December 2008
50 posts
Girls who rock
jonathan-deamer:
My 8 year old girl cousin loves Avril Lavigne, is learning to play the guitar and wants nothing more than to be a “rock star”. Always keen to encourage this sort of ambition, I’m making her a CD of required femme-rock listening.
What do you reckon of the tracklisting? Any vital tunes I’ve missed?
1. The Ting Tings - Great DJ 2. Blondie - Heart of Glass 3. Paramore - Decode 4....
Did anyone else find Troi's speech impediment...
sufjanssteven:
inothernews:
Okay, now I’m in Trekker love with you. I HATED those kids. And GREAT FUCKING SCREENCAP. :-)
chuffedlittlemuffin:inothernews:
But you know what? When they gave her a command rank and she took the helm in “Disaster”, I was okay with her again.
sufjanssteven:lumos:
I mean, it was worst in the early series (especially first) but it never went away entirely....
Did anyone else find Troi's speech impediment...
I mean, it was worst in the early series (especially first) but it never went away entirely. And no one talks about it.
But it’s so annoying. And maybe goes some way to why I dislike her character so much. Because she pronounces ‘t’s as ‘d’s.
“Oh Nina, what a lot of parties… Masked parties, Savage parties, Victorian...”
– Vile Bodies, by Evelyn Waugh
One of the books I got for Christmas. And one of my favourites.
Pope Benedict XVI has said that saving humanity... →
So why is he wearing a fucking dress then?
“Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a...”
– Albert Einstein via Almighty DJ Ko (via candiedjamz) (via grim)
I’m really sorry, but I’ve always thought this was the worse example of relativity EVER. :( :(
Fuck
I spilt red wine on my macbook. I’m not ashamed to admit that I cried a bit. Then I found out it was covered on the household insurance for accidental damage.
But it has a lot of my shit on it.
Eurgh. Send me music so I can listen to it on the family computer. Because I’m bloody fed up of listening to the stuf my little sister likes. She thinks she’s a rude grrl from Hackney...
Cameo; ‘Word Up’
Everyone should...
So I Watched Twilight
In the cinema.
It made it worse not better. Bloody. Hell. The hundreds of thousands of screaming teenage girls made it so much more tedious. I got through it only because I knew I was old enough to go and drink a bottle of wine at the nearest pub after the showing and they weren’t. Robert Pattinson is no longer Cedric Diggory to me.
And that makes me sad.
Harry Potter is better.
Did you know
That last night, Stephen Fry was cheering Hugh Laurie on from the sidelines at SNL?
I did. Because I read his Twitter. Awww Jeeaah.
At Sufjanssteven
Seriously, how many hardcore loving Star Trek AND Sufjan Stevens fans can there be out there? We may be one of the very few.
Also, your music taste is for the win.
Sufjan Stevens; ‘To Be Alone With You’
Star Trek Yoyager
Me (watching Voyager): Oh Kathryn Janeway, your jawline is so strong.
My Brother: Man, if they make a biopic of Katharine Hepburn and Kate Mulgrew doesn't get cast, she's going to throw a fit!
Me: Hah! You're totally right!
My Brother: Hell, chuck a wig on the emergency medical hologram and he could be Humphrey Bogart when the two of them did The African Queen!
Trekker
Adam: So... how did Lt. Yar die on TNG?
Me: She was swallowed by a tar pit.
Adam: It's like they always say: Once you go black you never go back
Me: Once Yar went tar, she couldn't go far.
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Until that whole Enterprise C Incident. Oh, and Sela, let's not forget Sela.
I think that Denise Crosby really messed up saying she wanted off because she thought Trek was going to be a career killer. Look how well she's doing for herself now!
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I'm just going to start re-blogging all your Trek related posts. Because it's nice that someone else seems to know as obsessively much about it as me.
And man, I could not stand Yar.
riazm:
Synaesthesia
Photographic memory
Aspergers
Immunity to hangovers
Ambidextrousness
Are all things that do exist, but when people claim to have them, are generally lies.
I actually do have synaesthesia.
You could probably add something like narcissistic personality disorder to that too. And being double jointed.
Today
Was The Queen’s Speech from the Throne. (Or Her Majesty’s Most Gracious Speech, or The Gracious Speech)
Making it very clear that the economy was the biggest priority for the UK at the moment. (Hot on the heels of the pre-budget report)
Kind of sad, seeing what initially the priorities of Governemnt were before the onset of recession. ie higher education, the NHS, etc.
But really,...
Nina Simone - Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood
September 6, 2008
havent-got-a-prayer:
lindsayneedscoffee:
An old post of mine.
Can you describe your life with a six word sentence?
I heard that question somewhere.
Here is mine.
When you laugh, I find peace.
I constantly search; someday I’ll find.
I’m not sure who I am
