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lists, lists, lists
I make copious lists. In fact, I make copious lists of lists. Not like just a couple of scraps tucked away for later, but lists and lists of individual keywords conjuring sentences that expand to pages. Pages and pages of these things to write down. Schedules to remind me of other schedules. It drives me nuts. It's embarrassing because I hardly ( Read more... ) -
you are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars
Spent the better part of the morning and last night working on calligraphy ( Read more... ) -
temporary freedom
Hurrah for Spring Break! Free at last, free at last, thank God almighty, I'm free at last. (Except not quite.) I do plan to get in contact with lots of people and generally be productive, just...not right now. More than content to let the first few days slide by without doing anything. Actually, the first thing I did upon reaching home was to sleep ( Read more... ) -
In the Mood for Love.
I just watched In the Mood for Love! What a fantastic movie. And gorgeous, too. I thoroughly enjoyed it: it especially excels at conveying loads of emotion in tiny gestures. This is harder to pull off than it sounds -- very often, the intended result can misfire and I end up feeling uninvolved. Yet it was powerful instead. A scrap of smoke, foggy ( Read more... ) -
Snow, Glass, Apples
Nobody told me that eating ten Eclipse mints in a row led to sugar highs of unrivaled proportion. My breath is minty-fresh, but barely-restrained jumping up and down in the computer lab is not the way to go.
Does anyone have a link to the photography of Neil Gaiman's Snow, Glass, Apples? It was linked from his blog about a couple of years ago. It ( Read more... ) -
(Untitled)
I'm not the first (and definitely not the last) to jump on the bandwagon, but: meme me! Can 'meme' even be used as a verb? Doubtful. Yet with my gradual twisting and turning of the English language, this isn't surprising. It'll shift into something wholly different and entirely unrecognizable. At this rate, I might even create a whole new language ( Read more... ) -
a magical dancing guidance counselor
A long time ag--oh, forget it. Watch Princess Tutu, despite its awful title (I think everyone gives this disclaimer when talking about it). How can you not love this series? It's like what you'd get if Hans Christian Anderson collaborated with Kunihiko Ikuhara to make an anime. With BALLET ( Read more... ) -
Hail to the Thief
Reviewing any Radiohead CD (or indeed, just listing my opinions) is a thorny task. It's not so much that they're impenetrable: more that many songs aren't very immediate. Also because Hail to the Thief is a mixture of guitars and electronica, balanced pretty evenly between both. The soundscapes take a while for me to piece apart -- I don't identify ( Read more... ) -
with brilliance like this...
Don't you love e-mails that start as ( Read more... ) -
early happy New Year's greetings
Thought I'd give this a shot.
a. Post a list of fifteen fandoms.
b. Have your friends list guess your favourite character from each one.
c. When guessed, bold the line, include the character name, and write a sentence about why you like that character.
( not all *fandoms* as such... )