Things

Aug. 30th, 2009 04:51 pm
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Stuff:

  • Adam and Joe didn't tell me they were back this weekend. I didn't look. But they didn't TELL ME. I would be very upset if I didn't love them RATHER A LOT and wasn't VERY HAPPY ABOUT IT.


  • Does anyone want to buy me a doll? Anyone at all? I think you know that secretly you do. Oh God. That's a bit amazing.


  • What are the good sites for ordering books besides Amazon? There are a few books I'd quite like to find cheaply, and I'm trying not to buy from Amazon since they went a bit rub. Although I'm not sure if the Amazon Marketplace counts. But anyway, I've got somewhere to buy CDs and DVDs, but I'm not sure where would have the range of Amazon. Any suggestions appreciated.


  • I found this while I was looking around for Silent Hill James/Pyramid Head stuff (WARNING: This clip starts off with what many players assume is, and the people who made the game might have said is, the rape of another monster creature by Pyramid Head, said monster being what is apparently two set of female-looking legs stuck together. Yes. So if you don't want to see that maybe don't play the clip, or look away for the first few seconds. After that all you have to worry about is a big demon thing, a sword and some gunshots, hurray).

    I sort of love what I know of Pyramid Head and James in canon, screwed up as it is. BUT I SORT OF LOVE THIS SCENARIO TOO. I WANT TO READ FIC ABOUT THEM LIVING TOGETHER AND JAMES GETTING FRUSTRATED EVERY TIME THE RENT NEEDS TO BE PAID AND PYRAMID HEAD NEVER WORKING AND GOING AWAY TO HIT THINGS WITH HIS SWORD EVERY TIME HE AND JAMES FIGHT AND THEM ARGUING ABOUT THINGS AND PYRAMID HEAD SAYING HE'S GOING TO LEAVE AND JAMES BARRING HIS DOOR SOMEHOW SO HE CAN'T SNEAK IN AND GET HIS STUFF AND RUN AWAY BEFORE THEY TALK, AND OH. All I want is a film or series about a guy living with a big morally-challenged demon and having domestic hijinks and angst. IS THAT SO MUCH TO ASK? DAMN YOU, HOLLYWOOD.


  • I went down to a local gallery yesterday to ask about some metal sculptures in the window. I have some money, and they were quite small and lovely, so I thought maybe I could afford one before I have no money again. So I asked the guy at the counter how much they were, since they had no price on them. The amount he told me? £342. It turns out that solid lumps of bronze, especially those that have been specially sculpted, are very very expensive. So there goes that plan.

    I know that I should be saving money to spend on bills and food and stuff. It's just that I'm probably not going to.


  • A ton of bands I like are playing this autumn, and I'm not sure what to do about that. The Decemberists. Passion Pit. Florence and the Machine. Rodrigo y Gabriela. Even Cherry Ghost somewhere in London. It's ALL VERY UNFAIR. YOU COULDN'T SPREAD THINGS OUT A BIT, DUDES? Hmph.


  • Oh! Also, Gary came back onto Coronation Street this week, and his first scene with David was so brilliant it almost made up for there inexplicably being no Coronation Street on Friday because of football. They just sort of chatted as though they were actually not too unhappy to see each other. David taunted Gary with having missed who won Wimbledon, Gary revealed, sort of, that he'd arranged the beating David had last Friday by an unknown assailant. And now they sort of can't look at each other because TOO MUCH HAS HAPPENED BETWEEN THEM, but that's not stopping Gary from doing his whole standing too close to David thing, while David doesn't really react because he knows Gary just wants him physical violence is apparently not something he finds intimidating any more, OH GOD DAVID.

    Speaking of the beating David got, Monday's episode opened with Gail taking pictures of David's injuries for evidence - supposedly - ala this picture here. My personal thought? Money is a little tight around the Platt household. THIS IS NOT THE WAY, GAIL. This picture, on the other hand, appears to be when Anna and Gail finally get sick of the fighting and decide to force David and Gary to get married to create an alliance between the families. I can't say I'm not looking forward to that episode.


  • Hmm. Anyway. Regarding myself, I'm jobless again, but the agency called me up for my last job on the morning of the day they wanted me to go in, so I'll have to get ready just in case. For after the bank holiday, anyway. Hopefully they will have something because I could do with the money but it might be a bit awkward, since I need a bit of time off in the next few weeks. Hmm. Well, we'll see.

    And by the way, yes I am aware that a lot of my parings are screwed up. To be honest, I'm really pretty ready for Gary to decide he likes David after all, and for him and David to start being friends, and for him to help David start getting over at least some of his mental issues. QUITE READY.
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No-one wants to write David/Gary slash for Coronation Street. A quick search on Google has sort of confirmed this. Although given the fact that there's now a court case in the air, and they're playing it as an actual love triangle sort of thing rather than Gary being a twat at David's girlfriend and David being jealous, it's not entirely a surprise. The people on the forums only seem to want to talk about which one is the least attractive and the most horrible. It's quite rub. Probably the show is just building to it, and I should be patient. They can't bring the Ultimate Teenage Criminal Team together straight away. But, dudes. This is the episode where Gary stalked him, with all the rubbish/irrelevant bits taken out. THE GAY IS VERY CLEAR. Probably a fandom will leap into being in the next week or so. Probably.

My secret pairing of Tony/Maria is apparently on the cards though, according to the soap magazine covers. So it's not all bad, I guess.

I’ve been a bit rubbish at LJ in the past week. This was basically my week:

Monday: I got to work and the heating was broken. Apparently if the temperature is 15 degrees Celsius it's illegal conditions. It was 16 degrees all day. They said something about getting some heaters in, but the man meant to be scouting out the place to see where to put them never arrived. Thankfully, they started working very weakly at about 3 or 4 o'clock. The next day it was back on properly and we got to work with our coats off.

Tuesday: Work without having to wear our coats, as I've said. And in the evening I went to the cinema, and had a whole screen all to myself for The Secret of Moonacre. Which I thought, coupled with the adverts, would be related to its quality, but it was actually quite good. It had Dakota Fanning, being a better Dakota Fanning than she was a Lyra Belacqua, in my opinion. It also had Hornblower/Ioan Griffiths in it. And Tim Curry. It wasn't brilliant - although the costumes very often were - but if you want a good, gentle fantasy film, I'd recommend it.

Wednesday: Things probably happened, but I can't remember what they were. I think I had to wash my hair, so not much. Possibly looking up a bunch of videos on Youtube, as I recall.

Thursday: It snowed, starting just before I left the office to go home, as I'm sure it did in many other places. They were doing Light Night taster events, so I saw a light show near the castle as I was coming back. I went to the train station, in snow, to get my train tickets for Redemption, abut was told they would be about the same price on the day, so there was no point booking a time. Then I went and had cake, because I quite like having cake in a cafe/cake shop when it's dark and snowing outside. And I've been in there before, but Lee Rosy's Tea seems to be leading the way in ambiently-lit cake and indie music shops in Nottingham. It was lovely, anyway.

But by this time it was about half past 6, I remembered I'd forgotten to do my little letter to go with my Jobseeker's book explaining that I was now in work and couldn't be bothered standing around on the street doing it, so just went for the bus. I went to the bus stop where the cheap buses go first, and there was one in, but it was out of service. They're usually pretty regular there, but I waited about ten minutes in the cold, and nothing came. The fact that a Light Night woman came around handing out glow sticks because she wanted to go home made it only slightly better. As I was stood three of the more expensive buses I could get went past, so I started walking down to that stop. And then the cheaper bus came. I ran back up, queued, and just as I was pretty much about to get on the driver said the bus was full and no-one else could get on. I walked down to the other bus stop again. I got there about 5 to 7. I was 7:30 by the time a bus came. And I'd been standing there with wet feet inside my boots. I could have walked home more quickly, but I thought it might be slippy on the pavements because of the snow. There wasn't that much snow though. The buses could possibly have bucked up, in my opinion.

Friday: Was the last day of the week, and the first day I'd been paid since December. And it was Light Night. And frankly, I think in the matter of festivals that are completely made up, I think Nottingham sort of wins. There was definitely a lot more stuff on than last year. The first bit was slightly spoiled by a man sat near me shouting a bunch of racist stuff to do with St George's Day, but eventually I moved away. There was the big wheel, as usual. Also a robot roaming the streets, people on stilts, jugglers doing David-Bowie-in-Labyrinth tricks with glass balls, roaming story tellers. The castle grounds were open for free and all lit up, they had a hot air balloon they kept lighting so it lit up, and a dragon made of LED lights mounted to a bicycle roaming round the place. And then there was a Nottingham goddess parade through the streets, with an accompaniment of young rhythm dancers who did a performance in the open space by Marks and Spencer’s. It was pretty great, even if I did look for where people were getting glow sticks from all night and never found out. I found one in the street on the way back home, though. That was fair enough. And it was good. I got home, shivered while waiting for the heating to come on, and watched NCIS.


Today Adam and Joe were on doing their Valentine's Day show, and Adam was quite lovely towards his wife Sarah. I didn’t know his wife was called Sarah. His love CAME WITH A MESSAGE THOUGH. He and Joe didn't declare their love to each other, but probably they do that off the air. And then I wandered around town trying to get stuff done before Redemption. Massive queues in Thornton’s and various places. Valentine's Day. It gets all over the place.

Casualty without Toby is not as good as Casualty with Toby. It's a huge shame.
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