Imaginary Gardens

Watched Lost 4x02. ( Cut, but spoiler free )

From lostpedia.com: Deal Has Been Reached to End Writers' Strike: Eisner by cnbc.com: "It's over," Eisner said. "They made the deal, they shook hands on the deal. It's going on Saturday to the writers in general." Squee!

About my day? Went to parks, observed ducks, took pictures, saw enclosures with deer, sheep and goats where kiddies could walkabout. Read a bit. (Joscelin is kicking ass!) Internetted. Note to self: Watch Off Centre 1x21.

ETA: Company doesn't mean security sounds like the summary for a horror-fic. At least a dark-fic. Damned half-formed plot-bunnies!


Links of the Day:
franken_stein makes awesome icons and did a 10-part Everybody Loves Zachary Quinto postathon (includes icons, wallpapers and fanmix). Their images and resources.
teh_no's X-Men 3 humerous script-summary which, were this other people, would be called a Breadbox Edition or In Fifteen Minutes.
Comic: Toothpaste for Dinner
ZacharyQuinto.com
Quotes page
X-Men Cartoon: Episode 1, Part 1. (That is one huge ass TV they've got there. And a substantial amount of paperwork is just waiting to happen.) Oh, how my brother and I loved this show. "It's 7:30!" either of us would exclaim, and race upstairs to watch. *misses*


* Ralph Waldo Emerson

The good:

I´ve seen Narnia. I loved Mr and Mrs Beaver, and had a strange fasciation for the head wolf (it shames me to not remember his name, so he´s M---.) My love for Aslan´s a given, o´course*.

Oh, and, how friggedy cool is it to shoot a pheonix at your enemies? Totally friggedy, yo.

The bad:

It was dubbed. That didn´t stop me from being able to recite choice lines from memory. Alas, though, no Liam Neeson for me.

The ugly:

The professor. Totally not what I had in mind. And what was it with the unbelievable amount of minautaurs (or Tauren, which is a much nicer name)?

Kept getting flashbacks of the cartoon-movie version and occasionally thinking how much better the cartoon version was.

The cartoon Stone-Table scene totally pwns this one´s.


I´d like to add, though, that the cartoon-version (*not* the previous movie incarnations, which apart from making an adorable Reepicheep, are aparently not worth all too much) is amazing. I love it with all my heart. It´s just perfect. Afore-said Stone Table scene constantly gave me the wiggins. I´d totally watch it again.

It and the cartoon-version of The Hobbit (not the one with occasional real people which tried to include parts of TLOTR and didn´t make the second part because it sucked SO MUCH and it scarred both J and me for life) are my childhood favorites**. They´re just perfect.

And the songs! "Fifteen birds, in five fir trees..." Sure, lyrics by Tolkein, but just you try and not sing along to "Down, down to Goblin Town".

Their version of Gollum, btw, makes me feel unbelievably sorry for him. The book? Not so much.


Real life:

Thought maybe I´d mention I´ve broken my not-throwing up record of four years since last Saturday, but hey, who cares ´bout that. Stupid stomach flu.

Bought presents for uncles, who don´t really talk to me anyway, though I´ve been gone for two days and was, as mentioned, sick as a dog all Sunday.

Tiiiired.

PS: Flipping through the companion for the Narnia movie, saw that CSLewis had advised a lad to forgoe with whatever he had to and do whatever he could in order to be near his friends. No, I can´t remember the quote, damn it.

* I think the only time I´ve ever had actual faith was once, when I was little. (Guess CSLeewis´s attempt for religioning me was somewhat successful.) I was lying in bed and begging Aslan to let me find a way into Narnia. So yeah, I like Aslan.

** That´s probably because I can barely remember by early-childhood favorites: the My Little Pony and Carebear movies. Think maybe MLP was better than CB. Better villain, at least. I never liked the whole, "ooh, I´ve fallen in love with this girl and now I´ve killed her and it makes me feel so bad that, OMG, I CARE".

And He-Man was silly, but Skelletor was a kick-ass villain, if I recall correctly. Sigh. I´d love to re-watch so of these childhood shows.

And before I forget, I think the kid-show I watched in Spain about an alien yello bird guy was "Los Amigos de Yuppi". Maybe.