Jul. 5th, 2005

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I've been a little out of touch - busy and lazy and the weird combination of both that lead to no work getting done, but much relaxation. Much much needed relaxation.

I've been mainlining Doctor Who thanks to the fabulous [livejournal.com profile] veritykindle and enjoying it thoroughly. However, Katya my darling, the DVD's with three episodes won't play the third episode so I'm missing eps 3, 6 and 9.

I, well, my crush on Christopher Eccleston and the Doctor has far surpassed normalcy. He's just so very... shameless, and heartbroken and delighted and crazy and manic. I am utterly in love. I am also highly amused that the credits are using the Farscape font and that the good doctor had clearly encountered John Crichton along the way because he was playing with the silver ball from BoD in Father's Day.

I've also finally caught up with the rest of the world in terms of popular entertainment, taking in Batman Begins, Howl's Moving Castle and War of the Worlds. I give them all a thumbs up.

I think I've talked about the musical version that my dad had, and the utter terror it evoked in me. It scared me so much that I couldn't be in the room when the record played, would have nightmares at the thought of the pictures in the libretto. And now I own that record, holding on to that sort of fear and the awe that I feel at the scope of that fear in the face of what was behind it.

Brief Thoughts on War of the Worlds and Batman Begins )
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And since I spent much of the weekend at the movies, a little mid Terra Firma drabble. I've a love/hate relationship with fics that show me aliens partaking in human life. If it's done well, I eat it up, and if it's done poorly, I still happily read and then grimace, so I'm forgiving myself the construct.


My Life in Pictures - PG )
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For [livejournal.com profile] elishavah and [livejournal.com profile] fbf, both of whom have expressed a large amount of "Jane Austen… So the hell what?"

And even the glory of wet and naked Colin Firth as Fitzwilliam Darcy was not enough to sway Eli:)

So, why the Austen love? What is it that makes entire generations of women reread these books and obsessively watch the very looooong BBC versions, and go to the movies to see each and every incarnation from Bride and Prejudice to Clueless? What's the appeal?

What's so great about this 19th century girl writer? )

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