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Chili on the stove, and GIP!
Jun. 3rd, 2006 06:43 pmSo the chili is simmering. It's a bastardized version of all the recipes my darling flist provided me with the other day. I think I may have burnt the bottom a bit, but I lowered the heat with impressive alacrity, and am now waiting for it to thicken.
It smells really, really good. :)
So today was productive in spite of the migraine I started to develop about halfway through band practice. I'm beginning to wonder if it isn't something about the fumes from the Molson brewery next door, because that's not the first time I've developed migraines at the rehearsal space.
I have since taken Excedrin, and the migraine is receding. Go me!
I have a new webcomic to fangirl about: Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic by my pal![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
shenlo, featuring Bob the Beholder. It's hilarious. Makes me laugh out loud every time. Go check it out, it's worth it.
:::ETA:::
Check out the new icon! It's from YAFGC. Go read the comic now!
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I am in a good mood, but still inexplicably tired. Either I'm getting anemic again (which would suck), or else the stress of the past two weeks has finally caught up with me and is insisting I take care of it by sleeping more. I will try to eat more spinach and other iron-rich stuff and get a bit more sleep, and see if that helps. The fact that I'm overtired is probably not helping keep the migraines at bay, either.
It smells really, really good. :)
So today was productive in spite of the migraine I started to develop about halfway through band practice. I'm beginning to wonder if it isn't something about the fumes from the Molson brewery next door, because that's not the first time I've developed migraines at the rehearsal space.
I have since taken Excedrin, and the migraine is receding. Go me!
I have a new webcomic to fangirl about: Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic by my pal
shenlo, featuring Bob the Beholder. It's hilarious. Makes me laugh out loud every time. Go check it out, it's worth it.:::ETA:::
Check out the new icon! It's from YAFGC. Go read the comic now!
:::end ETA:::
I am in a good mood, but still inexplicably tired. Either I'm getting anemic again (which would suck), or else the stress of the past two weeks has finally caught up with me and is insisting I take care of it by sleeping more. I will try to eat more spinach and other iron-rich stuff and get a bit more sleep, and see if that helps. The fact that I'm overtired is probably not helping keep the migraines at bay, either.
New icon!
I've been on a movie-watching kick lately. I went to see "V for Vendetta" last Thursday with F, whom I can't quite call a girlfriend yet, but it was definitely a date. F will not get mentioned too often in here, as she is a very private person and I don't think she'd like it very much if I broadcast a whole bunch of details about her over the internet. At least, not in a public post.
( Lots of rambling on about 'V for Vendetta.' )
Otherwise, I haven't been to the cinema much lately. I think I mentioned seeing "Take the Lead," which was cute if uninspired and unrealistic. What I have been doing, though, is renting movies. I rented "The Shipping News," which I think I would have enjoyed more if at least one of the characters had been sympathetic to me. Seriously, it's rare that I won't be able to empathise with any character at all in a book or movie, but in this case none of the characters were likeable in the slightest. Bleh.
I finally got around to watching "The Silence of the Lambs," only about twelve years after it came out. :P I think the movie has suffered from the lapse of time. Not because it's not a good movie, but because now most of us are quite familiar with the stereotype of the brilliant and compelling sociopath, whereas audiences at the time the movie came out were not. Now the whole "I ate his liver with a side of fava beans and a nice chianti" is pretty clichéd, even though this is the movie that started the cliché. I had the same problem when I finally saw "The Godfather." It was difficult not to laugh when Marlon Brando started talking about favours and offers people couldn't refuse, and yet this was the film that started it all. So I ended up feeling a little dissatisfied with "The Silence of the Lambs" because I expected more from it: I wanted a deeper exploration of Lecter's relationship to Clarice, especially, why he becomes obsessed with her, why he wants to help her, why she becomes obsessed with him. I wanted motivation, dammit, and I got very little. I ought to read the book: I'm sure I'll find what I'm missing in there.
On a more light-hearted, silly note, I've also been renting action films. I rented "The Fantastic Four," and enjoyed it, without attempting in the slightest to make any kind of critical judgment. This isn't the kind of movie that stands up well to scrutiny, so I left well enough alone. It's too bad Jessica Alba couldn't act her way out of a wet paper bag, because her role needed more than she could give it.
Twenty years later, I finally watched "The Terminator," and found that it doesn't do too badly after all this time. The clothes and hairstyles are painfully eighties, and some of the special effects are a little off by today's standards, but the story is compelling nonetheless. I'm currently watching "Terminator 2," but haven't finished it (I was really tired and fell asleep), and while the effects are better in this movie, I'm not sure I like the "bad guy" in this version. While I had no trouble believing the larger-than-life Terminator portrayed by Ah-nold, this new guy (whatever his name is), seems kind of ordinary. Evil, yes, but in a kind of secondary-minion way. Schwarzenegger's Terminator was a kind of mythological being, and looked every inch like it was unstoppable. This new guy doesn't really pull it off well at all. The story still works well, though, and so I'm going to finish it tonight and see what happens.
That's it for what I've been watching. I'm still following 24, but generally I've been a little too tired when I get home to post my thoughts about the show. Next week is the season finale, so I might do something then.
I've been on a movie-watching kick lately. I went to see "V for Vendetta" last Thursday with F, whom I can't quite call a girlfriend yet, but it was definitely a date. F will not get mentioned too often in here, as she is a very private person and I don't think she'd like it very much if I broadcast a whole bunch of details about her over the internet. At least, not in a public post.
( Lots of rambling on about 'V for Vendetta.' )
Otherwise, I haven't been to the cinema much lately. I think I mentioned seeing "Take the Lead," which was cute if uninspired and unrealistic. What I have been doing, though, is renting movies. I rented "The Shipping News," which I think I would have enjoyed more if at least one of the characters had been sympathetic to me. Seriously, it's rare that I won't be able to empathise with any character at all in a book or movie, but in this case none of the characters were likeable in the slightest. Bleh.
I finally got around to watching "The Silence of the Lambs," only about twelve years after it came out. :P I think the movie has suffered from the lapse of time. Not because it's not a good movie, but because now most of us are quite familiar with the stereotype of the brilliant and compelling sociopath, whereas audiences at the time the movie came out were not. Now the whole "I ate his liver with a side of fava beans and a nice chianti" is pretty clichéd, even though this is the movie that started the cliché. I had the same problem when I finally saw "The Godfather." It was difficult not to laugh when Marlon Brando started talking about favours and offers people couldn't refuse, and yet this was the film that started it all. So I ended up feeling a little dissatisfied with "The Silence of the Lambs" because I expected more from it: I wanted a deeper exploration of Lecter's relationship to Clarice, especially, why he becomes obsessed with her, why he wants to help her, why she becomes obsessed with him. I wanted motivation, dammit, and I got very little. I ought to read the book: I'm sure I'll find what I'm missing in there.
On a more light-hearted, silly note, I've also been renting action films. I rented "The Fantastic Four," and enjoyed it, without attempting in the slightest to make any kind of critical judgment. This isn't the kind of movie that stands up well to scrutiny, so I left well enough alone. It's too bad Jessica Alba couldn't act her way out of a wet paper bag, because her role needed more than she could give it.
Twenty years later, I finally watched "The Terminator," and found that it doesn't do too badly after all this time. The clothes and hairstyles are painfully eighties, and some of the special effects are a little off by today's standards, but the story is compelling nonetheless. I'm currently watching "Terminator 2," but haven't finished it (I was really tired and fell asleep), and while the effects are better in this movie, I'm not sure I like the "bad guy" in this version. While I had no trouble believing the larger-than-life Terminator portrayed by Ah-nold, this new guy (whatever his name is), seems kind of ordinary. Evil, yes, but in a kind of secondary-minion way. Schwarzenegger's Terminator was a kind of mythological being, and looked every inch like it was unstoppable. This new guy doesn't really pull it off well at all. The story still works well, though, and so I'm going to finish it tonight and see what happens.
That's it for what I've been watching. I'm still following 24, but generally I've been a little too tired when I get home to post my thoughts about the show. Next week is the season finale, so I might do something then.
Second wedding this summer
May. 13th, 2006 10:52 amEveryone's getting married.
Gotta go run and finish getting ready.
Jan and t!: you probably won't read this until a few weeks from now, but I hope today is every bit as special (and more so) as you could want.
Yes, it's just an excuse for a new icon. ;)
Gotta go run and finish getting ready.
Jan and t!: you probably won't read this until a few weeks from now, but I hope today is every bit as special (and more so) as you could want.
Yes, it's just an excuse for a new icon. ;)
More musings on 24, and new icon!
Jan. 18th, 2006 12:09 amOkay, so. The other two hours of the season premiere were last night. Once again, I watched it with my mother, and we now have a standing date on Monday nights to watch it together (as long as it does, in fact, air on Monday nights. Otherwise we're screwed.)
Check out the new icon!
( Spoilers, ho! )
Check out the new icon!
( Spoilers, ho! )
Many, many smooches to karine who made me an icon!
Look! Innit great?
Okay, those of you who don't know the Telus ad campaign for their new cell phone features probably won't get it. You can see it here.
Yes, I am aware that I am totally buying into the marketing here, although I'm not planning to get a cell phone any time soon, nor do I play any form of poker, online or otherwise. I've just really liked this campaign from the very start: it's had some bad years, but overall it's pretty damned awesome. For once, the slogan makes a certain amount of sense, and this time there are bunnies!
Ahem.
karine who made me an icon!Look! Innit great?
Okay, those of you who don't know the Telus ad campaign for their new cell phone features probably won't get it. You can see it here.
Yes, I am aware that I am totally buying into the marketing here, although I'm not planning to get a cell phone any time soon, nor do I play any form of poker, online or otherwise. I've just really liked this campaign from the very start: it's had some bad years, but overall it's pretty damned awesome. For once, the slogan makes a certain amount of sense, and this time there are bunnies!
Ahem.
And here I was worried a while back that I wouldn't be able to fit 100 icon slots. Hah! I remember having the same anxiety when I went from 3 to 10, then 10 to 15, then 15 to 45. I had no anxiety about 45 to 50. ;)
I have too many icons that I love! Waaaah! I sacrificed some for the New!Shiny!Firefly icons I made today. :)
Will the madness ever stop? Stay tuned...
I have too many icons that I love! Waaaah! I sacrificed some for the New!Shiny!Firefly icons I made today. :)
Will the madness ever stop? Stay tuned...
I blame talyesin entirely (or, GIP)
Aug. 31st, 2005 07:41 amMore icons. In fact, so many icons I had to sacrifice a few that I wasn't really using. First one is up on the post. Then, in no particular order:
This is alltalyesin's fault.
This is all
talyesin's fault.I rock (better known as GIP)
Aug. 27th, 2005 12:15 pmSo, owldaughter took some photos of me at one of our past practice sessions, and in a fit of heretofore unseen bravery on my part, I've made some icons of myself. Yes, I know I've done that in the past, but these show more of my face than the others.
You can see one of them attached to this post, and here are the rest, in no particular order:
This last one was me being silly with my image editing software. I may not keep it.
owldaughter took some photos of me at one of our past practice sessions, and in a fit of heretofore unseen bravery on my part, I've made some icons of myself. Yes, I know I've done that in the past, but these show more of my face than the others.You can see one of them attached to this post, and here are the rest, in no particular order:
This last one was me being silly with my image editing software. I may not keep it.
Another GIP
Aug. 4th, 2005 10:06 amOkay, this the only other really new icon I have. The rest are all icons I liked but gave up when I came up with new icons. Now I can have my cake and eat it too! Yay me!
In other news, this is my non-serial creative writing icon.
In other news, this is my non-serial creative writing icon.
