated by my camcorder because it was bigger than his. *Giggles*

Danny was next with his nefuew, Alexander, who played baby Lister in series 7, episode 3, Ouroboros.
Alexander is now 10 years old and seemed quite bored up on stage while Danny answered questions, but he did get some questions which were answered with the maximum of two words.
Danny did a lovely little cat dance for us all in his Q&A too.

Lunch followed and then Norman with his lovely dead pan comedy self did his Q&A.

The autograph session was next, which due to how many of the cast there were there it took much longer than it was meant to.
Everyone of them was very chatty:

Hattie told me abit about "The little Prince" because my signing book has a "The Little Prince" theme.
Danny gave Norman a massage which cheered Norman up until he realised he had signed my Quantine script from Red Dwarf when he wasn't even in that episode.
Robert was very talkive too (shame I can't remember what he said to me. Darn, my memory can be bad!)
The Special Effects guys(Alan Brannan, Peter Tyler and Rocky) were talkive too and even more so later that night after the many drinks they were consuming.
Alexander on the other hand was nearing a daydream while waiting to see if anyone would like his autograph.

For a while after that I joined a conversion with Charles John-Jules, who is Alex's dad and brother of Danny. He was a lovely bloke and was hoping that Alex would keep the convention as a happy memory.

Dinner was next or in my case, sorting my costume for the Fancy Dress and getting a free drink from...erm...well, like I said, I don't have a good memory.

So the special effects guys came on for their Q&A. It was very interesting to find out about how they get their ideas, what things they use to make models, how they filmed, etc, etc. I liked their techinal stuff because it's very informative and interesting to me. I like creativeness.

Fancy Dress was after that. I helped Aimi bring down her costume, "Crushed Kryten". I dressed up as part of the Dibby family with a mini motorised Dibby skutter. Nether Aimi nor me won, but it was still fun.

Norman's Cabaret after that with his wonderful slides, but I think he may have got a little annoyed with my Dibby skutter that was zooming about the table I was at because I gave the contrals to some bored teenages (Thingy, Whatit and Bacon - I don't remember their names so I called them those ones.)

The Disco was next and my skuter was popular, it could have got lucky with someone if it wanted to, but it came home with me.

I don't drink much, yes, I can down a pint, but I don't really go out drinking so Saturday night was a rare thing for me...infact, I was about to stop drinking before midnight till Tristan decided to put one in front of me through out the rest of the night and other friends. (So next year if you are skint, he's the guy to blag a drink from).

I stayed up till 5 o'clock in the morning playing pool and talking to Rocky about the Bond film as well the types of television programmes on TV now and how our generation should get off our asses to make better comedy (I totally agree with him, so it has motivated me to write my ideas down and think about writing a test script).

Sunday:

After just two hours of sleep I was knackered! It was hard to keep awake but I managed.

Hattie Q&A was in the morning, which I don't seem to remember much of because I was mostly consentrating on staying awake.

The presentation of "Beat the Geek" was after that, which looks great! I can't wait to get it.

Smeg or No Smeg (Deal or No Deal) was good fun with me with number 13 and Andrew beening the choosen one. This game really helped wake me up for Craig's Q&A, which was great.

Autographs were next and Craig is such a lovely bloke!

After the auction the convention finished up.

That night the fans who were left migrated to the bar to talk in their little groups about the past few days.

Monday:

Had breakfast, talked with other fans and then left by taxi to catch my train at 12:20.

Overall, a brilliant weekend, which felt like a whole week full of fun.

My stomach is rumbling

2006-09-19T14:49:00.000+01:00

Maybe food would be a good idea, but first my post for today.

I have moved to the armpit of England, Middlesbrough, but it's not anywhere near as bad as last year due to having a nice place to live where my things can fit in. Plus I haven't started my new year of uni yet and have to wait till Octber for that.

I've been through some of my dvds:

Red Dwarf - To swot up for DJ.
QI - To just swot up.
Andromedia - But I haven't watched for awhile.
Have I Got News For You: Guests vol 2 (Disc 2) - Because Boris Johnson is so funny as presenter.
Stargate: SG1 - It's just cool! (Add: The sci-fi channel should renew that contract because it's a great programme or allow them to move the programme to another channel. This affects us in the UK as well as America! Plus, Canada suffers due to lost of some jobs which SG1 genatrated.)

Well, I best be going now. Bye!

I'm Smegged off now!

2006-09-12T21:25:00.000+01:00

The computer just erased the post I was about to post and now I've got to try and remember it.
Bugger!

*Thinks*
It was my sister's birthday today and I'm very tired due to waking up early after a late night inorder to give my sister her birthday present in the morning before school. Want is really annoying about that is that I was have such a great dream when my brain decide to wake up before the alarm to make sure I could surprise my sister. She was happy though so I suppose that's ok.

I'll be going to the Red Dwarf (DJ) convention in under two weeks time in Peterbrough, which will be my second time going so it should be fun, but I also would like to go to the Stargate convention down in London, but due to damn Orange! I don't think I can afford it, but I so want to go. So there's a conflict in my mind.

*Thinks: I think that was it...Well sort of.*

I hope this to be better than the last one

2006-09-11T20:00:00.000+01:00

It is now 8pm, my littlest sister's birthday is tomorrow so she will be 8 years old...It's a little weird I have such young sisters, but at least I can live somewhere else so I don't need to be near them when they are annoying. Don't get me wrong, I love my sisters, but I also love having freedom.

Talking about freedom, I have pay my first monthly payment to Orange before they take me to court. I know it mostly their fault, but I don't want to go through all that hassle.

So I'll be away from my family once more and at university to hopefully finish and then get a brilliant job.

Anyway, enough of my dull life, lets get on to my now new favorite film "Nothing":
It's such a great name to start off with because if someone asks about it you can say "Nothing", which causes a great facial expression from them and if you have a camera, a funny picture for you.

The film is about two guys who hate the world and then one really bad day the world disappears into nothing. The rest of the film is about their friendship, how corrupting power can be and just messing about.

This film has taken the lead in my top five films, which are:
1. Nothing
2. Queen of the Damned
3=. The Crow & GalaxyQuest (They tie)
5. The One

When or if the Red Dwarf film happens I think it will replace one of these five or maybe tie with one of them. ... I don't understand why it has to be so difficult to get the produce a British film like that. There was a lot of hype about it being made soon after the 8th series, but it seemed like nothing happened. It still trying to get the money to be made and it is not going to be made in England because is too much money. ... Are the British greedy with money when it come to the film industry? ...Gee! That's just rude! We can hardly afford to make big films in our own country! That's just madness gone mad!

Well, it's 8:35pm and I must put my sister who is 10 to bed. Bye!

*What was that noise outside? That was scary!*

My First Blogger Blog

2006-09-10T18:23:00.000+01:00

Ok, so this is my first blog...and already it sounds like it's going to be boring like everyone's first blogs tend to be. Oh great! *Sarcasm was just used (This is a warning that there is likely to be more in the future)*

...Now I don't know what to write, but I'll continue on with my waffling. *Hmmm...Waffles!*

So I should point out I'm in england and hate two things: Tom Cruise and Mobile Orange.
That is just incase you are interested, which I don't think you are at the moment, but as I continue on with my blogs there may be many mentions of the two.

You will have noticed that this blog site is titled "Sci-fi and Me", well this is because I love sci-if and ... well, I not sure I love me... don't think so, but I am me so I may talk about myself. The reason I've opened up to include other sci-if than just Red Dwarf, like I have done on my msn page is because Red Dwarf is not just the only sci-if I enjoy.

*Thinks: I'm getting the hang of this. Hope the internet doesn't switch off.*

I think I'll finish now so I go eat pizza downstairs. Bye!