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Coconut Ice experiment number one last night. It came out more like coconut fudge, which is good, but not quite what I'm going for (although it's sort of spectacular out of the freezer). I've a second different recipe I'm going to try in the next couple of days, hoping that is closer to the substance from Sydney. Didn't get to the bills bread because I always wind up with twice as many things to do as I think I have to do, which is frustrating even if a constant state of affairs I should just resign myself to and will probably only get more fucked up as the days get warmer and contain more daylight (although granted, I need less sleep in the summer, so maybe I'll achieve some balance instead).

General observation: I'm methodical in ways other people (at least other people I know) find really bizarre. Perhaps anyone who is methodical about _anything_ feels this way, as I can think of numerous people I've known where one or the other of us thought "hey, you're methodical like me!" only to discover that what was actually meant was "hey, you're batshit crazy!"

Mmmmm.

Also, finally started season two of MI-5. It's the yummiest.

Keep trying to get into the new Battlestar Galactica, and I've realized what ultimately isn't working for me about it (and it's a constant throughout the show but is evidenced spectacularly in the new music versus the old music). The new show is so about this ongoing losing battle, and the old show was about weird triumph in the face of that. And while I sort of tend to enjoy the ongoing losing battle thing from a mono no aware standpoint (I mean, the elves in Tolkein, the elves!) I really hate it in this new BG. It's like that old theme song, was for the sort of thing that always seemed to force a smile from you whether you wanted it to or not; it has that feeling of slow, smug, ludicrouss realization that you can do the impossible. This new one is just sad. Which I'd probably mind less if the real world weren't so busy mimicing the end of all things too.

Comments

I think you're wrong...

[lilchiva.livejournal.com]

The new Battle Star is like the finest space opera ever. Above just being good Sci-Fi it's the Allen-Alda-morality-hour-war metaphor of our generation. Edward James Almos consistently makes cliched writing and situations work. Lastly, The girl on girl fights rock the house. What's not to love? There is finally a TV show that dares to lose!

[roy-batty.livejournal.com]

Have you figured out why MI-5 "season2" on DVD actually starts with the final two episodes of "season1" as listed on the A&E website? We had a moment of panic when the bomb in the laptop was about to go off at the end ep6, and it seemed that Netflix's offenings for the season ended there. thicknwild commanded me thusly: You go online RIGHT NOW and tell me what happened!

[mobobocita.livejournal.com]

OH? How far are you into MI-5's second season?? What do you think of it? I'm currently...2 episodes behind I think. It's been....interesting.

I'm not sure I agree.

[zarq.livejournal.com]

This incarnation of BSG is definitely much darker and grittier, yes, but I do believe the writers are incorporating some hope for the future into the mix. (Survive. Find Kobol. Find Earth. Get help. Rebuild.) The producer, Ron Moore, is doing what he does best: exploring the effects of tragedy and war on humanity.

What I'm finding fascinating about the show is its depiction of the Cylons. They're almost more human than the "real" people.

I think the Cylons are quite good

[lilchiva.livejournal.com]

See I'n sure they will fuck us with some "happy ending" garbage at the end of the day. Until then it will be fun though.

Re: I think the Cylons are quite good

[zarq.livejournal.com]

Well, it would be a hell of a downer if all the humans die when the show ends....

:-)

Everyone must die.

[lilchiva.livejournal.com]

Not for me.

[feyandstrange.livejournal.com]

I adore you for the mono-no-aware and Tolkien's elves comment. I've nad a weird trying-to-be-a-story thing in my head attempting to combine Tolkien-style elves with Japanese aesthetics, and it's plotless and pointless. But I'm glad that someone would appreciate the thought process.

[heron61.livejournal.com]

Given that BSG has been renewed for a 2nd season, I'm guessing that they are doing serious long-term planning. Currently, the characters are less than a month post genocide. I love the way that the show is not skipping over the horror of that event. However, from both a few spoilers I've read and the feel of the show, I'm fairly certain that it will become considerably more hopeful (although still dark and gritty) towards the end of first season and the beginning of the 2nd.

[zarq.livejournal.com]

Out of curiosity, have you seen Ron Moore's explanation about the picture in the briefing room the pilots touch reverently as they enter and leave? It's one of the little details I appreciate so much in this show. (Even when they don't actually make it through the editing process.)

From: http://blog.scifi.com/battlestar/archives/2005/01/index.html
There may be spoilers in that link, so here's the relevant part:

"There was a scene cut from "33" where we saw Laura being given her copy of the photo along with a card that said it was taken on the roof of the capitol building on Aerilon during the attack. The photo was inspired by the famous shot of the fire-fighters raising the flag at Ground Zero that became iconic. I thought the Colonies would have their own version of this -- a snapshot taken in the moment that becomes a symbol of the day they can never forget and of all they had lost. The photo itself is of a soldier falling to his knees (possibly shot or simply overcome by emotion) as he stands on the rooftop over looking the devastation of his city, while the Colonial flag waves at the edge of frame. The inscription below the photo on Laura's plaque reads, "Lest We Forget" in itself a reference to the inscription on the watch presented to John Wayne's character in "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon.""

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

Happy Valentines. :D



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