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So, so, I'm reading deCandido's novelizatin of Resident Evil: Apocalypse, right? Right.
And, and, there's a paragraph, describing Carlos' team. And one sentence is:
Jack Carter and Sam O'Neill, who were, like Carlos, recruited out of the USAF, but had quit to join Umbrella so they could start dating each other.
*dies*
(and for the record, they don't have names in the movie)
And, and, there's a paragraph, describing Carlos' team. And one sentence is:
Jack Carter and Sam O'Neill, who were, like Carlos, recruited out of the USAF, but had quit to join Umbrella so they could start dating each other.
*dies*
(and for the record, they don't have names in the movie)
Book review: Evolution, by John Peel
Jul. 29th, 2006 01:59 pmIt says a lot, I suspect, that though it had a slow start, I just spent the last couple hours reading this straight through from about page 40 on. (Yes, I'm a fairly slow reader)
The book is completely Sarah Jane and the Fourth Doctor, right down to me hearing Lis Sladen's voice with practically every word. This is good.
( I'll be nice, oh, look, this might contain spoilers for the book... )
The book is completely Sarah Jane and the Fourth Doctor, right down to me hearing Lis Sladen's voice with practically every word. This is good.
( I'll be nice, oh, look, this might contain spoilers for the book... )
Oldskool Who quote.
Jul. 29th, 2006 12:25 pm"And I assure that I would sooner have Sarah at my side than any three men. I know I can rely on her implicitly." - The Doctor, John Peel's 'Evolution'
All oldskool companions were as pets, yeah?
'Course, I'd rather be trusted implicitly than be In Teh Love.
That aside, I'm really enjoying this book. Peel is utilising all of his characters magnificently. Sarah doesn't just stand about, she investigates, and she acts like a frelling journalist. It's quite lovely, really.
All oldskool companions were as pets, yeah?
'Course, I'd rather be trusted implicitly than be In Teh Love.
That aside, I'm really enjoying this book. Peel is utilising all of his characters magnificently. Sarah doesn't just stand about, she investigates, and she acts like a frelling journalist. It's quite lovely, really.
I need to go to the library...
Apr. 5th, 2006 08:06 pmEr, actually, that's a note to self.
But, anyway.
Bones, NCIS and House = top snark and amusement. Jen and Gibbs, Abby and Ziva (OMG GUNS), Cameron and Chase (dear Cameron, please marry me?), Bones and Booth (and Hodgins and Zack and the others)... Mwah. I love these two nights of tv.
Kathy Reichs' books = boredom. Seriously. I finished three, and the fourth one I started is just... blah. Wait, did I only finish two? I don't remember anymore. They all have kind of the same setup/plot: bones are found. She investigates. She tells the cops there's Stuff Related. The Cops Don't Believe Her. There is Random Interpersonal Crap. Someone lectures about some point of anthropology... Only Tempe Can Figure Everything Out. Hello, Mary Sue. Not to mention that she's rather Too Stupid To Live, and there's Always a Personal Connection that happens.
*yawn*
So, the next two will be going back unread.
Also: note to self. Songs for vids, and do some music uploading. yay.
But, anyway.
Bones, NCIS and House = top snark and amusement. Jen and Gibbs, Abby and Ziva (OMG GUNS), Cameron and Chase (dear Cameron, please marry me?), Bones and Booth (and Hodgins and Zack and the others)... Mwah. I love these two nights of tv.
Kathy Reichs' books = boredom. Seriously. I finished three, and the fourth one I started is just... blah. Wait, did I only finish two? I don't remember anymore. They all have kind of the same setup/plot: bones are found. She investigates. She tells the cops there's Stuff Related. The Cops Don't Believe Her. There is Random Interpersonal Crap. Someone lectures about some point of anthropology... Only Tempe Can Figure Everything Out. Hello, Mary Sue. Not to mention that she's rather Too Stupid To Live, and there's Always a Personal Connection that happens.
*yawn*
So, the next two will be going back unread.
Also: note to self. Songs for vids, and do some music uploading. yay.
dear Kathy Reichs
Mar. 22nd, 2006 11:02 pmYes. I get it. Tempe Brennan is an ex-alcoholic.
However. You don't need to state it in every frelling chapter of your book. (seriously, Deja Dead? Like clockwork, at least once a chapter) Your readers are, in fact (we are also smart enough to spell), smart enough to remember it. And possibly, don't actually CARE.
Like me. I don't care.
I'm 50 pages into Death du Jour. And I think, Hey, maybe there won't be a mention... And then, WHAMMO, on page 51? Brennan laments not being able to drink anymore.
Gee. Thanks, Mr. Sledgehammer.
*waves*
In other news, Bones was again glee tonight. The end was sappyish, but I loved the bit with Angela not having a thing to say, and not being her normal Mary Sue Knows How To Talk to People self. Yay.
Also? I am very glad tvBones is not bookBones. The episodes would consist of her saying, "I'm not an alcoholic anymore!" every ten minutes, calling her daughter every five, and... leaving logic far behind (oh, wait, they do that on tv, too) and running off to pretend she's a PI. (speaking of PIs, why can't we get a Kat Colorado series? Even just a mini would be nice. They could just do Stray Kat Waltz. Hrm. Damn. I'll have to library it.)
ALSO. omg. I got a call from my temp agency tonight, and she was all, "OMG they love you and you're doing a great job, yay!" so. Er. Yay. *pleased*
However. You don't need to state it in every frelling chapter of your book. (seriously, Deja Dead? Like clockwork, at least once a chapter) Your readers are, in fact (
Like me. I don't care.
I'm 50 pages into Death du Jour. And I think, Hey, maybe there won't be a mention... And then, WHAMMO, on page 51? Brennan laments not being able to drink anymore.
Gee. Thanks, Mr. Sledgehammer.
*waves*
In other news, Bones was again glee tonight. The end was sappyish, but I loved the bit with Angela not having a thing to say, and not being her normal Mary Sue Knows How To Talk to People self. Yay.
Also? I am very glad tvBones is not bookBones. The episodes would consist of her saying, "I'm not an alcoholic anymore!" every ten minutes, calling her daughter every five, and... leaving logic far behind (oh, wait, they do that on tv, too) and running off to pretend she's a PI. (speaking of PIs, why can't we get a Kat Colorado series? Even just a mini would be nice. They could just do Stray Kat Waltz. Hrm. Damn. I'll have to library it.)
ALSO. omg. I got a call from my temp agency tonight, and she was all, "OMG they love you and you're doing a great job, yay!" so. Er. Yay. *pleased*
for real, this time.
Oct. 23rd, 2005 10:22 pmSo, anyway, have been watching TV and such.
First off, I have now seen all of Ghost in the Shell: SAC season one. AND OMG. SO GOOD. So. Very. Fucking. Good. Major/Batou? So very canon. *snickers madly* More in-depth review at another time. Along with post season one ficcage.
Second... BOBBY! Criminal Intent is being played all over the damned place now (I love Bravo, it's my new best friend). And so there is Bobby on my screen (ok, right now, it's All Creatures Great and Small, but, still...)
They've done new Sherlock Holmes's with Rupert Everett as Holmes. The directer had a fascination with feet. It was kind of pathetic, and a little over the top. But omg, the bad guy was CREEPY. And, dude, Holmes was being Bobby. ! It was disturbing. He was! He was doing the Bobby thing where he was playing around with crap in the crime scene!
Side: Holmes/Watson? First co-depentant OTP. Followed by Kelly/Nick (Dark Justice), and others.(Scully/Mulder, Taylor/Creegan...)
Then there is more Bobby, of course. OMG. And NCIS. Have I mentioned that I like NCIS? Caught the last half of one we hadn't seen before. Was amused, as always. sigh. I think I will always love this show.
Am now reading the Hardy Boys. OMG Iola Morton dies in a car bomb! Cue clones, redheads, and the Grey Man.
ETA: OMG. Pat Troughton was in tonight's All Creatures... HAHAHAHAH
First off, I have now seen all of Ghost in the Shell: SAC season one. AND OMG. SO GOOD. So. Very. Fucking. Good. Major/Batou? So very canon. *snickers madly* More in-depth review at another time. Along with post season one ficcage.
Second... BOBBY! Criminal Intent is being played all over the damned place now (I love Bravo, it's my new best friend). And so there is Bobby on my screen (ok, right now, it's All Creatures Great and Small, but, still...)
They've done new Sherlock Holmes's with Rupert Everett as Holmes. The directer had a fascination with feet. It was kind of pathetic, and a little over the top. But omg, the bad guy was CREEPY. And, dude, Holmes was being Bobby. ! It was disturbing. He was! He was doing the Bobby thing where he was playing around with crap in the crime scene!
Side: Holmes/Watson? First co-depentant OTP. Followed by Kelly/Nick (Dark Justice), and others.(Scully/Mulder, Taylor/Creegan...)
Then there is more Bobby, of course. OMG. And NCIS. Have I mentioned that I like NCIS? Caught the last half of one we hadn't seen before. Was amused, as always. sigh. I think I will always love this show.
Am now reading the Hardy Boys. OMG Iola Morton dies in a car bomb! Cue clones, redheads, and the Grey Man.
ETA: OMG. Pat Troughton was in tonight's All Creatures... HAHAHAHAH
I was feeling cranky the other night, and realised I hadn't reread Paks in a while. A really long while, so I began reading about the girl who would become queen. Er, well, not that exactly. But she was a tomboy and ran away to become a mercenary, and eventually goes through peril dire and becomes a--you know, that might be a spoiler, I suppose.
( Will contain spoilers )
( Will contain spoilers )
I never thought...
Jul. 25th, 2005 02:37 pmI'd be one of those people who hated 'new' stuff and prefered the old. I really didn't.
But I'm consistently finding myself completely unimpressed with the new Who, and wondering if I'm just missing the boat or something.
Kris marathonned me through Dalek a few weeks back, and while I still like Rose, and Unquiet Dead was amusing, I just... Wasn't all that impressed with the rest of it. Oh, there were bits I liked (MP for Flydale North), but I spent most of it feeling a bit bored and thinking that even Farscape's Jeremiah Crichton was better.
It was exacerbated by watching Aliens of London, World War Three and Dalek again at Squeecon. Right after I'd re-read Paul Cornell's No Future. Dalek is painful and over-blown and made me roll my eyes. A lot.
Old Who made me roll my eyes a lot, too. But oddly enough, things like The Silurians still have charm. Whereas Dalek et al feel pointless.
sigh. And I really want to like the new Who.
Btw, No Future still has three or four plot-threads never resolved. But, damn, if it didn't make me happy.
But I'm consistently finding myself completely unimpressed with the new Who, and wondering if I'm just missing the boat or something.
Kris marathonned me through Dalek a few weeks back, and while I still like Rose, and Unquiet Dead was amusing, I just... Wasn't all that impressed with the rest of it. Oh, there were bits I liked (MP for Flydale North), but I spent most of it feeling a bit bored and thinking that even Farscape's Jeremiah Crichton was better.
It was exacerbated by watching Aliens of London, World War Three and Dalek again at Squeecon. Right after I'd re-read Paul Cornell's No Future. Dalek is painful and over-blown and made me roll my eyes. A lot.
Old Who made me roll my eyes a lot, too. But oddly enough, things like The Silurians still have charm. Whereas Dalek et al feel pointless.
sigh. And I really want to like the new Who.
Btw, No Future still has three or four plot-threads never resolved. But, damn, if it didn't make me happy.
Light, fluffy... The plot was just a little, ah, muddled. Moreso than Sorcery & Cecelia's was, actually. A lot of it felt rather like waiting around for a train. Also, I had trouble telling Kate and Cecy apart in their narratives. Unlike last time there was much less distinction between them (and unlike Freedom and Necessity, where NO one corresponded in exactly the same voice...), which occasionally confused me as to who was doing what.
Still, it was an amusing book.
I think my brain is fried. RP, plus randomly writing Lee and Kara mocking each other has killed it dead.
Still, it was an amusing book.
I think my brain is fried. RP, plus randomly writing Lee and Kara mocking each other has killed it dead.
C'mon and fly away, to Malibu
Jul. 3rd, 2004 10:24 amrabbitrabbitrabbit.
God.
I'm reading Freedom & Necessity again (mostly only Susan's letters, though I stopped to read Richard holding David at gun point). And I'm realizing that my penchant is most definitely for angst with sarcasm and humor thrown in. Susan and James remind me rather forcefully of Taylor and Creegan at their worst -- pulling chunks from each other's skin in an effort to balance things out and make it all right again.
Oddly, Susan reminds me a great deal of the way I write Sam Carter. Which scarily made my brain look at James and mock itself, since James is Jack O'Neill aged 30 and British.
Not precisely Jack, I suppose. But there's the intimation of masks and putting on a facade for other people.
Hrm.
Love the prose of this book. Sigh.
"For much of the time I knew him, he'd been drinking. It never made a great deal of difference. I sometimes wondered why he bothered." -- Thomas Cavanaugh on James Cobham.
God.
I'm reading Freedom & Necessity again (mostly only Susan's letters, though I stopped to read Richard holding David at gun point). And I'm realizing that my penchant is most definitely for angst with sarcasm and humor thrown in. Susan and James remind me rather forcefully of Taylor and Creegan at their worst -- pulling chunks from each other's skin in an effort to balance things out and make it all right again.
Oddly, Susan reminds me a great deal of the way I write Sam Carter. Which scarily made my brain look at James and mock itself, since James is Jack O'Neill aged 30 and British.
Not precisely Jack, I suppose. But there's the intimation of masks and putting on a facade for other people.
Hrm.
Love the prose of this book. Sigh.
"For much of the time I knew him, he'd been drinking. It never made a great deal of difference. I sometimes wondered why he bothered." -- Thomas Cavanaugh on James Cobham.
*tugs at bangs*
May. 26th, 2004 10:26 pmI have this barely deniable urge to re-read two completely dissimilar books.
1. Tree of Hands by Barbara Vine. The tale of a young woman who's seeing her psychopathic mother again, her kid, and about three other people. And it's all fucked up. There's death and sex and murder and strange attractions and people who are just... Completely nucking futs. But it's a beautiful story. And what I'd REALLY like is to get it on tape and listen. Again. 'Cause that's what I did last time.
2. Harlot's Ruse by Esther Friesner. The tale of a harlot. *g* Told in the first person, with a lot of mis-adventure and fun.
And these books could NOT be more different. Really.
Had less porn in my head today. And Sam and Jack? SO a bad influence. There isn't a partners set in my head that didn't either kiss, argue, makeup, etc, etc today... And all at once. Sigh.
Found an old Doctor Who/Farscape scenelet. Heh. Amused me.
( Read more... )
1. Tree of Hands by Barbara Vine. The tale of a young woman who's seeing her psychopathic mother again, her kid, and about three other people. And it's all fucked up. There's death and sex and murder and strange attractions and people who are just... Completely nucking futs. But it's a beautiful story. And what I'd REALLY like is to get it on tape and listen. Again. 'Cause that's what I did last time.
2. Harlot's Ruse by Esther Friesner. The tale of a harlot. *g* Told in the first person, with a lot of mis-adventure and fun.
And these books could NOT be more different. Really.
Had less porn in my head today. And Sam and Jack? SO a bad influence. There isn't a partners set in my head that didn't either kiss, argue, makeup, etc, etc today... And all at once. Sigh.
Found an old Doctor Who/Farscape scenelet. Heh. Amused me.
( Read more... )
I built you out of nothing...
Feb. 17th, 2004 06:09 pmMy cat has been happy, I think. She's got us to herself, her food to herself... She isn't puking every other day, either, which is, I hope, a good sign. I think my parents were feeding her too much wet cat food. Now she gets more dry.
Seems to work, I think.
The weekend went by quicker than it should have. I feel like I didn't accomplish anything. I didn't, really.
Had an argument with John Crichton on the way home. He's now sulking because I won't write him porn. Aeryn wandered off to blow things up with Sam a while ago. I think Dom and Cally tagged along.
Am reading the newest Jani Killian book. Marya is mentioned in it. Completely disturbed as this is exactly the sort of way I would have stuck her into that universe... She trains one of the lesser boytoys on guns, and is ex-military... *eyes her fictive* She claims to have no knowledge of this.
I highly recommend Jani Killian, btw. First book is Code of Conduct, author: Kristine Smith. She's fab. May pawn these off on Aj when she's up here.
Watched Red Cap last night. It had a beautiful moment between everyone's favourite SoCo lad and Jo. The dog was barking, "What's up with Pongo?" "Someone put viagra on his dog biscuits." "Me, too." And he leers. Damn, that boy is cute. I say we get a lab built in the basement and install him there. He can... inspect mold, or something.
He was eating chocolate hobnobs. Mmm.
Why is it that American cookies just aren't as good?
Oh well.
In other news, Aj has made me write Stargate fic. *shakes fist* I should make you watch Blake's 7!
Speaking of which, anyone have any ideas for pulling episodes off vhs and onto my computer? If I were doing non-linear editing, the nomenclature would be digitising. But it's been five years, for all I know, it's completely different now. *sigh* Oh, to still be irritating Mark at Media Services at FP... I crashed his computers so often.
Bad, me.
Oh! And I've crashed the data entry program at work! Twice!
It's not my fault! I swear it's not!
...really?
Seems to work, I think.
The weekend went by quicker than it should have. I feel like I didn't accomplish anything. I didn't, really.
Had an argument with John Crichton on the way home. He's now sulking because I won't write him porn. Aeryn wandered off to blow things up with Sam a while ago. I think Dom and Cally tagged along.
Am reading the newest Jani Killian book. Marya is mentioned in it. Completely disturbed as this is exactly the sort of way I would have stuck her into that universe... She trains one of the lesser boytoys on guns, and is ex-military... *eyes her fictive* She claims to have no knowledge of this.
I highly recommend Jani Killian, btw. First book is Code of Conduct, author: Kristine Smith. She's fab. May pawn these off on Aj when she's up here.
Watched Red Cap last night. It had a beautiful moment between everyone's favourite SoCo lad and Jo. The dog was barking, "What's up with Pongo?" "Someone put viagra on his dog biscuits." "Me, too." And he leers. Damn, that boy is cute. I say we get a lab built in the basement and install him there. He can... inspect mold, or something.
He was eating chocolate hobnobs. Mmm.
Why is it that American cookies just aren't as good?
Oh well.
In other news, Aj has made me write Stargate fic. *shakes fist* I should make you watch Blake's 7!
Speaking of which, anyone have any ideas for pulling episodes off vhs and onto my computer? If I were doing non-linear editing, the nomenclature would be digitising. But it's been five years, for all I know, it's completely different now. *sigh* Oh, to still be irritating Mark at Media Services at FP... I crashed his computers so often.
Bad, me.
Oh! And I've crashed the data entry program at work! Twice!
It's not my fault! I swear it's not!
...really?
Mm. Noodles.
Feb. 10th, 2004 09:21 pmHave read Practical Demonkeeping. Now wish to re-read all 8 Castle Perilous books as the styles are similar, and I feel the need to watch Gene be swash-buckly. And the golf games. Lord, I need the golf games.
Am stymied in this, as my copies are currently in St. Louis.
Will now pout massively.
...I also want to see 'Help'.
In other news, I have coffee.
Am stymied in this, as my copies are currently in St. Louis.
Will now pout massively.
...I also want to see 'Help'.
In other news, I have coffee.
