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[Nov. 23rd, 2009|12:23 pm] |
Yay, my girl won ANTM this cycle! Yay, that never happens. Yay.
That is literally the most exciting thing about my life right now. As you were. :) |
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[Nov. 20th, 2009|11:40 am] |
Further to Twilight-based discussions, that is genius. The end.
Sorry for flakiness at replying to stuff - depression is very bad this week. Fail kitten is fail. Sigh. |
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[Nov. 17th, 2009|01:08 pm] |
Do you know what I've been doing? I've been reading two of the Twilight books - the middle two - and genuinely enjoying them. Eclipse made me cry.
I get that when Bella talks about Edward she invariably dissolves into paroxysms of how beautiful he is and it's insufferable, so I'm assuming the first book is like that all the time and therefore more or less unreadable, but the thing is, now that I've read these two books, I want to know what everyone's problem is. I mean, they're not great literature, but they're vampire fiction, so that was never really on the table in the first place, and yes, her relationship with Edward is a terrible model for teenagers, but is 'I'm intelligent enough to see that it's a bad relationship but SOMEONE might not be and that would be bad' really the best people can come up with?
They're not that bad. I am surprised, and ashamed of myself for previously having subscribed to the mass cry of 'they're terrible', as I should know better. Also, Jacob is amazing, the end. |
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[Nov. 4th, 2009|08:50 am] |
Many years ago now I asked on here about an old Australian kids' TV show, one of the 329874 that were randomly shipped over here while I was growing up (Ship To Shore, The Girl From Tomorrow, and so forth), and eventually we tracked it down to having been Finders Keepers, a show based on a book by Emily Rodda. ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) adjectivemarcus got me a copy of the book - because he's amazing - and now some kind soul has put the damn thing on YouTube. I love the internet so much. I genuinely haven't seen this since I was about seven, I am so many kinds of thrilled to hear that mad neon intro again :)
Now all I need is someone with Timebusters. But no-one will have that, as it was just a game show. An amazing LARP-esque game show with people acting out times from The Past while kids ran around asking them questions to complete their quest. I miss it.
And now I have to go to therapy, and not sit here watching The Demon Headmaster. I love you, YouTube. |
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[Oct. 25th, 2009|06:15 am] |
I figured I might upload a few songs from my Halloween playlist this year, on the basis that I haven't uploaded music for people since before I moved house (which is just wrong) and also just, you know, because. :) Feel free to take anything; some of it should only be played after dark at your discretion. Management is not responsible for any lost, stolen or damaged nerves.
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[Oct. 16th, 2009|10:27 am] |
Surprise arachnids I can just about handle - the whole point of why I hate them is that they can hide anywhere and get away through any tiny crack and whatever. But yesterday I was woken up by a surprise Flying Thing; I don't know what it was, as it wasn't striped but definitely had the capability to sting and my knowledge of flying stinging things stops at 'bee', 'wasp', and 'oh christ I think that's a hornet', but more alarming is that I don't know where it could have come from.
This morning there was a wasp in my bath.
Like, I have the ability to get rid of these things now, using my special superpowers of having fearless warriors semi-professional musicians living in my head, but I would really like to know how they got in in the first place. Ugh. |
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[Oct. 15th, 2009|04:06 pm] |
Have given in, am watching Criminal Minds from the beginning. Please can I take Reid home and keep him on a bookshelf? Please?
Otherwise I am mostly trying to avoid buying candles again. It's a hard life. |
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[Oct. 14th, 2009|08:03 pm] |
More things the internet tells me they have in the States that I can't get here :
* Cake batter ice cream. This one isn't news to me, I am just still distraught about it.
* Ben & Jerry's Ginger Snaps. 'Brown sugar cinnamon ice cream with gingersnap cookies & a ginger caramel swirl.' I hate you, America. I hate you.
* Hershey's Kisses in pumpkin spice flavour. About the only thing you can do to a Hershey's Kiss to make it edible, but seriously.
* Pumpkin spice flavoured pasta. PASTA. WHY WOULD YOU EVEN WANT THAT. Except that I do. Obviously.
* Lobster ice cream. No, seriously. Only in one place, but the fact that it even exists is just making my brain drain out of my skull, here.
* Champagne flavoured popcorn. How is. what is. what. how. why?
Why can't I teleport :/ I can never move away from England but why can't I teleport :/ Bastards. |
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[Oct. 13th, 2009|02:03 pm] |
Dear Livejournal, please remind me that buying things is not the answer, and that nothing I purchase on the internet can possibly actually make this day go any faster. I am going out of my mind today for whatever reason :/ just want to be at home where it's safe. Similarly, buying stuff on the internet can't make that happen, either. (Unrelatedly, oh, Etsy. Doing it wrong again, I see.)
I do not need soap in the shape of a cauldron. I do not need another candy corn candle. I DO NOT NEED THIS. Oh, god, why am I. |
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[Oct. 12th, 2009|11:07 am] |
Apparently it is National Coming Out Day (UK edition) today. I feel like I should say something, on the basis that I like joining in the marking of occasions and I think this one's important, but the truth is I've had a pretty easy ride of it in terms of telling people my sexuality. I've had to field my mum crying about how she wanted grandchildren a couple of times, but she wouldn't have got those even if I was straight, and the only other problem with it she ever had was one of assuming every female friend I ever had was my girlfriend and trying to force them to sleep in the same bed as me to prove how understanding she was.
I'm lucky. I didn't have to fight with my parents. I thought, I'll write this, and make sure everyone knows I know how lucky I am, and then I thought about school.
I came out as a lesbian at boarding school when I was thirteen. (It was an understandable mistake of sexuality to make, as I hadn't really come across bisexuality at that point and had just been locked away beyond the reach of boys for what was to be five years; boys became pretty irrelevant for a while.) I was never physically hurt because of it - my school didn't much go in for physical bullying, plus I was basically a giant - but there are other ways, right?
The first thing that happened was that the girls I shared a dorm with rang their parents and informed them. Then, they got the girls in the next dorm to do the same - after all, it had a connecting door, they weren't safe either. Before long, I think most of the girls in my year in my house had contacted their parents about it, and pretty swiftly I was told by my housemistress that I wasn't allowed to share a room with anyone any more, because so many parents had complained in fear for their daughters. My sexuality won't have been the only issue - I was pretty mad and unhappy in a lot of ways - but it was certainly the main one. On the plus side, you know, then I did have a room of my own, which was cool.
During that same term, very early into the academic year, it became obvious that I was ahead of the classes in my year in almost every subject, simply by virtue of my prep school having taught to a more extended level than most places, I guess. My parents and I pleaded with the headmistress to let me move up a year, where I would be challenged and much less bored and where I already had friends. This was refused on the grounds that I would 'disrupt the students preparing for their GCSEs'. Yeah. A month and a half, at most, into their first year of them? Not so much, I think. It might be calling conspiracy theory to suggest that their motivation was to keep me away from other girls because they knew about my sexuality, if they hadn't subsequently far more openly done exactly that, later that same year. I'd made some friends in the sixth form by then, and I was summoned to the headmistress's office to be told that I wasn't allowed to maintain those friendships or to be seen with girls in years outside my own, because it was inappropriate, and I would be an unwelcome influence. I said, but they're my friends, I don't really have any other friends. She said, now is a good time to make some, then, isn't it?
And my girlfriend's dad - a QC - tried to bring legal proceedings against the school for allowing me to corrupt his daughter.
All of which was pretty grim. But, as with all other things, I would far rather have said something and dealt with it than tried to pretend to be someone else, and after the first year, everyone got bored and moved on to freaking out about something else, and I survived, and made far stronger and better friendships than I would have if I'd been hiding who I was. Be scared - it's scary. But be brave - it's worth it. |
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[Oct. 12th, 2009|07:09 am] |
So! Now I have finally seen Beetle Juice (don't. I'm glad I waited this long, any earlier and I'd probably have caused global flooding with my storm of weeping, honestly) I am wondering what else I should be thinking about watching leading up to this Halloween. Bearing in mind I generally suck at actual horror unless it's vampires (and even then, the lamer the better), what should I downl totally legally buy in shops for money? :x
Obviously I have already seen various things you may suggest, but I'd still like to know what springs first to mind for you, so I'm not going to make a list or anything~ Just, you know, what do you think I'd like, or what are your favourites? :) |
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[Oct. 10th, 2009|10:57 am] |
Oh god, I have found a place selling Andrea Kett cards online. I see no way this can go wrong! Except, you know, for my wallet.
There are, seriously, about three or four pictures I've seen of hers that I don't crave lifesize reproductions of. She has an Etsy, too, but fortunately her prints are out of my price range (although I may whine about this again come Christmas; I love Upper Crust and Dressed Crab too much to cope without them for the rest of my life, I think :x).
Ngh. She is my favourite, the end. |
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[Oct. 7th, 2009|09:59 pm] |
As if by magic, the internet appeared!
In my home :D goddamn. I can finally settle in. Thank christ. Right. As you were :) |
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[Oct. 6th, 2009|10:07 am] |
Hi! God, look at it out there, it's grey and raining and October and that might mean I can actually start to communicate with the outside world again. Surely not! Anyway. Hello. I just know you want to know what I've been doing with myself.
Quick things first : one, I saw Boris getting very wet on his bike this morning, which amused me; two, I am ill, it's just a cold but it's infuriating; three, yesterday I unpacked all the Halloween tat I could find, bought some more at Sainsbury's, and decked my fireplace out for Halloween the way I've wanted to for. well. I don't even want to think about how long I've wanted to have a place of my own I could dress up in black and orange. There are candles and a pumpkin dish full of Halloween chocolate and all my autumn perfumes and my voodoo box and a cinnamon stick and I am very pleased, the end.
Eh, you know, I was going to write about how I'm in therapy again, and then I was going to write about how I went to meet Harry Potter fans over the weekend and failed completely at social interaction and had to run away (sorry guys, if you are reading this - you were lovely, I am useless), but I really don't think it's all that interesting to anyone. Oh, and I've been to Vagabonds again, which reminds me - does anyone know of a guy going around the goth scene who essentially thinks he's Draco Malfoy? My stalking skills aren't what they were - come on, London, I need your help.
Right. And now, work.
PS Troy Hart, by the way. |
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[Sep. 28th, 2009|06:16 pm] |
Don't fast-forward adverts on your shiny new media TV box. I don't know how I'd have survived without seeing the child with the distressing obsession for using Paul's bathroom, or the totally amazing extra in the back of the current Go Compare ad, or, especially, the absolutely freaking mental DEFRA public information film with the singing food puppets. (YouTube it right now.)
Seriously. Sorry, the Go Compare dude and the child Paul may well need a restraining order against were on in the same ad break just now and I can't tell you how happy it made me. Not to mention the disturbing fireman who shoots white liquid down the throats of men and women alike to soothe their heartburn, or the little energy-saving nerd who has a civil partnership with a penguin.
I love adverts. I don't care what you say. I love them. They are insane. |
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[Sep. 26th, 2009|03:51 pm] |
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I will seriously give some money (not very much. you know, maybe a pound. but it's still money) to the person who can accurately tell me why 'Sweet Harmony' by The Beloved makes me cry every single time I hear it. I mean, it's pretty bloody awful, even by the standards of the 90s. There's no mystery association, I promise, it must be purely a musical thing somehow. What is this about? |
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[Sep. 17th, 2009|06:03 pm] |
I know this is atypical of the reasoned, structured musical criticism you have all come to expect from me, but OH HOLY GOD, MUSE. ARE. SO GOOD. Like, I know we knew that already, BUT I DON'T CARE, I'M GOING TO SAY IT AGAIN. MUSE. ARE AMAZING. SO GOOD.
That is all.
Edit : wait! No, it isn't. While I'm here, being irrational and knee-jerk-y - Kanye? You're a dick and all your talent has drained out of you and been replaced by delusional self-regard.
That is all. (This is my 5000th LJ post - it seems appropriate somehow.) |
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[Sep. 14th, 2009|08:11 am] |
You know how I love pop music? I love 'Left My Heart in Tokyo' by Mini Viva. It is pop music. It is great. It has as much substance as a Refreshers bar made of neon air. I love it. So should you.
I'm getting seriously concerned about Beyonce, though. |
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[Sep. 13th, 2009|06:23 pm] |
I have a crush on someone off Scrapheap Challenge.
Kill me. |
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[Sep. 11th, 2009|02:10 pm] |
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That said, it has reminded me that I keep meaning to post saying how GODDAMN INCREDIBLE Gary Numan's Berserker album is. I was always under the vague impression that it was considered not one of his best? I could be wrong, though, I've paid criminally little attention to most of his post-Dance work. This stuff is great. |
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