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Most beautiful day ever out there. World Trade Center weather (I've got to stop calling it that) but perfect temperature and bright blue sky with no clouds at all. Makes me sad I'm really not up to taking a horse out on the park trails yet, but still a better day to ride than the awful humidity and impending storm of my last lesson.

Watched disc two of Hornblower -- too fucking delightful, and I love how funny last night's thread about it got.

Amusingly Netflix seems to be all about me catching up on TV series my schedule has never allowed me to follow -- so finally all of Babylon 5, in order! Yay. Also, finally going to see the Mists of Avalon miniseries, which I heard was craptastic, but that's okay (as an aside: now that Morgaine has told Avalon to go fuck itself, the book is annoying me a lot less, although I am in danger of writing rude fic paraody of the whole thing in the style of Troy in 15 Minutes.).

I have to curl my hair tonight because of the commercial audition tomorrow. I'm not going to get emotionally involved, but I really could and really hope I get it. Career aside, it would be a financial godsend.

That's all really.

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[zarq.livejournal.com]

Netflix is amazing!! Just finished the first season of B5 and am starting on the second. :)

Good luck on your audition! Break a leg! :)

[ladyofthelog.livejournal.com]

Rude parody fic! Rude parody fic! *urges*

[orien.livejournal.com]

Someone needs to do it.

[orien.livejournal.com]

At least one seems to get a reward with the weather here. Suffer in agony all day and then have the most gorgeous night ever. I spent the majority of it in the kitchen with them cooking and it was fantastic, the breeze coming in through the door.

We need to get a netflix membership. We've been discussing it for months, but there have been so many other things to do. It would benefit me right now, since I'm rather stuck in the house. Perhaps we'll deal with it tonight, in addition to filling out some of my accident claim paperwork and getting that in the mail.

Rune enjoyed MoA (he would, you know. it's almost stereotypical), but I didn't care for it much. I think toward the end, it did rip my heart out, but -- ah, the entire thing was simply an ordeal. Still, it's one of the more palatable Arthurian interpretations. In the series, the Lady of the Lake being played by Anjelica Huston was worthy of sitting through the entire thing. She's such an excellent woman, so striking and commanding.

[irish-rose25.livejournal.com]

Hate to disappoint you, but Marion Zimmer Bradley beat you on the parady. She has a book called "Firebrand" about Troy, told of course from Kassandra's point of view mainly. If you like MoA, you'll like this, if not....avoid it.

However...I'd read your version too! =oD

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[lanthinel.livejournal.com]

Speaking of Troy from Kassandra's point of view, there's also Christa Wolf's Kassandra, available in translation. It's an interesting read and take on the events of the Illiad and Agamemnon, presented in a secularized (non-mythical in the sense of the gods and so forth) manner. I don't think it's something everyone would enjoy, but Kassandra is one of those characters who doesn't get a lot of screen time, unfortunately (in regards to the tales of the Trojan War; obviously she's the main character of this book), so you read what you can find.

[justpat.livejournal.com]

I thought I was the only one who called it World Trade Center (or September 11th) weather.

I came up with that on May 2, 2002. If you remember, September 11, 2001 was really the last beautiful summery day of the year -- on September 12 it rained, and then the cold set in.

Well, May 2, 2002 was the first beautiful summery day of the following year, and I kept walking around Manhattan saying "What is this? There's something about this day that I can't put my finger on....". Until I finally figured out what it was.

[heron61.livejournal.com]

I very much hope that you enjoy B5. Both commander's sucked and the show had a number of other problems, but to me, the Londo story arc is the finest and most perfect tragedy that I have ever seen on film or TV, it is gloriously perfect. It would have been an even better show if Avery Brooks had been cast as Sheriden and if Straczynski had not kept firing his most talented female actors (specifically Andrea Thompson and Claudia Christian) and replacing them with actors who had vastly less talent, but it is still an excellent show.