Student distractions from real work.....

Yeah its a little sick torturing cartoon gerbils and frogs, but its better than doing the real thing right???

Fancy seeing the combination of a bad mouthed gerbil and some hungry-arse piranhas?

CLICK HERE

Ever wanted to blend an annoying frog without the hideous immoral implications?

CLICK HERE

That gerbils still a pretty annoying little bugger, fancy nuc-ing him in a microwave?

DO IT MO-FO!

Ah good old Atom.com, full of wonderfully stupid distractions to stop the slightest possibility of anything productive coming of your day. Awesome.

Student Cocktail Nights!!!

When its so cold that you can see your breath whilst sat in the living room and you can't feel your limbs from numbness, despite the mittens, this can make life a bit depressing. Not to mention it really puts you off partying, the idea of tottering around in a skirt and heels sounds like hell. And last night it took everyone a lot to get in the mood to brave the icy wind and leave the house. But, eventually, we all piled into ember lounge and found a pretty good cure for the cold.

Fancy warming up? Get some cocktails inside ya........

Above we have:

Joeys

Vamps

A pitcher of gold-slick and some other deadly substances

Cosmopolitans

Cherry brandy

Some cheeky pints of strongbow.

OK so we didn't stick strictly to cocktails but the affect was pretty good.....

Liam, Aaron and me got major giggles after a naughty conversation about sea life and porpoises, which of course made sense at the time, all the giggles and brandy led to severe queasiness.....

Then we had a derp-face competition.....

Georgii's strangely large tongue....

Katy's sexy fail....

Aarons stroke.....

My contorted ass-face.....

Liams....."Biatchhhh at choo". (After this he went into 'Tyra Banks' mode for 2 hours)

All Inexcusably Hideous.....

But....

We all needed this night out, it took us a while to get there between being depressed at how little we go out any more and tearing our hair out at the lack of motivation to do anything about it......not to mention what to wear. It took me a lot to get out of my comfy hoody and into some bloody heels.....

A good time was had by all.....

To demonstrate.....here's Cranfields excitement over a cigarette.....

Aaah alcohol makes everything in life so bloody amusing......

Wouldn't change them for the world

Piss'ed's

Students Plays- Blue remembered hills.

Liam Waterhouse, being the dramatic little thing that he is, is currently studying drama, makes sense. And coming up this Thursday and Friday, for two nights only folks the drama lot are preforming the play, Blue remembered hills. Liam asked to be interviewed on the play and for me to blog it, so I did.

So Liam stuck on Pixie Lott after declaring, "I like it because it uses disco chords" and we migrated to my bedroom so he could 'smoke and be all dramatic' as he put it.

Liam's Interview

Liam: "Where's the ash tray?" he declared in a rustic actors voice. Moments later, ashtray found, ciggies lit and the interview began....

Moi: "So my love, what's your play about?"

Liam: "Its all about childhood, how we grow up how children are cruel and its also about a character who likes setting things on fire and gets hideously burnt alive at the end of the play, you could somewhat say there's a beautiful irony there.....it also portrays the in humane cruelty of childish nature. What else would you like to ask me darling?" (full on actors mode here)

Moi: "How did you get into character?"

Liam: "Basically my characters a tormented soul so I did tormented a few cats, also crying hysterically in my room and banging into the walls did wonders for my character darling!"

(I wouldn't worry to much about any cats, Liam does like to over exaggerate little)

....at this point Georgii came in, began rolling herself a cigarette and declared it was raining icicles outside.

Liam also declared also running out of nicotine and lit another cig.

Moi: "What's the best thing about your play?"

Liam: "Me.(Giggles) Basically all the bits I am in are brilliant then it dips and little when I'm not in it, like the sea, its dips and gets better and dips again, like a massive waveeeee."

Me: "Oh Liam. Anything else to conclude..."

Liam: "See my play, my play is Blue remembered hills, you should remember Liam..."

He then shook my hand and bounced out of the room and up the stairs to shower....

Me: "Oh Liam".

So yes, the Drama lot are ready and raring to preform there play 'Blue remembered Hills', first performance on Thursday night and if you miss that why not go Friday? And its free!

If you don't like plays how could you resist this......

Anyway now its time for cocktails. Adios!

Were currently working our way through the classic Studio Ghibli animations. Studio Ghibli have created some of the most famous and beautiful Japanese films, some of which have received the Animage Anime Grand Prix award, including, Castle in the sky, Spirited away and Kiki's delivery service.

The first studio Ghibli film we watched was.....

My Neighbour Totoro

I loved this anime, Totoro seems to be an odd mix of a rabbit, owl, bear and cat and is the kind of thing you want to find living under your bed.

The story focuses on two young girls and there father struggling through there mothers illnes whilst trying to adjust in a new home, to add to that they discover Totoro and the forest spirits walking around with little parasols and growing enormous tree's out of nothing.

This film also has a Catbus, a large Cheshire cat type creation with caterpillar legs and the ability to bounce over lakes and forests, pretty cool, kinda scary....but also awesome...

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We watched 'My neighbour Totoro' using Aarons projector and our living room wall. Aaron made dinner and we all sat on the carpet and enjoyed anime and spicy chilli. This made a change and we all loved the film so the next night we watched another Studio Ghilbli film.....

Princess Mononoke

This film is genuinely (had mega mind blank on how to spell genuinely, Liam suggested 'genuenly', oh my days)........anyway genuinely beautiful film. It portrays a very surreal battle between man and nature and, yes I nearly did cry.

These eerie little things are tree spirits, they move like bobble heads on LSD and there bloody cute.

This film is amazing, visually stunning and touching. I recommend it if your in a tranquil, naturalistic frame of mind.

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