BSG, books, &c.
I'm feeling this terrible urge to rewatch all of Battlestar Galactica, but can't do it, because all my DVDs are loaned to my friends :(. I have consoled myself by trawling through the several BSG communities. I've also snagged countless (well, 12 this far) BSG icons for my use.
I just checked, and I now have 37 (/100) icons uploaded. There are 12 Bollywood, 12 BSG, 4 Veronica Mars, 3 North and South, 2 Lost and 4 "other" icons on my list.
Last night I rewatched Renny's The Long Kiss Goodnight, since it was on tv. I like this film and it's still surprisingly entertaining, even though the film is already 10 years old. It's a good mindless actioner with great one-liners in which the woman, played by Geena Davis, is for once the more capable one. Samuel L. Jackson is cool (as always) and Craig Bierko is pretty (well, he is!). What more do you need :).
In recent reading, I liked (14.) Marvel 1602 (graphic novel) by Neil Gaiman, Andy Kubert and Richard Isanove. It was fun figuring out who was who in this past version of the Marvel universe and to see how they fit into the story. The artwork was very beautiful. This has yet again rekindled my old love for Marvel comics - maybe I'll go and reread the Dark Phoenix saga again... Which brings to my mind that the pics from the forthcoming X3 movie are looking pretty good. Can't wait to see it!
After 1602, (15.) Sandra Heath, Emma Jensen, Carla Kelly, Edith Layton, and Barbara Metzger's Regency Christmas Wishes seemed really insipid and boring. Only one story in the anthology seemed even remotely interesting, but then it descended into oversentimentality and lost what little interest I had. Bleh!
BTW, I really liked this quote from Gabriel Zaid's So Many Books: Reading and Publishing in an Age of Abundance that I saw in queenofthorns's LJ:
"The truly cultured are capable of owning thousands of unread books, without losing their composure or their desire for more."
Isn't it great :D! Not that I have thousands of unread books, only a few hundred, but still...
I just checked, and I now have 37 (/100) icons uploaded. There are 12 Bollywood, 12 BSG, 4 Veronica Mars, 3 North and South, 2 Lost and 4 "other" icons on my list.
Last night I rewatched Renny's The Long Kiss Goodnight, since it was on tv. I like this film and it's still surprisingly entertaining, even though the film is already 10 years old. It's a good mindless actioner with great one-liners in which the woman, played by Geena Davis, is for once the more capable one. Samuel L. Jackson is cool (as always) and Craig Bierko is pretty (well, he is!). What more do you need :).
In recent reading, I liked (14.) Marvel 1602 (graphic novel) by Neil Gaiman, Andy Kubert and Richard Isanove. It was fun figuring out who was who in this past version of the Marvel universe and to see how they fit into the story. The artwork was very beautiful. This has yet again rekindled my old love for Marvel comics - maybe I'll go and reread the Dark Phoenix saga again... Which brings to my mind that the pics from the forthcoming X3 movie are looking pretty good. Can't wait to see it!
After 1602, (15.) Sandra Heath, Emma Jensen, Carla Kelly, Edith Layton, and Barbara Metzger's Regency Christmas Wishes seemed really insipid and boring. Only one story in the anthology seemed even remotely interesting, but then it descended into oversentimentality and lost what little interest I had. Bleh!
BTW, I really liked this quote from Gabriel Zaid's So Many Books: Reading and Publishing in an Age of Abundance that I saw in queenofthorns's LJ:
"The truly cultured are capable of owning thousands of unread books, without losing their composure or their desire for more."
Isn't it great :D! Not that I have thousands of unread books, only a few hundred, but still...