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Stuff I want to see
I am looking to attend some of the following performances and would like someone to go with. I realized that this number is growing, so I figure I may as well list them all here on LJ. If we meet up in real life, please let me know if you're interested in seeing any of the following with me:- Sleep No More (interactive theatre)
- Gounod's Faust (opera, ( Read more... )
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all the cool kids are doing it
Read prior to 2012 reading list
Required, or interested in reading to fulfill section requirement. If there is no blue in a section, it means I have no idea what I should read yet. Please give me recommendations!
Read to fulfill requirement
Sirens 2012 Reading List
Required:- Bernheimer, Kate: The Complete Tales of Ketzia Gold AND My Mother She Killed Me ( Read more... )
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Does anyone local want to see THE KING'S SPEECH with me?
How can I refuse a pitch like this?
(from a friend)
you have to see that film
Mr DARCY
with a cute stutter
AS THE KING
with Helena Bonham Carter sitting on him
and him saying FUCK loudly
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Started a blog
So, I've been thinking about my LJ for a while. I like the community on LJ, but because I get paranoid, I end up locking everything. I've decided to keep my LJ for personal things (my brother, my job, rants, and so on) and an external blog for anything general related to reading, books, industry, and academia. I don't foresee a lot of traffic for ( Read more... ) -
Fill-in-the-Gaps List
So my friend moonrat started this project last year where she made a list of 100 books she had trouble finishing, kept putting off in favour of other books, or had built up a resistance to reading. A gaps list usually includes a variety of classics, books missed in school, books that society claims you should should read to be well-educated, friend ( Read more... ) -
"the movie version"
Disclaimer: I really can't stand purists; the following opinions contain biases against them.
I've concluded that the people who rage and rage about this-or-that not being in the books, that this is inaccurate, that this is trash, and that no movie version will ever live up to the novel... are, well, full of crap.
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This is where you lose me, Top Chef: All-Stars
Top Chef is the only competition show I watch. I used to watch Project Runway, before it became drama-filled garbage. I've been ambivalent about Top Chef in recent seasons as well, but I was really, really excited about Top Chef: All Stars. The challenges the first week were great. This week, I wanted to gouge my eyes out with a steak knife. I only ( Read more... ) -
Things I'm thankful for
Holidays like Thanksgiving where the whole family gets together throws my upbringing in high relief, because while my friends are complaining about their great-aunts or their sister's annoying boyfriend, I'm thinking, I don't have that. My entire extended family is back in China. And this year, my dad's not flying back until Saturday afternoon, so ( Read more... ) -
No you cannot take my picture
Last summer, I was at the British Museum with my friend Ani. I had met up with Ani there so I could get away from my dramarama'ed and temperamental flatmates, and she was snapping a ton of pictures of me as I wandered around the statues and pottery. I didn't mind, because I can be a bit of a ham when it comes to pictures (as some of you may know, ( Read more... ) -
Sirens 2010
Hi all, it's me again! I got back from Colorado on Sunday from Sirens Conference in Vail, CO. People who correspond with me on a regular basis are used to my gushing about how great Sirens is, and some of those people were apparently convinced to attend... so I'll let them tell you about it.
Additionally, there are some freaking wonderful con ( Read more... )