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Oh, and if you're gonna rec me someone above, let's try for people who don't friends lock? I always feel guilty about asking someone to add me, only for me to lose interest and drop them a week later.
I just saw the first reference to NaNoWriMo on my friends page. Oy. I think it's safe to predict I'll be wimping out on it yet again.
The jackhammering outside the basement lab is driving me insane.
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Oh, and if you're gonna rec me someone above, let's try for people who don't friends lock? I always feel guilty about asking someone to add me, only for me to lose interest and drop them a week later.
I just saw the first reference to NaNoWriMo on my friends page. Oy. I think it's safe to predict I'll be wimping out on it yet again.
The jackhammering outside the basement lab is driving me insane.
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LJ Interests meme results
- blue's clues:
Right. I love this show. I really, really love it. The love affair started because my cousin didn't have cable and one day I decided to tape some stuff off Nick and Disney for her kids. Which turned into this thing where I'm supposed to bring them a new tape every time I go to visit. The kids really liked Blue's Clues and Dora The Explorer, and whenever I babysat them, we'd end up watching eps of both shows for the entire time. It's gotten to the point where if I turn on Noggin or Nick and this is on, 9/10 it's an episode I've seen before. I must confess to loving Steve way more than Joe, and when it gets to the point that I have a preference about the host of a show meant for pre-schoolers, I know I have a problem. And I remain bitter about the fact that Joe changed the mail time! song. - counting crows:
The band, obviously. I was pretty late to the Counting Crows party, don't think I really, really got into them until I saw Cruel Intentions and fell in love with Colorblind. I bought August & Everything After shortly after that, it was one of the first cds I remember buying with my own money. It was also the first cd I played the hell out of and took so many places, I had to replace it because it started skipping something awful. I listened to it a lot the summer I spent in Israel, especially Anna Begins, Raining In Baltimore, and Time & Time Again. It's funny, I love the cd, but I can't remember the last time I listened to some of the songs. Like Ghost Train? And A Murder of One? I always skip those. - e.e. cummings:
I'm a big poetry dork, and I love e.e's stuff. I'm such a sucker for the ability to evoke images and feelings with just a few choice words, and he was so good at that. And there's just something about the way he writes emotion that just gets me. somewhere i have never travelled is one of my all time favorite pieces. I just love him. Take this, for example:
i like my body when it is with your
body. It is so quite new a thing.
Muscles better and nerves more.
i like your body. i like what it does,
i like its hows. i like to feel the spine
of your body and its bones, and the trembling
-firm-smooth ness and which i will
again and again and again
kiss, i like kissing this and that of you,
i like, slowly stroking the, shocking fuzz
of your electric fur, and what-is-it comes
over parting flesh . . . . And eyes big love-crumbs,
and possibly i like the thrill
of under me you so quite new
Love. Him. - hugh grant:
What can I say about Hugh? I can't remember what the first Hugh Grant movie I ever saw was. I can't remember when I really fell for Hugh. But whenever it was, I'm pretty sure I can say that it was About A Boy that really kicked my adoration of Hugh into overdrive. There were interviews aplenty in all the magazines and he was snarky and witty and I loved it. And then we were graced with his presence on the commentary tracks of Two Weeks Notice and Love, Actually and if you're anything like me, you had to listen to the comms more than once to catch everything because Hugh had you laughing so hard. It might all be a persona he puts on, but it fits him so well, I'll take it. - justice league:
The animated series on Cartoon Network. Um, I don't really have much to say about this. It's very fun to watch, and the voice work is tremendous. The voice casting director person really brings some quality people to the table, and it's pretty cool to hear Ben Browder in one ep, and Amy Acker in another, and turn around and catch Adam Baldwin or Morena Baccarin in the credits of a third. Michael Rosenbaum's characterization of Flash should be canon, and JL's Batman is just perfection. - monaboyd:
Aww, I'm not near as into Billeh and Dom as I was a couple years ago, but they remain my favorite of the LOTRips pairings. (For those of you living under a rock, Monaboyd is the mashup of the last names of Dominic Monaghan and Billy Boyd, who played Merry and Pippin in the LOTR films). The 'freudian slip' icon, by [Bad username or site: puddle_took / @ livejournal.com] is one of my alltime faves because people who know will always instantly get it, and that thought amuses me beyond measure. - postcards:
Sometime in college, I started buying postcards to use as wall decor, and I've just kept it up. I'm especially into buying postcards of pieces of artwork when I visit museums because it's an inexpensive way to bring the art home with me. There's just something about all the things a postcard can capture in a single image. - sean bean:
SEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN. I heart Sean. I've always had a thing for H!ITG!s, and I loved Sean before I even knew what his name was. It'd be like "Hey, there's that guy who is gonna turn out to be a terrorist by the end of this movie!" Lord of the Rings definitely took my Sean Bean love to another level. His performance as Boromir still kills me where I live when I watch Fellowship... He's also the reason I started watching the Sharpe films and reading the books :-P I tend to watch movies now just because he's in them, even when it's only for a little bit (see: Black Beauty, Ronin, Equilibrium and soon Flight Plan). - t.s. eliot:
Another poet I looooooooooooooooooooooove, though T.S. is a relatively newfound love for me, just a few years now. April is the cruellest month was parlayed into the title of one of my very favorite episodes of Sports Night and that led me to reading his work. Eliot's pieces tend to be a little long for me, but there's always a verse or two or three that take my breath away.
'You gave me hyacinths first a year ago;
'They called me the hyacinth girl.'
—Yet when we came back, late, from the Hyacinth garden,
Your arms full, and your hair wet, I could not
Speak, and my eyes failed, I was neither
Living nor dead, and I knew nothing,
Looking into the heart of light, the silence. - whitney otto:
Oh, Whitney Otto. I wish she wrote more, like Robert B. Parker and Koontz, churning a book or two a year...but I imagine she wouldn't produce stuff I loved near as much if she did. Three years ago or so, I was wandering around the library and I was BORED and I wanted to read something but I didn't have anything in mind and nothing was grabbing me. I wandered over to the New Books shelves and one of the titles on it was A Collection of Beauties At The Height of Their Popularity. Something about the cover of the book (an old Japanese print), and the texture of the pages (the paper was heavy, and the pages were rough around the edges, like bound journal paper) caught my eye and I checked it out. Read it over the course of a couple days. Adored it beyond measure. I have a notebook in which I write quotes or passages from books that I like, and every few pages, I was jotting something down from Otto's work. I ended up buying a copy for myself. I read it again. I hit up ebay and half.com and tracked down Otto's other books (which I loved as well, though none as much as A Collection of Beauties). Each one didn't take me more than a couple days to read, because I just love Otto's style. I love how she doesn't use especially flowery language, but even when she says something plainly, you get a sense of so much more being suggested. She writes in short sentences mostly, which sometimes combine to form paragraphs of such insight that sometimes I have to put her books down and just take a moment. There's this bit from How To Make An American Quilt where she describes why one of the women has never been one to have female friends. And another where she talks about the oldest child in any given family, and makes this comparison to the tester pancake you make, try, and toss, when you're trying to get the batter just right. A Collection of Beauties... is a set of stories about a group of young people in San Francisco in the '80s. They are all overeducated and underemployed, and they have lives but they're all a bit invisible, and trying to make connections and it's set in the '80s but it could be now, it could be people I know. I wonder sometimes if I just relate to it way too much because of where I am in my life right now, but I think I'll probably still enjoy it years from now, because it's not just what she writes about, it's the way she writes about it.
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I PREFER STEVE TOO!
I missed the special on Noggin which featured Steve meeting Joe. Would have liked to have seen it.
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I love you. Of my cousin's kids, 2 prefer Joe and one likes Steve, but I think he just says that because I say that I like Steve :-P
Joe is a little too "extra" for me.
Yeah. My thing is, Steve was great because he knew how to play to the adults as well as the kids. Sometimes the way he'd say a line, or the way he looked at the camera.... But Donovan's Joe is way one-dimensional. He just plays to the kids and he's kinda just blah.
And I'm also sore over him changing the mail-time song. I always sing the original as a protest. My nephew and I argue over that exact same point all the time.
LOL. And the goodbye song! Like, wtf, dude. If it ain't broke...
I missed the special on Noggin which featured Steve meeting Joe. Would have liked to have seen it.
Oh, I've seen that like 4 times :-P They did a pretty good job with it, I think actually. They were very good in the way they eased Joe in (I remember there was a whole episode that was just about Joe's upcoming visit, and then they introduced him as Steve's younger brother and explained that he would take care of Blue 'cause Steve was going off to college), and eased Steve out. I thought it was very smooth of them to have the viewers need to explain to Joe about Blue's Clues and to help him, because it kind of put you on his side. Unless you were 24 years old and just too bitter like me :-P
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Wow, that's exactly how I got into them. =) My friend had all their albums but it wasn't until seeing CI and hearing that song that I decided to give them a chance and listened everything she got by them. ;)
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Soundtracks are the best though, you give second chances to bands you never gave a first one. :)
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But maybe you want to have a look at some of his older entries (http://www.livejournal.com/users/vladimirsever/2005/05/).
hugh grant
It's good to know that the commentary track of Love, Actually is funny, too, since this will finally decide whether I should buy the DVD or cross it off my amazon watchlist.
(I believe I already confessed my admiration of Hugh Grant, so no need to do that again. ;))
sean bean
I have the trailer for one of Sean's next movies The Dark, but it's in German, so I haven't posted it yet. But if some more Beanness would help you to restore your sanity, then just give me a hint. :)
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At the rate things are going, no amount of Sean goodness is gonna make it better, so you needn't post it for my sake :-/ Thanks for the offer though ^_^
And yes, the Love, Actually commentary is quite funny. Certainly worth your hard earned money :-P I hope you enjoy it.
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Hee! Baseball season is over in 7 days. Perhaps I'll give cricket a try :-P
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I have nothing to say to ease your pain. I know it might be misinformation at this point. But I also know it's gonna hurt anyway.
Imma have to sacrifice someone to the baseball gods so they'll quit bombarding you.
*hugs*
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I believe Miggy. (Then again, I believed Raffy in March, too.) I hate that his name has even gotten caught up in this. The latest reports have the House saying the stuff Miggy gave Raffy tested clean. God, none of this is necessary.
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I seriously thought about having you promise not to jump off a building or ballpark or something. ...erm, you won't, right?
I never thought I'd be rooting for Raffy to be proved an ass, but that's what it amounts to now. I'm not as deeply involved as you, obviously, but I was still kinda feeling sorry for Raf until this latest incident.
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I have a notebook in which I write quotes or passages from books that I like
That's a better idea. What I end up doing is buying cheap paperback copies of the books and go through and highlight favourite passages. But it would be nice to have them all in one place (although some might not make sense out of context). And it took me a ridiculously long amount of time to be able to physically mark in a book - I had to convince myself it was not defilement; more like... interactive reading.
And then sometimes, I think I'm getting a little carried away with my obsessiveness over a certain phrase or passage. I mean, it's like I expect to find the meaning of life hidden in a novel somewhere and if I can only seize upon it and recognize it as such, then I'll have all the answers.
Ok, well I started out on topic anyway...
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Whoo! I very much recommend Now You See Her as well, btw. I think she's written like 5 books? That and A Collection of Beauties... were my faves.
And it took me a ridiculously long amount of time to be able to physically mark in a book
I can just imagine! I always feel really guilty just about dog-earring :-P
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I mean, it's like I expect to find the meaning of life hidden in a novel somewhere and if I can only seize upon it and recognize it as such, then I'll have all the answers.
Ha, you too? I get that way too. Especially with Amy Tan's books. Damn shame life it doesn't work that way :-/