Mémoires d'un petit illustrateur

Mood: Cold
Sounds: Lecture

LOTS of studying and make up work have been taking up my time so while I get the rest of my video lectures I decided an update was in order. I had my stupid midterm for Politics the otherday, I think it went ok, getting ready for my Tax Midterm which is next Monday. Out of the blue I was wisked off to San Francisco by Emily.

Baby the Stars Shine Bright is having a 50% off winter sale and selling lucky packs T^T
http://www.babyssb.co.jp/info/201001sale/salesale.html

Mood: Tired and pissed
Sounds: Video Lectures

I know I haven't posted for a while, I got very sick essentially back to back and had lots of school and other drama to deal/put up with. Needless to say I'm going to be quite busy ever still, got two midterms with in days of eachother for Politics and Federal Income Tax, to my sheer disgust I discovered I didn't actually "need" to take politics as I had been told to get into a certain school and now it's too late to drop and I don't want my GPA negatively affected by it.

In other news my birthday is coming up and to be honest it looks like it's going to be one of the worst. Aside from a few things out of my control my actual birthday will be spent busy in class and taking an exam. I was hoping I'd have a good birthday but I can chuck that heartfelt idea out the window.

Only other productive thing I've done aside from studying is actually update my Flickr.
But in better news I received a package from my boyfriend.

Mood: tired
Sounds: Fireworks and Party poppers

It's already New Years and I've been sick for most of my break!
I had a more or less pleasant Christmas and being sick has only made my time off dull.
Now that it's 2010 I wrote up my New Years Resolutions!

Ok people who've known me for most of my life know I have a thing for Alice in Wonderland in it's many incarnations.
It's not new news that Disney was doing a live action of it. The first trailer in my opinion seemed too clogged with Johnny Depp (Don't get me wrong, he's a wonderful actor, but he's not Alice and the movie isn't called The Mad Hatter). However the latest traler came out and gave me more hope for the film as before I was very iffy about it.



However, while watching it something made me go, "that's odd, that reminds me of American Mcgee's Alice."
For those who don't know this classic PC game which I own you can refer to the following link for information: American McGee's Alice

Ok here's my take, I'm glad that this seems to be more akin to a sequel to the first Disney's Alice while retelling the whole adventure and including elements from The Looking Glass. I know they did it before in the first but they seem to be meshing the two worlds together better. Though maybe it's just me but it harkens me back to American McGee's Alice.

Alice is older and returns to a very changed wonderland
Queen of hearts has taken over most of wonderland for the worst
Alice re-encounters old characters for better or worst.
Alice is the one who has to save wonderland.

Obviously there are vast differences; i.e
Alice isn't a suicidal wreck
Hatter isn't trying to kill her
The Red Queen isn't actually ------(I won't give spoilers, play the damn game)
Loads of cards and Colours (Red and White chess pieces) aren't being murdered
Alice not having to kill anyone.

but still I dunno, I'm really really looking forward to it, however I'd be lying if I didn't say that certain elements didn't remind me of something else.