a couple of notes, just as a placeholder for proper entries - you know, detailed and witty and produced at not 4am-headache-o'clock.

• started RIVERS OF LONDON; already charmed. i ordered the entire series published so far, and the first book took the longest to arrive of all 5. the universe is funny and it also wants to remind me what it's like ( Read more... )

yesterday was the tenth annual fangirls' thanksgiving - a party i made up back in 2007 so our local contingent could get together, bring a potluck of leftovers, and watch the media we were thankful for that year. it was partly inspired by "pushing daisies" and all those pies, and partly by selfishness (i was living far from home but still wanted to ( Read more... )

You know how sometimes you make those phone calls to family members, not because you wanna talk to them but because it's a decent thing to do? And you spend too much time listening to them ramble on and on, and you make polite noises of agreement at all the complaining you've heard many times before, because there's no point in attempting actual ( Read more... )

Had a long but fantastic day with my friend K - the first fangirl whom I befriended in person after meeting online TEN YEARS AGO (holy shit!) - wherein we treated ourselves to an architecture tour cruise around the island of Manhattan, a.k.a. three hours on an adorable 1920s boat with champagne, hors d'oeuvres, fantastic narration by the guide, and ( Read more... )

So, it's been a few weeks of marvelous events.

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The first was the evening of Shakespeare's Sonnets at BAM, directed by Robert Wilson, scored by Rufus Wainwright, and performed impeccably by the Berliner Ensemble. In Wilson's signature avant garde fashion, the source material was deconstructed, subverted, and reinvented on multiple levels - the ( Read more... )

...so it looks like it'll take me a few months to get through the actual 30 daily entries here. Nobody cares, right? Our memes are what we make of them, etc? Yeah, thought so ( Read more... )

(In case you missed it, I posted my annual Halloween mix the other day. Hope you'll check it out ( Read more... )

Last night, while walking from the tram stop to my friend's apartment, I got attacked by a stray dog. I'm fine, no possibility of rabies or whatnot - it only managed to chase me down the street and bite the back and sleeve of the coat I was wearing, but I quickly ran into a store and then called my gracious host to come get me. This would probably ( Read more... )

...this time, a new discovery for me: a pop-folk shoegazer alternative band from Serbia called Stray Dogg. Right now you can stream & get a free download of their new, second album Fire's Never Wrong on Bandcamp. They sing in English and create mellow, lo-fi, gentle heartbreaks via guitars, a violin, and a harp. (Yep ( Read more... )

Skipped a few weeks of posting there; alas, I knew it wouldn't be possible to manage daily posts while traveling/on vacation, so - moving on ( Read more... )