random blathering + vampire thing + stuff before I actually go to study

[janie_tangerine]

1. European elections in two days. And I don't even know who the hell are the candidates except for one. Also, I'll probably go voting with my head again and I probably will want to vent come Monday. Blah. If I think about how excited I was about voting when I still couldn't vote I feel like crap. :/

2. But, yesterday I went and just took my way-too-old copy of Norton antivirus out of the computer (I have another one anyway) and... er. It hadn't been so fast in... one year or so. It's way faster, it doesn't crash as much as before and it didn't take ten minutes to load, this morning. Duh. Had I known it before I'd have taken it off six months ago.

3.

You know. This one almost makes it look like a... I don't want to say good, but at least not-lame show. The preview made it look totally lame, the short trailer not so much, but this one actually makes it look nice. Or at least, it makes it seem like the girl can half-act and even if I'm still not sold on the good brother he looks way less out of place. Even if really, all I care about is His Prettiness smirking. Christ, I mean. This thing will be the death of me. Leather and smirking. Can I hope it gets at least two seasons?

Also, it made me LOL that in the comments someone noticed that it's the same high school where they shot the After School Special SPN episode. LOL. Like I wasn't crossovering this shit with SPN already as soon as it airs, lol. CW, CW, you really cut on the budget. Even though the idea that His Prettiness shoots on former SPN sets is somewhat alluring.

4. I finished Anansi Boys, which only confirmed my opinion that Neil Gaiman is too awesome for this world. Except that I think that I've read everything he has written except Stardust which I probably will skip because it's just not my thing. But still. This one was awesome.

5. I stand of my opinion. Everyone says that Heidegger is the greatest philosopher of this century because no-one ever understood a thing of what he meant except maybe Heidegger himself.

6. I finally managed to listen to Steve Earle's latest record and OMG!! ♥ Fine, it's all covers and I need to find the originals but OMG! It's SO good!! *draws hearts*

7. So, I should probably go buying groceries. Then go studying whatever Kant has to do with history of medicine. And then post fic from one of those two kink memes sometime this afternoon. And meanwhile trying to finish one fic that I intend to enter for the fix-it challenge at lostsquee. Or at least the first draft. Which means I'll be off after this incredibly interesting entry.

8. But, I'll leave you with this awesome thing that popped up some Bruce community last day.

Robert De Niro stole his famous "You talkin' to me?" Taxi Driver movie line from rock legend Bruce Springsteen. The line, which De Niro's character recites to himself in the 1976 Martin Scorsese movie, has become one of the most famous movie quotes of all time.

And the acting legend has confessed it was inspired by a trip to a Springsteen concert, while he was preparing for the role.
De Niro made the admission to Springsteen's bandmate Clarence Clemons - who coached the actor to play the saxophone for movie New York, New York. Clemons tells the New York Daily News, "(He) had been to one of our concerts and the audience was yelling out 'Bruce!' In those days, Bruce would stop onstage and say, 'You talkin' to me?' "De Niro was kind of channeling him."

I mean, it's not like Bruce didn't have an already divinity-like status with me, but this? I mean. ♥

Comments

[pnr.livejournal.com]

I still need to finish Anansi Boys. For some reason I stopped with like 150 pages left.
And you should read Stardust! It's sweet and a really easy read. I can't remember how Neil put it, but it's not meant to be all deep and stuff. It's suppose to be like ice cream; just there to make you happy for a while.

Have you read the childrens stuff as well? Like Wolves In The Walls, The Day I Swapped MYyDad For Two Goldfish or Coraline? Allt hose exist in gorgeous illustrated version. Oh that reminds me. I need to read MirrorMask. Watched the movie yesterday and it was gorgeous as well.

Oh, have you read Odd And The Frost Giants? It's kind atricky to get your hands on, that's why I ask.

Which is your favourite of his btw?
Mine has to be Smoke and Mirrors. I just love hsi short stories SO MUCH!
(omg how much do I look forward to the Who Killed Amanda Palmer Book? Neil's stories and beautiful photos with one of the coolest women in the world... dead. Two months til I get it! eehp!)



Bruce is awesome. End of story.

[onlyechoes.livejournal.com]

To be honest, I was waiting for these elections but now I'm just annoyed with them because the candidates are.. just.. maybe Finnish politics have just been pissing me off way too much lately because damn I strongly dislike 90% of the parties too.

Whoa, I have Norton and this computer is insanely slow and keeps crashing. Now I want to delete it but we wouldn't have another virus scan then and we've already paid for it this year - even though we had problems with it and then simply gave up because it's so confusing and useless anyway, haha.

[marylou-gr.livejournal.com]

Are your elections on Saturday? I keep changing my mind too, but in lack of better options, I'll probably vote for the Socialist party like I always do, simply hoping they won't screw it up this time. What can I say, I'm a die-hard optimist! :P

I HATE the Twilight feeling Vampire Diaries gives me, but dark!Ian/crows/fog and all that jazz totally make up for it! And now I'm all excited about the prospect of an SPN crossover from you! :D

[polvodestrella.livejournal.com]

The elections... *sighs* I wish I had my ideas clear about that, but I really don't. I always go voting because it's that right we have and we have to use it, but when it comes to European elections the task seems really complicated.

[elliotsmelliot.livejournal.com]

Good luck with Kant and medical history. I remember this medical anthropology class I once took and the prof kept referencing Kant every five minutes.

Mr. E.S. still hasn't read American Gods because he only reads on vacations we haven't gone on one in over a year. Maybe he'll bring it to San Francisco. If not, I will steal it and read it first. I saw the movie Stardust and thought it was awful. Coraline the movie, however, was excellent.

Are you writing the Locke's leg get crushed instead of Boone's for the challenge? I haven't come up with anything. My main issues are with S4 and S5. Maybe I could do something about Michael standing up to Ben or eliminating all the quad drama from early S3.

Did you ever watch Steve Earle 10 second cameo on 30 Rock?

[lenina20.livejournal.com]

Why is no one in the fucking entire continent taking those elections seriously? Why? Why?

Can I vote more than once for those lazy asses who are going to stay at home?

[valhalla37.livejournal.com]

I *HEART* Neil Gaiman. I need to go pick up more of his stuff, stat -- I used to read it all the time in high school, but kind of dropped off since then. I never got to Stardust, but I surprised myself by loving the movie -- have you seen it?

My best friend is a Kant fanatic; I only took political philosophy (like Locke, hee!) in uni, though, so whatever she says about him goes waaaay over my head. Heidegger too. More props to you guys for actually being able to study and retain the stuff! :D

[kros-21.livejournal.com]

Porca vacca non posso avere l'audio aperto adesso perchè sono all'università....
che ti sembra di sto telefilm?
avremo un nuovo fandom l'anno prossimo....

mi fa male anche solo dirlo ma bisogna pensare a sostituti ora che tutti i nostri show sono all'ultima stagione....
(anche se io già spero in SPN season 6 :P)

*hugs*

[neated.livejournal.com]

Tehe the trailer looks okayish, but his prettyness is gorgeous. OMG and he's the bad brother. *fangirls*

[ibroketuesday.livejournal.com]

Stardust wasn't my type of book either and it's not my favorite of Gaiman's novels, but it's still pretty damn good.

[catoasapun.livejournal.com]

First, love the new layout! Your header is gorgeous. *pets it*

Second, I'm about halfway through Anansi Boys at the moment, and I am SO IN LOVE with it. Neil Gaiman is a god.

[tellshannon815.livejournal.com]

That thing with Norton is exactly what happened with Grandad's crap computer!

Good luck with the Boone fic - I just got my fix-it post up now, I saved Libby. Thinking about something with Desmond and Sayid for the one for the last two seasons (one that's been on my to-do list for about 6 months!)