Several years ago, I used to spend a ridiculous number of hours watching Inside the Actors’ Studio, hosted by James Lipton. The show had a blend of celebrity, study of craft, and personal exploration, all combined with Lipton’s unique soft-spoken tone, that made it fascinating.

At the end of every episode, he asks ten questions, an adapted version ( Read more... )

Apparently the rules are: You comment, I give you an age (please tell me how old you are, or risk having to time-travel to find out the answers) and you respond to the meme questions with what applied to you back then, and what's true now.

The lovely wordweaverlynn gave me: 16, which was 1996 and I was a Sophmore/Junior in high school.

I lived in:I'm trying ( Read more... )

I've been somewhat sick half the week, but I've discovered that taking Nyquil before bed = awesomeness. What? Sleep through the night? Without my head congested and generally unbreatheable? Wake up feeling better not worse the next morning? Yeah! Why haven't I done this before?

Because I've been a head full of mucus this week, I've use this as an ( Read more... )

(Via mrissa) I will add my monthly reading list later today.

The book I'm reading: I, Robot, by Isaac Asimov, which is enjoyable, but very old fashioned in tone and sentiment. I'm also reading The Letter All Your Friends Have Written You, a lovely book of poetry by Caits Messner and Tishon that I got through their kickstarter project, as well as Z: Zombie ( Read more... )

I’m running a test to see who’s reading my posts. So, if you read this, leave me a one-word comment about your day that starts with the third letter of your LJ USERNAME. Only one word please. Then repost so I can leave a word for you. Don’t just post a word and not copy - that’s not as much fun!

(Via miskit)

It's been a while since I've done one of these, but it's always fascinating to see what tone crops up on my friend's list for the day. (There's a lot of animals in this one.)

The Exercise: Using the day's LiveJournal friends list, collect snippets of prose from other people's entries. Using only one snippet per entry and altering nothing more than ( Read more... )

I don't know how many days I missed or have left, but I'm going to finish up the list. I'm kind of bored with this meme at this point, because I'm feeling like my answers are somewhat redundant. Anywho.

Day 26 - OMG WTF? Season finaleCan't think of one. I tend to accept season finally episodes as an extension of the plot, or at least have done so ( Read more... )

I picked out pieces from some very different works and put them all into the analyzer. I don't know know what I think about the result, as I'm not particularly a fan of James Joyce. He's a little too dense for me, and I never really enjoy reading his books when I do. It's too much like work.


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My weekend and Fourth of July was spent sitting by the lake, drinking beers, and no where near a computer, which was pretty fantastic.  (I didn't even touch my cell phone all weekend!) So that, combined with a couple days of laziness as I readjusted to the grind, means I'm somewhat behind on this whole TV meme thing. I've got many days to catch up ( Read more... )

Day 18 - Favorite title sequence

It's a cross between the intros for True Blood and Veronica Mars. Both have theme songs that make me want to get up and dance and sing a long to (I already posted about these so I'll just direct you there, which has embedded videos of the themes -- if you're interested). Though True Blood has the added benefit of ( Read more... )