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Wow, LJ, I've been bad to you, haven't I?
Something's not right when all I tend to write is how I'm sick, again. Well, lets get past that part quickly then.
I ordered some CDs. Yes, people still do that, sometimes. And what I got was one of the two, no notion that the other had been out of stock. That was inconvenient. I suppose it's the new hip thing, being a mindreader. For a moment I thought I just wasn't cool enough to own that album.
Movie related things, which is what my other, not so pretendy life revolves around. Arn was quite good. I didn't expect that much from it. I almost cried, which is a lot from a movie. There's very few that manage to get under my skin. But for some odd reason the desperation of a parent, or death of a child is what gets me emotional nowadays.
Oh, and I finished Amber. Zelasny is my hero. I'm quite in love with the way he wrote, simple, almost artless, and yet witty in the right places and surprisingly descriptive. It sneaks upon you and then smacks you over the head with some absolutely brilliant metaphor he uses in middle of easy going, almost chattery (in a manly way) text. I have the book patterned with little notepapers and clips to mark some of the spots I liked the most. His characters are strong, very distinct in flavor and I must say the honesty is rather refreshing. That I suppose is the charm of a good storyteller, to paint a powerful picture of a person who is real, honestly human, with flaws and icky things, and endear them to a reader. Amber characters are all old and powerful, but there's a feeling throughout the books that any of them could err like any normal human being, even the bad guys, maybe especially the badguys. And this is something I like very much.
Ah, the next on my reading list is Ray Bradbury's Something wicked this way comes. I have high hopes for it. Idiot is still gathering dust on my desk. I'm not sure if I should pretend anymore that I'm about to read it.
I think this is it for now. Except that I'd feel like writing something original for a change. This is a thought fully worth exploring.
Weiss boys as women? Schuldig would look like this:
And Aya?
(actually I don't think so, but I like the picture, so...)
And I don't think I ever posted this in LJ, so doing so now because I ran into it while cleaning photobucket account. It was a bday gift for Miska.
And Caesar Silverbert from Suikoden 3
And Aka, sorry, I missed your IM yesterday. The window didn't blink. :/
Something's not right when all I tend to write is how I'm sick, again. Well, lets get past that part quickly then.
I ordered some CDs. Yes, people still do that, sometimes. And what I got was one of the two, no notion that the other had been out of stock. That was inconvenient. I suppose it's the new hip thing, being a mindreader. For a moment I thought I just wasn't cool enough to own that album.
Movie related things, which is what my other, not so pretendy life revolves around. Arn was quite good. I didn't expect that much from it. I almost cried, which is a lot from a movie. There's very few that manage to get under my skin. But for some odd reason the desperation of a parent, or death of a child is what gets me emotional nowadays.
Oh, and I finished Amber. Zelasny is my hero. I'm quite in love with the way he wrote, simple, almost artless, and yet witty in the right places and surprisingly descriptive. It sneaks upon you and then smacks you over the head with some absolutely brilliant metaphor he uses in middle of easy going, almost chattery (in a manly way) text. I have the book patterned with little notepapers and clips to mark some of the spots I liked the most. His characters are strong, very distinct in flavor and I must say the honesty is rather refreshing. That I suppose is the charm of a good storyteller, to paint a powerful picture of a person who is real, honestly human, with flaws and icky things, and endear them to a reader. Amber characters are all old and powerful, but there's a feeling throughout the books that any of them could err like any normal human being, even the bad guys, maybe especially the badguys. And this is something I like very much.
Ah, the next on my reading list is Ray Bradbury's Something wicked this way comes. I have high hopes for it. Idiot is still gathering dust on my desk. I'm not sure if I should pretend anymore that I'm about to read it.
I think this is it for now. Except that I'd feel like writing something original for a change. This is a thought fully worth exploring.
Weiss boys as women? Schuldig would look like this:
And Aya?
(actually I don't think so, but I like the picture, so...)
And I don't think I ever posted this in LJ, so doing so now because I ran into it while cleaning photobucket account. It was a bday gift for Miska.
And Caesar Silverbert from Suikoden 3
And Aka, sorry, I missed your IM yesterday. The window didn't blink. :/