Woo Massachucetts! Take THAT, Virginia!
“Shrek 2” comes out this Wednesday! Ah, the handyness of my new “Fangirl Calendar” in the sidebar! If I’m missing anything, comment and tell me what a t00b I am.
Well, I’ve switched comments from BlogBack to the new Blogger Comments. I don’t like the look of them as much, but I think they’re overall much better, as this way, people with popup blockers will still be able to comment, I’ll get email notification (which I love about LiveJournal), and comments won’t get deleted when their post is cycled off the main page. Handy!
So I just got back from seeing “Kill Bill 2” with Rachel and the first session of her summer goal of turning me into a Buffy fan. Both the movie and the two episodes Rachel showed me were wholly enjoyable! I miss hanging out with Rachel. Hopefully, this will happen more this summer!
I promised them last night, then this morning, and now I deliver. Ashley, I’ll post those pics from the party at Chungy’s tomorrow. Am lazy. Hope this will tide you over. Troy and dinner at Chili’s!
Wow, I look really pretty here
Mimi and I as Athena and Andromache
Ashley and Alex, with Mimi’s garland
Ditto
Mimi is a poseur XD
YayMilkshakes
Sweet’N’Low in Diet Coke?
I blow muchas smoochies to Chungy
Rachel must remove her glasses and take down her hair to be photographed.
Aaron, Rachel’s brother
Alex is photogenic
Mimi stops stabbing Aaron to get a photo in…
…then promptly resumes said stabbage.
HAHAHAHAHA
Chungy is teh Asian!!!1!
So yay, we are happy!
Go here. Click “News.” Click “The Score From Troy.” Listen. Apparently this score was ditched for being “too classical sounding.” WHA? It’s Anicent Greece, how classical do you want? And it’s so much better than the score they ended up using. For shame.
Edit: ENDCREDITSGUH
*gasp*
So did anyone else notice JKR said “Sirius’ eyes are grey” in the present tense?
Bah, it’s getting harder and harder to be rational and accept said bucket-kicking. Ah, the trials of fandom.
AND GINEVRA IS A GERMAN EQUIVALENT OF “GUINEVERE!” I WIN!!! (of course, there’s also the issue of Ginevra di Benci, subject of a painting by Leonardo, and also the Italian word for juniper, a principal component of Gin. *sigh*)
So yeah. “Guinevere.” From the Welsh “Gwenhwyfar,” which comes from two words that mean white/shining/Holy and cloud/phantom/shadow/smooth (from here.) And in Welsh legend, she was a shape-changer. Do we have an animagus in our future? And Juniper, in herb lore, is used for purification. So we have Lily symbolizing purity and now Juniper. Oh, JKR, no you di-int. This is too easy.
So I just read the sample page of an early draft of Philosopher’s Stone, in JKR’s nearly impenetrable handwriting. I think I’ve gone blind. (To see it for yourself, dial the correct number into the phone. Hint: Think OoP.)
And HOLY COW I AM AWESOME. Back when I was writing my miserable excuse for a prequel fic, I blindly guessed that Dean Thomas’ dad had been a wizard and that the girl with the “heavy-lidded eyes” was Sirius’ sister turned evil. And I had in my notes a mention of a “Frank Longbottom”… was that revealled in Book 4, or am I just that scary? No, it must have been canon. I never would have named him “Frank.” (::checks:: Yeah, canon. Okay, now I can breathe.)
And hmm… “Mopsy the Dog-Lover” as Sirius’ part-time “owner.” Gah, I got so excited at this originally, because Mopsy is the name of one of the rabbits from Beatrix Potter’s “The Tale of Peter Rabbit,” but I confused this for a split second with “The Tales of Uncle Remus: The Adventures of Brer Rabbit.”
Theirloveissodistantlylinkedthroughchildrensliterature.
Question of the Day: Why reuse the name “Mafalda?”
So apparently JKR’s new website reveals that Ginny’s full name is Ginevra.
So… yeah.
The WIAN nut in me is now destroying entire cityblocks in a frenzied rage.
Edit: Wait! No, there could be something here! Forget Arthurian theories or the line of English monarchs! “Ginevra” is the Italian name for Geneva, in Switzerland. Geneva, Geneva… Geneva Convention? Hmm, I shall ponder this some more.
(Or, you know, it could always be a reference to the character in Bite Me.)
WOW. Further revelation of why Peter Jackson is a cinematic genius. GUH of all GUHs.
I just cancelled the espressoferrets.com domain. Just so you know. If you have any files hosted that you want to keep, retrieve them now!