Question of the day:

There are many roads to LiveJournal-how did you first hear about LJ?

Via JayKay aka McKay aka scribbulus_ink - I remember reading your first posts on LJ some gazillion years ago, always a little bit too shy to ask for a code (there still were codes back in the days... *melancholy sigh*). And then, some day (some time later), people were ( Read more... )

What has the world come to?

Bruce Willis - married.

Harrison Ford - engaged to be married to the stick insect.

What reasons remain to have a crush on slightly older, slightly uncouth and/or slightly boring movie stars???

Also (I stole this from ghostlyviolet):


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There's a poem I've been thinking of a couple of times during the last weeks. Financial crisis and all, you know.

The funny thing is: I'm such a huge fan of Bertolt Brecht's as a dramatist/playwright (though I like "Der gute Mensch" at times), but I really like his poetry...

Okay,

*clears throat*

Here you go:

Mein junger Sohn fragt mich: Soll ( Read more... )

Thank you so much for the lovely (christmas) present, ghostlyviolet!!!

I look forward to reading it very much!

*huuuuuuuuuuuuugs*

George Clooney and Brad Pitt in the "Are you watching Oprah" scene in Ocean's Thirteen has to be one of the funniest things ever!!!

*snorts wine through nose*

It amuses me like hell every time I watch it.

R.I.P, John Updike.

Sad to see you go. Your writing wasn't always my cup of tea, but still.

:-(

I stole this from ausmac:

1. Name a movie that you have seen more than 10 times:
Gone With The Wind, Sneakers and The Day After Tomorrow

2. Name a movie that you've seen multiple times in a theatre:
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and Citizen Kane

3. Name an actor that would make you more inclined to see a movie:Meryl Streep, Jeremy Irons, ( Read more... )

Just one more week before my Christmas holidays start. Just one more week. Thank god! I definitely can use a little time off.

*hugs flist*

A friend of mine and I made a deal: I promised to read the Inheritance series, she promised to read Harry Potter. She loves Eragon, and agreeing to read it was the only way to make hear read Harry Potter, which, as we all know, I love.

So, I'm reading Eragon I. I've just read the part where Eragon and Brom have bought the Horses in Therinsford ( Read more... )

I stole this from ghostlyviolet:

Grab the book nearest you. Right now.
Turn to page 56.
Find the fifth sentence.
Post that sentence along with these instructions on your LJ.
Don't dig for your favorite book, the coolest, the most intellectual. Use the CLOSEST.

"I've never been on intimate terms with the household."

(Ordeal by Innocence by Agatha Christie)