SubscribeI dag bliver det et lille reklame indslag for gruppen Devics, som jeg første gang opdagede på (ja, du gættede rigtigt) Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Radio Sunnydale, hvor de bidrog med sangen Key. Denne og andre af deres sange kan opleves i en lille mp3-jukebox her… Needless to say, deres cd’er er blevet tilføjet min ønskeseddel!
Tag: buffy
It's really shiny.. yes it is.
Så har jeg omvendt den første person til min trosretning: Kåre har netop her i formiddags meddelt, at Firefly er en super cool serie (hvordan han nogensinde har kunne betvivle min påstand, er jeg stadig uvidende om!). Det er han blevet overbevist om, efter jeg udnævnte serien til at være hans fødselsdagsgave, og han nu flittigt er gået i gang fra episode 1. Der er flere personer, jeg påtænker at indlemme i min sekt, men det kommer nok med tiden… Dog synes jeg stadig ikke, at Firefly lever helt op til Buffy-standarderne – men tæt på – så hvordan de kunne cancel Firefly efter kun 1 sæson er udenfor min fatteevne… Jeg kan kun anbefale, at man investerer i det helt fantastiske boxset og tager et smut forbi biografen til en visning af filmen Serenity. Da jeg endnu ikke har set Serenity ved jeg ikke, om det er en fordel for filmens handling at have set serien før, men jeg kan kun tro, at forhåndskendskab til personerne giver nogle ekstra små twists til beretningen.
See Jane Date
Filmen See Jane Date kommer i fjernsynet idag. Filmen har Charisma Carpenter (vores allesammens Cordelia Chase) i rollen som Jane, hvilket er hovedårsagen til at jeg skal se i tv om en lille halbe Stunde. Men den har også den appeal, at plottet virker påfaldende bekendt… Hvor mange gange har jeg ikke været fristet til at opfinde en kæreste, når veninden, jeg ikke har talt med i over et år, spørger? – Jeg har dog afstået fra fristelsen og hver gang meldt intet nyt fra vestfronten. Men det har været fristende, indrømmet. Nu hvor jeg tænker over det, ville det egentlig også være en bizar opførsel… Hmmm… Jeg ville gerne kunne sige, at det er af en eller anden nobel grund, at jeg ikke har ladet fantasien udfolde sig, men den egentlige grund er nok, at de ville gennemskue mig lige med det samme, for jeg er forfærdelig til at lyve! Det strider imod selve min persolighed, der er pinligt ærlig, så jeg fortæller så godt som aldrig en løgn (med mindre der er tale om overfor min mor, for der er en lille hvid løgn nogengange en nødvendighed!). Men nu må vi se, hvordan Jane klarer ærterne – det kan jo være, at det ville være det værd at begynde.
Union
Fists and fangs
Kicks and blows
Hitting hands
Blood that flows
Fight the need
Kill the fire
Cool the heat
Destroy desire
Mouths and lips
Tongues that dance
Grinding hips
No thoughts, no plans
Face the need
Revive the fire
Feel the heat
Embrace desire
Sacrifice
Azure eyes and ruby lips
Skin torn off her fingertips
Golden locks and tattered dress
Nothing more, nothing less.
Dirt under her fingernails
Horrors that used to linger, pales.
Beaten down but standing strong
Brought back to life, a deed so wrong
A sacrifice, a cross to bear
A world to save, a will to care
Fires burning, cold as ice
Feelings grown that she despise
Violent shades of black and blue
Words spoken: ‘I believe in you’
Cutting down to truth and bone
Both of them, as persons grown
Facing now the final trial
No time for games or for denial
‘I love you’ is spoken from the heart
Just moments before the lovers part
The world is safe from harm again
The enemy’s dead but so are friends
Life goes on, the highway’s open
Things turned out as they’d been hoping
Now she looks up to the skies
With ruby lips and azure eyes
Exams versus Buffy (I believe Buffy's winning)
There’s two things I ought to be doing right at this moment – and blogging isn’t one of them I can safely reveal. First I ought to be studying for my final in Neurobiology which is on the 28th – and second I’m actually at work, working. Well, technically it’s the lunch break so I have a good excuse :O)
Already in the past is my ohther exam (molecular neurobiology) which I completed last monday. It’s kinda funny, this semester I’ve never managed to hit my study-mode. I KNOW, I OUGHT to be studying, but I simply CAN’T make myself go do it! And it’s not like it isn’t interesting because it’s about as interesting as anything gets. I love neurobiology (you’d think, I would since I’ve made it my future, right?)and I’m fascinated by every word and every sentence… Buffy just seems to be a lot more interesting to me these days. I guess, it’s because I’m on overload. Too much homework, too many exams. Well, listen to me whine!
Yesterday I re-watched some of the old Buffy episodes (esp. the Spikey ones): “Lies my parents told me” and “Smashed”. And last sunday I recorded the episode of Angel on tape and I’ve re-watched that time and time again. I don’t know the title but it’s the one with the psycho slayer and where Spike gets his hands cut off. I simply found the dialogue between Angel and Spike in the end to be very beautiful and sad. I also liked the way they sort of found each other through the pain. Don’t get me wrong – I LOVE their quarrels and rivalry, it’s SOOOOO funny but it was still nice to see them bond. And Andrew’s appearance… I just couldn’t stop laughing as it sent me right back down memory lane to the episode “Storyteller”.
Okay, so I’m babbling on here… I think it’s because I haven’t written my mind for quite some time. Stream of consciousness is a wonderful thing. It completely let’s you unwind.
I don’t really have any news. It’s not like my life is very eventful – but I guess I’d like to keep it that way. Big thrills are greatly overrated. It’s the joys of everyday life that counts in the end. I don’t know if this is going to sound weird but I don’t feel like I have any room in my life right now for big thrills. Big thrills only serve to take you out on an emotional rollercoaster – and if you want to have a happy ending it usually takes a whole lot of time and effort. Maybe I’m just being stupid, I’m not sure. It’s like the whole “falling in love”-issue… I would definitely go for it in no time if there was major sparkage, no doubt about that. But to invest my time and energy in a pastime, I’m not quite willing to do that yet. – Which is kinda stupid actually since I don’t believe in love at first sight… Lust at first sight, sure… But love at first sight, not a chance. You fall in love with a person on the basis of what he/she is – and you simply don’t know that within the time it takes to glance.
I’ll leave you with that thought…
Busy doing nothing
Today my order from Amazon.co.uk arrived. I’m so excited. It contained “Angel season 2″, “Pride and Prejudice” and Aimee Mann’s “Lost in space” – making a grand total of about 1000 kr. But I can affort it since I’ve just been offered over 2000 kr for about half of my collection of Diddl postcards. And I perhaps have another interested buyer for parts of the other half. I’ve already watched two of the Angel episodes. I’d almost forgotten how great the show was back then. Now it has gotten a bit too weird for my taste but I have high hopes for the current season. – Though I must admit that Spike’s return was a bit of a let down. His death was so magnificent and his entire existence was redeemed – and then it’s all “fake” and he just pops out of the medallion – I mean, how lame is that! It totally undermines the beauty of his death. But having Spike back is a nice thing (at least I hope, because I haven’t seen him in action on Angel yet) – and also having Harmony back, this is going to be good. And all the tension with Spike and Angel because of their past – and of course because of Buffy. It’s going to be so great! I can just feel it!
I’ve found a flat which I’ve fallen completely in love with – I haven’t calculated on the the key figures yet, so I don’t know if it’ll be a possibility, but it’s really charming so I hope it’ll be. Of course things can change when you actually take a look at the place. The most funny part is that it’s only three blocks away from where my dad grew up, so he’s quite familiar with the neighborhood. It’s not very big, only 45 m2 – but the squaremeters are nicely divided making the most of the space and creating nicely looking rooms.
What else has been going on? Yes, I’m beginning the first parts of the expriments for my graduate thesis next week. It’s a repetition of our work with rats in the watermaze but with different drugs and different concentrations. But what is really cool is that the professer we work under has been able to use some of the theories we presented in our undergraduate thesis and is now working on a new experiment to test that. Isn’t that just the coolest! And I get to have my name on his next publication because I’m now part of the team, being a graduate student. It’s just really great! And it really shames the thoughts I had for about 1½ year ago, when I wasn’t at all sure it really was a biochemist that I wanted ot be. I’m exactly where I want to be! When he tells us about the projects we can work on I’m genuinely thrilled – I can honestly say that I would gladly spend all my time dedicated to the cause. I like being in the lab and working with the rats (I cannot emphasize enough how cute those little rascals are).
I’ve also dedicated some of my too spare time doing my own brand of clothes – well it’s just a hobby and I’m not going to sell it or anything. I’ve called the brand “extrinsic” because I think it was a cool name – sort of suggesting “beauty from the outside”, cause clothes of course cannot bring beauty from the inside; that’s totally up to the person to deal with. Well, my autumn collection so far consists of two tanktops. I think I’m becoming okay in PSP7. I’ve done some prints, picking up graphics at deviantArt.com, composing an image and ironing it onto the tops. To be frank, I think they’ve come out just as cool as most of the T-shirts with print you can buy in the shops – and they’ve only cost 1/4 the price if that even. I think I’m going to dabble into that some more.
Oh, speaking of graphics – I saw “Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron” the day before yesterday and I was totally in awe of the job with combining the new digital animation with the classic animation. I think I need to get busy with my computer and learn some of that stuff. That’d be so cool. Of course I’d also have to learn how to draw – but I’m not completely hopeless with a pencil so I can do that.
And on with the little personal projects – now I’m going to search on google on how to play the guitar. I own a guitar and I really wish to be able to play it – but I don’t even know where to start. So I’ll just go check it out now.
Returning to real life
I know, I know… I’ve been neglecting this forever and I feel really bad about it. The exams seemed overwhelming for a period of time and afterwards I just felt like spending some quality time with my television set. I’d bought 5th, 6th and 7th season of “Buffy the vampire slayer” and watched them all in just one week. It is my all time favourite show and probably always will be! I was completely breathtaken by the last episode, “Chosen”. We haven’t seen them here in Denmark yet (“Lies my parents told me” are on next sunday), so it was all news to me. It was the absolutely most fabulous series final! I loved it when all the women around the world stood up for themselves and got “the slayer spirit”.
It was such a motivating episode. I really felt like I should be doing something with my life. I have the potential so I should use it, not just hide away in my room all the time instead of standing up and facing stuff, good or bad.
It was sad to see Anya go. And Spike, but that seemed more bearable somehow because of the circumstances. He died for the goodness in him and for what he had become and there was a beauty in that. Anya’s death was pointless – and therefore that much sadder. Also Spike is going to be on Angel, that also lessens the sadness.
But what I originally wanted to tell you was that I’m back on-line again. I’m going to do my regular updates. And I promise, I’ll write something a little more interesting that I’ve been known to do so far.