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Mar. 23rd, 2013 11:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bedlamsbardSo today I had to reconstruct my iTunes library -- well, not entirely from scratch; the backup from my external hard drive was from September, but the rest of it was scattered in various places around my computer and this time I wasn't smart enough to do the brute force thing and pull it all off my iPod the way I've done in the past. So that was fun.
Also it snowed, so I spent most of the day sulking and swearing and doing laundry instead of going into town to check out the Asian Food Festival at the Market. And trying to figure out what's different about iTunes 11 (since in the attempt I ended up uninstalling and reinstalling iTunes, so goodbye, old iTunes) and if it's something I actually use. I just found something I do normally use missing, so that's fun.
Flatmate A had friends over today camped out in the kitchen/common room for the entire afternoon and most of the evening, so there went my plans to cook -- what I had planned would have ended up taking a couple of hours, and I don't like cooking as a performance art even when it's quick. So that happened.
On the bright side, one of my flatmates who isn't English Flatmate N or me actually took the trash out. On the less than bright side, she also left noodles all over the floor and water all over the counter. (Water all over the counter and the floor is a daily occurrence in my flat. I am frankly surprised that no one has been electrocuted yet, since the electric kettle and the power cords for kettle and the toaster are almost constantly in puddles of water.)
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I appear to have started watching Spooks -- from the top, so I am pretty much constantly in amusement of the 2002 cell phones and the fact that when copying information from computers, it is copied onto a CD. A CD! I can't even remember the last time I saw a CD in television or a movie -- well, I think there were mix CDs in an episode of Elementary, but we never saw the actual CDs, just the cases.
I considered just starting with the Rowrmitage episodes, but I like to watch things from the top whenever possible, so from the top it was. So far it is delightful, aside from the frankly horrifying death in 1.02. It's always interesting to see how British TV does it differently than American TV in a familiar genre, although spy shows aren't actually my television drug of choice and to be fair, I don't think I've seen the American equivalents. (What would those be? 24 and Alias? IDK. I watched Strike Back a while back, and that definitely had a parallel in The Unit, but Spooks doesn't appear to be going that route.)
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Currently having an urge to reread reasonably derivative high fantasy, which doesn't work out so well, since my copies of Dragonlance are in another country and the local library doesn't have them. My frustration is vast. This means I am eyeing other highfantasy in bookstores, which won't end well. (Feel free to rec me high fantasy, by the way. Uh, my definition of high fantasy mostly involves what I think of as the trappings of the genre; my favorite high fantasy trilogy is Mercedes Lackey & James Mallory's Obsidian Mountain trilogy. No, I don't have my copies of that here either, sigh.)
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No rec set tonight, because I'm tired and don't have the energy to roll the dice. Chasing down the original links can either be a very fast process or a very slow one, depending on factors outside my control, and occasional heartbreak and/or horror is an occupational hazard. Just not up for it tonight.
(I guess if I ever really want to do a rec set but also really don't want to hunt down links, I will just do a "art I have had open on my browser for the past month" set, though most of that has already been recced.)
Also it snowed, so I spent most of the day sulking and swearing and doing laundry instead of going into town to check out the Asian Food Festival at the Market. And trying to figure out what's different about iTunes 11 (since in the attempt I ended up uninstalling and reinstalling iTunes, so goodbye, old iTunes) and if it's something I actually use. I just found something I do normally use missing, so that's fun.
Flatmate A had friends over today camped out in the kitchen/common room for the entire afternoon and most of the evening, so there went my plans to cook -- what I had planned would have ended up taking a couple of hours, and I don't like cooking as a performance art even when it's quick. So that happened.
On the bright side, one of my flatmates who isn't English Flatmate N or me actually took the trash out. On the less than bright side, she also left noodles all over the floor and water all over the counter. (Water all over the counter and the floor is a daily occurrence in my flat. I am frankly surprised that no one has been electrocuted yet, since the electric kettle and the power cords for kettle and the toaster are almost constantly in puddles of water.)
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I appear to have started watching Spooks -- from the top, so I am pretty much constantly in amusement of the 2002 cell phones and the fact that when copying information from computers, it is copied onto a CD. A CD! I can't even remember the last time I saw a CD in television or a movie -- well, I think there were mix CDs in an episode of Elementary, but we never saw the actual CDs, just the cases.
I considered just starting with the Rowrmitage episodes, but I like to watch things from the top whenever possible, so from the top it was. So far it is delightful, aside from the frankly horrifying death in 1.02. It's always interesting to see how British TV does it differently than American TV in a familiar genre, although spy shows aren't actually my television drug of choice and to be fair, I don't think I've seen the American equivalents. (What would those be? 24 and Alias? IDK. I watched Strike Back a while back, and that definitely had a parallel in The Unit, but Spooks doesn't appear to be going that route.)
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Currently having an urge to reread reasonably derivative high fantasy, which doesn't work out so well, since my copies of Dragonlance are in another country and the local library doesn't have them. My frustration is vast. This means I am eyeing other highfantasy in bookstores, which won't end well. (Feel free to rec me high fantasy, by the way. Uh, my definition of high fantasy mostly involves what I think of as the trappings of the genre; my favorite high fantasy trilogy is Mercedes Lackey & James Mallory's Obsidian Mountain trilogy. No, I don't have my copies of that here either, sigh.)
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No rec set tonight, because I'm tired and don't have the energy to roll the dice. Chasing down the original links can either be a very fast process or a very slow one, depending on factors outside my control, and occasional heartbreak and/or horror is an occupational hazard. Just not up for it tonight.
(I guess if I ever really want to do a rec set but also really don't want to hunt down links, I will just do a "art I have had open on my browser for the past month" set, though most of that has already been recced.)
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Date: 2013-03-24 02:49 am (UTC)[spoiler]
Most of them leave/die? I mean it's a really long series, but I'm used to characters staying more or less the same, not for the entire beginning crew to get replaced. :|
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And it's very realistic and gritty, which I'm not really looking for at the time (ie now). I do like British serieses, they have a different feel. but I'm not up for the action-killing of the Intrepid Hero of American serieses, and I'm not up for the Realistic Everyone Is Actually Not Good thing of British Series either.:|
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Date: 2013-03-24 01:03 pm (UTC)(The benefit of watching a lot of British TV when I'm in the country is that I'm not shocked every time I walk outside and people have, gasp, English accents. I wish I was joking. *facepalm*)
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Date: 2013-03-24 01:06 pm (UTC)Hahahaha.
And if you're staying somewhere not in London proper, you'd end up hearing the non-usual London Generic Accent(s). :D
Yeah British TV is more willing to take risks that American isn't, though I think they are conservative in their own way (the deaths seem to be of the women, and black characters. :|)
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Date: 2013-03-25 02:02 am (UTC)Dysfunction up the WAZOO, somehow I was more impressed with the very human, very visceral people in there then the fact that they were GODS BEING DYSFUNCTIONAL.
In Chalion et al it seems like the gods are more distant, and less interactive with each other (and less physically manifest) so they seem more omnipotent, compared to the inheritance trilogy which really has Gods walking amongst people and looking damned pissed about it too.
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