The Ballad of John Chricton

"I don't care care about the things you care about. I care about one thing. ONE. Thing.
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God have mercy on my soul.
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I will give you wormholes. Wormholes, for Aeryn."


Is not Farscape the coolest thing this side of all science fiction?
(Considering that Spike the Vampire Chronicles Buffy the Vampire Slayer is fantasy, not scifi.)

I swear, the writing for this show has only gotten better and better. Watching these episodes and knowing that its nearing the end; I can't help but feel that it's being cut off when it is at its strongest.
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I had a Buffy dream last night.

I wasn't in it-- it was all about Spike and Buffy and the Ashanti demon. For some reason I don'r remember, the Ashanti was alive, and they were keeping her alive in the attic (does casa summers have an attic?) much like they'r tolerating Andrew being there. Then she was doing this hypno-mojo-illusion thing on Spike, which was killing him slowly I think.
And then we cut to this grassy sunny field where Buffy is looking around, and the Ashanti demon come sup behind her looking like Spike, and the demon holds her and whispers sweet nothings in her ear, and the whole sunlihgt thing doesn't clue Buffy into the fact that its not really Spike. And then the demon goes away (??), and its just Buffy again, and she's looking at these giant footprints in the grass.

Then Legolas (LotR) is walking toward her from far away, and when he gets to Buffy they talk about the tracks, and why it if you sneeze on a footprint all the crushed grass springs back up like new. Somehow this conversation leads buffy to realizing she was fooled by the Ashanti demon, and that Spike's life is in danger, and that's about when I woke up.

God, even my dreams are turning Spuffy now.


Oh, and when Legolas was walking across the grass toward Buffy there was this really pretty thing with intense back-lighting and wind. That part was all me, I think.

thanks hils for this quiz

Your greasy-haired manbitch is...Aragorn!


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( and because I couldn't resist... )

listen up!

I have this really pretty music clip that I wanted to share with the LJ people, and I uploaded it to www.streamload.com account, hoping that I could link to it from my LJ, like I can link pictures. But I'm not sure how to work it. The way I'd done it with image files was to view it at the streamload site, then left-click to 'Properties', and copy the URL.

Anyway, I hope this works:
http://marilyn.streamload.com/Gimme/1026660155/18168446/10/0/07CC92FC-ED16-448A-BF8A-A847D8CD0F74/0.0299571/1/Cowboy_Bebop_-_Ballad_of_Fallen_Angels.mp3

It's a pretty clip, and only about 1:47 minutes long (1.63 MB). Lovely piano, and sort of chorus-like-sung lyrics in either latin or a latin-based language, I'm not sure. From the score of episode 5 of Cowboy Bebop.

Anyway, you should all listen to it. I'd put up the clip of video that goes with the music, if I had it to show.

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Made a bunch of icons this afternoon, two of which I just put up. I have several variations of these icons that I'll be cycling though for a while.

They're all made from art from the Dark Tower books by Stephen King. The one with the crow that I'm using here is from the first page of The Gunslinger (book 1). The second is a corner of a painting based on a visual concept from The Drawing of the Three (book 2) that was used in a collection of fantasy stories by various authors.

I especially like this picture, because it brings to mind the despriciton in The Drawing of the Three of a lone door on a beach, supported by nothing. Just... a door. There, waiting for someone to step through.



now... I'm off to see Lord of the Rings again! WHEEE!!!

LOTR x 3

It's positively ridiculous how much I love these films. My third time, and I was still awed. I sat through the whole thing grinning madly, unable to restrain my simple glee at being there; even during the more poignant emotional moments I was smiling like the village idiot.

And what a gorgeous film. I can't imagine why it wasn't nominated for cinematography. The two scenes that particularly stand out in my eyes were of course the final charge down the slope by Gandalf & the Riders of Rohan, but most especially
the scene of Eowyn striding out the front doors of the castle, hair whipping in the wind, as she watched the flag be torn from the heights and flitter down and away, the valley landscape strechting out with mountains in the distance. I love that moment, and it was made even more emotional byt the beautiful score accompanying it.

I think the theme for Rohan is my favorite piece of music so far, from both movies. I also thought, listening to it, that the music of The Two Towers is prettier than for The Fellowship.

Some favorite lines:

"I smell...MAN FLESH!"

"I fought my enemy and smote him upon the mountainside."

"Wraiths! Wraiths with WINGS!"

(I don't know why, but something in the way Gollum said this struck me as horribly funny, even though the moment wasn't particularly so. I think it was how high his voice got, almost incredulous. Or maybe it reminds me of RedBull commercials? But three times now it's sent me into giggles.)


"I know your face."

"The women of this country learned long ago that those without swords can still die upon them."

"You're late. You look terrible."

"I told them your names, and we have decided..."
"..."
"..."
"...Yes?"
"We have decided... that you are not Orcs."
"Well, that's good news."

"Give it to us raaaawww and wriggling!"

"That doesn't make any sense. Then again, you are very small."

"...The last march of the Ents."

"Nasty, treacherous, filthy little hobbitses!"