1. One of Hannah's buddies has given me some suggestions for piano pieces to try. Frustratingly, they're my least favourite level of difficulty. Not "too easy". Not "too hard". No, these are "too hard to play without considerable practice, but still within your grasp if you would only apply yourself, Emily...". Ugh. My least favourite. I am having a bash at Debussy's 2nd Arabesque first...
2. Dreamed about Jack the Ripper again. I always do this for essays (I had about two weeks of City of God dreams, and jolly cool they were too...), but it doesn't normally feel this creepy...this one was particularly interesting, however - it concerned an alternate universe in which I took part in the 24 Film Contest with my original team. The theme wasn't white, but red, and I dreamed the most intricate and sense-ful film we made of it. It was about loss, murder and red - I have written it all down and may yet make it. Just to see what happens.
3. I've just found my new favourite book: H.M.S. Ulysses, Alistair McLean's first novel. It's one of Ajax's favourites, and I finally found it after a few months of charity shop raids. I'm halfway through, but stunned and stunned since the first page. It's so much better than Guns of Navarone (book), I'm starting to wonder if Navarone warrants a re-read in case I missed something. That was a fun read, but Caesar-like in its prose style, thin on the character front, and missing everything which makes the movie great or memorable. This, on the other hand, has descriptive passages, emotions, characters, beauty - things I assumed he couldn't do because Navarone was so airport-y.
And yes. There is suggestive behaviour with cigarettes. All in the first paragraph.
It's also a good book in it's own right, probably, but for now I'm just a little knocked back because it's not at all as I expected. I've been warned things are going to get nasty.
4. And the prize for the most tasteless Ripper spin off goes to this. Unbelieveable. Only also sort-of inevitable
5. The Horned House are going to form a circus troop! With Calypso on poi, Benvenita on hoop and Spirita juggling. Unfortunately, I'm not skilled at any circus-y performance art, unless you count Extreme Origami. But I do have a talent for looking threatening in top hats, so maybe I should be the Lermontov-Zidler style ringmaster sort. Spirita has also suggested Lion Taming, but that might be overshadowed if Vapitreem agrees to perform as a Kraken Tamer...at present, I am intending on Fortune Teller.
6. I hate how websites now assume things on your behalf. Take Spotify Profiles:
What on Earth?! They don't have the right to make a decision like that on the basis of what "might" be the case! Yeh, I know: I use their service, I live by their rules. But I don't know why they would effectively cripple their own service by making it inflexible for people who (inexplicably) object to any of that.2. Dreamed about Jack the Ripper again. I always do this for essays (I had about two weeks of City of God dreams, and jolly cool they were too...), but it doesn't normally feel this creepy...this one was particularly interesting, however - it concerned an alternate universe in which I took part in the 24 Film Contest with my original team. The theme wasn't white, but red, and I dreamed the most intricate and sense-ful film we made of it. It was about loss, murder and red - I have written it all down and may yet make it. Just to see what happens.
3. I've just found my new favourite book: H.M.S. Ulysses, Alistair McLean's first novel. It's one of Ajax's favourites, and I finally found it after a few months of charity shop raids. I'm halfway through, but stunned and stunned since the first page. It's so much better than Guns of Navarone (book), I'm starting to wonder if Navarone warrants a re-read in case I missed something. That was a fun read, but Caesar-like in its prose style, thin on the character front, and missing everything which makes the movie great or memorable. This, on the other hand, has descriptive passages, emotions, characters, beauty - things I assumed he couldn't do because Navarone was so airport-y.
And yes. There is suggestive behaviour with cigarettes. All in the first paragraph.
It's also a good book in it's own right, probably, but for now I'm just a little knocked back because it's not at all as I expected. I've been warned things are going to get nasty.
4. And the prize for the most tasteless Ripper spin off goes to this. Unbelieveable. Only also sort-of inevitable
5. The Horned House are going to form a circus troop! With Calypso on poi, Benvenita on hoop and Spirita juggling. Unfortunately, I'm not skilled at any circus-y performance art, unless you count Extreme Origami. But I do have a talent for looking threatening in top hats, so maybe I should be the Lermontov-Zidler style ringmaster sort. Spirita has also suggested Lion Taming, but that might be overshadowed if Vapitreem agrees to perform as a Kraken Tamer...at present, I am intending on Fortune Teller.
6. I hate how websites now assume things on your behalf. Take Spotify Profiles:
- You get one automatically.
- You can remove all your information, but the profile still exists. If you link with Facebook, you can't choose whether or not to have your real name and photo or not. You either link, or you don't.
- You can't choose who to make playlists public to. It's all or none.
- Anyone can send tracks to your inbox. What does Spotify FAQ have to say about this?
Help! Someone I don't know has sent me a track.
Fear not. It may be because they like the music on one of your playlists, and want to send you a track you might like.
The assumption is that everyone wants everything linked, public, available, visible - maybe that's the case. But that's a horrible assumption to make. Facebook does the same - last month it made everything public by default, and you have to reprivate things.
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