[Hm. I promise I'll stop criticising the LotR movies... eventually ( Read more... )

Is Christmas depression finally catching up with me?
Woke up in a very melancholy mood...

Sometimes I feel very alone. Not so much in the big ways - (:: shrugs ::) I've kind of got used to it and If I were to be honest more often than not I like it that way - but in small, stupid ways, like when I find myself picking up on aspects of things that ( Read more... )

[nostalgic rambling post of mostly local interest]

You realise you're getting old, old, old when the co-worker is looking at a book we'd just unpacked and says: "Günther Nenning? War der nicht mal in der Politik? Bei den Grünen oder so?"[My conscious politic memory sets in about that time - I was twelve at the time of the protests for the ( Read more... )

We were at the advent market on Karlsplatz before the movie; drank Glühwein, I found the cutest keychain for myself (a stylised leather mouse) and the obligatory horse-themed Christmas present for Ch. One guy selling those tiffany style hanging candle holders, multi coloured bowls, very beautiful, but unfortunately € 50.- upward. Still ( Read more... )

I work with two people who emphatically profess to have been bored to death by LotR, both the books and the movies. Now the latter I can understand, but the books? My main complaint about the movies so far was that they cut so many of the more quiet poetic and funny moments in favour of action scenes partly even of their own invention. I'm not a ( Read more... )