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Sep. 7th, 2008 @ 07:51 pm
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Totally wasted weekend.
::sigh of contentment::
Did finally watch Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog. It was so stereotypical that the unstereotypical ending was somewhat disappointing. Still liked it though. |
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I've been watching videos on ExpertVillage.com for hours.
The massage videos are the next best thing to actually having one. It's crack - I can't stop watching. So many types of massage! Foot, shoulders, oil, no oil, assisted, self.... It goes on and on. There's sewing, quilting, funny ladies giving etiquette lessons, making muffins! There's nothing you can't learn in 45 seconds!
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Jun. 24th, 2008 @ 09:24 pm
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The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed. Well let's see.
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Put an asterisk next to the books you'd rather shove hot pokers in your eyes than read
5) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them ;-)
I used an asterisk to show which I have read:
1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen*
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien*
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling*
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee*
6. The Bible*
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell*
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott*
12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien*
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger*
19. The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot*
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald*
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams*
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll*
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis*
34. Emma - Jane Austen*
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen*
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis [this with #33 does not make sense]*
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini*
38. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden*
40. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown *
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez [read in Spanish; intend to read in English one day]
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving*
45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood*
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding*
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52. Dune - Frank Herbert*
53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen*
55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley*
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia MarquezV
61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas* -been a long time
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac (Started, but never finished)
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
69. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville*
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker*
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett*
74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson*
75. Ulysses - James Joyce
76. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78. Germinal - Emile Zola
79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80. Possession - AS Byatt*
81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker*
84. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro*
85. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87. Charlotte's Web - EB White*
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad*
92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94. Watership Down - Richard Adams
95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole*
96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare [And again, with the collected works up there, this is kind of a dumb thing.]*
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo |
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I've only recently found this niche of fandom. It never did much for me, but there are a few that just rock me.
Battlestar Galactica:
Beccatoria's Devils & Dust
It's religion, the cylons, and the humans. It's about fear and how they hurt themselves more than anyone else. This is probably the vid that sold me on vids as a medium.
Harry Potter:
Fabella's The Boy is a Puppet
The visuals are great, of course, but it's the pairing of song and message that really work for me. Harry is Voldemort's puppet and it's tragic and inevitable.
Farscape:
Drgnfille's Until My Dying Day
It's Aeryn and how broken she is, so broken that she couldn't even name it. Crichton, the transformative power of love, and how incredibly painful it is to change. The song lyrics can be a touch schmaltzy, but it works with these images, so let the vid take you along. It's worth it. |
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For Halloween, ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) meret linked to a movie online that scared her silly as a kid - "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark". It's a made for tv movie from the '80's. You can watch it for free here. LINK
I love scary movies and bad scary movies most of all. So I clicked. And it was exactly as advertised. And my first thought - the lead actress is fat. Brain, wtf are you thinking?
I *know* that she isn't fat, but I still *feel* that's she's overweight. No wonder Hollywood doesn't take our protests seriously. I may be saying 'show me real women', but my gut reaction is that real women are fat. Of course, I blame them for training me this way, but some of the culpability rests with me. And I'm trying, but I'm further beyond than I thought.
Your depressing social conscious awareness raising thought for today.Current Mood:  disappointed |
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I'm losing respect for people right and left. JKR is "taking credit" for putting a gay man in her books? Is there a pinata that gets handed out that I'm unaware of? In the shape of a toaster maybe? She isn't getting anything for this - she told the truth about a character in a book series that she conceived of and wrote entirely without your input. A series you've been fangirling for over a decade. Shut the hell up.
Oct. 21st, 2007 @ 08:20 pm
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Awesome, JKR. Not a surprise, but kudos for saying it out loud. It's awful that just saying it is still a milestone. I don't know why I'm so surprised by the negative reactions - I know this country is full of hate-filled Jesus freaks. I am still so very disappointed. See http://www.swordofgryffindor.com for some previously intelligent people gone wingnut crazy over gays. They handled discussions on murder and torture just fine, but not homosexuals. My hope for humanity is fading fast. Well, at least it pulled me out of my heteronormative world and made me pay attention to how virulent the anti-gay crowd still is. Thanks for nothing, jerks.
Quote of the day:
"As for these dim bulbs saying, "What about the chldren?" If they have parents like you, they'll grow up to be plenty fucked up without reading about a 100-year-old celebate gay guy."
Karenzipdrive on Huffingtonpost.com
Amen, sister.
Oct. 20th, 2007 @ 07:58 pm
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God, the self important twittery. Not only is the fact that he was a thoroughly despicable human being a total revelation to these people, JKR's audacity in pointing that out is a form of rape. Even the less nutty fen are busy declaring that JKR's opinions aren't canon and their form of this sadist is now free of her oppression. Being sane, I thought that JKR's opinions had been made into books that HP fen were reading avidly. Silly me.
Jul. 26th, 2007 @ 09:29 pm
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Another Day, Another Stupid Snape Essay
Ok,these things always have to bash Harry and this one takes on Harry's "scary" willingness to "throw around" cruciatus at Bellatrix. You know, after she murdered his only family. But these are always the same people who excuse attempted murderer Draco Malfoy who was willing to Crucio Harry in the bathroom because he was embarrassed to be caught crying.
JKR, please, please, stick it to these idiots.
Jun. 14th, 2007 @ 07:24 pm
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Concerning the First Amendment:
No, you don't have a right to free speech on LJ. But that's irrelevant. You only have the right to do what you're willing to *fight* for the right to do.
Jun. 1st, 2007 @ 06:16 pm
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The Thousand Ways to Bleed by halcyon_shift
Short, creepy, and with an incredible twist.
May. 31st, 2007 @ 10:44 pm
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I hate Snape, Snarry, adult-child pairings, and haven't read HP fic in nearly two years.
I am thrilled to see the return of Pornish_Pixies, ArtSnarry, and others. Welcome back!
And a pox on LJ, WFI, and any other dunderheads out there who support them.
May. 31st, 2007 @ 03:52 pm
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Not spoilery
I'm tired of "Starbuck learns a lesson". She will never change, so there's no point in having her "learn" a lesson. I like her less and less.
Dec. 9th, 2006 @ 11:39 am
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When did Harry figure out he was a half-blood and what that meant?
Sep. 25th, 2006 @ 02:26 pm
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Did he know Sirius was innocent? I'd love to ask JKR that. I think he did and didn't care.
Sep. 23rd, 2006 @ 09:55 pm
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People will really believe anything, no matter how stupid, to believe that he's totally innocent of ever doing anything bad. And every single event in Harry Potter actually involved him and JKR, please god, put out the next book and shut these loons up.
Sep. 23rd, 2006 @ 08:37 pm
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ravenna-c-tan commented in junediamanti's journal with this "1) Is Snape Evil and 2) Is Snape actually In League With Voldemort."
That's a great, succinct summation of what's going on. Snape may not be V's loyal servant, but he is still an evil man. Being sorry that *Lily* died (if true) is not enough. He has to be sorry he helped bring about anyone's death, including James. If he could have seen V kill James and his infant son without a qualm and still could - he is an evil man.
No, a deeply horrible person can't serve the Light. That's the point. If you torture and murder people and enjoy it, you cannot serve the Light. You don't have to be nice, but you can't be bad. Snape is bad. Sadists cannot make the world a better place.
Sep. 11th, 2006 @ 05:16 pm
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Why didn't AD teach HP Occlumency if it's so important?
Why would AD want HP to lie bound and helpless to watch as his beloved mentor was taken from him, just as his parents and godfather had been lost to murderers?
Why would JKR want to spend 1/3 of the next and last book on Snape's redemption? If not more? Because all the fanwanking theories required to redeem him would require at least that much. If there's a redemption arc, it's Draco's.
How will Snape avoid committing murder and torture during his upcoming time as V's chief lieutenant? Why would AD want that for him or consider it an acceptable sacrifice?
Why wouldn't AD spend time preparing HP to go it alone if he was dying after the ring Horcrux? And wouldn't Slughorn remark on AD's lethal injury when he sees it for the first time?
That last night on the tower was a total clusterfuck. AD was too arrogant to listen to HP, both Snape and AD were too arrogant to believe that Draco could really do any damage, HP never grew the balls he should have after OoTP to tell AD no, Draco was too desperate and too stupid to understand what he was unleashing on his fellow students, Snape made himself the most hated and hunted man in the wizarding world and has only the fickle V to fall back on. Oh, and Draco to protect.
AD did not intend to die that way, certainly not while Harry watched. HP's greatest strength is love, *why the hell* would he use his final moments to teach Harry all-consuming hatred?
V would never tolerate anyone else killing HP. His authority depends on it. Snape will get an attaboy, but not much more. V can't admit that it was anything all that special or that he couldn't have done or was afraid to face AD on his homeground. That's how these cults operate. And that's why Snape didn't kill HP. Maybe he could have kidnapped him and protected Draco and defended himself, but maybe not, too.
And, by God, I want to see some evil punished. I hated the total lack of consequences for the scum running around in the HBP and this is JKR's last chance to show some serious punishment for the serious evil running around. And, to be clear, I spit on your variations on "But Snape has to be on the side of light to show readers that sadists who get off on tormenting children and the weak are not necessarily evil". That is so stupid that it actually made the Intarnets stupider. That's a lot of stupid.
Snape may hate Voldemort even more than he hates HP, but that's all. He *murdered* AD. We're all dying, if someone kills a terminalcancer patient, it is still murder. He is a horrible person and he will deserve every horrible thing that happens to him from now on. I hope it is a lot.
Sep. 10th, 2006 @ 06:21 pm
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I've been trying to get through it for days and failing. So I skipped to the end and wow. I had forgotten what an emotional punch Cedric's death and the reactions to it are. I really like the more affectionate, more involved AD we see. It's a small kink of mine, AD's affection for Harry. And, really, without it, AD comes off like a sociopath.
I'd love some good AD gen right now, but that's rarer than phoenix tears.
Sep. 6th, 2006 @ 08:31 pm
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Ok, so why no intimations of potion brewing throughout the year? JKR loves details like that - little intimations that add up to something big later on. Snape is no longer the potions master and no longer has the same access to the potions stores. A potion that stoppers death must be a bitch to brew and brewing it ought to be difficult to conceal. If he were brewing something for AD, I think JKR would have left little hints. IMHO.
And Fawkes going to Snape? No other DE would notice AD's famous familiar hanging about? How stupid is that?
Sep. 3rd, 2006 @ 07:02 pm
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