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 [...]
Posts filed in Regret
An important part of the human psyche. Those who claim otherwise should ask themselves how we, as a species, learn things, and whether regret is in any way related to adapting to new surroundings.
Sunshine
Perhaps the only advantage of having to depend on a small town cinema during summers: I get the opportunity to watch movies I missed when they were screened in Trondheim. As was the case of “Sunshine“.
In 2050, the Sun is about to stop burning, and a crew of astronauts and scientists are sent out to [...]
“Gaid”
I’ve finally taken my language-related snobbishness out into the open, primarily because the local newspaper recently titled me as “gaid” — a horrendous norwegianification of the English word “guide”, and an unnecessary one too, as we have the perfectly servicable synonym “omviser”.
So, it might be that the Norwegian Council of Language has given the go-ahead [...]
The Octagon
When Kalle, Håvard and myself was at the hospital yesterday, the two former ones found a cheap DVD box in the hospital’s kiosk, a box containing three of Chuck Norris’ most famous movies. And as both Kalle and Håvard think Chuck Norris jokes are hilarious, they couldn’t do anything but buy this abomination. And tonight, [...]
Good Times…
Ah, ’tis been a crappy day, in some ways.
Omniously enough, it started out alright, with me and my flatmate Håvard watching “Hush” while eating dinner. And that episode is still one of the show’s (or at least the season’s) best ones; it’s funny, it’s scary, it has major turning points in the lives of both [...]
That’s it, then.
There’s dust on your guitar, you fuck, and it’s all your fault…
In four days, I am supposed to hand in a 25 pages long project paper in the pol.sci. course I’m taking. However, being a lazy, useless slob, I haven’t even begun reading for it yet. I tried to start working on it today, but [...]
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 [...]
… 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 [...]
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 [...]
Phew.
WARNING! This post contains what most people would consider to be TMI. Consider yourself warned. The author will not take responsibility for disturbing imagery that might appear in your minds if you read on.
That’s gotta be one of the hardest papers I’ve ever written. Sure, the theory and the empirics was child’s play, eight pages [...]
If there is a God of procrastination…
So. Five days left till the term paper in “Social scientific method” is due. And I was supposed to have started working on it today. But what happened?
Well, I sat down to begin reading some empirics about gender and wage levels and stuff. I think I read perhaps a page or two, but unfortunately I [...]
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 [...]
I originally planned on calling this post “Meh-ragon”, but alas…
Me and my sister was at the movies tonight, watching “Eragon“, and my Gods, I don’t think I’ve seen such a horrible movie in a very long time.
The story was rushed; it didn’t have any coherence at all, and it failed to establish both ethos and logos. It seemed as if its creators were [...]
The collapse of the international economy in the Interwar Years — lecture #7
Damn, it’s been a month since the last time I posted the notes to a history lecture, and now I have some fifteen untouched lectures to work my way through, in addition to the approximately ten still remaining. Damn me and my cursed laziness. Anyway, here we go:
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WWI represents a definite shift in world history. [...]
Mommy’s back… — AS3×7
… and she’s really pissed!
And so the season’s main story-arc begins, as Darla returns to L.A., and the thing that will either cleanse or destroy humanity (Wesley’s a little sketchy on the translation) rises under the streets of that very same city. Unfortunately, the episode suffers somewhat from being just an introduction. Even [...]
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