Imaginary Gardens

Social event yesterday went off splendidly. Met a charming Italian girl, a lovely Madagarscarian family, a Haitian/New Yorkian cameraman, a brilliantly entertaining English teacher and a not-house-renovator-but-renovates-houses Englishman.

And I bumped into a guy I met at the first event, who through a converation about Facebook and then blogs got really adamant that he google for my own blog, despite my saying HELL THE FUCK NO TO THAT SHIT. Repeatedly. Anyway, got home in teh wee hours - Dad was all, OMG! and Mom was just, Yay you social!

Today I sent out an application for a job and looked through a shitton of openings and found nothing. And I fixed up the Globo sapiens fanmix twice, because I am, apparently, a complete moron who double-checks everything except the actual music. And I've moved into a lovely cottage over at Echo Bazaar, so I guess progress is being made. And I finished Grey's Anatomy Season 5. Just two more! Then (or meanwhile, because who's to say I can't) Lie To Me, which I've been dying to watch properly ever since they started advertising it back when they were starting Season 1.

Also I had a dream where I was a wolf - or playing a artificial reality game where I was a wolf - and I was racing through woods and snowy mountains all :D until night came and the real live wolves came out growling so I was D: and running away. Well. I liked the running bit.

30 Days of Doctor Who: Day 10 – A Who-Related Photo That You Took ( Read more... )

30 Days of Supernatural Meme: Day 10 - Your favorite Sam/other death scene ( Read more... )

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* Echo Bazaar

Sickle's "Oh god oh god I've haven't written anything in ages!" Points: ( Read more... )

Sickle's Dreams, Because It's Easier To Remember Them When You Sleep In Fits and Starts Thanks To The Heat: ( Read more... )

Sickle's "Let's Write Down Grey's Anatomy Quotes!": ( Read more... )

Meme: Who Do You Write Like? ( Memes count as actual content, right? )

Quotes of the Day: Kelly Link, Zombie Contingency Plan

Art is for peple who aren't worried about zombies.

Hyperbole and a Half (here

What the hell kind of medical school did you go to?? They didn't even prepare you for a zombie massacre??

readingthedark, here

(I have a new theory: people save lives all the time and just don't realize it. The downside is that lots of people also commit brutal murders without even noticing.)

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True Blood: ( Read more... )
Lost: ( Read more... )
Twilight: ( Read more... )
Other Fandom: ( Read more... )
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Random: ( Read more... )


* Grey's Anatomy

Another iconal post. Okay, ...maybe I should

Oh, come on, I know you ( Read more... )


In other news, I've watched my second Lie to Me episode and am delighted to note that Tim Roth was once again beaten up and at gun point and then he got angry, which was just the icing on the awesome cake**. Plus! Human Target's Baptiste was there! Also? I saw Castle's mom on Dharma and Greg. She was awesomesauce topped with win. Oh, television! ♥

* Albert Einstein
** I love Tim Roth, even though I love seeing him get beat up. Blame it on Reservoir Dogs.

Sickle's Exhausted and Disembodied Jumble of Notes:

- The only one hundred percent good thing today was the dream wherein Eric of True Blood (and novels) and I are investigating or attending or planning a social event and he's courting me and I'm just hugging the hell out of him all platonic-like there was much joy and affection. Wow, real subtle, brain.

- Italian class sucked ass today. Teacher didn't have the balls yesterday to tell us she wasn't going to be here today, despite vague hand gestures to one student yesterday indicating that she fucking knew already. Cue substitute who makes us go through one and a half bloody hours of vocabulary consisting of, "What is a kiosk? What can you buy at a kiosk? What is a library? What can you buy in a library?" followed by exercises on fucking articles which we learnt the first mother-loving day. I was so bored, I did extra exercises. Most frustrating class ever.

- After class, wandered about, had unexceptional pizza and then met up with mom to watch free movie - Semper Vivu - at the French library. It was supposed to be a comedy, but turned out to be a drama-comedy. Damnit, I'm tired of movies about people dying!

- I'm leaving tomorrow for Spain - I guess I should've said this earlier and with more bold text or something, but then those who give a rat's will read this far. I'll be back Monday. Expect more disjointed yet less often entries.

- I had a massive bout of teh crazy. ( It was crazy. )

- I need to be up by 6 am tomorrow. I'm hungry. My head hurts. I'm emotionally drained (or on the cusp of drowning). I'm watching Castle. Yes, there is a logic to this choice.


Quote of the Day: theweaselking, here

You have to realize, that I actually have replied to "Do you believe in God?" with "Well, someone is out to get me." to a complete stranger.

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* Common expression.

Supernatural "Dark Side of the Moon" Review: ( Flailage in three, two, one... )


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* Dean Winchester, 5x16

So I finally watched Avatar (blame chaosvizier, who tipped the scales from, "But I'm not interested!" to "Watch it on the beg screen in 3D before it's taken off!"). It was pretty. The biological and technological bits were pretty neat, even with a few "Is that even evolutionarily plausible?" doubts. (At one point, I wondered why the hell the mind-melting worked across species, and why there weren't horrible diseases, like viruses, swarming all over that process.) The story was a tried and true one told by a new storyteller, so yay on that.

The only annoying thing is that Avatar's left me with the desire for a tail, preferably prehensile. And a mind-melding braid. (And just how does the hair grow into a braid? I mean, the in vitro Avatars had them all set, so it's a born-with-it trait...) Also annoying is the IMVU "Get Your Avatar" advertisement to the right of my post-an-entry space, which is all about busty CGI girls in sparkly blue... *sigh*

I'd say I also want a dragon, but like the Na'avi apparently know - and undoubtably learnt from Lady Sybil's Sunshine Sanctuary for Sick Dragons - a dragon is for life, not just for Hogswatchnight.


In similar news, I watched Bad News Bears (Part 1) last night. It's actually pretty good! I'll even handwave the DO NOT WANT of an alcoholic being in charge of kids, drinking himself into unconsciousness when he should be coaching, pushing kids around and tossing beer onto a child, because that shit is so not on. Plus, the soundtrack was brilliant.

I didn't think I'd like it as much because it's about a) baseball and b) children, and we all know that my squeebord does not have buttons for either. But when one of the kids is totally Percival Wemys Madison of Lord of the Flies (6:58-7:04, 10:30-10:56) and another is a smart-mouthed and world-wise girl (0:00-1:45) and I'm sold. Crazy, I know!

Add to that a cigarette-smoking and awesome-lighter-skills-having (1:57-2:16), attitude-totin' loan-shark (5:55-10:36: "Said if I didn't give him a dime by Friday, he'd break my arm!" "Es un bandido!" ; "There's nice ass at the field, that's why I hang around." ; "And if I win?" "Name it." *smirk*), motocrycle-riding (6:50-7:37), budding pimpin' player and I'm just squeeful. I mean, it's an awesome kid! How can I complain about there being kids when one's that awesome?

Also, there's this scene (8:10-8:22) which is just the Most Adorable Fail ever! It's the titchy little badass-in-training trying to chat up a bird** who's probably a decade older than him and on the other side of the hormone rollercoaster, and he's just throwing one line after another trying to impress. It's adorable. I mean, in five years that boy'll either be the skeeziest gangster to ever skeeze or a massive player, but now? Adorable.


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* Kelly, Bad news Bears
** Why suddenly English, Sickle?

Well, I'm back from my brief escapade to Spain. I've got about a week before I run off to southern France to ski with some 400 other international students (pray for me, oh flist, if you're the praying type).

So I say Spain, but I mean ( so much more )

In other news, I'm working on the Links of the Day. I've got a massive list of links stored in a private post, so if you think this batch is long, just think what I've got under Supernatural!

In further other news, I'm coming down with a cold. Yay.


Quote of the Day: Sarah Brightman

I am not quite sure where home is right now. I do have places in London and Milan, and a house in Spain. I guess I would say home is where my mother is, and she lives in Spain.

Links of the Day:

Heroes ( Read more... )
Watchmen ( Read more... )
Jackie Earle Haley (Human Target, Nightmare on Elm Street, Shutter Island) ( Read more... )
Dollhouse ( Read more... )
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Multi-Fandom ( Read more... )


* Leonardo da Vinci

Omg! Movie I've vaguely remembered for years and years and couldn't find the name to! Oh hai The Stuff (1985)!!!

In other news, I went to Noordwijk today to walk along the beach sidewalk. It was snowy and windy and cold but a fine enough time was had. I took my diary, Currently Reading book and Currently Writing fanfic, but didn't even take 'em out of the bag, as my plan of having a delightful coffee by the sea was canceled in favour of aimless walking.

Still worried about the ski trip, having just realized that it's not going to be just skiing but that extended events of social activities will take place. Tonight was the Rollerdisco event in Amsterdam that Willy'd invited me to, but seeing as she's in Kenya and I've no one to go with, and this is an Open to the City Event, rather than a Close Friends Event, and I'd rather not wander the empty streets of 'dam in the wee hours waiting for the elusive train, I'm not going. Which is fine.

About the job hunt, today was not involved in the proceedings. Dad's said that it would be cheaper if I moved back in with them, and while I agree with Mom that that wouldn't solve anything (also, I'd go insane), I still sometimes think that it might be good because then I'd have some sort of structure to my days and get more shit done than I'm getting done now.

Now I've got the Dollhouse finale to look forward to - and by gods, if anything happens to Topher, I will cut a bitch - and Nightmare on Elm Street 3. Le shiz.

I fear my mind's gone a bit funny. The Psyche (Old Post Explains All!) has now moved to a cafe where it's alternating between phone conversations, science-fail or fandom-fail rants, crying into its coffee, or trying to get the attention of X sitting at the neighboring table. There's been some success in the latter, but mainly just frustration and fail, and hey, at one point, there was some Random Shooter on Murderous Rampage, which wasn't cool (except Pysche got to not suck and be proactive, which I guess was the point). So I don't know what that says about me.


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* "Who I Am Hates Who I've Been", Reliant K

I watched Nightmare on Elm Street and was distinctly not blown away. Well, Unexpected Johnny Depp was unexpected. But I wasn't afraid of the concept or the dream sequences or even Freddy - only getting tense in one or two spots - so it didn't work as a horror movie for me. I don't know, maybe I need more emotion in my horror, not just Argh, slashing!** Blooooood! Still, it was a good film and yes, I'll be checking out the other ones, using queenanthai's recommendations as a guide. (If I recall correctly - and I have to check the made_of_fail_pc episode - she said that film 3 and 7 were good. There may have been others, and some that should be avoided at all costs...)

I watched the trailer for the remake afterwards, and I have to say, I rather like the look of it. (queenanthai will have my guts for garters for saying that...) I think I will be watching this remake because 1) Jackie Earle Haley and 2) Thomas Decker, with extra points for 3) Katie Cassidy.

I do have one major complaint, though. DO NOT make me feel sympathetic towards the pedophilic kidnapping, torturing, murdering, serial-killing bastard. Just no. I do not want to feel sorry for him or identify with him or even understand that hey, yeah, twisted sons of mothers can still be scared when the mob with pitchforks and gasoline comes after them. You can make me root for the villain when he's all supernatural and dead, but don't pull that crap on me. *feels so dirty and upset* Although I suppose I have to give kudos to Jackie Earle Haley for breaking my heart in two sentences. Damn he's good.

So because I'm on a JEH roll, discovering that holy shit on stilts is he a good actor, I've started watching the show Human Target, where he's a secondary character (they say hired gunman but he was more hired laptop). It sucks. Oh my gods, I could not get behind that pilot. It had like 20 minutes of fight scenes throughout the episode and it actually had me rolling my eyes with a Get on with it feel. Why get on with it? Because I didn't give a rat's about the main character. Why was that? Because the pilot didn't do what pilots are supposed to do, which is introduce the characters first, make me care about them first, before going on with the story of the week. However, I'm going to stick around for the second episode because I did like JEH's character and the other secondary character, played by Chi McBride. JEH's character reminded me of Nikita's Birkoff although I have no idea why (apart from the computer-savy glass-wearing bits). And now I miss Birkoff and the whole Nikita gang. :(

Continuing the JEH trend (as well as the Can't possibly do anything useful at all trend), I've got Little Children (trailer) to watch, because I was watching clips of it last night and lost count of the number of times JEH's acting made my jaw drop. (Also, Patrick Wilson i.e. Night Owl 2 is in it, so more squee!) So emotionally disturbing and/or heart-breaking material, here I come! (It's making me think of The Woodsman (trailer), which was a brilliant film, if a little heart-breaking.)

ETA: Human Target is a Fox show. Want to take bets on how long it lasts? Bastards. Making me wait two weeks for the Dollhouse finale just makes them that much more of a bastard.


Meme - 30 Days - Day 02 - Your Favorite Movie: ( Read more... )


Videos of the Day: Mika's "Blame It On the Girls" and "We Are Golden" ; Tim Minchin's "If I Didn't Have You" and "Angry (Feet)"( Embedded - Yeah, I got a bit carried away... )


Links of the Day:

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* Little Children
** I'm now imagining a horror film where the characters get paired together in slashy-as-in-sex ways in some sort of meta mess... That doesn't really make sense, does it?

I finished knitting the body part of the knitted toy elephant, did the bottom of its feet and one side of its belly part. I also rewatched almost all of the Black Books episodes.

Then I checked out the flist and came across Neil Gaiman embedding Tim Minchin's "White Wine In the Sun" and promptly started weeping and blubbering like I knew I would all day. And now I can't stop.

Christmas is going to suck royally because ( I am a pessimist )

What's the effect of prolonged loneliness? ( Read more... )

Quote of the Day: If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things by Jon McGregor**

He was talking quite slowly, breathlessly, he said and the worst thing was, it was strange, the worse thing, more than the fear of what might happen to me, what they might do or how I might get out of it, the worst thing was thinking that nobody would ever know, that I would just be missing, disappeared, vanished.

He looked at me and he said can you imagine that?

He said can you imagine anything more lonely?

Links of the Day:

vladlena205's Jeffrey Dean Morgan Icons
fancynewgin's Multifandom Icons
marylou_gr's Multifandom Icons


* Tim Minchin, "White Wine in the Sun"
** I once wrote something similar to this, but nowhere near as well. seschat liked it, bless her, and I guess that's how our friendship started, which has a sad sort of irony.