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 [...]
Posts filed in Grief
A feeling of loss, of sadness, and stuff like that. Luckily, I don’t have much to grieve in real life, so this tag leads mostly to posts about television shows…
A Plague! A Plague on Our Houses!
Some things I suspect I believe to be true
About eighteen months ago now, I realised I’m a materialist; I believe that everything in this world is matter, that there is no such thing as spirit, that what others might perceive as “spirit” can be explained materially. And for some thirteen, fourteen months, my Christian flatmate Håvard has challenged me on this.
To him there [...]
Superhero Movie
Rather out of the blue, I ended up seeing Superhero Movie with a friend last night. And man, am I sorry. But I’ll get back to that. First, a plot synopsis.
Rick Riker is Peter Parker, only more (exaggeratedly) so and with more unmotivated and unfun slapstick accidents happening to him. He is in love with [...]
How to interpret a peculiar request
“‘Item I gyve unto my wife my second best bed …’
(from Shakespeare’s will)
The bed we loved in was a spinning world
of forests, castles, torchlight, clifftops, seas
where we would dive for pearls. My lover’s words
were shooting stars which fell to earth as kisses
on these lips; my body now a softer rhyme
to his, now echo, assonance; his [...]
Issue 5 — The Chain
My immediate reaction to this issue, is that it is the best one this far.
Because while it lacks those “OMIGAWD!1 IT’S HER/HIM/IT/THEM!!!1″ moments, it was a beautiful and sad story, with elegant pathos and an endearing main character whose name we never even learn.
Quite a treat; if all the “short ones” they intend to stick [...]
Romeo + Juliet
For long periods of my life, I’ve nurtured a completely irrational dislike for the actor Leonardo di Caprio, a dislike probably rooted in my background as a male kid in the late 90s, when “Leo” was the dream boy of every girl, and the envy of every boy. And, as is so very often the [...]
Serenity
It’s been over a year and a half since the (first and) last time, but I finally got around to watch “Serenity” again.
And it was a pleasant surprise; before I watched it again, after having watched the series a second time, I feared that the relationship between the characters would be messed up, and that [...]
A silent prayer of thanks to the patriarchate and all male chauvinists
Oh, patriarchal social structure!
Oh, male chauvinists of the past!
I praise thee!
While thy general wisdom might leave something to be desired, and while I dislike thee quite strongly, thee have done me — and in fact the whole nation — a great service!
And while thy rancid ignorance and silly prejudices have also done us all great [...]
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
I finished the book five minutes ago, some 18 or 19 hours after I found it in my mailbox. I’ll try to review it, and I’ll do my best to do so without any spoilers, but for those who doesn’t want to know a godsdamned thing, I’ll hide it. Naturally, there will be spoilers for [...]
Noooooooooooooo!
Spoiler, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, page 385:
A “Tigana” related “whoa!”
Perhaps it is because I am mentally exhausted after two very long, very straining tours earlier today, but I just had a whole new experience:
I’ve never before — never ever — been touched to tears by exposition just 116 pages into a book. Never. Not until Baerd told Devin of the fate of Tigana and [...]
… and “Reaper’s Gale”.
”Reaper’s Gale”
by Steven Erikson.
Bantham TPB, 2007. 910 s.
It’s been three years since the Edur conquest of the Letherii Empire, and one year since the outlawing of Adjunct Tavore, the Bonehunters, and the rest of her army.
“Reaper’s Gale” has the same basic structure as all the other “Malazan” books. It starts out kinda slow, with a [...]
Seeing Red: A Case in the Study of Joss Whedon, Sadistic Genious
This has got to be one of the best worst minutes of television I have ever seen. Observe, if you will, these four moments:
1. Bliss, as Buffy and Xander make up and embrace.
2. Dread, as Warren appears, toting a gun.
3. Grief, and/or anguish, as a stray bullet from Warren’s gun penetrates Tara’s chest, and her [...]
Blog Challenge #… I honestly don’t know. Let’s call it “#1 after restart” (or just AR for short).
As can be seen from my blogroll, I intended to keep track of and participate in the Blog Challenge, but that never happened. So when Zhayena posted a new challenge at the NC blog, it didn’t take me long to decide to join.
The challenge is supposed be writing about a scene in a book or [...]
It’s The End Of The World As We Know It — AS5×22 Not Fade Away
That’s it. The end. And what an end it was.
By the time Angel said, “Well, personally, I’ve always wanted to slay a dragon,” I was sobbing — half laughing with joy, half crying from grief. Where the ending of “Chosen” just left me with a general feeling of relief and joy, where the only things [...]
There Really IS, You Know — AS5×15 A Hole In The World
First of all, I have to admit that I feel ashamed. This has the simple reason that I haven’t cried like this since the second time I watched Tara’s death, in spite of all the great emotional episodes I’ve watched since. But naturally, I have an excuse, and that is that barring perhaps NFA, there’s [...]
The Grumpiest Little Puppet In The Whole Wide World — AS5×14 Smile Time
Where to begin?
I think, that I might actually beging with the best part of the episode, which is spite of the hilarity of the Angel plot is the very last scene, and the preceeding scenes which lead up to this one. Because this, this is where what I have been waiting for since the end [...]
The Fountain
Just came back home from a quick visit to the movies; my sister and I thought we’d check “The Fountain” out, and I am glad we did. Because it was a rather nice movie. Kinda peculiar, and almost impossible to do justice to in a short synopsis, since revealing even the smallest detail could diminish [...]
… And The Infinite Sadness — AS5×12 You’re Welcome
This is almost too much. Every single one of the four Angelsodes (doesn’t sound as good as “Buffysodes”, does it? ) I’ve watched tonight, have been fucking masterpieces. They’ve been thrilling, they’ve been emotional, they’ve been funny — everything the best of Whedonverse episodes always are.
This one falls into that wonderful category by merit, of [...]
Okay, I realise now that I might have been kinda exaggerating about the relative greatness of VM2×22 — BS7×22 Chosen
Sigh. In my last post, I claimed that VM2×22 could rival BS5×22 and stuff like that in level of awesomity. Obviously, I forgot just how much I love BS7×22.
Because this episode is filled with all that good stuff I adore. There’s that scene in the high school hallway when the Scoobies talk about what they [...]
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