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[liadnan]

I still haven't quite got the hang of this back to work thing... I do actually have something relatively simple and straightforward to do, but I'm feeling highly unmotivated.

Inspired by my sad inability to think of a "best of 2003"* list for the Culture, I'm intending to try and keep a record of books read, and films seen, here this year. It'll be more for personal use than anything else, and therefore more likely to be sketchy notes than proper reviews; but I think I shall probably leave them public: I shall put them behind a cut and keep them separate both from my normal wittering posts and from my attempts at semi-serious commentary. I have vague intentions to try and make more of a distinction between those, and write more of the latter too, but I suspect that all of this will go by the board by the end of January anyway. Anyway, it isn't a New Year's Resolution. It can't be because I Don't Do New Year's Resolutions.

I'm going to an Oxford Gaudy on Saturday. I fully expect poison pen letters. Sadly, I suspect Harriet Vane will not be present, nor are the President and Dean of Corpus Christi quite up to Sayers's standards. However, this does mean I shall be around in Oxford and free on both Saturday afternoon and some of Sunday, if anyone there wants to meet for a drink.

*Best Films: City of God, Nine Queens, Pirates of the Caribbean. I do think that LotR as a whole was extremely good, almost as good as it could be, but insofar as it's actually sensible to consider them separately RotK is the weakest of the three. I haven't really got anywhere with Best Books, but remind me to say something about Cup of the World by John Dickinson (children's fantasy) sometime.

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[fairymelusine.livejournal.com]

The best and worst part of livejournal is that it can push you to write things you otherwise wouldn't necessarily bother with ... those of us for whom writing is a necessary part of keeping one's mind sharp (read: me), the omnipresence of an audience and that silly idea of 'something every day' gets an enormous amount of stuff out of my head ... the bad part is, however, that I play to the audience more than I ought, and generally my posts are NOT what is really in my head, but what is more entertaining to read. And, as a larger issue, even if I do post what's actually in my head, it doesn't necessary mean I'm 'writing' as a whole - I'm just getting better at translating thoughts to paper - a necessary skill but not one that actually produces anything.

Gah. I'm babbling again. I always seem to babble in your journal - sorry about that. Too much coffee, methinks.

[liadnan]

Is fine. Is interesting babble.

[cobwellac.livejournal.com]

Is "Nine Queens" the Argentine movie? The rights have been sold in order to re-make the American version. They're also remaking "The Son of the Bride".*

*I'm not quite sure who the "they" are, but that's the rumour.

[liadnan]

That's the one, yes. I thought it was brilliant as it was myself...

For some reason I saw more subtitled films than ones in English last year...

[cobwellac.livejournal.com]

For some reason I saw more subtitled films than ones in English last year...

For some reason, so have I, well, almost. Most of the foreign films I saw where Asian, though (aside from the Argentine ones and Amelie).