girlofprey

I volunteered for that meme over at calapine's journal. You know, the one where you:

Comment and I will give you 3 interests on your list, and 3 icons,for you to explain. Then you must post the answers in your own journal and allow others to comment.

Thusly:

Assassins who sing lovesongs: I can't remember if this was something I actually saw or just something that occured to me, but I was thinking a while back that there's a certain focus about love songs that would make them quite ideal and creepy for an assassin hunting someone down to sing. Also that I would love an assassin that did that. Probably this is a great big cliche and everyone everywhere has assassins singing lovesongs, in those books I don't read. If not, first dibs on the fic.

Wolves did it: This is a reference to one of my favourite quotes from the League of Gentlemen. ( Spoilers for the sketch )

dtdd slash: This is short for Drop the Dead Donkey slash. That will probably clear it up for most people, but in case it doesn't Drop the Dead Donkey is a fantastic topical news based British comedy from the 90s, and it has some slash, but not enough. OH GOD. DAMIEN. I LOVE HIM SO MUCH.

Icons:


This is from Never Mind the Buzzcocks, which not many people on my flist seem to watch, but is very good. In the latest series Bill Bailey tried to say something funny and topical, like on Have I Got News For You, but it doesn't really work as NMTB is filmed six weeks before airing. So Simon Amstell interrupted him and said "Bill, it's six weeks ago". Bill Bailey then got slightly confused and upset, and called him a Timelord. It was great. And made me imagine if Simon Amstell was the new Doctor, which seems like it would be the winningest thing ever.


I got this one at iconomicon, which is a great place to find icons. What can I say? It rhymes, it's got Shakespeare on it. It mentions hos. It has Shakespeare on it and it mentions hos. If you like, you can imagine Shakespeare saying it to you, over your shoulder. There's a similar one with Nieztche in a scarf. And, if you want to get deep, it sort of suggests you should put your writing/what you want to read before the people who don't like it, or think it's 'eww'. All in all, I quite like it.


This is from Talladega Nights, another film most people don't seem to have seen for some reason, and it's pretty much a huge spoiler for the ending, but it is a great ending. More sports movies should end like that. Also: omg kissing. And Jean Girard! Two things that make any icon great.


Feel free to comment away.

It turns out the desk where my laptop is is not really the best place for extended typing and reading. Ouch. Might have to try 'roaming' a bit, without destroying anything with the cables. Tomorrow night I'm going to see Spiderman 3, and looking forward to it. Finally I will see if Eddie Brock is worth getting worked up about. Hurrah.

Yay, my old layout is back! 'Unearthed', if you will. That was a scary and confusing evening ::pets the beautiful layout::

Well, I've only been up for 2 hours, but it is already a paying day today. I booked a ticket for The League of Gentlemen in October :D jekesta convinced me with her words. And I do very often kick myself for missing out on Dylan Moran's Monster last year. And I had to pay an extra £2.25 to ticketzone for their middle-man behaviour, and a pound for postage and packaging, and if I'd gone into the actual Royal Centre I'd have got a student discount - but I wasn't about to do that any time soon. Hopefully I won't have a super important seminar of doom on the same night, but barring that - I'm going to be sharing a room with Reece (Reeson!) Shearsmith! Squee!

Also, I got my bank statement, and realised that deposit for connotations hadn't gone out - ::annoyed glare::. So I called up to check my booking was alright, because I worry, and I don't want £100 in my account that I can't spend. That's just wrong. All is fine (yay!), and they're going to charge me...something. Half, or one night, or something, and send me the receipt soon.

Which is to say, I have no money, or very little. Dad is talking about me getting a router for my bedroom and paying him half - I am trying to explain that I have no cash and thus this will not happen anytime soon. It has not sunk in yet. I'm applying for a job in a shop in town with a 'student vacancy' though, so hopefully all will be sorted soon enough :) (ETA: daddy has ordered one already. And 'doesn't know' if I have to pay him half. This should turn out interesting.)

In other news: Screencapping perhaps the best hobby ever! Pretty pictures! And you can make up your own stories to them! And by ignoring irrelevent characters (wives, girlfriends, etc), or at least separating them into a 'pretty, but distracting!' folder, you can pretend the entire film/series is a love story between whomever you choose! And looks between them can be as long and lingering as you want them to be ::glories in it::

And finally: the near-ending of Lolita (30 pages to go); ::flails/falls down/cries:: ( Spoilers )

( Teh slash! (And other stories) )

League of Gentlemen caps would also make a damn fine mood theme, I think. Someday ::mourns my complete lack of photoshopping talent::

My ear is playing up a bit. 20 is early for this, I feel. Perhaps a bit a lot less loud music/iPoding ::worries...::

First of all, I would like to say a big hurrah for jekesta, for alerting me to the fact that all DVD software on laptops everywhere will make screencaps, and that I was an idiot. Hurray, screencaps!! Of all the beautiful people who I love and no-one else knows exist!! Icons are just around the corner, I can feel it. And, when I get my actual laptop connected to the Internet, probably picspam of people I love and no-one else knows exist. AND YOU WILL ALL HAVE TO LOOK AT IT HAHAHAHA!!!

Secondly, I would like to say that coming home from Nottingham was made immensely more pleasurable by the package of jekesta waiting for me on my desk. I expected DVDs - I got so much more! Lollies! Ritter Sport in inexplicable flavours! A sheep/pylon/tree OT3 postcard! A glove to call my own! It was like some kind of beautiful dream, and my sister read the postcard because she heard me giggling and now she wants to be Jekesta, and I do not blame her, for truly she is a bundle of loveliness, like her packages :D!

Thirdly, I am home from Nottingham. I did so much packing. I have so much stuff. I did so much cleaning. I cleaned an oven. I scrubbed bathroom tiles till they stopped being bright orange. I got stabbed with a staple taking recycling to the recycling place. But I am home, and desperately trying to fit my stuff into a tiny room full of all my old stuff. I do not think I will win at space. But I will have proper curtains that do not let light on my face at 7 o'clock in the morning. This is all for the good. Also I am feeling a bit better about my results. It turns out 2 of my flatmates got pretty much the same, and even the other who is a smartypants hugely interested in all things academic and poetic and whatnot and normally gets 70s, did not get a first. University is more difficult than it looks I assume. I understand most of the marks I got (I hate you, drama, you are not even proper English omg!), and girl flatmate who actually failed a few exams and essays and still got 63.9 and I talked about university, and essays, and why we even want Firsts, and I feel much better. Thank you flist for your kind comments also :*:*:*(to infinity).

Fourthly, I did not see Doctor Who on Saturday. My flatmate had already packed his TV. I am all bereft. LJ is making me feel berefter with its 'no clues but oh wasn't it fabulous?' ways. But I did go see the League of Gentlemen film! And loved it!

( Some thoughts )

Home again home again ::dances a home dance - jiggety-jig?::