Just back from the cinema after seeing Ice Age 3 (meh... don't see it if you're not in the company of an 8-year-old). They showed a trailer for "Half-Blood Prince"... It'll be showing less than two weeks from now. To be honest, I'd completely forgotten.
The film will probably be crap, but my god... there were a few shots of Severus Snape and I was jumping up and down in excitement.
Alan Rickman ... that man does things to lesbians. What a talent eh!



There were some gigantic posters hanging in the lobby of the cinema, including the one of Severus above. The Girlfriend stopped me from taking a photo with my brand-new phone (oh yes, I -accidentally- stuck the old one in the washing machine today... it died on me, unsurprisingly, but at least it smells of fabric softener) claiming it would be "embarrassing". Embarrassing? No, embarrassing will be when I stalk the cinema people for a poster of my own!

We're not planners, the Girlfriend and I.
Well, let me rephrase that, I am a planner, but I need a bit of time to panic and flail beforehand. The Girlfriend is very much "go with the flow".
Still, today was the first time we managed to sit down as calm, intelligent adults and do some planning and decision-making for the wedding (only *gulp* four months away tomorrow) without (nearly or totally) getting into an argument.

I'm calling it progress!

Now don't get me wrong, I love this woman and she loves me and there's no doubt in my mind that I want to marry her. It's only I sometimes wish we could elope and be done with it! Worrying about money, stressing it won't be "good enough" and meddling family members form an explosive cocktail that leads to short tempered Piglet, hence the (near-)arguments.
But no more. It's *our* wedding and we'll do what we damned well please. Now can I start looking forward to it?

No, he can't.

At least you expect this kind of stuff from a Republican, but when it's a Democrat hailed as "the bringer of change" and god knows what else...well, it makes it all the more infuriating.

So with the European parliament trickling full of nationalistic Europhobes (I'm linking to the UK but I might as well link to any other European country), the Flemish one filling with Flemish Belgophobes and the Walloon one filling with a corrupt party..... how will things fare the coming years.

Hmz.
Allow me to be slightly sceptical.

And Belgium is EU President in July 2010? Let's hope we still have a federal government by then!

Gay marriage is sinful and decadent, right? According to some idiots in the States at least. Marriage is a holy sacrament between one man and one woman (or "one penis + one vagina" as I saw on some signs during anti-gay marriage rallies, way to show what you find most important), as God-or-the dinosaurs intended and gays should keep their filthy paws off it. They can have *some* rights, but only separate and not equal. Right?

Right.
And then those same heterosexuals now get to marry a total stranger on a reality TV show. Because that, ladies and gentlemen, apparently is the right way to enter a meaningful holier than thou sacrament.

Gay penguins adopt a chick.

I love penguins.
And gay penguins? How fantastic can you get?

Röyksopp - The Girl And The Robot from moho on Vimeo.

No, It's not Eurovision.

Oh my, please spare me from what is undoubtedly a trainwreck in the making:

(...) Plans for a new Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie have inevitably come to pass, with the rights holders of the franchise announcing plans for a new Sunnydale-set film.

But there is a catch.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, the film, which will neither be a sequel nor prequel but a relaunch, is moving ahead with absolutely no involvement from film and series mastermind Joss Whedon. It will also fail to feature TV's Buffy herself, Sarah Michelle Gellar, and will in fact have no connection to the long-running series—meaning Angel, Willow, Xander and Spike will also be MIA.

What's next? A Star Trek film written by the man who wrote crap like Lost? Tsk!

I love the schlagerboys. Look! It's a Eurovision wind machine!

"We'd like to get married please" The Girlfriend The Fiancee said in a cheerful voice to the person at the other side of the desk.
I panicked "We do? Really? Perhaps this marriage thing is overrated, perhaps we should just live together forever and never split up, perhaps we..." ... or perhaps I should add "to each other"? You know, just to make it clear.
"And when would you like to get married?" the person at the other side beamed at us.

Ah... she did understand, then.

"Do you want your picture in the paper? And how about just your names? Do you or any of your parents work for the city?"

We came out with a bundle of forms to fill in, and we officially reserved "our" date.
October 23rd, at 5pm.

Holy crap!

A recent study shows that 1 in 5 Belgian adolescent straight boys thinks that gay people shouldn't get the same rights as straight people. Way to go, Belgian adolescent boys. They also feel that gay men are dirty and gay women are sexy.

I won't argue with the "gay women are sexy" part, because yes. We knew that. Obviously. Prime example here. *g*
Gay men are dirty... well, I think they're most likely a great deal cleaner than your average straight adolescent.
But that's not the point is it. No, no, gay men are dirty because they (all of them, all the time) take it up the arse. Teenagers are all so hung up on The Big Buttsex issue, they can't get past it. Is it adolescent egocentrism, where they think that every single little thing must apply to them personally? Do they just need to grow up and broaden their horizons, sexual and otherwise? Do they need to grow up and discover gays are everywhere and don't apply to their stereotypes (not all lesbians are sexy, not all gay men are dirty)? Or is it a sign of a more conservative time coming up? Or hey, one in five... it's not so bad, is it? Or is it?

They also feel that women should put children before a career and that men shouldn't act feminine.
Ah, youth. So wonderfully rigid and hung up on "should" and "must".

Allow me to quote the fantastic Stephen Fry at them:
"English boarding schools have much to recommend them. If boys are going to be adolescent, and science has failed to come up with a way of stopping them, then much better to herd them together and let them get on with it in private. Six hundred suits of skin oozing with pustules, six hundred scalps weeping oil, twelve hundred armpits shooting out hair, twelve hundred inner thighs exploding with fungus and six hundred minds filling themselves with suicidal drivel: the world is best protected from them."


The study also showed that over 50% of lesbian teenagers thought about suicide at some point and 15% tried to kill themselves at least once....
We have a long, long way to go still.

(in Eurovision news, Moscow let it be known that gay "parades" are still prohibited during Eurovision season. At least they know their audience, the little bigoted bastards.)

Because it'll shock no-one when I say I'm a big geek at heart, I'd like to point you to this clip with the top ten Star Trek technobabbles. Ever felt like you understood what the hell they were on about? Probably not eh.

I just came to the realisation that Eurovision is not two weeks away, as I thought this morning, but just the one. ONE WEEK. ONE. Is it me or is it unusually early this year? It's too early! But thankfully I came prepared and here's the last of the torture previews: featuring Ukrainian craziness, Albanian gay dancebeats and Saki-Saki-Sakis!

( Semi final 2 )

And here we are! 2009! Moscow! After that stupid tweaked out of his mind-mullet with his iceskater and violinist won for some reason or other (I tell you, it’s the eastern bloc, it has to be). And if you think Belgrade was bad for queers, how are they going to handle “we like to forbid, picket and punch up gay pride”-Moscow? Finally Eurovision has a purpose: bringing hordes of homosexuals all over Europe and –who knows- perhaps changing the way people think. Through glitter. And sequins. And bad music. Brilliant!
On with semi final 1... 10 of the following countries will go through to the final where they’ll meet up with the Big Four and Russia. We know one thing for sure... Belgium won't be one of those countries! Apart from the that, the race is open.
Shoo, all those with innocent eyes. ( for the die-hards )

It's nearly May, so that means Eurovision Season is upon us! (yes, with capital letters, obviously)

The preview of the Eurovision final (well, the five countries we know that will be in the final: France, Spain, the UK, Germany and Russia) are ( here )
I know I could have added Turkey, Armenia, Ukraine and two thirds of former Yugoslavia to this preview (because we all know they'll end up in the final), but I thought I'd keep it fresh and exciting. No?