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Grüß euch!
I have been in and out of a funk recently, but hey, it's not all bad, today it was 5C in Vienna, so I didn't have to button my coat, whooo! This is an exciting development!
Also, how psyched am I for the movie rentals from iTunes? Sooooooo psyched! "Amazing Grace" is downloading as I type! My DVD player that I bought here is cheap and crappy and super sensitive and skips/freezes a lot, and I have rented a few movies, but those inevitably are less than pristine, and then after two restarts, I just end up watching on my laptop anyway.
I guess I never really said, huh, but I had a good holiday season overall. My parents came for two weeks and my sister and brother-in-law came for five days, and we all got along well and Vienna is super festive for Christmas, so it was fun. I watched Christmas episodes of a bunch of tv shows, The Office, Veronica Mars, the OC, and Bones, maybe more. What's weird is, just days after I rewatch the Bones xmas episode, when they are all stuck in quarantine because they might have unleashed Valley Fever (an extremely rare fungal infection) from a skeleton, I read that a CA prison has a valley fever epidemic, omg!
I think my best present is the flannel pajamas from my mom. If I could somehow work in a place where I could wear my green and purple flannel cat print pajamas all day, I think that would be heaven. Oh, and a friend got me a replica of Hermione's wand. The tip lights up when you tap something or flick it, heeeeee.
Some other happy things:
I have rediscovered my love of Bugles. Oh wow, Nacho Cheese Bugles, I love you so. I obliterate a bag in no time at all.
When I had some time off around the holidays, I watched 30 Rock season 1 ("Live every week like it is Shark Week") and Doctor Who season 3. I loved both. Alec Baldwin is so awesome, everything you've heard is true. And I liked Doctor Who way more than I thought I would with Rose out of the picture. I missed her, but the show missed her, so that was ok, and Martha really grew on me, so good job there, show! Also, I can't not love John Simm. I caught the first four episodes of "State of Play" with him on German tv, and I cannot wait for the last two episodes on Saturday. Or, you know, for the DVD to come out, so I can watch him in English, because he is even more adorable with his actual voice! When is "Life on Mars" getting a region 1 release?!?!?
I saw three movies last weekend, and really liked them all, but since they came out in the States months ago, I am not going to dwell, but thumbs up for Atonement, Bee Movie, and Enchanted.
Back in the Day: 5 TV Shows You Loved As A Kid
1. Robin of Sherwood
2. Batman: The Animated Series
3. Animaniacs
4. Star Trek: TNG
5. Murder She Wrote
Who Would You Do?: 5 TV Characters You Would...Well, It's Self-Explanatory
Going to pick slightly less obvious ones than Spike or Mulder or Logan or Tim Riggins...
1. Michael from La Femme Nikita
2. Nasir from Robin of Sherwood
3. Danny Sorenson from NYPD Blue
4. Ronon Dex
5. Chris in the Morning from Northern Exposure
What? No, No, I Don't Watch That...: 5 Guilty Pleasure TV Shows
1. Moonlight (that is, until the strike began)
2. E! True Hollywood Story
3. Dark Angel
4. Smallville
5. The Crow: Stairway to Heaven
Wow: 5 TV Moments You Still Remember (And Probably Won't Forget)
Ok, I need more than 5...
1. "How's Annie? How's Annie? How's Annie?" -- Twin Peaks. OMFG!!!!
2. Buffy and Spike at the end of Smashed. My mouth was agape.
3. "I am Locutus of Borg." -- ST:TNG
4. Duncan kills Richie -- Highlander. Holy crap, I could not believe my eyes. I literally said to my friend I was watching it with, hey weird, they just made it look like Duncan killed Richie, ha ha. And then the quickening began and we both screamed so loud people ran into the dorm lounge to see what was happening.
5. "Mom?" -- Alias, end of season one
6. Michael's blood tear from the end of La Femme Nikita season four
7. Crichton and Aeryn become Folger's Crystals in "Bad Timing"
8. The scene from my default icon from Robin of Sherwood. Wah!
"Tossed Salads and Scrambled Eggs": 5 TV Theme Songs You Know (and Love) By Heart
1. "We Used to be Friends" -- Veronica Mars
2. X-Files -- I used to try to whistle along
3. "California" -- The OC. I know I should probably be ashamed, but I am not.
4. The Office -- I bop and do do doo doo along with it
5. The Muppet Show -- It's time to meet the muppets...
Eh: 5 Shows You Just Can't Get Into
1. Most procedurals, ie CSI. They are filler to watch until there is really something to watch. Randomly, I do like both Cold Case and Without A Trace, but not enough to be appointment tv.
2. Desperate Housewives
3. Most reality tv
4. Most legal/trial shows.
5. Star Trek: Enterprise
The Starting Line-Up: 5 Channels You Go To First When You Sit Down to Watch TV
Ummm, I live in Austria, so...
1. ORF1
2. Prosieben
3. RTL or RTL2
4. Sat1
5. ATV
This Is An Environment of Welcoming, and You Should Just Get the Hell Out Of Here: 5 TV Characters You Could Do Without
1. Kirk/Taylor on Gilmore Girls
2. Mimi Rogers' character from X-Files, blanking on the name
3. Grandma from Farscape
4. God from Joan of Arcadia. And her parents, 80% of the time.
5. Lana Lang
That's What She Said: 5 Quotes That Still Resonate
1. "Nothing's forgotten. Nothing is ever forgotten." -- Robin of Sherwood
2. "Occasionally, I am callous and strange." -- Willow on Buffy the Vampire Slayer
3. "We're trapped like rats." "Rats in an enormous poolhouse!" -- Ryan and Seth on The OC. Omg, I love that whole scene. Just as funny in German, btw. "Wir sind gefangen wie Ratten." "Ratten in einem riesen Poolhaus!" Heheheh.
4. "Brother, I am roped, tied, and branded." -- John Justice Wheeler on Twin Peaks
5. "I'll be in my bunk." -- Jayne on Firefly
Gimme More: 5 Shows You Can Never Get Enough Of
1. Veronica Mars
2. Whedonverse
3. vintage X-Files
4. This Old House
5. Farscape
Books I read in 2007
1. Ender's Shadow -- Orson Scott Card
2. Mr Darcy Takes a Wife -- Linda Berdoll. (Ugh, just terrible and pretentious. Read fanfic instead.)
3. The Watchmen -- Alan Moore
4. La Mare au diable -- George Sand
5. Lost in a Good Book -- Jasper Fforde
6. Wide Sargasso Sea -- Jean Rhys
7. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows -- JK Rowling
8. Lady Molly of Scotland Yard -- Baroness Orczy (The most lesbian subtext I have EVER EVER read)
9. Hades Daughter -- Sara Douglass
10. Brave New World -- Aldous Huxley
11. Twilight -- Stephenie Meyer (EEEEEE! Love!)
12. New Moon -- Stephenie Meyer (Eeeee, Jacob!!!)
13. Eclipse -- Stephenie Meyer (when does the next one come out?!)
14. Off With His Head -- Ngaio Marsh
15. Neuromancer -- William Gibson
16. Silas Marner -- George Eliot
17. Possession -- AS Byatt (Love! So impressive!)
18. Buffy the Vampire Slayer -- Anne Billson (Meh academic talk)
19. Neptune Noir (book of essays about VM, overall pretty good)
20. Déjà Dead -- Kathy Reichs (enjoyable, but not at all like the Bones tv character!)
I also reread Pride and Predjudice, all Harry Potter (1-6 prior to 7 and then 7 twice through), Ender's Game, and A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind at the Door, and a Swiftly Tilting Planet.
Not my best year, not my worst, but I plan to read more this year!
Also, how psyched am I for the movie rentals from iTunes? Sooooooo psyched! "Amazing Grace" is downloading as I type! My DVD player that I bought here is cheap and crappy and super sensitive and skips/freezes a lot, and I have rented a few movies, but those inevitably are less than pristine, and then after two restarts, I just end up watching on my laptop anyway.
I guess I never really said, huh, but I had a good holiday season overall. My parents came for two weeks and my sister and brother-in-law came for five days, and we all got along well and Vienna is super festive for Christmas, so it was fun. I watched Christmas episodes of a bunch of tv shows, The Office, Veronica Mars, the OC, and Bones, maybe more. What's weird is, just days after I rewatch the Bones xmas episode, when they are all stuck in quarantine because they might have unleashed Valley Fever (an extremely rare fungal infection) from a skeleton, I read that a CA prison has a valley fever epidemic, omg!
I think my best present is the flannel pajamas from my mom. If I could somehow work in a place where I could wear my green and purple flannel cat print pajamas all day, I think that would be heaven. Oh, and a friend got me a replica of Hermione's wand. The tip lights up when you tap something or flick it, heeeeee.
Some other happy things:
I have rediscovered my love of Bugles. Oh wow, Nacho Cheese Bugles, I love you so. I obliterate a bag in no time at all.
When I had some time off around the holidays, I watched 30 Rock season 1 ("Live every week like it is Shark Week") and Doctor Who season 3. I loved both. Alec Baldwin is so awesome, everything you've heard is true. And I liked Doctor Who way more than I thought I would with Rose out of the picture. I missed her, but the show missed her, so that was ok, and Martha really grew on me, so good job there, show! Also, I can't not love John Simm. I caught the first four episodes of "State of Play" with him on German tv, and I cannot wait for the last two episodes on Saturday. Or, you know, for the DVD to come out, so I can watch him in English, because he is even more adorable with his actual voice! When is "Life on Mars" getting a region 1 release?!?!?
I saw three movies last weekend, and really liked them all, but since they came out in the States months ago, I am not going to dwell, but thumbs up for Atonement, Bee Movie, and Enchanted.
Back in the Day: 5 TV Shows You Loved As A Kid
1. Robin of Sherwood
2. Batman: The Animated Series
3. Animaniacs
4. Star Trek: TNG
5. Murder She Wrote
Who Would You Do?: 5 TV Characters You Would...Well, It's Self-Explanatory
Going to pick slightly less obvious ones than Spike or Mulder or Logan or Tim Riggins...
1. Michael from La Femme Nikita
2. Nasir from Robin of Sherwood
3. Danny Sorenson from NYPD Blue
4. Ronon Dex
5. Chris in the Morning from Northern Exposure
What? No, No, I Don't Watch That...: 5 Guilty Pleasure TV Shows
1. Moonlight (that is, until the strike began)
2. E! True Hollywood Story
3. Dark Angel
4. Smallville
5. The Crow: Stairway to Heaven
Wow: 5 TV Moments You Still Remember (And Probably Won't Forget)
Ok, I need more than 5...
1. "How's Annie? How's Annie? How's Annie?" -- Twin Peaks. OMFG!!!!
2. Buffy and Spike at the end of Smashed. My mouth was agape.
3. "I am Locutus of Borg." -- ST:TNG
4. Duncan kills Richie -- Highlander. Holy crap, I could not believe my eyes. I literally said to my friend I was watching it with, hey weird, they just made it look like Duncan killed Richie, ha ha. And then the quickening began and we both screamed so loud people ran into the dorm lounge to see what was happening.
5. "Mom?" -- Alias, end of season one
6. Michael's blood tear from the end of La Femme Nikita season four
7. Crichton and Aeryn become Folger's Crystals in "Bad Timing"
8. The scene from my default icon from Robin of Sherwood. Wah!
"Tossed Salads and Scrambled Eggs": 5 TV Theme Songs You Know (and Love) By Heart
1. "We Used to be Friends" -- Veronica Mars
2. X-Files -- I used to try to whistle along
3. "California" -- The OC. I know I should probably be ashamed, but I am not.
4. The Office -- I bop and do do doo doo along with it
5. The Muppet Show -- It's time to meet the muppets...
Eh: 5 Shows You Just Can't Get Into
1. Most procedurals, ie CSI. They are filler to watch until there is really something to watch. Randomly, I do like both Cold Case and Without A Trace, but not enough to be appointment tv.
2. Desperate Housewives
3. Most reality tv
4. Most legal/trial shows.
5. Star Trek: Enterprise
The Starting Line-Up: 5 Channels You Go To First When You Sit Down to Watch TV
Ummm, I live in Austria, so...
1. ORF1
2. Prosieben
3. RTL or RTL2
4. Sat1
5. ATV
This Is An Environment of Welcoming, and You Should Just Get the Hell Out Of Here: 5 TV Characters You Could Do Without
1. Kirk/Taylor on Gilmore Girls
2. Mimi Rogers' character from X-Files, blanking on the name
3. Grandma from Farscape
4. God from Joan of Arcadia. And her parents, 80% of the time.
5. Lana Lang
That's What She Said: 5 Quotes That Still Resonate
1. "Nothing's forgotten. Nothing is ever forgotten." -- Robin of Sherwood
2. "Occasionally, I am callous and strange." -- Willow on Buffy the Vampire Slayer
3. "We're trapped like rats." "Rats in an enormous poolhouse!" -- Ryan and Seth on The OC. Omg, I love that whole scene. Just as funny in German, btw. "Wir sind gefangen wie Ratten." "Ratten in einem riesen Poolhaus!" Heheheh.
4. "Brother, I am roped, tied, and branded." -- John Justice Wheeler on Twin Peaks
5. "I'll be in my bunk." -- Jayne on Firefly
Gimme More: 5 Shows You Can Never Get Enough Of
1. Veronica Mars
2. Whedonverse
3. vintage X-Files
4. This Old House
5. Farscape
Books I read in 2007
1. Ender's Shadow -- Orson Scott Card
2. Mr Darcy Takes a Wife -- Linda Berdoll. (Ugh, just terrible and pretentious. Read fanfic instead.)
3. The Watchmen -- Alan Moore
4. La Mare au diable -- George Sand
5. Lost in a Good Book -- Jasper Fforde
6. Wide Sargasso Sea -- Jean Rhys
7. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows -- JK Rowling
8. Lady Molly of Scotland Yard -- Baroness Orczy (The most lesbian subtext I have EVER EVER read)
9. Hades Daughter -- Sara Douglass
10. Brave New World -- Aldous Huxley
11. Twilight -- Stephenie Meyer (EEEEEE! Love!)
12. New Moon -- Stephenie Meyer (Eeeee, Jacob!!!)
13. Eclipse -- Stephenie Meyer (when does the next one come out?!)
14. Off With His Head -- Ngaio Marsh
15. Neuromancer -- William Gibson
16. Silas Marner -- George Eliot
17. Possession -- AS Byatt (Love! So impressive!)
18. Buffy the Vampire Slayer -- Anne Billson (Meh academic talk)
19. Neptune Noir (book of essays about VM, overall pretty good)
20. Déjà Dead -- Kathy Reichs (enjoyable, but not at all like the Bones tv character!)
I also reread Pride and Predjudice, all Harry Potter (1-6 prior to 7 and then 7 twice through), Ender's Game, and A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind at the Door, and a Swiftly Tilting Planet.
Not my best year, not my worst, but I plan to read more this year!
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Weirdly, my grandmother used to be the expert on Valley Fever. Blood fungus = SCARY!
I need to post my books read of 2007 too...
I miss you, Molly! Maybe I can visit you in Vienna... or you should come to Santa Fe... any Valentines candy you have a hankering for?
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Do you mean Torchwood? Or the Christmas special? I haven't seen Torchwood yet, but I plan on getting the dvds which come out shortly. And as the writers are not part of the Writers Guild of America, I can buy them, strike or no strike, whoo!
And yes! Come visit Vienna! I probably won't be stateside for a while...
Candy, awww, you're so sweet! They have chocolate here in spades, and I haven't had a non-gross conversation heart in years, although I swear they used to exist, so I'm ok for now. But, I might request candy-assistance come Easter...
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And yes. Yes I do mean Torchwood. It's slightly terrible, but I've never seen a series with a pteradactyl and completely unsupported making out all the time, so it's well redeemed.
I'm hoping to go to Europe around the end of April. I'll see if Vienna would be a possible detour! Keep your eyes open for London/Vienna or Paris/Vienna deals...
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April! Awesome!
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I swear, they are like crack to me.