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May 11th, 2030

04:14 am - See how popular this journal is . . . visitors have read my LiveJournal since September 2003 Current Mood: pleased Current Music: "Popular" (from the musical "Wicked")

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June 30th, 2009

11:59 pm - Wanted: one ark This past month has been one of the soggiest on record -- there was a news report on the 28th that of the past 28 days, 21 had been wet. It's rained since then, including a torrential downpour earlier this evening, so if we haven't broken the old record of 10.27 inches set in 2003, we've come very close -- the NY Times had a story in today's paper that rain for the month as of this morning in Central Park was 10.06 inches, and that was before the afore-mentioned cloudburst, which I presume passed through the park and not just my neighborhood. With that included, I wouldn't be surprised if we had beaten the old record. Sogginess is supposed to continue, at least for the near future. Rain is in the forecast for each of the next three days. I've lost most of the nursery seedlings from this weather that I had bought just a few weeks back, from root-rot. Even the watercress has died now -- and that plant loves wet soil! Anyone have a spare ark I could use? Current Mood: cranky Current Music: "Here Comes The Rain Again" -- The Eurythmics Tags: gardening

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June 24th, 2009

01:17 am - Not nominated, but thanks for the support As a followup to this post about LJ Advisory Board elections, I'd like to thank those who supported me, even though I was unsuccessful in my bid for nomination. Your support was much appreciated. Should I decide to try again in future, I'll do my post earlier, since it took quite a while (almost 8 hours!) for it to be approved and unscreened by the LJ staff moderators so that people could leave comments in support of my nomination bid. My wibbling about throwing my hat in this year led to the late posting as well -- I'll make my decision, yea or nay, sooner. Current Mood: disappointed Current Music: "So Well, Oh Well" by Lesion

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June 23rd, 2009

02:45 pm - Persephone's Grove SL6B exhibit now open to the public Second Life's official 6th birthday celebration is now open to the public. Go to http://slurl.com/secondlife/SL6B%20Uplink/194/88/23 to visit the exhibit for Persephone's Grove, which includes Voltaire's film "X-Mess Detritus" (used with permission). Current Mood: chipper Current Music: "Happy Birthday (My Olde Friend) " by Voltaire Tags: film, second life

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June 20th, 2009

06:35 am - Super spiffy evening with Voltaire & friends Just toddled home as dawn was breaking from a super-spiffy night out with Voltaire and friends. The evening started out at Tribeca Cinema, where one of Voltaire's short films was showing as part of the Visionfest Film Festival (one of several short films available at Voltaire's YouTube page): After this short showed, the main feature, "Blood River", was shown -- a thriller wherein a dark angel comes to Earth. After this we headed out to the 11th anniversary party for Contempt, one of NYC's premier goth events. There I bumped into horuschilde and her friends, as well as a former bandmate I hadn't seen in quite a while. I had a grand time with these folks and only left when the club shut down, far too soon for my liking. Current Mood: chipper Current Music: "Dark Angel" by VNV Nation Tags: film

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June 19th, 2009

04:36 am - Nominating myself for LJ user representative to the Advisory Board I must be daft, but I've tossed my hat in the ring to be the LJ user-rep to the Advisory Board. Nomination post not showing, since it's moderated, so I can't give a direct link to my entry. Go to lj_election_en to see it -- hopefully it will be viewable soon. Please leave a comment stating "I support this nomination" or something substantially similar to my nomination entry if you would like for me to be your voice to the people who run LiveJournal. Edit (11:52am): Post is available now here. Current Mood: hopeful Current Music: "4 am" by VNV Nation

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June 14th, 2009

04:49 am - Tea and Zydrate In between chomping on absinthe cupcakes and watching "REPO! The Genetic Opera", I took a few photos when I was at Wicked Faire back at the end of February. ( Tea and Zydrate ) Current Mood: mellow Current Music: "Zydrate Anatomy" by Terrance Zdunich Tags: photopost

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June 11th, 2009

11:38 pm - And now for some old-fashioned industrial music . . . Current Mood: amused Current Music: "Sweet Georgia Brown" Tags: music

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June 8th, 2009

04:42 pm - A belated start to spring planting Bought plants today at my favorite local nursery -- petunias and sweet alyssum to accompany some geraniums from the grocery store that I plan to put in the planters on the front terrace. Also bought some grape tomato plants and a bell pepper plant plus some herbs -- basil to act as companion plants for the tomatoes and water cress. I picked up some New Guinea impatients too -- might put them in the front terrace bench's planters. It's been so soggy and cold this spring that I really haven't done anything in the way of gardening, since there was too much chance the plants would rot from all the wetness, as has happened before in similar cold, wet springs. Today was relatively dry, although it may rain later and it is supposed to rain tonight and all day tomorrow. I'll see if I can plant a few things today before the rain starts, otherwise it might be a few days before I can add the new acquisitions to my planters. (Those interested in reading about my gardening adventures are encouraged to wander by Diary of a Gardening Goddess for more details.) Current Mood: cheerful Current Music: "Nur ein Tag" by Zeraphine Tags: gardening

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June 7th, 2009

06:19 pm - Does this mean I have an ability? Gakked from asa_brarian: While recovering from the overload of awesomeness that was last night's Lesion gig, wherein they rocked the Lower East Side with oldies like "Lockdown" and "Render Unto Lesion" as well as stuff from the current album "Seniors Ball" and new songs like "Stunt Double" and "One Foot in the Grave", I decided to watch some online television. I finally finished watching the entire third season of "Heroes" online -- I started watching it a few weeks back, just to see what kind of a character Sylar is, since Zachary Quinto is best known for portraying him, not Spock. I've also noticed it seems to be a very popular fandom on LJ, so I was curious as to its appeal. It's OK as a series, but I'm not all that enthusiastic about it as a whole. Some parts I liked, like the world-building, but the main problem I had was I didn't particularly care about most of the characters. Frankly, Sylar was the only one I really liked as a character, because he's interesting -- he's charming, likable and even sympathetic at times, while still being a cold-blooded killer. He has the charisma of Hannibal Lecter, and even a similar sense of humor. I guess I like the bad boys -- the really bad boys. This is due in part I'm sure to the skill of the performers -- both Hopkins and Quinto play their roles with zest and a twinkle that I personally find quite captivating. They transmute characters that the audience would normally find vile into anti-heroes that viewers adore. The quasi-Richard III seduction scene Quinto did in the final episode of the season was marvelous, albeit less successful than in the Shakespeare play. I liked some of the other characters too, like Matt Parkman and the Japanese comedy team, Hiro and Ando, but most of the rest left me as cold as a Sylar victim's corpse. I especially loathed Noah Bennet and thought he was far worse, morally, than Sylar ever was, particularly for deliberately tempting Gabriel Gray into becoming a serial killer and inciting others to cold-blooded murder. Completely reprehensible, in my book, and a true monster. Not sure if I'll get the first two seasons on DVD or not, but I may well get the third at some point, since Sylar gets a lot of character development during the course of the season and he's the main reason I'd watch it once it's no longer available online. The plot gets confusing with the multiple alternate futures, which I consider a writing flaw for the series, and I'm not sure I want to deal with two more seasons of gerrymandered stories, although more of Quinto's performances is a definite temptation. Might try to catch it on the tube once the fourth season starts to air, although I'll probably end up watching most episodes online, simply because its easier. Given how the third season ended, I hope there will be a fair amount of Sylar, but if there isn't, what interest I have in watching will be greatly decreased. Current Mood: mellow Current Music: "My Superpower is Sex" by Lesion Tags: music, science fiction, television

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June 5th, 2009

12:41 am - Birthday Fenmione for me! :F The fabulous lesyeuxverts00 wrote me some Fenmione as a belated birthday present, using one of my favorite prompts -- Fenrir wearing bunny slippers. Go read it! Playing by the Rules Current Mood: bouncy Current Music: "Das Tier In Mir (Wolfen)" by E Nomine Tags: potterverse

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May 28th, 2009

04:46 am - From shoot to finished video A few months back, I was at the shooting of the music video for "Unspoken", written by New Hampshire indie band Acrida for hrafnkell's newest film "Boundaries of Attraction". Here's the completed video, directed by one of the stars of the movie, Robert Kersey: Current Mood: mellow Current Music: "Unspoken" by Acrida Tags: film, music

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May 27th, 2009

10:51 pm - A Vulcan speaks from Germany & I act as Uhura The translation of the June 2009 GQ Germany article on Zachary Quinto that I did for him is up on his official website now -- go here to read it. The original scans of the article can be found here. Current Mood: ecstatic Current Music: "Hört Mein Wort" by Unheilig Tags: deutsch, film, science fiction, television

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May 19th, 2009

07:16 pm - Twitterific Twitter-fic florahart has written the hilarious NWS tiny-fic Tweet -- I strongly suggest Star Trek fans go read it, since to not avail oneself of this opportunity for quick amusement would be highly illogical. Current Mood: amused Current Music: "Sterne sehen" by Zeraphine Tags: science fiction, television

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May 18th, 2009

06:27 pm - Dueling eyebrows part 2 It seems that florahart has written more Snock -- Restoration, on her Dreamwidth journal. I've also discovered a site that has streaming of all the episodes of the original Star Trek series, which is nice if one didn't cough up a few hundred dollars to buy the DVD sets that were on sale in stores a few years back. That site has other series too, like "Heroes", which I'm watching for the first time just to see who Sylar is. Saw the last episode of Season 3 there and I kind of liked the character -- Sylar has that creepy-cool charm perfected in Hopkin's Hannibal Lecter, so I'll probably watch a bit more of the series, if only to see what Zachary Quinto does with the character. Current Mood: mellow Current Music: "Per Aspera Ad Astra" by Die Apokalyptischen Reiter Tags: potterverse, science fiction, television

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03:08 am - Dueling eyebrows Thanks to the fabulous eeyore9990's fic rec, I had the pleasure of reading my first ever Snape/Spock fic, florahart's untitled HP-ST crossover. There's also now an InsaneJournal community for HP-ST crossover fics, called Where No Wizard Has Gone Before. Since it was just started a few hours ago, it has no stories posted as yet, something I expect will change soon. I certainly hope to see more Snock, since the fic rec mentioned above was great fun and I'd like to see more of the pairing. Current Mood: pleased Current Music: "Sternenschiff" by Unheilig Tags: potterverse, science fiction, television

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May 17th, 2009

08:10 pm - How to make funds increase Gakked from foudebassan: When I watched this, I was reminded of the scene from "It's a Wonderful Life" where Jimmy Stewart puts the two remaining dollar bills in the bank vault as his staff hum the wedding march. Current Mood: amused Current Music: "Silver and Gold" by U2

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May 14th, 2009

10:47 pm - Second Life blog -- initiation sequence engaged! I've decided to start a Second Life blog on Dreamwidth, using the name of my main avatar Persephone Loon. I'd thought of having a business blog, for promotional purposes, for a while, since there are quite a few SL blogs out there and almost all are either business promotion or SL news with biz promos liberally added to the mix of articles. I've recently celebrated my second rez-day, so with the advent of Dreamwidth it seemed a good time to start one, instead of having folks come by my other online journals, most of which have nothing to do with Second Life in the least. Not sure how interested folks who read me here might be in this Second Life journal, since I plan on having it be a promotion/publicity blog for Persephone's Grove and my other Second Life businesses, and I don't know if any of my current readership here uses Second Life. Feel free to wander over and subscribe if you are so inclined. In other news, I went and saw "Star Trek" again at the movie theater. It rocked just as much the second time round. I think I could become quite fond of Quinto's Spock . . . Current Mood: working Current Music: "Genesis" by VNV Nation Tags: film, science fiction, second life, writing

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May 7th, 2009

10:56 pm - Star Trek -- take two! Went to see "Star Trek" this evening and was pleasantly surprised to find it wasn't the train wreck I expected it to be. This alternate-universe Trek movie worked better than I thought, keeping much of the spirit of The Original Series while adding more modern whiz-bang action. For me, as well as many other fans, TOS has been the "gold standard" for Star Trek. Later incarnations of the franchise have seemed like pale imitations of the original -- OK but generally lacking a certain spark that made the original the phenomenon it was and still is. Personally, I've always attributed this to the fact that many of the first series writers were literary science fiction writers, and their stories reflected that in ways that television or movie writers don't seemed trained to do. They were very "old school" SF, playing around with the "what if" factor on an almost weekly basis. Some of the later series in the franchise did that as well, but rarely with the elan of TOS. This Trek movie does a fairly decent job of recapturing the magic of TOS, albeit with a few flops along the way, the "new Kirk" among them. This new incarnation lacks the effervescent mischievous sparkle and charm that Shatner's Kirk had. The best I can say is that should there be more movies in this attempt to revive the Trek franchise, the a-charismatic young Kirk seen here can be seen as the callow seed from which TOS' Kirk later sprang. The same cannot be said, however, for the other two parts of the classic TOS triad, Spock and McCoy. Quinto and Urban were both superb in their versions of the characters at the heart of most of the classic Trek stories, getting the essence of the personalities pitch-perfect. The new version of Scotty wasn't bad either, but I was a bit underwhelmed by the new Uhura and Sulu, the former seeming overly-assertive in her characterization while the latter faded into a cipher. I did like the new Chekhov, though, finding him as engaging and personable as TOS' version was. Plotwise, the story wasn't too bad, for a typical Star Trek film that is. As science fiction it had a huge plot hole and credibility issue with the "red matter" to my mind, because of what the movie stated the nature of the substance was and what its effects are in the film. Apart from that gaping wound to plausibility, the AU worked pretty well, especially as an "origins" story. One of the things I enjoyed most about the film was hearing favorite classic TOS lines being delivered by the AU characters, especially by Urban's McCoy, who captured the essence of Kelley's original in ways that were downright eerie, while simultaneously making the character his own, something that Quinto did as well, albeit with none of the eyebrow-arching, although his deadpan was as devastating as Nimoy's. I also liked how the story pointed out that Vulcans are not only not lacking in emotion, but are in fact an extremely passionate species, albeit one that seeks to culturally constrain said passions' outward expression. I don't know if there will be more Trek movies in this AU, but I hope there will be, since this version worked surprisingly well and I really miss the original series' characters. I never particularly cared for any of the later series (although I was fond of Voyager and rather liked Captain Archer) and would be unlikely to see a Trek movie based on them that had no tie-in to TOS, but if there were more Trek movies based in this AU, with these "re-imagined" characters, I'd be very likely to go see it -- which probably counts as a rave review from me, given what a fusspot I am. Current Mood: mellow Current Music: "Star Trek Theme" by Alexander Courage Tags: film, science fiction, television

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May 3rd, 2009

06:57 pm - My Beltaine present -- a new online journal to scribble in Thanks to the fabulous lesyeuxverts00, I now have a Dreamwidth journal. :D Not sure what I'll do with it right now, but at least I have my usual username reserved. I know a lot of Harry Potter fandom folks have gone over there, so I expect I'll be looking some of them up in the near future. Since that is currently a free account, I only have 6 userpic slots. I've used two of them already, for my default icon and another one that is suitable for most types of posts. Don't know yet if I'll add anymore at this time. Might depend on how I end up using that journal, what icons I use there. Current Mood: cheerful Current Music: "Turn It Out (Go For Baroque Remix)" by Lesion Tags: writing

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