So, I’ve been reading Ultimate Spider-Man lately (bye-bye, decent exam-period meals), and at first I thought it would be boring to read a superhero comic with only one superhero. I imagined it would be far less interesting than the more group-oriented superhero comics I’ve read before, like Astonishing and Ultimate X-Men and The Ultimates, as [...]
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Loki is a witty and intelligent acquaintance of mine, who keeps his own blog, which I read frequently. A megalomaniac and an arrogant fellow, he is my intellectual superior, in each and every way. He’s also quite a nice chap.
Not to mention that he’s the guy who helped me see the Light — aka. everything Whedon.
Iron Man
So. The second most anticipated movie of the year or something, Iron Man. I was a skeptic, I have to admit as much. Sure, I’d heard from both Loki and Kalle that it was a phenomenal movie, but they’re both something resembling Marvel fanboys. And me? I’d encountered Iron Man in some minor spots in [...]
Angelic Revelation
One of the reasons why I haven’t been much active online lately, is that I spend most of my evenings watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer with one or more of my flatmates. We started about a year ago, when one of them asked me to show him a really fun Buffy episode. I chose “Hush”, [...]
Magician’s Gambit by David Eddings
Book three of the Belgariad.
1983.
446 pages, Random House/Corgi paperback.
In Magician’s Gambit, the hunt for the Orb of Aldur finally came to an end. The characters pretty much remain the same — there’s some awkward attempts at developing Mandorallen, if that is indeed what it is, by making him suddenly experiencing fear; but it doesn’t take [...]
I’m concerned for my university
I had my fifth and final exam for the term today, and unfortunately, I thought it was just like the four previous ones.
You see, based on the curriculi and the lectures in the courses I’ve been taking this fall, I’ve been expecting to be satisfied with a straight Cs. Global English had a lot of [...]
Dogma
Watched Kevin Smith’s Dogma again, for the thrid time or so, last weekend. I was hardly as enthusiastic as I was the first time I watched it, but that was three years ago, so I take this simply as a sign that I have matured somewhat. And also of me having watched it before, of [...]
The day I realized how much of a nerd I really am…
… was last weekend, when I and one of my flatmates (who’s a linguistics student) spent a quarter of an hour having fun with the IPA map in general, and the voiced bilabial trill in particular.
But hey, the voiced bilabial trill really is one of the funniest phonems in the world. Alright, the “schwa” and [...]
Angel: After the Fall
This one took me somewhat by surprise. I’d heard that it was scheduled for release on 29 November, and then, last Thursday, Loki exclaims at me that this was some seriously good stuff. I, naturally, become flabbergasted, run home from downtown Trondheim (I was shopping for Christmas and November-Me presents when I got his message), [...]
Deadwood, season 1
Incredible.
At times I thought it lacked a bit more obvious season plot arc, and I’d liked to see Bullock being more active, rather than just reactive, but those are just about the only objections I have to the show.
Amazing setting, mindblowing characters, spiffy dialogue, and a delightfully rancid humour. One of the best shows I’ve [...]
Seven things about me…
I just noticed I got tagged with some kind of bloggy pass-it-on by Zhayena, and although I fear it might be a bit old (there weren’t really any apparent key stamps there, as far as I could see), here it is, seven more or less serious facts about me. I usually define myself out from [...]
Gudenes Fall
Gudenes Fall, by Cornelius Jakhelln.
2007, 428 pages.
Now, this might be a little weird. Gudenes Fall (The Fall of the Gods) is a book that most likely never will be translated into English, and yet, I choose to review it in English. But hey, my English is still worse than my Norwegian.
In the year 1000 AD, [...]
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, [...]
2007-07-31 — Quote of the Day (This one goes out to my man Loki! ;D)
Di findes, der fnyser af klæ’er å overfladisk pynt, der synes d’er spilt tid og anstrængelse, æd ville tæ’ sig gåd od for ændre. Enkelte hevder sogar, æd de æd forskønne sid ytre peger på betænkelie personlihedstræk som forfænglihed, hovmod, fælskhed. Di ved ige vor fejl di tæ’r; som om loslid eller smægløs bekledning sko’ [...]
The obviousness of it
Low Key Lyesmith, a grifter from Minnesota with orange-blonde hair, and a morbid sense of humour involving a lot of gallows.
Come on! XD
2007-04-27 — Quote of the Day & Bab 5
Morden: “What do you want?”
Vir: “I want to live just long enough to be there when they cut off your head and stick it on a pike, as a warning to the next ten generations that some favours come with too high a price. I would look up on your lifeless face and wave, like [...]
Babylon 5: The Gathering
Almost two months after I began downloading Babylon 5, I’ve finally gotten around to actually watch it. Following Loki’s recommendation, I watched the pilot-movie first: “Babylon 5: The Gathering“. And although I have some complaints, I thought it showed a lot of promise.
First, the complaints. Of these, the acting might be the biggest one, as [...]
“The thing about changing the world…”
“… once you do it, the world’s all different.
Everyone calls me ‘ma’am’ now.”
Oh man. The first issue of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season 8″ has just left me in a state of chronic grinning, and fucking sea gulls are fluttering about in my stomach.
Sure, it was a little short (but that’s the way it is, [...]
300
Just got back home from watching “300“, and even though I thought it was an extremely fun movie, there were times when the “over the top” parts went so far over the top that they fell down the otehr side.
This was most notably the case with all the speeches and dramatic declarations — all of [...]
Daredevil
Okay, so I am a sucker for comic books adapted to film, but this is where I draw the line.
I don’t think there was one thing, really, which appealed to me in this movie, with the possible exceptions of the guy who played the Kingpin and the ending — i.e. how Daredevil decided to deal [...]
2007-03-12 — Quote of the Day
“For thousands of years our ancestors have refined the noble art of procrastination. Today, with new IT-technology, we find even more ways of postponement. From hacking governmental databases to simply playing solitaire, we guarantee the procrastinator a multi-faceted experience and improvement of his procrastinating-repertoire.
Come join the future - in just five more minutes.”
- Loki
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