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Jan. 28th, 2005 07:18 pm. . . Has anyone else noticed that lately my mood when posting always seems to be Calm? O__o;;
Wow. I finished Wuthering Heights a couple of days ago. I can't believe I plowed through it all that fast. And I really liked it! ^___^! I know I saw a movie that was made of it recently, but I barely remember anything of that film. XD; And Mom had said that things were changed from the book. That's one book where I think it would be a big crime to change anything. Usually I don't care if the movies change things, like in LOTR. I think the changes made there were necessary (save for the altering of Shelob's Lair!) and made the story better. But one movie I've never liked is Disney's version of Pollyanna. They changed so much from the book, which I loved as a child, that it wasn't even funny. And recently I saw the movie they did of White Fang. It paled in comparison to even the abridged version of the book I'd read! I know Disney is notorious for drastically changing things, but generally I don't care because the movies are my first introductions to the stories and they're what I'm used to. Though, sometimes when I've read the books first, I still prefer the movies. LOTR is a good example of that.
I also finished Jekyll and Hyde. Of course it's a disturbing and creepy story, like Mom says, but I think it's also very important and has some good lessons to be learned. I don't think something has to have a happy ending in order to be of worth. That's why I enjoy Cowboy Bebop, because of the way it always make you think. And of course, since Jekyll and Hyde reminds me of Marik and his Yami, it's especially fascinating to me. Marik's story is much happier in the end, though. ^^; **cuddles him.**
Yesterday Dad agreed to take me out since he needed to pay the water bill uptown. We went to Smith's Marketplace (Fred Meyer) to get some groceries and I found that they had The Phantom of the Opera book cheaper than Borders had it, so I bought it there. I'm on chapter four now. My favorite parts so far are when Raoul bursts into the room yelling for the person to come out and then he finds the room is empty. XD; "Am I going mad?!" And then I love where the Phantom actually invites himself to the dinner when the new managers are being celebrated. That was great.
The other day Aubrie sent me the song Something the Boy Said by Sting. That thing is freakin weird. XD; And I went to sleep with the lyrics going through my mind, so much so that when I was in a state of being between sleep and awakeness, I crafted a morbid scenario where Raphael is wandering through the aftermath of a battle and finds Valon and Alister both among the dead. That became the first part of a one-shot I wrote all in one day. The second half deals with reality and Alister and Valon returning from being involved in a bad fight. Raphael listens to the details of what happened to them while he treats their wounds. The pattern for that fic is the same, more or less, as something I did with the Ishtars called Fragile, which is coincidentally, another Sting song. I've discovered that if I get the overwhelming urge to write deathfics, the death part has to be a dream. XD; Except for I Miss You, which I ended up posting at FF.net anyway. But it's pretty ambiguous, and I never actually said that they'd recovered the body, so maybe there hasn't really been a death. Heh. . . . If there's no body, they can't prove the person's really dead!
I'm finally working on Neptune's Wrath again. I decided to let the bikers enter the story. XD; That might be the only way I'll be able to finish the durn thing.
I've watched the third and second Star Trek movies, in that order. XD; My dad's been a casual Trekkie for years and I remember sometimes watching The Next Generation version with him when the local Fox station showed it nightly at ten. Sometimes he watches the movies and when ABC showed the sixth movie a while ago, I watched that too. I've never seen the original Star Trek series, but I've become familiar with and fond of the original characters through the movies. I loved all the friendship cuteness in the second and third movies! ^___^! It was like, SQUEAL. XD And I love in the third movie when the doctor guy says that he missed Spock and that he doesn't know if he can stand to lose him again. When I heard them argue in the second movie, it reminded me of Valon and Alister's friendship. XD;
And GAH! I couldn't remember the name of the captain on The Next Generation for the longest time and I've been sitting puzzling over what it is. It just came to me now. XD;
Wow. I finished Wuthering Heights a couple of days ago. I can't believe I plowed through it all that fast. And I really liked it! ^___^! I know I saw a movie that was made of it recently, but I barely remember anything of that film. XD; And Mom had said that things were changed from the book. That's one book where I think it would be a big crime to change anything. Usually I don't care if the movies change things, like in LOTR. I think the changes made there were necessary (save for the altering of Shelob's Lair!) and made the story better. But one movie I've never liked is Disney's version of Pollyanna. They changed so much from the book, which I loved as a child, that it wasn't even funny. And recently I saw the movie they did of White Fang. It paled in comparison to even the abridged version of the book I'd read! I know Disney is notorious for drastically changing things, but generally I don't care because the movies are my first introductions to the stories and they're what I'm used to. Though, sometimes when I've read the books first, I still prefer the movies. LOTR is a good example of that.
I also finished Jekyll and Hyde. Of course it's a disturbing and creepy story, like Mom says, but I think it's also very important and has some good lessons to be learned. I don't think something has to have a happy ending in order to be of worth. That's why I enjoy Cowboy Bebop, because of the way it always make you think. And of course, since Jekyll and Hyde reminds me of Marik and his Yami, it's especially fascinating to me. Marik's story is much happier in the end, though. ^^; **cuddles him.**
Yesterday Dad agreed to take me out since he needed to pay the water bill uptown. We went to Smith's Marketplace (Fred Meyer) to get some groceries and I found that they had The Phantom of the Opera book cheaper than Borders had it, so I bought it there. I'm on chapter four now. My favorite parts so far are when Raoul bursts into the room yelling for the person to come out and then he finds the room is empty. XD; "Am I going mad?!" And then I love where the Phantom actually invites himself to the dinner when the new managers are being celebrated. That was great.
The other day Aubrie sent me the song Something the Boy Said by Sting. That thing is freakin weird. XD; And I went to sleep with the lyrics going through my mind, so much so that when I was in a state of being between sleep and awakeness, I crafted a morbid scenario where Raphael is wandering through the aftermath of a battle and finds Valon and Alister both among the dead. That became the first part of a one-shot I wrote all in one day. The second half deals with reality and Alister and Valon returning from being involved in a bad fight. Raphael listens to the details of what happened to them while he treats their wounds. The pattern for that fic is the same, more or less, as something I did with the Ishtars called Fragile, which is coincidentally, another Sting song. I've discovered that if I get the overwhelming urge to write deathfics, the death part has to be a dream. XD; Except for I Miss You, which I ended up posting at FF.net anyway. But it's pretty ambiguous, and I never actually said that they'd recovered the body, so maybe there hasn't really been a death. Heh. . . . If there's no body, they can't prove the person's really dead!
I'm finally working on Neptune's Wrath again. I decided to let the bikers enter the story. XD; That might be the only way I'll be able to finish the durn thing.
I've watched the third and second Star Trek movies, in that order. XD; My dad's been a casual Trekkie for years and I remember sometimes watching The Next Generation version with him when the local Fox station showed it nightly at ten. Sometimes he watches the movies and when ABC showed the sixth movie a while ago, I watched that too. I've never seen the original Star Trek series, but I've become familiar with and fond of the original characters through the movies. I loved all the friendship cuteness in the second and third movies! ^___^! It was like, SQUEAL. XD And I love in the third movie when the doctor guy says that he missed Spock and that he doesn't know if he can stand to lose him again. When I heard them argue in the second movie, it reminded me of Valon and Alister's friendship. XD;
And GAH! I couldn't remember the name of the captain on The Next Generation for the longest time and I've been sitting puzzling over what it is. It just came to me now. XD;
