I'm sitting here listening to the soundtrack for Wicked again, and I'm thinking to myself - you know, I've been doing the Oz thing for about, ooh, fifteen years, on and off. No, longer; probably since I was about four. And like most fandoms, it's fractured into little cliques and cults, and it has its troubles, and I like to stay wandering around ( Read more... )

Ah yes. One of those nice days I wish I could just find a quiet cave to lie in and go to sleep. I am so...over the world. Not angry. Just irritated. One of my mother's new friends (the wife - of course, the one I have nothing in common with) is here, and she's spent about four hours babbling away in the next room, and I can't escape it. I like talk ( Read more... )

Sometimes I'm really surprised by the music I like, or at least listen to. Today, alone, I've gone through several songs on a Carter Family CD (1930s folk/country), the original Broadway soundtracks of Camelot (bad - much prefer the film) and Wicked (acceptable), and now...Men at Work. And I like this song. I like it a lot. I have absolutely no ( Read more... )

Why is it I always feel like such an unbelievably critical TV reviewer once I see other people's opinions? The family and I finally watched "Father's Day" (this past Saturday's Doctor Who) last night, and we all had roughly the same, so-so opinion, and we all felt pretty justified in that, me especially. And then I get online to discover everyone ( Read more... )

Since I have been selected by meredithp...

1) Total number of films I own on DVD/video:Well, it's a good thing I keep an online record of my DVD collection. According to it, by filtering out all the 'television' DVDs, I'm left with 132 films on DVD (and that sounds about right). I have a small handful on VHS, maybe ten, and if you allow for error, I think ( Read more... )

Man, I suck at "working a room." It's not that I do that badly when I actually get into conversations - I think my hold my own well enough, at least decently for a rather forthright student in a room full of professionals - it's that I can't actually thrust myself into those conversations. It's a height thing, mostly; most of the people I did ( Read more... )

OK, so, hours later, I've figured out the business cards. Turns out the instructions in the box are the wrong-way round, so I've been trying to print on the wrong side - the side that deflects the ink, y'know? Hilarity. So that only ruined about twenty cards. Swell. But, after that, I got about thirty good cards out...for some reason, the bottom ( Read more... )

Been sort of a strange weekend. Allow me to elaborate.

I was supposed to leave on Friday for, well, a very calm and collected weekend in Murfreesboro, not really doing very much except seeing my friend Michael and going with my folks to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy film. Which did, indeed, happen (and the film, sadly, wasn't very good). ( Read more... )

Five more books, directly following my last post. Cross-posted to 50bookchallenge.

21. Sad Cypress, by Agatha Christie, pub. 1940 (unabridged audiobook)

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Five more books, hurrah, hurrah. Actually, it's ten - is anyone actually surprised? But I've had to put off updating for a long while because of finals. This is the first of two posts in which I play catch-up. Crossposted to 50bookchallenge.

16. Watchmen, by Alan Moore, art by Dave Gibbons, pub. 1986 (graphic novel)

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