ink_splotch: (courtship rituals of geeks [library])
It is good to be home. Today was Easter Lunch, which went positively brilliantly compared to last time the family met up, and I got to hang out with my cousin, which was incredibly awesome - I'd forgotten how cool she is, and how funny. Yesterday I went to Copenhagen to buy a few odds and ends, and then spent the rest of the day at Signe's, playing Trivial Pursuit and watching a documentary about political scandals. And it was all awesome, and fun, and I enjoyed it, it felt good. But still, I can't help thinking about Gemma near constanly.

Further Babble on the Subject )

Enough of that melancholy and introspective, though! Because after we are really here to talk about Doctor Who, and Martha, and, of course, Shakespeare. [livejournal.com profile] ariastar had a review up in her journal with all but forced me to download The Shakespeare Code and I am so glad I did. Who fandom, I'm back! Though mostly to say: GLEE!

Spoilers for S3E2 )

Final two things:
a)One of the good things about being a U2 fan is that you get to imagine conversations like this:
Cut for Banjos )
And thus, the world is blessed with this.

2) Why did no one tell me how awesome Take That's Shine music video is? FAIL! It's so cool. *glees* Mark Owen dancing on Gary Barlow's piano just amuses the hell out of me. It's just so STYLIZED. Oh, Take That. Don't ever stop.

Now I'm off to distract myself from missing Gemma with more Who. It won't work, but at least I'll be amused.
ink_splotch: (soul sucked from within [lost])
I should be cleaning my room, I really should. But watch me procrastinate from that, even though I really have nothing else to do right now; I was supposed to go out tonight, but that ultimately came to nothing. Very sad, but it did give me a chance to watch Henry V, which Sofie and Tess gave me for my birthday. And, um. Did "bedfellow" mean the same in Shakespeare's time as it does today? Because, well, it sure seemed to in the movie. So good though. Incredibly enjoyable and I love Chorus particularly. So appropriately sinister. Mmm. Also baby!Bale! So damn adorable.

I finished The Color Purple today and that is a damn good book. It's incredibly enjoyable and incredibly *harsh* and so beautiful at the same time. I really must buy it at some point. When I have any money at all. Oh! And the love story between Shug and Celie (fuck off, IMDB, it *is* a love story) is incredibly nicely handled - and all the references to the Harlem Renaisance had me quite amused (I really should read up on that more at some point), just an all around hopeful read.

Meanwhile, back to square one with regards to the stupid huge written assignment of doom. Well, not quite, but it turns out that for anything I write about, I need a factual background text - secondary texts are nessecary apparently. Which means if I want to do Brideshead Revisited I need some sort of historical background; same, I guess, for Specimen Days and I have no idea *what* I'd do for Lost. Perhaps I should reconsider and write about Wicked instead.

I really should clean. *sigh* Anyone want to rec me some Shakespeare slash for when I finish? Hell, any slash'll do, f/f, m/m, anything. I just want something to look forward to. ;)

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