Beady-eyes is right- we're needed!

[timeripple]

I went out this morning determined to read some Latin, and randomly bumped into one of my Latin classmates. Of all the coincidences! Then I actually did Latin for an hour, and put my head down on the table in the B&N Starbucks and laughed and laughed. Oh, Ovid.

B&N still has no German music. Not even Nena. Wtf, B&N. You have failed me. Now you must pay the price... oh wait, no, that'd be me with the paying. But I finally caved and bought the CD of the Buffy episode “Once More, With Feeling”. Because I'm on a Buffy kick, and because it’s just that awesome.


Friday, May 30, 2008
Went to the New York Historical Society museum. Much fun! Particularly liked the section on cotillion music for ball celebrating Lafayette’s tour. Also the swords on the top floor, and one of the two portraits of Benjamin West. And the guillotine. Especially the guillotine.

Ye Newe Movie Reviewe: The Fall. Am I, like, the only person who’s seen this? I saw the trailer ages ago and it looked like my cup of surreal tea. With Beethoven. The New York Times movie critic kind of hated it, but a lot of indignant comments claimed it was really pretty. So I went. And...

...oh, sorry, distracted by emotionally tormented hot bandit in eyeliner. Where was I? Oh yes, talking about the emotionally tormented hot bandit in eyeliner. Who is also a depressed stuntman in the hospital for some kind of leg injury. He uses the power of story to bribe a little girl into stealing morphine for him. The little girl is awesome, btw. The look of the film is beautiful, in a saturated, intense kind of way. The locations are stunning. There’s one in particular that looks like that Salvador Dali melting clocks painting. And the soundtrack is Beethoven. I hummed “Figlio Perduto” all the way home. (Which, btw, took less time than it did to get up the seven escalators to the theatre. Made of fail, AMC.) Really beautiful. I kind of wanted it to be even more surreal, actually. There were a lot of side-jokes about Hollywood.

It's a lot more poetic than I'm making it seem. Trust me. And did I mention the eyeliner?

In conclusion: I kind of loved it. A lot.

Sunday, June 1, 2008
Oh my God. Mal is in an episode of Buffy! Oh my God. Mal is in lots of episodes! Mal is the evil Caleb? Er, Caleb’s evil, right? Right. Mal! He is so EVIL! Hi, Mal!

Spent the morning drinking a smoothie while practicing my katakana in Bryant Park and waiting for the library to open (yes, the Mid-Manhattan library is now open Sunday afternoons- joy!). Then I got out more Buffy and went to the Morgan Library & Museum, which was fantastic. Three Gutenberg Bibles, an unbound GORGEOUS illuminated hunting manual, some exciting architecture, Mesopotamian seals, some art that I didn’t care at all about, a lovely John Singer Sargent portrait. My favorite was, of course, the library. Apparently Mr. Morgan was very fond of Bibles, Goethe, Robinson Crusoe, Darwin, and children’s books. My favorite, though, was his collection of Austen and the Brontës in his red, red study.

Thursday, June 5, 2008
YES! I AM NOT THE ONLY ONE. Sarah Rees Brennan shares my love for That Idiot Ivan!

Went with cadragongirl to see the SEA East coast ship. It was very pretty and fun to walk around on. Then we went to Chinatown for Shanghai food and ice cream and poking around in record shops.

I am very full.

Comments

[satakieli.livejournal.com]

Heehee, no. I'd say "sadly", but I actually have no desire for a lab coat, astronomy being generally quite free of nasty things one could spill on one's self. Well, except for cryo stuff, but a lab coat isn't exactly going to help you if you spill liquid helium or liquid nitrogen on yourself.

[timeripple.livejournal.com]

Aw. Well, I'm probably the only person in the world who thinks lab coats are glamorous.

[satakieli.livejournal.com]

Which is why we love you.

Well, that and the fact that you point to posts including the priceless paragraph:

...I was grabbed not-quite-from-the-first by The Warrior's Apprentice. 'Oh yes,' I droned as Our Hero tried out in an Almost Hopeless But Gosh He Was Plucky Endeavour to get into The Harsh But Fair Damn It Space Academy. 'He is physically disadvantaged. All will seem lost. There will be a mean bully. But soon I - oh, wait, he just broke both his legs at the first obstacle and he's being sent to Grandma's on a rest cure. What, really? What, really? THAT IS AWESOME.'

Made my day, reliving that reaction from someone who recently read it. (And who can be concise and funny about it...)

[timeripple.livejournal.com]

:D:D:D

I love her posts, whether they're about books or cupcakes or monsters. This one definitely made my day, too!