girlofprey: (Firefly Genius Child)
Hmm. Tired. Film festival thing went less well than I might have hoped - when I got to the front desk and said my name and that I would be on the guest list, they told there was no guest list - ! Then they asked me who I talked to to arrange it - I talked to the girl who runs our show, Uncovered, who talked to the press officer, who talked to whoever arranged it properly. But the cinema marketing manager gave me a couple of free tickets to some shows anyway, and her e-mail, asking me to send her whatever I did on the festival, which I think will be nothing now because it's finished and we like to cover things people can actually still go see. Sigh.

Also we had organised an interview with the festival president, which he was thankfully aware of - but when I rang up at the agreed time (10 o'clock-ish), he was in his hotel room! Which was just around the corner apparently. He asked me if I wanted to come to his hotel/room to do it - no - or for him to come back to the cinema - not for a 2 minute interview, no - so that was a big flop. We rescheduled it for the next day, but too late to put it in the show so I ended up cancelling. And then I woke up seriously ill with 'The Curse' (which has earned its name, let me tell you), so I couldn't even nip down to the studios to just do a 'I went to Resfest, and it was...' piece. Double sigh.

On the plus side, I appear to be completely free for next weekend though, for once. I am contemplating going home. I'd like to take my laptop back and do some stuff on the internet, but it might be awkward on a coach/train. Hmm. It might be nice to see the family/Jack though. And...have things bought for me rather than having to buy them.

Am still in a bit of a Goblet of Fire daze. To the point where I COULD NOT SLEEP until about 2 o'clock this morning because ideas and such were whizzing around my head. Mentions of characters names and such. )And maybe some other stuff )

I really can't wait for the GoF DVD. 3 DAYS after the opening weekend. I got it bad.

Also, I had a bit of an icon clearout. See the pretty shiny new ones! Some of them had uploading problems, and one inexplicably turned into Mischa Barton, but they seem to be mostly alright. Now.
girlofprey: (R for raygun)

I made new icons. New text icons. I have made icons I have dreamed of making for months, and mostly for their sake bemoaned my inability to put text on icons. I'm not entirely sure you can read the text. I can. I don't know how they'll look on your computers. But yay! I MADE THE ICONS. My dream is come true. Probably you won't understand them if you haven't seen the Lemony Snicket movie, or listened to the Smiths. But I made them. Here they are:

     

I prefer Violet's face on the first her one - but I think you can actually read the text on the second. Perhaps I'll make a new one for her. But eeee. Happy :)

Total Film reached new heights of bastardy today. Much like Empire, they had a choice of covers. 3 covers. All were Narnia. The one with the queen was prettiest. It had swords. But then they put the mag in a plastic bag so you could not see which one you were buying! Arses! But I bought one anyway, and have ripped the bag a bit, and I got the Queen one! I beat the system! Yay :D

Damien Lewis is on TV next week. He is in a Shakespeare play thing. Yay. I am hoping for slash. But his red-headed loveliness will be enough. Urge to buy Forsyte Saga boxset rising....

I have reading week next week. I could go visit the House o' Pink. I have been semi-invited. But I have been rather ruthlessly stolen by my radio show. And I'm going to see a play. Bought tickets and everything. And - yes. They are in London at the moment and can't get me about it, HA!

I am torn between watching the HIGNFY they will be in the audience for tomorrow or going to see a play by a young Russian playwright. I do see a little of my insane love for Night Watch in the desire to go see this play. I am possibly sort of expecting Anton to be in the lead role. Although I loved Russia and Russian things long before Night Watch. I could go see the play on Saturday. And go to bonfires/fireworks slightly later. Hmm.

This was meant to be a short post.

girlofprey: (ASOUE One Man (and his Dog))
Hello! :)

I am randomly happy today. Hurrah.

Also I just had some pick'n'mix. Mmm.

Went out for halloween, after much self-debate/overthinking. Was a doll. Which essentially meant I got to wear a nice dress and coat and put a bit (lot) of white make-up on my face, and lipstick. I tried to do the scary blinking, but it didn't really pan out. But flatmates and I had fun, and made some random movies on K's phone (I'm a star!). Oh, and small people came to the door, in costumes, with lights, and I gave them galaxy ripples, and I was filled with the halloween spirit, and yes. We did not have a pumpkin. J carved an orange. I was not amused. But it was fun. Yes :)

Past halfway with Lemony Snicket 12. It has gotten dark again. I like it best when it is dark. You won't know what I'm talking about but Spoilers )

I don't know why I'm not hearing more about the 12th book from my ASOUE comms, but ah well. Maybe they've all lost interest - I'm the last safe fan! Ah well.

In other news, I want to live on a pirate ship.

And I have learned how to put text on icons using Microsoft Paint. Which inexplicably looks much more indistinct when saved than it does in the paint programme. But anyway - as such, behold my crappy text icons! Which I'm inexplicably proud of! You'll probably be seeing a lot of them in the weeks to come :)

I'll download Photoshop someday. Probably.

And; people are doing Nanowrimo. People are freaking out about Nanowrimo. ::Hugs/valium:: to them. I am thinking about Nanowrimo, if it is even possible, and despite the catch-up I would have to be doing. My old plot, which I actually had and everything, is haunting the back of my head. But I'm actually enjoying writing plain old fanfiction at the moment. And making crappy icons, which have a wordcount now! So hmm. Yes.

::love::
girlofprey: (Anton Shades)
  • I read the first few pages of House of Leaves last night. I am sensing that reading it at NIGHT is generally going to be a bad idea. Also am slightly freaked out by the reference to Spoiler? ) on the publishing details page. I had to read a chapter of a different book before I could go to sleep. And I was already checking to see if the hallways had gotten longer when I went to the bathroom. Eek.

  • I may have accidentally agreed to possibly interview the League of Gentlemen next week for the radio show. Help?

  • I made a complete fool of myself telling my flatmate someone had stolen his bike this morning, before realising it was actually still there, and being informed there is a communal bike shed in our garden (which seems wrong), so I'll probably see a lot of people wheeling bikes in and out over time. Hmph.

  • I'm going to see Night Watch again tonight! :D I cannot get the mpreg bunny out of my head though. Even when I am reading Nietzche's views on the Birth of Tragedy. In fact I think that made it worse.

  • New Anton icon! :D

  • He's so pretty.

  • Too pretty to be COMPLETELY good.

  • I wish I had an icon that said that.

  • I am slightly tempted by [livejournal.com profile] fanfic100. The min. words for each fic is only 100. I think I could write 100 drabbles for Land of the Dead, wherein Cholo and Riley dance round each other to a variety of subjects, and frustrate me horribly. Another person has signed up to do 100 fics on the Evil Dead series. This makes me happy. Probably there will be no slash. Probably this is for the best. But still. Tempted. Foolishly, foolishly tempted.

  • New Lemony Snicket book out in less than a week, yay. I have a Lemony Snicket poster all printed out. It's all very good.

  • Will this list never end?

  • I am still rubbish at cooking, it seems.

  • However, I have recently come into possession of some blank CDs, so I can now copy some of my slashy playlists onto them, and play them on the downstairs CD player while I am 'cooking', in front of my very flatmates, who won't know a thing! :D

  • I wish more of you knew my crazy little fandoms and wrote me fic.

  • But it probably really is my job more than yours.

  • End of list.

  • I promise.

Things

Oct. 11th, 2005 11:14 am
girlofprey: (Anton Gloom)
Things which have happened since this weekend:

  • Even my flatmate's internet completely broke down. So now we forsake Wanadoo. He has written an angry letter of cancellation. Seriously, like if they don't cancel our contract and any bills he will just take them to court, and go to the newspapers, and call Watchdog, and put up posters in the street. Hurrah.

  • My dad has a new job :D

  • I have completely failed to read the huge book. I look for plot spoilers on the internet now.

  • I made some new icons :)

  • I keep fantasising about Anton and Zavulon from Night Watch having weird, manipulative, prophetic-type sex. Or pseudo-sex. Or whatever. And somehow I got an mpreg bunny. Um. Help? (if only he wouldn't insist on looking like this ::points to icon:: every now and then...)


When I have the internet in my house, my life will be better. Yes.
girlofprey: (R for raygun)
I did not go to my uni radio meeting, for the secret reason of staying in to watch Emmerdale.

I might not have done, but Max King has died, and his father, Tom King, has not told his brothers, Matthew and Carl (Carl!), who were away in another country, that he was dead, and they were coming back tonight. And I knew Carl would cry and look pretty. And Emmerdale does not get no repeats, not ever.

And o. m. g.

First of all, let me point out that Carl and Matthew were not in the country because they had gone overseas to shag. There was another lady who was away, assumedly at the same place, and she had to come home in a taxi, while Matthew and Carl came home together in Matthew's car, and were all happy and laughy and jokey about things, and Carl randomly put on a pair of sunglasses and it was wonderful. Then they stopped in the village for a few minutes, and EVERYBODY knew about Max being dead except for them, and people came up to each of them separately and offered condolences, and they were like 'wtF?!'. And they looked at each other, and it was the most beautiful Look in the world.

And then they drove madly back to their house, and ran inside, and they stood in the doorway together, with Carl slightly in front and Matthew slightly behind because yes, and they were all 'is it true?', and their father was just all '..I'm sorry..'. And then Carl FAINTED/SWOONED, and Matthew had to catch him/steady him/hold him up, and even when he had gotten over it slightly, he kept holding onto him. And Carl was wearing his pink shirt.

The Gay. Brotherly. Love. Rachael dead from it. I love my soap :D


In other news (as if anything is more important): I have discovered I am rubbish at commenting on a suddenly larger flist. Or at least when I have to do it at uni. But you're all wonderful!

And these may be the best icons ever. And then the person made more!

And my father called me last night and mentioned that his company was in trouble and he might be looking for a new job. Which is slightly worrisome. But I choose to not worry. Not for a while, anyway.

Memes!

Aug. 25th, 2005 11:20 pm
girlofprey: (Apocalypse)
I did the icon pairings meme. It goes like this: Make a list of all the characters in your icons. (Although you may have more than one icon of a single character, they only go on the list once.) Alphabetize it. Take the first two people on the list; that's your first pairing. Second two people; second pairing. Etc.

I knew just from looking at my icons that this would not turn out well for SOME characters. I have lovingly provided running commentary for your reading pleasure. And for pictures of some of these people, see the icon link at the top. The 'descriptions' usually say who they are.

Cut for length and disturbing imagery )

In conclusion; many of pairings would probably kill each other. The rest would stop and think 'How did I end up HERE? With HIM? It's almost as if someone picked us all at random and starting pairing us up without cause or reason...' Then they would all get together in a Zone of Dissatisfaction, and work out the thing with the names, and lead a revolt and I'd be pitchforked to death. Almost certainly. Yes.

::Pride::

Aug. 22nd, 2005 11:24 pm
girlofprey: (Jett Rink)
Jett Rink icon, eee!
girlofprey: (Sam Rockwell Pero)
Because it was there )

At the shop again today. Started rebelling slightly against starting times - hanging around for just 5 minutes longer, listening to Ozma. I feel doing such things this soon does not bode well for future job-having. Of course, this is voluntary. Then again, who knows what'll turn up in references. Hmm.

Bought the Importance of Being Idle DVD. I thought it was a CD, but actually its a DVD, which has the video on it, which I wanted, but doesn't have the song in any uploadable-to-say-your-iTunes sort of a way. I have to buy the single for that, also £3. I remember a time you could get both the song and the video on the same disc...but apparently those days are gone.

I knew it was raining as soon as I got up this morning. I woke up, and could hear it, and knew it was raining in a really taking-the-piss type way. Sigh. Thankfully, lovely mother gave me a lift. She is so lovely. I did not take the good umbrella. It's not the kind of thing I want to just leave lying around in locker rooms at work, no.

We're talking about holidays, all of a sudden, just when I'd half given up. Probably not abroad, because my sister doesn't appear to be moving out any time soon, and mum and dad don't really want to leave her in the house. It is enough of a bombsite with mum running around after her all the time. So we are thinking now about somewhere in the country so she and Jack can come. I suggested Brighton repeatedly. It is Under Consideration. It's also my sister's birthday soon, and she has made semi-subtle mention of all the things she gave me for my birthday this year. I look on my savings with woe.

I redid all my icon keywords. But for some reason when I comment my icon menu does not understand this. Hmm.

Probably I will make Giant icons tonight.

There are quite a few things on [livejournal.com profile] metafandom I'd like to reply to, but I don't think my brain is in the right gear, and some of my ideas don't make the sense, and sometimes I think that what I want to say isn't even what the person is writing about. Mostly I am sure that the clever debatey people will rip me to shreds and throw me to the trolls. Sadness.

Hollyoaks is terrible at showing grief, yo.
girlofprey: (Bernard Eyes of a killer)
Today I have been mostly uploading new icons. Yay for icons! My parents didn't approve at all, and my chest is starting to complain about how I'm sitting, but...I have lots of new icons. They're pretty. But I have a dilemma now, because I've been putting the creator's name first in the keywords and it makes it really hard to find the icon I want in the alphabetical order of the icons. So I want to change it, but apparently changing the keywords makes the icons disappear from where you used them, and then if people look back at my old posts they'll think I'm really boring with icons and have just recently learnt the art of them. I have deleted quite a few today though, so probably this is already true. Hmph.

A funny thing happened as well. I was running around finding new icons and communities (Evil Dead! Sam Rockwell! Omg!), and I was thinking 'Omg, some of my rare fandoms! Oh how I wish I had icons for all my rare fandoms!'. And then it occured to me that I have many DVDs for my rare fandoms...and I can make my own icons. I have nearly 200 screencaps from Giant - and I can make them all into icons. Not good icons. Bits of picture stuck in a box. But undoubtedly icons.

I feel sure this will lead to no good, and no free time.

Question

Aug. 21st, 2005 04:02 pm
girlofprey: (Paul!)
What happens to icons you've used on posts after you delete them? Do they go away on the old posts aswell, or not?

I am filling up my extra fifty slots (squee!) and might need to delete a couple. I want to save a few spaces for the future - this autumn looks like it might be a fanful one.

In other news, apparently wearing pirate outfits can help reduce global warming. All hail the great Flying Spaghetti Monster, and its mysterious ways...
girlofprey: (Justin/Ali)
Hollyoaks.

O. M. G.

::cries::

[livejournal.com profile] tiniago!! Come cry with me, bitch!! ::cries some more::

And now I'm listening to Damien Rice, and it's just ::cries::!

ETA: Omg, randomly appropriate icon!

Icons

Aug. 15th, 2005 07:26 pm
girlofprey: (strangeumbrella - guy!)
Omg! 100 icons!

::dies::

I love Livejournal!
girlofprey: (Draco)
Been 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:

  • 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.
girlofprey: (fiyeroislove - sexy Galinda!)
I'm rather in love with Hollaback Girl by Gwen Stefani. I sort of want it to somehow be Lindsey's theme tune. I ideally want the entire staff of Wolfram & Hart to do a big urban dance number to it. Or Rich Girl. Probably they'd do Rich Girl on their own, and Hollaback Girl 'to' Angel and Co. With Lindsey at the front. Whatever.

I was going to do my own lists of things I'd asked of someone else, but I'll just meme instead:

Ask me my five favourite of anything! I'll reply in comments. If you like, you may list your own five favourite of those things too. Whatever. S'cool ::looks omg cool::

Sexy Galinda icon! I think it's Galinda, anyway.

And Sugar Rush - no spoilers, but I think [livejournal.com profile] nerdcakes will be pleased >:)
girlofprey: (oblivious_icons - Lindsey!)
I wanted more userpics so I bought more userpics, yay!

I would have celebrated with a lovely Galinda icon, if LJ was letting me upload any more. Growl. I try again tomorrow.

Not much to report otherwise. Still not much luck with jobs, but I have decided that I either get one by the end of the week, or give it up as a bad job (har har), and get stuck into some voluntary work for experience. As it is, today I both seem to have found possible work at a semi-local factory (it's shite work, but it's money), and volunteered to work at the local castle/museum. Am going to give in my name and number at the local (ie down the road) pub, my words-per-minute at the employment agency I signed up at about three weeks ago, and let fate take its course.

Oh, and went to Wakefield with the sister. And may I say that Play is perhaps the best DVD shop there is ever. Dylan Moran live for £3.99? Farscape episodes for £2.99? I am so there!!

I would meme, and want to meme, but its too late and I want to watch more Angel before bed. Tomorrow, I say. Tomorrow.
girlofprey: (Hooks! ::swoon::)
Am slightly annoyed. Dad's upset that I'm spending so much time on the internet now - he actually called me on my mobile, minutes after calling my mum downstairs and asking where I was, to yell at me for how much time I was spending in my room now, and I should wash the car, or something. Then he hung up. It was quite surreal. And my sister has started coming into my bedroom asking if she can borrow my laptop to watch DVDs on. No is the answer to that. Because a) it is mine, and even when I am not using it I like to have it there, b) I don't want it dragged all over the house every five minutes, c) she watches a Buffy and an Angel episode, at least, every morning, and most importantly d) once you give her something she wants, she will not give it back until she's finished with it. Unfortunately saying 'no' to her for any personal 'I don't want to'-type reason generally ends with her screaming that she hates you and breaking something you like. I have tried explaining reason (b) to her, at which point she called me mean. We will have to wait and see if she accepts it or tries to think of a way round it. Sigh.

On the other hand, after waiting until about half-past one to give said sister a lift to her new house, mum and I and the (quiet) baby had a lovely day in Freeport, which is a retail outlet shopping centre in case none of you know. I had forgotten mum puts money 'on one side' to buy me clothes with. Shopping was done. I bought:

  • A coat that is really for winter, but was lovely and £165 reduced to £10 - score.

  • Two vest-tops of also a tenner, one of which makes my breast look huge but I like, so :P

  • A new pair of brown 'stone' combat trousers for £12, from £25

  • A top which again has breast issues but is lovely and £7

  • A skirt which is identical in every detail to one I saw in River Island 3 months ago, but has mysteriously aquired a new label. Hmm. It is also stone with flowery bits, and a slanty hem. I have no shoes to wear with it. Or tops, apart from a £3 khaki vest.

  • A DVD 'crate' and a DVD rack for £6 and £3 respectively, for organising DVDs

And also the Adam and Joe Show DVD for £8. I have not the money for this, but eeee ::dances for Adam and Joe:: Well, not for them... Be quiet.

Sadly, I did not get a job at Freeport, which was the main aim of the trip. I gave my slightly crumpled CV in at Kurt Muller though. I am not great at job hunting. But I am at clothes hunting :D I think I will turn my attention to bedroom sorting-out-ness first though. Get rid of some of the 'excess' and unpack some of the goodness. Get rid of some of the boxes. DVDs probably need a 'pruning' also. Hmm. This shall be tomorrow's job, I think. I must go to Nottingham on Thursday, to retrieve a double mattress my landlord will not buy to replace the old crappy one I...replaced, with it ::shakes fist:: But yes. Good plan, I think. Hurrah :D

Also; this is the Hook-handed man. I make icons yay!
girlofprey: (Craig!)
I appear to have made an icon. Um. Go me.

::is stunned::

This is Craig from Sea of Souls, by the way. You can't see much of his face, but you can see the lovely shirt/hair interaction. I assure you he is pretty.

Why did no-one tell me I have Microsoft Photo Editor? ::wanders off to find some prettier pictures to icon::

ETA:: Though I still can't figure out how to post screencaps, edited or otherwise, in my journal ::fumes::
girlofprey: (kiyra_no_kirei)
...I'm on the Internet on my own laptop, for the first time in a year! Teh yay ::blows party-popper:: Which essentially means I can hold of on a paid account for a while, because I can just mix and match the icons saved on my hard drive, without pissing about with floppy disks. Which is probably for the best, since dad convinced me I really did need £40 worth of virus protection stuff ::sighs:: If I get a virus now, I will personally hunt this 'Norton' down and infect him. Oh yes.

Thanks to this, I have been having further Adventures on MSN, and learned that a sort-of friend of mine from college is getting engaged. It is a wonderful thing of course, but slightly scary. He is getting engaged. My sister has a baby. I can't just do learning for that much longer. The world is changing, and I still don't have a boyfriend, 20 years later ::mourns:: Brand new bright tomorrow and all that. Hmm.

In other news, Kingdom of Loathing is perhaps the best thing in the world ever. I so need an icon of someone looking slightly mad and panicky, saying 'Spiders! Spiders threaten the gourd!'. Also, I just had to kill a spider in real life. It was huge, and far too fast for good spider/Rachael relations. I squished it, yes.

In other other news, late night South Park perhaps the best thing ever, even if it does kill me with sleeplessness. Jewbilee! Bear-Jew alliances! Moses! And how did I ever forget my love for Kyle Broflovski? Hurrah for angry, principled eight-year-old boys. Sadly there are no icons of him looking enraged. Hmm.

In yet more other news, Six Feet Under is apparently my show of wonder and strange crossovers. Scrubs, perhaps, for different tone tension? Kingdom Hospital, with a side of Nate/Paul slash? ::loffs Paul:: Buffy - Spike/David? So many choices. And of course there's always the Nate/Billy OTP to keep me entertained. Currently there are bunnies wherein Billy seduces some more of Nate's family, or even just subtly moves onto the man himself in an effort to screw up his relationship with Brenda. And then there can be realising of how great Nate is, and angst, and going off his meds in a whole new way, and everything even more twisted and fucked-up than it is already. Yay :D

I want to write these things. I don't know why I don't. Too much pressure on myself, perhaps, feeling that they need to be, omg, perfect! And then I think 'well, I'll just relax', but then I start worrying I won't put any effort in at all. Hmm. I have been told I think too much. Probably this is true. Of course, maybe now some of the 'when will I be able to get on the Internet?' pressure is off things will flow more freely. Hopefully.

Going now. Late night South Park, eeee....
girlofprey: (Slytherin Princess)
Y'ello!

Have had two lovely days of doing nothing, under the pretext of being about to do something. Mostly I have been going through old copies of Total Film and Empire and cutting out the pretty pictures. I buy them for the articles though. Yes.

Purchased the new White Stripes album! I still don't know what my money's doing, but it was only £9.77 in Tesco's, and I had £5.50 worth of clubcard vouchers. I feel like my mum, but yay. Lots of piano, but Blue Orchid is worth the £3.00 of a single at the very least, so a good buy I think. I was tempted by Basement Jaxx's The Singles - but no ::dances to the White Stripes::

I need a paid account. I have decided. Mostly because 3 icons is not enough, dammit! And I hardly ever use the snarky Pansy Parkinson one because I only ever comment to lovely people, and it is clearly not better than theirs, or if it is it is rude to say so.

Should I buy a ticket for the League of Gentlemen live tour? They are in Nottingham in October. There are 9 seats left. But tickets are £25. Hmm. I don't know. At this point it is sort of a choice between the live tour and the DVD boxset. I don't know, I don't know.

Possibly I need a job. Only not at the local sweet factory, since half of it burned down last week :O But Bodycare is hiring. Hmm. If I get a job, I doubt I can randomly take off for adventures with my friends in Brighton, Canterbury and Manchester though.

Real life is hard.

As is too much free time. Yes. More consideration needed, I think.

Reading Update: Lolita getting very confusing and strange. Quilty and q'uil te? Haze and Hays? I begin to worry that he has actually killed Lolita and this is all a mad dream, or that she never existed at all ::fears for Lolita:: Hmm. Only 70 pages to go...
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