Thursday, January 1, 2009
Happy New Year.
This is the first New Year's Eve I've ever spent completely alone. When I was younger it was the one night of the year my mother encouraged us to stay up. Early on it was just snacks and tv. Then we started renting movies. Later, on my own it was parties with friends; Darla always had great parties. Mark was part of the mix, and I've spent almost every New Year's with him since, though I opted for a party last year with my then-boyfriend Michael, and ex-bf Steve. But in year's past we've always had that little New Year's Eve kiss. Nothing sexual about it. Actually, our first kiss came on New Year's Eve 1995. There were other year's where the kiss was planned. There were several years where I slept unti midnight, only to have Mark wake me up, wish me happy new year, and kiss me before I went back to sleep. There was at least 1 year where I returned the favor.
Mark was going to be with me tonight. He was going to work until 11pm and then come home. We weren't really going to do anything. But we always have the little kiss. Sometimes a lingering hug.
Mark is in the E.R.; he went there right after work. He's been shitting blood, which is always a bad sign, but I guess it's getting worse, or at least continuing, and he has a brother who suffered something similar that was serious, so Mark is at the hospital where he needs to be. I hope he's alright. That whatever is happening with him is treatable and non-threatening.
And this is the lonliest New Years ever...
I got a Happy New Years texts from Shawn Foreman. Exchanged messages on yahoo with Trevor, online-Mark, & Corey.
I feel exhausted, and not very well myself.
I'm going to crawl back into bed.
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Mark eventually made it home safe and sound; woke me up, held my hand and told me everything was ok. Which was way better than a Happy New Year. Then he let me drift back to sleep. I just woke up a few minutes ago.
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I just finished my first draft, explaining how Mollie's new BSG discs will fit in with the ones I've already sent here. I'm afraid it's too confusing. I'll give it another go later.
Meanwhile. Here are new Season 4.5 promos:
And here's a trailer for "The Top 10 Things You Need To Know" special, which is meant to bring new viewers up to date so they can watch the final 10 episodes:
It's a good idea, ratings wise, to bring new fans in for the end of the series, and to help them enjoy it. But I sort of pity those new fans, for all that they've missed and will have spoiled for them by seeing the ending before the beginning. Yet it's heavily implied in several rumors that further revelations in the final 10 episodes will change the way we view the beginning of the series.
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I slept some more. More strange dreams.
I'm finding it hard to get into the first Xanth book, even though I've read it before. I think it's the heterosexism. There's this line where Bink, the main character, is thinking about how he's reacted to seeing a sexy woman, and he excuses this by saying that he'd hardly be human if he didn't react to the sight. I guess that means when gays don't respond to a beautiful sexy woman, that it's a sign they aren't people. Erg. Annoying. The book was written in 1977. It seems to me that a later Xanth novel ("Demons Don't Dream") had a touch of homosexuality though. I can't remember what it was though. Whatever. I still have happy memories of "Question Quest".
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New Cover art has been released for this years's 2 new DS9 novels; here they are with the plot descriptions given a few weeks ago:
I think the first cover is hiddeous, though I understand the significance of the imagery, and it's the book I'm most looking forward to this year.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
The Soul Key
by Olivia WoodsContinuing the events from Star Trek: Fearful Symmetry, a new novel in the ongoing Deep Space Nine series set after the end of the critically acclaimed television series.
Captain Kira’s lookalike, Iliana Ghemor, dreams of fulfilling a prophecy that will mark her as the one true Emissary of the mirror universe—a messianic figure who will lead her followers into a war that could trigger the cleansing of countless alternate Kiras in countless parallel realities. But the stakes are higher than anyone imagines, for the pull of destiny tugs at other souls who are swept into the vortex of the Prophets, remote and timeless beings who have set these events in motion. Yet the outcome of this struggle for the fate of one universe will ripple across many others, giving shape to a future that will prove to be greatest trial yet for the heroes of station Deep Space 9.
----------------------The 2nd cover is breathtaking, and the description enticing, though I've had troubles with this author's books in the past, so I'm a bit weary about this one.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
The Never-Ending Sacrifice
by Una McCormackContinuing the post-television Deep Space Nine saga, this original novel shows the fall of the Cardassian empire as seen through the eyes of a young man with a foot in two worlds.
Rugal is an orphaned Cardassian who has been raised by the people his race once conquered, the Bajorans. Reluctantly repatriated to Cardassia as a teenager, Rugal becomes the living witness to the downfall of the proud people to whom he was born, first by the invading Klingons, then during the Cardassians’ unholy pact with the Dominion—a partnership that culminated in a near-genocide. Through it all, Rugal’s singular perspective illuminates the choices that brought the Cardassians to their ruin... even as he learns that the Cardassian soul is not as easy to understand as he imagined.
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Friday, January 2, 2009
Yesterday, my monitor started fraking with me again. Badly. It's been ok the last few weeks. I don't know what sets it off, but it's really fucking annoying. I know I need a new one; I'd even welcome it. This monster takes up too much room. I'd like one with at least the same size screen or larger, but flat so it doesn't take up as much room.
The other day while I was out with Janice and the kids Janice pointed out a HUGE flock of birds. Then yesterday evening, I was chatting online and I heard this strange noise. I thought it was rain or something. I went into Mark's room so I could look out his big window; opening it a crack. I saw no rain, which is what I thought it was at first, then the sound really hit me. I looked at the trees across the railroad tracks and they were filled with crows. All of them cawing. It was a powerful image. Creepy. I called Janice and told her. She called me back playing the school house music from that scene in 'The Birds' where Tippi Hedron is waiting with her back to a jungle gym that is slowly filling up with birds while the kids inside sing an annoying song. She found it on youtube.
Janice and I used to watch "The Birds" on television every year. It terrified our mother, who was afraid of birds. It seemed that every year a bird would find it's way into our farm house, and we'd chase it down while our mother screamed and cried. Good fun as a kid. lol
While my monitor was working yesterday I worked on some artwork for poetry I plan to write in 2009. A lot of what I write is inspired by people and books and things. But a lot of what I write is inpsired by the art I do. I like both ways of working. I only wrote 4 poems in 2008. It just didn't feel like the time for it, but I want to get back to that in 2009.
And when my monitor started messing up I found that playing windows media player actually helps. Well, it doesn't help so much as windows media player seems to be ammune to the trouble. So I could watch stuff that I had on my computer and it came in great.
I watched the first 3 episodes of Will & Grace Season 8. I once read a survey taken on some website asking when Will & Grace jumped the shark. Many people voted for bits of the first 4 seasons which I can understand, as the show is very hit or miss, but there more hits than misses in my opinion. I recently saw the 5th Season and I thought that was fairly good as well. I've seen bits and pieces of the 6th Season and it was ok too. So I just assumed these people were bitter or something. Only Season 8 is sucking beyond the telling of it. There's a funny joke every once in awhile. But the stars look terrible. The wring is mostly subpar. And the staging is just...ick. There's this scene where Jack is supposed to be teaching Will how to swim, and from the dialogue pouring out of their mouths there are other people in the pool with them, yet it's OBVIOUS they are alone. Not an extra in sight. I felt humiliated for the actors. It's just really, really terrible. Now I don't know if Season 7 was this bad, but I can now say that it probably should have ended with that season. I'll probably finish the season, so that I've seen the final season, but it's not going to be pretty.
I also watched more Ally. And while I enjoy the first season, Season 2 is an improvment. I'm nearly finished with 2nd Season, and it's just very well done, and a brilliant extension of Season 1. I remember Season 3 as slightly mixed - Season 4 as excellent, and what I saw of Season 5 was crap...which was understandable as so much they depended on for the series was yanked out from under them before Season 5 began. I'll see if I feel any differently about it this time, because this was great series for 4 seasons, and deserved better for it's final season. Will & Grace was also just so so.
BSG Season 4.5 begins 2 weeks from tonight.
I slept from about 8pm to 4am. Very nice. Nice dreams. Good rest. Comfortable. Wish it was always that easy.
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I got out of the condo today. I went to the bank; a couple book stores, and Krogers. I got the new Star Trek magazine, which I've been wanting. I don't usually get that, and even magazines I do like to buy haven't been bought by me recently, but this issue had a timeline of all the Mirror Universe stories and how they all fit together, and I wanted that. So I got it.
I can't believe it's Friday.
I just read this really great interview with Ron Moore, in which it's confirmed that most of my questions for the final set of BSG episodes will be dealt with in some fashion, which is a relief.
Here's the excerpt from the interview that I liked best, with the interviewer in bold:
After I watched "Revelations," I thought it was a great ending, but I jotted down a list of things that still had to be dealt with. I'm wondering, without you giving it away, whether these things are going to be addressed or whether these are things that we're thinking a lot more about than you were.Do you have a list?
Yeah.Okay.
Obviously, the identity of the final Cylon, we will find this out?Yeah.
The origin and nature of the Final Four and how they different from the rest of them?Yes.
The origin of the rest of the skinjobs?Yes.
What happened to Earth and what happened to the 13th Colony?Yes.
Who, if anyone, is orchestrating all of this?
Basically, yeah. I don't know if it's going to be wrapped up in a neat bow. The show has an answer for it, whether it's a satisfying answer, I don't know.
Will "All this has happened before and it will happen again" be explained in some way?
Yes.
The opera house?
Yes.
What happened to Kara when she went through the Malestrom?
Pretty much.
Identity and nature of the "head" characters?
Yes.
Tigh and Six's baby, and whether that means Cylons can breed?
Yes. That's not a "yes" to whether they can breed -- the question will be answered.
The fate of Boomer and whether there are other 1's, 4's and 5's floating out there?
Yes.
Roslin's health?
Yes.
Okay, that's a "yes" on all of them.
See? We knew what all the questions were! I'm kind of proud of myself. "Yes"es to all of them. I thought you were going to throw a curve at me, like, "Oh, (bleep)."
-----------------------------------------It's so cool to know that so many questions will be answered! I figured they'd explain what happened to Earth; who the final Cylon is; the signicance of Kara Thrace. I wasn't sure they'd touch on the 'head' characters (the possibly imagined versions of Caprica Six, Baltar and Leoben). Tigh & Caprica Six's baby was a huge question in my mind, that I wasn't sure we'd get an answer to. And how the final 5 seem different than the other 7 models. So many answers. :0)
I need to shave and take some pictures today. Finish my laundry. Clean my room. I should call Jordan today. My ex-bf Jordan; not my nephew. He's in town and wanted to see me, but I've been doing this and that this week. I should call him. I should also get some work on my website if my monitor doesn't freak out.
I have a doctor's appointment at 9am on Monday. I have a dentist appointment at noon on Monday. Fun Fun. Only not.
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Saturday, January 3, 2009
Gaius Baltar - Season 4.5:
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I chatted yesterday. I read some of my Trek magazine; the Mirror Universe timeline. I shaved and took my first pictures of 2009, which came out really well. I've found in the last few months that I really enjoying setting up pictures that I take on my own. Sometimes I end up with nothing. And other times I end up with gold. :0)
There's this guy I've been chatting with online with for about a week, named Vance. He's a huge Doctor Who fan, and he made a comment about classic Who, about Romana II. Which lead to me wondering if she could possibly have survived the Time War as she was off in E-Space, or whatever... And he told me that my geekiness is hotter than any of my pictures, because he just doesn't know anyone that gets excited about that kind of stuff. And I know what he means, because when I find other fans, who like the same things I do - it's rare.
I went to bed around 9pm. I had strange dreams. I woke up around 3:30am.
Battlestar Galactica 4.5 begins in 13 days.
Oh! And they will be announcing the actor to become the 11th Doctor today! I've heard rumors about who it is... I wonder if they're true?
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My stomach was upset earlier, and I was worried it might spoil the day, but that eventually ran it's course.
I chatted a bit. Had a great wank; really great - shot all over the place. Had a lovely, long, hot shower. And I think I might go back to bed for a bit.
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And the 11th Doctor is Mr. Smith; Mr. Matt Smith. The youngest actor to play the role (smart move in my opinion - yet, the Doctor is younger than me [26 years old] which is creepy), though all the rumors of a black actor taking the role make him seem awfully pale. The picture there is black and white. But I hope he's 'ginger'. :0)
***update***
I've now seen some promotional pics and read bits of news. He could be a good 11, but he could be terrible. I'll try to reserve judgment until I actually see him in the role, which won't be for at least a year - and probably a bit more than that. In some of the pics I've seen...his hair really annoys me. lol
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