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An update on Spike, since so many of you have been helpful: We've been to the vet. The test results aren't back yet, but I've put him on a special diet and cystease (urinary health pills), and there hasn't been an accident in a few days - not that that means anything. In either case, I have decided not to make any irreversible decisions at this point, mostly because I got so upset at the mere thought of putting him down (cried for hours) that it's arguably worse than having half my belongings destroyed.
This week, I've also cleaned and reorganized my bookshelves, which included getting rid of about 20 books, 8 CDs and a movie. I have had my pangs of book regret, though only concerning one particular book. A friend gave it to me, and I read and liked it, but it creeped me out so fundamentally I haven't wanted to read it again. So I gave it away, and then I spent a long while last night wondering if perhaps that had been a bad decision. It was a good book, after all.
Still, I got creeped out just looking at it, so probably not.
With the CDs, I backuped the songs I really liked to my iTunes library, just to make sure. And then freed up some space on my hard drive by burning some stuff onto DVDR. I won't tell you how much, because you might have to testify against me in court, and that would be bad. *g*
In other news, I rewatched the first Narnia movie and decided to vid it to the theme song of the old BBC TV series. Unfortunately, I couldn't find my mp3 file, so I went searching for the theme song, and found some BBC clips on YouTube. As it turned out, you only get the whole song by clipping together beginning and end; let's see if I can do it seamlessly.
I also watched the beginning of this clip, and holy crap, I had remembered some badness (mostly in the special effects department), but I hadn't remembered the acting being so positively abysmal. Everyone sounds as if they're in a school play, and as for their Caspian... I'm a notorious hater of crappy child actors, and even I was shocked at how bad he is. I dare say he rivals the infamous John Christian Graas.
I have reached the conclusion that the people who claim the BBC series is better than the movies either have some seriously rose-coloured glasses or very different criteria from mine. (The fact that I consider faithfulness to the source material a tangential - and not necessarily positive - factor might have something to do with it. *g*)
I've also watched the old Doctor Who episode The Daleks, which is fun, but I'm not finished yet. I'll talk about it when I'm done. With pictures. :-)
Also, concerning Doctor Who, let me harp on some more about Donna. (Yes, yes, I know...) I think what bothers me with her fate isn't so much that she loses what she has been, but that she's cut off from the alien world for her entire future life. Any other living companion, you can imagine what they would do if they had a random alien encounter after leaving the doctor. But we know what Donna would do: die. She can't be who she was in Turn Left, because if she joined in the fight again, even for a moment, it would destroy her brain. It leaves her on the outside, and even though I'm well aware that there are other ways to be awesome, this is Doctor Who, not Donna the Supertemp. To have this rich alien experience around the corner, open to more and more people every day (the 21st century is when it all changes), and Donna always being the one who just missed it, who's never clued in... ugh.
Yes, it can be fanwanked, but so can anything. The show itself gives no hope.
This week, I've also cleaned and reorganized my bookshelves, which included getting rid of about 20 books, 8 CDs and a movie. I have had my pangs of book regret, though only concerning one particular book. A friend gave it to me, and I read and liked it, but it creeped me out so fundamentally I haven't wanted to read it again. So I gave it away, and then I spent a long while last night wondering if perhaps that had been a bad decision. It was a good book, after all.
Still, I got creeped out just looking at it, so probably not.
With the CDs, I backuped the songs I really liked to my iTunes library, just to make sure. And then freed up some space on my hard drive by burning some stuff onto DVDR. I won't tell you how much, because you might have to testify against me in court, and that would be bad. *g*
In other news, I rewatched the first Narnia movie and decided to vid it to the theme song of the old BBC TV series. Unfortunately, I couldn't find my mp3 file, so I went searching for the theme song, and found some BBC clips on YouTube. As it turned out, you only get the whole song by clipping together beginning and end; let's see if I can do it seamlessly.
I also watched the beginning of this clip, and holy crap, I had remembered some badness (mostly in the special effects department), but I hadn't remembered the acting being so positively abysmal. Everyone sounds as if they're in a school play, and as for their Caspian... I'm a notorious hater of crappy child actors, and even I was shocked at how bad he is. I dare say he rivals the infamous John Christian Graas.
I have reached the conclusion that the people who claim the BBC series is better than the movies either have some seriously rose-coloured glasses or very different criteria from mine. (The fact that I consider faithfulness to the source material a tangential - and not necessarily positive - factor might have something to do with it. *g*)
I've also watched the old Doctor Who episode The Daleks, which is fun, but I'm not finished yet. I'll talk about it when I'm done. With pictures. :-)
Also, concerning Doctor Who, let me harp on some more about Donna. (Yes, yes, I know...) I think what bothers me with her fate isn't so much that she loses what she has been, but that she's cut off from the alien world for her entire future life. Any other living companion, you can imagine what they would do if they had a random alien encounter after leaving the doctor. But we know what Donna would do: die. She can't be who she was in Turn Left, because if she joined in the fight again, even for a moment, it would destroy her brain. It leaves her on the outside, and even though I'm well aware that there are other ways to be awesome, this is Doctor Who, not Donna the Supertemp. To have this rich alien experience around the corner, open to more and more people every day (the 21st century is when it all changes), and Donna always being the one who just missed it, who's never clued in... ugh.
Yes, it can be fanwanked, but so can anything. The show itself gives no hope.