| Please note I was ill and off work and had nothing to do. |
[Jul. 22nd, 2009|10:20 pm] |
So, it's been a week since I saw Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
It was positively hilarious, on many levels. I spent the majority of it stuffing items of clothing into my mouth in order to stifle the crazed laughter that threatened to choke me. Prathanshi and I had a very enjoyable time making inappropriate comments. So, without further ado, a step-by-step analysis of Harry Potter and the film that has very little to do with the Half-Blood Prince. It's about time I passed a brief comment on it. Uh...well, a comment anyway. This is less of a review and more of a commentary; I wrote it while streaming the film (though I didn't watch, I just skimmed through it to remind myself of the scenes). So it is very very very very long, and basically half of it is just detailing what each scene is about (though I missed ones I didn't feel like commenting on, at my whim) - so in large part it's more like a summary. Refresh your memories :P
[SPOILERS - obviously]
On the good side, there were lots of amusing moments (intentional and otherwise) which made the film memorable and enjoyable (though the ending kind of put a damper on it), and it's probably my most-liked Potter adaptation to date. Probably. Thank you and goodnight. |
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| Things to do after my deadlines are over. |
[May. 17th, 2009|04:08 am] |
1. Clean the flat every day.
2. Make cupcakes for everyone who has exams.
3. um...go see Star Trek, by myself probably.
4. Go to the Lowry. It's probably best I watch a play there though, apparently it's not that big. But the plays are expensive. So we'll see.
5. Do some sketching. If it's not raining.
6. Go swimming some.
7. Go to Matt and Phred's. Maybe also Frog and Bucket. On free nights.
8. Make cookies. |
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| Borrowed from Rosie. 40 (I think. I'm bad at counting). |
[Mar. 17th, 2009|07:08 pm] |
The BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?
Copy into a new note Put an X next to the ones you've read. Include the number you have read in the title and post to your journal.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen- X
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien X
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling X
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee - X
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell - X
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman - X
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott X
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier - X
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien - X
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger X
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger X
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 Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams - X
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky -
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck -
29 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll – X
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame - X
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens -
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis X
34 Emma - Jane Austen - X
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis X
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini X
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden X
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne - X
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell - X
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown- X
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - 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- X
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding X
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan - X
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel X
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth X
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 – X
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 X
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas X
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 - X
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker - X
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett - X
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson - X
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Inferno - Dante
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
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 X
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom X
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton X
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery - X
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams - X
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 – X
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo. |
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| neverland |
[Apr. 15th, 2006|05:26 pm] |
For the writers on my flist, I figured some of you may like the Never Ending Story so I'm linking it here. For those who haven't heard of it, it's a book-building website which lets users read and add to stories started by personalities including Simon Woodroffe (formerly from the BBC's Dragons Den programme?)... It's designed to encourage users from around the world to add to it daily to create full length original books, which eventually get published. It was launched only a few weeks ago and I don't think it got the media attention it deserves. Get joining :P |
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[Oct. 27th, 2005|09:24 pm] |
Why did the mushroom go to the party?
Because he was a fungi.
Two peanuts walked into a bar. One was assaulted.
What's orange and sounds like a parrot?
A carrot.
Hehe, these were funny. |
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| tea! |
[Jul. 8th, 2005|11:06 am] |
Tea Dammit!
This made me smile. Heh.
Thanks to ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) carentan for directing me to it =)
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so did this - for the hp fangirls :P (or boys, whatever) |
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| ok |
[Oct. 29th, 2004|11:59 pm] |
www.miketheheadlesschicken.org
there was a headless chicken. it lived for two years. without it's head. |
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