In my Last.fm shoutbox, I was recently asked by one of my readers to post more frequently in my blog, and seeing as your whim is my law, I bring you this: an essay of sorts about the last topic you’d expected me to write about!
One of the things you might not know [...]
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Posts where I mention my parents, my sister, our dog, some cousin, uncle or grandparent, or just about anything else related to family. It doesn’t necessarily have to be my own.
A Plague! A Plague on Our Houses!
A Case of Tolkien Hommage
“I tipped an imaginary hat to him. ‘At your service.’
‘Yours and your family’s,’ he replied politely.”
— Kvothe and Stanchion,
The Name of the Wind, page 374.
Movies Galore: A Summary
It’s nearly two months since my last movie review — a review, I might add, where I was unreasonably hard on the reviewed movie, as the fact that I’m in a foul mood shouldn’t really count against it. Anyway, since then I’ve watched a lot of movies: excellent movies, great movies, good movies, mediocre movies, [...]
2007-03-19 — Quote of the Day
It’s my dad’s birthday today, so I’m gonna translate and bring you one of the stupidest pieces of life wisdom he ever bestowed upon me:
“You know, Terje, investments aren’t only those things from which you gain a financial profit. You can also invest in the experience that is a good book, CD or movie.”
I’m not [...]
I am worried…
Because the rate at which my sister watches Buffy? Frighteningly fast. And unlike me, she actually has a conscience to get her out of bed in the mornings, so where my staying up extremely late during my worst Angel and Buffy addictions last spring only messed up my day rythm, her doing the same messes [...]
Oh, and…
… the “Firefly” DVD I had to order because of Loki (okay, so here’s my contribution for the “Worst Excuse of 2007 Award” ) arrived yesterday!
Which means that as soon as I’ve force-fed my sister the last couple of episodes of VM (this show really stands to be watched a second time, I’ve [...]
Nerdenes Rikskringkasting!
Okay, den andre norske posten min på ei uke. Ikke akkurat et så veldig godt tegn at det gjør noe. Men, men.
Uansett, det som denne gangen vekker min entusiasme, som NRK-patriot (jeg ser ikke på andre kanaler) er nyheten om at NRK har kjøpt inn “Heroes” og at de skal begynne å sende serien i [...]
Couple o’ updates more
1. I just wrote a new page, entitled “Buffysodes”, on which I’ve put links to all my quasi reviews of Buffysodes. In time, it might be renamed to just “’sodes” or something, and have links to more reviews, but for now this is all there is. It’s primarily written as a service to my sister, [...]
Summary of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”, season 1
It’s only been one week since I received the Angel and Buffy DVD sets from Amazon, and I’ve already watched the first season of Buffy, so yay me! Or, to be more specific, yay my sister, because if it hadn’t been for her, it’d probably be a while before I started watching the series again.
Anyway, [...]
“Have you ever quoted Shakespeare with your beloved in a dark theatre hallway?” — AS3×13 Waiting In The Wings
I gotta admit I was somewhat flabbergasted when Loki listed this episode as one of his 25 favourites, because I just remembered it as a mediocre episode with a lot of dull ballet. Man, was I wrong…
This one’s awesome from beginning to end. All the way from the first scene, where Wes confides to Cordy [...]
I could have been elsewhere…
Today, I’d originally planned to attend a guest lecture held by Petter Eide, secretary general of the Norwegian section of Amnesty International, in which he’d speak about the conditions of human rights during this “War on terror” that seems to be going on. (By the way, how’s that going for them?) But because my dad [...]
Creepy Hollow
Wow. I’d forgotten how magnificent “Sleepy Hollow” is.
The atmosphere of the film reminded me of another favourite of mine, the French “Brotherhood of the Wolf“, with its Gothic elements of dilapidated buildings, dark, foggy forests, autumnal landscapes and horrible weather. The attention to detail is similar in both films, as is the plot — the [...]
Back again…
I’d almost forgotten all about how much it hurts to get a partially frozen, horisontally flying snowflake driven into one’s eye with the force of a fresh breeze. So thank you for returning and reminding me, dearest King Winter.
Anyway, I’m going away for a couple of days, so there won’t be any new posts here [...]
I feel all giddy inside — Ultimate X-Men “Tomorrow’s People” #1-6
Wow, that was one hell of an introduction. Quite a bit different from what I expected, but seeing as my expectations were largely built upon the goodnes that are the X-Men films, that was to be expected. The relationships between the characters were somewhat different, although not altogether dissimilar, as were some backgrounds and such. [...]
Servants and Keira
I watched “Pride&Prejudice” (the 2005 version) with my sister — who’s a huge Jane Austen fan — last night, and the two words I used as a title for this post is what she complained the most about. According to her, the 1995 series is a much better representation of the book, in part because [...]
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