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Note: I love (LOVE!) new friends, but I'd like to ask you to please comment here if you add me. Just let me know from where we know each other, or why you friended me (fanfic, fandom, just thought I was super cool, etc. ;-). Because otherwise I might be all flabbergasted about strange new names on my friends list. ;-)

I friend pretty much everybody back, with the exception of blogs with heavy character (or other) bashing and blogs that are completely in a foreign language, cos I unfortunately wouldn't understand a word of those. ;-)

Heee! Finally, I have my very own copy of Rolling Stone with Adam on the cover! It only took about a month to reach my corner of the world. ;-) Lookie how comfily bb rests in my mag basket.


The mag has been on sale for two days, and there was only one copy left in the store. :-O I've gotta say, when you sell out a magazine in an obscure little country like mine, where the magazine isn't even carried by very many stores, you've made it. The article in itself is pretty racy and I don't condone everything he says or does/has done, but I understand that transforming from a plump, awkward kid into a star probably wouldn't go that smoothly for most people.
And I'm just loving all the AI tour reports - the audiences have all been Adam's; he's the true star, and everybody knows it. OH HAI YOUNG ELVIS.

No idea when I'll see HBP. I've read some reviews on my F-list (thanks for sharing, everybody!), and it sounds pretty much like the rest of the films. Canon people are desperately trying to bring up some good points while having to resort to admitting that once again, the Kloves machine has struck, and H/Hr is portrayed as TEH deepest and sweetest and strongest relationship EVAR, while Ron gets the comical laughs and Snape struts by in two quick scenes. I couldn't believe my eyes when I read that Dumbledore actually asks someone about H/Hr in this movie. LOLWHUT?
Oh, I know, trying to fix the mess Kloves & Co made.

Ok, it's 5 am, and I'm wide awake, one whole hour before the alarm. How's this possible?

Well, might as well do a bit of blogging. :-) This time, HP style. I just read that Rupert Grint had the swine flu! It was even in our national papers. Now, that's an OMG moment! Thank goodness he's okay now!

Also, I saw the first HBP outdoor ads last night! I've gotta say, I got a bit excited as I sat in the subway and one of the back walls was entirely covered with a HBP poster. It had Ron and Hermione on one side and Harry and Dumbly on the other:

I really got almost teary as I sat there; it reminded me of how much I love HP after all and how many wonderful moments I've spent reading the books and sharing the love in the fandom. :-) Oh, and there was another ad, too, in an ad stand (rack? scaffold?) very close to my work, and it featured those posters with two characters in each. Spotted at least Ron and Ginny.

And someone posted this excerpt of an interview by Daniel Radcliffe in honestlyronald! It really made my day!

"But I have to say, today I saw playback of Ron and Hermione's kiss [from the final book], and it is easily, from what we've filmed so far, the biggest moment in all the films. It is," he says approvingly, "a great kiss." "

Could it be that Kloves of all people finally got something right about the canon relationships? :-o Yay!

Just a meaningless squeeage post: I have a new layout and a brand spanking new Adam mood theme! YAY It's my first customized one ever! The downside is that now it takes me ages to pick a mood.

Bad news: I feel like a cold is lurking behind the corner. Please, stay away, sniffles.

Well, I gave my userpics another overhaul, which means many of my previous entries now sport my default icon. Ah well, such is life. I just have this inexplainable need to go icon shopping at regular intervals. Found some beauties this time! :-)

I've been neglecting my other fandoms quite shamefully for Adam. I know, I know, I get overobsessed with things. Anyway, I've been checking things out now, and well, surprisingly enough, I'm not that excited about HBP. I haven't looked at any of the previews or the released images. If you want to know the truth...the upcoming New Moon movie excites me much more right now. The thought scares me since I'm not a Twilight fan - or actually, I do think I am a Twilight movie fan. But I have a theory about this...

I can't seem to get interested in HBP because I'm so fricking sick and tired of the canon butchering...the H/Hr stuff, the joke!Ron stuff, the sacrifice of Snape's screen time so that there can be one more extra Emma scene. My Ron, the BRAVE, witty guy who does not whimper or make comical faces and who is actually Harry's closest mate, is nowhere in the movies, nor is my Hermione, the incredibly annoying but good-hearted know-it-all, who is PLAIN and sports a near afro hairdo. And after the last three movies, I've simply had it with having my expectations crashed once again by Heyman, Kloves & Co.

So, the Twilight movies are non-threatening; I'm not really emotionally invested in any character or ship (though I was intrigued by Jacob in the first movie and think he has potential) and I can just follow all the hoopla and enjoy it. Which leads me to...I really liked the New Moon trailer. While it's heavy on Edward and there are some overly sugary moments, it has a lot of intensity and emotion, and Jake's transformation in midair is great, not too showy. The warm orange glow is interesting as well; I wonder if they moved away from the bluish hue on purpose with the new director. Anyway, definitely looking forward to that one.

Meanwhile, must go and check Adam's Twitter, so 'xcuse moi...;-)

I found this wonderful wallpaper site by accident today and thought I'd share. I love their fantasy illustrations in particular, but they have so much other stuff, too, including great nature photos. Worth a visit!

Click on my screen below to go to the fantasy section of the site! :-)

I can't believe Michael Jackson is dead. It's the end of an era.

Rest in peace, Michael.

I've been watching The Buccaneers these past few days.

I got the DVD a while ago, but got to watch it only now. I first saw it on the telly in the 90s and really loved it, and it's been interesting to see it again after ten years. It's quite different than what I remembered...for one, I remember really hating the Duke of Trevenick (James Frain, who plays Thomas Cromwell in The Tudors) and thinking he's cold and uncaring ('twas the fervor of youth, I suppose;-). However, now I see many more nuances in him, and I actually think Annabel is too hard on him, demanding him to change his outlook on life at the snap of the fingers. He clearly cares for her very much, but doesn't quite know how to express it. So, now the character I disliked the most on the previous viewing has become my favorite - plus James Frain is a sublime actor! Puzzling stuff. :-D

Anyway, for those who might not know, this is a story based on Edith Wharton's unfinished novel about four American girls who come to England in the 1870s and marry into aristocratic (or almost) families. It's not a pretty picture, but it isn't as sobering as I remembered. It's not your usual period drama, though: all the women smoke, for example, and there are illicit love affairs and homosexuality. The Amazon reviews seem sharply divided into those who liked it and those who were dismayed that it wasn't as "clean" as Austen (although I dunno what's so clean about Wickham's shenanigans, for example;-). In any case, I recommend it because it gives a much more realistic picture of the upper class in Victorian England than many other period dramas.

I will never see snakes the same way again.

Via the_glass_onion

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