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Why is it you can get all of the seasons of Friends of DVD - even the really CRAP ones - and yet you can only get the first season of Malcolm in the Middle, IF you have a Region 1 or multi-region player? Growl. Thanks to a recent meme, I'm jonesing for some Francis/Spengler interaction again (damn you, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
nerdcakes!!)
Also, there's still no word on the Green Wing DVDs, 9 months later; I'm not holding out much hope for the (hopeful) October release of American Gothic to be Region 2, and perhaps not for there being a Region 2 release at all, given all the trouble it took for it to get released in America, where it undoubtedly has more fans (read: buyers); and I'm told the Sin City DVD released in September, which I was REALLY looking forward to, has little to no extras and the real release will be in February, and you'd be a fool to buy it before then. I am not a happy consumer. No.
Sigh.( More Harry Potter thoughts )
nerdcakes!!)Also, there's still no word on the Green Wing DVDs, 9 months later; I'm not holding out much hope for the (hopeful) October release of American Gothic to be Region 2, and perhaps not for there being a Region 2 release at all, given all the trouble it took for it to get released in America, where it undoubtedly has more fans (read: buyers); and I'm told the Sin City DVD released in September, which I was REALLY looking forward to, has little to no extras and the real release will be in February, and you'd be a fool to buy it before then. I am not a happy consumer. No.
Sigh.( More Harry Potter thoughts )
Weather is crappy, so we did not have a family picnic in the park as was semi-planned. Mourn.
We had one in the kitchen instead. Which essentially meant lots of plates of everything everywhere and people tripping over each other attempting to get to these plates and minor knife skirmishes, but it was tasty mm, and fun. Many people are here. Katie and dad and mum and Jack and Jack's father and grandma. And the dog. Close quarters. I escape to my room whenever possible.
Am taking a break at the moment from Harry Potter, because I cannot read entire books in one go, and I cannot understand people who do. Perhaps if it is a short story and there is a chance of finishing it, but big books? No. Especially not children's books. The words just blur together! And the characters go all two-dimensional and things keep happening but I forget to care. I need time between chapters - not a lot, but some, to process and think and consider and give it all layers, you know? Anywho. I would watch episodes of Angel, but for some reason right now I can only do that after dark. Perhaps I am channelling Angel. I don't know. Also I am slightly worried because I am approaching the episodes with Lindsey now, and there aren't that many, and as soon as I do they will be over! And I won't really be able to rewatch them again and again because I should probably get out of the house into that sunlight thing before I sort of shrivel. This was a lot easier when the sun was actually shining and outside was pretty. Hmph.
( Harry Potter thoughts )
New icon just because.
We had one in the kitchen instead. Which essentially meant lots of plates of everything everywhere and people tripping over each other attempting to get to these plates and minor knife skirmishes, but it was tasty mm, and fun. Many people are here. Katie and dad and mum and Jack and Jack's father and grandma. And the dog. Close quarters. I escape to my room whenever possible.
Am taking a break at the moment from Harry Potter, because I cannot read entire books in one go, and I cannot understand people who do. Perhaps if it is a short story and there is a chance of finishing it, but big books? No. Especially not children's books. The words just blur together! And the characters go all two-dimensional and things keep happening but I forget to care. I need time between chapters - not a lot, but some, to process and think and consider and give it all layers, you know? Anywho. I would watch episodes of Angel, but for some reason right now I can only do that after dark. Perhaps I am channelling Angel. I don't know. Also I am slightly worried because I am approaching the episodes with Lindsey now, and there aren't that many, and as soon as I do they will be over! And I won't really be able to rewatch them again and again because I should probably get out of the house into that sunlight thing before I sort of shrivel. This was a lot easier when the sun was actually shining and outside was pretty. Hmph.
( Harry Potter thoughts )
New icon just because.
Harry Potter, iconlust, etc
Jul. 23rd, 2005 09:03 pmBeen reading Harry Potter and the Blood Prince. About a third of the way through, and liking it really. The style is a bit Enid Blyton-ish and off-putting, and I don't always know what's going on, but I like the setting and I like the characters. So much I can happily see het or slash any number of pairings. Perhaps I am betraying my slash-roots, but it's probably just the sign of a good book.
( Some spoilery - and some spoiled - brief thoughts )
I'm going to have to read the rest of the series now. Dammit.
Things I need:
Is it true that Photoshop software costs about $500? Jesus, if so.
( Some spoilery - and some spoiled - brief thoughts )
I'm going to have to read the rest of the series now. Dammit.
Things I need:
- An icon of Wesley looking particularly slinky and researchery with 'Big Dog' on the bottom.
- An icon of Angel proclaiming him as 'Angel the Soulinator', with '(check out all his majesty...)' on the bottom (I love you Trogdor!)
- And, having watched I've Got You Under My Skin, an icon of Samara/Sadako/The Ring with 'Circle, angry, kill, kill, kill, we get it already!' randomly spread about :D
Is it true that Photoshop software costs about $500? Jesus, if so.
I love town, yes I do
Jul. 18th, 2005 04:48 pmI went to the library and rented CDs, yay. They had to change my card, because they'd had a different system in place for two years. Um. I have not been a devoted library-goer. Whoops.
I had forgotten the library had books. And you didn't have to pay to read them. Just put up with the plastic and the smell. Hmm.
Anyway. Got new Nick Cave, No more shall we part. Am reserving judgement as yet. I hardly ever love things straight away. But new Tori Amos, eeee!!...
I bought Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Yes. Peer pressure, and the pretty fanfic, and the pretty (though rare) new adult covers got to me. Shame. Also I could get the hardback copy in Tesco's for £8, which is fairly 'score!'.( Spoilers (I get to say that now yay!) )
Has anyone else heard of a new film coming out called Night Watch? My film magazines have been talking for ages about how it is fantabulous and broke all box office records in its native Russia. It is about vampires, and apparently very Matrix-like. I am intrigued. But they do not say when it is coming out. Hmph. >:(
I had forgotten the library had books. And you didn't have to pay to read them. Just put up with the plastic and the smell. Hmm.
Anyway. Got new Nick Cave, No more shall we part. Am reserving judgement as yet. I hardly ever love things straight away. But new Tori Amos, eeee!!...
I bought Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Yes. Peer pressure, and the pretty fanfic, and the pretty (though rare) new adult covers got to me. Shame. Also I could get the hardback copy in Tesco's for £8, which is fairly 'score!'.( Spoilers (I get to say that now yay!) )
Has anyone else heard of a new film coming out called Night Watch? My film magazines have been talking for ages about how it is fantabulous and broke all box office records in its native Russia. It is about vampires, and apparently very Matrix-like. I am intrigued. But they do not say when it is coming out. Hmph. >:(
Medieval Day, yay!
Jul. 16th, 2005 06:05 pm'Twas quite lovely. Note my use of the medieval pronunciation. None of my friends were going, so I ended up waiting till 2 for mum to get out of work and go. We were going to take the baby, but he was sleeping, and needed feeding, and it would just have taken too long. So yes, lateness, but it was lovely all the same. Hugely sunny. I had some liquorice stout, which didn't make me want to throw up, and saw an exploding maypole, and weapons, and harps being made, and medieval dancing, and they played Gaudete over the big speakerphones and ::dances::
Also numerous dead stuffed things. And a knight on ascooter horse. And - highlight of the day - a real live raven! Apparently the child of a Tower Raven and their bit of rough, I guess. I don't know. Fucking huge, but lovely really. I don't understand when people are all 'crows and ravens are so ugly' ::growls them:: I even got to hold her on my hand, via a non-clawing mitt and tether. Heavy cow. But lovely. Made my day :)
Things getting moved into my sister's house with vans. Very oooh. I sense the end of her stay here approaching.
( Further miscellany )
Liquorice Day tomorrow. I look on with hope. Perhaps there will be an entire Unkindness there, who knows? (anyone who gets that will have my undying gratitude and probably pie of some kind)
Also numerous dead stuffed things. And a knight on a
Things getting moved into my sister's house with vans. Very oooh. I sense the end of her stay here approaching.
( Further miscellany )
Liquorice Day tomorrow. I look on with hope. Perhaps there will be an entire Unkindness there, who knows? (anyone who gets that will have my undying gratitude and probably pie of some kind)
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