Conclusion: successful day.

[charloween]

Spent the afternoon hanging out with my mum. :)

Bought a new knife. It's a German knife, and Koch Messer is printed on the blade.

Got detailed, quality feedback on my Firefly paper from Sabine the Cool TA. (Here's a copy. Any comments would be appreciated!)

Collected more songs for another music post full of covers (Ryan Adams doing "Wonderwall", Petra Haden's version of "God Only Knows", and a cool "Time After Time", and others).

Almost finished the scarf I'm making for dantae_hicks.

Comments

[kneazle.livejournal.com]

do you need a kitchen knife? That's what koch Messer means... :|

Ooo! Time After Time is always a classic song to get remakes of.

[naturelf.livejournal.com]

do you need a kitchen knife?

Yup - I can't afford a good French knife (I don't have $100 to spend on a blade), so I bought something smaller. But at least I can dice an onion quickly and cleanly with this one, and that's worth a lot. Plus, it's fun to wave a knife around and say "Koch Messer". Erm. All this feminist film theory is really, really getting to me.

The "Time After Time" I found has Cyndi Lauper and Sarah McLachlan and is so very pretty. I'll post the songs some time this weekend, methinks.

Ahoy, eh?

[skivee.livejournal.com]

Hey, it's Craig, of the Pyrates.
Darcy passed your LJ along.
This is just a tip'o the tricorn, unassociated with your post.

Ahoy, eh, indeed!

[naturelf.livejournal.com]

Hello!

*tips tuque in response*

How's it going?

Re: Ahoy, eh, indeed!

[skivee.livejournal.com]

Fairly well.
I've been getting into photo-shopping my old photos and prints.
Tons of fun, but with a steep learning curve.
The band now has all the CDs in stock, thanks to Darcy's herculean efforts.
We played a small festival in the D.C. area yesterday.
We knew that one of us wasn't going to make it; but then Brad called to sday that he was sick as a whipped dog.
So we did a set with three of us, on 1/2 hour's notice...a bit sweaty.
How's the Great White North treating you?

[requiem-unbound.livejournal.com]

I had to sit for a moment after reading your essay. Now I plainly have to come visit you so that I can bow at your feet, and your genius brain. LOL!

I have so many comments that I can't write them down but:
Wow, that was really fucking good and really fucking well written besides everthing else;
I have to read some of the articles and books from your reference list;
The bit about Reavers as representations of Indians in Westerns was so cool and I never really saw them like that before now... *face shines with enlightenment*;
Candy coated Star Trek... heh heh heh, so true now that I think of it, and so wimpy compared to Firefly.
That's really just the tip of the iceberg....
Oh, only a true fan could have written that... :) So what did your TA say?

Also, I'm coming to visit Teresa from the 20th of February to the 21st (or whatever days are the Thursday and Friday of that week, cuz I'm not sure if I have the dates right) so perhaps I may be seeing you?
*worships you* Tootles! :)

[naturelf.livejournal.com]

Hee! I'm glad you liked the essay. Sabine and I took a good 90 minutes to go over it and find places to (her words) "bump up" the thing and make the paper stronger. I've been getting good feedback on it so far, but I know there are some places I can elaborate just a little more (ie: tie in how the "corrupt and corrupting" 'verse caused Mal's loss of faith), and tighten up the conclusions just a wee bit. It's very fun to keep working on this, just for my own personal intellectual gratification.

But I'm very happy to hear you enjoyed it! (And me, just a little second year, with all that university left before I graduate, and you, nearly done with the whole mess... it means a lot to hear you say nice things about it!)

I leant my copy of the FF essay book to Sabine, but if I get it back before the 19th/20th you can take a boo through it. The Sue Matheson paper is what I tried to model mine on (hers is, of course, better) and is a fantastic read. And Jan Johnston-Smith's American Science Fiction TV is one of the first (and only) volumes dedicated to that topic, and she draws some really neat conclusions. Oh - I remember posting a while back about it, but I'll bring Warshow's "The Westerner" when I see you next. Whedon totally lifed Mal from those pages.

Right. 19th/20th. Will you be coming downtown? If you are, give me a call because I haven't seen either of you in far too long. And I can get my movie back from you, too... :D I might even have the next draft of this paper done, and I'd love to hear what you (both) think of it.