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Writer's Block: Name your talent

  • Nov. 15th, 2009 at 7:10 PM
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If you could have one extraordinary talent, what would you choose and why?

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One? Why not 7?

Under the cut )

mood music

  • Oct. 2nd, 2009 at 12:31 PM
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Me knows Scandinavian bands too.

Sentenced: Karu+End of the Road, because I've always listened to them in a row. (That's how it happens when you listen to a tape and not mp3 player/CD - the order stays with you as well)

 


 

 

Writer's Block: It Is What It Is

  • Aug. 27th, 2009 at 12:42 PM
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What oft-repeated quote or common cliché do you find the most annoying when someone says it to you?


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"Let's agree to disagree"
:)

book meme

  • Aug. 25th, 2009 at 10:33 AM
mulder-pensive


I wasn't intending to do it, but after[info]sscourtney lost unreturnable nerve cells (if such a thing even exist *g*) to post it , and

[info]de1iriumgirly kindly asked me, I thought I could be nicer myself :)

Bold what you've read, underline those that you liked,
make itallic those you have partly read, put a ◘ for those you've seen the movie.

 

 1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen ◘
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien ◘ 
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte ◘
4. Harry Potter series- JK Rowling
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Bible
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (liked, but partly:)) ◘
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott ◘
12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare 
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19. The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald ◘
23. Bleak House- Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy- Douglas Adams ◘
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment- Fyodor Dostoyevsky (but should soon if I want to take my exam)
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (I was a kid so I don't think I appreciated it)
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina- Leo Tolstoy (but should if I want to take my exam :D)
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens (short edition)
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis (haven't seen the movie even)
34. Emma - Jane Austen (but I will!) ◘
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres ◘ (and judging by the movie I WON't read it :))
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden 
40. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan ◘
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52. Dune - Frank Herbert ◘
53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck ◘
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding ◘
69. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker ◘
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses - James Joyce
76. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78. Germinal - Emile Zola
79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80. Possession - AS Byatt
81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens ◘( Disney's movie I mean)
82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro ◘
85. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87. Charlotte's Web - EB White ◘ (one pretty heartwrenching cartoon)
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Alborn
89.Adventures of Sherlock House - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad ◘ ♥
92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94. Watership Down - Richard Adams
95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas ◘
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Note: from those I have and you haven't read I feel obliged to recommend Dune. It's just a very unique book, of those that create own world and style and really worths a look, 'couse there's nothing like it. Plotwise is a little bit like Star Trek  :)

And read Grapes of Wrath too! Its last page is one of the sweetest endings ever.

Crossover

  • Aug. 19th, 2009 at 5:01 PM
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Awwww, that was why YT was created! 
 
Mulder and Scully + Amber Volakis singing + Under My Skin's teaser = one perfect minute:


(And it's nice sooner or later to discover some little cool things about Season 5 :P. I haven't paid attention to the artistry of this teaser at all. And she's such a good singer ;))

Writer's Block: I May Be Crazy

  • Aug. 7th, 2009 at 8:33 AM
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What does this Rorschach blot look like to you?


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A kuker.



Wiki: Kukeri is a traditional Bulgarian ritual to scare away evil spirits, with costumed men performing the ritual. The costumes cover most of the body and includes decorated wooden masks of animals (sometimes double-faced) and large bells attached to the belt.

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Star Trek personality test

  • Aug. 2nd, 2009 at 12:42 AM
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Wherever one wanders in internet, meets something Star Trek-connected. (was it like that before the movie? Guess not :)) So even I will make a trekkie post :) 

My results:
You are Deanna Troi
Deanna Troi
65%
Spock
57%
Chekov
50%
An Expendable Character (Redshirt)
50%
Beverly Crusher
45%
Data
45%
Geordi LaForge
45%
Jean-Luc Picard
40%
Leonard McCoy (Bones)
35%
Mr. Scott
25%
Uhura
25%
James T. Kirk (Captain)
20%
Mr. Sulu
15%
Will Riker
15%
Worf
10%
You are a caring and loving individual.
You understand people's emotions and
you are able to comfort and counsel them.


Click here to take the Star Trek Personality Test


Ugh, I turned out to be an unknown female :/ :)
 
But at least Spock is short behind! :) Though I'm not sure why. (I answered on so many questions that I love disregarding the rules, and yet I'm so less of a Kirk *raises eyebrows* Maybe because I answered on a lot more that I don't often date beautiful women :D). And I'm 50% "an expendable character"! LOL. I'm wondering what would have been the description if this had the highest percentage. Maybe "You are a person who-just-doesn't-worth to live"? Or maybe they are heroes, more self-sacrificing than others? :) I've always dreamed about being such *g* (well, without the dying part, mainly the glory:))

But there was a question whether I have lived in a closet for 10 years XD (what?!), and another if I master sward-fighting skills XD, so I guess the test is not much to be trusted!

Favorite French thing

  • Jul. 14th, 2009 at 6:28 PM
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Happy Bastille Day! Today the French celebrate the event that sparked the French revolution. In honor of our Francophone friends, what is your favorite French thing? Bonus points for answers en français.


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My favorite French thing is the book Without Family (/Nobody's Boy) by Hector Malot. This is how a Bulgarian edition looks like:

It was my first favorite book. I think I first read it when I was 8 and after I closed it I promised that every week I was going to clean the dust off its covers. :D And also, I was so touched by the ending and everything that I kissed it (the book). :D

Well, I don't think I ever cleaned the dust, but the kissing became a ritual of mine. I still have this habit after I finish a book to give it a little kiss on the front cover. This is like a "thank you", and "goodbye" and I do it as tenderly as the book was good. Of course, if I don't like the book, it does not deserve a kiss, but I don't remember such a case. (I just don't finish books which I don't like...and the ones that I read to the end - there is always at least a little something to like about in them, and I imagine they would feel sad if they don't get a kiss :P ;)). But the French book about Remi and Vitalis started the whole thing.:P

bonus: House video in French )

Two horror videos

  • Jul. 5th, 2009 at 12:42 AM
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Maybe you've seen this. It's the only one House video of this genre I've seen :D And lol, Wilson's part is so profound, isn't it:


And what would happen with House if he was a strawberry :D:

Who do you sympathise with - the kid, the strawberry, noone or both?

June pics

  • Jul. 3rd, 2009 at 1:07 PM
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Like Friday is for many people the favourite day of the week because of the weekend ahead, I think so is June a cool month because of the feeling of summer future. And later on in August if the heat is unbearable and the crickets almost melancholic, in June everything is brand-new and exciting.

All the rest... )