I spoke with Josie today! Oh dear, it'd been such a long time since we'd spoken or writen or anything... Not that is was awkward or anything. But it always seemed to me that "Jo and I on the phone" didn't quite work so well as "Jo and I face-to-face". Of course, that just might be because I'm incoherent.

( No, seriously. )

I would tell you all about the new Fox show featuring the lovely Nathan Fillion, but, well... You can hear it from frodolyn:

"Bad news, Fox has done it again and pulled the plug on Drive. You would thing that Fox would learn from its mistakes, however. Not so much."

Instead, allow me to squee about Heroes by posting squeeful things,( Read more... )


Links of the Day

David Tennant's Dr Who Video Diary. (PS: He's cute and Scottish. Need a woman ask for more? Well, sure, throw in good hair while you're at it...)

frodolyn posts a fanmix for Wash/Zoe called "Grief to Grace". It has absolutely gorgeous music, and the downloads are still valid. Go download now!
In related news, I mentioned acaciaonnastik Eden fanmix (outdated) for Hero's. She also brought my attention to the fact that Hiro's father is played by George Takei. Remember this? (Also, here's an interview, 'cause.

Wiki: Stuttering vs Cluttering

Animated Bayeux Tapestry on YouTube.


* the Tenth Doctor, Dr Who 1x01

b_phil has now solved my second "what the hell was that movie I vaguely recall from my childhood" problem. It's The Stuff, not, as I once tried, The Thing.*

Back to writing a job description in German. Do you have any idea how hard it is to find technical words for printing machine parts in German? Frellin' ruttin' hard.

I'll leave you all with an article about the future Stardust movie and *crosses fingers* the renewed possibility of a Good Omens movie**. Or maybe Neil's last movie-project, Beowolf is more your thing.

In other news, a River vid which rocks my socks.

Here are some Chinese/Pinyin-related websites I found yesterday this wee morning whilst researching for Insomnia:

http://www.pinyin.info/readings/texts/chinese_adjectives.html
http://www.chinese-lessons.com/mandarin/vocabVerbs.htm
http://www.pinyin.info/unicode/marks3.html

I also found out ( random yet interesting facts. )


* Which was a black-and-white B-movie about plantlike alien attacking people and not a colour B-movie about deliciously edible alien-foam possessing people.

** Squee!

Have been playing the Hitchiker's Guide game again. Managed to get as far as successfully feeding the dog that crucial sandwich. Alas, I got killed. I was told I talked a lot for a corpse...

( H2G2 quotes )

Found a website with screenshots of JPhoneix as I was looking for picture of this scene. There's some hilarious quotes of his too. (I actually lol'ed.) Some might even be iconized.

( Quotes include )

In other news, I went to the train station at 4:15 for the 4:30 train which finally arrived at 5pm and took 1:45 hours instead of the almost-one-hour it usually does (or the 40 minutes it used to take). So I walk in at 7 pm and find a note from my uncle saying he's gone for the weekend. Ergo, all alone.

No, haven't checked out gradschool sites yet. Gonna watch Momo instead. Got that German level exam coming up.

PS: Am almost completely sure that what I've got on TV (German-dubbed) is Escape from LA and I am really sure that the uber-bad-guy is being played by Raul Julia. Except that I can find no such record. Do I really have to wait for the credits?

PPS: Touchy little shipper, ain't she?". I was just commenting to help Anon's failing memory.

PPPS: I'll go to bed, I swear, but first:

"Do you want to hear a Stephin Merritt Mr Punch song? Do you want to hear Claudia Gonson pretend to be Angela Lansbury in Sweeney Todd? What about hearing a demonic Mr Punch singing along? You do? Well, click on http://www.fabulist.org/archives/2006/06/future_bible_he.html"

Brought to you c/o Neil Gaiman. If you can find "The Tragical Comedy of Comical Tragedy of Mr Punch" on the online BBC radio, give it a listen. Freaky-creapy. (Think it's down, though.)

Other than being quite anti-social and being snuck up in my room, I've checked out details for the GRE and TOEFL and watched a hell of a lot of YouTube.

The results of my searches, featuring the focus of the day, JPhoenix, are ( as follows )

Which is why I'm looking for the vid cliip with the exchange between Mal and River, which goes(ish):

Mal: Shoot me if I'm wrong.
River: *points gun at Mal*
Mal: Or we could talk some more.

Not really doing much else. Feeling very apathetic.

Oh, yeah, watching a music vid, The World I Know and thoroughly enjoyed War to End All Wars and I think this vid is Adam Baldwin answering a Q.

Boooored.

And there's The Universe vid, which is purty.

Still bored.

I turned on the lights just now, although there's still some meagre light outside. Apparently, that's a crime for gran, who still has that post-war skimp-and-save thing going on. But it's dark, gran! Sure, I can still see, but I can see by the light of the gorram moon too. Does that mean I should read at midnight without turning on a light?

Went to beach today (possibly another crime) and was cold because it was very windy. Saw a kid fly a kite (which I've never done, though I do remember my brother making one). Slightly tanned now on my back, which is fantastic.

Found some of the Rayne collections songs (fine, two, out of like ten that were locked). Majorly jonesing for a Nikita fix. Birkoff, my dear, why did you suddenly disapear/die and get replaced by your snarky Californian twin? That did not rule.

Ooh, saw Dr Kovach from ER (hawt in a slim sort of way) as Sparticus. It...didn't actually work. He's not the type to pull off the Gladiator/slave thing. Too delicate-looking.

Writing stuff now. By which I mean the not-smut whore scene. Ok, some smut.

New Nathan Fillion interview for Slither here. While Nathe is a good sport, the interviewer is pretty useless. (And I mean very.) Thankfully, we don't need the itnerviewer that much anyway. Having just watched the Serenity interviews on the same site, you can really tell what an interviewer should be like. Saying "amazing" like Nathe has just admitted to liking jam on toast isn't acceptable, Mr. Interviewer-man.

There are a few comments Nathe made that I just might have to iconize (esp. the leg one). Plus, he makes the greatest eye expressions. I wuv this man, really. He's so sweet.

The interview thing went well, I suppose. They got my CV from the zoo because they´re the ones that organize employement stuff for the zoo and other such places. The job would be a substitute assistent animal care (read: shovel and feed). That means I´d work a) when they called, b) when someone else is sick and c) every kind of holiday they´d care for. It´s a 7:30 am to 2 pm thing, hard labour. I´m going to keep it in mind, though I didn´t want it for Xmas, what with it almost being December already and family being in precarious situation as is.

All my BSc. papers were accepted. I´ll be hearing from them in 6 months to a year. If I´m lucky.

Forgot to mention that I baked a banana bread (J´s much-loved recipie). Result: pure joy.