a further peculiarity

Dr Who

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 22:12:33 GMT

Oh come on!

He can't regenerate yet! I love Ten! They can't be switching Doctors this quick. I suppose I can live with the revolving companions, however annoying it is. (I start getting used to one, boom! she's gone.) But I would rather like to keep this Doctor for a bit longer. Let's hope it's all a clever ruse to keep us all glued to our chairs come next Saturday shall we?

Also, HAPPY BIRTHDAY stjarna1984!

Er, I'm 11 minutes late.. but still.

Book meme wot I stole from stjarna1984

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:15:42 GMT

The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed. Well let's see.

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicise those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them ;-)

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8= Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
8= His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte's Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Alborn
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Eek!

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 23:43:00 GMT

Oh Carlos.

Computer troubles and a newfound love of McKay/Ronon

Thu, 29 May 2008 21:37:25 GMT

My computer has no sound. At all. Wtf? And I have no idea what could've caused it. COME ON 'PUTER I NEED TO WATCH DR WHO NOW KTHNX.

I've started reading SGA fic this past week and my OTP is so Rodney/Ronon. Which is kind of annoying as there are about 50 or so R/R fics in total and now I've read pretty much all of them.

It's been a long time since I got caught up in and reading fic in a fandom without having access to the source material (I did read Buffy, Sentinel and Highlander fic way before I watched the shows). Before this week I'd seen maybe a handful of SGA eps and now I've downloaded a few more from season 4, but to be honest, I like the slash more than I like the show. Except maybe the Ronon bits because I'm having a bit of a crush atm. I blame it on PMS.

Random criticism

Thu, 15 May 2008 22:35:56 GMT

I just do not get Scorsese's obsession with Leonardo DiCaprio. I do get why he kept making films with Robert DeNiro, because, hey, Robert DeNiro. But Leo? Eh? He has no range! He keeps doing different variations of the same character. WHAT IS GOING ON MARTY?

...

Yeah that was random.

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Oi!

Tue, 13 May 2008 08:13:08 GMT

Where did summer go?

We had a lovely weekend weatherwise,warm and sunny with a perfectly blue sky but er.. now, while still sunny, it's 11 degrees C outside? Eh?

Anyways. My dad tried to sneak away from celebrating his 60th birthday by faffing off to Valencia next weekend. Silly dad. Naturally we ambushed him and abducted him to another city for some celebrating this weekend instead. Picnic in the park was had, as well as a nice dinner at our posh hotel and quite a satisfying amount of wine, yay! I did have to deal with my uncles but I survived mostly intact which is yet another cause for celebration.

EEEUUUURGH!

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 21:19:02 GMT

There's something in my fridge that smells so.so. awful and it's polluting the entire place but I can't figure out what it is. It smells of rot so I thought it was something going bad that I'd forgotten about but I can't find anything! Tomorrow I shall have to scrub the entire fridge and hope it'll go away. Seriously, it smells like something died in there. *gags*

In happier news, today I recievied not only my DVD copy of There Will Be Blood, but also The Ballad of Jack and Rose. *pets*

Mad crushes and things like that

Sun, 06 Apr 2008 22:38:43 GMT

Ok, it's official. I have a mad crush on Daniel Day-Lewis. I never took much notice of him before There Will Be Blood, aside from noting that he was a great actor, but now? MAD MAD CRUSH OMG I WANT TO HAVE HIS BABIES. Or, you know, if I actually wanted to have babies, they would so be his.

I don't know what is up with this obsession I have with middle aged men. I mean, the last proper celebrity crush I had was with Viggo. He and DDL are at about the same age. The last semi-crush (or rather, on-going) was with Johnny Depp, who's just a few years younger.

I'm really just a Freudian smorgasboard aren't I?

That aside, I bought some really cute shoes at H&M yesterday. Green ballerina flats with white polka dots. Puppy took one look and then tried to eat them.

About this weather thing

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 09:51:44 GMT

Last week: winter

Yesterday: spring

Today: fucking October

The weather. It is strange.

Sun, 30 Mar 2008 21:33:07 GMT

Dude. Elephants can paint. (and a hell of a lot better than I can too)

Human arrogance have always assumed that we are so much better than all other animals but the more and more I see of research (like how way elephants are aware of their own selves, something that was considered to be uniquely human for a long time) and evidence like this, the more I am convinced that we are just so wrong in that assumption. Animals like apes, dolphins, elephants (among many others) show such skill and intelligence and emotion that seeing them as less than human (they're different yes, but not necessarily less), simply because they don't communicate the same way we do, and thinking that we have the right to kill and/or imprison them seems grotesque.

16 TWWB icons

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:50:46 GMT

Apparently icon-making has become something I do once a year and once a year only... And this time it's aaall about There Will Be Blood.

Teasers:

+ PLEASE COMMENT IF YOU TAKE
+ CREDIT IN KEYWORDS
+ TEXTLESS ICONS ARE NOT BASES
+ NO HOTLINKING PLEASE
+ ENJOY!

01) 02) 03) 04)

05) 06) 07) 08)

09) 10) 11) 12)

13) 14) 15) 16)

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I drink your milkshake

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:06:37 GMT

I don't think I've been quite so obsessed with a film since LotR as I am over There Will Be Blood. It's wonderful and it makes me happy but it is also immensly frustrating since, unlike LotR, this fandom is tiny and there are hardly any fic. I've read the same five stories over and over for three days now and while they're good stories, (great stories even, which is surprising for such a small fandom), it's getting a little frustrating.

Vanishing Act by dreamyoudeny
[gen, Daniel/Eli subtext]

Pyrrhic Victory by dreamyoudeny
[R Daniel Plainview/Eli Sunday] Brilliant characterisation.

Two Untitled ficlets by poorfrances
[R, Daniel/Eli]

And my absolute favourite:

Two Wrongs, Twice Removed by janegodzilla
[NC-17, dub-con. Daniel/Eli] Dark and twisted and so very realistic.

Daniel Day-Lewis needs to make more movies so I can perv over his hands

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 14:25:49 GMT

There Will Be Blood is the best film made in the past five years Y/Y?

I saw it last night and now I'm obsessed and desperate for fic and there aren't none!

Well, except for this one by bitterfic. Cruel and dark yet intensely fascinating, much like Mr. Daniel Plainview himself.

Seeking Who He May Devour by bitterfig
[NC-17 Dub-con 3624 words]

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LJ's shenanigans over the past year (this week's snafu included) has made me reluctant to pay for more Paid User time, but day-um it's annoying not having more than 6 icons.

ridiculous body ideals + relief

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:08:43 GMT

I started watching Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles yesterday (mostly because of Summer Glau. River yay!) and after two episodes I'm pretty much hooked. It's not terribly original and the first two movies were decidedly better (we'll just ignore the third shall we?) but still, I have a growing fondness for it.

However, there's one thing that made me vaguely pissed off and that was Sarah Connor herself or rather, her body. Not because she's a skinny woman without visible muscle tone, I can buy that without too much trouble. You don't have to be bulky to be strong (even though Linda Hamilton looked awesome in T2.). What did make me go wtf was her stats shown on a computer screen, according to which she's 5,5" and weighs 110 lbs. ... Excuse me?! That would mean she has a BMI of 18.3 which according to most counts as underweight.

We're talking here about a warrior woman. Someone who's spent the better part of two decades preparing for war and protecting her son from evil cyborgs from the future. Her body is her most important tool for that and, if you go by T2 canon she spends quite a lot of time making sure it's a strong and well-functioning one. So why would she be underweight? Especially as muscle weighs more than fat so she should in fact have a higher BMI than your average skinny 5,5" woman, yes?

I have a hard time understanding why TPTB felt the need to tell us how much Sarah Connor weighs and I have an even harder time understanding why they would make it such an absurdly low weight for a physically strong woman. Rampant paranoia makes me think it's because they want to keep up the ridiculous Hollywood pretense that having a BMI under 20 is in fact healthy and normal for women, even though, you know it's kinda not. (Not to slam those women who naturally do have low BMI's; it's just that most of us don't, but we keep getting pressured into trying.)

Yeah. Rant over. *goes to watch more Sarah Connor* ;P

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I recieved wonderful news about my grandmother today. You know that horrible lump on her nose (which grew to be almost the size of her nose)? She and my mum went to her appointment today and according to the doctor the lump was caused by some sort of virus (I forgot to ask its name, I was so relieved) and they removed it right away, and she should be fine as soon as her nose heals up. *has been all giddy all day* I always expect the worst when it comes to illnesses, so it's so incredibly good to know I was worrying about nothing much at all. :D

Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:46:35 GMT

Manic Street Preachers Covering Rihanna's Umbrella

Awesomeness

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:49:57 GMT

Apparently venting on LiveJournal makes TPTB sit up and listen. 0.o

My gran finally got scheduled for surgery. It's three weeks (!) from now but still, it's better than not knowing at all what's going on. At least now I know they're aware of her existance.

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In other news, I'm still not finished with the thesis (and oh how surprised I am. Not.) Oh well.

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In much nicer, and distracting news, the annual booksale will soon be upon us. I've just pre-ordered 25 books. I am v. happy about this fact. :) I do rather wish they'd come with built-in shelf-space though. *g*

Woes.

Wed, 12 Dec 2007 23:46:59 GMT

New crash. This time it was the screen. Although neither me nor Dell support knew that so my computer returned today after a two week absence (one of them courtesy of the reading-skills lacking dimwit who jotted down my phone number wrong) and the screen was as black as the day the computer left me (I've borrowed one of my dad's screens for now). Not only that, but even after changing RAM, CPU and mother board yet again, the blasted thing still doesn't work properly. In fact, it's worse than before. I could just cry. In fact I have cried quite a bit as I've got a master's thesis due in january and I've just lost a month and we're nowhere near done and this bloody computer just won't work. I've just spent two hours on it and now everything's just choked. And now I've got yet another Dell session to look forward to.

God, it's like every time I get on livejournal these days I just whinge and complain. I swear I'm cheerful sometimes! Though recently anything computer related tends to make me rather depressed.

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I wanted to send out Christmas cards and stuff but since I can't even be sure I'll have access to the computer long enough to jot down adresses I guess that shall have to wait until next Christmas. If you have a card/adress post I wouldn't mind a link though. You could have a New Years card instead! :)

I has a new motherboard

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 23:23:36 GMT

Dude, my computer crashed. In a toasty kind of way. Me and my favourite Dell person discovered burnt fuses and brown plastic and other nasty things wot should not be on the insides of my computer, like ever. Faulty things are now replaced and my computer doesn't sound as if it's dying anymore. And I can play SIMS 2 w00t! Something I haven't been able to do for more than a year.

It's still being loud and slow and whiny though so I'm not counting on it lasting terribly long, but at least now I can use it for more than surfing and Word.

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I saw Muse on 21 Oct. It was brilliant and sweaty and awesome and alldeles, alldeles underbart. I could've done without the tall fuckheads (I mean really, does height and size automatically turn you into a gigantic jerk? wtf?) but once I learned how to duck and stay on my feet whenever the moshpit waves hit it was all good. And Muse was fantastic. And Dom's got a froggy little dork voice <3. And Matt spoke Swedish! Sort of. It was Swedish-ish anyway. And I need to see them again, preferably tomorrow. I so wish I had the cash to travel to see them.

Whoever took these clips must've stood almost right next to me. I think I can see my own head bobbing there but the angle is bit wrong so it's probably only a head-lookalike.

Muse, Stockholm, Hovet 21 Oct. Highlights part 1, Highlights part 2.

Sat, 20 Oct 2007 21:41:56 GMT

Oh fuck it.

Hee!

Sat, 20 Oct 2007 14:23:42 GMT

Dumbledore Is Gay

For reals.

I love it when fanon becomes canon. \o/

ETA: Ahahahaha! I'm reading my flist and, like, every other post is about Dumbledore and his ghey. HAI FLIST. ILU.

Thu, 18 Oct 2007 17:10:23 GMT

3 DAYS 'TIL MUSE GIG.

afadkjdfhlsdjjdhk.

*spazzes*

Now. I'm pretty short. What would be better: standing tickets or seated? (they changed venues to a larger one and since I bought tickets to the first venue with standing only, I now get first dibs on the floor. \o/ ) 'cause really I want to be on the floor, but it's a fairly big floor and if I end up too far back I won't see a thing Y/N? Also, elbows.

I haven't been to a gig in a venue bigger than your average club in.. ten years? Am feeling like total n00b.

TV

Tue, 16 Oct 2007 21:03:45 GMT

Ok, so I haven't actually downloaded anything this season, except for House. Partly because I've been sort of meh and not sure what shows I'd be interested in and partly because of thesis-related paranoia. (As we're writing about filesharing). So basically what I want to ask is:

1) What new shows have you been downloading?

2) Are they any good?

3) Where have you downloaded them from? I've downloaded from torrentspy for a couple of years but their recent splurge of anonymus uploaders and cancelled comments feature has made me all paranoid about getting my torrents from them.

So, uh, yeah. Help?

Mmm... soup

Fri, 12 Oct 2007 10:09:47 GMT

I am not normally a fan of autumn, but even I have to admit that sitting indoors with a bowl of hot vegetable soup and watching the rain is pretty darn cosy.

Another thing of the good is that I can now actually see the rain, instead of just a blurry mess. I got my new glasses yesterday and realized that the world is in fact not made up of fuzzy shapes. I approve.

Laura sweetie darling! cheesy grin

Wed, 26 Sep 2007 19:29:23 GMT

I don't know how much you're on LJ these days, but in case you're reading:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

I hope you've had a lovely birthday today *smooches*

<3<3<3

Sat, 22 Sep 2007 23:53:27 GMT

It's strange how sometimes you can be so bouncy and up that it turns into this kinda depressed, weird feeling instead. Like nothing can actually live up to the happy feeling you have so suddenly it's just all about failed expectations instead.