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[hermionesviolin]

Remember how i watched the Buffy musical with Jonah and he fell in love? Well Sunday night he IMs me:

So Buffy is like the best thing ever. How could you not tell me that it was so wonderful. (I took out the first season on DVD from the library.)
It really amazing. It's so well-written and compelling, and the metaphors are creative and fresh and deal with teen issues so well. The dialogue and script is wonderful, and Joss Whedon seems like the coolest person ever.

I finally saw Y Tu Mamá También. What’s the big deal about that movie? (Sidenote: it reminded me a lot of Nico and Dani.)

Speaking of overrated. I read the in the most recent NYT Magazine and of course it mentioned "Art Spiegelman's groundbreaking" Maus. I finally read Maus recently and was almost bored. Am i missing something? (Note to self: must write Nancy Pearl and complain that Sandman wasn’t mentioned under Graphic Novels in Book Lust.)

Ellyn e-mailed on Monday saying they had free tickets to I, Robot, so i reread the Asimov book, which i had been meaning to since i saw the ads for the movie.

I realized that Chapter 2: Runaround, is what i think of as I, Robot. The ads remind me of Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, which got turned into Blade Runner. Having reread the Asimov book, the ads most reminded me of “Little Lost Robot.” People on IMDb have suggested that the movie is likely aiming to be another I, Robot chapter -- in the spirit of Asimov’s world but not explicitly adapting any particular story.

Having finished the book i thought "Wow Asimov is brilliant" and decided i really didn’t wanna see the mutant hybrid of a movie. I might not have been allowed to anyway, actually. Jenny said Ellyn wouldn’t let her go. Maybe you had to be a mentor? (Neither of us are.) Bonding time with the girls or whatever. Blah.

TNG:

“Violations” (5.12) ... omg that was possibly the most disturbing episode ever.

“Conundrum” (5.14) ... gah! it’s the “Tabula Rasa” (BtVS 6.08) episode. (ladyvivien: i’ve decided Ro Laren is Vash done right. Leaving aside the whole relationship part of it, that is. She has Vash’s attitude but i actually like her.)

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[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

Yeah, poor guy, he's like "The not-me didn't do anything too bad, right?" and everyone's like "Um, who's gonna tell him?" and he's all "I look forward to reading your report, Number One -- at least, i think i do."

[ladyvivien.livejournal.com]

I can imagine the look on his face if Beverly ever told him...

[theatre-pixie.livejournal.com]

*adds "rewatch entire Star Trek: TNG series" to her mental to-do list, then studies her mental schedule* Now, let's see... if I pair that one with the imaginary girlfriend endeavor and try to start both by sometime in September... well, the TNG bit might be done by December, assuming I can rent the series DVD's somewhere around here.

*closes both to-do list and schedule* I don't even have the time to schedule anything right now.

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

Takes quite a while to get through all seasons as they're 26 episodes a season (save S2: 22 episodes) and 7 seasons. One of the public libraries in my local network has them all, which has made me quite happy. I'm forever spoiled. I'm like "Rent? What, you want me to pay for something i'm just gonna return?"

[theatre-pixie.livejournal.com]

Library? What's a library?

OH! The building with all the books and tapes and videos and stuff? I've been in a few, but I don't know that my local library has that much to choose from. I do, after all, live in a town with a population under 2,500.

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

I practically grew up in my local library and am a total library whore.

Interlibrary loan is one of the best things ever.

[theatre-pixie.livejournal.com]

It's another one of those "one day, when I don't have a million other things to do" activities. I haven't been to a library in a while because I haven't had the time to curl up with a non-script book in a while (that and I'm still trying to get through some of the books I own).
I think that the last time I spent TONS of time in a library was when I was trying to stay in touch with Mm while I was sans computer. I was also trying to write an adaptation of O. Henry's "The Last Leaf" and "The Gift of the Magi" for a community theatre. I didn't get far, but it's a project I think I'd like to pick up again.