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WHY DON'T YA JUST KISS HER
Sep. 8th, 2009 06:06 amThe past week has been good times, but I am on the verge of becoming THE THING THAT LIVES IN THE GUEST BEDROOM and I kind of have to get out of here while I still have brain cells.
Has anyone else seen that show on Spike called DEADLIEST WARRIOR, and it's like SAMURAI VS. VIKING and MAORI WARRIOR VS. SHAOLIN MONK and just all this cracked out ~*science*~ and in the end, there is a choreographed samurai vs. viking showdown. It is terrible and hilarious, and is essentially just a penis-measuring contest and everyone yelling, "Oh yeah?! OH YEAH?!" I CAN'T STOP WATCHING.
Oren Lavie popped up on aurgasm and the name sounds familiar. Turns out he sang A Dance Around the Memory Tree on the Prince Caspian soundtrack. Anyway, it's a lovely song, check it out then the rest of the blog, especially "Daylight" by Matt & Kim, which is a song that makes me want to dance and have adventures all the time.
Speaking of the music! I've been bulk-downloading bunches of it, sort of stocking up before school starts. I've recovered loads of The Cranberries and Oasis so hooray for that. Quick, which other music should I recover/check out?
I'm reading a Generation Kill fic called Sixteen Days in September. I don't even watch Generation Kill, but the fic's set during Timor Leste's struggle for independence in 1999. Another reviewer said you don't even need to know the characters to get absorbed in the story and, okay, I agree. The story kind of feels like a journalistic docudrama. The internal politics of the United Nations and the fraught camaraderie of people trying to run things within a country in turmoil are brought out vividly, and, gosh, I dunno. It's great. Timor Leste's story is rarely told, and it deserves to be heard. Summary: "When Peace Corps assigns Nate to East Timor, a tiny half-island in eastern Indonesia, he figures he'll have a lot of time to catch up on his reading. But the year is 1999, and the shock fall of military dictator Suharto is still reverberating throughout the country, triggering changes nobody ever thought possible. As East Timor moves inexorably towards freedom – or war – Nate is drawn into events that will define the future of the province forever."
Hey, so,
( OFFICIAL SERIES 2 MERLIN TRAILER: CAPS & CAPSLOCK )
ETA: Meme gacked from a bunch of people -- Give me the title of a story I've never written, and feedback telling me what you liked best about it, and I will tell you any of: the first sentence, the last sentence, the thing that made me want to write it, the biggest problem I had while writing it, why it almost never got posted, the scene that hit the cutting room floor but that I wish I'd been able to salvage, or something else that I want readers to know.
Has anyone else seen that show on Spike called DEADLIEST WARRIOR, and it's like SAMURAI VS. VIKING and MAORI WARRIOR VS. SHAOLIN MONK and just all this cracked out ~*science*~ and in the end, there is a choreographed samurai vs. viking showdown. It is terrible and hilarious, and is essentially just a penis-measuring contest and everyone yelling, "Oh yeah?! OH YEAH?!" I CAN'T STOP WATCHING.
Oren Lavie popped up on aurgasm and the name sounds familiar. Turns out he sang A Dance Around the Memory Tree on the Prince Caspian soundtrack. Anyway, it's a lovely song, check it out then the rest of the blog, especially "Daylight" by Matt & Kim, which is a song that makes me want to dance and have adventures all the time.
Speaking of the music! I've been bulk-downloading bunches of it, sort of stocking up before school starts. I've recovered loads of The Cranberries and Oasis so hooray for that. Quick, which other music should I recover/check out?
I'm reading a Generation Kill fic called Sixteen Days in September. I don't even watch Generation Kill, but the fic's set during Timor Leste's struggle for independence in 1999. Another reviewer said you don't even need to know the characters to get absorbed in the story and, okay, I agree. The story kind of feels like a journalistic docudrama. The internal politics of the United Nations and the fraught camaraderie of people trying to run things within a country in turmoil are brought out vividly, and, gosh, I dunno. It's great. Timor Leste's story is rarely told, and it deserves to be heard. Summary: "When Peace Corps assigns Nate to East Timor, a tiny half-island in eastern Indonesia, he figures he'll have a lot of time to catch up on his reading. But the year is 1999, and the shock fall of military dictator Suharto is still reverberating throughout the country, triggering changes nobody ever thought possible. As East Timor moves inexorably towards freedom – or war – Nate is drawn into events that will define the future of the province forever."
Hey, so,
( OFFICIAL SERIES 2 MERLIN TRAILER: CAPS & CAPSLOCK )ETA: Meme gacked from a bunch of people -- Give me the title of a story I've never written, and feedback telling me what you liked best about it, and I will tell you any of: the first sentence, the last sentence, the thing that made me want to write it, the biggest problem I had while writing it, why it almost never got posted, the scene that hit the cutting room floor but that I wish I'd been able to salvage, or something else that I want readers to know.
