That cushion they have on the home page? I might be getting that. I've been wanting to cross stitch a cushion for a while, but hadn't found a design that really grabbed me... until now. There's some fun Aztec bookmarks too.
But I already have loads of designs to do!
And they have the good taste to have Textile Heritage Kits :D. Textile Heritage is addictive!
I won't even look at the jewellery.....
Oh okay, perhaps I will! So pretty!
The cheapest I've been able to find the season 5 SGA DVDs (released Aug10 in region 2) for is £43!
Maybe my memory is faulty, but were they always that expensive when first released?
*Checks her buying history*
Season 4 was £28.
Season 3 was £44.
Season 2 was £45.
Season 1 was £42.
Okay, so on average that price isn’t too bad, but I was thinking of how much I spent LAST time, and that I just got TWO seasons (well one and a half, really - but it's 34 episodes and bonus features) of Heroes for £17.99.
Fine, I've spent that much before, and I'll do it again, but still...
BTW - Psych season 1 (region 2) is selling for £7 on Amazon.uk. £7! BARGAIN! What a shame I have it already.
I also think I'm going to have to bite the bullet and buy region 1 DVDs for Psych season 2 and 3 as there seem to be no plans to release them on region 1. But I don't want region 1, because I can only play it on my desk top! But I want all the extras! Have I finally found a fandom that's that much of a niche market? The good news is that it's not too expensive - about the price that I bought season 1 (region 2) for. Region 1 season 1 was about twice the price back then, so I was expecting the same would happen again.
*EDIT* Region 1 is a pain for me as I don't use TV/DVD, I use computers and don't want to risk the drive by trying to make them region free.
Right. Time to move on.
( This made me laugh, because it is true! )
( Well, mostly true. )
My subconscious is a strange place. Let me tell you about a few of the dreams I have had over the last few months.
( Three dreams )
You'd think I'd learn not to eat too much dairy before I sleep, but I really enjoy my dairy!
In honour of the project I'm working on, I thought I'd share an amusing cartoon that rings true for the most part.
( Cut because I'm kind )This is version two of quite an old cartoon (I'm sure iTunes didn't exist when it was conceived) that you can see at its place of origin here: http://www.projectcartoon.com/cartoon/1
The customer explanation, project leader understanding, business consultant description, marketing advertised, when delivered, and customer need panels are particularly pertinent to the project we're working on. We haven't got as far as the other panels. We started working with a vendor whose product, from the descriptions given, seemed so amazing that we were joking it would cook our breakfast for us too. Reality has been so different that the project is on hold while we re-visit other vendors! Implementation was supposed to kick off today - instead it will be the end of October, so the snowman is scarily relevant.
I found out just over an hour ago (head line on the free paper I picked up at the Tube Station) and like others on my flist it's not quite sunk in yet.
Also like others on my flist, I wasn't a MIchael Jackson fan, although his talent was undeniable, and he had some truly fantastic songs.
Why then has this news impacted me?
Growing up when and where I did, even as someone who didn't listen to the radio, or watch music tv, I could fail to know about most artistes of the time, but I couldn't help but know about Michael Jackson.
I remember "Thriller" being released. I remember the buzz about the video. I remember boys in my class showing off their moon walking skills. I remember the excitement and conversations that occurred after kids in my class saw "Moonwalker".
I remember the release of "Bad", and the fuss about that scene in the "Smooth Criminal" video. I remember the release of "Black and White" - at the time the most expensive music video ever made.
He was the biggest musical star around in my pre-teen years, and is inextricably linked to my pre-secondary school memories.
I won't comment on his latter years beyond saying that it's tragic that the guy was so messed up, and that his talent and career was overshadowed by all that happened. I hadn't been following any news about him recently, and hadn't known about health problems, so this was a huge surprise to me.
My sympathies are with his family. My sympathies are with his fans. I'm sad that this unavoidable icon of my youth has passed.
In my experience (as an Englishwoman) it's true. Then again, we get such a variety of weather that it's an interesting topic.
However, there's changeable and then there's the last 24 hours.
Yesterday I dug out my tower fan (which thankfully and miraculously no longer makes the clanking noise it developed) and cranked it up to full.
This morning was jacket weather, but perfectly dry. This afternoon it was sunny (and I presume) warm.
This evening it started chucking it down with rain, then it started to hail, and now I hear thunder (which is very unusual for my particular part of the country).
Hot to hail in 24 hours.
Can someone get SG-1 to take the Touchstone back to Madrona, please? Or maybe Storm is having some fun? Or Alice from Heroes has forsaken Nevada? Or David Nykl's crazy weather doomsday machine has been moved from Eureka, Oregon to London?
CRAZY!
1. The inevitable reaction posts
2. The inevitable comments on reaction posts
3. Silence from those who saw the movie after the hullaballo died down and felt the time for posting/commenting had passed.
4. Going on a fanfic hunt / reccing fanfic to others
5. Writing fanfic
6. Asking questions about canon (presumably for fanfic reasons)
7. Revisiting TOS in whatever way
8. Going on a Heroes jaunt because seeing Zachary Quinto as Spock suddenly makes Sylar strangely (and terrifyingly) attractive.
I fall into categories 2/3, 7, and 8.
2/3 - because I came late to the table and everyone had pretty much had their fill but I wanted to say something, even it was only an additional comment on someone's week plus old post.
7. Through the Star Trek TOS novels. I read some of these many years ago and thought some were quite good. Let's see if the one I loved back then still stands up to scrutiny when it finally arrives in the post... I'm also considering renting TOS and re-watching. I tried a few years ago but found that my teenage enjoyment of the episodes and my more recent reactions were somewhat disparate, with many of the episodes being found severely deficient. Perhaps this is why I don't resist the concept of a rebooted Star Trek, and infact embrace the opportunity to see the characters I love (not you Kirk, apart from when you were in The Trouble with Tribbles) with a C21st and (hopefully) more sophisticated light.
(Psst - I'm talking about the characters here, not the science - because, red matter. Really? What were they THINKING? Oh and I'm not talking about protocol either, because that would be laughable. Cadet to Captain in one fell swoop? There are no words to express the extent of that utter ridiculousness!)
8. Umm yeah. I've gained a Quinto-crush. It's all Spock's fault!
Therefore I have been re-watching Heroes season 1 and 3 (and 2 will be arriving soon), which for all its faults (Inconsistency! Storylines that appear and disappear without explanation! Lack of truly interesting female characters under the age of 40! Inability to keep a grip on causality! Use of and then total denial of the theory of relativity in the same episode! Characters who change sides more times than they change their underwear!) is still somewhat amusing.
I'm trying to reconcile the fact that Sylar can sometimes be quite charming and looks good in a Ramones t-shirt with his hair all spiked up and messy, pretending to be innocent and earnest with the fact that he is a sick and twisted serial killer. It's just wrong, WRONG, I tell you!
Maybe I can quantify/justify this by saying my Heroes!Quinto crush is on Gabriel Gray, but not on Sylar? I'm deeply conflicted! It would be easier if Quinto weren't such a good actor, and so able to go from spin-chilling-psycho-serial-killer to kinda sweet/charming/conflicted and afflicted, with such skill. See, he's EVOL, but deep down he just wants to be LOVED....
It's all so wrong!
The story is a lot of fun, and I encourage you to go read it, if SGA (and pirates) are at all your things.
'tis here...
http://jadesfire2808.livejournal.com/38
Sorry for formatting nightmares again. LJ really is playing up on me this time, it's not just user error.
(And now I'm thinking about pirates)
Yesterday was "Collectormania" at ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small}
doylefan22 picked me up at Potters Bar station (after she drove through torrential rain, and I walked through a thunderstorm - very rare in my part of London) and we had fun
I met:
LEONARD NIMOY!!!! - Meri - you were right! (I've had a fan girl crush on Spock since my early-to-mid teens when I got the 'flu, and discovered Star Trek through the 2/3 videos my Dad borrowed from a colleague and I watched AT LEAST once every day for as long as I was stuck at home.)
RACHEL LUTTRELL - who is lovely, and very beautiful (and was very cold, poor thing)
BEN BROWDER - who looks good in leather. I do not need to convince abyssinia4077 that he does!
NATHAN FILLION - who looks even better in real life than he does on screen (and thinks
Also saw:
PHILIP GLENISTER (doylefan22 met him), Avery Brooks, Andrew Robinson (Garak), John Delancie, Tony Amendola, and for you Torchwood fans - Burn Gorman (who doylefan22 met).
I also bought - a gorgeous print of the cast of Scrubs from season 7 (I think), a print of Gus from Psych, a print of Gus and Shawn, and a print of the full cast of Psych.
AND....
A Spock action figure.
Why?
1. It was £4, and -
2. My Spock-crush extends to Quinto!Spock (and now I find myself fancying Sylar too, which is WRONG!)
3. It's hilariously funny. It comes with him doing the Vulcan salute. But in case you want action!Spock, who shouldn't be doing the Vulcan salute, you can REMOVE HIS HAND AND REPLACE IT WITH ANOTHER ONE!.
A floating plastic hand, ready for mind melding with horta!
The stand doubles as a Starfleet badge - which is just as well, because it doesn't work as a stand! I had to cement him in blu-tac to make him stand up!
Seriously, action figure makers - an exchangeable hand?! What were you thinking?!
He seems to have a small tricorder in his belt.
However, the most egregious "accessories" award goes to Elizabeth Weir, who had a ZPM (?), a squid drone that was half her size (??) and a copy of War and Peace (???????). Shippy official action figure undertones? (For those who don't know - it was another MALE character who has a copy of War and peace.)
Maybe from work tomorrow.
I really must open my DW account.
You may have already seen this, as it's a year old by now, but someone created half the Atlantis Gate Room out of Lego bricks!
They've also created some smaller set pieces - like Wraith eating lunch in the cafeteria [sic], and the Infirmary.
The little Lego cast members are adorable - especially the one of Chuck, which made me laugh.
Also check out the photos of Rainbow with the Gate Room and Rachel with the builder and the puddle jumper.
http://www.yoda.ca/lego_stargate/atlant
I last went to the dentist in 1996. I have no fear of dentists, but couldn't really afford to go during Uni and the first few years of living in London. I fell out of the habit and have felt no need to go to one since being able to afford it. Yes, the lectures can start, but let me explain why:
1. I've never needed a filling (from my own research of asking friends throughout the years, this makes me unusual).
2. The only dental work I've ever had done was two extractions to make room for the rest of my teeth.
3. I've had tooth pain (and by pain, I mean discomfort, not agony) only twice.
I went, because I have an impacted wisdom tooth and in the past week it's been giving me a little bother (again, not pain, but I've been aware of it).
( So, what happened? )
List 10 "pairings", whether friendship/het/slash that you love. Try to make them from different fandoms. Ask people to see what trends they notice.
(Psst - "/" denotes a romantic pairing, "and" denotes a friendship "/and" denotes both friendship and romance)
Oh - inclusion of romantic pairings does not necessarily mean they end up together in canon.
Also - "10". Yeah - there's 18 here.)
1. Faramir/Eowyn - The Lord of the Rings (I prefer book over movie for this pair, but there's a look that Faramir gives Eowyn in the extended movies that blows me away with the intensity of adoration.)
2. Carla/Turk, JD/and Elliot, JD and Turk (as het life partners) - Scrubs (JD/Elliot are the ultimate on/off couple, but now that they're older and wiser the pairing works for me)
3. Shawn and Gus (as het life partners) - Psych (It's the JD/Turk thing all over again, but with less PDAs)
4. Kirk and Spock, with some McCoy - Star Trek ("I have been, and always shall be your friend". Oh Spock, you're breaking my heart!)
5. Jadzia Dax/Worf - Deep Space Nine
6. Delenn/John Sheridan - Babylon 5
7. John and Rodney - Stargate Atlantis
8. Jack and Daniel - SG:1
9. Josh/ and Donna - The West Wing (Stop throwing tomatoes at me. Either as friends, or "more than", their love is true and pure, even if they are idiots).
10. Battlestar Galactica - Adama/Roslin (Forget the youngsters and their ridiculousness, this is the One True Romance of BSG).
*BONUS ROUND!*
11. Jack/and Allison, Henry/Kim - Eureka (I love both these pairs as friends, and "more than").
12. John/Aeryn - Farscape (Don't spoil me - I've just finished season 2, I love them but also want to hit a load of sense into them with a length of 2x2)
13. Zoe/Wash - Firefly (Because they are awesome together)
14. Hiro and Ando (also as het life partners) - Heroes (Bless them. They're adorable).
15. Elizabeth Bennett/Mr. Darcy - Pride and Prejudice
Example from work (proper nouns changed).
Operating Procedural Document 0003432
This information is retrieved using HSKD [system name] programme "Incline". "incline" is a HSKD programme, this is selected and the relevant shop order is placed in the value field.
I really hope that whoever wrote that was severely under caffeinated at the time.
(I love that my icon is semi-appropriate for this post!)
*Edit*
It also mentions shipping things to a place called "Isreal".
BTW - dear higher ups. If you call your committee "OPEC" please expect people to be very confused, seeing as we don't work in the petroleum industry. I mean, really! They couldn't find a less well-known acronym?
For anyone on my flist who might be interested, but didn't know, the SGA Genficathon has completed its first week of stories.
Yesterday was one of my favourite categories - humor/humour (depending on what par tof the world you're from), and, if you, like me, enjoy a giggle or two at the expense of the SGA folks, I encourage you to go take a look. But, don't stop at the humour - there's loads more stories to read - I'm going to tackle the "AU" category next myself.
Oh, and there's a "Guess the author" post, if you're any good at them.
I've now seen "The Hunt for Gollum" and my one word summary is: wow!
This is a FAN film, guys. It's not-for-profit and was done for the sheer love of it.
As someone who once made a fan film (Trek-based, made with a camcorder, about 5 mins long, using that old space screensaver as special effects!) and has seen the occasional fan film (anyone remember that decent quality Finnish Star Trek/Babylon 5 parody?) I can assure you that "The Hunt For Gollum" is truly impressive.
BUT... all criticisms aside, this is A FAN FILM.
Fan fic can, if not easily, but at least cheaply attain the quality of the original source. The same applies to fan art. With some money spent on editing software a fan can make a fantastic quality fan-vid.
However, good quality film making, especially with the fantasy elements of LOTR needs money sent after money, especially if you are emulating some of the most beloved and high budgetted movies of all time.
They pull it off with flying colours. The landscapes are gorgeous (yay, beautiful Britain!), the building locations are well chosen (various churches less than 15 miles away from where I live I gather from the credits), the fight choreography is impressive, the characters are utterly familar (as they should be), the costumes are high quality, the arms likewise, and all in all it succeeds in recreating the feel of Jackson's movies.
So... if you want to see how fan films should be done, go and marvel at the wonder that is "The Hunt for Gollum".
WARNING: it's over 30mins long and in HD. If you have a slow or even medium level internet connection I advise finding somewhere with a fast connection or you may be waiting a week before it fully loads.
1. Bought LOTR on e-book (Friday) - basically so I don't have to carry around the physical book, as I only have in it hardback (or in Spanish paperback) and even 1 of the 3 volume set I have is large and heavy. (Hey, I like the feel of the hardback. It helps me re-live the first time I read them).
2. Bought the 20th Anniversary edition of Empire Magazine, that has an article about "The Hobbit" movies and a fun page with Viggo Mortensen and Sean Bean talking about LOTR.
3. Watched FOTR - extended edition (Saturday)
4. Watched TTT - extended edition (Sunday) - oh and yelled "No, Faramir wouldn't do that", followed by "Don't be so mean to Faramir", laughed (again) at Sam's "By all rights we shouldn't even be here, but we are" line from when they're in Osgiliath, nearly cried as Faramir potentially forfeits his life in exchange for letting Frodo and Sam go, winced with Aragorn over Eowyn's cooking and basically loved it all (especially the scenes I had forgotten about)
5. Plan to watch ROTK - extended edition - over two nights this week. Seriously, it's over 4 hours long!
Oh - in addition, here's Viggo Mortensen's typically Viggo-esque acceptance speech for his Empire Icon Award. *Here there be swears*. You can read it (and get the bit they don't show in the clip) but you really have to watch it to experience the full Viggo-ness of it. Had he been drinking? Well, his pockets are stuffed with alcohol, but Viggo (IIRCC) tends to be like that even without alcohol!
Russell Crowe's speech is here. Viggo's somewhat eccentric speech makes a little more sense after knowing what Crowe did. Seriously, the man was getting the "Actor of our lifetime award" and acted like a total diva, demanding they change when his award was given, and then only turning up for his award and leaving straight after. Don't get me wrong; Crowe is a fine actor, but otherwise, a total idiot.
James McAvoy also took the piss out of Crowe a little, and totally wins for his first sentence! I think I'd say something very similar if Jamie Bamber gave me an award.
"Dear" MS Word,
You suck like a sucky thing. A multi-tentacled crappy sucky thing.
Trying to get you to format my document as I need it to be as on par with herding cats in a parade. When it's raining.
Style function - you suck in particular. You're supposed to make life easier.
Yeah, right. What you actually do is ramp up my frustration levels until I'm yelling at my laptop, and waste my time as I try to put right what you have done.
In conclusion: you totally suck, but unfortunately I have no choice but to use you.
BAH!
I first started watching Red Dwarf in my late teens. The series were a few years old even back then, but suited my sense of humour, (even if I'm considerably less crass) and were that wonderful combination of sci-fi (well, sci-fi light) and comedy that I'd not seen before. It soon got to the point where I could recite the entire first episode by heart. I know I've seen up to and including series 5, but am fairly sure I've not seen much beyond that (or if I have it was only once). I believe that this was around the time that they actually got a budget and stopped being funny. The Star Trek Movie rule, "odd = bad, even = good" is well known. The corresponding Red Dwarf Rule in my (and I know plenty of other's) opinion is "no budget = good, budget = bad".
P.S. (sgatazmy - I totally forgot to watch it live. Seriously, it just doesn't occur to me to turn on the TV!)
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