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timeripple) wrote2007-04-07 02:12 pm
timeripple) wrote2007-04-07 02:12 pm
Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, polutropon, hos mala polla/ plagchthe
Sunday, April 1, 2007
Ah, Crazy Month #2. Salve, chaire, and what up. I tend to think of April as the second crazy month, because I’m wired into the academic calendar rather than the Julian one.
Ye Olde Movie Reviewe: “Love’s Labour’s Lost”. Yeah, the infamous Kenneth Branagh version. It was pretty bad.
Books, Scoring Of. Took an hour-long (but cheap) bus ride to a bookstore liquidation sale. Most of the good general SF/F was gone, but lots of kids and YA. I bought the illustrated MirrorMask script book, a beautiful illustrated Peter Pan, the Penguin edition of the Epic of Gilgamesh, and a Maxfield Parrish calendar. There was lots of poetry, but I truly hate the regular Penguin editions (although the classics series is okay – I prefer the black covers). I don’t care about most books, although pretty is better, but I require that my poetry books be nicely bound. Or old. Or both.
Funny how poets can be rambling along about something infuriatingly pastoral or sentimental, like flowers, and then suddenly they’ll say something that hits you in the gut.
Monday, April 2, 2007
Spacebirds went down like a first draft. Which it admittedly kinda was. If I can flesh out the 'verse better, the rest of it might work. I really want to write this now. The whole thing. All 1750 lines.
Catullus is TEH AWESOME. But we already knew that.
A note to online reviewers: no matter how deep you think you are, if you don’t understand simple punctuation and capitalization, I will not take you or your opinion seriously. (That is a future MORE VIVID conditional sentence, which means I REALLY MEAN IT. See? I can be omg deep and literary too, when I feel like it.)
Also, there were goats today.
Saturday, April 7, 2007
Boring school news: Sorry, Catullus, but no matter how awesome you are, Homer will always be even more awesome. Well, except for maybe the “odi et amo” poem, but that’s because it’s two lines long. I have permission to audit a “Fairy Tales and the Fantastic” class. The only textbook is The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm. Awesome.
Lessee. Not much been happening. Went to lecture on the Trojan War at USC. Nice place. Nice abs on the statue of Tommy Trojan. Got free tote bag with USC Arts and Humanities Initiative logo on it. Unfortunately cannot use it around campus. Was a good lecture, but not mind-blowingly informative. Other than that the Hittites are cooler than I suspected.
Have been watching “Ballykissangel”. Awwww. Have also ordered “Rome” from Netflix, as there’s a lecture about it this month. Might make more sense if I’m informed.
If you’re thinking, “Gee, all this freak talks about is school and movies! Is that all she does?” you’re pretty much right.
Ah, Crazy Month #2. Salve, chaire, and what up. I tend to think of April as the second crazy month, because I’m wired into the academic calendar rather than the Julian one.
Ye Olde Movie Reviewe: “Love’s Labour’s Lost”. Yeah, the infamous Kenneth Branagh version. It was pretty bad.
Books, Scoring Of. Took an hour-long (but cheap) bus ride to a bookstore liquidation sale. Most of the good general SF/F was gone, but lots of kids and YA. I bought the illustrated MirrorMask script book, a beautiful illustrated Peter Pan, the Penguin edition of the Epic of Gilgamesh, and a Maxfield Parrish calendar. There was lots of poetry, but I truly hate the regular Penguin editions (although the classics series is okay – I prefer the black covers). I don’t care about most books, although pretty is better, but I require that my poetry books be nicely bound. Or old. Or both.
Funny how poets can be rambling along about something infuriatingly pastoral or sentimental, like flowers, and then suddenly they’ll say something that hits you in the gut.
Monday, April 2, 2007
Spacebirds went down like a first draft. Which it admittedly kinda was. If I can flesh out the 'verse better, the rest of it might work. I really want to write this now. The whole thing. All 1750 lines.
Catullus is TEH AWESOME. But we already knew that.
A note to online reviewers: no matter how deep you think you are, if you don’t understand simple punctuation and capitalization, I will not take you or your opinion seriously. (That is a future MORE VIVID conditional sentence, which means I REALLY MEAN IT. See? I can be omg deep and literary too, when I feel like it.)
Also, there were goats today.
Saturday, April 7, 2007
Boring school news: Sorry, Catullus, but no matter how awesome you are, Homer will always be even more awesome. Well, except for maybe the “odi et amo” poem, but that’s because it’s two lines long. I have permission to audit a “Fairy Tales and the Fantastic” class. The only textbook is The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm. Awesome.
Lessee. Not much been happening. Went to lecture on the Trojan War at USC. Nice place. Nice abs on the statue of Tommy Trojan. Got free tote bag with USC Arts and Humanities Initiative logo on it. Unfortunately cannot use it around campus. Was a good lecture, but not mind-blowingly informative. Other than that the Hittites are cooler than I suspected.
Have been watching “Ballykissangel”. Awwww. Have also ordered “Rome” from Netflix, as there’s a lecture about it this month. Might make more sense if I’m informed.
If you’re thinking, “Gee, all this freak talks about is school and movies! Is that all she does?” you’re pretty much right.