A place for me to work stuff out and to post things that interest me.
Most of us can, if we choose,
make this world either a palace or a prison.
~Lord Avebury
I choose a palace.
~TKF
Do not let your fire go out,
spark by irreplaceable spark,
in the hopeless swamps of the approximate,
the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all.
Do not let the hero in your soul perish,
in lonely frustration for the life you deserved,
but have never been able to reach.
Check your road and the nature of your battle.
The world you desired can be won.
It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.
~Ayn Rand
The democratic society's mythology of equality with its
attendant erasure of difference is an impossibility
in an actual, lived sense.
Therefore, according to this view, this
imaginary erasure cannot achieve an
actual democracy, because a sense of
community can only come with the recognition of difference.
~Slavoj Zizek, as paraphrased by Catherine M. Soussloff
Links!
A brand new link! Check it out!
deviantART
I thought the place was very cool. Oh, and all you Alias fans, you can find a very nice wallpaper there--
or rather, here--and a gorgeous Evanescence one, too!
Watcher's Diary
Slayage; The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies
Convert just about anything
Comes in really handy when you want to convert fahrenheit to celcius and vice versa!
Links to 100s of free calculators online
Everything from your due date to how much a house payment would be to a regular calculator
Reference Guide to Chicago Manual of Style
Dictionary, Encyclopedia, Atlas & Almanac
Quotation Search Engine
Complete HTML True Color Chart
Epicurious Recipes
Inn Recipes; Recipes for all Occasions
JobStar-Resumes & Cover Letters Advice
Overstock.com: Up to 80% off most items
Ediblenature.com
Things My Girlfriend & I Have Argued About
(Trust me--you'll be laughing outloud!)
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Beyond the Invisible
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The tale of the world is like a tree.
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Sturdily rooted in the past, the tale's branches spread out through the days that come. The many stories that make up its substance
unfold from bud to leaf to dry memory and back again, event connecting event like the threadwork of a spider's web, so that each creature of the world plays its part, understanding only aspects of the overall narrative, and perceiving, each with its particular talents, only glimpses
of the Great Mystery that underlies it all.
~Charles de Lint, Moonheart
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Tuesday, February 01, 2005
"I'm just afraid this whole session is going to turn tinto some training montage from an 80's movie."
"Well, if we hear any inspirational power chords, we'll lay down until they go away."
I still love "Once More With Feeling". I sit and sing (badly) all the songs and I can recite most of the dialogue. I just borrowed S6 from a friend and now I'm watching all the special features that go with this particular episode.
New Things I've Learned:
I put the captions on so I could catch the dialogue I miss whenever everyone is talking/singing at the same time. I LOVE Anya's lines, particularly when she and Xander are yelling at Giles to come up with an answer just after their own duet.
"It was like we were being watched! Like there was a wall missing from our apartment! Like there were only three walls--and my toes are not hairy!"
I also finally found out the last word in Giles reply to Xander's question about whether the singing and dancing are related to the burning and dying...
"I was able to examine the body while the police were taking witness arias."
Joss, in his commentary, explained some things I found "off" about the episode from the beginning. First, he has A/X laughing at the end of their number as an homage to 40's musicals. However, he feels the laughter usually doesn't make any sense in light of whatever particular situation is going on at the time. So the tirade to Giles just after their duet is to indicate that they're aware the laughter didn't make sense. Second, Buffy can't hear Giles's song about having to leave because she's too distant from everyone and everything. All she can feel/see/hear is her own pain. Finally, Xander was the one that summoned the demon because Joss thought it would be a complete surprise ending if it were him.
I LOVE:
Spike: "Whisper in a dead man's ear/it doesn't make it real./So let me rest in peace..."
"So, you're not staying then?"
"I hope she fries!/I'm free if that bitch dies!/I better help her out."
Willow: Her facial expression when she realizes what she's done to Buffy by resurrecting her.
"I think this line is mostly filler!"
The Parking Ticket Song
"I think that hydrant wasn't there."
There's other stuff, but suddenly, I'm exhausted. G'Night!
2:00 PM
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