Friday five - mostly media
- Am reading Palimpsest by Catherynne M. Valente at the moment. It's like the novel version of some kind of mad Studio Ghibili film with added sex, written in incredibly flouncy language. The poetry and imagery is impressive but the characters seem completedly empty so far, it doesn't seem to have any heart underneath the surface. Maybe I'm just an old prude but I'm not particularly impressed by the first 3 chapters ending with the characters having seemingly meaningless sex with random strangers... Still, I've only read the first section so far so we'll see if it gets deeper when we get to know the characters better. (N.B. my reading list for the year is the top post on my journal for those of you who are newer around here)
- The weather is utterly foul. I am not a fan of February.
- The builders have almost finished doing up the flats nextdoor and downstairs. I'm very relieved because the novelty has worn off with the amount of noise they have been making this week - hammering floor boards at 10.30 pm on a weeknight when The Boy has to get up at 6 am for work, for example.
- Did anyone else watch Michel Roux's Service on BBC2? The last episode made me teary eyed - who says today's teenagers are a waste of space! It just shows that sometimes troublesome young people really do just need to be given a genuine chance to shine.
- Speaking of TV, I'm loving the return of Being Human and The Vampire Diaries - very different but equally dark and angsty in their own ways. I'm loving Nina in Being Human even more this series and as for TVD, I could watch Damon being angsty all day ;)
- The weather is utterly foul. I am not a fan of February.
- The builders have almost finished doing up the flats nextdoor and downstairs. I'm very relieved because the novelty has worn off with the amount of noise they have been making this week - hammering floor boards at 10.30 pm on a weeknight when The Boy has to get up at 6 am for work, for example.
- Did anyone else watch Michel Roux's Service on BBC2? The last episode made me teary eyed - who says today's teenagers are a waste of space! It just shows that sometimes troublesome young people really do just need to be given a genuine chance to shine.
- Speaking of TV, I'm loving the return of Being Human and The Vampire Diaries - very different but equally dark and angsty in their own ways. I'm loving Nina in Being Human even more this series and as for TVD, I could watch Damon being angsty all day ;)