Things

[mimesere]

I am currently reading
-To Rule the Waves: How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World
-The Secret History of the Pink Carnation
-Villette

I am currently listening to
-Amelia - Por Avion
-Tool - Lateralus
-The Temptations - Millennium Collection
-The Beatles - 1

I am currently watching
-Grey's Anatomy
-Sci Fi Original Pictures

I am currently craving
-A visit to some day spa sometime soon
-Silent Hill for the Bean-tastic goodness
-The new Tool album
-Pie

I currently hate
-The Ninth Doctor and Rose
-McDreamy
-Rob Thomas
-The Irvine branch of the Waste Management Company
-William Wordsworth
-Thomas Carlyle
-Joseph Conrad (overexposure hate. I quite like Heart of Darkness, but goddamn, I've read it a lot recently)
-Real Academia Español
-Virginia Woolf, preemptively
-George W. Bush
-The entire Bush administration -- wtf with the possibility of nuking Iran, fuckers? Oh yes, that will make us *loads* fucking safer. Fucker.
-Big Oil ($3+ a gallon! WTF!)
-Spiders

Comments

[harriet-spy.livejournal.com]

The Secret History of the Pink Carnation

I know the woman who wrote this!

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

Somehow, I am in no way surprised :)

[coffeeandink.livejournal.com]

I am so sad you hate Virginia Woolf. If you tell me you are hating Villette, too, you will break my heart.

Isn't Por Avion excellent? I have big Amelia love.

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

Heee. I like Charlotte Bronte in general and Lucy Snow is right up my alley, so I'm pretty sure I will like it. Virginia Woolf...pings my irritation 'dar based on the blurb on the back and coupled with reading Mrs. Dalloway in a class full of people who have issues with, say, Browning, doesn't fill me with confidence about discussing the book. So, you know, I might be pleasantly surprised.

And Por Avion is very much with the excellent. I am still trying to decide if I like the live "Blackbird Pie" or the studio version better.

[coffeeandink.livejournal.com]

I think it is practically useless to blurb most of Woolf. Mrs Dalloway isn't my favorite, I'll admit; of the most frequently taught texts, my favorite is To the Lighthouse, but my heart really belongs to Orlando and A Room of One's Own. Her essays were a revelation to me. I didn't realize nonfiction could have such a *voice*.

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

I will keep it in mind and if Mrs. Dalloway does not work for me, I will give To The Lighthouse and Orlando a try. I really like the movie version of Orlando, so possibly that will carry the day.

[laurashapiro.livejournal.com]

Orlando for sure. ::nods vigorously::

And I heart Villette. Need to be reading that again, it seems to me...

[gloss]

I am heartbroken that you hate Carlyle. I adore that big freak.

*snug*

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

*nuzzle* Carlyle, sadly, gets tarred with the I Hate Romantics brush. That plus the random capitalization makes me sit around and go, "If you were on LJ, you would be a person I hate on."

Plus, you know, I came out of the Carlyle vs Mill deathmatch on the side of Mill.

[rawumber.livejournal.com]

CAn not WAIT til Silent Hill and OMG! SPider the side of my fist in my Dad's garage just made me flee to my stepmom inside the house!


...and I never uploaded my Silent Hill icons. WOE.

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

Heee. Silent Hill! Yay!

Spider! Boo!

*mwah*

[anniemoon.livejournal.com]

-Rob Thomas

The Veronica Mars creator or the former Matchbox Twenty frontman? Or both? ;D

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

Heh. Both, but more the Veronica Mars creator.

Stupid "Leave it to Beaver."