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Books Memes and Movies
Oct. 6th, 2007 01:36 pmLibrarythings 106 most "unread" books. Bold what you've read, italicize what you started but couldn't finish, cross out what you couldn't stand, underline what you want to read but haven't yet.
( cut for long ass list )
Note I only crossed out two items. I usually like reading books, even if I find the story kinda tedious because they are still a diversion in themselves, but I do have a special hate on for Cryptonomicon and think all copies of it should be donated to construction sites to be used as extra cinderblocks. Just thinking about that book makes me want to slap Neal Stephenson.
In other news, Rewind last night was AMAZING. Holy crap sold out show for Labyrinth! So much fun! I love watching movies like that with a theater full of fan-people, because the cheering, singing along, reciting lines along, the collective gasp and snicker about David Bowie's area, which is even MORE terrifyingly omnipresent on the big screen. Also, when the screen is bigger you notice more little details about the movie... I never noticed that there was more than one junk lady, or the goblins peeing fountain in the middle of the Goblin City. Or that the huge front gate guard at the end of the movie is a dead ringer for one of those goblin piloted Venture Company Shredders in WoW. LOL. Anyway, much fun was had.
Side note. One of the trivia questions we used in the![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
pvrewind prize contest was to name the two other performers they were considering for Jareth the Goblin King... Again, if I ever gain access to Dream's library? Totally watching both the Sting version and the Michael Jackson version. Think about that for a while.
Side note #2. People, please shut up about the Dark is Rising, the Seeker. If I have to hear one more person bitch about how oh noes Walden Media is surprise buttsekksing your entire childhood by making this movie, there will be gratuitous slappings all around. Just don't go see it if it looks that bad, there is no need to whinge that obsessively about it. It's not the first allegedly chidhood-defining book that Hollywood has dry humped for money, nor will it be the last. Frankly I don't give a rats, I didn't read the Susan Cooper books until college and I didn't think they were anything to write home about. And if your entire childhood revolved around one five book series, I'd say you had a pretty stunted childhood. They're books. It's a movie. I could swear there are way more worthwhile things to bitch about with that level of vitriol.
EDIT: Here have a LOLseeker:
So when I came home I was high on caffiene and tweaky so I pulled a![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sundart and cleaned the entire living room and the bits of the dining room that were bothering me. Like lost my shit. I'm somewhat wondering if going up to dunkins and getting one of those superlarge coffees with a crapton of sugar tonight will get me to deal with my own room... It may be worth a shot provided I survive today. We'll see.
( cut for long ass list )
Note I only crossed out two items. I usually like reading books, even if I find the story kinda tedious because they are still a diversion in themselves, but I do have a special hate on for Cryptonomicon and think all copies of it should be donated to construction sites to be used as extra cinderblocks. Just thinking about that book makes me want to slap Neal Stephenson.
In other news, Rewind last night was AMAZING. Holy crap sold out show for Labyrinth! So much fun! I love watching movies like that with a theater full of fan-people, because the cheering, singing along, reciting lines along, the collective gasp and snicker about David Bowie's area, which is even MORE terrifyingly omnipresent on the big screen. Also, when the screen is bigger you notice more little details about the movie... I never noticed that there was more than one junk lady, or the goblins peeing fountain in the middle of the Goblin City. Or that the huge front gate guard at the end of the movie is a dead ringer for one of those goblin piloted Venture Company Shredders in WoW. LOL. Anyway, much fun was had.
Side note. One of the trivia questions we used in the
pvrewind prize contest was to name the two other performers they were considering for Jareth the Goblin King... Again, if I ever gain access to Dream's library? Totally watching both the Sting version and the Michael Jackson version. Think about that for a while.Side note #2. People, please shut up about the Dark is Rising, the Seeker. If I have to hear one more person bitch about how oh noes Walden Media is surprise buttsekksing your entire childhood by making this movie, there will be gratuitous slappings all around. Just don't go see it if it looks that bad, there is no need to whinge that obsessively about it. It's not the first allegedly chidhood-defining book that Hollywood has dry humped for money, nor will it be the last. Frankly I don't give a rats, I didn't read the Susan Cooper books until college and I didn't think they were anything to write home about. And if your entire childhood revolved around one five book series, I'd say you had a pretty stunted childhood. They're books. It's a movie. I could swear there are way more worthwhile things to bitch about with that level of vitriol.
EDIT: Here have a LOLseeker:
So when I came home I was high on caffiene and tweaky so I pulled a
sundart and cleaned the entire living room and the bits of the dining room that were bothering me. Like lost my shit. I'm somewhat wondering if going up to dunkins and getting one of those superlarge coffees with a crapton of sugar tonight will get me to deal with my own room... It may be worth a shot provided I survive today. We'll see.
