"Allow me, my beautiful but ill-informed bitches, to explain."

[clo_again]

Derren Brown is a shockingly, delightfully rude man. Not sure what I was expecting from Tricks of the Mind but it certainly wasn't Noel Edmunds and rimming included in the same sentence (something which has scarred me for life, Derren, and for which part of me will never forgive you.) I'm only a couple of chapters in because I keep forgetting it's a very interactive book - he expects you to make pendulums and do card tricks and such - and I keep picking it up about 3am for 'something to read before I go to sleep'. Have to say, the pendulum trick is pretty nifty though. Ideomotor movement. Why can I learn new words and facts easier from a delightfully rude Derren Brown than mindlessly dull English tutors hm?

And why am I excited about the Hot Fuzz DVD when there's still more than a week before I'll get my hands on it? *Why*? I can't remember being this excited about a DVD release before. On related-lines, kinda sad Miko won't be here to come see Run, Fatboy, Run with me in September. I'd forgotten how fun it is to have the same fangirly passion as someone you see everyday. I'll have to get hill2k and dukedee to come and fangirl with me instead. ;) And maybe by the time Pegg/Frost have the next one written and filmed she can come back for a visit.

I just realised that the several fics I've memorised, over many months, in one fandom, are all by the same author. Even though I watch two fanfic comms for that fandom and read anything with my favourite pairing. I'm not sure if that says something about me or something about the fandom.

Seen 17 episodes of Heroes. Still speechless at the sheer awesome of it all (and the Stan Lee cameo had me flailing into falling off my chair. The man gets everywhere! Like sand...) May have more coherent thoughts when I've seen the whole series. But I love Hiro, bless his geeky little socks. And Mohinder is useless but very pretty. And in the last couple of episodes? Peter is getting very cool. I foresee possible bitterness in my future.

Sssshhh. Say nothing. I'll hamstring anyone who spoils me for this, ;) It's that good.

... one of these days, I'll get dressed before 1pm. Really.

Comments

[liathe.livejournal.com]

Haha, I knew you'd love Heroes! It is indeed made of sheer awesomeness. I managed to watch the whole series spoiler-free and it is *very* satisfying. Hmm, 17 episodes in? Methinks 18 is a goodun (if it's the one I remember). Either way, you have MANY treats still in store. :D

Have you read the accompanying mini-comics that go along with each episode?

[clo.livejournal.com]

It's fantastic. I love superhero-type stuff anyway but it's really impressive how they're fitting it all together and managing so many characters. I knew it'd be good with everyone saying how amazing it is but even then I wasn't expecting it to be *this* good. :D I've seen 20 episdoes now and the last couple were definitely very, very cool.

I hadn't seen that! Wow. They've put a *lot* of effort into this. I'm trying to resist reading the ones for the episodes I haven't seen yet but it's so pretty.