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They Shall Not Grow Old
I got to see this Peter Jackson documentary today. Documentary doesn't seem like the right word, actually. He was asked to use footage from the Imperial War Museum in a novel way. Using colorized film that has also been treated to remove flickers, age, and damage, and with interviews from veterans captured by the BBC, he shows an overview of the ( Read more... ) -
Busy busy
So the last few months were filled up with buying a house, a two week trip to London, two new adopted cats in the house (bringing the total to four) and a lot of hiding under my bed due to the election madness. I've sort of fallen away from my already faltering LJ habit, but at least I'm reading again ( Read more... ) -
Houses and Hundred Degrees
It's scorching hot here (although at least it's not humid on top of it) and we have spend the day officially househunting. We've made stabs at it before but now we are more prepared (ok, prepared at all, because before we were daydreaming more than anything else ( Read more... ) -
Day drinking drunken posting
Although two beers on top of some mega-tots doesn't exactly mean I'm drunk, just a little happy and less likely to be irritated by the "I just had my first beer and need to scream a lot" kids floating around for the Spring Game. And now I'm holed up in a quiet coffeehouse drinking a strawberry smoothie. The attempt to work on Italian homework isn't ( Read more... ) -
Petty book protectiveness
I've been listening to a podcast called Overdue and have discovered a thing that I sort of already knew about myself - I get really protective about the books I love. So my first episode of the podcast was a book I hadn't read, and I enjoyed it and downloaded a bunch of other episodes, including those of books I had read and...that was a mistake. I ( Read more... ) -
The perils and pitfalls of language learning
So recently I've started studying Italian again. Before I left on my recent trip, I used Duolingo and my old textbook (from mumble-years ago) and a great podcast called Coffee Break Italian. Since Italians are, in general, about a billion times more fluent in English than I am in Italian, I didn't actually get the chance to practice much. I told my ( Read more... ) -
Things
I have seen Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and loved it. I had a few nitpicks post-movie but while it was happening I was super into it and I'll be going back and at this moment I have nothing but squee in me for it ( Read more... ) -
Jessica Jones
I don't think I binge-watched, exactly, but I just now finished up watching Jessica Jones over the weekend. My quick and dirty review - wrenching, compelling, not perfect by any means, but really, really good. Sometimes the tone got a little lost, and there were little eddys in the execution where you could see why the show was doing something but ( Read more... ) -
Italy trip part three - Rome
We left Florence and hopped back on another Freccia to Rome. I had heard that Termini, Rome's main train station, had been turned into a mall, and it's true - there were now shops everywhere, including a branch of our now beloved Grom, which sold artisinal gelato. (The torrone flavor...omg. And the fiordilatte, which I kept returning to. We ate a ( Read more... )
