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Sep. 13th, 2004 02:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cleolindaSo I went to Best Buy yesterday and got my new headphones... and a printer... and shitload of ink. If you've been keeping up with my computer purchases--and really, why would you?--you'll remember that a printer was part of the deal. Well, I ended up reconsidering, so I canceled the printer order, which was shipping separately anyway. Again with the semi-thrifty streak: laying down a lot of money hurts, but I'd rather buy a really nice piece of equipment now and get several years' use out of it. Also, my old printer is a fairly crappy inkjet that can't do shit, and my scanner is a bit behind the times with the quality and all as well. So I went over to the printer section at Best Buy and picked myself out a $300 printer/scanner/copier/fax/food processor/carwash/missile launcher, and they were also having a sale on ink wherein you bought a ton and got some free, and boy did writing that check hurt. But I got free ink and a good all-in-one machine that'll take up less space and actually enable me to print my own documents instead of running around the house looking for a relative with ink and paper. Also, my headphones enable me to hear out of both ears now. Rock.
(Half my friends list: "Given the crap you listen to... why is it so important to be able to hear it?")
Unfortunately, I can't use my headphones, because I have to keep an ear out for UPS on the off chance that my computer does arrive today or tomorrow. As much as I want it all to get here, it'd really be better if it didn't until Wednesday, because I have a paper I have to write tomorrow and would rather not have the temptation of going ahead and setting everything up and possibly screwing it up, too.
Also: Yay! Vladimir is home! He decided to let me try to guess whose autograph he got me--"To [My Actual Name]" and everything--and I was able to guess it, and it turns out it's the director of one of my most favoritest movies ever (a Cary Grant movie, no less). And it also looks like Algoritam (the publisher he translates for) has coughed up enough money for him to come visit this Christmas, which is good. I'm hoping I'll be able to finish my book--since it looks like I'm getting more time to do it--in time to get the rest of my advance and buy lots of Christmas presents with it.
Which reminds me--for no good reason, I guess--I also picked up Peter Pan on DVD while I was out. It's a pretty crappy DVD, in terms of the extras (Look! Two minutes of time-lapse footage on the pirate ship set! Now I REALLY know what it was like to be there filming OMG!), but then, I may be spoiled by the LOTR movies. And the Matrix movies. And the Harry Potter movies. And just about any other movie ever released on DVD in the last five years. And yet... I have a feeling the movie itself will get a lot of play in the Jones household, as Sister Girl went from "Ew, I don't like the Peter Pan kid, he's too young" to *drool* in ten minutes, and, as previously stated, I maintain that Hook is the sexor.
Speaking of pirates, I know y'all are going to help me observe Talk Like a Pirate Day on Sunday. It was tons of fun last year; I even wrote the whole Digest news update that way. My only request is that folks try not to quote Pirates of the Caribbean wholesale, you know? It's time to branch out beyond "Savvy?," y'all.
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Date: 2004-09-13 12:36 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-09-13 12:40 pm (UTC)lol! For $300 it better also bring breakfast in bed and format script pages.
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Date: 2004-09-13 12:44 pm (UTC)Just to let you know, I'm always reading every single one of your updates, and I enjoy them thoroughly... just a break from my dreary day! :) I'm really happy for you and Vlad and that The Squishy will be able to come visit you for Christmas! You must be ever so excited!!
Well, hope that, despite the odds, I'll hear from you sometime in the future. I really did enjoy corresponding with you... and it seems so empty without hearing from you! Good luck with the book, and have fun!
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Date: 2004-09-13 12:45 pm (UTC)::goes to prepare for some serious pirate-talking::
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Date: 2004-09-13 01:14 pm (UTC)*Drools over Jason Isaacs*
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Date: 2004-09-13 01:29 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2004-09-13 01:14 pm (UTC)Pirate speak + Southern speech = Funny juxtapostion
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Date: 2004-09-13 01:32 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2004-09-13 01:34 pm (UTC)No, actually, I think that moment was when Wendy got in trouble for the picture of "I'm in bed, and a boy is visiting me." Yeah. Carry on.
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Date: 2004-09-13 01:33 pm (UTC)LusciousJason Isaacs came onscreen...psh, those poor unenlightened mortals.I'm totally talking like the Dread Pirate Roberts on TLAP day :) "As you wish..."
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Date: 2004-09-13 01:41 pm (UTC)You betcha. Thanks for the heads-up.
Yarha, Scupperin' the Mizzenmast and Whatnot
"Quoth surly swashbuckler, 'Yer wife, sir, mine arse is!'"
-Art of the Bawdy Song
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Date: 2004-09-13 02:24 pm (UTC)And YAY! to the purchases! A they say, true economy lies not always in spending little, but spending wisely.
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Date: 2004-09-13 03:19 pm (UTC)I was going to! Even last year! But then something intervenes every single time and I end up being not rich enough to go over to the US! Plus, I'm secretly fretting over the new visa and immigration policies - even though I've lived in the States and been there many times. Everyone says it's a different country now, from Jonathan Demme to Wim Wenders, and I'm just strangely reluctant to go to the new, fortress-like American embassy in Zagreb to find that out for myself. But, yeah, I'll brave higher odds than that to be with La Squisha for her birthday...
Oh, and the money I got wasn't from Algoritam, not that anyone cares. It's the sales points from my translation of "Heart of Darkness", which was issued as one of the titles sold for cheap in conjunction with a popular Croatian daily. It apparently sold a lot, over a hundred thousand copies, which is cool, aside from the fact that they neglected to publish the *authorised* version of the translation. So now a hundred thousand Croats have a bad translation of mine, and several of them might have noticed.
Still, big bucks is big bucks ;)
*back to work on my Venice report*
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Date: 2004-09-13 02:43 pm (UTC)Careful! Them things is dangerous! (http://www.livejournal.com/users/quizzicalsphinx/54728.html)
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Date: 2004-09-13 02:48 pm (UTC)Actually, I was surprised how much extra stuff was on it, esp. it being, at it's heart, a kids movie. I liked the behind-the-scenes featurettes. The one thing about the LOTR extras is that it's a lot of technical stuff/storyboards/costumes/LOTR history/Middle Earth stuff that I find too time intensive to want to wade through. That's great if you're into the more technical aspects of film making, but I'd rather see featurettes, interviews, commentaries and deleted scenes.
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Date: 2004-09-13 05:27 pm (UTC)See, that's what I like, too--I can't listen to the super-technical LOTR commentaries. (Were there any commentaries on Peter Pan?) My problem wasn't so much what the extras were like--it's that they were all one or two minutes and that was all. I love seeing behind-the-scenes stuff on wirework and swordfighting and fun stories about being on set, if at all possible, and there was just hardly anything, I thought.
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Date: 2004-09-13 04:27 pm (UTC)...
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you got stanley donen's autograph? DUDE.
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Date: 2004-09-13 05:32 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2004-09-13 04:40 pm (UTC)Oh and btw, I just discovered on KoL that you can add people to your contact list, and I feel like a loser b/c I only have 1 contact. Could I add your character too? I don't know anyone else who is into KoL :)
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Date: 2004-09-13 05:24 pm (UTC)baddance music, and I like the CD Kylie put out about two years ago, and the Dannii (yes, two i's) song in question is a lot like it. So--yeah, I guess so.(no subject)
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Date: 2004-09-14 07:19 am (UTC)So I get to pretend that my hubby is Jason Issacs.
The wigs I bought for him don't really work, though ....
And Cleo, as one of your lames ... I mean latest fangirls, let me say that, despite the pain of writing that check that your butt can now cash, you deserve every penny.
And Vlad sounds like a cutie. I would SO be shortening his name for the vampire thing all the time... 'cause I'm a dork.
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Date: 2004-09-14 10:39 am (UTC)and i listen to crappy music, too. sure, i like it, but i'll be the first to admit that my taste is a little... random. odd, really. it's all over the place: rap, rock, punk, sugary-sweet pop,
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Date: 2004-09-14 03:12 pm (UTC)Oh wow, all that for $300? I'll have to pick me up on eog those. ^^ I'm especially intrigued by the middle launcher bit ...
Talk like a pirate day? Arr, sound fun.