Things I like, part deux

-Fall. I love fall. Some of the trees around here right now look too bright to be real; it makes me wish I were living in the country again.

-Spiced cider. Nom.

-My avocado green walls. Also, the independence having my own place affords. My dad would never go for avocado green accent walls.

-Blankets straight out of the dryer. I realize this is a go-to "happy list" entry, but....

-Orange peach mango juice.

-Christians who aren't crazy.

-Gracie when she's not peeing on my couch. Unfortunately this has been happening a lot lately, but it does bring us back to "blankets straight out of the dryer," so until I get a nice couch, she's getting away with it.

-Shakespeare.

-Women playing kickass Shakespearean dudes. Like this!! Look, guys!!:

Strong Bear must wear pants for modesty

Nothing makes me want to pick up my sketchbook like seeing somebody else's really cool sketches. And for some reason, the rougher the work the better, if the artist is talented. Here's today's inspiration (are you familiar with the webcomic Wondermark? David Malki is amazing), which I thought was just amusing enough to be worth sharing:

There must be a way to do hovertext on paper.

He's got more posted on his twitpic account if you're further interested.

Fortunately? Unfortunately?

...this has got to be photoshopped. But it's still 100% awesome and perhaps the 2nd best thing I've seen today.

Qapla, sir.

As they say ..."Frak."

I just finished the first half of the Battlestar Galactica miniseries.

Yes, it is pretty awesome.

And yes, Laura Roslin is the shit.

And yes... I can tell I'm going to get all squeeshippy about Roslin & Adama.

...Damn.

I don't have time for this, guys.

Sir Yum

Awwwwwe-soooome.

Also, if you haven't watched the interview yet, you totally shooooo-oooooould. [head tilt, grin]

Also, he looks funny in a moustache

I really love Charlie Rose. He gives the best interviews -- he asks intelligent questions and really draws people out. And if he's interviewing someone I already find interesting... well!

The following interview is with ...Patrick Stewart. Surprisingly though, I found and fell in love with this not through of my recent obsession with Trek, but because of my longstanding love of British Theater (the interview takes place while he played Macbeth in spring of '08). It's a fascinating interview, Stewart's passionate and insightful, and it makes me wish desperately that I could have seen Macbeth when it was in New York.

It's 26 minutes long, but if you have a little time, it's seriously hawt totally worth it.

Stupid thing won't imbed right because it haaaaaaaaaaates meeeeeeeeeeeeee.

Personally, I'd want to know whether he loves me.

So, this is the part where I hope my more obscure interests won't fail to hold yours. This is a very brief clip of Fiona Shaw reading a poem by Bertolt Brecht. I love this clip. I don't generally connect with poetry, actually, but once in a while I really do, and I like this poem a lot. If this clip strikes your fancy and you're more into poetry than I am, there's a few more of them out there -- I've found (or been pointed toward) her reading Becket, Elliot, and Donne so far.

Fiona Shaw, despite her tendency toward playing minor comical and villainous characters onscreen, is considered to be one of the greatest classical stage actresses of her generation. And, for those interested in Harry Potter, not only does she play Petunia Dursley, the surprisingly slim young man holding the poem for her is the guy who plays Dudley. (They're in a production of Mother Courage together showing in London this fall.) (Which I want them to bring to the US.) (Soon.) (Please.)

More icons!

I thought I'd pull out and share some old ones, made either in college or just after. There are things I'd do differently if I were to do them now, of course, but for the sake of preserving history.... The first section is of a variety of miscellaneous images (feel free to ask if you don't recognize something and are curious), the last section is of Maggie Smith. For those who weren't aware (heh), I went through a big Maggie Smith phase in college.

Tragically, when I bought my new computer last year and transferred all my files, I lost every Maggie Smith and Fiona Shaw (who is actually even more awesome than Maggie Smith) picture I'd collected over the years, including everything I'd created on Photoshop. By the time I noticed a year later, thankfully, I didn't care much anymore. What I've posted below is what I had on Photobucket at the time.


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7. 8. 9.

Maggie

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19. 20. 21.

22. 23. 24.