...with a sunny disposish.

31 January 2010 @ 01:06 pm

Title: Cowabunga, Michelangelo!
Rating: Gen
Word Count: something around 950
Comment: Inspired by some of the best hours of my childhood and

usomitai 's request of something Kutner-centered and fun. Not beta'd.

( This way to the sewer. )

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30 January 2010 @ 01:04 pm

Is fandom burning itself again?

Just a short question. What's going on with

house_cuddy ?
Does anybody know?

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19 January 2010 @ 01:07 pm

Writing meme from just about everywhere

The first TEN people to comment in this post get to request that I write a drabble of any pairing/character of their choosing. In return, they have to post this in their journal, regardless of their ability level.

Enough with delaying writing. I requested drabbles, so I promise to write these after Thursday. I'm very willing to do things that are not House&Wilson, just try me, I'll let you know if I don't know your preferred pairing/characters enough to write something.

ETA: Sadly only one of you wanted to play with me ;-)

In other fannish news, I've joined Archive Of Our Own because it's so pretty and so wonderful to read and memming is awesome. I've also uploaded my alibi story "Behind Closed Doors". This time I cleaned it and the original LJ entry from even more adjectives and typos so it should be halfway readable by now.

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14 January 2010 @ 02:33 pm

House 6.10 I just see what I want to see

Just because I'm always late to the party doesn't mean I don't have an opinion. House 6x10 "The Down Low"

( As with many people who saw the episode I flailed, giggled and then got a bit annoyed at it all. So, it was the next best thing since sliced bread, you say? Well, I think that's not true and here's why. )
In other news, the ridiculously gifted

triedunture wrote a fic for me and I think you allllll should read it! Just. Because.

On a more subdued note, I saw this at

sorion

In memory of family and friends who have lost the battle with cancer; and in support of the ones who continue to conquer it! Post this on your LJ if you know someone who has or had cancer. 93% won't copy and paste this. Will you?

My aunt has an ongoing fight with breast cancer and other family members had other "smaller" occurrences of the disease.

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06 January 2010 @ 01:51 pm

Streamys (and I actually managed to fix the embedded vid of the last post. DUH!)

Those of you interested in web series have probably noticed that the Streamy awards are taking nominations at the moment.
If you want to, I'd be delighted if you'd vote for the web series I worked as Script/Continuity on in February 2009 for the second season. I wrote a bit about it here.
You can watch the show here. It's in German but there's not that much talking going on, especially not in the first episodes. Lost fans should like it because it's basically a mystery show.
And you can submit nominations here: http://www.streamys.org/submit/public-submissions/
Put in "Dämmerung" as a Drama Series.

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05 January 2010 @ 03:13 pm

birthday&philosophy

Thanks so much

magie_05 for giving me my first ever virtual gift for my Birthday yesterday! Ballllllloons, I got balloons!
I also got this postcard in the back from a lovely friend I met over Twitter this year.
( Cut for pic and vid )

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31 December 2009 @ 06:00 pm

The Big Read 2009/A book meme

I'm sure you all love talking about books, right? So why not take a minute before stomping off to your New Year's celebrations to talk about your reading experience. ( Which books did you read this year? Which would you recommend, which not and why? )

Tags: books, meme

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31 December 2009 @ 02:53 pm

2009 meme

Seen at

triedunture and

starlingthefool

1. What did you do in 2009 that you'd never done before?
( here you go.... )

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23 December 2009 @ 11:35 am

In which I am once again baffled by the awesome that is fandom

As some of you already know the organizers of

amplificathon since summer have worked on a super sekkrit podbang gift extravaganza. Everyone could say what they favorite fandoms were and which themes/topics were a no go and the reader would go from there and chose the story to record. Yesterday the cat's been let out of the bag and not you may not hit me for the presumably incorrect use of English proverbs.
And now loooook what I've been given!

triedunture's Jooster story The Long Road read by

suzumenoko. I don't know how she did it but it's like . . . PERFECT. I hadn't gotten around to finishing the story

usomitai's A Joy Forever for

6shotamericano. You can find it here.
If you feel like it, let me know if you liked the podfic.

Tags: fandom, house, podfic

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18 December 2009 @ 04:41 pm

I want to Tell you

So, New Moon. I hope it's not too late to prevent you from going. ( There be spoilers. )

Tags: cinema, silver screen

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03 December 2009 @ 01:35 pm

Christmaaaaas sooon.

On the twelfth day of Christmas,

cadeira sent to me...

Twelve

usomitais drumming

Eleven

trieduntures piping

Ten

georgeodowds a-leaping

Nine

mxdps dancing

Eight movies a-milking

Seven books a-writing

Six languages a-reading

Five be-e-e-eatles

Four tv series

Three cultural studies

Two television studies

...and a computer in a stephen fry.

I founf this at

sorion .

I'm thinking of buying an instrument (saxophone) for my bf. But I'm not so sure about that. I have'nt been lucky with giving/buying instruments to/for other people. Maybe he should get it himself and I should not bother with it as a present? Or should I say "Yay! You, me, music store nao!" But then it wouldn't be a surprise anymore. And we would have to go into the store before christmas.

So and what are you all planning for christmas? I'll be going home to my family.

Before that. I'll be watching New Moon. Tonight.

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17 November 2009 @ 04:41 am

London and other stuff

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Originally uploaded by cadeirae

Fandom has got me back, I guess. I thoroughly enjoy House at the moment, though I wish I would actually find the time to write all the things I want to.
I'm recording a super sekkrit podfic for a christmas extravaganza at amplificathon. I remember someone once saying that podficcing is brain numbing enterprise and I disagree heartily. I try to get my mouth to phrase incredibly complicated word combinations all the while trying to sound as if I have understood the MEANING of this particular part of the story, the different inflection of the characters' voices, their motify etc. It's really exciting actually.

( more . . . )

Tags: fandom, podfic, theatre, uk

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11 October 2009 @ 01:59 pm

College starts next week

It seems that nearly all my favorite people here on Livejournal have updated yesterday which is all shades of wonderful. I felt bad for neglecting LJ for so long but I think I can once again use my journal to goad myself into working.
I have finally worked through the superfluous pain of my college failure of the last months. I nearly failed the oral lecture two weeks ago and then maybe you recall that Obama paper I worked on sooooo long and which

muhsilisk and

usomitai were so kind to look at? Despite alerting my lecturer that I would have to hand it in late, he didn't accept it and so I flunked. He of course told me that I couldn't hand it in late only after I handed it in and not at the time when I e-mailed him about the delay (which was still long before the dealine). Anyway, now I have to write a new paper but I went to another lecturer because I was so angry at myself and at him too because I have experienced it many times that it lies very well in their discretionary power to accept paper (in my case only ten days) late. (Ha, convoluted sentence! Eat this, twitter!)

So, new topic. Conrad, Baudrillard, Raod narratives. Deadline: October, 30th. Personal dealine: October, 23rd. Now that the theatre play I was working on as assisting director has premiered, I'm gonna make it!

In other news, I'm gonna be a tutor this year. I have before worked as a tutor to explain first year students how they should write papers (see, that kinda didn't really fit, did it?) and how the whole university circus worked.
But now I'm a tutor working on real texts and films of the introductory culture course. Of course, the payment is lousy.
I will also teach a real course together with a colleague. "Online-Journalism with Podcasts", the last time we only had four participants because we offered it so late in the year but this time it looks really promising and we changed a lot of the structure. Does anyone of you have teaching advice? It's hard for me to teach/tutor people who are of about the same age as I am.

Below is another one of the photos I took in London. It's been exposed too long and is all shaky but I still really like the structure. Big Ben and the Houses are just as impressive as I've always imagined they would be.

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Originally uploaded by cadeirae

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07 October 2009 @ 02:19 pm

So, I have been to London.

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Originally uploaded by cadeirae

And I still haven't managed to write about it properly because there's so much college stuff going on at the moment.
However, I did find the time to sort through my digital pictures and wanted to share on of my favorites. It's not a particularly good picture but the moment just made me so giddy. I took it right around the corner of the British Library, where I went for no other reason that it's the effin' BRITISH LIBRARY!

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30 September 2009 @ 12:03 pm

the pleasures of entertainment pt. 5

Oh House season, how I missed you!
( 603 and personal drivel. )

Tags: cinema, college, house, theatre

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10 September 2009 @ 06:47 pm

Oh Edward!

Okay. Okay. I don´t even know what has happened here. The Internet kind of ate me up and I didn´t take the time to write anything decent here in my journal. Also, twitter does take up a lot of the spontaneous rambly sort of things that I´d usually put in here. But I yearn, I yearn for fandom and for you people who have so kindly not deleted me (*checks friends table*) from your flists. So how are you all? Like, seriously!

People I´ve been in London! Let me write about that in the next post or so because it has been aösdlkfjdlskfjamazing!

Inspired by

muhsilisk 's brave example I started working through the Twilight audio books because everyone´s talking about it and I didn´t want to be a douche bitching about books I haven´t read.
( Twilight. I mean it. )

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23 June 2009 @ 10:17 am

Look, I made things to listen to.

I really really wanted to participate in the

amplificathon but school and charity somehow didn´t let me and I didn´t finish all the stuff I wanted to record in time.

However, I did just now finish a podfic for

podfic_lover who won me in a Sweet Charity auction.
I recorded

deelaundry's
Hello, Godot which is a cute House/Wilson story and you can download the podfic here on drop.io.
It´s about 25 minutes long and has some music in it.

In time I also finished the House/Wilson story Things to Do before you Die by

thedeadparrot
It´s is already in the archive over here.

There's also A Storybook Story to which I don´t really have an opinion... I didn´t turn out the way I wanted but whatever. (Way to advertise my own stuff, I know, but the other two - I like very much ;-))
It´s a story for the Princess Bride movie and can be downloaded from the archive here.

Please comment to the author if you liked the stories.
Can I also point you to the awesome Internet Archive where I found a novella I had to read for class recorded as audio files. There´s much more than this first lesbian Vampire novella "Carmilla" by Le Fanu. Like the old episodes of the Humphrey Littleton´s British radio programme I´m Sorry I Haven´t a Clue and other amazing stuff. Go, Look, Download!

Tags: house, music, podfic

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18 June 2009 @ 10:55 am

¿Qué? - Untertitel sind beglückend

For the last days I have been working extensively on a subtitling project. La decima vittima (The tenth victim) is an Italian film with Marcello Mastroianni and Ursula Andress. Very James-Bond-like, 1965 social critique with laughs and a bit of sexy romance. The tag line actually is: 'It's the 21st century and they have a licence to kill' Dudun!
I got the German subtitles which were the result of a workshop at my university and had to put them into the film with Adobe Premiere and Encore for the cinema screening on sunday (anyone of you near Duesseldorf on that day? Entry is free. Next week Spanish film Padre Neustro.) It was a lot of fumbling with anti-aliasing of colors and fonts and codecs which meant fun and frustration was guarantied for all.
I´m really into the whole idea of subtitling movies and there are also aesthetic film theories about the whole perception side of it. (book tip: 'Subtitles: On the Foreignness of Film' published at Alphabet City. 'Taking subtitles as their point of departure, the thirty-two contributors to this unique collection consider translation, foreigness, and otherness in film culture.')
Ever since I watched the English version of 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' on which someone had put hard (not removeable) Swedish subtitles, I know that the Swedish word for 'girl' is 'flicka'. I thought it was an amazing to see how the brain deals with the superimposition of mere writing on a screen.
What are your thoughts on the aesthetics of subtitles? Do they distract you from following the actual pictures? I think it´s a whole different viewing experience and I´m absorbing two (or three when I´m watching english or french with dutch subtitles like on the ARTE channel) languages at a time and feel how they struggle in my brain for some kind of weird dominance. It´s thrilling to see how much you actually understand of a foreign language. Basically to get your way around in Spain/France/Italy you only need to know one Romanic language properly and the rest kind of comes on its own. At least when I´m reading Spanish or Italian stuff, I can extrapolate so much from German/English/French I understand a lot than I thought I would.
Also: Subtitles as a source of humour.

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10 June 2009 @ 10:55 pm

"I´ll be back."

I haven´t been updating my personal journal in ages and most of this is due to the possibilities of twitter, college´s delightful stress and the Charity Drive. But it´s just one more day to go and I´ll be rambling about films and books soon enough again.
In case you haven´t been over at the community page yet, check it out, we have a Candy Cane party going on there and generally love fangirlish flailing about our awesome donors who laughed in the face of recession and helped us to collect over $2500 so far.

See you soon!

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17 May 2009 @ 02:54 pm

And so I´ve come to the conclusion...

I haven´t been to the cinema in weeks. The Boat that Rocked (mediocre but Emma Thompson and Ken Branagh) and Gran Torino(Clint Eastwood hilariously wonderful and tragic) were the last films I saw. I need a good recommendation though I´ve heard great things about Let the Right one In.
This Obama paper is driving me nuts. I need people to look over it because me+scientific English=no good.
And now on top of it all, I have to buy a new desktop Mac. It sure needs to be a G5 for all the video editing stuff to work and now I have to google my way through the different kinds of graphic cards that support at least three monitors and openGL 2.0 Can I please have cheap computer?!
Blergh.
But fandom makes me happy at the moment though it´s distracting as hell.
I´ve turned off LoudTwitter on LJ because it made so apparent that I don´t update my journal daily and it really looks ugly. I´m @cadeira if you want to follow me and need to know what I have for dinner.
Does someone of you need Dreamwidth invitation codes? Some were sent to me today.

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