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Yes, I will try to keep a list of books I read in the year 2009 as I won't remember what I've read without writing it down.

( January )

( February )

( March )

( April )

( May )


( June )

I'm working on too many long-term knitting-projects. It's sort of depressing: I'm knitting and knitting but don't finish anything. That's why I decided to throw in a tiny wee project and knitted through The Quest yesterday (well and the last 30 minutes of In love with a witch and the first half of Genial daneben...)
( this )

Is it a sign of obsession when as soon as I found a cool new TV-Show/book-series I search on Ravelry if there are already related knitting-patterns (or at least projects I can squee over) for it? About two third of the groups I'm in are fandom-related (and today I joined two more...guess wich)

Talking about obsessions: I'm falling more and more in love with Life (which doesn't have a Ravelry-group, yet :( ) I loved Charlie and Ted more or less from the first time they appeared but only know, when I'm rewatching some S1-epsiodes Ialso start to love the show...and everytime I watch an episode I get ths craving for fruits XD

try to spell the name of the actors right. Even when they had only small roles in the film and have names with a somehow difficult spelling...
but this is really riddiculous:



How many mistakes can you find?


But now some srs bsns...like memes!

Tell me you want to play and I'll pick up to three of your fandoms.
You must then update your journal and answer the following questions:

1. What got you into this fandom in the first place?
2. Do you think you'll stay in this fandom or eventually move on?
3. Favorite episodes/books/movies, etc?
4. Do you participate in this fandom (fanfiction, graphics, discussions)?
5. Do you think more people should get into this fandom?

asthenie_vd picked Doctor Who, Harry Potter and Die Drei ???/The Three Investigators

( in alphabetical order )

*Ugh* I talk too much.

I've watched a few episodes of the Randall & Hopkirk (deceased)-Remake and I love it.
Other than the original series it doesn't try to be serious (which probably isn't a bad idea considering it's about two private investigators of whom one got killed in the first episode but returned as ghost...). It has stupid B-Movie-plots with B-movie-cliche-villians who die gory B-movie-deaths. And all with a great regular-cast (OK, I actually didn't know the two guys who play Randall & Hopkirk but it has Emilia Fox as Jeannie and TOM BAKER) and a lot of well-known guest-actors (who usually play very evil and very mad villians and die very bloddy deaths)

( Meet psychiatrists, artists and scientists )

I've just watched Sherlock - The Case of Evil and propably had the best laugh since weeks. Seriously. It even beat Peter Davison driving the French cook mad. It's one of these 'Canon? That's a great big gun, right?'-films with James D'Arcy as Holmes and Roger Morlidge as Watson. Actually with D'Arcy as 20something-Holmes (who looked like Matt Smith about 16 years old).
The Plot-synopsis sounded already...questionable...and the only reason why I watched it, was because Richard E. Grant played Mycroft!!!111!!!

Yes, now Shirley is also sewn together and stuffed! OK, according to the pattern she shouzld also get a little scarf, but I'll do that later.

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( Moar )

I only wanted to look if there were any episodes of The Champions. There is. It's neither the one with Brett and Delgado nor the one with Nicholas Courtney but I think I'll watch it anyway, just to have a good laugh.
But I found other amusing clips:


It is somehow weird that this is the first time I've heard Moore's original voice...I mean I've watched and rewatched The Persuaders over and over but always only in German (didn't want to miss all the jokes and subtext).

Also: I actually remember this episode of The Saint:


I watched it before I started with Doctor Who...or at least before I watched any 2nd Doctor episodes so I didn't recognise Troughton (and I think if I didn't knew I'd still have troubles...the recorder's missing...as well as a certain good looking and damn hot guy in a kilt).

On a completely unrelated matter: I can finally see my invisibility-shawl growing! It get's longer and longer and I LOVE it. I finally got used to the pattern and now I don't need a whole All Creatures-episode for six rows!
I've nearly used the whole first skein (at this moment I prefer to ignore that I still have a 2nd skein of yarn from happy urigayan merino-sheep I'll also have to knit up...)

Best wishes tomcgarrygirl78 
Have an awesome day!
As present a *cough* little picspam of an actor we both love: Derek Jacobi :D
(of course everybody else on my f-list can enjoy it, too ^^)
And yes it will totally kill your dial-up-modem. It is HUGE and I mean HUGE!

( So here we have some caps from the Cadfael-Series...or rather the first episode, that play with the Dane and Revenger's Tragedy )


And because I was doing some Jacobi-Caps of RT anyway and think the movie is aweseome and has lots of amazing actors now some other caps for the not-so-Jacobi-obsessed part of my f-list.

( He who seeks revenge must remember to dig two graves - chinese proverb )

So recently I got the DVD of Laurence Oliver's Hamlet...and look who was there:



Unfortunately you don't see much of him

( Pictures anyway )

1. Reply to this post, and I will pick six of your icons.
2. Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. This will create a never-ending cycle of icon glee.

asthenie_vd picked

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Eigentlich wollte ich irgendwann am Wochenende einen kleinen Picspam zu meiner aktuellen Lieblingsfilm-Entdeckung 'Withnail & I' machen...und weil ich heute bevor mein Zug ging noch etwas Zeit hatte, dachte ich ich fang schon mal mit den ersten Screencaps an...und dann hatte ich schon nach einer knappen halben Stunde 90 Bilder. Daran ist einzig und allein Paul McGann schuld, weil der immer so unverschämt gut aussieht, dass ich am liebtsten jede Sekunde in der er im Bild ist zeigen würde...
Aber selbst wenn ich mich zurückhalte und nicht von jeder einzelnen Szene mit McGann und der Hälfte aller mit Richard E. Grant Bilder mache würde das für einen einzelnen Post seeeeeeeeeeeehr lange, und deswegen und weil ich zum Semesterferienende noch ein bisschen Spaß haben will (den ich haben werde wenn ich mir die Bilder mir jetzt alle noch mal anschaue) kommen jetzt einige viele Bilder aus der ersten Hälfte des Films...die zweite kommt dann irgendwann.

Zur Handlung des Films: Richard E. Grant ist Withnail. McGann ist '&I'...ja er heißt selbst im Abspann nur '...&I', aber anscheinend heißt er im Skript und in der Buchvorlage Marwood.
Die beiden sind arbeitslose Schauspieler, die gerne und viel trinken und zusammen in einer WG in London leben. Nachdem seltsame Dinge aus den Teebeuteln in der Spüle wachsen gehen die beiden in den Pub, trinken dort und fahren dann übers Wochenende aufs Land. Dort trinken sie, es regnet, sie trinken und geraten von einer Katastrophe in die andere und trinken weiter. Irgendwann fahren sie wieder zurück weil Marwood ein Vorsprechen hat und Withnail trinkt alleine weiter und zitiert Hamlet wobei er noch mehr trinkt.

Entgegen meiner Gewohnheit viel Bilder und wenig Text...zu den meisten Bildern kann man man auch einfach nichts sagen.

( Aber genug Gerede )

Seen already a while ago at mcgarrygirl78

1. Pick 20 of your favorite movies.
2. Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie (or call one up from your memory).
3. Post them here for everyone to guess.
4. Strike it out when someone guesses correctly, and put who guessed it and the movie.
5. NO GOOGLING/using IMDb search functions. THAT'S CHEATING!!!

I had to be a bit 'creative' with picking the movies as I didn't want to use the same ten as in the last meme...not all are real 'favourites'. Some I've watched only once but was quite impressed anyway. (And yes, I've used the term 'movie' a bit loosely here...I had to.)

( Here we go )

ETA: Some Tipps to confuse you even more

#1 Is about Irish History, the actor who played the title-role also appeared in #17 (and one of the side-characters appeared in #10 and #17)

#2 Is a comedy. One of the two leading actors also appeared in #16 and a side-character in #10

#5 is the movie-adaption of a play

One of the actors from #12 also appeared in #17 (Hey it's not my fault that about 75% of all famous british actors appeared either in Gosford Park or Love Actually)

#12 is a romantic comedy...again with an actor from Love Actually

#13 is another Irish movie, which I already had in my last movie-meme and nobody guessed it...oh and one actress from it also appeared in Gosford Park

#14 is a very silly but fery funny German comedy that parodies certain old b/w-movies

#15 has a clue about the title in the quote

ETA 2: OK, now only the geek-movies are left XD, in the remaining movies are two Doctors...three if you count non-canonical ones

Ich habe gestrickt. Viel sogar...fertig geworden bin ich allerdings mit eher wenig.

( Viele bunte Bilder )

Achja Imke...ich hab sogar noch ein anderes Stencil-Werk mit wenig langweiligerem Motiv als nur Schrift. Allerdings liegt das gerade in Heidelberg und da bin ich erst nächste Woche wieder. Ich werde mich bemühen daran zu denken auch das zu fotografieren.

Or: more youtube-videos.
I've tried to hold myself back but Withnail & I is simply a totally amazing movie and I have to post some scenes from it (not all my favourite scenes, because then I had to post the whole movie...)

( To spare your friends-page )

So I eventually decided to spent more money on amazon and buy the DVDs 'A Revenger's Targedy' and 'The Hanging Gale'.

Facts that made me buy 'A Hanging Gale':

• It is set in Ireland and has lots of beautiful pictures of the irish Landscape, people with irish accents, people talking in Irish, and people singing
• it is set in the 1840s, that means great costumes
• it is about 4 brothers. I love stories about brothers.
• The brothers are played by Joe, Mark, Paul, and Steven McGann

It also has a plot: a lot of bad and tragic things happen because of people doing stupid things or simply because it's irish history, which is always full of tragic events.

( Enough Talk )

now I'll also start one with 'movies watched in 2009'. I won't set any unrealistic goals like 50 because I seriously doubt I'll manage that. Not with so many cool series I watch.
I count only 'real' movies, not even series, like Horatio Hornblower or Cadfael that have 90 minute-episodes and only stuff I've watched for the first time.
March is perhaps a bit late to start with but I think I still remember everything, or at least most of it (and if I've forgotten something it was probably, because it was so bad that I wanted to forget it).


( Here we go )

...a little picspam...OK perhaps not so little.
It's about 'I Claudius', a British series from the 70s that features the young Derek Jacobi as Claudius...and young Jacobe is really really cute, especially as Claudius. Besides him it has also lots of other amazing characters/actors, but let's start with him.

( Dial-Up-friendly is something different... )

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