I saw a few trailers this past weekend that got my attention. Thought I’d share them with you now… The first is a new movie by one of my favourite directors, Guillermo Del Toro. I’ve never seen anything of his that I didn’t like so I can’t wait to see this one. The second one […]
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A Day at the Pictures
Jay and I have an agreement: if there’s a rugby international on, he gets to go hang out with his mates – AFTER he drops me off at the cinema. I’m not a waitin’ around for your man to come home kinda gal! It was hard to pick what to watch this past weekend (being […]
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Super Bowl Sunday, Miserable Monday
Ya’ll know that I love football. (The American kind, not the whiny British kind. Obviously.) That means that I was there watching The Super Bowl along with everyone else – I just had to do it much, much later. *groan* The time difference means that I had to stay up until 3AM to catch The […]
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A Song for Sunday: Delta Rae, Morning Comes
This week, in honour of @Nurse_Arch5‘s recent discovery of them, my Song for Sunday comes from Delta Rae: I cannot even say how much I love this band. Their music is country-ish without making me want to stick my head in the oven. (You know… “Mah wife done run off and mah dawg got hit […]
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2013 Reading Goal: January Reads
I said to Jay yesterday, “I only read FOUR books last month!” with a look of absolute horror on my face. He replied, “No! What’s WRONG with you?!?” One of us was being sarcastic – and, considering Jay hasn’t read four books in ten years, it wasn’t me. I’m already behind! I need to be […]
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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, Thomas De Quincey
CATEGORY: bibliophile, books, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, open university, reading, School Time Wondra, Thomas De QuinceyI recently had to re-read Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey for school. I don’t remember anything about it standing out the first time I read it but this time around I found it deeply profound (if a bit pretentious.) Several of the lines stood out – such as ‘I could not, […]
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When winter came to Wales.
I’ve lived in this country now for nearly ten years. For the most part, the climate is very similar to the one I left behind in Michigan – with a few minor differences: the summers are more humid, it rains more, we rarely get thunderstorms, and it hardly ever snows. When it does snow, it […]
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A Song for Sunday: Seether – Country Song
I got bored this week and put my last.fm Scrobbler onto the Godsmack channel and, not too long after, this song came up: Epic. It’s got just the right blend of twang and rock to make it awesome. (Not that Seether need any help being awesome.) The lyrics taste of a bad break up and […]
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Peter Pan – Favourite Quotes
CATEGORY: bibliophile, books, Disney, films, Hook, J. M. Barrie, movies, Peter Pan, quotes, reading, Wendy
I recently read J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan for the first time and thoroughly enjoyed it. Actually, I was surprised that I hadn’t read it until now – I mean, I AM thirty, for Pete’s sake! But then I remembered that while other kids my age were reading this, I was busy reading Dracula. (And every […]
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A Song for Sunday: The Lumineers – Ho Hey
Something a bit different for you this Sunday: Ho Hey by The Lumineers. The music video appealed to me before the song did. What can I say? I’m a sucker for flashing lights. (Oooh… Bright…) Seriously, though, I like the rustic feel and I like that it doesn’t try to do too much. No story, […]
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