Chairman Wow: what are you up to? Cubed2D: watching an anime Cubed2D: confusingly called 'i my me strawberry eggs' Chairman Wow: ... Chairman Wow: sounds good Chairman Wow: XD Cubed2D: about a guy who tries to get a job as a sports teacher at a high school, but the head teacher is sexist and will only employ females because males are all savages with no love in their hearts etc etc Cubed2D: so he dresses as a lady to get the job Chairman Wow: awesome Cubed2D: the rules: all female characters cannot trust males. all males are perverts and cannot be trusted. all male character have to be perverts. main character is the only sensible person in the entire world (disregarding the whole I should dress as a lady to get this job bit, rather than you know... finding another job) Chairman Wow: yep, sounds definitely like reality Chairman Wow: what was that about sexism hurting men, too....? :P Cubed2D: heh
While I'm linking, I found a much better website for my math studying than the one I was using previously: Paul's Online Math Notes. The one before was kind of wishy-washy about the right terms and notation, which bothers me. >_> This one is looking much more useful.
I'm home for a day or two, mainly to watch Sherlock, and True Blood with my mum. XD (It's kind of cool watching a show with my mum. We were looking at the True Blood merchandise on the Forbidden Planet website earlier. Maybe I should find her some fanfic to read...)
Second episode of Sherlock was kind of disappointing. Not as much fun banter, and Chinese circus smuggler gangsters? Idk, guys, idk. Quite Holmes-style in a way, but I kept waiting for the opium den to show up. :|
I'm gonna be home again next Monday, because my family and I are going to Vienna for a week from Tuesday, so I may prepare a bit of a picspam entry to post then.
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On Tuesday we went to see the first Gundam Zeta film at the Barbican. It takes some kind of skill to condense an entire episode into a two minute scene. It might not be the best way to convey plot or character development but, you know. It's a skill.
Actually, the film wasn't bad. The bits with new art were really pretty, especially. I've been spoiled now. Going back to watch oldschool stuff is going to be disappointing. XD
Before the film we went to a teppanyaki place where we had a pretty badass chef who made us an onion volcano!
I should tidy my room, really, but I think I'll just sit around blowing my nose a lot and writing a blog entry.
I arranged a fair number of flat viewings last week, and all but one of them got cancelled or postponed (usually when I had already travelled up to London), and the one we did see was crap. It's been a really irritating week. But we found a lot of nice ones online this weekend, so let's hope next week is more productive. We might move to Canary Wharf and take the river bus in the mornings. Sure, the tube might be quicker, but river bus!
Hey, look what Tim got me as a present:
Awesome, right? XD There's a whole series of them. (Though statistics totally has the nicest cover art.) It's pretty good, actually. I haven't gone through the last few chapters yet, but it's been a nice review of the stuff I learned in school.
Speaking of manga, I read the first five volumes of Otomen* this weekend. It's all about boys who secretly like girly things, (and vice versa, though I guess there's only one girl) (there's also a guy who looks girly but really likes manly things) and Being Accepted For Yourself and doing cliché stories in amusing ways and it's generally the most adorable thing I have ever read. Also there is a girl/boy love story, obvs, and they keep being equally badass and either saving the day together or saving each other in equal measure. (Which does end up with people getting kicked in the face a lot, admittedly.) And it makes me happy about everything.
I have run out of things to talk about! Oh yeah, we went to see the Evangelion films last weekend! Have I really not blogged since before then? Sheesh. Anyway, they were badass in so many ways. The artwork and design were amazing, and it was a lot more emotionally engaging than I remember the series being: some bits were actually pretty uncomfortable to watch. I rather want to re-watch the series now, to see some more of the in-between bits, and to remember what my problem with it was. I remember waiting the entire the time for things to be explained that never were, and I didn't really get that from the films (though there's one - or two? - films left still). Either I was being dumb or they really tightened up the writing. Maybe both.
God, the battles were so badass. Especially on the big screeeeen. Most enjoyable night I have spent in a cinema for ages.
PS: I just watched the latest Doctor Who episode. I think the pacing was a bit off again, but aaaaaah, the end was SO SAD. ;____;
*Which is a pun on otome ("maiden, young lady"), and the English word men. And it's spelled 乙男 in kanji, which is otome 乙女 with the kanji for woman 女 replaced with the one for man 男. I love Japanese for punning.
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Well, my brother admonished me on Skype earlier that I don't blog enough, so I guess I'd better post something.
I love finding evidence that ridiculous and impossible to please nerds have always been ridiculous and impossible to please, even before the internet. Like in this article about Doctor Who.
"Once a brilliant but eccentric scientist, he now comes over as a half-witted clown," said one viewer.
In the 60s.
Anyway, sorry internet, but I think Matt Smith is pretty good-looking. More so when he is in motion than in pictures, but nonetheless. I also don't think it matters much one way or the other to the quality of the show.
He also seems to be a pretty go actor. Which does.
I usually give shows three episodes before I make a judgement on them, but I am pretty convinced this season's going to be awesome already. I mean, I didn't watch half of Tennant's run because I just... got bored, but last Saturday I was glued to the screen. I'll concede that some of that might still be left-over enthusiasm from Eastercon, but still. I think it's gonna be pretty awesome.
I dunno if it's Matt Smith's acting or the writing or both or what, but I thought the Doctor was being more alien and strange than I remember, which is totally great. Alien and strange is the way to go. And I like Amy, too! I love how at the start of the episode the Doctor was all "do what I say or go back to your boring life", but then she saved the day and proved her right to be a main character.
Alright, I was just planning to write a sentence to the effect of 'pretty good so far', so MOVING ON.
My mum framed the tea robot ("auTEAmaton" 8D) drawing I did for her birthday. I think it turned out pretty cool.
A propos, I bought Saturn's Children on Friday and (perhaps predictably — it's about robots and written by Charles Stross) it's rapidly becoming one of my favourite books. At first I was intrigued, then I was entertained, then I was even more intrigued, then I was briefly sceptical, then I was convinced, and then I continued to be entertained, thought-provoked, and increasingly enamoured. And now I only have a handful of pages left. ;____; GOOD BOOKS: ALWAYS TOO SHORT.
And in a final piece of robot (sort of) news, Tim got us tickets to see the re-imagined Evangelion films, and I am totally prepared to be charmed by these fuckers. I will put aside all of my preconceptions (mainly: "this makes no fucking sense, where did the plot go" and "I must either be really dense or missing something, because I just don't get what's so amazing about this"), watch them with a brain now more attuned to the visual language of anime, and if I still don't "get it" I refuse to beat myself up about it. (Again.*) But like I say. Open mind. I will do my best not to let anything bias me towards either outcome. It has a good chance of being the kind of thing I like.
(Also, I don't remember too many of the details, so NO SPOILERS.)
Aaaaand I was planing to round this off with a comic I sketched out last week that also has robots in it, but then I sat in the sunshine reading instead of finishing it. OH WELL. :)
*It's Tim's favourite thing ever, and he showed it to me pretty soon after we started going out. I was insecure, ok? :/
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God. The last two weeks seem to have been entirely me thinking about doing things and then not doing them. What the hell. Lack of mental energy and inexplicable loss of ability to kick myself in the arse and get on with it. Ridiculous.
Anyway.
Anime. Durarara!!, my current favourite anime in the world ever*, has a really rocking opening theme. See how rocking it is?
The rockingest.
I may or may not have been listening to it on repeat endlessly for the last few days.
Durararararararara is a great show, and it has completely captured my heart. Every time I start a new episode I feel like I'm getting a super delicious special treat. They had better keep it up, though, because now I have expectations.
It's one of those stories that's more about a place and the interactions of the people who live in it than about any one character and their mission. Which I like, because people interacting is interesting. I guess it's an... *spins the genre wheel* urban fantasy? It's almost the real world, one or the other urban legend just happens to be true. There's a headless Irish fairie** looking for her head, a guy who can throw around vending machines when he gets angry (my favourite, but I might just be biased because the latest episode focused on him), some internet gangs, and some mysterious mad scientists, because what would life be without those? I presume they will eventually provide the plot that brings all the strands together in the grand finale, as you can't go on telling anecdotes about a vaguely connected group of people forever, unfortunately.The pacing and general storytelling is great, too. You constantly feel like there is a huge, colourful world going on that you're only seeing a small slice of, which is one of my number one things in a story that makes me cream my metaphorical pants.
You can also watch it in a shockingly legal manner (I actually mean that this time) and for free at Crunchyroll, which I still think is a wonderful website. I do quite enjoy giving people their due when I've enjoyed the fruits of their efforts. That is sort of how society functions. I'm trying very hard not to turn this into a rant about the annoying attitudes of internet pirates, especially as that would be a little hypocritical, since I'm evidently still selfish enough to download some things — though I honestly plan to buy DVDs of things like Star Trek or BSG when I can — so I'll shut up now.
Also I can't actually afford a Crunchyroll account at the moment anyway, so I steal Tim's.
Also books. I borrowed The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold from my mum last week, and read it through in one go.
It wasn't very good.
The basic plot is: girl is raped and murdered gruesomely, and watches her family try to cope with it from the afterlife. Woo!
The first half really captivated me, hence deciding to read it all in one go; there were atmospheric and creepy and sad things going on, and it was all quite engrossing. But then after the halfway point it just completely lost it's drive. I was ready for something exciting to happen, and it just... didn't. It continued to be a series of stuff that didn't really flow or seem to signify anything. And when the tragic and creepy atmosphere dissipated, the characters started revealing themselves for the flat clichés they were, and after a while I found myself increasingly tempted to skim forward to the end so I could be done with it.
And when I finally got there, the end turned out to be the worst part of the entire book. -_- First of all there is the utter wtf-ery of the dead girl stealing the body of the gay goth girl who can see ghosts, and using it to have sex with her old crush from before she was killed. Because raping someone else is totally the way to get over being raped, amirite? Apparently neither the goth girl or the crush really mind, either, which is the main thing that makes it as wtf as it is. This is apparently the last thing the dead girl needed to do before she could let go of the world of the living and move on to the permanent afterlife (which is... full of pillows? Something like that. If I had the book with me right now I'd look it up). And then there's a ridiculously saccharine last scene in which her parents have gotten back together despite never actually resolving any of their issues, and her sister is getting married to her middle school crush, and her little brother gets a set of drums for Christmas, which don't actually seem to have any significance at all as far as I can tell, and everyone is happy.
It would have made a pretty good short story, I think, if it was about half as long.
Speaking of disappointing books, I have totally let the internet down re: Colony reviews. I haven't actually finished it yet; I was on the last chapter just before we left for the States, and it was just so boring, even at its climax, that I could not bring myself to go on. It got worse at it went on, not better. Occasionally, at high points, it worked itself up to about as exciting as the baseline of a normal book.
I was trying to figure out why this was, and I think it's the characters. Everyone is so simple. They all have one or two simple motivations, and the book keeps telling us exactly what they are, FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF. The same goes for the political factions. In any case, the only things you missed was the sheik ordering someone to be raped to death as a punishment (in case we still hadn't realised he was the bad guy), and all of the "black, brown, and yellow" people in the US mounting a violent pseudo-communist revolution against all of the white people in the US. I don't know what the outcome of that was, because even armed revolution was interesting enough to hold my attention.
There are some good books in my life, too, though! I don't remember if I mentioned it here, but Friendly Fire by Alaa al Aswany was amazing, and at the moment I'm reading an anthology of Sci-Fi and Fantasy stories that my parents got for me in the States, which has yielded nothing but good stories so far. ♥ I might talk about some of my favourites — if I can pick favourites — when I'm finished.
*Though I have just downloaded the first episode of the brilliantly named Mobile Suit Gundam Unicornsubtitle: Just When You Thought We Couldn't Get Any Sillier, so we will see.
**I hope if her head ever shows up, it really is like mouldy cheese with a hideous grin and gigantic, darting eyes. XD
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The weather! As you might have heard, the UK has been covered in snow lately. Of course the infrastructure of the entire nation is on the verge of collapse, but luckily I'm a layabout with nowhere to go, so I'm free to enjoy how nice everything is.
I bought a brush-pen a few days ago with some of my birthday money! I'm not very good at using it yet (can you tell? XD), but I've been practicing, and I think it's gonna be really good for my drawing.
Here's some of my practice doodles that aren't completely terrible. :P
My birthday! I'm twenty-two! My birthday was fun—Tim and I were going to go see the fireworks in London, but while the tube is free all night, the first overground train is at 6-something AM as usual, so we decided to wait until next year, when we'll probably both be living in London, anyway. Instead we stayed at my house and played Cranium (superfun) and had some epic fireworks of our own.
I got really good presents, as well:
I forgot to put a few things from Tim in that drawing, actually: he also gave me Vol.2 of the Darker than Black manga, and the bag also had these totally rad ¥1000000 playing-cards in it:
My parents also gave me some money to be spent at Uniqlo, with which I have bought myself some delectable attire.
On the 2nd, we went to the theatre. :3
We had pretty bad seats—all the way on the left, almost all the way at the top—but the show was so good. ♥ I sort of want to get the soundtrack. XD
University! I have an interview at UCL for my MA on Monday. I'm nervous, but pretty confident I'll do alright. I was looking over the info about the programme and the professors on the UCL website in preparation, and got twice as excited again about going there. It's going to be so amazing, you guys. I really really can't wait.
Anime! I have not been keeping up! It's been about a month since I've downloaded any anime, so I haven't seen the end of anything yet. XD I'm at Tim's house atm, though, so I've seen a few of the first episodes of stuff from the new season.
There's one about some cat-girl demon protecting a teenage boy with a jealous childhood friend blah blah lots of stupid fanservice &c. &c. that I really couldn't care less about. There's also Chu-Bra!!, which is about a girl who likes wearing and designing fancy underwear, and is obviously an excuse to look at girls' underwear a lot, but also has messages like "you shouldn't judge people by how they dress", and "girls can look pretty for themselves, not just for men"... except for the fact that it's also an excuse for the male audience to look at 2D girls' underwear for 25 minutes a week. Anime is weird.
But, there is also Durarara!! (double exclamation marks are in, I guess?), which is going to be so badass. :D It's already my favourite thing. The storytelling and pacing and art are all greatly to my taste, as far as can be seen from the first episode, anyway. :) :) :)
[I wrote half of this last night, hence it is a little rambly. But it does have subheadings! 8D]
I miss the times when I'd go to see a film at least twice, with different friends or whatever, and I'd always bring a notebook to the multiple viewings and take notes and write down quotes to use in my LJ review. I think I should start taking notes and writing about TV shows again, too. It’s fun.
2012 I went to see 2012 last weekend. It was pretty cool if you like seeing things fall apart in grandiose and dramatic ways, and I really, really like that. Especially the Earthquake stuff when the ground moves in waves like water; that is so badass.
In terms of the story, though, I pretty much agree with the io9 review. I really just didn't care either way about whether the main characters lived or died. The question of what the various world governments were doing to survive occupied me, and the thing about whether they were going to suck it up and let their full capacity of people on board the ships, but after that I was a lot less engaged. The Eurasian arks got away, so what if the North American one hits Mt Everest? And I guess South America, Australia, and Africa's arks didn't get finished in time? I guess they redistributed the people from that onto the completed arks? Nah, the future of mankind doesn't need any Australians, don't be silly. And don’t even talk to me about Africa. There’s no-one there who’s rich enough to afford a giant Chinese ship anyway, amirite?
Ok, I’ll stop now.
But anyway, the only people I sort of wanted to survive both didn't, the Russian pilot guy because he nobly sacrificed himself to land the plane, and the Russian woman because... she had a boob job, or because of her affair, or some other transgression against movie ethics, idk. Maybe the pilot died because he was sleeping with her, as well. RUSSIAN INFIDELITY DOESN'T PAY. Obviously. I am rambling, because I am quite sleepy. Oh, but the Tibetan(?) family survived. I liked them, too.
ANYWAY. It was a very pretty film. it suffers from that thing that films sometimes have where all the side characters are more interesting than the main ones, but if you're like me you'll spend most of your time enjoying the destruction and fantasising about what you’d do in an apocalypse, anyway, so that's alright.
Doctor Who
I drew this on a train.
I really enjoyed Sunday's Dr Who special thing. I like it when things go wrong for people they usually always work out for. And things went pretty spectacularly wrong this time, I'd say. I really don't pay any attention to Dr Who canon, either (when they mentioned the daleks invading at Christmas, I thought something like: "did that... happen in a previous Christmas special? I vaguely remember... or do I?"), so they can do anything they want, imo, as long as it stays interesting. And if not, I'll just stop watching like I did before, no harm done. I am a very casual Doctor Who watcher.
Tin Man The first half of a film (mini series? idk.) called Tin Man (which I'd heard about. On Fandom Secrets. XD) was on the SciFi channel last night. It's pretty good! Much like Alice in Wonderland, my only knowledge of The Wizard of Oz comes from pop-culture osmosis, so I may be missing the odd reference, but it's fun in any case. Not super amazing, or anything, but fun.
ΠΛΑΝΗΤΕΣ When Tim came over this weekend, he brought a box set of Planetes with him, and we watched it, and I totally thought we had run out, but it turns out that box set was only half of the series, and we're going to watch the other half next weekend. This makes my life a small but statistically significant amount more amazing.
Twilight My mum is suddenly really into the Twilight film, and she really wants me to watch it, too, and I really just have no desire to. I clawed my way through the book, I know what happens, I just don't feel like bringing up the energy to give this a chance. Ok, no, I do sort of want to watch it with Steph and an intoxicating substance of some kind (by which I mean caffeine, because I couldn’t stay awake through a movie if I had alcohol), but that’s a different matter altogether.
I think that's all I had to write about. Now I shall make some tea and write about the next few chapters of Colony. Mustn't let my reading get too far ahead of my writing.
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Here's what you shouldn't do on Twitter if you're trying to avoid spam, as demonstrated by Steph (@brainsinajar) and myself:
(Read bottom-to-top, naturally.)
I know, I know, we should've know better. -_-
A few days ago, I gave in to the secret urge to find fanfic about Rossiu's angsty unrequited crush on Simon that I've been harbouring ever since I finished watching TTGL, and now my brain's gone on a Gurren Lagann kick again. XD I wanna make icons, but VLC is really really not a fan of .mkv files, and taking screencaps in Media Player Classic is like pulling teeth. Maybe I'll redownload all the episodes in .avi format later, idk.
Also, I don't even like high-school stories that much, but you have to love a series with a canon high-school AU. (Though I admit, as my actual time in high school recedes into the past, high-school stories are growing on me. Growing from dislike into indifference, but growing nevertheless.)
Tim asked me to do some concept art for a game he's working on, and it totally brought back my drawing groove. XD I should really figure out how to make it so whether I manage to produce creative things isn't determined by my mood. That would be awesome. Anyway, when I get back to my place* there'll probably be a massive art post sometime.
I'm working on a post pimping out one of my favourite book series of all time, but I'm a little hesitant to post it, because I am so exaggeratedly emotionally invested in the world and the characters that I'm afraid someone'll comment something along the lines of "I read it and thought it was pretty lame." T_T
Also I still have 200-odd pages left of the final book, and WHAT IF IT SUDDENLY TURNS RUBBISH? *irrational fretting*
PPS: Oh yeah, and I watched the first two episodes of the new season of Merlin. It's still pretty awful. Episode 2 did make me laugh out loud a few times, though. (I think it was on purpose.)
*Our staircase is being ripped out and replaced, so I'm staying at Tim's for a few days.
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I went jogging for the first time in a few weeks to-day! I like jogging. :3 I shouldn't have taken a water-bottle, though; I hadn't breakfasted yet and all the water in my stomach made me fell ill. >_<
In fact, I think I'll get some breakfast now and finish this entry later. Brb.
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Ok, I am fed now, back to entry-writing.
I saw a bit of Made of Honour on TV yesterday. I didn't bother finishing it, because I knew exactly what was going to happen. Romantic comedies actually do all have exactly the same plot, don't they? They're worse than YA novels set in high school.
Apropos, when I was at Tim's last week he showed me some of Onegai Teacher, which also has the same plot as every other romcom. (Except with aliens.) I might still finish it next time I'm over, though, since it was sort of cute.
In more diverse fiction news, I've been making my way through old episodes of Podcastle lately. My favourites so far are Secret Life, The Cambist and Lord Iron, and In Ashes. Especially "Secret Life". It makes me want to write.
Uuugh, I want to draw comics with stories, but I'm not sure what about. I've got a bunch of places and maybe a few people that go in them, but I'm not sure where to go from there. Making up worlds is so much easier than formulating plots. Ohhhhh, stop whining. XD Next time I go out maybe I'll sit in a café and brainstorm for a while. I'm pretty sure I can think of something if I actually give myself a chance.
Sorry about that, I don't really know what to do with myself to-day.
What other fiction have I been consuming... I started watching SHANGRI-LA a while ago. It's in a funky post-apocalyptic world, and I enjoy how psychotic half the people in it are. The characters aren't the mooooost rounded ever, but they seem to be going for a mythological sort of feel, so I can forgive that.
Though I can't decide whether the fact that Momoko keeps switching between calling herself a transvestite and a transsexual is because the writers don't know that there's a difference or because she just like playing around with the terms. I was going to blame it on the translators, but I think she does actually alternate between okama and nyuu haafu, so I have no idea, really. (But at least I learned a lot of new vocabulary words looking those up.) I am quite jealous of her wardrobe, though. Idk what that says about my fashion sense. XD
I'm also still reading the best book ever (I don't care how many books I've called that, it's always true), but I want to give that series a post of it's own when I finish it, so that'll have to wait.
ALSO I FOUND MY COPY OF WORLD WAR Z EEEEEE.
PS: I just clicked on an interesting-looking banner ad and found Crossed Genres. I think I might attempt to draw something for it...
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I miss the times when I'd go to see a film at least twice, with different friends or whatever, and I'd always bring a notebook to the multiple viewings and take notes and write down quotes to use in my LJ review. I think I should start taking notes and writing about TV shows again, too. It’s fun.
2012
I went to see 2012 last weekend. It was pretty cool if you like seeing things fall apart in grandiose and dramatic ways, and I really, really like that. Especially the Earthquake stuff when the ground moves in waves like water; that is so badass.
In terms of the story, though, I pretty much agree with the io9 review. I really just didn't care either way about whether the main characters lived or died. The question of what the various world governments were doing to survive occupied me, and the thing about whether they were going to suck it up and let their full capacity of people on board the ships, but after that I was a lot less engaged. The Eurasian arks got away, so what if the North American one hits Mt Everest? And I guess South America, Australia, and Africa's arks didn't get finished in time? I guess they redistributed the people from that onto the completed arks? Nah, the future of mankind doesn't need any Australians, don't be silly. And don’t even talk to me about Africa. There’s no-one there who’s rich enough to afford a giant Chinese ship anyway, amirite?
Ok, I’ll stop now.
But anyway, the only people I sort of wanted to survive both didn't, the Russian pilot guy because he nobly sacrificed himself to land the plane, and the Russian woman because... she had a boob job, or because of her affair, or some other transgression against movie ethics, idk. Maybe the pilot died because he was sleeping with her, as well. RUSSIAN INFIDELITY DOESN'T PAY. Obviously. I am rambling, because I am quite sleepy. Oh, but the Tibetan(?) family survived. I liked them, too.
ANYWAY. It was a very pretty film. it suffers from that thing that films sometimes have where all the side characters are more interesting than the main ones, but if you're like me you'll spend most of your time enjoying the destruction and fantasising about what you’d do in an apocalypse, anyway, so that's alright.
Doctor Who
I drew this on a train.
I really enjoyed Sunday's Dr Who special thing. I like it when things go wrong for people they usually always work out for. And things went pretty spectacularly wrong this time, I'd say. I really don't pay any attention to Dr Who canon, either (when they mentioned the daleks invading at Christmas, I thought something like: "did that... happen in a previous Christmas special? I vaguely remember... or do I?"), so they can do anything they want, imo, as long as it stays interesting. And if not, I'll just stop watching like I did before, no harm done. I am a very casual Doctor Who watcher.
Tin Man
The first half of a film (mini series? idk.) called Tin Man (which I'd heard about. On Fandom Secrets. XD) was on the SciFi channel last night. It's pretty good! Much like Alice in Wonderland, my only knowledge of The Wizard of Oz comes from pop-culture osmosis, so I may be missing the odd reference, but it's fun in any case. Not super amazing, or anything, but fun.
ΠΛΑΝΗΤΕΣ
When Tim came over this weekend, he brought a box set of Planetes with him, and we watched it, and I totally thought we had run out, but it turns out that box set was only half of the series, and we're going to watch the other half next weekend. This makes my life a small but statistically significant amount more amazing.
Twilight
My mum is suddenly really into the Twilight film, and she really wants me to watch it, too, and I really just have no desire to. I clawed my way through the book, I know what happens, I just don't feel like bringing up the energy to give this a chance. Ok, no, I do sort of want to watch it with Steph and an intoxicating substance of some kind (by which I mean caffeine, because I couldn’t stay awake through a movie if I had alcohol), but that’s a different matter altogether.
I think that's all I had to write about. Now I shall make some tea and write about the next few chapters of Colony. Mustn't let my reading get too far ahead of my writing.
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