Crash-landing
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bending_sickleI've turned the mobile off for the weekend. Unfortunately, I didn't do it sooner and I got the Spanish Mexican Inquisition from dad in monosylabic questions: "Where are you? How are you? Why are you there? What are you doing? Did you go to the ATM? What did it say?" At my complaint of this, he hung up.
So my wonderfull relax mood of sunbathing and non-thinking for the past 7 hours went up in firey and very pissed off smoke.
But here's what the rest of the week has been like:
Wednesday:In German had the first part of the exam, which was the essay-writing. It went pretty well. After class, Oti and I went to the Caixa Forum to watch SWAP, which we thought was modern dance but turned out to be a "ignore the dancer and check out the awesome interactive light-show behind him". Unfortunately I didn't catch on fast enough, so have the memory of a robotic contortionist bending at the waist. Creepy.
Thursday: Had the second part of the exam, which had a devilishly hard listening part and an incredibly easy sentence-order exercise. For the second part of class we watched Knocking on Heaven's Door, which was most excellent and humerous. I love Moritz Bliebtreu and Til Schweiger is so cute...
Friday: Chatted a lot with Victor, Marta's now-ex about his SF radio show with the university. They talk about anything and everything related with science fiction, from books, movies, soundtracks, everything. He's promosed to send me the rec lists they've made, icnluding the zombie one.
By the way, I'd like some help. If I were to, someday, settle down and have a zombie-movie marathon, which movies are a must-see? I've only watched 28 Days Later and Sean of the Dead. I've also watched 2 minutes of a zombie-movie where the characters where up on roof tops playing chess with another survivor who's caught on another roof top, occasionally flashing each others signs on which celebtrity-look-alike zombie to shoot next. I would like to watch the rest. Anyone know what this is?
I then had lunch and a delicious artesanal Mint with Chocolate Chip ice cream, got my German results (notable, which is just one less than the maximum word-grade) and then went out for drinks with the class and prof. I had a 50 Euro bill or 1.61 in change, and the Bitter Kas which I assumed cost the same as a Coke (1.60) actaully cost 2.10 for reason's unknown. The waiter was incredibly nice in taking the 1.60 instead of having to empty his cash register of all available change. I then took the train to Cubelles, jumped in the 2x4 pool, read a bit of Lord of the Rings, pointing emphatically at the early references to Aragorn and Treebeard, being annoyed, as usual, at how serviable and naive Sam is. (For example: "springing up like a dog invited for a walk" when ordered by Gandalf to go with Frodo as he exiles himself from the Shire.) Then I watched the end-bit of Alein vs Predator. Even though I watched 5 minutes of the original Predator when I was little - which just had to be the "apparently empty room with skinned corpese hanging from the roof" scene - I love these aliens. They look like rastafarians! How can you not love them with those excellent dreds?
Saturday: My uncles are in Norway, so I can lounge around in my skivies* if I so desire. Thus, I woke up near noon, watched the end of Hercules, cooing over Iolus and pointing with glee at Gina Torres. (There was also finger-snapping glee at seeing Stephen Tobolsky who played "Sammy" in Memento.)
I then watched the earlier part of Alien vs Predator. It which was, by the way, much more entertaining than Blade 2, which had a bizarre mutant!vampire which was disturbingly like, both in appearance and behaviour, the Turok-Han, but with a touch of hot albino monk from The Da Vinci Code. Curiously, the Spanish actor Santiago Segura was in Blade 2...and Hell Boy. Wierd. I then watched the Series Finale of Xena (dubbed in German) which was actually quite neat.
I sunbathed on the terrace topless for the first time ever (or, well, since I was itty bitty). I'm currently watching Roswell (dubbed) for the first time in years, rockin' to the Sheriff singing "If I had a Million Dollars", occasionally bursting into fits of cussing due to the phone call. (Plus a stupified, "Isn't that the guy from CSI:Miami?" followed by "OMG-tight-white-T *drool*)
By the by, Red Hot Chilli Pepper's Anthony Kiedis cleans up real good.
Regarding all my pending fics: I was going to write a lot. Truly and really. I just might, too.
Edit: Watching the music video of September's "Satelllites", have nagging feeping that any fan-vidder could have made a better vid. Way to ignore the lyrics, people. I wonder if anyone has put the song to Firefly clips...
* Gratuitious use of a word I find amusing.
So my wonderfull relax mood of sunbathing and non-thinking for the past 7 hours went up in firey and very pissed off smoke.
But here's what the rest of the week has been like:
Wednesday:In German had the first part of the exam, which was the essay-writing. It went pretty well. After class, Oti and I went to the Caixa Forum to watch SWAP, which we thought was modern dance but turned out to be a "ignore the dancer and check out the awesome interactive light-show behind him". Unfortunately I didn't catch on fast enough, so have the memory of a robotic contortionist bending at the waist. Creepy.
Thursday: Had the second part of the exam, which had a devilishly hard listening part and an incredibly easy sentence-order exercise. For the second part of class we watched Knocking on Heaven's Door, which was most excellent and humerous. I love Moritz Bliebtreu and Til Schweiger is so cute...
Friday: Chatted a lot with Victor, Marta's now-ex about his SF radio show with the university. They talk about anything and everything related with science fiction, from books, movies, soundtracks, everything. He's promosed to send me the rec lists they've made, icnluding the zombie one.
By the way, I'd like some help. If I were to, someday, settle down and have a zombie-movie marathon, which movies are a must-see? I've only watched 28 Days Later and Sean of the Dead. I've also watched 2 minutes of a zombie-movie where the characters where up on roof tops playing chess with another survivor who's caught on another roof top, occasionally flashing each others signs on which celebtrity-look-alike zombie to shoot next. I would like to watch the rest. Anyone know what this is?
I then had lunch and a delicious artesanal Mint with Chocolate Chip ice cream, got my German results (notable, which is just one less than the maximum word-grade) and then went out for drinks with the class and prof. I had a 50 Euro bill or 1.61 in change, and the Bitter Kas which I assumed cost the same as a Coke (1.60) actaully cost 2.10 for reason's unknown. The waiter was incredibly nice in taking the 1.60 instead of having to empty his cash register of all available change. I then took the train to Cubelles, jumped in the 2x4 pool, read a bit of Lord of the Rings, pointing emphatically at the early references to Aragorn and Treebeard, being annoyed, as usual, at how serviable and naive Sam is. (For example: "springing up like a dog invited for a walk" when ordered by Gandalf to go with Frodo as he exiles himself from the Shire.) Then I watched the end-bit of Alein vs Predator. Even though I watched 5 minutes of the original Predator when I was little - which just had to be the "apparently empty room with skinned corpese hanging from the roof" scene - I love these aliens. They look like rastafarians! How can you not love them with those excellent dreds?
Saturday: My uncles are in Norway, so I can lounge around in my skivies* if I so desire. Thus, I woke up near noon, watched the end of Hercules, cooing over Iolus and pointing with glee at Gina Torres. (There was also finger-snapping glee at seeing Stephen Tobolsky who played "Sammy" in Memento.)
I then watched the earlier part of Alien vs Predator. It which was, by the way, much more entertaining than Blade 2, which had a bizarre mutant!vampire which was disturbingly like, both in appearance and behaviour, the Turok-Han, but with a touch of hot albino monk from The Da Vinci Code. Curiously, the Spanish actor Santiago Segura was in Blade 2...and Hell Boy. Wierd. I then watched the Series Finale of Xena (dubbed in German) which was actually quite neat.
I sunbathed on the terrace topless for the first time ever (or, well, since I was itty bitty). I'm currently watching Roswell (dubbed) for the first time in years, rockin' to the Sheriff singing "If I had a Million Dollars", occasionally bursting into fits of cussing due to the phone call. (Plus a stupified, "Isn't that the guy from CSI:Miami?" followed by "OMG-tight-white-T *drool*)
By the by, Red Hot Chilli Pepper's Anthony Kiedis cleans up real good.
Regarding all my pending fics: I was going to write a lot. Truly and really. I just might, too.
Edit: Watching the music video of September's "Satelllites", have nagging feeping that any fan-vidder could have made a better vid. Way to ignore the lyrics, people. I wonder if anyone has put the song to Firefly clips...
* Gratuitious use of a word I find amusing.
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Date: 2006-07-30 04:04 am (UTC)Then watch the remake of Day of the Dead - surprisingly good and pretty scary. Then, apparently, you should watch the Re-Animator (which I haven't been able to locate, so IF you do, please tell me how that works out). Then there is Return of the Living Dead and the Evil Dead series.
Ah, my wasted youth.
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Date: 2006-07-30 04:05 am (UTC)