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Am currently ın İstanbul for European Congress of Endocrınology, workıng on unfamılıar keyboard wıth dıfferent letters and layout, so excuse the funny ı. Respıte from varıous happenıngs at work.
Back on 3rd May.
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Even if you don't watch Watchmen (or prefer the original), the opening credits are possibly the best of any movie I've ever seen, and gain by re-watching after seeing the film. Special effects, political and pop culture references notwithstanding, it dragged a bit in the last hour. Also, a giant teleported SQUID does feature prominently, just not quite in the same way as the comic XD
I may have been the only person who watched the Metropolitan Opera's HD transmission of Lucia di Lammermoor to catch Watchmen in the same cinema. Hard to decide which was more entertaining.
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From ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) ambientlight and xsmoonshine
Fic meme:
1) DVD commentary: Point at a story, and I will babble about it. (not expecting any takers for this, owing to lack of output)
2) Write me anything from a sentence to a drabble (or more if you desire), any fandom you want and think I know. Identify fandom and characters if it's not clear from what you wrote. I will respond in some fashion -- fic, art, bad poetry, a mini FST, etc.
3) Make up a title for a fic I've never written and I'll give you a blurb, excerpt, illustration or whatever else strikes my fancy.
From ambientlight
Association Meme: Comment to this post, indicating that you'd like to play, and I'll give you 5 subjects/things I associate you with. Then post this in your LJ and elaborate on the subjects given.(optional)
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Finally getting round to posting pics of Paris, whittled down from several to just one dozen:
The city's most famous landmark, which, unfortunately I neither ascended nor took night photos of. Opposite it on the Champ de Mars was the Ecole Militaire, the backdrop to people strolling about, sunning themselves on the grass, eating ice cream and generally having unmilitary fun.
Since I had only 3 full days there, much of the city was seen from atop a sightseeing bus (same company as the red-topped one returning from the obligatory roundabout the Arc de Triomphe), the better for tourists to lean out dangerously over the tops to get a closer shot.
Another must-see was the Louvre, where tourist hordes swarmed in to see the lady with the mystic smile practically as soon as the doors opened. The two famous belles dames sans pièces, the Winged Victory of Samothrace and the Venus de Milo, being in relatively open spaces at the tops of staircases, had the virtue of being much more accessible (to photo-taking). Personally I much preferred this painting (whose title, alas, I neglected to record).
The bus made multiple trips over the Seine, passing over several bridges (overlooked by Haussman-era houses) to get to various landmarks within a limited time. Two of its three routes passed by Notre-Dame de Paris, of which the external carvings and stained-glass windows impressed me the most.
Other frequently-visited-sites included the Place de la Concorde (which, going by the photos, I must have passed at least six times in two days), les Invalides, and recurrent views of the Academie Francaise, Place Vendome, Opera etc, various Quartiers, musées, and the Moulin Rouge and Sacré-Coeur basilica (neither of which I visited, despite living on the outskirts of Montmartre).
I'd have liked to spend more time in Paris, but not in autumn. Perhaps Paris in the springtime...
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Day #7 of happy-making things:
This gem in the comments, from flemmings' link to the post on how numerous hymns could be improved by adding a particular phrase.
(In case of wonky browsers:"...I was suddenly snapped out of a rather droning rendition of Handel's Messiah by the abrupt realization that the entire choir was singing at the top of their voice, "And we like sheep! And we like sheep! And we like sheep! And we like sheep!
have gone astray")
Yet another reason to regret not singing Handel's Messiah in choir.
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For 8 days you have to post something that made you happy that day: Day 6
Being able to go abroad this year for HMDP and posting this in Adelaide.
Looking forward to 2009 - may it be a better year for everyone!
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For 8 days you have to post something that made you happy that day: Day 5
Rather inappropriate icon, since the happy-making is Woxin - flemmings' Woxin fics of the last several days, and xsmoonshine's Santa-hat!Gou Jian Woxin pic :D
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For 8 days you have to post something that made you happy that day: Day 4
(well, it didn't say *consecutive* days...)
Getting tickets for the HD-broadcast (almost a month later than everywhere else, but that's typical of living Down Under) of the Metropolitan Opera production of Lucia di Lammermoor, which makes for a much better opera in Italian, than a book in (almost) English.
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For 8 days you have to post something that made you happy that day: Day 3
From the artistic genius of xsmoonshine, thanks to flemmings:
mistletoe!Maloki, seasonally and fannishly perfect.
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For 8 days you have to post something that made you happy that day: Day 2
Being able to wish all of you
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Wherever you are, whatever time it is, have a joyful holiday ^_^
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From that_oneill_guy:
The rules are that for 8 days you have to post something that made you happy that day. Tag 8 people to do the same.
The things that made me happiest (paper accepted by endocrinology journal, project protocol approved by hospital ethics committee, finding a better download site for music, not screwing up majorly in inaugaural experiments) happpened last week. So, music: Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen
WARNING: potentially offensive material in this piece (male chauvinism, glorification of heterosexual love/marriage and conventional mores, classical music, tuneful singing, religion, foreign languages), and more, in its source.
( Translation )
At least it made me feel better, after learning that one can be sued for rescuing a friend (or a stranger, or anyone, possibly including people like the attempted-suicide in The Incredibles) from a dangerous situation. For several years, health care workers in the States have been taking out insurance against such situations happening if they are off duty.
Not tagging anyone.
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Music meme from ambientlight:
Put your MP3 player on shuffle, and write down the first line of the first twenty songs. Post the poem that results. The first line of the twenty-first is the title.
( I love you from the bottom of my pencil-case )
( The songs )
Evidently too much opera- + MOR-easy-listening-lurve-songs, soundtracks and showtunes, regardless of language/era.
[Instrumentals omitted: Glasgow Love Theme(!), 1812 overture, various Chopin/Schubert/Beethoven piano pieces, Theme from The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, Recuerdos de l'Alhambra, Prelude from Bach's Cello Suite No. 1 (Yo-yo Ma's version in Master and Commander), Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana, In the Hall of the Mountain King (Grieg, not the heavy metal version), first movement of Mozart's Symphony no.41]
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Dec 2nd prompt for ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) 31_days: ( make him tame so he can live in peace with the world )
It is the 2nd here, and looks like a busy day. Title from another of Sutardji Calzoum Bachri's poems, In front of the Ka'abah ("I look for my veins, and search for my blood...") The prompts for subsequent two days are slightly terrifying.
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December 1st prompt from 31_days:
( let snow and silence mark the site of my unseemly appetite )
(set in the historical!AU where Gou Jian & co. are ensconced fairly comfortably as grooms/servants in huts near the royal stables.)
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From squidlet, the ( Controversial Survey(TM) )
The one cheering thought for the day: Computer with the nifty food-calorie-counting software in our lab is named labelled HAL-1 *hums the Blue Danube*
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Flying to Adelaide (South Australia) tonight to start year-long research attachment. May not have home internet access for weeks.
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