OK, so I'm in a house in a room on some tropical island. I look out the window, there's the sea, nice and blue, albeit a very dark shade of blue. So I'm doing something in the room, and there's like 3 other people there, when there's this medium size earthquake, and the room moves a bit. Suddenly, I look out the window again, and the sea's drawn back like a mile. I look to the horizon, and I can see this white forthy line on the horizon, getting bigger.
So I think "Oh shit!" And I back myself against the wall facing the wave so that I don't get pulled out of the room when the water withdraws. The water bursts into the room. Swirls about a bit, and then one of the people in the room, who I now recognise as Heather in my class at school, is swept out of the room as the water pulls away.
So, there's like the 3 of us left in the room. Standing about thinking "wtf?" There doesn't seem to be much else to do, I look outside, and the water's back. So I think, "maybe I should go outside", for some reason. I look at the sand, and see that it's black. For some reason, that's normal. So I'm outside and walking around aimlessly, when the ground shakes again, and I realise that it's an after shock. I start running back to the house, fearing another tsunami, and it turns out there's two, one coming in from the left, one in front of me.
As the one in front of me gets closer, I jump, skim the frothy bit with the debris at the front, and land in the water on the other side. Suddenly, it's calm seas again, all that I can see.
At around this point, I see a dramatic view of the map of the world, showing lots of earthquakes and tsunamis and shit. Then it cuts back to the first person and where I am. So now, I'm swimming in what may or may not be the direction that the island I came from was, I can't see the house any more, so I don't know. Suddenly, I see another island, with some big building on it, and I'm like "Imma go there".
I get there, walk into the building, and it's an ICT lesson at school, teacher and everything, except that I can look out the door and see the sea. So I'm standing behind a couple of people who are on computers, going on the internet and shit, when I see a large wave coming in from the sea. I'm like "not again", but this time, I just stand there as the water floods into the room, and withdraws again.
And that's pretty much all I remember. Any thoughts or similar dreams, Newgrounds?

Yep, I'm gonna start putting it together on the 20th, and the last day that I'll accept partsd from is 1st December. 12 days until I stop taking in parts. And then it'll probably take me another couple days to shove it all together and pick a song. Not long to go!

So, in the past couple of years, a new headteacher came to my school. He started making changes, tightening up on rules, adding new things and stuff. I thought that it might actually be changing for the better. And then something happened. My best friend was assualted on school property, inside the school building by a known troublemaker, and he was hospitalised with a fractured cheek bone. What does this guy get for hospitalising my friend and commiting a criminal offence? 3 days exclusion. Three, fucking, days.
My best friends mum is now taking the son of a bitch that did that to court. Even that didn't convince them to expel that thug. You wanna know what did eventually convince them to expel him? They threatened to go to the local paper. That made me realise. Everything, absolutely everything he was doing was a facade, it was about image. The uniform, the new buildings, the specialist school status, the core values, they made no difference, absolutely no real change had happened. It was the threat to the image of the school, and not to the safety of the pupils that meant that they finally got rid of that bastard.
The contracts, the bullying support group, the prayers in everyone's planner, the two week timetable, it's all designed to make the school look better, and then they have the fucking cheek to COMPLAIN that too many students are applying! What do they fucking expect!

Now, I really hate the headteacher. He had the fucking cheek to say he didn't like what my best mate's mum was doing about going to the paper. WELL WE DON'T FUCKING LIKE THE FACT THAT YOU WOULD'VE LET THAT FUCKING YOB STAY IN THE SCHOOL. You don't like that she would've damaged the school's image? WE DON'T FUCKING LIKE THAT THAT THUG ALMOST GOT AWAY SCOT-FREE WITH ASSAULT UNDER YOUR WATCH! And, headteacher, if you do actually read this at some point, don't fucking complain that I'm out of order, because you fucking know that everything I've said here is true, and don't fucking deny it.
My advise to his mum is to go to the papers with the story anyway. And no, I won't stop talking to my mate and his mum. I have the right to talk to whoever the fuck I want, and no shallow idiot's going to change that.

Oh boy, oh boy, isn't this a little gem. I literally just watched the opening episodes of the latest spin off from the Stargate universe, and my God it's off to a good start. The opening part of the first episode had a very different feel to either SGA or SG1, a very dark feel, like the opening of a horror film. It soon emerced us in the story, introducing characters, and establishing the various roles of the people on board.
One of the things that really struck me was how this show hasn't followed the usual leader, linguist, smart guy, alien, team style that both Atlantis and SG1 went with. We can already see that this is going to be one rollercoaster of a show, and it's looking freaking awesome.
Everything about these first two episodes gives me really high hopes for the rest of the series, and I'm sure they'll more than fill the shoes left by the previous Stargate shows. I can't wait until episode 3, and honestly, I cannot wait.

This TV show is awesome.

This movie can be summed up in the phrase "absolutely f###king amazing". The storyline, set in the year 2010, revolves around a spaceship that has come to a stop over the city of Johannesburg, South Africa. The inhabitants of the spaceship are brought down to Earth, and settled in what becomes a slum, known as District 9. The semi-documentary, semi-movie reveals the story of Wikus van de Merwe, who was assigned the task of relocating the aliens, known as "prawns", to a new location.
I won't go into any further detail than that over the plotline, but needless to say, it is absolutely fantastic, and carries the film really well.
The film starts off in the form of a documentary, and is very cleverly done, taking interviews, the point of view of an on the ground camera crew, security footage and mixing it with a cinematic view of the film to help push parts of the plot along. The directing in this film is flawless, and the acting is superb, and the whole mix of elements helps drag the audience in, and help them believe what they're watching, and really get to know the characters and feel for them as they fight through the story.
The location is also a really good choice, simply for the fact that it is very unorthodox. Instead of taking place in a vast American city, like New York or Washington, where almost uncountable other movies have already been set, they choose the South African capital, Johannesburg. This helps in the plot, as it's easy to imagine the set of events taking place in a politically questionable African nation, rather than a democratic (although in parts, just as politically questionable) Western nations, where it would be harder for the government and the people to put into place the events that drive the film.
Another great thing about this flick is the weaponary that the geniuses in CGI have armed Wikus and the aliens. Amazing designs, and the stuff they do is, at points, hilarious. Why is it that seeing someone just blow a part after being shot at can tickle the funny bone? (Probably the same thing that lets people laugh at things like "The Final Destination", or the train station scene in "Knowing") But everything just looks so believable, and the kickass consquences of pulling the trigger of one of those babies are absolutely fantastic.
It is so goddamn hard to find anything to critise about this film, and personally, I'm not even going to try. It's all the kickass special affects, robots and explosions of "Transformers", but with an actual, and I must say, very good plot to fit it. Well done to everyone who helped make this film. I think this is probably one of, if not THE, best film of 2009, and one to look out for at the Oscars. There's so many good things about this film, I can't even think of them all right now, and they probably wouldn't fit. GO AND SEE THIS MOVIE!

I'm cautiously optimistic for this project, which is a complete redo of my most recent submission, because I really wasn't happy with the score.

Here's a little fact file of the original Interactive Kitten:
- a choice of 4 backgrounds
- 3 choices of music
- 16 points of interaction
- kitten based on my cat, Toby
- very first stuff was done beginning of the year
- submitted a few weeks ago with the openning score of 2.76

And now for the plans for The IK-V2:
- 4 backgrounds
- 3 backing music options
- 20 points of interaction
- ability to feed cat
- ability to harm cat (and a bonus sort of animation thing to tell you off for doing so.)
- based on my cat, Tommy
- work started 6pm GMT
- target score of 3.60

I would have a picture comparing the original kitten design to the new one, but my computer is slowly crashing, so I'm using the family one instead. But trust me, the new kitten looks good.

Well, to say I'm a little disappointed with the score of the Interactive Kitten is a bit of an understatement. It had 2.73 when it left judgment. I was working on that thing for months, trying to get as much into it as I possibly could and, well, I think it failed miserably. I know what I need to add, it's just that some of it would require me to start completely from scratch, and take another few months working it out all over again.
I think for the moment, I'll work on getting my Shortened Shakespeare stuff done, but the Kitten's gonna be on the backburner for a while now, until I'm motivated enough to want to pick it up again. I will try again, that much is true, but I have no idea how long it'll be until I do. There's a couple of other bits I want to do first, and I'm afraid school will get in the way for, minimum, next 3 years, and then possibly university after that, so...

tl;dr - disappointed with Kitten, will try again, but not for a while, new Shortened Shakespeare in the works.

For once, there's been a trilogy that has managed to consistently pull off new and good ideas, good storylines, great graphics, good jokes, and just keeping the bar high throughout the series. Everything works within the "Ice Age" universe all the way through the trilogy, and the introduction of new characters has helped give rise to whole new possibilities of jokes, plot lines, subplots, and doing what few trilogies have done.
I can, off hand name 3 trilogies that have also managed to be great all the way through, the original Star Wars, Back to the Future and the first 3 Indiana Jones films. And now, Ice Age is probably the first animated trilogy to join these greats in being one of few highly successful series' that have managed to be good, and stay good despite multiple movies.
Well done, Blue Sky Studios, these movies are likely the younger generation's "Toy Story", the movie that'll give them that sense of nostalgia when they're older and grown up.
5/5

I've finally got the website for my Shortened Shakespeare stuff up on the internet. The flash embeds aren't working though, so I'm looking for help on that. It still needs some work on, I'm still building the banners for each of the pages for the Sh-Sh flash, so those will probably be done over the next two weeks.
I created the whole thing on Dreamweaver, and I'm uploading it using Freewebs, so there's differences between what needs to be written in the html and what is actually written. The hyperlinks and the images are the easiest things to sort out, but the flash html is somewhat more complex, and I'm not entirely sure how to edit it to make it work how I want it to. If you think you can help, please get in touch.
But other than that, I'm quite pleased with how it's turning out so far. Still fixing up images and links, but if you see any other problems, please tell me. Thanks.

Ok, so in ICT at school, we're making websites, and I'm creating one for my Shortened Shakespeare animations. With any luck, I should be able to move it out of just simply a school GCSE peice, but actually turn it into a real website for my shortened shakespeare flash. Awesome. So I'll finally be able to have myself be more independant when it comes to Shortened Shakespeare. I'm thinking that maybe in the slightly further future, I'd have a more general site for my flash as a whole, but for now, I think this one will do me fine.
Finally I can make the website that I haven't ever had time to make, and get an immediate reward for doing it. WOO! This may just be one small step in the grand scale, but from my perspective right now, it's a fairly giant leap.