...way out on the corner of fucked up and evil...

Bloody finally. Why does LJ insist on my password having numbers in it when that makes it so hard to remember?

Anyway, this week in brief:

Those Alex Rider novels; Yassen is either Alex's dad, or he fancies his pants off. Jury's still out on which is more likely - Horowitz doesn't seem like the kind of writer to push the boy-molesting envelope, but let us not forget that Yassen is ginger and nobody sleeps with ginger people*. Also, Alex is quite clearly not Russian.

Miami Vice sucks. I didn't want to believe it, but between Jamie Foxx's stupid painted-on hair and beard, Colin Farrel's 70's gay porn star moustache and goatee combo and the fact that the entire plot is basically Smuggler's Blues amped up and stretched over two hours, it's a dire viewing experiance. Also, playing a crappy remix cover version of In The Air Tonight is less of a shout-out and more a case of adding insult to injury. If there had been some aligator-related hijinx, or maybe if Gritty!Norties!Sonny and Rico had actually cracked a smile throughout the entire affair, I might have been a little less harsh, but as it is? For shame, Hollywood. For shame.

Alan Campbell's Scar Night should make it onto the To Be Read list of anyone with taste, anyone who likes fantasy, anyone who likes boys with wings, creepy religions, dystopian visions of the future, assassins, the devestating effects of biological warfare or, in fact, anything that is good.

*This has been scientifically proven. With science! Or at least with stern authoritarian figures wearing white coats.

People who think that Murdoch is better than Face are cripples, puppy-eaters and probably French, and they will be damned to an eternal Hell by Liam Neeson for their crimes. So there.

In other news, I do not get the point of Russia. Maybe it's one of those things non-Americans don't understand, but I don't see why they're always the big threat in movies. I mean, why? Russia's crap. Sure, they have loads of palaces and whatever with all that gold bling, but the weather's shit and the general population is poor. All anyone ever does there is drink strong liquor and eat potatoes. It's basically Ireland with less leprechauns.

Russia fails at life.