sebastienne | (no subject)

Well darlings, what a week it's been! Handed in the work of DOOM, and promptly spent three days doing nothing whatsoever. Well, for a given value of 'nothing'; have some beautifully-nested HTML.

Seeing bands:
- Barbare11a, who are so beautifully glam-goth that I almost don't care that their music was only average
- Borderville, who I need to accept will never fill me with as much joy as they did in 2006, even though I still love them an awfully large amount
- Scaramanga Six, who rocked and appeared to have Bill Bailey's evil twin on bass

Staring at screens:
- Star Trek, which was fun, and subverted some things that irritated me about TOS quite nicely
- Ashes to Ashes, which is just made of awesome, plus 01x03 was approx the most feminist thing I'd ever seen on TV:
  - a woman who enjoys casual sex and is not ashamed of that fact
  - recognition of the fact that sex workers can get sexually assaulted
  - discussion of how attitudes to women alter based on their perceived sexual status
  - Mister Misogyny saying, "no, we shouldn't do this, we're too drunk"
- Babylon 5, which continues epic
- Genesis of the Daleks, which is joyous and wonderous and has moral complexity that New Who can't even dream of and giant clams!

So today it was back to mind-numbing data entry, and afterwards off to a seminar about social networks and political polarisation (y halo thar, area of DPhil interest.. yes, I wish to acquire propaganda skills that would have made Goebbels proud and Use Them For Good. You may say I'm a dreamer...), and I'm pretty much all the way back to normal. Not a bad refractory period, all things considered!

An offering of joy:

This video may not look like much to anyone else (I get a lot of home off it, all the random flashes of things-I-know-to-be-Oxford) but I think that the song is very worth listening to, regardless. It's a boy-meets-girl lovesong that doesn't irritate me! (Funny thing I've noticed about that: when I'm with a girl, it's, "why is no-one ever singing about us?" - now, it's, "how dare popular culture try to tell me how I should be experiencing things?")

So check it out. Especially if you're

apotropaios.