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cadeira So I lost my detachable radio display the other day. After whining the whole evening I eventually found it in my bf´s car (not mine where it belongs. He hasn´t even a real radio.) between the driver´s seat and central console. Don´t ask me how it got there and don´t even start with why I looked for it at that place.
Anyhow, what I´m getting a is this: I´ve already mentioned one or two times that I´m awfully slow at writing, right? One of the first advice novice writers get is "Write what you know!" So while I ricked my neck under that car seat it struck me that this one story I´m working on is exactly about losing and finding and coincidences. (Unfortunately it´s also the story in which Amber says the show´s tagline in one dialogue [the one which she used in the finale. That scene was so beautiful and said "Damn!" out loud. Ah, shucks!]. But I don´t care and won´t strike it out because I think it fits so well and it proves to me that I´m watching a show with characters I really care for, I can dive into, I understand and so forth.) Also, till it´s finished people probably will have forgotten all about that she said *cough*.
What´s else? Right. I´m angry. Do you know that feeling when you are yearning to buy yourself a delicious chocolate chip cake at the end of the day as a reward for the work you did? Or lemmon pie or beer or an organic rocket salad sandwich with Neapolitalian balsamic vingar dressing? Or any other irrational carb-loaded incentive you like to indulge yourself in for that matter. So after you spent half the day persuading yourself it´s a good thing to sin because it´s an anodyne for your soul and all that crap, you notice the tenner you had grabbed in the morning was in fact a fiver and now you don´t have enough to get one of the things you wanted so desperately. You could still get it but have to stop by the next cash mashine and it wouldn´t be the same. I´m as pissed as this! I tell all my relatives to give me amazon vouchers when they don´t know what they shall buy as presents and some of them do as they´re told. So I collect those vouchers and twice a year I can order a huuuuuge amazon box with music and books abd DVDs. It´s awesome. And over the year I really collect tons of stuff in my amazon cart. So now that I had enough for my next packet I went the page and it told me that two of the DVD boxes I wanted to order were put up 12 Euros per Box. The Blackadder Box from 66,- to 78,- and the Jeeves and Wooster Box (I just couldn´t do it with Youtube anymore.) from 54,- to 66,-. That´s like uhm... a quarter...er... many, many percents. That´s just so mean. I still could get them but it wouldn´t be the same, because I have to take other books out. At least, thank God for the price fixing for books in Germany.
Let me ramble on a bit more about the Pleasures of Entertainment. Can anybody tell me, has Meg Ryan stopped her I´m the toughest women who ever walked L.A.´s movie sets crusade? While I really enjoyed watching her tougher side in In the Cut alongside, terrific as always, Marc Ruffalo, I couldn´t believe me eyes when I watched that redundant, overly sappy and overall overtly crappy Against the Ropes. The only thing that was worth watching and tore my eyes away from the outrageously tarty clothes of this women´s libber nightmare Ryan embodied, was a shirtless Omar Epps and he´s really not the kind of man I drool over. (But honestly, who would have thought what´s hidden under that labcoat of Dr. Foreman?). Worst movie in a long time. Which brings me to a better one:
I watched Memoirs of a Geisha yesterday. This movies was so beatifully filmed, the story sufficently convincing - All in all, I really liked it. But I should have switched off when I sensed "Oh noes! Happy END?!" This whole film was about the inabilty and impossibilty of geishas to become happy. Their love and lifes can never be fulfilled. It was so sad, so good and sad. And then they hollywoodized it. With a sappy kiss. Yuck!
Anyhow, what I´m getting a is this: I´ve already mentioned one or two times that I´m awfully slow at writing, right? One of the first advice novice writers get is "Write what you know!" So while I ricked my neck under that car seat it struck me that this one story I´m working on is exactly about losing and finding and coincidences. (Unfortunately it´s also the story in which Amber says the show´s tagline in one dialogue [the one which she used in the finale. That scene was so beautiful and said "Damn!" out loud. Ah, shucks!]. But I don´t care and won´t strike it out because I think it fits so well and it proves to me that I´m watching a show with characters I really care for, I can dive into, I understand and so forth.) Also, till it´s finished people probably will have forgotten all about that she said *cough*.
What´s else? Right. I´m angry. Do you know that feeling when you are yearning to buy yourself a delicious chocolate chip cake at the end of the day as a reward for the work you did? Or lemmon pie or beer or an organic rocket salad sandwich with Neapolitalian balsamic vingar dressing? Or any other irrational carb-loaded incentive you like to indulge yourself in for that matter. So after you spent half the day persuading yourself it´s a good thing to sin because it´s an anodyne for your soul and all that crap, you notice the tenner you had grabbed in the morning was in fact a fiver and now you don´t have enough to get one of the things you wanted so desperately. You could still get it but have to stop by the next cash mashine and it wouldn´t be the same. I´m as pissed as this! I tell all my relatives to give me amazon vouchers when they don´t know what they shall buy as presents and some of them do as they´re told. So I collect those vouchers and twice a year I can order a huuuuuge amazon box with music and books abd DVDs. It´s awesome. And over the year I really collect tons of stuff in my amazon cart. So now that I had enough for my next packet I went the page and it told me that two of the DVD boxes I wanted to order were put up 12 Euros per Box. The Blackadder Box from 66,- to 78,- and the Jeeves and Wooster Box (I just couldn´t do it with Youtube anymore.) from 54,- to 66,-. That´s like uhm... a quarter...er... many, many percents. That´s just so mean. I still could get them but it wouldn´t be the same, because I have to take other books out. At least, thank God for the price fixing for books in Germany.
Let me ramble on a bit more about the Pleasures of Entertainment. Can anybody tell me, has Meg Ryan stopped her I´m the toughest women who ever walked L.A.´s movie sets crusade? While I really enjoyed watching her tougher side in In the Cut alongside, terrific as always, Marc Ruffalo, I couldn´t believe me eyes when I watched that redundant, overly sappy and overall overtly crappy Against the Ropes. The only thing that was worth watching and tore my eyes away from the outrageously tarty clothes of this women´s libber nightmare Ryan embodied, was a shirtless Omar Epps and he´s really not the kind of man I drool over. (But honestly, who would have thought what´s hidden under that labcoat of Dr. Foreman?). Worst movie in a long time. Which brings me to a better one:
I watched Memoirs of a Geisha yesterday. This movies was so beatifully filmed, the story sufficently convincing - All in all, I really liked it. But I should have switched off when I sensed "Oh noes! Happy END?!" This whole film was about the inabilty and impossibilty of geishas to become happy. Their love and lifes can never be fulfilled. It was so sad, so good and sad. And then they hollywoodized it. With a sappy kiss. Yuck!
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Date: 2008-05-26 04:56 pm (UTC)Too bad that vouchers on Amazon don't work with other sellers. The Jeeves and Wooster Box has had ridiculously cheap offers last time I looked.
Now I thought about it too long and it's already about 30€ again. Still ridiculously cheap. (Need. Money.)
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Date: 2008-05-27 09:04 am (UTC)Verfluchtes Geld immer.......