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Have you ever stared into the rain

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008 | Celebrity, Personal, TV | No Comments

Have updated the 100 books and 100 films pages once again. Couldn’t believe that I hadn’t updated the books list since January. I tried to remember all the books I had read in the meantime but of course that was a bit difficult.

Loved watching Michael Strogoff and I didn’t even mind that it was made back in 1975. Although Nadja’s hairdo certainly needed getting used to. But the guy who played Michael… Need I say he looked handsome?! Anyway, I was happy to see this miniseries. Years ago, when I read the novel by Jules Verne I was so fascinated with this story and Nadja was for years my top favourite name I think I’ll try to find the novel in the library for a re-read.

The first episode of Little Dorrit was good. But of course it was just the opening episode, the one that set the ground and opened many many new questions and storylines. Matthew Macfadyen was really great and I think Clare Foy is making a really spectacular debut here. Not sure yet about the Meagles family and the Harriet storyline. Can’t wait for the next episode. [edit:] Check out my new site Fragment of Light, featuring lots of content and screencaptures about Little Dorrit.

Funny: today’s newspaper has an article about a new Edith Piaf CD - and the main picture is from La Vie en Rose and depicts actually Marion Cotillard. But no mention of this, the subtitle says the picture is Edith Piaf. Speaking of Marion, she’s the new face of the Lady Dior bag and the campaign will be shot by Peter Lindbergh. I’m so excited for the pictures. He’s a friend of Marion and the 2 photoshoots he did of her this year have been nothing short of breathtaking!

I feel a cold / flu coming on. But I am determined not to call in sick!

Have you ever stared into the rain
Thought the clouds would never disappear
Have you ever screamed out into the dark
Thinking no one else could hear

I was leaving footprints tainted by my past
On this winding road to you

I’d lost my faith in love
Tonight I believe again
My Heart was a broken place
Now I feel whole again
You bring my honesty
And that’s worth believing in
and I believe
I believe again

Have you ever spun out of control
Like you never saw the road ahead
Have you ever just kept looking back
Ever closer to the edge

I was praying for the light I see in your eyes
I had all but given up

I believe the impossible is possible to overcome
I believe in miracles
Born from love in everyone

Depressed

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008 | Personal, Sites, Songs, TV | 2 Comments

Just finished watching part 3 of Tess of the d’Urbervilles. Love everything about it - except that it’s so tragic. Here I am, past midnight, sitting at my desk and crying my eyes out when in fact I’ve been feeling so well in recent weeks. I’ll get over it, sure, but it just blows. There are so many what if’s in that story - reminds me of what if’s in real life…

Seen all of Lost in Austen now. Final part must be my favourite out of the 4. I think the characters are the most real in this one. It did all feel a bit rushed, though.

True Blood - it seriously is addictive. But for heaven’s sake the stuff they put in there. It feels just like they’re doing it for the sake of it, you know, for being on cable and stuff.

Been adapting 2 layouts for Wordpress. Should really have finished the one first instead of trying to do both at the same time. Anyway, I’ve been tearing my hair out over browser incompatibilities. Especially IE of course. Some 25% of visitors still do use IE6 so I think I have to make an effort to at least get the layouts to display approximately the way they should. At home my PC recently upgraded to IE7 however I can’t seem to open it without making the computer to stop working. So I need to test the layouts for IE6 at my workplace. PNG, float, margin and padding - seriously I can’t stand it anymore. Serves me right though for converting a sliced table layout to a div & CSS layout. At least I think I got the basics working and I will not even attempt to validate the layouts. I don’t care! Oh and the best part? 2 row display in Affiliationally appears to have a clear function that makes my floated main column break.

Been listening to Brian Mcfadden a lot lately, mostly while driving. I seriously love his style - both in music and in general. Not to mention he’s always been my favourite Westlife member.

I seem to lose all my earrings - but always just one out of a pair. A while back I lost one of the earstickers my parents gave me when I first got my ears pierced - I was about 3 years old at the time. They really had a sentimental value. Then I lost one of the golden earrings my parents gave me when I finished school. Sentimental and material value this time. And I’ve not been able to find any similar ones since. Now, I’ve lost one of the earstickers my parents gave me when I got my ears pierced for the second time when I was 11. I had let the holes in the earlobes grow back again. Seriously, I have a ton of worthless fashion jewellery and I’ve never once lost one of them. But I’ve lost one piece of every set my parents gave me???!! What is wrong with me!!

For now I’m faking it …

Friday, September 19th, 2008 | Personal, Random, TV | No Comments

… ‘Til I’m pseudo-making it

Love the way these lines express a truth. Made some regress when it comes to tackling houswork and going to bed in time. But all in all, I really really feel good. Not in a hyper way though. Just in a calm, assured kind of way which is really nice.

Lost in Austen - Part 3: much better than last week, or did I only get used to its style? I’ve tried to think of a historical film made in an untraditional way (as in: not-the-BBC-style) that I enjoyed. Couldn’t really think of one. Or do The Abduction Club, Marie Antoinette and Plunket & Macleane count? Anyway, I’m still convinced the reason for my rather dislike of LiA lies with its execution and not the idea in general.

True Blood: Not sure about the whole concept of the show, the sex and the violence. But Anna Paquin is mesmerizing and I’m loving the chemistry between Sookie and Bill. I’m not yet giving up watching this.

Moonlight: What I’ve seen coming for a few months has finally started happening in its most prominent fan community. However I’m deeply shocked by the large amount of money that seems to be involved ($11,000 in one case). As well as how long (come on, over a month!!) this has not been dealt with (or so it seems). I certainly stopped breathing there for a few seconds. I honestly didn’t expect this to be as huge. Even if there’s no purposeful wrongdoing involved, THIS IS ABSOLUTELY SERIOUS!! I can’t understand anyone who’s making light of the issue and views civil questions for answers as “bickering”. Being open & trustworthy certainly are the basics of running a website (and especially of collecting money). I sure don’t know any of the details personally but I wouldn’t support a certain person if I had to. There have been various unrelated incidents that I heard about, all of them directly from the person(s) directly involved, and it can’t be a coincidence. A reason more to be really careful about who you trust online, and even more so when it comes to matters involving money. Just as some of the leading online TV media have picked up on information stemming from that website (including at least one fabricated quote) I can’t say I wouldn’t be unhappy about them picking up on this as well.

I seem to have too many fansites. I can’t do all that I want for all of them but I can’t think of a site that I wouldn’t regret giving up at this time. Also decided to shorten my online name.

Disappointments are to the soul what the thunderstorm is to the air

Thursday, June 12th, 2008 | Film, Personal | 5 Comments

I watched some films recently I had high hopes for but was really disappointed in. Which is always so much worse than when you watch films you expect to be bad just for fun. I’m Reed Fish: I can see what they were trying to do but it just so didn’t work. What a horrible mess this movie turned out to be. Atonement: Ok, it looked absolutely breathtaking. The acting was good too. But as a whole it didn’t do anything for me, I was just bored most of the times. There were scenes that really moved me but whatever came next ruined it for me. Especially to have that monologue after the final ‘twist’ was IMO a bad move. Evening: Great actresses & actors, basically a great story but as a whole it was boring me so much. Of course it’s not that interesting to have one HUGE secret and turn it all into huge drama - but to have the potential of something like that, start building it up and then to totally trivialize everything is such an equally lame way of doing it IMO.

Also, there are quite some things about my ‘new’ life that turned out to be rather anti-climactic… But I suppose it’s a good lesson in humility.

I’ve kept going and going and going for about a month now - doing a huge amount of things (mostly IRL) and household chores - so I’m very tired at the moment, esp. mentally. Yesterday, being absolute low point so far. Which, as luck would have it, was the day the in my mind so eagerly anticipated accidental meeting with a certain person finally happened… Apart from saying hi and the obligatory enquiry after our well being (which all in all took 30 seconds) nothing happened. Again, such an anti-climax.

There’s a whole lot of leaving going on

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008 | Personal | No Comments

My first day at work after my big move. I really need to get back into the habit of a regular day again. It’s only been the weekend plus the paid day of absence I got yesterday but still, it feels like an eternity. Anyway, all my stuff got moved and I’m more than halfway through sorting everything. There are still almost all my clothes, some of the kitchen stuff and my DVDs and CDs that need putting where they belong.

Another story is the old apartment. The people who do the renting are being more than complicated and want me to pay more rent than I think I owe. Working as I do in the same line of work I obviously know the law and want them to adhere to it. But it’s such a nerve racking issue I’m beginning to think it’d have been easier to just pay the rent a bit longer. Still, what do we have laws for if people just override them?!

I’m all hooked up with internet again so expect some catching-up-updates on my sites soon.