possible mini-detail spoilers for those who haven't seen Narnia.
And just so you know, I ent giving Christmas cards to people who don't TELL ME WHAT THEY WANT ME TO DRAW OR HAVEN'T ASKED ME TO MAKE THEM ONE. Ahemahem JUST ABOUT EVERYBODY EXCEPT CHRISTINA AND EMILY Ahemahem.
-points up at title 'cos she don't want to ruin anyone's mini-details-
So, s'like.... I went to see Narnia yesterday. I <3ed it. And I'm pretty sure the actors weren't English (although it was kinna hard to tell, for me). Oh, no. Looking it up, and they're all from the UK. London. Fancy that. X3 Well I know they /filmed/ in New Zealand... -shifty eyes as she waits for someone to come up with evidence that it wasn't. In fact. Filmed in the Zealand that is Noveltised.-...And the CG? the CG was fan-fucking-tastic. I mean Mr. Tumnus, the faun, was FANTABULOUS. And he stuttered. And he was cute beyond belief. Why, oh why oh sodding why did he have to have blue eyes, though? Pretty soon people'll think I have a thing for blue eyes. Which I have already expressly expressed that I don't, thank you very much.
So anyway, the CG. The CG was delectable. It was delicious to the eye. It made centaurs look /real/. It made gryphons look /real/. It made a talking lion look absolutely real. I mean... there are no words to describe it. I've always seen drawings of centaurs or gryphons that I thought looked absolutely real, but of course they couldn't make them 3D and have them prance around with real actors. But they did. They did, and what's more they made it look SO realistic. 'twas beautiful, I tell you.
OH OH I'm looking James McAvoy's imdb page (because, lyk omg, he played Tumnus and he rawks my sawks) and not only is he ha highly skilled boxer, fencer, and rugby player, as well as a fire eater, but he was in BRIGHT YOUNG THINGS. I haven't seen that movie, now, but Stephen Fry directed it.
-squee- <3333 Yes, that's what happens when my fandoms collide. >333
Aaand
I cut the rest, which is going to be ravings about Stephen Fry's The Liar and about a particular word. Which is "Tmesis".
First off: The Liar. I finished it this morning, and I love it. It's confusing as hell, and I may just have to go back and re-read it again if I have time so I can understand the stuff in the beginning that I didn't get because it wasn't revealed until the end. Because books are like that sometimes. And me, with my memory that is minute as a vanishing pimple upon the nose of a bacterium, well I need help with that sort of thing. I've got enough trouble remembering names. If there are five people in one novel with a name that starts with the same letter, let's say "P", It takes me a long time and lots of explanations to myself and looking back before I can even begin to remember which one is which. Peter? Oh, I thought that was Phillip. Or maybe Paul. Wait, wait, wasn't there a Princeton?
That's just what I'm like. Aneehway. I just love the book. It's filled with insane characters, and witty wit, and stuff like people saying "Oh, Christ. Oh, Christly Christ." or " 'Queer am I?' said Adrian. 'They called Oscar Wilde a queer, they called Michelangelo a queer, they called Tchaikovsky a-' 'And they were queers.' 'Well yes, there is that. My argument rather falls down there I grant you..' "
Or, you know, just silly things like a teacher being all stuffy when a kid's late and saying "Late, Healey?" "Oh really, sir? I am too, as a matter of coincidence."
And the fact that Adrian names his objects. "He hung Jeremy, his blazer, on Anthony, the peg."
...I mean gee golly whiz. I am filled with new words and expressions and although I will promptly forget them, I'll make a jolly hard try at keeping them in my vocabulary.
Secondly: That brings me to a tmesis, which I have actually used twice (I believe) in this entire journal entry. To spare you all looking back, what I used was "fan-fucking-tastic".. and I can't find the other. But you get what I mean. The definition of a tmesis, based on memory and memory alone (which might mean that you'll need to actually look it up if you're interested): A word resulting when one word is split and another interjected between the two halves. The word "tmesis" itself comes from either a Latin or Greek word (kill me now, oh scholars of either of those languages) meaning "cut". Or the root does. It comes up in words like "Appendectomy"
It is, in fact, either the only word in the English language to begin in two consonants or the only word in the English language to begin with "tm". Don't ask me which one.
And that is what happens when I try to give a lecture based upon my memory. Amusing, perhaps, but ultimately very low on direct details. But ahoy, that's what research is for.
-points up at title 'cos she don't want to ruin anyone's mini-details-
So, s'like.... I went to see Narnia yesterday. I <3ed it. And I'm pretty sure the actors weren't English (although it was kinna hard to tell, for me). Oh, no. Looking it up, and they're all from the UK. London. Fancy that. X3 Well I know they /filmed/ in New Zealand... -shifty eyes as she waits for someone to come up with evidence that it wasn't. In fact. Filmed in the Zealand that is Noveltised.-...And the CG? the CG was fan-fucking-tastic. I mean Mr. Tumnus, the faun, was FANTABULOUS. And he stuttered. And he was cute beyond belief. Why, oh why oh sodding why did he have to have blue eyes, though? Pretty soon people'll think I have a thing for blue eyes. Which I have already expressly expressed that I don't, thank you very much.
So anyway, the CG. The CG was delectable. It was delicious to the eye. It made centaurs look /real/. It made gryphons look /real/. It made a talking lion look absolutely real. I mean... there are no words to describe it. I've always seen drawings of centaurs or gryphons that I thought looked absolutely real, but of course they couldn't make them 3D and have them prance around with real actors. But they did. They did, and what's more they made it look SO realistic. 'twas beautiful, I tell you.
OH OH I'm looking James McAvoy's imdb page (because, lyk omg, he played Tumnus and he rawks my sawks) and not only is he ha highly skilled boxer, fencer, and rugby player, as well as a fire eater, but he was in BRIGHT YOUNG THINGS. I haven't seen that movie, now, but Stephen Fry directed it.
-squee- <3333 Yes, that's what happens when my fandoms collide. >333
Aaand
I cut the rest, which is going to be ravings about Stephen Fry's The Liar and about a particular word. Which is "Tmesis".
First off: The Liar. I finished it this morning, and I love it. It's confusing as hell, and I may just have to go back and re-read it again if I have time so I can understand the stuff in the beginning that I didn't get because it wasn't revealed until the end. Because books are like that sometimes. And me, with my memory that is minute as a vanishing pimple upon the nose of a bacterium, well I need help with that sort of thing. I've got enough trouble remembering names. If there are five people in one novel with a name that starts with the same letter, let's say "P", It takes me a long time and lots of explanations to myself and looking back before I can even begin to remember which one is which. Peter? Oh, I thought that was Phillip. Or maybe Paul. Wait, wait, wasn't there a Princeton?
That's just what I'm like. Aneehway. I just love the book. It's filled with insane characters, and witty wit, and stuff like people saying "Oh, Christ. Oh, Christly Christ." or " 'Queer am I?' said Adrian. 'They called Oscar Wilde a queer, they called Michelangelo a queer, they called Tchaikovsky a-' 'And they were queers.' 'Well yes, there is that. My argument rather falls down there I grant you..' "
Or, you know, just silly things like a teacher being all stuffy when a kid's late and saying "Late, Healey?" "Oh really, sir? I am too, as a matter of coincidence."
And the fact that Adrian names his objects. "He hung Jeremy, his blazer, on Anthony, the peg."
...I mean gee golly whiz. I am filled with new words and expressions and although I will promptly forget them, I'll make a jolly hard try at keeping them in my vocabulary.
Secondly: That brings me to a tmesis, which I have actually used twice (I believe) in this entire journal entry. To spare you all looking back, what I used was "fan-fucking-tastic".. and I can't find the other. But you get what I mean. The definition of a tmesis, based on memory and memory alone (which might mean that you'll need to actually look it up if you're interested): A word resulting when one word is split and another interjected between the two halves. The word "tmesis" itself comes from either a Latin or Greek word (kill me now, oh scholars of either of those languages) meaning "cut". Or the root does. It comes up in words like "Appendectomy"
It is, in fact, either the only word in the English language to begin in two consonants or the only word in the English language to begin with "tm". Don't ask me which one.
And that is what happens when I try to give a lecture based upon my memory. Amusing, perhaps, but ultimately very low on direct details. But ahoy, that's what research is for.