Bah. Having troubles logging into my wiki. I hardly ever work on it, so I can’t remember any of the info, and apparently I did not have Firefox remember it as I thought I had. Hopefully I’m correctly remembering the email I associated with the wiki, or I’m never gonna be able to log in again.

I really don’t want to go to Illinois. Last year I’d have been happy to, maybe even last month. But I feel crappy lately, and I’m tired and I really really don’t want to spend two days in the fucking car. I also don’t want to be fumbling around in cemeteries looking at headstones right now, but the actual getting there seems to be giving me more dread.

I think its amusing that the clear 12″ Jessica Alba Invisible Woman doll is supposed to be the rare version, but its by far the more common one on eBay. So…its rare, but no one actually wants it. Awesome. I’d actually like one, not necessarily the clear one, I just want an Alba IW to make a face mold from. Or, to attempt one, anyways. If her hair wasn’t molded on, I’d be willing to customize the doll itself, but as far as I know, there’s nothing you can really do when the head and hair are one molded piece. So, yeah, face mold. Which is probably also beyond me. I want to be more talented than I actually am.

But then, I guess a lot of people do.

Mostly I just visit The Superficial for pictures. Their stuff tends to be, um. Very fitting to their name, actually, and can range from ridiculous to mean-funny to vaguely horrifying. But then sometimes, they have absolutely awesome stuff like this:

All have at one time had shitty reality shows on VH1. That’s where once-cool people go to die. Or in Bret’s case, go to pretend they’re not bald and bang strippers. Hold on a second, no one told me Bret Michaels was the smartest man alive.

*grins* Sometimes I just really love The Superficial, y’know?

This guy does the awesomest headmolds EVER. Or girl, I guess, but I’ve noticed most SW customizers tend to be male. Which explains why really bad nude figures occasionally pop up. But anyway, yes, s/he is much more talented than you will ever be, so sorry.

Altho, this guy is good, too. His custom Dooku head captures Mr. Lee pretty well, I think. And, it does have the bonus of coming pre-drilled, so he kind of wins over Diver4 there.

Yes, I am still on my latest SW 12 kick. I don’t think it will go away until I either buy something, or work on something. Or possibly both. Either way, you may either want to get out now, or strap in a little more securely, because its probably gonna be awhile.

Hey, speaking of things to buy and/or work on — the Aurra Sing doll. Comes in a box, with a book, both of which feature Michonne Bourriague in full character make-up. Prominently displayed shots of her eyelinered, dark-shadowed alter-ego. So of course the doll (from the pictures I’ve seen), has absolutely nothing to draw out her eyes, or even separate the whites of her eyes from the whitey whiteness of her skin. Where the hell were the painters on this one? Their only job for the doll was the eye area; she has no real other color, body-wise. How long a lunch did they take, that they couldn’t even do eyeliner? I can do it in under 10 minutes, and that’s giving myself time to fuck it up and time to fix it. Dear TeamGeorge, Please hire me for your toy development department. THE FANS ARE OUTSHINING YOU, AND THEY HAVE SHIT BUDGETS. love always, me.

OH. MY. GOD. Luuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuust. Also, inspiring, as I hope to do a custom Twilek or three myself someday. But mostly lust. My only real problem is that the ear knobs are too high. Not high enough to kill the lust, tho.

Yes, I am once again trolling eBay, looking at Star Wars shit. It happens. And I’m blaming this particular instance on the fact that Asajj finally arrived the other day. Week. Something. The point is, she came, and I love her, and she’s much nastier in person than in the prototype pictures, but given the character, that’s really kind of a good thing.

It’s made me want to work on collecting/creating the girl dolls, though. I still haven’t satisfied my desires for Maul and the Qui/Dala Defense of Naboo 2-pack, but the 2-pack only occasionally shows up, and there’s like, 4 different 1:6 Mauls, so deciding 100% on one can be problematic. The original has an unfortunate tat gaff that results in him looking surprised, the Sideshow one is awesome but expensive, the Speeder one is perfect, but, well, comes with a speeder, which I don’t want; and the death-scene one is actually good, aside from the whole splits-in-half thing, which I find kind of off-putting. We won’t even start on my longing for a Plo Koon, because the resulting whining noise is kind of embarrassing, and scares my cat.

So, anyway, the girls. Not that there’s many to collect, unless one wants every last version of Amidala and Leia, which….no. I have a ‘Dala, although I admit I wouldn’t mind getting my hands on the black-gown Portrait Edition one as well, and I want precisely one Leia — the ceremonial garb one, because it is my favoritest Leia outfit ever. And aside from them, they really only made five females that I’m aware of, two of which I have. And the Zam Wesell doll is horrid. Like, even the SW bounty hunter fans hate it, its that bad. If I did get her, I’d probably just take her stuff and try to make my own. So that really just leaves Barriss and Aurra. I wish I was more into Aurra, really, she seems cool, I’ve just never had much of a hard-on for the bounty hunters.

AND OH MY GOD IT IS REALLY FUCKING HARD TO KEEP A TRAIN OF THOUGHT WHEN PEOPLE ARE COMING IN EVERY FIVE SECONDS TO SHOW YOU THE LATEST THING THEY ARE THROWING OUT FROM THE CABINET. IT JUST TOOK ME TWENTY MINUTES TO DO THE SECOND HALF OF THE LAST PARAGRAPH AND I KNOW THEY CAN SEE ME TRYING TO TYPE HERE.

Fuck it. I give up.

So, um. Sam Jackson as Nick Fury. Really. That’s. That’s the casting you’re going with. I. Huh.

I mean, I love Sam, I think he’s the rockingest thing ever. And, y’know, I totally think people who bitch about there being a lack of good roles for any given ethnicity need to shut the fuck up, because hi, if you need a role to be written specifically for your skin color — you are not just a lousy actor, but an asshat and kind of racist. So, hey, yeah, normally, I’m all for not letting things like that stop you.

Its just. With comic book characters, the look is as much the chara as anything they say or do. And some things are fluid, like costume or hairstyle, and then you have some charas who have just….never changed. They are defined by their visual, in a way. Possibly because comic books are 100% visual, I don’t know. Whatever it is, it just feels kind of ham-handed to cast someone so very not Nick Fury as Nick Fury. And my brain is probably going to keep going, “No, seriously, Sam? As Nick Fury? Seriously?” right up until I actually see him do it.

And then it will be gleeing and “Hi, Sam!” and revelling in his coolness, because did I meantion? I love me some Sam fucking Jackson.