Dave from Blogography has launched a new version of the Friday Five, although it's only the Friday Three plus bonus... :) Here is the FridayQ

FQ TOPIC: Escape.

FQ1: What is your favorite way to escape from everyday life?
Movies, especially fantasy movies, eg Harry Potter

FQ2: When was the last time you made an escape? Where did you go?
Tonight, to the movies to see Harry Potter :)

FQ3: If you could escape to anywhere on earth right now, where would that be?
er.. um.. I dunno. To bed! ha! To dream about magical worlds, or at least Jason Isaacs :)

FQ DARE: Post your passport photo (or your driver's license photo if you don't have a passport).
hrm that might be difficult, I don't have a scanner with me, I'll get back to you on that one.

Had a busy cleaning day today. And tidying. And organising. And researching.

Pulled Jason in lego apart and put it all away. Sorted out a bunch of recent ebay purchases (I've bought a bunch of stuff recently and it's always fun going to the post office not knowing what you're going to get - Friday I came home with two packages and had no idea what was in them until I opened them - like getting birthday presents :) ). Played with my camera.

oh I know why I'm so tired. Had an Evilhouse video night at Campbell's last night - watched Spun and Cypher. Both very strange movies. Went to be around 2am blah!

Tuesday Twosome:

1. What are the last two movies you saw?
Fame, seesh I can't remember what I saw before that, it's been a couple of weeks.

2. What are the last two TV shows you saw?
Survivor all stars and CSI

3. What are the last two items you purchased?
Six inch pizza on Italian herb and cheese today, nachos yesterday

4. What are the last two beverages you drank?
Orange juice, lift

5. What are the last two sites you surfed (before coming here)?
http://www.ebroadcast.com.au/TV/static/SydneyNight.html? and ebay

Much better mood today. Very loooonnnnngggg meeting at cia tho. Left to get home in time for survivor, and everyone else left too :) And suddenly it's late. blah.

From The Leaky Cauldron:

Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.

Double, double toil and trouble;
Something wicked this way comes.

Eye of newt and toe of frog,
Wool of bat and tongue of dog,
Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting,
Lizard's leg and howlet's wing,

Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.

Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.

Something wicked this way comes.

Hear the MP3 Version of the song

View the trailers

I'm *so* excited, I can't wait!!

And finally, check out the completed Lego mosaic of Jason Isaacs (don't forget to stand back as far as you can from your computer to get a better effect).

Further feeding a couple of my obsessions, I read Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone this weekend. I want to read all the books again before Azkaban comes out. I think I am also going to make Luc read all the books. He's the biggest reader I know yet he's never read them.

I also watched Dragonheart specifically for the Felton scenes.. ;) There's a couple of amusing Harry Potter-Dragonheart links. So we have Jason Isaacs who is in both movies, plays a character called Felton in Dragonheart. There is also a character called Draco. In Harry Potter Jason plays a character called Malfoy. There is also a character called Draco Malfoy played by an actor called Tom Felton. It kinda starts going round in circles in your head :)

I also spent over half of today cleaning out dead accounts on gamera. Backups aren't fitting onto the backup drive anymore, so it was time to nuke stuff. It's such a painful process though - looking up sites to see which aren't hosted with us anymore, then checking the accounts to see which have been closed, then going through all the sites and manually removing a virtual web server entry, ftp virtual directory, web virtual directory, user home directory and entry in a server list text file. The agony. Then clearing out gigabytes of sql transaction logs. Really must write a script for that sometime.

We had a video night at John's place tonight. Well actually nobody else turned up so it was just John and I, but that was ok, meant we a whole lounge each to stretch out on. It was unreal; we watched the Lion King and it was just like being at the movies. Plus he has the whole 5.1 surround sound thing happening. Maybe in a few years I'll "invest" in a data projector also.

Hrm after all that there's no Friday Five to do.

I think the betta I have in the bowl is sick. He's not swimming around like he normally does. Very sad :( Wonder if he'll still be alive in the morning...

For the first of my lego mosaics using my own lego, I thought it would be appropriate to use the Lego logo. So may I present the Lego logo in Lego. I actually did this the other night, but just haven't gotten around to posting a pic yet.

The hardest bit was actually designing. Clicking it all together took next to no time. Now I just need to find pictures to make mosaics out of.. :)

I spent far too long this afternoon drooling over pictures of Jason Isaacs. Well the alternative was cleaning the toilet and doing the dishes, I know which activity I'd rather be doing :) I was also looking at the movies he's done. Except for the odd occasion where he's played the good guy, he mostly plays the bad guy, and plays a bad guy damned brilliantly. That softly spoken voice.. and that sneer.. wow. <remembers to breathe>

I've also been reading the book of Labyrinth. I was watching it for the anniversary last night (just a few days late), and looking up pictures and stuff on the net. I found this site which has a very cool collection of Labyrinth resources, including the script of the movie (which I wrote down in longhand fourteen years ago) and the novelisation! I'm probably half way through the book, it seems very short. I quietly did a wget of the site to have a look at some of the pictures in my own time. <more breathless moments as I skipped ahead last night to read the ballroom scene>

Yes, apparently I have. Just watched The Patriot where he plays another wonderful bad guy. I think I need to go on a mission to see all his other movies :)

I also think I need to move to England. British accents do it for me.. :)

Had a thoroughly unmotivated day today. Seems to be a habit lately. Not getting anything done which is frustrating. I think I need a holiday. One where I can stay home for three months and catch up on all the things that need doing. I miss the three month holidays I used to get at uni :(

So my todo list for the weekend now all has to be done on one day. fun fun fun

1. What was the last song you heard?
Don't remember, it would have been on the radio on the way home. But for some reason I have "Heaven help my heart" going around in my head. Which is strange because I'm sure I haven't heard it recently

2. What were the last two movies you saw?
The Black Stallion and The Black Stallion Returns. The first one especially has the most glorious cinematography. Got em cheap at kmart the other day.

3. What were the last three things you purchased?
The groceries, some meat, and probably those dvds, along with some coat hangers.

4. What four things do you need to do this weekend?
Four? You expect me to limit my todo list to four ???

5. Who are the last five people you talked to?
If you count email and icq as talking.. Striker, James, me little brother, the manager at the local franklins, the checkout chicks at the local franklins

Last night, around 4am, I was rudely awaken from a dream (about lego funnily enough) by a rather intense pain in my calf muscle. Haven been awoken from a dream I was in a rather altered mental state and couldn't quite comprehend what was going on. It was really only after I woke up properly later on, and my leg was still sore, that I realised what had happened. I'd had an involuntory cramp. I did a quick search on this and found they're more common in middle aged people. So there you are. I'm getting old. Quite a depressing thought really.

Watched The Good, The Bad and the Ugly tonight. It was all right, but I don't think deserving of the #22 in IMDB's top 250 movies of all time. Then 24. Definitely the best of the three seasons so far.