Your main fandom of the year?

Despite expectations (i.e. that Dr Who would be amazing), I think I've ended up fangirling Downton Abbey and antiques shows the most.

Your favorite film watched this year?Well, favourite new film: Taken. Favourite rewatched film: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. (Have gone a whole year without seeing Star Wars ( Read more... )

Last night James took me to see Pirates of the Caribbean 4: On Stranger Tides (*squee* I love my James!).

What follows is a quickie review with no spoilers. Then at some point I'll do a proper review. But I figure seeing as we saw it on the first day, most people won't have seen it yet so won't be able to chat about it - so no point in posting the ( Read more... )

Dr Who and Pirates? Guess who's in fandom heaven right now...

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Fandom meme from cherish4:

( Cut for convention )

In a vain attempt to have a break from work for a minute, I'll tell you what I'm enjoying fandom-wise at the moment.

First there's the aforementioned children's TV show Ooglies (if you think marching mushrooms with eyes going 'Ooogah!' are as funny as I do, you'll love it - a lot of it's quite clever and there are film references).

Then there's ( Read more... )

I have a new printer, which is making me very happy :)

It's an all-in-on scanner/printer, which I've been wanting for ages, it prints in a decent time, the scans are good quality, it copies very quickly, it's tray folds away so I can put books next to me on the desk...

Oh yes, and it's black. My tower is also black, and so is my keyboard, so all ( Read more... )

On the subject of Pirates, did you know that there's an ETA for the fourth movie? I kept meaning to have a search, and today I did so, and of couse Wikipedia has all the information hereIt's going to be called 'On Stranger Tides', and should be filmed from this June onwards, with a currently predicted release date of 20th May 2011. Yarrr to that ( Read more... )

I've been rewatching the Pirates films lately, which is, of course, a complete delight. It also reminds me that one of the reason's I love Jack Sparrow so much is that he comes out with lines involving phrases such as the following (from POTC3):

... a woman scorned, like which fury hell hath no.I'm going to set myself the challenge of working this ( Read more... )

Sometimes I just feel like giving up real life and becoming a pirate. Anyone want to join me?

Yes, that's Tuesday, the film that causes lots of confusion by its title.

Me to James: Can I borrow Tuesday on Friday?
James: Wha?See what I mean ( Read more... )