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[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 ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif) 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!
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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!
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| Coffea arabica |
[03 Nov 2007|11:43am] |
This week I bought a conical burr grinder and started grinding my own espresso instead of using preground from Starbucks. Same blend of beans (Starbucks Gold Coast), same espresso maker, same amount of water, just changing the grind. I wasn't expecting a huge difference, just more convenience not having to deal with the Starbucks staff who, increasingly often, don't even know how to use the grinder, and not having to deal with the ground coffee getting clumpy in the freezer. But the coffee is much better. More consistent crema, better texture, clearer coffee flavor.
The next step, I suppose, is trying a few other varieties of beans to see whether they're better than the one I've been using. I've heard of people who take this to the level of roasting their own but that's too far for me.
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