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[sorcyress]

Terry Pratchett apparently has alzheimers. I got five different posts on my friends list telling me this, which makes me go all "damn." and kinda sad.

I do have a small advantage that there's still a *lot* of Pratchett that I haven't read yet, so I still have a lot of teh funny to look forward to. But still man! That's just not cool.

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I've pretty much just completely adopted this as the format for my elljay, haven't I?

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Pretty much annihilated my sociology final. And then I went back home and went to sleep, because waking up at eight o clock for a final I was done with by nine is not at all a fun thing to do.

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Weekend: Hopefully WGA strike thing (ee, Whedon) with possibly Maddie and possibly Keira on Friday. Baking cookies and playing games with Keira and Magus and other people on Saturday. Holiday partying with Lauren, Emily, Kate Monster, Dominik, Ria, Maddie, Mando, and very plausibly other people on Sunday. Last final on Monday, then home again home again.

Next month or so: Sweeney Todd comes out on the 21st. Georgetown and Tree Decorating on the 23rd. Christmas Eve type stuff and bowling with Santa on the 24th. Christmas and All That on the 25th. Katters shows up on the 26th. New Years on the 31st (shit-need-costume-rar...007 verse wears tailcoats, right? (Still kinda want to show up as the evil villans cat in an attempt to get scritches)) More New Years on the first of January. Katters leaves on the sixth (I think). Come Home on the 17th and go straight to Arisia. Yarrcon until Monday, at which point I will hopefully drag mum around to meet all my friends. School for a week, and then Vericon on the 25th. Collapse in a tired heap of "who's idea was it to attend back to back cons again?" on the 28th. School!

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Apparently, Rent is a lot of what my mood requires right now. It's very confusing when my mood doesn't tell me what kind of music it wants. Stupid brain.

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So, what bits of pop culture am I missing like woah? Music, movies, books, games, etc, just tell me what you will force down my throat if you realize I haven't actually heard/seen/read/played it.

~Sor
MOOP!

Comments

[oneskunktodd.livejournal.com]

Ugh, 8am exam. Bleah. Sometimes I miss school. And sometimes I'm reminded why I don't. :)

[kdsorceress.livejournal.com]

*chuckles* Ayep.

But hey --no eight AM classes next semester. This is a hellagood thing.

~Sor

[macaroniandtuna.livejournal.com]

what bits of pop culture am I missing

Oh god. Hundreds of things, from where I sit. Go through your mom's movie collection to start out with, that'll be a good start.

[kdsorceress.livejournal.com]

...

Anything in particular? Wonderfalls is already on my masterlist.

~Sor

[macaroniandtuna.livejournal.com]

Wonderfalls is a good start. I'm not sure if you ever saw any Dead Like Me, but I have my copies of that again and those should be up there on your list too. Weeds too. And definitely Pushing Daisies.

Movies-wise, hmm....Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Garden State, Secondhand Lions, and What's Up Doc? are what I can think of/provide you with.

I also discovered this 3-episode miniseries that aired on SciFi last week (Tin Man, it's called), that's a scifi remake of The Wizard of Oz. With Zooey Deschanel, who I know you love, as the remade Dorothy. It's fantastic. I'll bring that home with me too.

I think that's enough for now. :)

[la-vie-cynique.livejournal.com]

*waves* When are we going to see each other!? I have a gift thingy for you!
...Or I will, sometime between the 17th and the 19th. *grimaces*

[kdsorceress.livejournal.com]

*chuckles*. Dun worry, I can't make your gift for you until I'm home in Maryland. It's all good.

I dunno when. When are you free?

~Sor

[la-vie-cynique.livejournal.com]

Uh.... *peers at calendar* Winter Break for me starts the 21st....and carries all the way until the 1st of January. Any day in that range strike you as appropriate?

[thorog.livejournal.com]

Fifth Element

[kdsorceress.livejournal.com]

*adds to list*

~Sor

[astaereth.livejournal.com]

Here are 104 movies which are as near to perfection as you could ask, great movies, movies everyone should see (including you!). This list is by no means all-inclusive.

Taxi Driver
Reservoir Dogs
Kill Bill vol. 1 + 2
Road to Perdition
The Godfather
The Conversation
The Shawshank Redemption
The Back to the Future trilogy
Groundhog Day
Fistful of Dollars
For a Few Dollars More
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Once Upon a Time in the West
Don't Look Now
2001: A Space Odyssey
Casablanca
Citizen Kane
Eraserhead
Mulholland Drive
Oldboy
Schindler's List
Rashomon
The original Star Wars trilogy
Rear Window
Twelve Angry Men
Memento
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Psycho
Vertigo
The Silence of the Lambs
Fight Club
American Beauty
The Matrix trilogy
Adaptation
Se7en
Requiem for a Dream
Sin City
The Great Escape
Jaws
On the Waterfront
Donnie Darko
Fargo
Crash (2004)
The Sixth Sense
Unbreakable
Annie Hall
Die Hard
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Magnolia
The Exorcist
Heat
King Kong (2005)
The Descent
Carlito's Way
Scent of a Woman
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
The Nightmare Before Christmas
The Prestige
Children of Men
M
In Cold Blood
Fahrenheit 9/11
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
A Scanner Darkly
Pi
Pulp Fiction
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
High Fidelity
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
The Fountain
Rocky
Vanilla Sky
Dirty Harry
Airplane!
Identity
The Lord of the Rings trilogy
Minority Report
The Ring
Y Tu Mama Tambien
Slacker
Clerks
Chasing Amy
As Good as it Gets
Mission Impossible
The Blair Witch Project
Ghostbusters
Breathless (the French version)
Jacob's Ladder
Basic Instinct
Grindhouse

[kdsorceress.livejournal.com]

Ohdear.

I have seen:
The original Star Wars trilogy
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Silence of the Lambs
Fight Club
Die Hard
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
The Nightmare Before Christmas
The Prestige
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
High Fidelity (assuming that this is the one I'm thinking of --guy who owns record store and makes lists?)
Airplane!
The Lord of the Rings trilogy
Clerks

I will...uhm...get right on the rest of them. Sigh.

~Sor

[astaereth.livejournal.com]

I am continually astonished by how few movies you've seen, even the really well-known and popular ones (Back to the Future, The Matrix, etc.).

But yes. Get on these!

If you want ones to pick out of the list, do the ones that are on that 13-film list I've been hyping on my journal.

[kdsorceress.livejournal.com]

I'll try my best, but my life is a *little* insane right now. It may be a bit.

~Sor

[harena.livejournal.com]

Terry Pratchett apparently has alzheimers...

...I do have a small advantage that there's still a *lot* of Pratchett that I haven't read yet, so I still have a lot of teh funny to look forward to. But still man! That's just not cool.


Yarrr... i'm pretty tickedsaddenedinfuriated by this as well. And we too, have a looooot of TP to go as well, so lots o' Funny yet to come. (We're on Soul Music as we traipse through the Discworld in a more or less chronological order if that gives you any idea of what we've read already)(i say "we", 'cause W reads to me at bedtime to help me sleep)(works too! ^_^)