What a lot of bosh! :)

It’s a workbook, and before I moved to Sweden I was doing well with it, but then I had other books to use (ones that I had for my course) and put it on hold. Now it’s the summer, I have finished from uni, and I am getting back onto it. I hope to have completed it by the time I’m back at uni in the Autumn :)

Erik made me watch. Didn’t like it.

Actually I have lots of questions. This is supposed to be the first Bond film, where Bond gets his double 0 status. But, there are mobile phones, references to 9/11, and the date 2005 is around at points. Now, as you can tell I’m not the biggest Bond expert, I’m just curious. Does this mean he is a new James Bond, as in, not all the Bonds are the same person, it, like the ‘00’ tag is just for identification? So each actor played a different Bond, in that scenario. I hope this is it, because if it is supposed to be the same guy, and Casino Royale (at least this version) is a prequel, either he can time travel, or there are some serious plot holes.

Other than that, I liked it :)

(From TV Rage)

The Weekenders is a cartoon series about four middle-schooler’s weekend adventures. They include Tino, the sarcastic, Captain Dreadnought fan-boy, Carver, shoe-loving, cool kid wannabe, Tish, the Shakespeare loving perfectionist, and Lor, the ‘few-stars-short-of-a-galaxy’ jock of the group. This series was unique, since the main characters changed clothes every episode, yet they’d re-use clothes, like normal kids.

The Weekenders ran for 39 episodes. Although it premiered on ABC in the Disney’s One Saturday Morning block, it ended up on Toon Disney during mid-season four, and the new episodes premiered there for the remainder of the series.

Throughout this comical series Tino often breaks through the “fourth wall” in which he directly talks to the viewer. Also, in every episode of the series the pizza place where the gang ate always had a different name and theme.

This was my first Chaplin film, even though we studied melodrama in Expressive Arts when I was 16. It’s timeless, and brilliant. Timing is everything :)

Well, I think it’s definite. I don’t like jazz. I’ve tried to listen to a lot of it, but the more I hear, the more of a headache I get. Oh well.

I am enjoying this book, I didn’t know much about the series before I started, which I think has helped. The writing style is similar to Terry Pratchett’s, giving folklore characters serious human-like characteristics, and jobs. Also the mixing fantasy and tense moments with humour, is alike.

There’s a big reason it’s called ‘an unexpected mother’s journey’ – the author was going to China to support her friend who was adopting a baby. But it quickly seems that this friend is so not the right person to take on the child. She complains about the child being younger than she had been told, and that things are just not what she had expected, and instead of changing her assumptions, and dealing with what is, she says ‘no no no, I don’t want it’, pretty much.

I read this in a day, not really because it’s a page turner, simply because I had the time, and I’ve got a stack of other books to read. It’s not an easy going read, either, since the author mixes in with her journal style account of events, lucid dreams she’s having, of a young Chinese girl forced to be Empress as the Emperor takes a fancy to her. Her dreams are serialised, and the characters in her dreams even have names. She links this to a past life she may have had, and that’s where I get rather sceptical. To me, the dream bits are all an effort to make the book more dramatic, for her to be able to say, in the end, that she was reborn to look after this baby. It’s all too perfect for me. However, I thought it was worth consuming, as it is an interesting insight into the way adoption works in China. I will now start reading From China with Love, written by a BBC journalist of her story of adoption, so I’ll see how that one fares :)

Damn it, I can’t even remember the last time, it feels so long ago. They don’t sell it here in Sweden (well maybe they do, but not in my area), so I have to wait until April, when I go home to Bristol, and I can stock up! :)