; the little -details- xXx

Ironman 2 sure has been making quite a few news for a movie that's slated to come out two years from now.

For example: the fact that Terrence Howard and the moviemakers have fallen out due to "financial disagreement". That's really sad, because Howard was a lot of fun as James "Rhodey" Rhodes in Ironman. Now, the character is of great importance to Tony Stark and to the Ironman franchise overall due to him being Tony's bestfriend and the superhero (well, most of the time) War Machine. So the rumor mill has is that Don Cheadle would be replacing Howard in the next movie.


I know Don Cheadle is like one of the guys in the Ocean's 11-13 series as Basher, and I also know him as "the guy I sometimes watch in HBO when all channels suck and of course, the last option is to watch HBO". He can inject some fun into his character, which I seriously hope would be present in Rhodey given how (I think) Ironman II is going to be soooo emo (Tony can't handle the pressure of saving the world. Tony gets drunk--he is an alcoholic. Darkdarkdark movie borderlining on an NC16 rating. Maybe Pepper would die or something to shock him into a proper hero again :O Meanwhile, Rhodey has to keep Tony from falling apart--when he isn't sleeping with his endless bevvy of beautiful women. Oh, maybe Nick Fury can bash him up to knock some sense into him too. Yay).

Oh yeah, I was so preoccupied with Taylor Kitsch and Gambit that I forgot another official good looking guy is actually playing in the Wolverine movie (well apart from Hugh Jackman--everyone knows him already--and will.i.am; wait. He is NOT hot, can?) Ryan Reynolds' been pursuing the Deadpool role for many years beforehand (or so Wikipedia says), and well, he's got it.

So Reynolds is a really pretty boy. Deadpool? Deadpool's an insane, insane, thoroughly insane--and have I mentioned insane?--mercenary with a mouth, and a skill to boot. Basically, someone pays Deadpool an insane amount of money to kill you, and you're dead. And you're probably have to endure some lame lines from him before you die. Unless you can buy him off like what Gambit did when he was tagged for dead ("I'll give you three times what he paid you--a million bucks? Here's a cheque"--or something like that). His name is Wade Wilson--he's part of the same Weapon X Project that Wolverine was as he wanted to be cured of his terminal cancer. But that left him scarred, aka ugly. So some fanboys were saying that such a pretty boy like Ryan Reynolds shouldn't play an ugly, but awesome character like Deadpool.

Then again, there's always computer imaging-slash-special effects! Remember Aaron Eckhart and Harvey Dent/Two-Face in the Dark Knight? Well, lots of girls would have to go through the heartbreak of seeing someone so cute disfigured on screen again, but at least Wade Wilson's transformation to Deadpool wouldn't be so tragic/dramatic. And Deadpool isn't a villain--so as to say. He's sometimes hero, sometimes adversary--he just saved the world from a Skrull Invasion a few weeks ago (in typical Deadpool way--mygosh is that series hilarious or what)! Secondly, Deadpool wears a mask most of the time, so like... yeah.

I still can't believe that there hasn't been any official trailer released whatsoever (and I'm not talking about the bootlegged ones from Comic-Con) despite the movie being released in seven months. I thought that for such a huge movie, they'd be marketing it like crazy. I mean, I watched the trailer for Wall-E like more than a year before its release?

Hey, five more days to exams! Has anyone noticed how our reading days seem to have diminished significantly since four years ago? Just sayin'.

Yesterday I woke up
and felt the weight of the world
the weight of my future,
my present and past
on my shoulders
A glance in the mirror--
--the girl staring back at me
looks just like me
but with something else
like a slumbering dragon
stirring
a shadow
behind the chocolate pools

"Oh gosh!"
it was this revelation
I bore with the heaviest heart:
I slept as a wee girl
and woke up
a woman!

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what the hell possessed me to write such a...

...monstrosity?
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behold, people! this is zakumi, the official South Africa World Cup 2010 Mascot. i thought it's pretty cute (especially its back story: apparently it dyed it hair green in order to blend with the football pitch, just like its "rosette spots". hah! i haven't had my crack serving--i.can't.read.comics.on.weekdays--for the day, so this will do XD) at least it's got shorts on, unlike goleo of the Germany World Cup 2006, which was banned from some schools because apparently it embodied perversion.


i just have to stop falling asleep after school. what a seriously waste of time. and those legs of mine better heal soon before my parents get back home and freak out at the size of the bruises or something.

(some insane corner of my mind actually thinks the bruises are really pretty. mhmmm i thought it kinda looks like a photoshopped texture :D)

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Promos/covers/teasers for X Men Noir (note lack of hyphen) by Fred Van Lente and Denis Calero, part of Marvel Noir limited series for 2009 (the other two Noir series would be Daredevil and Spiderman). No cookies for those who can guess the guys in the covers!--pretty obvious, I think?

(Cheet sheet: Cyclops, Rogue, Gambit and Magneto)

In the words of Fred Van Lente himself from an interview with Newsrama:

X Men Noir is a complete re-imagining of the X-Men franchise from the ground-up, not as a superhero series but as a gritty urban crime series--set, very loosely, in the golden era of film noir, the period directly following World War II through the early 1950's... we're deconstructing all the things that make the X-Men tick by looking at them through the conventions of this completely different genre. There are no super powers here, no mutants. Instead we're in a world of cops, private investigators and gangsters...the heart of X Men Noir is a murder mystery, which plunges our detective-hero into a dark world of corruption, vice and greed...

Well, Denis Calero kept on emphasizing that he'd worked with the best script he'd ever worked with while drawing for the books, and anticipation's pretty high. For one, I'm not big on AU-stuff (it's hard enough keepin' track of the 616 universe), but if the reviews remain rave on December, then I'd get it on trades (like I have any other choice).