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janie_tangerineAlright, vacation with friends is over and I'm alone in the city again, with a heat that raised up at least three grades in the last week. *sigh* Right, it's August and I'm in Italy and it happens every time, so I should be expecting that and I was but argh, it's becoming unbearable this round. I just hope it cools off a bit soon.
On other news, I'll be off with my parents for ten days from the 10th. Not too far since we're going to Pesaro, which is a city a couple of driving hours from here, in order to see the opera. Well, it was where Rossini was from and since each year in August for one week or so they perform some operas at a festival with usually very good casts and I have been asking for years to spend my birthday there for once instead of my grandmother's small town where I always end up I'm kind of squeeing. We're also staying at some friends of my mother's house for the duration and it sounds pretty awesome. I don't know if I'll manage to check the e-mail and the flist (if my mother's laptop has reception and if she lets me near it, that'd be), but I guess I'll find an internet point in town at one point. The only thing is that I'll have to work on that paper I've been delaying working on since May but alas, nothing can be all good.
And God, catching up with the luau is crazy. I had 60 posts bookmarked and I'm quite pleased to say that between yesterday and today I shortened the list at 30 and I plan to shorten it further this evening. It's kind of making me go into fic overload but I don't think I could try it after ten days out *phew*. And I need to catch up with the writing, too, but that actually scares me less.
Also, I rounded up the result of me + friends + record shops for two weeks. I got myself the first Dire Straits record, Lucinda Williams' Car Wheels on a Gravel Road and West, Carole King's Tapestry (I never heard her to be honest, but it was on discount and wanted to check her for a while) and a delightfully luxurious version of Steve Earle's Copperhead Road that is a joy to look at (and that I never thought would find in a record store here. Well, usually you don't find 3/4 of his records here...). Also, one in which I was in at some point was playing Guitar Town and listening to Steve Earle in a regular record shop kind of made me squee quite some, but that's me and being obsessed.
I also saw The Dark Knight and I loved it, even if my favorite Batman still is the second Burton one. It wasn't even too badly dubbed, even if I'm thinking that I might go see it again in a place where they give it without subtitles -nods-. I think the acting from every one was stellar and Heath Ledger's performance was astonishing. With Gary Oldman coming as my second favorite ;) Christian Bale was a sure thing, I mean, he rarely lets me down, while Maybelline New York just proved himself to be immortal in each thing he's in. And I just wished Rachel was still Katie Holmes because while I can't care less for the character she was much better played by Maggie Gyllenhaal. Oh, jumping on the Aaron Eckhart is awesomeness train too ;) I'll admit that in the Nolan movies I'm not digging all the tecnhology and explanation stuff much (the cellphones thing was kind of far off with me but whatever, it's superheroes, I'm taking it as it is) and that's mostly why it didn't top Returns with me, but nonetheless, I loved the movie.
On an off note, since the first friend over here is starting to watch Supernatural I re-watched all of S2 and uhm, yeah, just one thing: Ash needs not to be dead. I don't know how but he needs not to be dead, and Ellen needs to be back next season. Also, they need to go back to that photography because it's a million times better than the S3 one -nod-.
And now I'm done with blathering and off to keep on catching up. And maybe writing a bit, after.
On other news, I'll be off with my parents for ten days from the 10th. Not too far since we're going to Pesaro, which is a city a couple of driving hours from here, in order to see the opera. Well, it was where Rossini was from and since each year in August for one week or so they perform some operas at a festival with usually very good casts and I have been asking for years to spend my birthday there for once instead of my grandmother's small town where I always end up I'm kind of squeeing. We're also staying at some friends of my mother's house for the duration and it sounds pretty awesome. I don't know if I'll manage to check the e-mail and the flist (if my mother's laptop has reception and if she lets me near it, that'd be), but I guess I'll find an internet point in town at one point. The only thing is that I'll have to work on that paper I've been delaying working on since May but alas, nothing can be all good.
And God, catching up with the luau is crazy. I had 60 posts bookmarked and I'm quite pleased to say that between yesterday and today I shortened the list at 30 and I plan to shorten it further this evening. It's kind of making me go into fic overload but I don't think I could try it after ten days out *phew*. And I need to catch up with the writing, too, but that actually scares me less.
Also, I rounded up the result of me + friends + record shops for two weeks. I got myself the first Dire Straits record, Lucinda Williams' Car Wheels on a Gravel Road and West, Carole King's Tapestry (I never heard her to be honest, but it was on discount and wanted to check her for a while) and a delightfully luxurious version of Steve Earle's Copperhead Road that is a joy to look at (and that I never thought would find in a record store here. Well, usually you don't find 3/4 of his records here...). Also, one in which I was in at some point was playing Guitar Town and listening to Steve Earle in a regular record shop kind of made me squee quite some, but that's me and being obsessed.
I also saw The Dark Knight and I loved it, even if my favorite Batman still is the second Burton one. It wasn't even too badly dubbed, even if I'm thinking that I might go see it again in a place where they give it without subtitles -nods-. I think the acting from every one was stellar and Heath Ledger's performance was astonishing. With Gary Oldman coming as my second favorite ;) Christian Bale was a sure thing, I mean, he rarely lets me down, while Maybelline New York just proved himself to be immortal in each thing he's in. And I just wished Rachel was still Katie Holmes because while I can't care less for the character she was much better played by Maggie Gyllenhaal. Oh, jumping on the Aaron Eckhart is awesomeness train too ;) I'll admit that in the Nolan movies I'm not digging all the tecnhology and explanation stuff much (the cellphones thing was kind of far off with me but whatever, it's superheroes, I'm taking it as it is) and that's mostly why it didn't top Returns with me, but nonetheless, I loved the movie.
On an off note, since the first friend over here is starting to watch Supernatural I re-watched all of S2 and uhm, yeah, just one thing: Ash needs not to be dead. I don't know how but he needs not to be dead, and Ellen needs to be back next season. Also, they need to go back to that photography because it's a million times better than the S3 one -nod-.
And now I'm done with blathering and off to keep on catching up. And maybe writing a bit, after.
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Date: 2008-08-06 10:32 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2008-08-07 09:09 pm (UTC)I echo on the fans. I actually keep mine always on, I can't do otherwise. And no, I'm not uberrich. My friends were here at my house and now I'm going with my parents in a place that they're lending them, so.. ;) Pesaro is in the center of Italy, more on the Adriatic side.
I'd trade Ruby willingly if it means for Ash to be back -nods- and Dean climbing up from hell looks awesome. I mean, who the hell else could? ;)
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Date: 2008-08-07 10:26 am (UTC)