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I'm Team Moffat, or, Why I've Been Such a Pill on Twitter
So, I've majorly been getting into the BBC Sherlock series lately and I love it. I think it remixes and modernizes the Doyle stories in a way that feels organic and I love the writing and direction (although the second episode of the first season kind of sucked) and Benedict Cumberbatch is great, etc. I like it so much I have behaved badly, in that ( Read more... ) -
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From sandoz_iscariot
Pick up the nearest book to you. Turn to page 45. The first sentence describes your sex life in 2012.
"Naturally, the Himiko sitting with you in this room chose the road to recovery."
- A Personal Matter, Kenzaburo Oe
I guess that could be good depending on what "Himiko" means. -
2012 Watching List
Movies Seen in Theaters (12)
The Hunger Games :)
The Cabin in the Woods :)
Two Days in New York :) (AT TRIBECA!!!!)
The Avengers :)
Prometheus :)
Brave :)
Rifftrax Live Event: Manos: Hands of Fate :)
Rifftrax Live Event: Birdemic :)
This is 40 :)
Les Miserables :)
Django Unchained :)
The Life of Pi :(
Movies That Didn't Come Out This Year (21)
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2012 Reading List
* = POC author
Books Without Pictures Read This Year (16)
A Personal Matter by Kenzaburo Oe* :)
The Shadow Vol. 1: Crime, Insured/The Golden Vulture by Maxwell Grant (Walter B. Gibson & Lester Dent) :/
Dracula by Bram Stoker (re-read) :)
A Crystal Age by W.H. Hudson :)
Burnt Offerings by Laurell K. Hamilton :(
Blue Moon by Laurell K. Hamilton :(
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Not done talking about books :)
So I know I haven't been around lately, and I posted my book poll yesterday, but since I haven't done many reviews, I thought I'd do highlights of some stuff I read this year. :)
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Book Poll 2011
Since I know I'm not going to finish Walker Percy's The Moviegoer tonight, here are the books I read in 2011 for librarything's annual poll. It's the moooost wonderful time of the year, etc.
Oh, and I read the most amount of books without pictures in a year since I've started keeping track. 43. WOO!
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Ok, I'm going to mark this out now:
Top Ten Favorite Films:
(No particular order)
1.) Twelve Angry Men
2.) Clerks
3.) Citizen Kane
4.) Far From Heaven
5.) Spider-Man
6.) The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
7.) Wilde
8.) Horsefeathers
9.) Sense & Sensibility (Ang Lee version)
10.) A Hard Day's Night
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A thank you
So, I haven't been to my mother's home for awhile and realized I got a very nice present of W.H. Auden poems from someone. Unfortunately, the sender address was cut off by Amazon.com (woe) but I think it was tuff_ghost who sent it. So, if so, THANKS TUFF, and if not, please come forward and THANKS A BUNCH ( Read more... ) -
Writing stuff
So, I wrote a fanfic a couple of days ago that I just posted now. It's Tiger & Bunny and for all of you on Twitter who answered my questions on "So, if a 16-year-old girl sees an older man naked it isn't underage, right?" this is the fruit of that. Thanks for all your help ( Read more... ) -
Magneto and Shylock, or Why I'm Not Very Good at Social Justice
So, lately I've been reading Ron Rosenbaum's The Shakespeare Wars, and it's a perfectly interesting idea for a book (academic debates about Shakespeare for the layperson) coupled unfortunately with a writer who is, quite frankly, annoying. Rosenbaum doesn't so much bring light to interesting debates so much as firmly take one side, slobber over the ( Read more... )