Since you're gone my empty arms have nothing left to hold

1. First thing, happy birthday yellowhorde and ecstaticagony!! I hope you're both having amazing days and that the next year is especially awesome. (And ecstaticagony, see you again at the con if you're there? I'll give you a ride with pleasure ;) ), And if any of you wants to prompt me feel free to, it'll happen eventually. ;)

2. HI EVERYONE!

I realized I hadn't posted anything serious in like two weeks. Only reason: I clearly arrived at the last moment with the pedagogy presentation. Now it's sent and done and I'll go there to get my goddamn mark on the 16th and then I'm DONE. Forever, hopefully. But I practically spent all last week taking notes, trying to make a serious presentation, failing at it, re-formatting all of it and by the end I just wanted to die of boredom. But, I'm done now, so yay? Now the other problem is that I have another exam and there aren't the dates like ANYWHERE, but I'm not worrying about it until next week starts. ://

3. That out of the way, because I think about it too much already, there's nothing else exciting happening around these parts so I should probably just do a bunch of memes that I should have done like back in August, but, one thing first.

4. I mean, this.

I feel like I need to throw my two cents in. Point is: I'd love if they made a movie/series out of the DT, mostly because it's like the only serious book series ever which doesn't have a serious fandom. Which is bad because I flail about it mostly with myself. Other point is: the DT is the only book series I ever gave a damn about and the last thing I need is someone to adapt it badly and fuck it up.

So, while I should like the idea, as things are, I'm mostly meh. When I hear the cast I'll probably decide, but right now I have a couple of not-so-small quibbles:

- That it's Ron Howard directing. It isn't his genre. I'm not saying he's bad, I'm just saying that I'm not sure he's the right person for that.
- That they're airing it on NBC and not on some place like HBO.
- That the writer, among his credits, has Batman & Robin and the Da Vinci Code.

This all makes me think that the aim is to make something marketable. Point is, the DT isn't exactly marketable in the blockbuster kind. If it was on HBO I'd have loved it because I know they'd keep the nasty things, but I fear possible cuts or adaptations that might be made just to make it more marketable for a huger audience. And I really... don't want that. Also, considering what Stephen King said about Kubrick's Shining, I'm not sure I trust him judging movie adaptations from his books :/ Okay, he had a point about Jack Nicholson acting too psycho, but well. It's not like the one he authorized was a masterpiece.

Anyway, atm I'm more meh than anything. I'll wait for the cast but... er. It doesn't look much good from my perspective. :(

5. So, memes which I should have done in August. And I actually had done them, but LJ ate my entry and I forgot to re-post them.

a) Top fives (yeah, I know, OLD):

Albums for bold_seer:

note: I'm NOT including opera. And this is HARD.

1. These Days - Bon Jovi
2. Darkness On The Edge Of Town - Bruce Springsteen
3. Another Side Of Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan
4. III - Led Zeppelin
5. Sentimental Hygiene - Warren Zevon

This feels so reductive though. :(

Smells for hitlikehammers:

1. Roses. (yes, I'm a sap, but they smell so good.)
2. Jasmine flowers.
3. Er, you know when you open some old book? That one.
4. Lavender.
5. You know when you need to get gas in your car and stop at the station and there's that gas smell all over? Yes. That one. I know, weird.

Books I want to read but probably never will for elliotsmelliot:

This is more of the 'I know I should read them but I probably never will', because if I want to read something I will get to it. With time. ;)

1. War And Peace. I know I should. I also kind of want to. But I have the feeling I won't manage it before a long time
2. The Bible. At times I think I really should read it all if only for personal knowledge and because I could quote it back when people quote it at me wrong, but it requires a force of will I don't have yet.*
3. Tom Sawyer. Or, I tried five times at five different ages. Every time I think that Tom is too insufferable to read an entire book about him and then I always leave it at chapter two. One day, maybe.
4. Dickens books in general. I swear, I tried with at least four different books of his, but the most I could manage was the middle of the Pickwick Papers and I still left it there. There's something about his writing that puts me off.
5. Crime And Punishment. I started it once but I couldn't finish for some reason. But since I did finish Brothers Karamazov it's the only one in the list I'm positive I might manage to finish one day.

* Uh, I dunno if it came off like I'm not familiar with it or like I hate anything religion-concerned which I don't, but just so that I'm clear: I did read bits and pieces and I do know what happens in the Bible fairly enough. I just never read it from start to finish. ;)

Lost favorite moments for ciaimpala:

1. DO YOU HAVE A PEN?
2. Hurley/Charlie/Jin/Sawyer starting the van in Tricia Tanaka.
3. Jack and Sawyer's talk in Exodus.
4. Desmond turning the key in the hatch in the S2 finale.
5. Boone and Jack hugging in the finale.

Bonus for Des/Penny talk in The Constant and Sayid freeing Nadia in Solitary.

Lost least fav. moments for ciaimpala:

1. F!Locke bringing Sayid darkside. Or anything concerning f!Locke, that was just an example.
2. Daniel's totally lame-ass death in The Variable.
3. Ben killing Locke in the Jeremy Bentham ep.
4. Locke saying he'd have still let Boone die if he had the chance to change things.
5. Jacob/unnamed twin being born. Or maybe that's the most ridiculous, but whatevs.

Lost minor characters for ciaimpala:

1. GAULT! CAPTAIN HOTASS! I MISSED HIM SO MUCH SINCE THEY KILLED HIM. :(
2. Jin's father, or the only decent father in all the Lost history.
3. Arzt. Come on, he was awesomesauce.
4. Cassidy. She was awesomesauce, too.
5. Scott & Steve. You know they can't be separated.

b) Icon meme!

Reply to this post with "burn the land and boil the sea" and I will pick six of your icons.
- Make a post and talk about the icons I chose.
- Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
- This will create a never ending cycle of icon glee.

From elliotsmelliot:





1. by me: eheee. I am kind of attached to this one. I mean, it's Clint Eastwood in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly and it was I think the first I did with him which I was satisfied with? Also I love his face in it. And I love that quote. I think I saw that movie too many times.
2. by bomburjo: this one makes me chuckle every time I look at it. That EW video where they said that about Esau's/Jacob's mom was better than the entire ep and that line especially cracked me up. Also I love Titus Welliver's face in it. And the coloring is so pretty.
3. by dekolette: I love Juliet's face in this. She's so fierce. Which they totally ruined, but still. She still was one of my Lost favorites. Also I love the coloring and the lightening in this icon. It's just so pretty all around.
4. by adina_mpj: my Firefly icon! I really love the composition and how the both of them look.. almost like they were painted or something. Also, it's pink-ish. Also, it's my two favorite Firefly characters.
5. by orangelusik: awwww, this one I love. It's from one of my favorite SPN eps, and it's one of my favorites Dean/Castiel scenes, and I just absolutely love how she colored it. That cap is just a hell to even color decently since it's ALL yellow, but the colors are so sharp and bright here. And the cropping is awesome.
6. by blindbeats: okay, High Fidelity is one of my favorite books -ever-. The movie wasn't as amazingly awesome (I mean, it was a good adaptation but the book was my first love), but if they did one thing right was casting Jack Black like they casted him. Also I am a music whore, so it's totally relevant to my interests. Also Jack Black's face is just too awesome.

From invisiblelove:





1. by me: okay, so, I once wrote this AU where Sawyer was a musician during the Depression. Then I wrote a long-ass sequel for it. Then at some point that promo pic happened. And I had to make myself an icon for that story and so I just stuck Woody Guthrie's guitar on it. Not that I don't love that picture, but it's not the point. Anyway, I don't use it much because I finished posting that story, but I'm just too attached to it and I can't delete it.
2. by marylou_gr: that's my default Locke icon for a reason. Because he looks like he feels guilty about Boone. ;) Also the coloring is awesome and the composition is GENIUS.
3. by banjotime: this makes me LOL so much. I mean, apart from Damon with the devil horns/tail, THE TEXT IS AMAZING. XDDD also I'm so using this if I ever write Damon/Dean. Also, last year it was particularly useful because I did joint reaction posts for both vampire porn and SPN. I'm sad that I don't get to use it as much this year. :((
4. by hopelessfangirl: the text is hilarious. And I kinda like alt!Ben. And I needed a coffee icon. So this just was perfect. XD
5. by me: well, I loved that scene. Also, I kinda ship Dean/Sam/Cas in all possible ways, platonic and not, and I kinda wanted a OT3 icon. So it happened that they finally were in the same scene and it was iconable, so I just went and did it. ;)
6. by mrbinatural: this one is AMAZING. If you watched The Shining then it's even funnier, but even if not... it's my life. I write psycho fanfic. And I read it. So, yeah. I just had to put it on. XD

6. Pheeew. I feel good having those out of my way. Anyway, that's pretty much everything for now, but hey, a real entry! That isn't reposting fic or spamming! It feels nice. ;) (though wait for this weekend for me re-posting the five acts fic and a bunch of other stuff that I'll catch the occasion to re-post). Also, now I'm going to catch up on everything I put on hold until I finished worrying about pedagogy. I have a bunch of comments and one five acts to read at least, so I'll be off doing that? And writing post vporn premiere Damon/Alaric because it needs to be written. *waves*

7. PS: okay, everyone in my fl is probably bored to tears of me being like this once each month but... anyone who friended me in the last two weeks wants me to friend back? I swear, I don't bite. I just want to know if you want me to or not. ;)