I see many profiles, and their news posts are numerous. It is so, that I feel ashamed at my small number. I will endeavour to endeavour to focus more efforts on my own Newgrounds web log, and thus increase my count from a mere 9 (now 10) to newfound heights.

Clearly this means that my news posts will be excessively clogged with redundant statements, quotations, and narrations on my life, but in order to succeed in my goal I shall have to fight my way through.

Ah, but this would require my life to be eventful for me to have things to comment on, which alas it sadly has just not been. This also I will attempt to work through.

About the most interesting of things that has happened to me this week is that I went to go and see a moving picture. For this I saw the film "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street", which though it may have been released in December of last year in the US, it has only just 5 days prior been released here, and one day later had I seen it. I felt that this film was quite good, and worth the $12.50 I payed to see it. Johnny Depp was good in turning what in the stage production was more a loud and full character, into a more dark and gloomy take on the classic murderer , to fit into the gothic style of Tim Burton's imagery (not that the original was all that jolly, either). Helena Bonham Carter also deserves mention for turning the character of Nellie Lovett from the loud, boisterous, fishwife-y laugh getter into a more lonely, and obsessive character, while still remaining funny.

The style was typical Burton fare, with very little colours (aside from scenes in which characters remember happier times, and dream of future ones), and opting for a dark, gothic tone, to fit with the serial killer vibe. The sets were well designed, and I was fond of the costumes.

The singing, while not being as technically impressive as their stage counterparts, was good, and better than I expected, in fact. The tunes were as catchy as they were ridiculously complicated, and the characters managed to pull them off well. I still feel that it shows that both of the main characters were hired for their affiliation with Tim Burton, but they still did well in their roles.

I was surprised that me and my friends were the ones laughing the most during the film. While not being an outright comedy, it still quite clearly shows comedic elements. You cannot help but laugh during such scenes as the overtly comedic "A Little Priest", and to Sweeney's inattentive throat slitting during the Johanna reprise.

Overall, I would rate the film 4 stars (out of 5).

Now that I've gotten my pretentious, and likely terrible, film review out of the way, moving onto other matters.

I have managed to finish Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions (for the PSP), which is the game I had been playing. The game was good, but the plot was all over the place. And the difficulty fluctuated. It started out easy, as any game would, but then began to get harder to the point where I actually died a few times. Then about halfway through the game, it got a lot easier again, due to me getting some good job classes. The arithmetician class made battles exceedingly easy, after I was able to start off almost any battle, press "CT", "Multiple of 3" and "Holy", and then kill absolutely everyone on the map, other than the mage using it. Then after I got Balthier, I was able to end many a battle quickly, due to his long range, and high attack, meaning he could easily pick off the boss of a stage within his first turn. Still, I enjoyed the game, though it was best when I actually had to think out strategies to beat the game. I'd probably rate that a 4/5 as well, though if I was reviewing in a professional video game reviewer mentality, that'd probably be a 7/5.

After completing this I was distraught for a short while, as I had the realisation that I had no more games to play. However, as luck would have it, about an hour after completing it, what do I discover? Lo and behold that the Gamesman telephone to inform that my Playstation 2 has been fixed (it had a lens problem of some sort), and thus I am able to pick that up, and subsequently play God of War 2, which I have been waiting some time to play. I may also attempt to finish off some of my older games, so I don't feel bad about buying them.

Another thing that, though it may not be necessary, I feel like mentioning is that just recently (10 days ago) I got my exam results back, from my final exams last year. I managed to achieve NCEA Level 2 (the level that I was at), with excellence, which places me at the top 3-6% of the country. Oh what a lovely pulsating brain I was blessed to be gifted with.

I also got a grade point average of 79 (which may not seem like much, but if you knew the terrible marking system, you'd understand), which means that this year I will (likely) be receiving a blue academic tie to wear as part of my school uniform, instead of a red (well it's more of a carmine) one. This will enhance my gloating powers ten fold. This makes me especially happy, as I had missed out on it last year, due to substandard results.

Speaking of which, I am returning back to school this Wednesday, to my final secondary school year. Though I will also have to do school related activities on Tuesday, as I am required to attend a peer support training programme, or something of the sorts, due to me now being a role model for the fresh meat. Unfortunately this may mean that this year I will have to associate with the younger generation, unlike my previous years with merely associating within my form.

And with that, I have emptied my supply of news topics, left with a dry well. My experiment in narrative news posts is over, for the while, and will be awaiting further evolution. I am now struggling to see if anybody could possibly fill the extraordinarily high limit of 32768 characters, with only a small amount under 6000 has been filled with this body.

I bid the reader a happy future.

"I'd want you beautiful and pale, the way I dreamed you were..."