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An INCEPTION review in gifs-



On Tuesday evening, I went to the cinema with some friends. I hadn't been to the cinema since Avatar in February so I was partying like at the prospect.



Can you guess what film we were going to watch? Yep the one starring



No, wait, before you start worrying: there are no Inception spoilers in this post. Alright, you fools that have not yet watched Inception, you are safe, you may read this wonderful review and rejoice

So we were sitting in the screening, waiting for Inception to begin, watching the trailers. They were all Action film trailers, so I was like





Then a new trailer began, starting with a shot of the countryside, and I was still like





However I soon realised that this trailer was for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows so I was like





Anyway. So Inception began, and we saw LeoDiCap, but we were upset



over the fact that he had lost his youthful good looks.

The film really confused us in the beginning like

But we slowly began to follow what Nolan was telling us. And - thankfully - some hotties like

and

came onto the screen, so we were basically permanently perving at the screen

Oh sorry, let's get back to reviewing Inception. Well there was acting that made me Jear- oh sorry I mean tear up

There were some badass scenes with badass fighting

and a plot, sub-plots, and concept that really deserved some

There were moments when I had massive dawning realisations

and thought I'd gotten the hang of the film..

but then the film was like

'You ain't got nothin sista'....

There were a couple of predictable parts so I was like

and the ending of the film left me like

but overall, 'Inception' made me think

so I say 'Good job Nolan'

But what I'd really like to do is

hug Nolan to thank him for entertaining me and giving me things to scratch my brain about and blessing us with such a great, emotional, deep, clever film.

(Relevant gif)

Phwoar, that was harder than I expected. But in all seriousness, 'Inception' is a mindblowing film that deserves at least one cinema viewing from everybody. Resist at your own peril. It's like the second 'Dark Knight' though, everybody's banging on about it, soon there will be a tide of people calling it overrated. But 'Inception' is incredible. Go. Now.

World Cup 2010 in South Africa

Bonjour mes amis!

I'm back, and for one reason: 

The World Cup 2010. 

Yeah, I'm a girl and I care about the football World Cup.

I warn you: I will scream in joy, shock, fear throughout the tournament, will cry (uh-huh, I care that much), will sulk, will laugh and jeer, and will quite possibly be rude. So please, bear with me during this period.

..Do you even need to ask who I'll be supporting?

There is no doubt in me that World cup '98 was my favourite. At the time, I still lived in Paris, which was where the tournament was held. The atmosphere was incredible, my parents were actually so keen about football which was a first, and I chanted for the Blues practically every day, even when they weren't playing. Such a good month of my life.

Back to 2010 - some of the internet logos out there in honour of the upcoming month:

Google

The French Google.. yeah, they just had to be different

There are people who think that football is overrated, over-funded, boring, pointless... I can somewhat understand that. But there's something about this sport, more than any other sport, which seems to unite whole countries together, at least for an hour and half on the days they play, and that's what amazes me about football. Game of hearts, not of minds.

So I'll leave you with some of my favourite/most memorable moments and photos of international football. It's seeing things like these that makes me love football.

OK I'm a little biased, but what did you expect?

x

p.s. Check out this website for a beautiful calendar of the upcoming month.

Grégory Lemarchal: La Voix d'Un Ange

Three years ago today, I was sat in my dining-room minding my own business, when the newsreader on the French TV channel announced that the singer Grégory Lemarchal had passed away.

Deceased at the age of 24 - too young, yet older than had been predicted of him.  Yes, 20 months after his birth, he had been diagnosed with cystic fibrosis, whose main symptom is difficult breathing. How ironic - and tragic - then, that he went on to enter the French music contest Star Academy 21 years later..and won.

Can you imagine? Being told that singing could be detrimental to your health, but still, decide to enter the contest and embark on a pursuit of a singing career? How brave, determined, and in love with singing you'd need to be. And the day your debut album got platinum-certified - what a gratifying, overjoying day, when you can finally be righteous in the knowledge that you've beaten your body to victory. But your days are counted.

I leave you with one of his performances from the show. This is 'S.O.S. d'un Terrien en Detresse' (effectively 'SOS from an Earthling in Distress'), originally by Daniel Balavoine. If you saw how much I bawled when listening to this song the days after his death... god you'd be disgusted.

Grégory Lemarchal - SOS D'un Terrien en Détresse - wideo

And those, my friend, were the vocals of a cystic fibrosis sufferer for you.

R.I.P. Grégory Lemarchal 13.05.1983 - 30.04.2007

PUSSY WAGON.. and if your son doesn't, I bet your daughter knows

On a side note, I've got a Reading Festival ticket for sale: would anyone like a Sunday ticket to Reading 2010? Acts playing include the mighty Blink-182, Paramore, Klaxons, The Drums who have been hotly tipped (listen to 'Best Friend'), You Me At Six, Weezer, All Time Low, FOALS, We Are Scientists, Cypress Hill, Band of Horses, Kele.. leave me a comment or formspring.me. Thanks :)

Anyway.

Ciggies on my glasses.. Passive smoking much?


Motherfucker, I'm trying to shoot a video STOP CALLING.

After weeks of waiting, and quite a few postponements, the 'Telephone' video was leaked on 11 March. The following morning at school, I managed to track down a non-YouTube version of it. MAN it was difficult to watch it in my school library, because all them raunchy bits meant that I had to minimise the browser quite a few times for fear of being accused of watching PORNtings on a school computer. Cause that's what the video's like - TOO MUCH NAKED GAGA.

Obvs, the video is not only naked GaGa (btw, her body is undeniably AMAZING in that video). The storyline is somewhat intriguing to follow, the outfits, a visual feast, the two divas' acting skillz (or, in Beyonce's case, god-awful lack of acting skills), hilarious. The video was different to what I'd been expecting, but it matched the standard that had been hinted at by everyone.

What I didn't like were the blatant and therefore very tacky plugs (of Virgin Media, a phone company, and an online dating site). That and the fact that it actually is a bit too long. I had thought that 10 minutes would be delightful to watch. However, though this is a great video for my favourite song from 'The Fame Monster', that excessive length and slightly convoluted feel does let it down a bit in my opinion.

Oh and there were some bits which just made downright L O L. Like the bit where Beyonce is in the bedroom and then she just starts bouncing!? I mean, what?! And the part at the end when they're dressed in long drapey.. things (the term escapes me), and they just look like witches and wave their arms in the camera's face. Whatever, I'm not complaining, it made me laugh... as Lady Gaga always does.

The PUSSY WAGON! (I.e. their ride, if you're thinking "WTF is she pussy-wagon-ing on about")

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In other musical news – a midweek chart update has been launched on BBC Radio 1. Every Wednesday, Greg James will be looking at the charts as of that day. Exciting? Well it might shed light on the way people buy music – i.e. do people buy records just before Sunday to help them get to number 1? Do new albums/singles released on Mondays chart high early on in the week? ... I'm just being a geek now aren't I.

Speaking of charts, if you follow me on Twitter, you'll know that I rooted for Tinie Tempah to get to number 1 on 7 March. (FYI on the last night of the February halfterm, while everybody was going mad with last-minute-homework-rush, I was seeing him live at Shepherd's Bush cause I am just that hardcore.)

Anyway, get to number 1 he bloody did (and on his first week of charting, might I add). WELL DONE TINIE (cause obviously he can hear me..)! You see? Underground artists can do it too! (...Oh my lord that was the most cringe thing that's left my mouth.)

Aite, they're not letting me embed it, so click here to watch the video - you're gonna have to get used to seeing his bootiful face in front of you in the coming year!

xxxx