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[sebastienne]

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.

Comments

[sebastienne.livejournal.com]

Depends where it comes in Sixth's character arc. Which he totally does have. Just mostly in the audios because his TV-character got so horribly mangled.

I have seen Remembrance but all I can really remember is BASEBALL BAT OMG. I suppose I'm really basing my answer on Silver Nemesis, Fenric, etc, rather than 7's actual Dalek-interaction...

[sebastienne.livejournal.com]

gods I love 7. he is dark.

[calliope85.livejournal.com]

:-O H8ER!!! COLIN BAKER'S FACE > YOU!!!!

....actually, that's not much of a counter-argument, is it.

[calliope85.livejournal.com]

[mejoff.livejournal.com]

You very nearly tricked me into breaking my work monitor. with punching