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[bedlamsbard]

I am finally on the new computer, after spending, like, four or five hours manually moving the majority of my files over from my old laptop to this one and installing things I really need, like iTunes and Word. (You have no idea how much I need Word to survive. I have yet to find a word-processing program that I like as much as Word.) The only thing I haven't moved is my music, and that's because I'm going to try to download everything from my iPod to the new computer -- I know this is possible somehow. Somebody on my flist knows how, yes? Please? Because if not, then I get to dig through people's journals until I find the list of links someone posted awhile back -- and that could be anywhere from a few months to a few years.

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[scarletts-awry.livejournal.com]

Are you on a Mac or a PC?

The program I used a while back is iPodRip, and I liked it quite a bit. It's a Mac app, though. I can ask my brother what he'd use, if you like. (He's a PC person.)

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

I'm on a PC, unfortunately. (Brand new pretty red Dell!)

[mentalhygiene.livejournal.com]

Utterly unrelated to iPods, but Narnia-related:

Aslan Dances. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQeeRH21MNo)

From the outtakes to the BBC version -- the person has a couple of them. :)

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Heh. Back in the bad old days before CGI, I see. *grin*

[mentalhygiene.livejournal.com]

Hey now, I loved that BBC series.

And anyway, with CGIs, you don't get to do hilarious things with your puppet.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

I said nothing about the BBC series! Although I really remember nothing of it except -- I remember I watched it, but I don't remember watching it.

Let us raise the question though: old school Yoda or PT Yoda, which is better? *grin*

[mentalhygiene.livejournal.com]

I liked the LWW better than the Silver chair; but I was young when I watched it, and LWW had, of course, more lion. ;)

(also, random note in regards to your canon -- I vaguely remember reading "The Last Battle" right around the time we were doing classics/The Bible in English in HS, and it does share some very obvious parallels with the Biblical Armageddon story. It's much more clearly allegorical, as I remember, than the other ones.)

Hmm. See, I'm not sure -- because prequel Yoda is meant to be younger and more spry. The problem is, we're used to this tiny, grumpy, elderly being. We know *that* Yoda, *as* Yoda. I'm going to go with Frank Oz's version because at this point? I still feel like puppets are -- when they're done well -- easier to "believe" than CGI.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Argh, Aslan. I am kind of amused by the fact that, as I'm actually writing Narnia, Aslan has quickly become one of my least favorite characters. (Oh my God, I totally fail as a Narnia fan on multiple levels.)

(Last Battle makes me want to cry, and not in a good way -- I've been getting in arguments with Narnia fans over on Ravelry about it, so my various problems with it are reasonably fresh in my mind. I do not consider it canon, at least in the weird movie-book amalgam verse I'm writing in. Likewise with Magician's Nephew.)

I have the sense that OT Yoda has given up on everything, so that makes sense. So -- does this excuse Lucas for the Gungans in Ep. I? *grin*

[mentalhygiene.livejournal.com]

*lolz* I think you may be coming from a different track than a lot of Narnia fans, since you didn't grow up with a lot of the Christian concepts that Narnia is an allegory to.

The Magician's Nephew was ... interesting. I need to re-read these books again. At some point. I remember the donkey and the -- monkey, was it? in Last Battle.

Yeah. OT Yoda is all: fuck it. And "Ben, look what happened LAST TIME WE TRIED ONE WHO WAS TOO OLD."

Lucas has no excuse.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

*laughs* That's probably it -- that's what I've been blaming, anyway.

*facepalm* Ape, I believe. Shoot me. Destruction myth, destruction myth, destruction myth...

Yeah, his excuse is, "I will teach him everything except fighting. Because maybe that will help...and, look, he's still going off to help his friends at the risk of everything. WHAT HAVE I DONE WRONG?"

Good concept, bad execution.