I swear, I'll make a real post soon, but this is important! ^_~ It's a Neil Gaiman trailer for Coraline! ^_______^

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Amazon.com purchased a copy of Beedle the Bard and they're telling us about it!!! Pictures and descriptions of the stories are included! I so <3 amazon right now! ^_^

Eventually, that link will be down, so they said to go to www.amazon.com/beedlebard

I started reading at around 12:30-1:00 this afternoon (Saturday) and approx. 10 hrs and 759 pages later I was finished ( Read more... )

I found this on youtube. It amused me despite being somewhat grainy (though Tina thinks the graininess is a deliberate imitation of the original video).

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Song: Spin Doctors - "Two Princes"
Fandom: Harry Potter
Characters: Harry/Draco/Cedric

Harry Potter Theme Park: Coming 2009

I couldn't find this quote earlier, which it what I had originally been searching for when I looked up Vonnegut quotes to post in my last entry.

From Cat's Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut ( Read more... )

A moment of silence for Kurt Vonnegut, who died yesterday of complications from a fall.

(for those who don't know, he is an *amazing* author who brought us such works as Cat's Cradle and Slaughterhouse FiveSome quotes ( Read more... )

Listening to The Crow soundtrack this morning. ^_^ I haven't listened to it in sooo long. I'd forgotten how much I love it (and the movie). Which got me thinking about the fact that probably over half of my LJ list has never heard of this movie that was so important to me in high school, let alone seen it. A movie for which I have four or five ( Read more... )

Last Wednesday, I went to Fireside books, supposedly just to pick up a book I had ordered. I should know better. ^^;; I ended up buying, in addition to A Game of Thrones: Vanity Fair (the book, not the magazine), Arabian Nights, a day-to-day calendar of wine, Antigone (which I apparently already own. Oops), and I put another book on order. Sigh ( Read more... )

I've started to take bellydance lessons (I have class with Traeonna ^^). They've been really fun so far, but it is hard to learn to isolate certain muscles. I'm practicing though! And the hip scarves are so fun with all the jinglies! Thus far, we've learned a hip swivel that looks like a washing machine agitator, a double hip movement, and ( Read more... )