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[girlofprey]

Livejournal just stopped working for me for a bit, in a NEW AND EXCITING WAY than it usually doesn't work for me. But it's back now, so never mind.

Before I came upstairs and Livejournal wouldn't work for, I was downstairs watching an episode of Life On Earth that seemed to be from the 1980s, and it had some of the most perfect 1980s-style background music you've ever heard. It gave me a proper yearning to watch Watership Down again. Sometimes I think about showing Watership Down to my nephews, and then I remember the slightly horrific bits and I think maybe not. Not till they're 16. Also, they don't always sit and watch films at the best of times. So not till they can both handle and appreciate it. Anyway. It was just quite a nice blast from the past. Also, I learned interesting things about insects and how they and plants evolved once they stopped living in water. So it was all good.

My dad bought a shelf for the Playstation yesterday. But my youngest nephew was here, and when he'd gone my dad was watching Holby City and Silk. Also, it probably takes a while to safely and correctly put up a shelf. But mostly I'm so sick of waiting I feel like I want to punch things. Which is pretty unreasonable. But still. The game I ordered online that I was interested in, and was thinking I was going to have to OH GOD WAIT to play is here. And I have nothing to play it on. Hmph.

Anyway. Sometimes to amuse myself I think about what my ideal film would be, with basically every actor I love playing basically the best roles I can think of for them. I think I got the idea from jekesta and whatho once wondering when they were finally going to make that film about Shah Rukh Khan being an expert thief, and Amitabh Bachchan being the voice in his head that wants him to steal things, and helps him out with that. Anyway. Having no creativity of my own, what I basically came up with for my film was Sam Rockwell and Emily Blunt starring, as two jewel thieves, Christina Ricci and Mos Def playing two security experts at the museum they're targetting, Helena Bonham Carter as a fence they know, and John Leguizamo as the detective trying to stop them. They are probably more actors I love and more roles they could play, but that's usually where I got overexcited and maybe start hyperventilating at the thought of it and have to stop.

Anyway, last night I got to thinking what my ideal TV show would be. Or what a new role for Matthew Needham could be, possibly. I'm pretty sure it would be about young British wizards and witches. They wouldn't have to be young, it's just in my mind wizards and witches would be sort of like an underground society, not to the point of Harry Potter, just to the point of knowing each other and having to keep their powers a secret from society at large. And young wizards and witches, who aren't anywhere near as strong as older wizards and witches, would have to hang around together for safety. Matthew Needham could be in it, he could pretty easily be a wizard, I think. And Luke Rattigan, and maybe Nathan Wylde. This is where I fall down, because I really can't think of any female British actors I love, I KNOW THAT I HAVE SOME, I just can't think of any. Effy from Skins, maybe. Gina McKee could be in it, as an older witch. And Maxine Peake, oh I love her, she's why I wish I'd watched more of Silk. Nicholas Burns could turn up, in something that isn't a joke role, and we could see how he does at that. And John Simm could come in as an older wizard at some point. And there could be something odd going on with wizard society, something they had to HANDLE. And sometimes they could do research, and sometimes they could freak out and accidentally set things on fire. So yes. I think that would be my ideal show.

In other news, Employment and Support benefit is very confusing. I was told they wouldn't be deciding whether to give me it until they'd done an assessment. But then I got a letter last week saying they'd decided to pay me, and how much they were going to pay me. On the same day as I got a questionnaire, which I assume is part of the assessment, which says I don't need to return it until 6th May. Which is long long after my current sick note runs out, although to be fair they didn't have that until after they sent me the questionnaire out. Then today I got another letter saying they'd be paying my Employment and Support into a (correct) bank account, and that they'd already paid £1.42 into it. I DON'T UNDERSTAND IT AT ALL. But I'm going to carry on with it, obviously.

It hasn't stopped me from spending money, though, obviously. My birthday money is already pretty much gone, on that game I ordered. And on commissioning a piece of jewellery from Alys Power, who I love. I've asked for a Little Red Riding Hood themed charm/recycled necklace. It's been on my to do list for some time, so it's nice to finally be getting a move on it. Also, commissioning a piece of jewellery in general is sort of on my to do list for my life. So it's sort of killing two birds with one stone. A hopefully beautiful stone.

But I do need to be thinking about money again, really. I'm pretty sure my mobile phone bill will have sorted itself out by now, and I can stop worrying about that. So I just need to cancel the phone insurance I'm paying for with a direct debit and don't really want now, and check that my bank balance is in credit so I can cancel my overdraft. And then I won't have any bills going out really, and I'll be able to just look at my account and see what I have to spend. At the moment it's a bit tricky though, because I'm pretty sure I don't have much to spend, and my LJ paid account is apparently about to run out. And I'd really like to go to Nottingham at some point in the next few weeks to see an exhibition by this artist, who I really like. And I should probably start saving up for Connotations at some point. So hmm.

I have an appointment in Wakefield tomorrow, and an appointment in my home town on Friday, and then on Friday afternoon my oldest nephew will be coming to our house. But on Saturday Adam and Joe are coming back! So it's not all bad. I need to remember to buy a card for Mother's Day on Sunday though. Probably tomorrow, while I'm in Wakefield. Also, my dad has come home since I started writing this post, and it sounds like he's drilling and installing a shelf in the bedroom next door as we speak. So I could well be playing on a Playstation, or at least working out how to play on a Playstation, before the night is out. Yay.

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[whatho.livejournal.com]

OH GOD WHERE IS SRK? I'd be happy for him to make any sort of a film now. Like he used to. That wasn't what I was going to say. I was going to say I first saw Watership when I was really quite young, in single figures definitely, and I loved it quite a lot but also it terrified me. It terrifies me even more now I'm older. There be an ideal age for it, but I'm not sure what it is. But also I think it's great. What a bind.

LJ's still not working quite properly for me, as in it's not letting me post and sometimes it times out instead of opening comments threads. You'd think I'd have had a productive evening, but actually I've just spent a lot of time clicking refresh.

I hope you get to play games soon.

[girlofprey.livejournal.com]

He's nowhere, is he? Even I got used to see him in films semi-regularly. And now I never see him. Hmph.

I know, I'm pretty sure I've asked this or discussed it before. I saw when I was a child as well, and I remember loving it, but also being afraid of some parts. And now I think about showing it to my nephews, and thinking about the bunny rabbits and Hazel and Blackberry and everything. But then I think about the rabbits getting massacred in the legend at the beginning, and Fiver's vision, and then I think "No. Maybe I will never show it to them". I don't know. It's so hard to peg. I think maybe 8 or 9 is a better age, really.

It's nice to know it's not just me. It took me three tries to post this post. But it's doing a weird thing where instead of the usual "Internet Explorer timed out" page, I get a "Internet Explorer cannot connect", like I usually get when our internet's not working. And then some "cannot connect" pages I've never seen before. While I'm merrily checking my email and other webpages in between trying to access LJ. I hope they get it sorted soon though.

Me too. It feels awkward trying to hurry my dad along when he works all day and is only trying to set it up in the room I thought it was best in. But he's been drilling tonight, so it shouldn't be TOO long.

[whatho.livejournal.com]

Eight or nine is maybe better. I can't remember if I'd seen it then or not. I'd read the book by then and I can't recall which I did first. I do like quoting from it. My brother and I are both apt to cry out 'The field! It's covered with blood!' from time to time, just to freak one another out.