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Jaguar ([personal profile] kittydesade) wrote2011-07-27 04:49 pm
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1. David hat viele Fragen, weil er in Deutschland studieren möchte.
2. Er studiert vielleicht vier Semester dort, wenn die Uni nicht zu teuer ist.
3. Nicole sagt, dass es nichts kostet.
4. Dann studiert er, wenn er einen Studentenjob finden kann.
5. Nicole sagt, dass es gibt leider wenige Studentenjobs.

... I don't have enough time really to complete this writing assignment. Although if I get through my work emails I might do. Hm.


Oh science, why are you so weird. No, seriously, a glow in the dark dog? I think this article would have made a lot more sense to me if they'd tied in the glowing with the Alzheimer's/Parkinson's treatment potential. But they didn't. They just gave me a glowing beagle.

Closing tabs. Also have finally been dicking around with customizing the layout for my DW journal, since the latest round of DDoS attacks on LJ has prompted another round of people going 'fuck this, I'm moving to DW.' Yay? Yay ish! And offering to help monitor for responses and whatevers dealing with the slowness of DW ended up getting me possibly recruited to write FAQs and Guides and things for DW. I have no idea how I get myself into these things, I swear. No, wait, I know. It looks shiny. And then I go "oh yeah, I could totes do that." And then I go, "crap, what did I get myself into." BUT, even with allowing for that, actually, working on some non-fiction/copy editing/copy writing should be very good mental floss for between scenes in the evening, so I'm not trying to do an additional twenty things at once.

I swear I had something else to talk about here. I could froth over the current state of US politics, which is basically everyone whining and screaming at each other about how they can't have their way and no one actually thinking about the increasingly mob-like population of most of the rest of the country who are suffering because of it. But I don't want to froth. I want to be cheerful. Bele Chere is coming soon, I can't decide if I want to work it or if I want to take a freaking day off. I think I will end up coming in, if for no other reason than I can always use the extra money before Dragon*Con.

Oh! The other thing. I want to take this as a challenge, but I'm not sure how. Help? Thoughts? Anyone? Admittedly, I have almost everything for the next several fic challenges lined up. Most of my SFBB/NovelBB/Original BB is done, none of which qualifies, I'm doing Black Ice collection for Nano, and while I could try doing another fantasy novel for it, I don't know what world I'd set it in or if I would just have to make up a new one in September. Oh, and Horror Big Bang, which I signed up for ages ago and at some point I need to input those dates, is already half written too. And also does not involve fantasy. So, thoughts? Or would anyone else like to take up the challenge for me?
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[personal profile] synecdochic 2011-07-27 09:29 pm (UTC)(link)
(ps: this is [staff profile] denise under my "personal" account; you seem awesome, so i am adding you. *g*)
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[personal profile] clockwork_girl 2011-07-27 11:54 pm (UTC)(link)
It's a bit like how dwarves - save for the ones in the Dragon Age games, which seem to have American accents - all seem to have Scottish accents for no other reason than that just seems to be the done thing.

(P.S. this is Sash's mun from LJ. *waves*)
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[personal profile] clockwork_girl 2011-07-28 12:00 am (UTC)(link)
I wouldn't be all that surprised. Lord of the Rings left quite a mark, I think.

Ditto for me, alas. It always works just long enough to get our hopes up and then conks out.
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[personal profile] clockwork_girl 2011-07-28 12:13 am (UTC)(link)
I'm a massive fan of both the books and the movies. Looking forward to see what happens with The Hobbit. Guillermo del Toro was directing at some point, but now I think it's back in Peter Jackson's hands?

Anyway, Martin Freeman certainly looks the part.

Probably because we all get so upset. Isn't that why most hackers do things? That and to make some sort of statement.
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[personal profile] clockwork_girl 2011-07-28 01:02 am (UTC)(link)
I think that given the length and detail in the story, it would be difficult to do it total justice - at least not without running the risk of making each film about six hours long. Probably more.

I suppose it's too much to hope for them to either get over it, or for LJ to finally figure out how to stop/block them.

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[personal profile] clockwork_girl 2011-07-28 01:36 am (UTC)(link)
One of the great things about film, really. Being able to work in pictures rather than words, though you get those really fantastic writers that sort of tie the two together.

Well, they've managed to get a reaction. Whether or not it's the one they wanted remains to be seen I suppose.
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[personal profile] clockwork_girl 2011-07-28 02:11 am (UTC)(link)
Definitely both.

Film crews are made up of triangles: director, cinematographer and editor; director, cinematographer and production designer being the two main ones. The idea being that if they're in constant communication then the film should succeed, at least from a technical point of view.

The last one wasn't really that long ago. It was, what, April-ish?

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[personal profile] clockwork_girl 2011-07-28 07:54 pm (UTC)(link)
I only really know this because I went to film school, which sounds a lot more fun than it actually was. At least after the first year.

Crappy action movies indeed have their own rules. Sometimes you just want to go see something with lots of explosions, yanno? Which is one of the ways I've justified seeing all three Transformers movies.
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[personal profile] clockwork_girl 2011-07-28 10:05 pm (UTC)(link)
That and the practical stuff depends largely on everyone knowing what everyone else is doing, so if someone drops the ball it tends to snowball very quickly.

Also, directors - or maybe it's just student directors - are douchebags.

Epic giant robots! Zombie elves from space!

...actually that last one could be really interesting. But I digress.

I don't mind Shia so much. Not much of a Megan Fox fan - is it just me or does the woman put out the most epic bitch vibes? - though. In fact, most female characters in those sort of movies tend to be terribly flat, personality-wise. Which is unfortunate.
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[personal profile] clockwork_girl 2011-07-28 11:00 pm (UTC)(link)
More frustrating than anything else. But fun too, especially when you got in with a good group of people.

You must! You must simply because something like that needs to exist.

I suppose it didn't bother me so much because usually the guys in those sorts of movies are portrayed as being these über competent, unshakable in the face of danger and the unknown types and, sure, they have their place in the world just like everyone else but it's nice to occasionally see someone that would react more like, say, me in that sort of situation. I mean, giant robots from space? That is both awesome and terrifying.

I loved Sucker Punch! Visually, it was epic. Then there's the fact that the girls were both badass and yet vulnerable/flawed. Relatable and sympathetic.

...though the first time I saw it my reaction was mostly along the lines of: OMG so pretty! *Homer Simpson!face*
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[personal profile] clockwork_girl 2011-07-28 11:39 pm (UTC)(link)
I can definitely understand that. Flying by your pants is all well and good but it's...comforting? Knowing that there is some kind of overall plan, at least.

James McAvoy also did a pretty good job of it in Wanted.

You are, unfortunately, probably right about the giant robots thing.

I definitely wouldn't mind seeing more movies like it - Sucker Punch, I mean. I also liked how the whole three separate realities things - something that could get very confusing very quickly - just worked.

...I kind of want a giant stone samurai now.
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[personal profile] clockwork_girl 2011-07-29 02:15 am (UTC)(link)
It seems to happen a lot with TV shows. One of the things I really liked about Supernatural was how they'd planned out the whole arc.

It's a fun movie, I thought. Good cast. Nice music. It was directed by the same guy that did the Night Watch films, I believe, so it had a nice gritty feel.

I like movies that make me think. It's one of the reasons I really liked Tron: Legacy - I wasn't actually going to see it at all at first but then I did and, well... the rest, as they say, is history.
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[personal profile] clockwork_girl 2011-07-29 02:28 am (UTC)(link)
I like how season five ended. I thought it fit well with the overall tone of the show; bittersweet but then I don't think a truly happy ending was ever really on the cards for the boys. It just didn't seem realistic.

Season six - I decided to look at it mostly out of curiosity's sake - is okay in pieces, I guess. However, there really isn't much more you can do after you avert the apocalypse so it seems rather...redundant. But there's Crowley, which is nice. Crowley almost makes it worth it.

I wasn't even aware that they were making a third movie! Which reminds me, I really need to read the last book.

My little brother had been having a rough time so I offered to take him out to cheer him up. He wanted to see Tron. So we saw it.

...I then saw it again a week later with my best friend.
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[personal profile] clockwork_girl 2011-07-29 02:41 am (UTC)(link)
The "Eve" storyline had a lot of potential. I haven't seen all of season six yet - I think I might just sit through it just because I hate to leave things hanging - but I have heard some horror stories. I also don't think I'll be buying the DVD box set.

I saw the first movie. Thought: "Ah, this is interesting" and then went looking for the books. Funny how many books I've wound up reading because of that.

It was a bit of a dark horse, wasn't it?
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[personal profile] clockwork_girl 2011-07-29 11:29 am (UTC)(link)
Again, it might have worked better if they'd found a way to incorporate the Eve idea into the fourth/fifth season, as a sort of: "Oh dear, the wheels have really come off and shit is about to go down" thing rather than trying to make it stand on it's own. They could have then substituted Lilith for Eve. It would've certainly worked a lot better, given how Lilith is, canonically, the mother of demons/beasts, if I remember correctly. At least in my humble opinion.

They didn't seem especially fond of female characters on the show, no. They either pop up for an episode or so only to disappear into the aether afterwards, or they're killed off brutally. Which is unfortunate. I was rather fond of a couple of them.

I certainly wouldn't mind seeing more of them. Movies like X-Men and Transformers are fun and all but sometimes it's nice to be caught off guard. If only to stir things up a bit.
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[personal profile] clockwork_girl 2011-07-29 01:09 pm (UTC)(link)
To be honest, I hadn't really given much thought to where they'd come from aside from the occasional pause to consider just how shapeshifters came about. Because - and again, it's been a while since I saw season...1, I think it was, or possibly it was one of the shapeshifter episodes where they sort of alluded to the fact that a shapeshifter could have at least one human parent - they weren't the generic horror movie monster and most of them seemed, well...sort of tragic in a way. And batshit, but that more or less made sense.

Now that's just utterly ridiculous. Fandom, much as I love it, is something that really shouldn't be indulged if it can be avoided. Oh, there are some lovely ideas that pop up from time to time but considering the sort of stuff that seems to happen - usually in dark corners that most people with any inkling of sense avoid like the plague - it's probably best not to really take the risk. It's just not worth it.

I found Lisa an odd choice for Dean's "the one". I get that they were trying to give him a family and everything - a part of me still wonders if Ben mightn't have actually been his - but it did seem a bit contrived.

I suppose you run that risk when you get on, particularly if there's no longer a plan. Things also tend to get a bit random at times, and unfortunately no amount of Mark Sheppard can really fix that.

I'm sure they will. Although I've often found that the ones that are the most fun to pick apart often don't really intend to be. Or maybe that's just me.
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[personal profile] clockwork_girl 2011-08-01 01:22 pm (UTC)(link)
I think they keep pretty much to their mythology, though they do introduce some new monsters - some of them I'd have actually liked to have seen earlier like dragons.

I'm sure they did something similar in Heroes at some point. In fact, both shows seem to have suffered from a similar problem, which is that they ...went off the plan, I guess. Although Supernatural at least had a plan to begin with!

I think that they could have found some sort of way to make it work, Dean's love interest thing I mean. If nothing else I would have bought him meeting someone else and settling down with them more than I bought the Lisa thing. Really, I just didn't feel it.

It's a delicate balance, it seems. You want a story that gives you enough wiggle room without there being massive plot holes, which just ruin the story!
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[personal profile] clockwork_girl 2011-08-02 09:46 pm (UTC)(link)
It always makes me sad when a story with such potential goes to waste. Or, in this case, is fucked up to the point of being nearly unrecognizable.
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[personal profile] kikibug13 2011-07-28 12:30 am (UTC)(link)
*giggles* Tolkien, CSLewis, and the part where most fantasy is theoretically set in a version of... the middle ages, ish, and the non-British English-speaking countries just didn't exist back then. And you can't have a movie/series made by US/UK/Canada/Australia and... in a different, middle-ages applicable language. And I'm back to Bujold with her Sharing Knife series which is set in an alternative 'verse of the midwest. Imagining THOSE books in a Brit accent does not compute.

Also, we do have witches bb.
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[personal profile] kikibug13 2011-07-28 08:53 am (UTC)(link)
Oohhh ... mmm magic realism. :D Now I want to get faster through Pratchett and get to Allende and Marquez >.>

That is a good question. If I get a different idea, I actually may do a double - 10K in the triptich, and whatever happens separately. (Wut.)
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[personal profile] kikibug13 2011-07-28 11:01 am (UTC)(link)
Yeaaaaah. And I hope to get back into the frelling writing groove. ANY TIME WOULD BE GOOD, SELF. Ahem.

:)