| Vita brevis |
[14 Dec 2008|09:12pm] |
If my presence around here is even more sparse lately than usual, it's not just because of the upcoming holidays, or that I've been left alone with the kids due to my grandmother-in-law's recent death (though both of those are contributing factors; and, she was 91 and ready to go, so while it's always sad to see someone die, it's not a calamity).
No, the real reason is that the browser I use to read my flist, Safari, has recently acquired the bad habit of crashing every two minutes or so. Rebooting my system and re-downloading the browser didn't help. This is making it very difficult for me to read and respond to anything at length. I have other browsers, but I don't particularly want to switch over all my bookmarks and such to them. So for now I'm just carrying on with a buggy browser and using the fact that I can't spend a lot of time in it help spur me to get more of my actual work done.
I hope Apple fixes it soon, though.
ETA: 10.5.6 did not help. *sad*
ETA2, two weeks later: the problem mysteriously vanished as suddenly as it had arrived.
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| Cantiones |
[01 Dec 2008|02:17pm] |
I'm a little bored today, so let's play a guess-the-music-lyrics meme. From ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif) angua9 and peachespig:
Step 1: Put your music player on shuffle.
Step 2: Post the first line from the first 20 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing.
Step 3: Strike through the songs when someone guesses both artist and track correctly.
Step 4: Looking the lyrics up on a search engine is CHEATING! Though, really, can I stop you?
Step 5: If you like the game post your own.
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| Immorituri |
[07 May 2008|07:07pm] |
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This thread kind of makes me want to get a Metafilter account, if only so I could add something witty about funeral baked meats. I dread what the zombie Hamlet movie itself would be like, though.
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| Dixit mihi quidam |
[29 Mar 2008|11:13am] |
I've had it on my iPod for quite a while now, but it only hit me this weekend that one of my favorite French-language songs is by the first lady of France, someone whose politics has no appeal for me. It's giving me serious cognitive dissonance.
(Here's the link to the youtube video, if it doesn't come through directly, as I believe it won't on journalfen. This is a slightly different version of the same song by the same chanteuse.)
On the subject of foreign-language songs, I've noticed that I'm willing to tolerate much sappier and insipid lyrics in languages other than English than I will in English-language songs, even for those languages where I understand the lyrics. Anyone else find the same thing for their own native languages vs others?
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| Conturbat me |
[23 Mar 2008|01:36pm] |
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Is my sense of humor lacking, or is this Onion story completely not funny? Poignant, touching, sure. Funny, no.
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| Prometheus novus |
[19 Mar 2008|10:08pm] |
Continuing my recent series of movie posts...
After Sweeney Todd, the next movies I watched, earlier this year, were Linda Linda Linda (a new favorite) and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (an old favorite). But the next one I haven't already written about here is Young Frankenstein, though I'd seen it many times before.
If you haven't seen this movie, why not? It's funny; its humor hasn't aged badly and works for both teens and adults, though the many bawdy bits might go over the heads of younger kids. It makes fun of all the earlier Frankenstein movies without being mean to any of them. It's full of amusing lines; to pick one at random: "You have to remember that a worm... with very few exceptions... is not a human being." It's also full of great physical comedy, especially by Gene Wilder and Marty Feldman (of the double-jointed eyeballs and, in this movie, the ambidextrous hunchback). And, as with all great versions of the Frankenstein story, it says much more about our own reactions to those whose differences from us cause us to see them as monstrous than it does about the ostensible subject, the reanimation of dead tissue.
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| Speculum speculorum |
[18 Mar 2008|08:06pm] |
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Given recent unsavory revelations concerning LJ's new owners and their attitudes towards their new property, I've decided to mirror my account on journalfen. Apologies to anyone who has to see my posts doubled as a result.
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| Tondere |
[13 Mar 2008|08:24am] |
Continuing my series of movie-related posts...
When I saw Sweeney Todd, the choice was that or Juno, which I feared would be too artificially sweetened, and which I've continued to avoid for that reason. So Sweeney it was. I'm happy enough with my choice that day, anyway.
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Overall grade: B+. Worth seeing, probably worth seeing again, but I'm not sure I need to own it on DVD.
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| Pediludium |
[11 Mar 2008|10:11pm] |
I know, I've been horribly delinquent at posting lately, in part because I've been busy and in part because the HP and Avatar fandoms have been so quiet lately. To make up for it, I think I'll try to post more regularly about the movies I've been watching lately.
The first movie I watched in the new year was Paprika, but the first movie I watched that I hadn't previously seen (and posted about here) was Bend it like Beckham.
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Overall grade: A-.
Bonus short: & Teller. As in the quiet one of Penn & Teller. Zombies in Las Vegas, unusual for a zombie film in being played not for laughs nor for gross-out gore but as a quiet melancholy vignette.
Next: Sweeney Todd.
PS: If you want some London-Punjabi music to go with the movie, try Cornershop and especially their song "Topknot".
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| Dies illa |
[20 Feb 2008|11:37am] |
The long-married among you all might appreciate this one...
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| Commentarii |
[24 Jan 2008|11:41pm] |
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It's hp_fringeart Imitation Challenge month! I guess this is also the month of falling behind on my flist for days, repeatedly. I just caught up from doing it a second time, and I expect it to happen again next week. So while I'm caught up...
( 15 HP )
( 8 Avatar )
( 5 other )
( 5 misc )
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| Commentarii |
[31 Dec 2007|02:05pm] |
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Out with the old, in with the new. Happy New Year, all!
( 15 HP )
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| Elixir vitae |
[13 Dec 2007|07:09pm] |
A drink recipe, from a coworker.
Annette's Quick Cosmo
1 ounce vodka; 7 ounces SoBe Elixir cranberry-grapefruit flavored juice beverage. Mix in a large tumbler and serve. One 20oz bottle of SoBe makes three servings.
The lack of the lime and triple sec that would go into a true cosmopolitan make this a bit blander, but it's quite similar in flavor and color, still pretty good tasting, and much less effort to make.
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| Commentarii |
[10 Dec 2007|12:22am] |
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For once, I'm actually caught up on my flist, and it seems a good excuse to try out my new organization of links by fandom instead of by type of posting.
( 13 HP )
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| Pyxis aurea |
[07 Dec 2007|09:57pm] |
I saw The Golden Compass this evening!
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Overall grade: B+. But if I hadn't read the books it might have been a bit lower.
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| Defectio solis |
[01 Dec 2007|08:49am] |
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Some of my opinions on Avatar: Day of the Black Sun before I read my flist and let them be colored by everyone else's:
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| Commentarii |
[21 Nov 2007|09:08pm] |
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It's probably a good idea to get this out now in case some of the links go locked later. I'm including a couple of InsaneJournal links, btw, because I commented on them with my livejournal id through the hackery miracle of OpenID.
I'm wondering whether I should try sorting these things by fandoms instead of by fic/art/canon/other as I have been. The HP links still outnumber Avatar this time, but it's getting closer, and there are a few other random fandoms in here that might easily get missed in the current system (Dragaera, Shakespeare, and, uh, Japanese game shows). Anyone have any preferences in this regard?
And, happy Thanksgiving, all!
( 7 fanfics )
( 15 artworks )
( 8 essays )
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