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Too much to do

Monday, June 30th, 2008 | Sites | No Comments

Lately, I’ve not felt as motivated as I used to to work on my sites. I rather watched whole seasons of TV shows (Bones, Doctor Who) or some episodes (Psych). I think I’m back now. However, there’s so much work that needs to be done I often don’t know where to start…

Marion: Check new 2007 & 2008 event pics for duplicates and add them to the already sorted ones and then to the gallery. Add portraits to the gallery. Screencap some video clips & add the clips themselves to the video vault. Transcribe articles. Scan magazines from before 2007. Finish the projects section (add gallery previews for movies, add sections for TV, TV-series and theatre work).

Sophia: Cap 2 Moonlight episodes. Finish the long overdue extensive projects section. Add remaining affiliates to the script. Scan some old clippings.

Catalina: Add event pics. Cap a movie. Generally work more on the site!

Emily: I think it’s no longer a secret. Amanda and I are working on opening the site soon. I don’t want to finish it a 100 % before we open but there are some basic things that I want to get done. Otherwise I’ll just procrastinate more and more. I’m really proud of myself for having sorted 1,000+ event pictures for 4 hours without taking a break yesterday afternoon. Remove old tags from Television caps. Cap some interview, events etc clips. Sort Portraits. Resize HQ event pics and add them. Scan magazines. For the info part on the site I think for the time being we won’t work on an extensive projects section. However, this is something I really want to add to the site sometime.

??: Another site project of mine that I promised to work on in July. I should focus on capping projects, scanning my clippings and adding info for the projects section.

Hair Fashion in the 80ies

Monday, June 23rd, 2008 | Film, TV | 2 Comments

I watched the 1981 BBC adaptation of ‘Sense & Sensibility’. Quite horrible in some ways - esp. characters’ hair - but all in all not terribly bad. But the actress who played the supposedly spirited Marianne was really really bland. Anyway, I had to rewatch the 2008 adaptation right afterwards. This one is really close to perfect and I fell all over in love with it again.

PS: How can a film like Before it had a name be rated PG-13 while other films such as ‘Ghost World’ are rated R???!!

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.