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Ah, can't wait for the minotaur. I'm really hoping that ep is as weird and psychedelic and creepy as it seems. The photography/cinematography for it looks amazing, at least.

I studied Pope a fair bit in university but struggled with it more than just about anything else. I was always more into the medieval and romantic eras. Good grief, I've never even been able to listen to 'giants' in one go, I hated it so much. :tongue: They definitely got better again after that- by the end the only original members were the two Gallaghers and the new guys were good (especially Zach Starkey... because you know they weren't Beatles-obsessed enough already. :laugh3:)

I didn't like it at all on the first listen, but it's not so bad on the second. :\:(:confused::shrug: But hey, that's just taste. Musically I zigged and they zagged and now we're both different than we used to be. It makes me sad to think we're going in different directions with different philosophies about music, but such is life. It's got a great tune, and some of the individual sounds sound amazing. But to my ears the whole is less than the sum of it's parts- it's too dense and it ends up sounding interchangeable with most of what's big on the top 40 stations now instead of offering something fresh to that world like they traditionally have. I wonder what it would sound like if it was put together differently...? :thinking: Yeah, that's what I've been trying to think of. Rock people doing the clubby sound.

Thanks, guys. I've always wondered about that phrase. (Really do wish I could get my head around Pope better sometimes, but it's probably a bit like trying to understand The Simpsons if you happen to be from the 25th century. The pop culture just won't translate without some research...) Oasis hit a really great zone right before the end. Noel's songwriting has matured beautifully (can't wait for his solo album) and skill-wise they had the best lineup ever. The old fans grumble that they didn't sound like the good old days and the critics grumble that they found a sound and stuck with it, but frankly, I think a lot of their best material is on their last two or three albums.

Mmm... someone give Karen an emmy already. Holy crap she was amazing this week. And Arthur.

I've never had a problem with blood. I kind of get it though, I like bugs and spiders and things- in my head at least- I think they're fascinating (at least when they're not invading). But I could never pick up a spider or beetle or something to look at it. My body spazzes out and starts shaking and I would risk squashing it by accident. It's like my head is going hmm that's interesting while my arms are going ew get it off get it off. I used to know someone who was so sensitive she even fainted at the thought of blood. One time she was reading a book that had a surprisingly gory bit in it. She passed out when she read that part, split her head open on a counter when she fell, was covered in actual blood when she woke up, and ended up having to get lots of stitches. :wtf:

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New stuff! :dance: Minotaur! :wacko: Yay! You know, Moffat said part of the reason for the season split was so that everyone could have all summer to get their heads around the big reveal. I got my head around it by the end of one week. The split is just making me spend the summer worrying that Rory is going to end up dead once and for all. :( *pouts* (PLEASE don`t kill Rory, Moffat :cry:)

I scan them if it`s something that could have weird implications. I read them if it`s financial sort of stuff. Software, they get a vague glance if I`m not in a hurry.

Sleep is good. Everything seems less overwhelming after sleep. I never would have survived school or my first real jobs without afternoon naps and learning how to set aside the day before bed.

Haha... finally got a chance to listen to this. Nice, very nice. :cool:

I started reading the newspaper every day (a proper one :P) when I was about 9 or 10. 20 years later and I'm pretty jaded when it comes to messed up stories about how wrong the world is. But there are few stories that have made me quite as sick to my stomach as this one. Murdering psychopaths I can understand to a point. They're on every crime show on tv every night and they've always been around. But what kind of monster would potentially endanger a girl's life for a story like that? What kind of sicko would potentially keep the cops from finding her for something as petty as a couple of quotes in a tabloid? :sick: I'm,...I... I don't understand. A murderer is often wrong in the head to begin with. That kind of writer has to willingly set aside their humanity to do that sort of thing. In a way the latter is worse. And what really scares me is the people who say oh, it's just a tabloid, what do you expect. Really? Have the UK tabloids gotten that bad that you're that complacent? No wonder they can keep going. I hope they have to shut it down. I hope the advertisers treat it as a pariah for the rest of existence. I hope you all learn that something can be done about the bloodsuckers that cross the line. And is it awful to say that I really hope the people who are directly responsible for all of this get the book thrown at them so they rot in jail? Well at least if he gets a black eye from all this crap, something good will have come from it.

Bone-dead tired. :sleeping2:

Why? :P

It means that something is shorting out when you plug the stick in. Either something inside the USB stick is damaged, something is shorting out the pins in the stick, or something in your computer's usb port is damaged. Probably it works when the laptop isn't plugged in because there isn't as much current available so it can't cause as much of a surge. How old is the laptop? Have you tried the stick in different usb ports on your laptop since you started having problems? Did it do the same thing every time? If it's just one port, do other usb devices work in that port? Take a look at the little metal strips inside the usb plug on your stick. Is there anything that looks damaged or that shouldn't be there? Anything connecting any of the pins to the metal part of the case?

Sounds like fun. :)

Re: Karen... I love how the guest talking to the papers about her had no idea who she was and only saw her through the peephole of his door, yet when the Daily Mail (of course) manages to track him down months later, he's adamant that yes, it's definitely Karen Gillan. :freak: Why is that paper out to get her anyway? I just hope that if there is any actual truth to it all that something more...sinister hadn't happened. :worried: I went red a little over a year ago, and it actually isn't that bad. The most annoying part is that I have to mix different colours to get the shade I want. (And yes, I totally based it on Karen's colour. :shifty: So what. :wacko:) The bad/good thing about red is that it fades fast, so you really want to dye it again when the time comes so it will be all bright and intense again.

Woohoo Button! :D THAT was amazing. Maybe, but it's a pretty boring race if they have to paddle the cars down the road like canoes. :P Seriously though, the lightest trailing edge of what they had in Montreal yesterday just brushed by us this morning. (Pounding against my window so hard it woke me up. :bomb:) Holy crap what a wallop. If that was "light rain" compared to the centre of the storm, I don't understand how anyone in Montreal could even breathe in that mess. No wonder there's been so many tornadoes this year with storms like that going around. Seriously hoping they work out a North American release/distribution soon. I really want to see it.

Holy Crap! My old River Song is a former time agent like Jack theory might have some substance after all.... From twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/steven_moffat/status/78946818993565696 @brigitsmith Brigit Smith @steven_moffat What would it be like if River Song and Jack Harkness met...? This needs to become a reality. @steven_moffat Steven Moffat @brigitsmith He'd say, who are you? She'd whisper in his ear. He'd go white and salute.

I went back just before the war episode aired and watched all of River's episodes in the order she would have experienced them in. And holy crap, does it ever actually work that way. (How does Moffat do that???) And it's so sad too, up to 'time of angels' (where she's clearly a lot older than the next/last time we saw her at the Pandorica and she's finally seen an older version of the Doctor recently), every time she tells the doctor anything, every time we finally learn something about her going through in the Doctor's order, she's just lost that and she can't get it back. No wonder she makes such a point of being mysterious, it's got to hurt that everything she lets out is another piece of her life being eaten away. She'll just be getting onto good terms with the younger Doctor and he's starting to like her, and then the next time she sees that version of him he's all angry and grumpy and wary at her for things she hasn't even experienced yet, and he gets really annoyed by little things she does that he normally likes. And then, when I got back to silence in the library, the part where she asks the Doctor if he even knows her and he just asks "who are you?" I actually cried a little. That whole story is so different now. (Also, I can't help but wonder if they are a couple if she's frustrated she never really gets anything more than a picnic with that version of him, since 11 was the first one who made out with her. :sneaky: ) And then you see "A good man goes to war" and dive back into her future, and oh my goodness. ...Captain Jack was in America on a big fancy Torchwood mission. He would have come if he could, but he was already busy. (iirc, the Moff said so himself on twitter.) I so want Captain Jack back for a bit next season. I'm dying to see what he'll think of the current version of the Doctor. :lol: Besides, he was Moffatt's character originally, it would be cool to see what it's like with him writing for Jack again. We might find out what the deal with his missing time was.

*cough* uh, yeah.

^*snerk* :smug2::p

Finally finding out about River Song tonight. :freak: :D

Or for the modern English, "There's no disputing taste". As I understand it, that saying has been around for thousands of years. I find it curious that we've has thousands of years to learn it, understand it, practice it... and yet we seem to be aware of it less than ever as a culture. Internet trolls have a history of amusing me far more than they should, but even I've been getting annoyed by the overly emotional 'my tastes are better than yours so you don't count as a human being' tone going on in all different forms of fandom all over the place. It's meant abandoning tv bloggers I used to like because I just can't stand how self-righteous they've gotten about their own emotional opinions to the point of flaming regulars they used to have great conversations with. It means not being able to talk about something I'm happy about because I'll get drowned out by haters, and not being able to be mildly but vocally disappointed in something I was excited about because I'll get flamed by the lovers. (And there is a such thing as middle ground, just for the record.) Personally, I think I kind of blame Oprah. :thinking: She's the embodiment of the modern philosophy that your feelings matter and you the individual are very special and you need to focus on yourself because you're important. Not bad ideas in themselves individually in moderation, but they're quite thoroughly destructive when used together toward others. It leads towards a sort of irrational narcissism in which the personal feelings of the individual are used as the standard by which all other people and things are judged in spite of any evidence, and then the individual gets extra upset when anyone dares to apply their own feelings to the situation and disagree, which everyone is because we're an emotional society now, and tastes differ. It's that emotional irrational partisanship that has destroyed modern American politics. In the health realm, that sort of mentality is deadly- "I don't feel safe about vaccines because people have said things about them so I'm not going to vaccinate my children". It's why a lot of easily prevented but serious childhood diseases are spreading more than they should. Or there's farming, where warm fuzzy feelings about organic salads can lead to deadly e coli outbreaks. But there's very little to be rational about with art. If a movie makes one person happy and one person sad, it means they're interpreting the movie through personal backgrounds and experiences that are not and cannot be shared. So why is it ok to call the happy person an idiot because they're not sad now? I remember ten years ago when the first Lord of the Rings movie was coming out later in the year, everyone was arguing about Legolas' boots among other things. He wears shoes in the books, and many of the fans were saying they would boycott the movies because having him wear boots proved that the filmmakers weren't sufficiently loyal to the source material. This of course made the movie lovers (who were irrationally loyal (and for good reason it turned out) to the movies before they were even released) insanely angry and arguing ensued. It was hilarious to watch at the time. Some of the arguments got so silly. But they were always textual arguments (that I saw), they had some understanding that they were arguing about aesthetics which were subjective, and they didn't make it personal. At the end of the day they could agree that they loved some element of the books and talk about that. Ten years later and every single dispute instantly becomes emotional, personal, and usually profane. It's not funny anymore, and it makes the elf fanboys look like masters of perspective in comparison. (Which is sad, for the record. It's so pathetically sad.) When did this become ok? When did this become the norm? Why can't people act rationally towards each other? Why hasn't this generation learned to respect other's tastes? Will the internet ever grow up? A thread for people who still love respectful, thoughtful middle ground.

Civility. Civility from all sides would be a wonderful thing. I might even bother to mention something about the song if the flames hadn't seeming left everything around here so... charbroiled.