Last time I saw a Harry Potter movie, I walked in expecting suspense, mystery, and questions. I got teenage dreams being crushed and gossipy infighting beyond anything JKR put in her books, and though I loved the scenes that didn't relate to romance, I really detested the way Half-Blood Prince handled the tension of Voldemort's rise ( Read more... )

Yesterday, job interviews and orientations crashed Zelly's birthday. She did get a job at Best Buy out of it, and took her drug test, so she's ahead of the game. It was like a birthday present to herself, if you want to think of it that way. I want to think of it as a troublesome way to spend my best friend's birthday. See, I had my job orientation ( Read more... )

In an effort to be a bit less nitpicky and negative about the latest Harry Potter movie, here's me, going on record to list the movie's high points and successes (in true fanfic burning spirit). It wasn't all craziness and loose canon, and for the things it got so very right, I salute this movie.

( Unplagued by an excess of phlegm, the list )

Let me say this: Half-Blood Prince is every bit as awesome and as awful as you've heard. It's important you note that there are good points and bad, and that someone who hasn't read the books is more likely to see the positive, whereas somebody like me, who has read every book well over ten times (some of them as many as sixty, and no, I am not ( Read more... )

From Grima Lowe Cathedral off the .hack//G.U. OST: "Der Mann mit Schatten ist auf / Der Such' nach dem Abenddrachen verreist / Und kommt noch nicht zurück." I'm proud of myself for being able to understand one bit of that without running for the translation, thanks to learning .hack//SIGN's Das Wandern, which has, "Kehr zurück, kehr zurück," in it ( Read more... )