It's no secret that Jane Austen's Persuasion is my favourite work of literature, and it's no secret that the 1995 adaptation of this book is one of my favourite films as well. The 1995 version had that grungy, authentic, candle-lit and make-up-less look way before it was cool and the acting is brilliantly executed ( Read more... )

There have been some great posts up on some of my favourite non-LJ blogs over the last few weeks. Here they are, corralled into a handy post, for you to check out too.

Green
Five totally not rocket science tips for reducing your footprint at eek.ologyA beautiful post with five simple, logical and pleasant ways to make your life a little more ( Read more... )

About this time last year I jumped on birdienl's bandwagon and answered a series of questions on my favourite films. This year she has been at it again with a very enlightening series of posts on books, and again I am inspired to follow suit. This time I have done it all in one go.

I have hidden my self-indulgent reading reflections behind a cut.

( For the curious and bored: Spally was once an avid reader... )

Number One: Austen mind maps
Thanks Fiona for uncovering an amazing data visualisation based on the text of Persuasion, over at Many Eyes. It creates beautiful maps of the relationships between communly used words and you can modify it endlessly. It's like reading the book all at once!

Number Two: Clocks and ChicagoThanks Matt for uncovering this ( Read more... )

I have been wanting to post here for awhile but the only things that have been piqued my interest have been thoughts I don't want to share with the wider world and thoughts about the weather. Generally weather is a boring topic. Then I remembered that a stack of Livejournal-reading friends seem to be obessed with the weather ( Read more... )

I watched the old school Pride and Predjudice today - the really really old school one, with Greer Garson and Laurence Olivier. Normally I avoid this film because it is possibly the worst ever remake of a book. That said I really enjoyed it today. Even with the Victorian costuming and befuddled plot lines, Greer Garson makes an amazingly pretty and ( Read more... )

Day 01 - Favourite foreign film
Day 02 - A film that is underrated
Day 03 - A film that brings you unadulterated happiness
Day 04 - A film cliché that you love

( Day 05 - Favourite love story in a film )

Hello ( Read more... )

My favourite jeans are definately falling apart and no amount of brightly coloured embroidery thread and patches from old handkerchiefs will be able to hold them together any more ( Read more... )

Well ridiculous Christian Chapel drew me in, so now that's another message board I am addicted to ( Read more... )