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Nov. 30th, 2005
This song terrifies me.
Nov. 30th, 2005 08:42 pmWe're doing fairy tales in my German class now. I mean, Märchen. I think this is helping me memorize vocabulary; I have most fairytales memorized and can fill in the blanks very easily, whereas it's very hard to keep track of what happens to Marion and her new boyfriend Michael and his girlfriend on the side, Silke. (Silke is hot, by the way.)
I like the names of the fairytale figures. Snow White is Schneewittchen ("little snow white"), Sleeping Beauty is Dornröschen ("thorn rose"), and Cinderella is Aschenputtel ("one who putters around in ash"). I like the fact that puttel means "one who putters." Just call me Bücherputtel. Also, the word for "dwarf" is Zwerg. I cannot tell you how much I love this word.
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foxywriter reviews the Director's Cut of "The Frighteners": "Speaking of [Dammers], there was a whole monologue to his "my body is a roadmap of pain!" scene (added in) that I found darkly funny, where he detailed his cult-y woes. We also find out (a minute before this, in another extra snippet) that he was a Manson family sex slave." OH FUCK YES. I want this for Christmas. Or Chanukah. Or whatever. (I also want "Rubin and Ed," "Fast Sofa," and "Bride of Re-Animator" on DVD. Just in case anybody is keeping track of this.)
Speaking of Jeff Combs, I finally got to see a few episodes of "Enterprise" with his Shran character. Awesome. I have to watch more. But...what the hell is Sam Beckett doing on a spaceship? I kept expecting Al to walk through the bridge and tell him it was time to go home. Actually, I wonder if it'd be worth it to write a Re-Animator/Quantum Leap crossover. Who would he leap into? Dan? A zombie? A ZOMBIE. No. I already have enough Re-A crossover ideas floating around. :cough Willard's zombie rats never got it done cough:
They showed the very last episode of "Quantum Leap" on the Sci-Fi channel last night. V. sad. And then they're showing the very first episode tonight...if I watch every night for about a year, I figure I ought to be able to watch every single episode in order. What a wonderful way to spend one's time.
j_crew_guy I am not going to be able to get even one of those Chanukah Askew stories done in time I am sorry. I only have three ideas anyway. I keep doing this, signing up for challenges and then biting off more than I can comfortably digest.
Have secured domicile for next year. I signed an apartment lease for Copper Beech apartments; I'm going to be living with Storm (hopefully), Sammi (Storm's friend), and some guy who's apparently nice. The apartment is spacious and messy and I will have my own bedroom. More importantly, they have a kitty-kitty-kitty-cat, and he is friendly and adorable and purrs and plays with sparkly things. And they allow rats. And my future roommates are given to smoking th' good stuff. Be prepared for some tasty and nutritious word salad starting September 2006.
My wonderful Science Fiction professor has allowed me to turn in a fanfiction for my assignment instead of an original story; I explained to her that I was having immense trouble getting the words down on paper (she agreed that she had noticed this during my test-taking), and that I was involved in several other creative projects at the same time (likespacematchbook which I am working on honest promise it's just taking a while). I'm going to turn in Time is a Wave and a Particle.
We're doing "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" in class, which I haven't read since 10th grade...my god, my god. I had nightmares. The tomb world, and kipple (gubbish)--taken from "Martian Time-Slip," which is hella scary. Androids. Electric ants. How do we know what reality is? How do we know we aren't all robots? We'd be programmed not to know, to see blood when we cut ourselves, to feel bone and skin and warmth instead of plastic and steel and cold. I used to be scared that I really was a robot. I suppose that it's not something you can prove or disprove, because the argument itself is based on lack of proof.
I'm afraid I rather monopolized the discussion in class, or I would have if Char hadn't distracted me by writing notes to me. I feel rather protective of poor Phil, you see. He is one of the few things I consider myself to be an expert on. After class, Matt mentioned that he'd had a friend who started to take "VALIS" very seriously, and thought he was the reincarnation of PKD for a while. "Well," I said, "it's understandable. Who hasn't thought they were the reincarnation of Philip K. Dick? We all have a little bit of Dick in us."
I like the names of the fairytale figures. Snow White is Schneewittchen ("little snow white"), Sleeping Beauty is Dornröschen ("thorn rose"), and Cinderella is Aschenputtel ("one who putters around in ash"). I like the fact that puttel means "one who putters." Just call me Bücherputtel. Also, the word for "dwarf" is Zwerg. I cannot tell you how much I love this word.
foxywriter reviews the Director's Cut of "The Frighteners": "Speaking of [Dammers], there was a whole monologue to his "my body is a roadmap of pain!" scene (added in) that I found darkly funny, where he detailed his cult-y woes. We also find out (a minute before this, in another extra snippet) that he was a Manson family sex slave." OH FUCK YES. I want this for Christmas. Or Chanukah. Or whatever. (I also want "Rubin and Ed," "Fast Sofa," and "Bride of Re-Animator" on DVD. Just in case anybody is keeping track of this.) Speaking of Jeff Combs, I finally got to see a few episodes of "Enterprise" with his Shran character. Awesome. I have to watch more. But...what the hell is Sam Beckett doing on a spaceship? I kept expecting Al to walk through the bridge and tell him it was time to go home. Actually, I wonder if it'd be worth it to write a Re-Animator/Quantum Leap crossover. Who would he leap into? Dan? A zombie? A ZOMBIE. No. I already have enough Re-A crossover ideas floating around. :cough Willard's zombie rats never got it done cough:
They showed the very last episode of "Quantum Leap" on the Sci-Fi channel last night. V. sad. And then they're showing the very first episode tonight...if I watch every night for about a year, I figure I ought to be able to watch every single episode in order. What a wonderful way to spend one's time.
j_crew_guy I am not going to be able to get even one of those Chanukah Askew stories done in time I am sorry. I only have three ideas anyway. I keep doing this, signing up for challenges and then biting off more than I can comfortably digest. Have secured domicile for next year. I signed an apartment lease for Copper Beech apartments; I'm going to be living with Storm (hopefully), Sammi (Storm's friend), and some guy who's apparently nice. The apartment is spacious and messy and I will have my own bedroom. More importantly, they have a kitty-kitty-kitty-cat, and he is friendly and adorable and purrs and plays with sparkly things. And they allow rats. And my future roommates are given to smoking th' good stuff. Be prepared for some tasty and nutritious word salad starting September 2006.
My wonderful Science Fiction professor has allowed me to turn in a fanfiction for my assignment instead of an original story; I explained to her that I was having immense trouble getting the words down on paper (she agreed that she had noticed this during my test-taking), and that I was involved in several other creative projects at the same time (like
spacematchbook which I am working on honest promise it's just taking a while). I'm going to turn in Time is a Wave and a Particle. We're doing "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" in class, which I haven't read since 10th grade...my god, my god. I had nightmares. The tomb world, and kipple (gubbish)--taken from "Martian Time-Slip," which is hella scary. Androids. Electric ants. How do we know what reality is? How do we know we aren't all robots? We'd be programmed not to know, to see blood when we cut ourselves, to feel bone and skin and warmth instead of plastic and steel and cold. I used to be scared that I really was a robot. I suppose that it's not something you can prove or disprove, because the argument itself is based on lack of proof.
I'm afraid I rather monopolized the discussion in class, or I would have if Char hadn't distracted me by writing notes to me. I feel rather protective of poor Phil, you see. He is one of the few things I consider myself to be an expert on. After class, Matt mentioned that he'd had a friend who started to take "VALIS" very seriously, and thought he was the reincarnation of PKD for a while. "Well," I said, "it's understandable. Who hasn't thought they were the reincarnation of Philip K. Dick? We all have a little bit of Dick in us."
