GREETINGS FROM AIRSHIP GLITZVILLE!
The splendiferous exciting adventures and inane ramblings of KT Glitz and his beautiful wife Toni Glitz. There will also be garbage talked about music, movies and Star Wars, a LOT of Star Wars!
If you can't be a good example, you'll just have to be a horrible warning!
Never forget your dreams, they are the hopes of the future!
Back in 2014, Marvel unleashed Guardians of the Galaxy upon the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Written and directed by James Gunn, the MCU started to head in a new direction with this chapter. Guardians of the Galaxy was a Marvel Cinematic Universe film, and so much more.
We were out an about at 06:30 this morning for a nice snowy walk. It was lovely.
Ma u hours later, this is the view from my home office :)
Marvel have just dropped a new The Falcon And The Winter Soldier trailer ready for it's release on March 19th. I have to say, this is really looking really good!
The evening was spent doing a mass hockey catch up on the games from last night
There was a lovely sky this morning when I got up. These photos don't do it justice...
It put me in a very good mood I have to say. Spirits lifted it was time for the weekly bread baking. These ones came out a really well and I was very happy with them. I love the smell of these baking in the oven.
After the baking I had to do a quick bought of work to complete the migrations for this weekend and then it was time to kick back and relax.
Traditional breakfast was prepared and then there we did a catch up with RuPaul's Drag Race UK and RuPaul's Drag Race. Wasn't happy with the UK elimination but the US one was fine with me.
WandaVision this week was absolutely superb. The reveals are getting bigger each week. This series appears to be the perfect platform to launch the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) Phase Four. It's going to lead into other shows and movies. At the end of the episode we had Wanda's brother Pietro (Quicksilver) appear. The twist was that instead of being played by Aaron Taylor-Johnson from the recent MCU films he as now being played by Evan Peters who had the role in the Fox X-Men movies (prior to the Disney buyout). Funny moment there was Darcy Peters exclaiming, "he's been recast" which fitted beautifully with the TV show angle that WandaVision has been taking. Have to confess that might have got a bit emotional at that point. I wonder who else might make an appearance in future episodes?
You can't beat a good night of sleep to leave you feeling refreshed and raring to go. A walk was a nice idea but it was absolutely tipping it down so that idea was shelved.
I made a cuppa and then caught up with Batwoman. Episode two was not as good as the first one but it was still way better then anything from season one. It's still the worst DC TV show but it is getting better.
Traditional Saturday cooked breakfast was accompanied by RuPaul's Drag Race UK. Loving the UK queens, they are far nicer than the US ones.
During the day we did some NHL catch up taking in a couple of full games and lots of quick recaps.
RuPaul's Drag Race (the regular US edition) catch up with a very nice Indian take away.
WandaVision this week was absolutely superb. We are finally getting some good reveals based on little hints that have been dropped in previous episodes. The running time for these is too short, I want more! If you love the Marvel Cinematic Universe films then this is an absolute must watch!
Toni went and had a bath so I spent a couple of hours on the PS4 playing Shadows Of The Tomb Raider.
It's Saturday so it was up and about to get my baking groove on. These little beauties came out really well.
A massive breakfast/lunch and the latest episode of the main RuPaul's Drag Race.
Disney+ dropped the first two episodes of the new Marvel TV series, WandaVision. This show blends the style of classic sitcoms with the MCU in which Wanda Maximoff and Vision -two super-powered beings living their ideal suburban lives-begin to suspect that everything is not as it seems.
It got off to a good start and I look forward to seeing how the story unfolds and how they start to build hooks into other upcoming Marvel TV shows and movies.
As we didn't fancy watching any whole games of hockey we worked our way through the ten minute condensed highlights of all the games that have been played since the season started on Wednesday. It's actually a great way of keeping on top of teams without just reading a final score.We will still watch complete games for those teams that we are fully invested in. We've adopted a team from each division (outside of the New York Rangers) as follows:
MassMutual East - Boston Bruins (except when they play the Rangers)
Discover Central - Carolina Hurricanes
Honda West - Minnesota Wild
Scotia North - Vancouver Canucks
Our dinner movie tonight was The Mummy Returns.
Such a silly film but fun to watch nonetheless. We will be watching The Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor and The Scorpion King at some point in the next few days. A bit of googling revealed that The Scorpions King had four sequels. How the hell did that get FOUR sequels?
Well here's a novelty, a post about films that isn't Star Wars! Marvel have dropped their first trailer for the upcoming Black Widow film due for release in May 2020. Another thing to get excited about!
This will be the first of the Phase 4 series of films and will be followed up in 2020 by The Eternals.
The Marvel Cinematic Universe films have been a wonderful journey and I am really looking forward to seeing where they take things next.
I know this was just a trailer but there's enough there to have me gripped and wanting to see it so job done!
I was off work today as we had a British Gas engineer coming round. Spotted this chunky cat in the back garden delicately balanced on the fence!
The good news is we now have fixed central heating and all of our radiators are working beautifully for the first time in nearly three years! Woohoo!
OK I might have fibbed a little bit about not posting about Star Wars LOL
It was off to Bexleyheath tonight for nommy foods and to see Captain Marvel.
What a film, this is what Wonder Woman should have been. A strong female character with no need to throw in a love interest. Well-played Marvel. The fan service was great with some more back story being added to Nick Fury and it was great to see Agent Coulson back in a film again. Captain Marvel is the perfect setup to Avengers: Endgame so stay right until the end!!!
The soundtrack gets an honourable mention too with key 90s hits blending in perfectly to what's happening on screen.
Today was another chance to go onsite with a client and help them resolve some issues. Just after lunch I headed to Westminster to the good deed. I'm no conspiracy theorist but it was funny how heading up Horse Guard Avenue and passed the Ministry Of Defence building that both Google and Apple Maps refused to function at all. They wouldn't provide any man information, just a blue dot and nothing else. This situation continued until I had passed Downing Street and was almost at Westminster Bridge and then suddenly they burst back into life!
I did eventually reach my destination.
I was only there for about an hour but I managed to get everything resolved and then I had a very happy client. The view for the tourists isn't so great at some of our mighty attractions at the moment LOL
I like days like these. I then headed back to the office to continue working. It was a LONG day today as I didn't actually leave to head home until gone 6pm.
It was such a relief to get home to some lovely food and to watch Avengers Infinity War. Such a great emotional film that doesn't lose the feels no matter how many times I watch it.
Tonight we started watching Marvel's latest episodic TV series Cloak & Dagger.
Two episodes in and I was very impressed. I was aware of the comic series but didn't know too much about it but I like the way things unfold in this TV series. It's a slowly unfolding story that will grow over time and after the second episode I shouted at the TV because I wanted to see more and now I have to wait until Thursday for the next one! For me that's the sign of good storytelling :)
After a lovely relaxing weekend it was a real struggle to get up this morning. Extra snuggles won out though and I didn't do go in early LOL.
The working day was busy but stress free and breezed by which was a welcome change.
There are lots of great things happening in the Marvel Universe these days and I am really looking forward to the release of Cloak And Dagger. The release date is now set for Thursday 7th June with a two hour episode. A sneak preview has just been released:
STARZ have also just released their Ash vs Evil Dead Season 3 trailer and it looks great! Ash and his offspring, what could possible go wrong? LOL
The day today was saved by a trip to Cineworld Bexleyheath to go and see Thor: Ragnarok.
Oh wow is all I have to say. This is best of the Thor movies so far. They've injected some Guardians style humour and visuals into it that make to work so well. Hulk's appearance is sublime and Loki as ever is the perfect opposite of Thor and yet the come closer together. No spoilers here but the plot was great. As with all Marvel films, don't leave until the end of the credits or you'll miss out
If you were less fond of the Thor movie then this will be the one for you to enjoy.
This was a much needed piece of light relief from chaos at work!
Today I was greeted by a beautiful sunrise. It was so lovely to see before I headed off to work.
I messed about with one of the photos to create this little beauty:
Work was less beautiful but then that was what I expected LOL. My one remaining problem started to come back my way again just as I predicted last week but thankfully I managed to pass it back on to another team for further investigation. We have some rough thoughts on what is happening now at least but it's taking a long time to get to the bottom of things. Hopefully tomorrow will bring good news for us.
After the working day was done the evening was spent watching Thor and Thor: The Dark World in preparation for us going to see Thor: Ragnarok tomorrow night. I have a real soft spot for the Thor films. They are quite silly but fit perfectly into the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Toni was out for a large chunk of the day so I was back in PS4 mode and trying racking up a few more percent on Assassin's Creed Black Flag. I made some progress but not quite as much as I would have liked due to getting stuck fighting a particularly difficult Man Of War.
We cracked out the WWE Network app and caught the first few episodes of the Mae Young Classic show that they are currently running. Similar to the recent Cruiserweight show the Mae Young Classic features 32 female wrestlers from all around the world competing in a tournament to be crowned winner. It was a good strong showing for a new show and it was great to have Jim Ross back doing the announcing alongside Lita. If you like wrestling it's well worth checking out.
We finished the evening off with Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2 now that it's arrived on Bluray. Love this film so much.
Marvel have a new series coming out called Inhumans due to air on September 29th.
The Inhumans were first introduced in the Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. series. The original plan had been to create a new film but this was changed to be a TV series instead.
Here's the trailer to give a quick taster of what might be in store :)
Today we went to see Spider-Man: Homecoming at Cineworld in Bexleyheath.
WOW is all I have to say. This was THE BEST Spider-Man film made so far. Well done to Marvel for negotiation with Sony to let them have input and creativity. Now we finally have a Spider-Man film worthy of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Don't get me wrong, I loved all the other films but Homecoming stands head and shoulders above them all.
Marvel have just released a Black Panther trailer. The film isn't due out until 2018 but they are getting the hype started already.
Apparently the film is set after the events of Captain America: Civil War and sees King T’Challa return home to Wakanda only to finds his sovereignty challenged by factions within his own country
This one looks to score high on the visual front and Marvel haven't let us done on the story side yet.
I like me a bit of Spider-Man. I've enjoyed all the films that we have had so far and I am really looking forward to the latest reboot Spider-Man Homecoming (this is the first with a tie-in with the Marvel Cinematic Universe. A new segment of clips has just been released which fills me with great joy.
