As you're dealing with real people and real abodes, not hospitality professionals and rooms spit polished by uniformed maids, there is a quirky, happenstance quality that makes for experiences that at times can be annoying and pretty weird, but also rather great, and even magical — depending on your point of view.
While those two robots were weird but looked rather harmless, baby robot Yotaro [JP], made by the University of Tsukuba in Japan, is really looking scary – just look at those pictures.
This time, there were no weird, cultish shoes but rather ruffled tulle at the ankle or shin straps that tied with bows.
No, not "Rappin' Rodney," but rather "Weird Al" Yankovic's "Amish Paradise".
That was illustrated at the last election, when the then Conservative Party leader, William Hague, based his programme largely on the preoccupations and prejudices of the Daily Mail's brilliant but rather weird editor, Paul Dacre, and suffered a humiliating defeat.
They know that green can be pistachio, avocado, spinach or wasabi, that red might be coral, that pink could be flamingo, that brown won't necessarily be chocolate — and that skin no longer means a weird shade of salmon but rather can be anything from the palest porcelain to a dark shade of ebony.
It may sound weird, but I'd much rather pack around my MP3 player and mobile phone rather than carrying around one device that does it all.
By the time they're delivered, we realize they're awkward and the dark paisley fabric rather weird, but we find them sumptuously comfortable, after sitting upright in the garden chairs for weeks".
But rather than indulging the weird Sirkian "Vertigo" (minus the murder plot) nipping at the edges, director and co-writer Arie Posin regrettably sticks to the tastefully designed, artless tear-jerker.
This is such a weird, lurching love song that is, rather shockingly, not about an orgasm but rather about the impending end of a stagnant love affair.
