Toren Atkinson’s Absolute Blog

I just saw War of the Worlds and I’ll say this: It makes a great trailer.

If you go see it, do it for the right reasons: giant space machines blowing shit up and disintegrating people. Have no illusions about the characters or even the story. I’ve seen the original movie, and read parts of the book. I still want to see the book adapted right: in the century it was set. Not the 50’s, not the 21st century. Now that would be cool. This one is lazy story-telling.

Marlo got me the Life Aquatic Soundtrack, a Bill Hicks CD, sripey socks, and best of all the Spirited Away DVD! Hooray for girlfriends!

Jack and the Three Blind Archers
Jack and the Scotsman Part 2
Jack and the Ultra Robots
Samurai Versus Ninja
Robo-Samurai vs Mondo Bot

Special mentions:
Jack and the Scotsman
Jack vs Mad Jack
Jack and the Monks and the Ancient Master (especially for Marlo)
Jack and the Zombies (especially for Stewie)
Jack and the Three Gems
The Princess and the Bounty Hunters

Friday I went to the Drexoll Canada Day Game-a-thon and played Carcassonne and LOSER! and Clans with Sheri, Stephane, David Bradley and Ursula. I almost won Carcassonne even though I wasn’t trying. LOSER! was pretty fun and I’d play it again, along with Clans. They were both relatively short games. I’ve been thinking about dragging Conquest Beyond out again, but only thinking.

Other than that, yesterday was spent drawing, watching Samurai Jack & Loonie Tunes & Dr Who (”old school”) and playing Knights of the Old Republic. The part on board the sith ship the Invigilator with Admiral Snackbar was my favourite part of the game so far.

Today I had an excellent bike ride home and I stopped by about 5 garage sales. I picked up a walkman for three bucks (it’s exactly like Marlo’s) so now I can give Stewie back the one he lent me before I break it. Huzzah! Next on my list - ear bud headphones.