1. One of our local indie theaters is showing the entirety of Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle, a five-movie...something-or-other that is supposedly about change and differentiation and the parallels between fetal development and human potentiality. Or something.  I've been curious about it ever since the last movie in the cycle came out a couple ( Read more... )

But first, Useless Fact Time: After looking at lyric translations for both, I've realized that Rammstein's "Dalai Lama" actually tells the exact same story as Sarah Brightman's "Figlio Perduto". Really. Both are based on the Goethe poem "Der Erlkonig"; the Brightman song is an Italian translation of the poem itself, while the Rammstein song is a ( Read more... )

You know, I feel much better about the last ten minutes of The Waters of Mars after a startling revelation, on the way home from the library today, that ( spoilers happen. )

I also swear that I'll complain about it the entire way. Physics is a fascinating field, don't get me wrong, but not when someone's actually testing me on it.

Anyway, the reason I bring up physics and my need to take a class therein is because I have a bit of Who fanon I want to bounce off you all (who may know more of the intricacies of Fiziks ( Read more... )

1. It really does irritate me when people start the whole "ew, cosplayers are freaks/cosplay is creepy" meme. I know a lot of cosplayers; I've cosplayed myself, once, though it wasn't very good; I'd still like to do it someday (I'd be girl!Five). Dressing up as a character doesn't mean you think you are them or whatever; dressing up as a character ( Read more... )

A quick and mindless meme, because I really, really need something quick and mindless right now that doesn't take up as much time as screencapping (the picspams are coming along, really, but capping takes a while and it's not time that I have right now):

Name any pairing from any of my fandoms and I'll talk about my thoughts/opinions on them!

Again, ( Read more... )

Every time I read something for my Romanticism class I end up thinking about where I could use it in a fic. Sometimes I don't even know where I'd use it; a poem just jumps out at me and passionately cries "paste selections of me in your story to make it sound profound!". (See: Blake, First book of Urizen)

Occasionally I will have these thoughts in ( Read more... )

1. So I finally saw Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, approximately a year or whatever after I was supposed to have seen it.

( Thoughts, spoilery but in no particular order: )

Because I have work I'm supposed to be doing, naturally.

So I did say I'd post about the Target novelization of The Three Doctors, as it's my first time reading a Target novelization and I found it interesting compared to watching the episode itself.

The review turned out somewhat longer than I expected.

( Ten numbered thoughts... )

Not like you could avoid it if you were on the internet at all today, but I suppose I should spoiler-cut it nonetheless.

( That There Doctor Who Spoiler What Everyone's On About... )