joy and shadows

Jury duty is boring! So, I'm doing a meme.

1. YOUR SPY NAME (middle name and current street name): Marie Lamington

2. YOUR MOVIE STAR NAME (grandfather/mother on your dad's side and your favourite candy): Julia Baby Ruth

3. YOUR RAP NAME (first initial of first name and first three or four letters of your last name): S. Qui

4. YOUR GAMER TAG (a favourite colour, a favourite animal): Blue Cat

5. YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME (middle name, and city you were born in): Marie Monmouth

6. YOUR STAR WARS NAME (first three letters of your last name, last three letters of mother's maiden name, first three letters of your pet's name): Qui Hug Nat

7. JEDI NAME (middle name spelled backwards, your mom's maiden name spelled backwards): Eiram Sehguh

8. PORN STAR NAME (first pet's name, the street you grew up on): Max Whitehall

9. SUPERHERO NAME ("The", your favourite colour and the automobile your dad drives): The Blue Avalon

10. YOUR ACTION HERO NAME (first name of the main character in the last film you watched, last food you ate): Eisenheim Kix

Husband: What goes "ring ring ring?"

Me: Bananaphone?

(Fake) Bleach Love Sim

All you Bleach fans need to watch this, right now.

It's not too often I get very excited about the prospect of movies coming out, but some of the movies in production have got me bouncing in my chair.

1. Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell

I was very excited to see that this movie is in production after poking around IMDB thanks fo the upcoming movie "The Prestige." On the surface, the plot of the upcoming movie "The Prestige" sounds a lot like Susanna Clarke's groundbreaking (and very very long) novel - two Victorian-era magicians in a rivalry trying to best one another. However, in Clarke's book, the magicians use magic rather than legerdemain. Wonderful metaphors to work with (the gentleman with the thistle-down hair, the unnamed slave, the raven king, and all of it dripping with Victorian intrigue and cobwebs) and in fact this book will probably benefit in the same way as Two Towers from being shortened.

2. His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass

The only problem with this trilogy being made is that it's going to break my heart at the end, the same way the books did. I'm going to cop out here and say that the summary on IMDB says it all.

3. The Dark is Rising

No word on how far along this is, or whether it's being made, but these were probably my favorite books growing up along with Robin McKinley's Damar books. There's been some inevitable grumbling on the website that the movie would start with Will Stanton's story and wouldn't cover the Drews' discovery of the grail, but to be frank, I never read "Over Sea, Under Stone" and never felt I lost anything out of the series. Oddly, the thing I'm most hoping to see is that someone like the Noble Collection will license props like Will's belt of the Signs of Light, and if they release the crystal sword Eirias, I think I will die of joy.

Can't wait, can't wait, can't wait. :D

Time for a drink.

Or several.

Cats in ur stuff doin things

Cute, cute, cute. :D

Last chance to bid on my stuff!

Arafel's Crap

September 11, 2001

I can't see New York
as I'm circling down
through white cloud
falling out
and
I know your lips
are warm
but I can't seem
to find my way
my way out
of your hunting ground

you again
It's you again
I can't see
I can't see
New York
from the other side
from the other side

--Tori Amos, I can't see New York

Greetings to ya, bonnie lads and lassies, I'm back from Scotland. Flight back was uneventful, but seven hours on an airplane is way more than enough. Very nice trip, though yesterday was a bit more squirrely. Yay for a two-day workweek!

Pictures and stories to follow.