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[Jun. 4th, 2009|03:47 pm] |
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How can Big Brother still be running? I'll admit the first series was quite fun, but how is it possibly as popular as it is? It starts tonight in the UK, for anyone reading this from a different country, and already the internet is a-buzz with 'who will be in the house?' 'what will the furniture look like?' and most importantly, 'what hilarious gimmicks will BB come up with this year?'
It's starting to seem like every other programme on tv is a reality one - thank God for Lovefilm and Sky+
On a more serious note, this http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8076253.stm has really got to me. This level of hate and intolerance is shocking and hard to comprehend, imo. And regardless of your stance on the abortion issue, in my (limited) experience, most women having a late-term abortion (after 21 weeks) are doing it for very serious medical reasons and not as a lifestyle choice, so the targeting of one of the doctors who perform this kind of abortion is probably not making the kind of statement his murderer was hoping for.
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| Lost |
[Jan. 26th, 2009|09:44 pm] |
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Ah, Lost...why are you so very confusing, and yet so completely addictive...?
And how very cool is Sayid looking at the moment? Even more dark and dangerous than before! |
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| Made up my own meme... |
[Jan. 9th, 2009|09:55 pm] |
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5 Fictional Characters I Definitely Would! (Books)
Jamie Fraser (Cross Stitch etc by Diana Gabaldon)
Joscelin Verreuil (Kushiel's Dart etc by Jacqueline Carey)
Brashen Trell (The Liveship Traders trilogy by Robin Hobb)
George Cooper (Song of the Lioness series by Tamora Pierce)
Bran (Son of the Shadows by Juliet Marillier)
5 Fictional Characters I Definitely Would! (TV/Film)
Josh Lyman (The West Wing)
Mal Reynolds (Firefly)
Jake Green (Jericho)
James 'Sawyer' Ford (Lost)
Dr Robert Chase (House: MD) (Yes, little Billy from Neighbours - I am suitably ashamed!)
5 That I Controversially Wouldn't! (Both)
Edward Cullen (Twilight etc by Stephenie Meyer) (too much of a martyr!)
Jean-Claude (Anita Blake series by Laurell K Hamilton) (irritating and egotistical)
Jondalar (Earth's Children series by Jean M Auel) (too perfect, and thus deeply annoying)
Angel (BTVS and Angel: The Series) (too mopey)
Dr Tony Gates (ER) (most irritating character known to man!)
(Apparently I don't really go for vampires!)
5 Couples I Love (TV/Film -possible spoilers)
Josh and Donna (The West Wing)
Zoe and Wash (Firefly)
Stanley and Mimi (Jericho)
Willow and Oz (BTVS)
CJ and Danny (The West Wing)
5 Couples I Love (books - possible spoilers)
Derfel and Ceinwyn (The Warlord Chronicles by Bernard Cornwell)
Claire and Jamie (Cross Stitch etc by Diana Gabaldon)
Phedre and Joscelin (Kushiel's Dart etc by Jacqueline Carey)
Liadan and Bran (Son of the Shadows by Juliet Marillier)
Fitz and Molly (The Farseer trilogy and The Tawny Man trilogy by Robin Hobb)
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| Mostly tv stuff... |
[Jan. 9th, 2009|01:33 pm] |
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- Sooo - watched the first episode of Demons last night. I'm a bit cynical of anything that claims to be 'Britains answer to BTVS' etc, (I didn't get into Hex at all) but quite enjoyed the first episode of Demons. The first time Galvin spoke was a surprise - for some reason I was genuinely expecting him to talk like Gene Hunt! I did spend ages trying to figure out where I'd seen the guy playing Luke before, but I think it's just that he's a dead ringer for Nate in Gosspi Girl (I was shamefully excited to see a trailer for the new series of that - coming soon).
- I'm reserving judgement on the new Doctor Who. I liked him better in the interview on Doctor Who Confidential than I did in the still photo I first saw of him. I just hope they cast a good Companion...and by that I basically mean anyone who isn't going to have a crush on the Doctor! I fear David Tennant will always be my favourite Doctor though *sigh*
- Watched Survivors - liked it, which surprised me, because I thought it might be rubbish. Sure, there were irritating bits, but overall it was fun. Apparently the original series is much better, so I might Lovefilm that at some point.
- Liking 30 Rock a lot, but I'm only a few episodes in, so can't say much more about it yet! It's hard not to see Tina Fey's Sarah Palin impression whenever she's on-screen, though!
- On a similar note, I'm worried The Daily Show is really going to run out of material once Obama is inaugurated. Say what you will about George Bush (and I've said plenty!), he was a gift to people like Jon Stewart! It's the end of an era!
God - I watch far too much tv. Might have to do another post about books I've read recently, so this one doesn't get too long and boring! |
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| Another meme from Scribbles |
[Sep. 9th, 2008|01:26 pm] |
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It's a secret meme - you can only find out what the questions are by doing the meme...should have remembered to say that!
I'll preface this by saying that a) I have a small, but select group of LJ-friends to choose from, so the same names will come up a lot, and b) I may not post a lot, but I try to keep up with other people's journals, and have made judgments about you all accordingly! : )
( Here be answers... )
1. ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) seal_girl</lj> (as my first LJ-friend, if I recall correctly)
3. katie__pillar</lj>
4. violetcreme</lj> and ersatz_iolo</lj>
5. chaletian</lj>
6. r_scribbles</lj>
7. I have a suspicion that most of the interesting people in the world weren't...
8. I think that of most of you - that's why you're on my list! but specifically: seal_girl</lj> donna_k</lj> r_scribbles</lj>
9. r_scribbles</lj> seal_girl</lj>
10. seal_girl</lj> r_scribbles</lj> hayet</lj> kaurseeker</lj> (Hope I haven't missed anyone!)
11. Um...I don't get the impression any of you do on a regular basis!
12. katie_pillar</lj> and robvic</lj>
13. ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/syndicated.gif) officialgaiman</lj> (At least I amuse myself...)
14. katie_pillar</lj>
15. Er...none of you?
16. hayet</lj> and seal_girl</lj>
17. I don't know...scarlite</lj> (because I think she's the youngest here?)
18. sharelle</lj> (Don't know why, and meant nicely!)
19. seal_girl</lj> and kaurseeker</lj>
20. scarlite</lj>
21. Pass (through lack of understanding)
22. Ditto
23. r_scribbles</lj> (I fear her wrath, so I does what I am told!)
24. None, I hope!
25. In the nicest way, I don't really feel able to answer these slightly bizarre questions about my f-list!
26. "
27. "
28. "
29. I think all my f-list are girls, so this would require a serious lifestyle change!
30. I bet I've got loads of you wrong! Sorry! You're all very fascinating people, and I'm glad to have 'met' you!
I need more LJ-friends, and possibly to get to know the ones I have better. *feels slightly friendless and ashamed*
EDIT - Okay - this seems to be looking a bit funny most of the time (but not all of the time, oddly). I've always had trouble with this, which is why I rarely put anybody's name as an LJ-tag. So I apologise for the fact that it looks odd, but I have tried to fix it, and it just won't! |
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| Spaced...finally! |
[Sep. 2nd, 2008|10:05 pm] |
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Obedient as I am to the orders of one Random Scribbles, I have just finished watching Spaced...a mere decade or so behind everyone else.
Of course, it was fantastic! Wonder why we've never got round to seeing it before?
Watching it from a vantage point of 2008, Ricky Gervais's appearance in Season 2 was funny, considering this was pre-Office (I think). I'm so used to seeing him pop up in almost everything these days that it took a moment to realise that he was probably just another actor at that point.
Might watch the Special Features tomorrow - I'm sad that there were only 14 episodes - I could have happily watched another couple of seasons. |
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| Meme from Scribbles |
[Jul. 28th, 2008|06:53 pm] |
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1. Bold the names of guys you'd definitely shag.
2. Italicize the names of guys you might shag after a little persuasion.
3. Leave the guys who don't do anything for you alone.
4. Put a question mark after the guys you've never heard of.
5. Strike the guys you wouldn't touch with a ten-foot pole.
6. ADD FOUR OF YOUR OWN AT THE END. NOTE THAT THESE ARE THE FICTIONAL CHARACTERS, NOT THE ACTORS THEMSELVES...(That's a whole other survey!)
(Note: I'm also stealing Shez's/Scribbles's idea of putting a ? after those that I've heard of but don't know enough about to make a decision!)
Hmm - I suspect this is not going to make me look like a nice girl...
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| Doctor Who |
[Jun. 28th, 2008|09:03 pm] |
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Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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| Book meme |
[Jun. 25th, 2008|04:36 pm] |
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1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicise those you intend to read (as in the book is bought and sitting on my shelf).
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Strike out the ones you thought SUCKED.
1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Bible
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare (Bits)
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19. The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34. Emma - Jane Austen
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe (obviously, given my answer to 33)
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52. Dune - Frank Herbert
53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
69. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses - James Joyce
76. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78. Germinal - Emile Zola
79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80. Possession - AS Byatt
81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87. Charlotte's Web - EB White
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94. Watership Down - Richard Adams
95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo |
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| Jericho - we hardly knew you! |
[May. 4th, 2008|09:28 pm] |
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We've just finished Season 1 of Jericho. I can honestly say that it was one of the best series I have ever seen. I'm absolutely devastated that it was cancelled, and then cancelled again after its brief resurrection. I think this is another example of my complete inability to understand US tv networks. Firefly, Angel, Studio 60, and now Jericho - all thrown out long before their time.
I wonder what it was that the networks (and by extension, US viewers, since I do understand that it's a ratings game) didn't like about Jericho...the great concept, the well-built, rounded characters, the current relevance, the human interest bits, the conspiracy bits, the surplus of attractive townspeople...the mind boggles!
I just wish I'd managed to see the series in time to send some nuts to CBS!!!
(No spoilers for Season 2, please! I know it's short, but I can't wait to see it unspoiled!!!) |
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| Public Service Announcement |
[Apr. 24th, 2008|06:08 pm] |
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Heroes - 9pm tonight on BBC2.
I'm sure you all knew that anyway, since I get most of my information from LJ, but just thought I'd mention it...
Thursday nights just get better and better for tv..... |
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[Feb. 28th, 2008|03:35 pm] |
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http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=105394&in_page_id=34
Is it wrong that the bit of this story I find silliest is that the parents thought it was a good idea to name a pair of twins Gabrielle and Gabriella? Imagine the confusion that will dog them for their entire lives!
How great is the new season of Lost? No specifics given, because I know that Scribbles at least isn't watching it yet, but after the mediocrity that has been appearing on tv recently, it's so good to see some gripping drama going on. Just a shame that it (like everything else) is a shortened series this year.
We had an earthquake! How very un-British of us! It caused no damage here, of course, though it did set the pictures swaying a bit, and Mr Nikkibeth was asleep and oblivious to the whole thing.
This is a very dull post, I admit, but i'm so excited at having a seemingly-reliable connection for once that I'm going to post it anyway in celebration! It's been very annoying with the tv/movie line memes, many of which I've known, but been completely unable to post answers to! |
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| It's really been a while... |
[Jan. 2nd, 2008|11:16 am] |
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Happy New Year, and I hope everyone also had a Merry Christmas! It looks like most people did - hooray!
We should finally be getting our internet connection fixed, after it has finally slumped to a level where it's unusable for most of the day, so I might even be back on here more. It's not reading posts that's the problem, it's posting entries and comments, so I do apologise for my slackness over the last couple of months. Of course, Real Life and Christmas also got in the way...
I've finally seen all of both series of Life on Mars. Yes, I realise I was very, very late to this particular party, but I've now seen all of it, and it was sooooo good! Loved the ending - very satisfying!
Contrary to my last (ancient) entry, the DVD box set of Studio 60 is coming out in a few weeks - yay! I really enjoyed the series, and I remain disappointed that it was cancelled, though pleased that at least there was a full series to watch first.
Speaking of full serieses, this year seems like it may be a bit haphazard when it come to TV, due to the writers' strikes. Does anyone know what will happen with serieses such as Scrubs, where this should be the last one? Will they just end it where it ends, or do another full or half series next year?
Anyway, hopefully I'll be around a bit more, or at least posting a bit more, when our internet gets fixed. Fingers crossed! |
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| Good stuff... |
[Oct. 15th, 2007|03:08 pm] |
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1. Spooks is back tomorrow night - hooray!
2. Mysterious Cities of Gold is supposedly being released on UK DVD in February - double hooray!
3. The Office: An American Workplace, Season 3, doesn't seem to be coming to UK TV, or to UK DVD anytime in the foreseeable future - boo!
4. Ditto Studio 60 on DVD (even though we're only halfway through on More4) - boooo!
This concludes my public service announcement for today. |
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| TV stuff of course... |
[Oct. 3rd, 2007|11:43 am] |
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Has anyone else been watching 'Bringing Up Baby' on Tuesday nights? I do realise that it's probably of greater interest to anyone with children or intending to have children soon, but I gather a lot of the country has been tuning in.
I've seen the first two episodes now, and it does seem that Channel 4 have managed to sensationalise things to produce more controversial tv once again, (Extraordinary Breastfeeding, anyone?) I'm really quite uncomfortable with the idea of newborn babies effectively being used as the subjects of this experiment, though, and Claire Verity's system strikes me as very distressing for babies and parents alike. I don't understand the parents who volunteered for such a strict regime, and are then shown in tears, but not being 'allowed' to pick up their own newborns except at 4-hourly intervals.
Maybe this is another example of so many people's desire for fame (read: tv coverage) for any reason at all. I think I can confidently say that you couldn't pay me enough money to take part in something like this, but clearly, some parents don't feel the same way!
Of course, none of this will make any sense if you haven't seen the programme - sorry! : )
Edit: What? I didn't disable comments! LJ is driving me mad at the moment - half the time it won't let me comment on posts, and it takes me forever to post an entry! Gah! |
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| From Scribbles...literally, it seems! |
[Sep. 13th, 2007|07:09 pm] |
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Your results:
You are Wash (Ship Pilot)
| Wash (Ship Pilot) |
| 90% |
| Zoe Washburne (Second-in-command) |
| 70% |
| Kaylee Frye (Ship Mechanic) |
| 65% |
| Dr. Simon Tam (Ship Medic) |
| 65% |
| Malcolm Reynolds (Captain) |
| 50% |
| Derrial Book (Shepherd) |
| 50% |
| Inara Serra (Companion) |
| 40% |
| River (Stowaway) |
| 20% |
| Alliance |
| 20% |
| Jayne Cobb (Mercenary) |
| 10% |
| A Reaver (Cannibal) |
| 5% |
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You are a pilot with a good
if not silly sense of humor.
You take pride in your collection of toys.
You love your significant other.
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Click here to take the Serenity Personality Quiz
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