mr_verne

I know I don't exactly post much here.  If you know me in RL, you know I don't talk much either, and when I do I tend to be rather guarded.  However, I'm wanting to change, so I'm going to talk part in the latest meme.

"Everyone has things they blog about. Everyone has things they don't blog about. Challenge me out of my comfort zone by telling me something I don't blog about, but you'd like to hear about, and I'll write a post about it."

Don't hold back.  I promise to answer any questions put to me. :)

I'm going to head into Manchester tomorrow (Saturday 12th) and give out Free Hugs.  Anyone fancy joining me?

I am trying to organise a real life game of Quidditch.  Rules exist for doing it IRL, and it's been played in some places. 

So, anyone interested in playing?

The problem with Live Journal is that we all think we are so close, but really, we know nothing about each other. Hence, I want you to ask me something you think you should know about me. Something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about. Then post this in your LJ and find out what people don’t know about you.

Tomorrow (Saturday) I will be in Manchester giving out Free Hugs and blowing bubbles in Manchester. I'll be outside the Arndale, up the road from the outside elevator to the Food Court, if anyone wants to meet me, and I'll hopefully be there for most of the day.

"Pay It Forward: I will send a handmade gift to the first 5 people who leave a comment here on my LJ.

I don’t yet know what that gift will be - it could be anything: cloth, metal, paper, wood, a song, anything goes - but you will receive it within 365 days. Bear in mind I am significantly less talented than many of my friends so this will be something I can make and to my ability. Hopefully it will be something you like, but I make no promises.
The only thing you have to do in return is "pay it forward" by making a similar agreement on your blog."

I'm currently looking for a red and white striped top and hat for a Where's Wally? outfit. 

Anyone know where I can get them cheap?

A while back I entered a competition to win PS3 prizes, either a PS3, SingStar or Buzz (both for the PS3). 

Today I get told I've won a copy of Buzz. 

Slight problem.

I don't have a PS3.

There's a hole in your logic

Mechanicsburg, Mechanicsberg,
See me ride out of the sunset,
Well I thought I knew you,
It'd been an long-ass workweek,
You wake up in the backseat

So this is Christmas
Look to the sky
I've been pitting plants against fire,
That's great, it starts with an earthquake
Ya little monkey-spanker

Star Trekkin' across the universe
I see in your eyes
Will you still need me
I'm trying to tell you something about my thesis
Ol' Godzilla was hoppin' around

Imagine if there's no heaven
My backpack's got jets
Third times a charm
Head underwater
WHat an amazing time




I leave the interpretation to you, the reader.

I could survive for 1 minute, 16 seconds chained to a bunk bed with a velociraptor

Created by Bunk Beds Pedia

Velociraptors were actually about a foot tall. Jurassic Park Raptors, which is what I assume this test is using, were actually Deinonychus. A year or two after JP came out, they actually discovered the skeleton of a Utahraptor, a 10-foot tall raptor.

It didn't take long for Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga managed to reduce me to the mental age of a 5 year old, yet it managed to top itself when I was reduced to the mental age of a 3 year old earlier today.

25 minutes ago The UK premier of Stargate Continuum finished.  It was rather good.  The only downside of watching it, was knowing that Don S. Davies, who portrays General Hammond (of Texas), died June 29th of this year, 1 month before the film premiered in the US.    He will be missed.


RIP Don S. Davies  1942-2008

Something that might cheer people up, a video of Beaker singing Ode to Joy:  http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=xpcUxwpOQ_A

Anyone heard of Improv Everywhere? Well, there's a group based on that in Manchester, and I'm one of the organisers/leaders. There's an event.mission organised to take place on Saturday 12th July, this coming Saturday. Info is available at the facebook event page and people are welcome to come along and join in. If you're thinking of coming feel free to message me, ask for invites, or whatever.

Today was very productive. 

As will tomorrow.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=o1O7ZvDFP_8

Thursday May 1st
9am
Picadilly Garden, Manchester
Mission by Improv Everywhere/Improv Manchester/Futuresonic
Moebian Time Freeze. 

First line of the first 20 songs on Windows Media random selection. Guess the songs. Non-English songs, songs with the titles in the first lines, and vocal-less tracks have been ignored.

!) I'm not surprised it's come to this.
2) Put down that chainsaw and listen to me
3) Can you see me
4) Went back home again
5) Oh some times I think back to when I was younger
6) With life just begun, my sleeping new son
7) I hide my pain like the rest of them
8) Cruisin' Mos Espa, in my DeLorean
9) When they push when they pull, tell me can you hold on
10) I've waited hours for this
11) All day, staring at the ceiling
12) I never thought Id miss you
13) You called me last night on the telephone
14)  I thought love was only true in fairy tales (This is a cover, so I'll accept either band)
15) The perfect words never crossed my mind
16) Birds flying high
17) A man walks down the street
18) They see me rollin
19) I'm really unsure...if I'm a vampire
20) It can only lead to trouble if you break my heart

Good luck. :)

So, I have an agent now.

Two of the six agencies that recieved my pictures liked them.
One, a modelling agency, the other, a modelling and acting agency that does the people that use it rather well.

I chose the actng agency to represent me.

:)