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]

Dave McKean is such a brilliant illustrator. You really should check em out. I haven't read Coraline in that version (just the normal kind with some regular illustrations thrown in. I think I even own it *laugh*) But Ellen, a friend from school, owns All three I think (Coraline, Wolves and Goldfish) and I looked through them and they are just so amazing. I think I read all of Wolves in the Walls, but I've only listened properly to The Day I Swapped MY Dad For Two Goldfish.

Smoke and Mirrors is amazing! Fragile Things isn't as good, but still short stories so XD
Oh, and then you have M is for Magic. A few short stories for children. Haven't read it myself but listened to the audiobook version.

Good Omens is so made of win. Combining Neil and Terry creates magic XD
I really need to re-read it, and this time in English. I read it so very long ago, when my English wasn't good enough to appreciate the book fully you know?


I shall finish Anansi Boys when I'm done with my animal sex book *laugh*


oh also, go here and scroll down til you see a big picture of some people poking on a drowned woman. There you have a little snippet/short story from Who Killed Amanda Palmer ^^(and yeah, that's of course Amanda being all lovely and dead in the stream)

[janie-tangerine.livejournal.com]

Oh, I love McKean. He also illustrated one of the Dark Tower books so I knew him before I went into the Gaiman frenzy, he's so good. I'll probably get Smoke and Mirrors next time I hit a bookshop -nod- it's not like I can find it in English in a library anyway.

Good Omens is AWESOME. I love the heck out of it. It's some of the best stuff I've read lately, it was such a blast. And ha, considering that Anansi Boys has a lot of animals in the second part it's just the thing to read after a book on animal sex, lol. ;)

And thanks for the link!

[pnr.livejournal.com]

Oh, have you seen the movie MirrorMask?
I have meant to eatch it for years but just got aorund to it this week. So beautiful! You can really see that it's McKean who's behind the illustrations and imagery (yeah, it's actualyl a live action movie. But you still see it's his art work). And Neil wrote the story. And the Jim Henson Company was involved in the animations/cgi stuff. They made my absolute favourite tv show of all time. So I seriously don't understand WHY I didn't see the movie until now O.o