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ICONS AHOY!!! [Mar. 31st, 2008|04:44 pm]
[mood |religious]
[music |Benedicamus Domino - St. Peter's Church Choir]

MASSIVE MULTIFANDOM ICON POST!
[10] Pirates of the Caribbean
[02] Pirates of the Caribbean headers
[32] The Little Mermaid
[01] The Little Mermaid header
[31] Fushigi Yuugi
[04] Fushigi Yuugi headers
[09] Enchanted
[38] Jurassic Park
[51] The Golden Compass
[11] The Golden Compass headers

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( When you marooned me on that godforsaken spit of land you forgot one very important thing, mate... I'm Captain Jack Sparrow. )
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KISS ME I'M IRISH! [Mar. 17th, 2008|07:32 pm]
HAPPY SAINT PATRICK'S DAY!!!!!!

I went to the St Pat's NYC Parade today, and it was wonderful, of course. It's the longest parade in the world, which meant it lasted from 11am to 5pm. I got there at 1 with my dad and we walked from 44th to 53rd and watched it there. It was really amazing and fantastic and beautiful. Weather was good too - better than last year when my feet froze so badly I couldn't move them. Thousands of marching bands, bagpipers, drummers, dancers, associations and Catholic groups and nuns and priests and sympathy groups from Spain and high school kids and all kinds of people and all ages and all 26 county groups (ROSCOMMON WOOOO!) and just....whoa. great. it was fantastic. But in summation, let me just say -

ERIN GO BRAGH!!!!!!!
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While I'm Gone...Don't Worry About Me. [Mar. 16th, 2008|05:11 am]
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[Current Location |House in the woodlands]
[mood | riveted]
[music |Sound of Lost gag reel; 'Searching for Transmission' track LOST OST]

So I just finished watching Season 3 of LOST (please don't spoil me for Season 4). Oh man, obviously, it was incredible. Beyond incredible.

I love how richly thematic, intense, vital, cerebral, supernatural, human, cosmic, complex, moving, gorgeous, absolutely gripping - and just plain amazing this show is. How it's about fate, redemption, empathy, violence, loyalty and disloyalty, love, good and evil, free will, destiny, all the forces of the cosmos concentrated right in this one island - like it's the eye of God. The contrast between the wild, innate faith in the Universe, its mysteries, and in God that the Survivors cultivate, and the blind, militaristic, dogmatic beliefs of the Others; and every shade in between. I love how this show is on one level so human, so focused on the lives of these people - and on the other hand so expansive, so cosmic, so far-reaching - and how it shows that there is no difference between the two. How epic, how jaw-dropping, how complicated, how beautiful, how supernatural and natural it is - and how those, two, are shown to be the same thing. It's just an incredible story. Watching it on DVD is a big change from TV, as well; you can see more clearly how it straddles the line between movie and literature rather than simply being an hour-long show.

If, for any reason, ANYONE ON MY FLIST IS EVEN FARTHER BEHIND THAN I AM IN LOST AND HASN'T FINISHED SEASON 3 DON'T READ THE FOLLOWING PARAGRAPHS UNDER THE CUT.

( #1 - the night I met you. )

I also want to say that, watching the blooper reel at 5 am, one scene made me laugh so hard I nearly fell off the bed. You remember the episode when Locke, Sayid, and Kate first meet Mikhail, in his cabin, and they manage to knock him out? And Sayid, in the episode, asks Locke if there's anyone else either in the cabin or in the surrounding farmyard - anyone watching them. Locke replies, "Well, if there's anyone else here, than they're hidin' pretty good. I checked every nook and crannie."

In the gag reel, Sayid's reaction is to huff. He then proceeds to flip a carpet up, where there is clearly no space between it and the floor, and scream, in an extremely overdone Middle Eastern accent, "NOT EVERY NOOK AND CRANNIE, JOHN!" and stare accusingly at Locke like "You have failed me. I spit on your weevil-sized brain. I am so disappointed in you I just can't even say. I win."

EDIT: IT'S SEVEN AM. OKAY LOST. TIME TO LET ME SLEEP.
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What Passion Cannot Music Raise and Quell! [Feb. 29th, 2008|11:25 am]
[Current Location |House in the woodlands]
[mood |getting up, okay]
[music |Memories of Mary Ann MacKenzie - The Barra McNeils]

SOUNDTRACK LIST

( All deep things are song.  It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls!  ~Thomas Carlyle )

If the King loves music, it is well with the land.  ~Mencius
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GREAT TEENAGE VAMPIRES! IT'S A MASSIVE MULTIFANDOM ICON POST! [Feb. 24th, 2008|07:37 pm]
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[Current Location |House in the woodlands]
[mood | good]
[music |Polka radio station]

MASSIVE MULTIFANDOM ICON POST!
[ 37 ] Ranma 1/2
[ 15 ] Kirsten Dunst
[ 10 ] Marie Antoinette
[ 35 ] Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam
[ 40 ] Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
[ 04 ] POTC headers
[ 55 ] Twilight
[ 11 ] Twilight headers

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( Sea turtles, mate. )
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Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter. Four seasons in a year.... [Feb. 17th, 2008|02:39 am]
I just saw the most beautiful movie ever. I cried! And I almost never cry at movies. But it was just so beautiful.
I'm going to order everything by Zhang Yimou right now.
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He Will Rock You [Jan. 24th, 2008|06:47 pm]
[Current Location |House by the woodlands]
[music |Other World]

Today I took my walk at a later time of the day, when evening was lowering. It was beautiful to look at the West, where in the dear and cloudy sky was white, grey, purple, blue, chalk-purple, violet, black, and gold so ethereal, majestic. I thought about taking some of the deeper trails today, but there are places in the woods where the snow will go up to your knees if you're not careful. Which is wonderful. But today I walked easier. And didn't have to swim home through the snow.

When I got back, I drew in the living room, where we still have our Christmas Tree up (YES!). I didn't turn on any lights, so as the evening fell more and more and the room got darker, I just drew by feeling and from the glow of the Christmas Tree lights. I'm glad I did. I liked it. It was a good thing to do.

( Jacob Grimm! You Bed-Wetting Piss Bucket! )
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Taras Rides a Dolphin O'er the Waves of Phoenicia [Jan. 23rd, 2008|11:47 am]
[Current Location |WORK AHAHAHA]
[mood | okay]
[music |Radio from far end of storage area]

Hey you guys. So, I'm just writing this quickly from work.

Today I'm working in the storage area, where they keep the paintings and posterboard and shipping materials. I can see all the paintings that are out of display rotation. IT'S AWESOME. I think some of them are lovelier than what's out in the galleries. Or maybe it's just that here, you can be a little more personal, more intimate, more alone with them; and it's more like you can be friends, back here, away from the world.

There's one painting of a Chinese goddess in a chaise being pulled by a white tiger and surrounded by celestial maidens. It's gotta be 18th century, at least, and yes, it is actually Chinese. There's other paintings - a monumental painting of the Three Kings bringing Jesus gifts (it's taller than I am and about eleven feet wide), paintings of dances and garden parties from the early 1700s, some Impressionist paintings (Childe Hassam maybe? Monet?) Some Romantic works; one is definitely Hudson River School over there, of a great river cliff that must be upstate NY or from the West; and some modern paintings, there's one of a studio.

OMGGGGGGG GUYS THERE WAS A GIANT LIFESIZE PAINTING AND FOR A SECOND I THOUGHT THE HAND OF THE PAINTING WAS A REAL HAND AND I WAS LIKE "WHO'S HIDING THERE?????"

But okay. Back to catalouging Greek and Roman coins. Some of them are SO GORGEOUS. I've seen ones with owls, with Athena, Artemis, Apollo, Zeus, with Taras riding a dolphin, with a starfish between two dolphins, with Nike bearing a palm and a ship's stern, of rulers, of satyrs, of Pan, of lions, of bears, of Hercules and the Nemean Lion, and they are ALL. SO. BEAUTIFUL.

Okay guys. Back to work. I love you. Namarie.
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[Jan. 11th, 2008|12:05 pm]
Yeah. so. Bandwidth exceeded. Does anyone a) know what that really means, b) have any idea what I can/should do about it? because it's fail. FAIL. is someone just majorly hotlinking me or has photobucket lost its mind???

i have a Met internship reunion today. I am looking forward to seeing all my fellow art interns again!
i need to bring a sketchbook. maybe more than one. and go to allll the wiiiingsssssss because I love it there more than I can say.

but yeah. i can has help for bandwidth exceeding?

edit: iushdfj. PB faqs have kindly informed me that the images will not reappear until next month. That. Is. Lovely.

Oh well. One can live with that.
Four accounts, one girl, right now. This is not happening again.
Not that it ever happened before. Hotlinking maybe? Actually, maybe. Of course, now their hotlinked images are so many OMG SRY BANDWIDTH EXCEEDED blobs. And that's why hotlinking isn't fun for anybody.

But a Met reunion is! Really. It was nice. There's another next Tuesday. Hurray!
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MASSIVE MULTIFANDOM ICON POST [Jan. 6th, 2008|01:28 pm]
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[Current Location |House in the woodlands]
[music |Tokimeki No Doukasen]

Multifandom Icon Post
[ x ] The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
[ x ] Prince Caspian headers
[ x ] Twilight
[ x ] Twilight headers
[ x ] Fushigi Yuugi
[ x ] Fushigi Yuugi Genbu Kaiden
[ x ] Mulan

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( I AM PRINCE CASPIAN )

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Here is the Gift of Celeborn and Galadriel to the Leader of your Company [Jan. 3rd, 2008|11:14 pm]
[Current Location |I've come Home now]
[mood | HAPPY BIRTHDAY, PROFESSOR!]
[music |Concerning Hobbits]

"When Mr. Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party of special magnificence, there was much talk and excitement in Hobbiton."

Today is January 3rd -- the birthday of Professor J.R.R. Tolkien.

TO THE PROFESSOR!
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Here Come the Teen Titans, a Force of Towering Talent! [Oct. 15th, 2007|09:24 pm]
[Current Location |House in the woodlands]
[mood |too hot, oily]
[music |Super Hero cartoon themes]

So, I want to tell you guys about the dream I had last night. It was pretty...interesting.

( LET'S GO, LEGIONNAIRES! )
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By the Seasons! 'Tis a Giganormous Bunch o' Icons! [Oct. 4th, 2007|06:56 pm]
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[Current Location |House in the woodlands]
[mood | good]
[music |Crickets in the dusk]

100+ MULTIFANDOM ICONS
[ 28 ] Harry Potter
[ 11 ] Harry Potter headers
[ 50 ] Disney's Hercules + [ 1 ] header
[ 26 ] Marie Antoinette + [ 2 ] headers
[ 39 ] Spiderman 3/Kirsten Dunst
[ 05 ] Spiderman and Kirsten headers
[ 24 ] Pirates of the Caribbean
[ 05 ] POTC headers

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The Wire! The Wire! Snared, Everyday, Everywhere! [Oct. 4th, 2007|12:11 pm]
[Current Location |House in the woodlands]
[mood |I have to get dressed now]
[music |Crickets, leaves rustling, bushes shivering]

Serious update later. Funtime nowz!

These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users (as of today). As usual, bold what you have read, italicize those you started but couldn't finish, and strike through what you couldn't stand. Add an asterisk to those you've read more than once. Underline those on your to-read list.



( Sing, Goddess, of the Rage of Achilles )

Namarie, freinds. Be well!
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Blood 'n' Thunder, Cap'n! Hey, you Seascum, 'Ere Comes th'Best Band O' Waverobbers On th'Sea! [Sep. 19th, 2007|10:59 pm]
[Current Location |Th'High Seas, Haharrr!]
[mood | Piratical]
[music |(POTC OST and Remixes)]

AHOY, MATEYS! It be Talk Like a Pirate Day, y'ken, ye bilge rats? Now lissen close now, or I'll be cuttin' ye all open neat as fishies 'n' usin' yore stinkin', yeller guts for me garters! ('Tis what all yore grog-brewin', duff-eatin', lady-ravishin', gold-thievin', water-wallopin' pirates be a wearin' in St. Croix this year, arrr!)

Aharrr, lads, but it were a fair day on the wave! Me ole mistress th'Sea treats good the man who treat 'er with respect--at least until 'er fancy strikes 'er t'do otherwise, haharr. The saltiest of salty wenches, she is, not t'put too fine a point on it, arrrr. Today me 'n' me buckoes had a good ole raid, if'n ye ken.

( Yew lily-liv'r'd, yeller-eyed, bow-legged, water-wallopin' swabs! On yer feet, an' ter me, boyos! We've a ship ter freeboot, buckoes, HAHARRRRRR! )

YO HO HO AND A BOTTLE OF RUM, A PIRATE'S LIFE FOR ME! . . . .

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And re'lly bad eggs!
'APPY TALK LIKE A PIRATE DAY, MATES! ARRRRRRRR!
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Do You Have the Love Elixir of....Isolde? Ah Yes! ((It's No Elixir, 'Tis Boudeux!)) [Sep. 7th, 2007|01:30 am]
[music |Donizetti's Elixir of Love - Luciano Pavarotti as Nemorino]

Hey guys. So I'm sad today at the news that Luciano Pavarotti, the incredible Opera singer, had died. I always wanted to see him in concert.

My mother and I watched "The Elixir of Love" on PBS (a hilarious, beautiful, and satisfying Opera); Nemorino was apparently his favorite role, and he was amazing. He was a great actor in addition to being an incredible, beautiful singer. His delivery of Nemerino's major aria was so...so beautiful, moving, sensitive. Like he really felt--he was--he was Nemorino. All the other actors were incredible too, but Luciano Pavarotti really shines. I remember seeing him at the close of the Olympics, I think it was, singing. It was so moving. He was incredible. And his voice never diminished. I always liked him because I thought I saw true kindness and sincerity in his face. To dedicate oneself to a life of art is such an ethereally beautiful and noble thing, too. I admire him and all he could do and give us.

But I suppose I shouldn't feel too sad. He's moved on to the next great adventure. Sitting on the couch, watching Nemorino sing to Arina and Belcore and the Doctor Dulcamara, it was weird to think, 'And we are still here? Here, in this world? Well, but not forever. And that is a good thing."

Incredible. 1935-2007 and never a foul note. I really loved him and his beyond-words-stunning-and-powerful music. Which isn't very articulate, but it is music. If you can, just listen to some instead.
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If Voldemort's Building Up an Army, Then I Want to Fight! [Aug. 20th, 2007|02:24 pm]
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[Current Location |House in the woodlands :)]
[mood | calm]
[music |Flight of the Order of the Phoenix - OOTP OST]

[ 40 ] Marie Antoinette
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[ 40 ] Pirates of the Caribbean (1, 2, 3)
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[ 64 ] Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
---[ +7 ] headers
[ 20 ] Chronicles of Narnia

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( No....He's a pirate )
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Who Says the Sea Must Ebb and Flow, An' Tells Each Tree How Tall to Grow?... [Aug. 14th, 2007|01:24 am]
[Current Location |House in the woodlands :)]
[mood | tired]
[music |Crickets, cicadas]

Hey all! It's me. I actually finished Deathly Hallows ages ago (it was amazing, of course)--two or three weeks, I suppose--but I've just been so busy I haven't had a chance to update. Sorry about that. I have been having a really wonderful Summer though, being outside, exploring, sighting animals and birds, flowers, listening to music, reading, art. Just yesterday I went places I'd never been in the mountains, and even saw some baby turkeys and their mam and da' crossing the road!

Been reading loads too; just finished the epic Marlfox, being the tale of four young Mossflower warriors who set out to recover the Heart of Redwall--that is, the Great Tapestry of Martin--from he who stole it: Mokkan the Marlfox, Prince of Marl Island on the Inland Sea, where Silth the Sly is Queen. It was amazing. There were battles, feasts, songs, romancing, journeying, humor, courage, high adventure from Wood to Sea. I loved it. Gawjo Swifteye, Mighty Megraw, Lantur the Marlfox Princess, Cregga Rose Eyes the Badger Lady, Torrab the Hog Maid, Sollertree the Woodland Hermit, Goody Brimm the ancient Otterwife, Florian Dugglewoof Wilfachop the strolling player of the Noonvale Wandering Companions, Raventail the Ferret Chieftain, Skipper of Otters, Fenno the Murderer, Nettlebud of Mossflower daughter of Soll, Bargle of the Shrews--so many thrilling characters, loved, hated, adored, wonderful, evil and cruel, noble and high-hearted, brave or cowarly, small or large, Redwaller or foebeast or Woodlander. I really loved it. Marlfox is incredible.

I've also justed watched "The New World," which (With the exception of Colin Farrel) was really beautiful and moving and profound. If you've read War and Peace, Pocahontas reminded me a bit of Natasha, at the beginning.

( Mel Gibson's favorite theme: Half naked men being tortured! )

Olivia, you watch this space. I paste Ireland/Scotland update sharpish, eh?

Had a glorious day today. The goldenrod is blooming and the starflower will soon too. Forest very beautiful. Stones very beautiful. Secret places, paths very beautiful. Sun, leaves very beautiful. Beautiful. Free! Must sleep as it's 2 AM now. Love you all. Howard Pyle's retelling of the stories of glorious King Arthur tomorrow. Namarie.
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Daring, Nerve, and Chivalry.... [Jul. 30th, 2007|09:34 pm]
[Current Location |Pennsylvania]

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This Journal Still on Hiatus
Yup, I'm still reading. Halfway there! Xenophilus Lovegood what?

Adios, pals! Love to everyone!
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HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS [Jul. 21st, 2007|05:15 pm]
[music |Harry Potter Theme]

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THIS JOURNAL WILL BE ON HIATUS UNTIL I FINISH READING HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS!

On a short aside, the Midnight Party at Books of Wonder was crazy amazing fun. We were sorted into House lines to recieve the book at four different tables, and not only did I get my House, Ravenclaw (9 times out of 10 I'm sorted as Ravenclaw, the outlier being Gryffindor) but I also got a really early number - 21! The same as the day! Whoo! It was Magic!

And without further ado,
Adieu.
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