Not really. I know you all missed me though. Me, the serial blogger. I apologize for the last, terribly emo blog post; I was in a fragile state of mind and I can assure you all that I'm working on getting over it.
I don't think I've missed a lot, really. No way am I going through the thousands of new Facebook messages I've had since the 11th, especially since I have so many on Deviantart.com... Every time one of the people I watch posts a piece of art, I get a notification. As it is, I have a grand total of 669. Not to mention the 158 journals, comments, replies, news articles, polls and community notices... I'm looking forward to it!
I'm a bit disappointed in you guys. I get here after a week away and apart from all of Rachel's blogs, which I'm very pleased about :), I find a meagre ten or so. Jeez.
I do like Jessica's Tumblr thingy, though. I'd quite like to do it as she does. Haha, I'm a copycat! Ha.
No one minds? Okay.
1. Your Favourite Song.
My oh my, that's a hard one. It changes a lot. If I were to go by my iTunes top 25, it would be Jeff Buckley's version of Hallelujah, but that's not really right. Uhm. Oh gosh. Okay. Um. Um.
It has to be a Florence and the Machine Song. I never get sick of her. She's luvverly.
Uhm. Okay, top ten, as of now.
Cosmic Love, F+tM.
The Remedy, Jason Mraz
(Cover of) Wicked Game, HIM
Last Goodbye, Jeff Buckley
If There's A Rocket Tie Me To It, Snow Patrol
Blow Away, A Fine Frenzy
Speechless, Lady Gaga (yes, I know)
Valerie, The Zutons
Don't Look Back In Anger, Oasis
Drive, Incubus
I can't choose. Crap. Never mind.
2. Your Favourite Movie
Top five? Okay.
Donnie Darko
Children of Men
That's all I can think of. Wow. I've seen so many movies- oh
The Day After Tomorrow
Um.
It's Children of Men, I guess. Great actors (Clive Owen, Julianne Moore, Michael Caine), documentary-style camera work, great story, and based on a book. I haven't read the book, but I'm guessing in advance that they did a good job with it.
3. Your Favourite Television Programme
Grey's Anatomy, simple as that.
And it's on toniiiight :D :D
And lastly, this. If you want to stop reading here, feel free. What follows is a quote from my current read: Sophie's Choice, by William Styron. So, here we go:
"...in reading George Steiner, I experienced the shock of recognition.
"One of the things I cannot grasp, though I have often written about them, trying to get them into some kind of bearable perspective," Steiner writes, "is the time relation." Steiner has just quoted descriptions of the brutal deaths of two Jews at the Treblinka extermination camp. "Precisely at the same hour in which Mehring and Langner were being done to death, the overwhelming plurality of human beings, two miles away on the Polish farms, five thousand miles away in New York, were sleeping or eating or going to a film or making love or worrying about the dentist. This is where my imagination balks. The two orders of simultaneous experience are so different, so irreconcilable to any common norm of human values, their coexistence is so hideous a paradox-- Treblinka is both because some men have built it and almost all other men let it be-- that I puzzle over time. Are there, as science fiction and Gnostic speculation imply, different species of time in the same world, 'good time' and enveloping folds of inhuman time, in which men fall into the slow hands of the living damnation?"
Until I read this passage I had rather simple-mindedly thought that only I had entertained such speculation, that only I had become obsessed about the time relation-- to the extent, for example, that I had attempted more or less successfully to pinpoint my own activities on the first day of April, 1943, the day when Sophie, entering Auschwitz, fell into the "slow hands of the living damnation.""
"Stingo", the narrator, then goes to explain that as this was happening, he was gorging himself on bananas, in order to gain weight for entrance into the Marine Corps.
I suppose I put this quote in here because the thought had crossed my mind before, admittedly not in so much depth, but it had appeared nonetheless.
Long post is long D:
Bye everyone, off to watch Grey's :D :D xx
Yay you're back!
ReplyDeletehaha I feel like such an addict. I don't know what I'd do if all of a sudden there was nobody who blogged anymore. It would be quite upsetting.
I'm glad you're "getting over it" although I'm still worried, I have no idea whatsoever whats going on but I truly do hope that you are OK and are not just saying it.
Because I am AWeSOME.
ReplyDeleteBahahaha.