I wanna dance, I wanna win. I want that trophy, so dance good.

The first time I ever saw Pulp Fiction I was about 15, maybe a bit younger and a friend of mine decided we should watch it at her sleepover. At 2 in the morning. I had to deal with the most annoying girl there clinging to my arm, shouting "Oh god the sound the needle makes when it pops her chest is like the worst ever. Can we just skip this part I hate it it's so awful." Of course it wasn't really anything at all and I missed a good portion of the scene having my arm reshaped. Then when it was decided the gay rape scene could be fastforwarded since we were so young and easily grossed out, the same girl insisted we go back and watch it properly. And insisted and insisted. In the end, I was the only one who was still awake when it finished and I had no clue what had happened during any of it at all.

Since then it's always been a 'film I should really see but haven't got round to yet'. There are a lot of them. Problem being that it's hard enough to find the time to watch it when my little sister isn't likely to pop her head round the door and I'd end up getting yelled at for letting her witness violence. The time she popped in during an awkward and unexpectedly detailed gay sex scene was bad enough. (Darn you mexican films that show you damn well everything. I understood what was happening without seeing it!) I finally find a good time to do so and I cannot for the life of me find the dvd. A couple of weeks later, turns out we never had it on dvd, only vhs. Pfft to the vhs I said! So when I finally scraped my wages together, I went and bought it (with a new copy of Fargo for my dad since it broke on me and it's like his favourite film ever, boy did that ever suck) and watched it and yay.

This ends the pulp fiction story.

Which leads me nicely onto Quentin Tarantino's latest film adventure and a rant on how come there's no freakin' release date for Planet Terror. Europe got both ages ago if my translation of CineMania! was in any way accurate. It's bad enough we can't see them both together but to have no release date at all for Robert Rodriguez's film is just too much. I seriously love his films and y'know GUN LEG.



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So this ain't just a rant about films I've seen and wish to see let me tell you about my children's book I haven't written but want to. Some of you may have heard of the Pigeon Detectives, some of you may even like their music. I wouldn't know having never heard them so I won't pass judgement. However, I think they are wasting a great opportunity with their name. One miserable Glaswegian afternoon I was on the bus coming home when we passed by ABC. Playing that night were the aforementioned Pigeon Detectives. Having laughed heartily and disturbed the sleeping drunken man behind me, I promptly got out my phone and informed my lovely uni friend of the great name. Mostly so I wouldn't seem like a mad girl laughing to herself with no friends. She laughed with me, electronically but it was something.

Now it wasn't until I decided to tell my other good friend of the small and Emma sort about it that the idea of an actual detective pigeon appeared in my mind. I know, I know, pretty slow I am but hush up. A few dull French lectures later and I had the basic outline of a plot. I've sadly lost all my french notes which I expect was due to too much excitement over passing and never having to study the lingua franca again and throw it out with the subjunctive tense. Alas, I must start over.

Some investigation into the band found that their album has pictures of deer on it. Stupid boys! Think of the crazy sherlock style adventures you could have illustrated! Basil's got nothing on the PI: pigeon investigator!