Little Drummer Boy
The Schandmaennchen-Ticker made me laugh tonight, when they reported that Tom Cruise is not just an aggressive nutjob who jumps up and down on furniture... In Parade Magazine he obviously gave an interview which allows for an inside view into his troubled soul: He discloses that he hard a bad childhood with his autoritarian father who always beat him and pushed him around... You know, that's the story where some day he retreats with his tin drum and decides not to grow anymore. *LOL* Grass, anyone?
Well, while I eat up the last macadamia nuts and while you could do something more important, I'll give those of you who are interested an overview what I got for my birthday from my 20something* guests and my bro (nothing yet from my parents)
* DVD Kriegerherzen (Warrior Hearts, including the 9min music video 'Warrior Hearts' by medieval metal band 'Minotaurus' - like LARP gone Movie, named 'Best No-Budget production fantasy film in years' by several LOTR-participants) Rated FSK16 (free to view from age 16). A collective gift from most of the myraworld people present.
* DVD Mirrormask by Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean and the Jim Henson Company - different from 'Labyrinth', but if you've seen the books 'Signal to Noise' or 'Mr Punch' by Gaiman/McKean, and the Sandman comics or the Coraline children's book by Gaiman you'd expect 'different'. Rated PG.
* DVD Taran by Disney, based on book 1+2 of the Prydain Chronicles by Lloyd Alexander - also fantasy for young and older, very different from the previous DVD and still very different from the books, which I love, but still good enough that I wanted the DVD even though I owned the (Ger only) VHS video. Rated FSK6
* DVD Nausicaä, by Hayao Miyazaki, a double DVD with lots of extras, the classic movie by the man who brought us Princess Mononoke, Oscar-winning Chihiro and recently Howl's Moving Castle (also only loosely based on Dianna Wynne Jones novel of the same name). I wonder what they at Studio Ghibli whill make of "Gedo Senki" - the wizard Ged, based on Ursula K. LeGuin's beloved Earthsea-novels... Nausicaä is an original, with the serialized manga by the same time in the same time, so no novel was abused here and the movie *is* Anime Classics material.
* Book: Master and Fool by J.V.Jones, book three in the 'Book of Words' cycle, of which I got #2 by chance through bookcrossing, and #1 for Christmas from ellifaey, who also gave me this and a detailed character sketch of her myraworld character Aori. The book is in German translation - one of these years I'll want to read the english originals too.
* Book: Splintered Light - Logos and Language in Tolkien's World, by Verlyn Flieger, a Tolkien scholar of quality, whom I had the pleasure to meet in 1992 at the Centennial Tolkien Symposium of the Inklings. Like 'Mirrormask' I got this from lenew.
* Book: 7 Books in 1, by Edith Nesbit, a Nesbit Omnibus published by ShoesAndShipsAndSealingWax.com, including The Railway Children, Five Children and It, The Phoenix and the Carpet, The Story of the Amulet, The Story of the Treasure Seekers, The Would-Be-Goods, and The Enchanted Castle. From my Bro. (To my joy lenew still remembered how we once stood at E.Nesbit's grave in front of the old roman-style church.)
* Lego Hogwarts 4752: Lesson with Lupin, an addition to the large Lego Harry Potter assortment we have, as the present from gwenw and eileenw. It was Gwen's idea of course, as she had been the one to build the castle with me (or vice versa).
* Tea 'Orkanböe' (Gust of Storm), a herbal tea, from one of the myraworld people, who had been moderator/game master for one of my very storm-godly personalities.
* Tea 'Jade Moon', a spiced japanese green Sencha tea, also by a Myra guy, and two little jade lion statues from Thailand to go with the tea,
* More tea: 250g of finest mint tea, 100g of Shui Hsien, a Chinese Fujian Oolong tea, both by Myra friends
* LOTR: A Lothlorien greenleaf pendant & keychain (nice metal, not cheap plastics)
* Harry Potter: a 20cm statue, filled with shower gel... never saw that before, but it's crazy, so I like it.
* More Middle Earth: The Wizards, and The Lidless Eye - a big box of collectible cards for the CCG, including two starters and some boosters.
* More Harry Potter: A BIG BOX of cards for the HP-CCG, a game I actually like to play (never played 'Magic' or even touched 'Pokemon'), this and some of the above by anysidora who decided to cut down on her own collection, much to my benefit.
* MP3 player 538 by MSI, micro format, multi options: connects with USB2 and takes SD/MMC cards, so it's extremely expandable without interior limits, while still only slightly larger than a lighter.
* Sweets, including 'fair trade' black chocolate, 'Happiness' chocolate which makes the tongue crackle, and Toffifee, the Fee (fairy) I like best (except for Baleine, of course) plus a spiced 'English Garden' candle, mostly by maerfee and her family (Maerfee's mom lived with us before ellifaey did, and I know both her parents and herself through poliitikiwa).
* Last not least a special book: dnd3e Core Rule Book, the dungeon_masters Guide 3.5 (I still have the 1979 First Edition by Gary Gygax, which I bought at Macy's in New York, once upon a time...). I got the 3.5 PHB for dndfanz (PHB not meant as a Dilbert reference here) for Christmas, so together with dndfeed and the DMG, my campaigns will be up to date enough to feature on rpg_promo.
Enough of the geek/nerd/dorktowerfeed talk, or you'll hear my talk of .hack//sign on PS2 and PHP4 on SQL4 soon - and who'd want to read that?!? So back to a nice read: "Ritus" by Markus Heitz, who wrote the dwarven bestsellers and before writing this book preferred Vampires to Werewolves. Did you know my name is Werewolfgang? Muahahaha...(* =the number, not the age. the age was between 15 and 50 - literally)
Well, while I eat up the last macadamia nuts and while you could do something more important, I'll give those of you who are interested an overview what I got for my birthday from my 20something* guests and my bro (nothing yet from my parents)
* DVD Kriegerherzen (Warrior Hearts, including the 9min music video 'Warrior Hearts' by medieval metal band 'Minotaurus' - like LARP gone Movie, named 'Best No-Budget production fantasy film in years' by several LOTR-participants) Rated FSK16 (free to view from age 16). A collective gift from most of the myraworld people present.
* DVD Mirrormask by Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean and the Jim Henson Company - different from 'Labyrinth', but if you've seen the books 'Signal to Noise' or 'Mr Punch' by Gaiman/McKean, and the Sandman comics or the Coraline children's book by Gaiman you'd expect 'different'. Rated PG.
* DVD Taran by Disney, based on book 1+2 of the Prydain Chronicles by Lloyd Alexander - also fantasy for young and older, very different from the previous DVD and still very different from the books, which I love, but still good enough that I wanted the DVD even though I owned the (Ger only) VHS video. Rated FSK6
* DVD Nausicaä, by Hayao Miyazaki, a double DVD with lots of extras, the classic movie by the man who brought us Princess Mononoke, Oscar-winning Chihiro and recently Howl's Moving Castle (also only loosely based on Dianna Wynne Jones novel of the same name). I wonder what they at Studio Ghibli whill make of "Gedo Senki" - the wizard Ged, based on Ursula K. LeGuin's beloved Earthsea-novels... Nausicaä is an original, with the serialized manga by the same time in the same time, so no novel was abused here and the movie *is* Anime Classics material.
* Book: Master and Fool by J.V.Jones, book three in the 'Book of Words' cycle, of which I got #2 by chance through bookcrossing, and #1 for Christmas from ellifaey, who also gave me this and a detailed character sketch of her myraworld character Aori. The book is in German translation - one of these years I'll want to read the english originals too.
* Book: Splintered Light - Logos and Language in Tolkien's World, by Verlyn Flieger, a Tolkien scholar of quality, whom I had the pleasure to meet in 1992 at the Centennial Tolkien Symposium of the Inklings. Like 'Mirrormask' I got this from lenew.
* Book: 7 Books in 1, by Edith Nesbit, a Nesbit Omnibus published by ShoesAndShipsAndSealingWax.com, including The Railway Children, Five Children and It, The Phoenix and the Carpet, The Story of the Amulet, The Story of the Treasure Seekers, The Would-Be-Goods, and The Enchanted Castle. From my Bro. (To my joy lenew still remembered how we once stood at E.Nesbit's grave in front of the old roman-style church.)
* Lego Hogwarts 4752: Lesson with Lupin, an addition to the large Lego Harry Potter assortment we have, as the present from gwenw and eileenw. It was Gwen's idea of course, as she had been the one to build the castle with me (or vice versa).
* Tea 'Orkanböe' (Gust of Storm), a herbal tea, from one of the myraworld people, who had been moderator/game master for one of my very storm-godly personalities.
* Tea 'Jade Moon', a spiced japanese green Sencha tea, also by a Myra guy, and two little jade lion statues from Thailand to go with the tea,
* More tea: 250g of finest mint tea, 100g of Shui Hsien, a Chinese Fujian Oolong tea, both by Myra friends
* LOTR: A Lothlorien greenleaf pendant & keychain (nice metal, not cheap plastics)
* Harry Potter: a 20cm statue, filled with shower gel... never saw that before, but it's crazy, so I like it.
* More Middle Earth: The Wizards, and The Lidless Eye - a big box of collectible cards for the CCG, including two starters and some boosters.
* More Harry Potter: A BIG BOX of cards for the HP-CCG, a game I actually like to play (never played 'Magic' or even touched 'Pokemon'), this and some of the above by anysidora who decided to cut down on her own collection, much to my benefit.
* MP3 player 538 by MSI, micro format, multi options: connects with USB2 and takes SD/MMC cards, so it's extremely expandable without interior limits, while still only slightly larger than a lighter.
* Sweets, including 'fair trade' black chocolate, 'Happiness' chocolate which makes the tongue crackle, and Toffifee, the Fee (fairy) I like best (except for Baleine, of course) plus a spiced 'English Garden' candle, mostly by maerfee and her family (Maerfee's mom lived with us before ellifaey did, and I know both her parents and herself through poliitikiwa).
* Last not least a special book: dnd3e Core Rule Book, the dungeon_masters Guide 3.5 (I still have the 1979 First Edition by Gary Gygax, which I bought at Macy's in New York, once upon a time...). I got the 3.5 PHB for dndfanz (PHB not meant as a Dilbert reference here) for Christmas, so together with dndfeed and the DMG, my campaigns will be up to date enough to feature on rpg_promo.
Enough of the geek/nerd/dorktowerfeed talk, or you'll hear my talk of .hack//sign on PS2 and PHP4 on SQL4 soon - and who'd want to read that?!? So back to a nice read: "Ritus" by Markus Heitz, who wrote the dwarven bestsellers and before writing this book preferred Vampires to Werewolves. Did you know my name is Werewolfgang? Muahahaha...(* =the number, not the age. the age was between 15 and 50 - literally)