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V

logovo@gmail.com — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:42:17 GMT

Episode 1.2 of V was an improvement from the pilot. It got me, and even Mr. Logovo, interested in seeing it next week. This time they didn't rush through the story and it is varying enough from the original miniseries that I want to see what happens next. I like the characters played by Elizabeth Mitchell and Morris Chestnut, so I have a hook right there to get invested with the show. The only thing missing is a real villain to hiss at, but Morena Baccarin is not it right now. Maybe Alan Tudyk, can do it. I think he can pull off scary. We'll see!

The unFashionable Life

logovo@gmail.com — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:31:56 GMT

In a new effort to start dressing like a grown up (I've attempted this many times before, but I have jeans+tshirt enablers all around me) I managed to hurt my left foot by wearing heels. They weren't even that tall! *sigh*

My mom gave me this humongous bag for my birthday. I think she supports my efforts to stop dressing like a 14 year old boy. However, having no experience with huge leather handbags, I'm surprised by how heavy the thing is, what with the leather and the zippers and the heavy canvas material that makes up the lining. Do people normally walk around carrying these things and not get tired? It's like the heels thing, right? I'm just never going to get it. The bag is pretty though! I just can't put that much stuff into it's hugeness, otherwise I'll throw my back out or something.

TeeeVeee

logovo@gmail.com — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:09:30 GMT

V.- I found the pilot last night for the V reboot disappointing. It has potential and some characters I liked, but the script was very, very clunky. I'll give it a shot next week, see if it improves any.

Leverage.- I should learn to use DVR now that we got our new box, maybe see the show "live" for once. The first season was my happy place for a few days, as we zipped through the episodes. @nd season has been sometimes *meh*, but I so love Parker and Hardison. OK, and Eliot too.

I haven't seen a single episode of White Collar yet, which makes me a rare specimen in my flist. I will though! I just need to -um- figure out when it's on. This is why people use DVR, yes? I'm so used to downloading stuff, so now that I'm actually seeing my new(ish) shows with Mr. Logovo it means messing with an actual TV.

Last thing. Burn Notice? My husband likes it, I haven't been crazy about it, had seen some S2 episodes with him, but before my trip to Mexico I saw the pilot and a handful of S1 episodes. Wow, it feels like the same thing that happened to Burn Notice happened to Leverage in S2. Sort of losing some of it's kick, which means you (well, more like I) stay because a love of the characters, and sort of stick with it even if the writing is not as fresh. Lesson to self: Don't jump into a show in S2. Always go back.

60 Minutes

logovo@gmail.com — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 04:24:56 GMT

60 Minutes tried to explain BitTorrent to the masses tonight. Oh 60 Minutes, you never fail in delivering the hottest new thing, about 4 yrs too late.

SPN vid rec

logovo@gmail.com — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:18:10 GMT

Fantastic new Supernatural vid by Killa.

Little Lion Man.

I don't get sniffly at vids, most times they don't get to me that way, but there are exceptions. My experience went from admiring the vid and choice of song to kind of trying not to get too teary eyed. But the good kind of tears.

TV, TV, TV

logovo@gmail.com — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 06:07:24 GMT

Went to Hulu to see SGU and got bored and stopped after about 15 minutes. I think I'll wait a few episodes before I try that again, see what the flist reviews say. I kind of had a bad feeling about the main nerdy character. Like I've seen this guy so many times, the nerd loser who saves the day, that I started to figure out how they decided to write this character. I managed to get creeped out, because of all of the crap I heard before the show even premiered. I was imagining the writers either projecting or presenting this guy as the audience stand in and - ew.

I got my hands on Merlin 2.03 and that was so, so adorable! Oh, the Merlin and Arthur stuff was perfect. I needed more Gwen though. Can we get more Gwen and Morgana at the same time, plz?

I've consumed Leverage in huge amounts, now at S2, episode 5 I think. Ready now for some fic. I'm sure I saw some on the Yuletide site. Anyone care to rec their favorite story? I'd love me some Hardison/Parkinson/Eliot in any and all combinations or pairings. From friendshippy gen to threesome hotness, don't care, I just love them :D

Super Cocina

logovo@gmail.com — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 20:49:41 GMT

Just had another wondeful lunch at the hole-in-the-wall place that serves the best guisados and Mexican homecooking in town, Super Cocina. Inexpensive too! Give me more of that green chile pork thing that I can't remember now what it was called! Yum!

SPN 5.04

logovo@gmail.com — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 05:22:32 GMT

This is my favorite episode of the season so far, despite the lack of Sam. But we got Dean talking to himself and it was completely believable, so there is that.

Castiel losing his mojo, I was hoping they would use that to explain the weirdness, because yes, that was way too weird. Yes please Castiel, don't ever change. It was cute sometimes, but I mostly got creeped out.

Jared Padalecki's feet are huge and he should never wear white shoes, specially anything as ugly as those. What did Lex wear when rockin his own scary white suit? He maybe could give Lucifer tips.

Loved, LOVED this version of an evil Sam. Possessed by Meg Sam did very little for me, but this version hit my buttons.

Oh, and Croatoan coming back! Thank you continuity!

This just in from the "Duh!" department

logovo@gmail.com — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:54:14 GMT

Do no, do not if you can help it, read/listen to a translated version of Bolaño's 2666. I'm reading it in Spanish and have the audiobook in English, which I was listening to and from work. Mistake! When I got to part four and all the characters are Mexican, the English translation was missing a lot of the flavor. As I said, duh! How could this have been such a surprise? I think about translations and dubbing and language all the time. I guess I was just hoping this time it would be different, and I was excited to have had been able to download audible's file for only about 7 dollars and get completely into the novel even as I was driving.

I think part one of 2666, the one about The Critics, works in English sort of OK, but the closer I got in the narrative to the town of Santa Teresa, the more I realized I had to dump the audiobook. Hrrmp!

Now I need to download some podfic, to listen to instead.

OK then...

logovo@gmail.com — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:50:25 GMT

Via edgarspp, a special recipe book that I'm guessing (hoping) is a joke. Plz?

http://www.lulu.com/content/4956212

SPN 4.12

logovo@gmail.com — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:04:54 GMT

Before last night's SPN I saw a bit of something that I think was CSI. The bad guy had a blonde woman tied to a chair and it looked like she was getting small electric shocks, with the result of the camera being right *there* to capture the constant breast jiggling. It made me think "torture porn".

Except for following one show at a time (Smallville, then Numb3rs, then Supernatural) I will rarely watch network TV, because I get really, really bored. This torture porn thing? It was just weird to see and upsetting. It was just so obvious what they were offering their viewers, you know? Then again, I watch SPN, posterchild for a long list of problems.

Anyway, about SPN last night, No Castiel! Well, OK.

We got 3 good older actors carrying most of the episode dialog and I bought them as friends that really cared for each other. Also liked the not "YAY!" ending, the price of doing the right thing.

The idea of getting old seems to really terrify *everyone* and by that I don't just mean Sam and Dean, but the writers. No growing old gracefully in their book.

So what exactly does Sam need to do now? Anything special besides the powers he already exhibited? And is Ruby now hanging out in cool cars in alleyways, hoping that Sam will cowboy up and get with the AntiChrist program?

gadgetry

logovo@gmail.com — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 19:46:14 GMT

I don't think of myself as a gadget person, but in our home I'm the one with all the little devices that must go with us on a trip and this time around I got a Kindle to pack up, instead of 2-3 books.

Have uploaded about 10 fics and will be uploading as many as I have to time to convert. Right now I'm taking files (txt and rtf) and having the free Amazon service convert them to readable Kindle files.

I have noticed that no one in my lj flist ever mentions ebooks, at all. This makes me wonder once again how gadget friendly I am, even if it took a year for me to be convinced that I wanted to get a Kindle.

emo bashing in Mexico and Chile

logovo@gmail.com — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:35:17 GMT

I should have known the story had legs. It's been making the rounds for days in Spanish sites, but now it's crossed over to Metafilter.

What with kids bashing each other over how one group looks, talking with sakurita I can plainly see how it's an attractive story. Youth "gangs" have to be irresistible "news" items.

What I have yet to see is a news report in Spanish pointing out that the attacks are homophobic. At least that seems plain to me, since the attackers interviewed look extremely happy to share their disgust with young men who look "kind of like girls" and therefore need to be driven out of public spaces.

ETA: Aaaand the TIME page now has something up. That didn't take long. Yesterday on Metafilter and 16 hrs ago on the TIME website.

Mexico's Emo-Bashing Problem.

ETA2: Right out of a movie. Sorry this is in Spanish, but stay with it, because between the punks, the skaters, the emos and the riot police trying to keep people apart, another group comes in at the end, stepping out of the subway station and actually calming people down: Hare Krishnas!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJPeffMSzVA

Harvest

logovo@gmail.com — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 15:50:53 GMT

A very modest harvest of potatoes today, from the ones Mr. Logovo planted in a wine barrel about 3 months ago. Turned out pretty good looking, but have yet to taste them. I'm waiting for him to finish cooking the omelet that will be our breakfast.

We're using parsley, spinach and the potatoes that we planted, so that is a nice treat.

The carrots and onions are coming up, but who knows how they might turn out. We already planted some tomatoes, and so we will begin the yearly battle against water rot and little creatures wanting to get to them before we do.

The Band's Visit

logovo@gmail.com — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 06:27:57 GMT

Worked some on the OTW translation, and as I have joked before with one of my fellow translators, it's a lot more fun to translate porn than legalese or the less formal language of the FAQ. However, this is easier. When working with other people, most of the times it's not difficult to come to some concensus on non-fiction, at least in my experience. For fic it gets stickier, because you're dealing with something that's going more for the gooey center of your fannish brain. Also, formal language is sort of universal.

OK, I'm tired. I don't think I'm making sense.

But I did have a social life today! Go me! Or I should say "we" had a social life today, since we went out for some hearty french food and a movie with friends.

God, it's been at least a couple of months since we've gone out for a movie. I think the last one was Atonement. Tonight it was The Band's Visit, a very good, sweet (not cloying though!) movie about a police band from Egypt getting lost during a trip to Israel. Most of the dialog is in English, so I get why it did not qualify for a Foreign Language nomination at the Oscars, but wow, I totally get how it got mentioned again and again as crowd pleaser, and the one that should have won.

The loneliness of the characters is very poignant, but never depressing. It's full of interesting characters and great performances by actors I don't recognize, which I always love. I was expecting it to be fun, maybe a little silly, but it was so much better than what I had hoped.

15

logovo@gmail.com — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 05:15:54 GMT

I didn't expect the mainly "Eggads! Make it STOP!" reaction to the vid "Deep Kick" (from the movie 15) would have the legs to still be a topic of conversation in fandom almost a week after it was shown in Escapade.

It was a weird vid show this year, shorter than usual, and even less happy than 2007, which has been described as dark. 2006 was excellent BTW, or at least that was my reaction, with funnier, happier vids shown. This year included "15" by absolutedestiny, and it's the most disturbing vid I've seen of the 3 vid shows I've attended.

I believe I'm not the right audience for this vid. My own tastes stretch into what I think of as "disturbing content LITE." I love Cronenberg, Lynch and Fincher, and if I'm in the right mood I'll watch something like "The Audition," but not "Irreversible." Just, no way.

I haven't seen the movie "15", but I'd seen the vid before the con. It was recced, maybe by slodwick or laurashapiro??? Someone in my flist. Oh, I can't remember now.

My reaction was sort of "meh" when I downloaded it, even if it was filled with beautiful, striking images. It has teenage boys inflicting a lot (or what seemed like a lot) of self harm and it's all sort of right in the face of the viewer. The vid itself is very long, or just felt long, around 5-6 minutes. My main thing, the reason I didn't keep it in my vid folder, is that I didn't feel connected to the characters. So, I didn't care that they were cutting/piercing/punching themselves, even if done in glorious saturated colors.

I watched it online and forgot about it, until I realized I was watching it again at the con, but this time with exactly the wrong crowd to sit through all that goriness. I kind of had an attack of nervous laughter, as there were shouts of "OMG! What IS THIS?!" and "Ewwwwwwww!!!". People were covering their eyes, waiting for it to be over.

So yeah, I just went through my flists and people are still talking about it. For good or ill I know I'll remember this vidder's LJ name for a while.

ETA: Whoa! I just watched 2 of his other vids that were new to me, Rodeohead and Revenge. I had seen the excellent (and from what I remember controversial) Gold Digger before, but Revenge in particular is amazing. Rodeohead was more like sweet nostalgia (yeah, even with that kind of editing), combining my love of Firefly and Radiohead and weirdness.

LJ News

logovo@gmail.com — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 01:20:04 GMT

I got a lot of shared friends with amireal (not to mention my other account) but just a heads up that LJ will no longer offer Basic free accounts.

The way I read it, me and other people with accounts created by today are OK. At least I hope so since I'm going back to Basic next month.

New users will have a choice between Paid Accounts or accounts with advertisement.

More info over here at the no_ads_lj com. Thanks to isiscolo

Livejournal @ Escapade '08

logovo@gmail.com — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:47:08 GMT

The long and short of it will be no big news to anyone in my flist. The feeling at the con was that there will be no big move to other journaling services anytime in the near future.

The panel was "Livejournal: Should fans take their business elsewhere?" and of course people had no good alternative, one that could handle a mass migration. Journal Fen came up of course, but from the conversations I followed it seems that to a lot of people JF = F_W. It also still suffers from a bad reputation on the server robustness side of things. Me and a couple of other people kept saying how we haven't had problems with that issue for a long time, so I just hope some of that got through. I can't remember the last time I had any trouble with my JF account.

The issue of the old code and difficulties finding stuff in JF came up. I wasn't too clear on what they meant, since JF has changed the code, but the conversation moved on to comparisons between Insane Journal and Journal Fen. Most agreed that IJ will go the way of LJ sooner or later, even if Squicky right now is very accommodating. Personally, I don't see it as being paranoid to believe that $$$ will always have the final word on any of these issues.

Three_wishes thinks Twitter is a way to stay in touch, but I've given up on the service. The minutia of everyone's lunch grows boring, no matter how much I might love my fellow fans. Twitter offers no freakin filters, so I rarely look at it anymore. There is no point, fandomwise, for me to ever check it for updates.

I also had no idea that metafandom had an Insane Journal account. Corrected that now.

SGA: The Last Man

logovo@gmail.com — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 01:54:01 GMT

If I wait until I have time to say anything about the SGA season finale it won't happen, so in short . . .

After losing my squee since somewhere around Trio, I was sort of bracing myself to be disappointed. I've not been loving the Teyla and Michael storyline at all, so I didn't even see the episode at the con, with other fans. My mistake! I really enjoyed it. It gave me John and Rodney, and a Rodney as a part of a couple that really cared about each other. My heart just went all squishy at the love and at that final straw breaking Rodney, loosing Keller and the only friend who shared his connection to Atlantis. His obsession, the work of 25 years on a solution that he would never know if it worked or not, god, it just broke my heart.

So yeah, from what I've read I might be out of sync with the rest of fandom.

Back from Escapade '08

logovo@gmail.com — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 05:37:53 GMT

I'm back from Escapade, enjoying some late-late dinner (tinga tamal, yummy!) and sort of recounting for Mr. Logovo the more mundane aspects of the weekend. I mean, yes the panel on protecting you anonymity online sounds interesting to him, but would I got into detail on what was covered on the SGA crack!Fic panel? No, wait, I think I did. OK-OK, so I did mention that one, but I will NOT mention the wincest (and other brothers) panel because he would just shake his head sadly. And worry. Heh.

Wrote a couple of posts about the con is Spanish during the weekend, mainly because I think the idea of fan runed cons is unusual in Spanish fandoms.

There was a panel on the OTW that seemed to get a very positive reaction from the attendees. I was however very surprised at all these rumors running around about what the OTW is trying to do, including the "All your fic are belong to us!" stuff that - huh? Like the people involved in the OTW had magical powers to make fans SUBMIT to the One Ring.

I really didn't get a single piece of information out of the panel that has not been said before in the otw_news community, but the way it was received it was clear that it *was* news to some. I know I'm not well informed on the OTW. I have the com friended, but don't read every post. I've read part of the website, but have not looked closely at the FAQ. But maybe I like reading this stuff more or pay more attention or the way my head works (accounting type) it just holds on to these things? Because I swear I clearly remember what they said being covered in several conversation threads, and not just in the otw_news com.

Oh, and there were people who had no idea what the OTW was. It was mentioned in passing at earlier panels and there were a few confused faces.

Anyway, the OTW panel was lively and the presenters did a good job. However the_shoshanna did say at the end that they were apprehensive coming in (actually she might have used the word "terrified") about what kind of reception the panel would have at Escapade. I can't see how they would have gotten a bad reaction there, the_shoshana has been part of Escapade for years, but once again I might be naive or just not paranoid enough.

Oscar stuff

logovo@gmail.com — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 05:02:49 GMT

Husband was pulling for Juno and I was sort of pulling for No Country for Old Men. In any case we were just relieved that Atonement didn't win. God, that was such a dissapointing movie.

The not funny stuff

logovo@gmail.com — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 16:31:36 GMT

I posted in passing about the racism stuff in my Spanish journal, both what's been talked about in SGA and SPN in the last week, but as I mentioned to a friend, most of my Spanish speaking LJ friends look at the conversations and don't see the same thing. Hell, I live here and I need diagrams for some of this stuff.

I know I have some context, either because I grew near the border, because I'm very familiar with pop-culture in the US or because I read a tiny bit here and there on the subject. Still, diagrams. Flowcharts. It helps.

It ocurrs to me that it's just a matter of time before someone outside of my flist will wander in and ask me just what the hell I'm going on about.

Mom's Mexican food

logovo@gmail.com — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 17:26:07 GMT

Sadly it has only now occurred to me to seriously pick my mom's brains for food info. She is a magnificent cook, or was. She has been a lot less motivated since she now only cooks for herself and dad, but oh wow, the food she made for us kids.

In conversations a few years ago my mom mentioned how it wasn't as much fun to cook after I moved out, since I was the one that kept saying how good it was. My brother was not as enthusiastic about her cooking, but I do think I sort of fangirled my mom's food, because I never had Mexican food as good as what she could cook up. It's a little strange that she was so good, since my grandmother was mediocre at best.

It never was a serious consideration until recently to try and duplicate what my mom knows, but next time I sit down with her I'm getting pen and paper and start making notes. I have no idea for example how to cook beef tongue or bone marrow or prepare pozole the way she does it. I can make her enchiladas, but can't remember the veggie side dishes she would make that were so good and actually healthy.

I might surprise her by making her some cheese. I'm in the process of learning how to make my own and I think she would appreciate some queso fresco made by her daughter :)

Juno

logovo@gmail.com — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 19:51:28 GMT

The overly contrived dialog is annoying, but I could not help loving Ellen Page. Now I want to see the entire first season of ReGenesis. She was so good in that, but never saw more than a handful of episodes.

Happily, Juno was one of those movies that both me and the husband enjoyed. Last thing before that we saw I was twirling happily while he said "I hate endings like that. I FUCKING HATE THEM!" - I then had to somewhat control my squee.

Hand better!

logovo@gmail.com — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 16:21:29 GMT

Feel so much better today, OMG, thankyou.

iTunes also had last Thursday's SPN episode for download, finally, so I'll be sitting down and enjoying the woobie pain (and yes, for this the term woobie does apply) and just try to not think that there are only 4 episodes left before the '08 blackout. Pfft!

iTunes should have second season of Dexter, but doesn't, which is all kinds of sad and the kind of thing that makes me glad for torrents and sharing files. It just got a Golden Globe nomination for best drama, which I hope is a sign the series got even better. Took me long enough to get into the show, but now I'm very excited to see where they took the characters. I have no idea if the series continued to follow the books. Darkly Dreaming Dexter was fun, but I didn't like how the author solved the mystery. The series had more characters to work with and the B plots kind of distracted me from basically the same solution as the book.

And there is Dexter fic! Good fic even!