Cwelfi's Journal

crazy_wood_elf @ 2008-01-11T11:36:00

2008-01-11T11:41:46Z

Doublepostdoublepostdoublepostdoublepost.

DOUBLE. POOOOOOOST!!!!

*Ahem*

Just for posterity, I want to say here that I do not support the Jervis Tetch/Alice Pleasance pairing. However neat it may be.

*folds arms and nods*

"I am the nightmare that crushes your dreams,
I'm the greatest creator this world's ever seen!!!"

(D'you even need to ask who?)

Gonads, gonades, gonadas...

2008-01-11T11:35:57Z

</i>"Don't go away,
Don't go away,
Don't go away and leave me!
Don't go away,
Don't go away,
Don't go away and leave me!!!"</i>

(Dr Steel again!)

I've just had a rather interesting two hours of French, somehow instilling my teacher with a bizarre fetish for the word 'gonads',

Other than that, well...I had an English exam yesterday. I think I did reasonably well on it, but that's not what I want to talk about right now. What I want to talk about is the way I got to Sixth Form yesterday. =)

The weather was what most sane people would describe as naff, but for me it was utterly wonderful. My hair was wet, my clothes were wet, and my brolly was lying alone and unused in the back of my bag. For once there was nobody around, so I sang.

When you go to Sixth Form singing hymns, pop, and Carroll poems, you know you're in a good mood.

The test itself was pretty mundane, but I think I got through it well enough.

Hoping everyone's okay!

Cwelfin

Back and Forth

2008-01-09T10:03:11Z

"Well, as ya can see: I go back and forth, that's right, side to side."

Please excuse the random Doctor Steel quote, I'm just in that sort of mood.

Martin Short's creepy laugh from Alice In Wonderland is now my message tone. While I doubt anyone will agree with me, this is, in my opinion, teh r0xx0rs. =D I now have a renewed appreciation for the guy, rather than just seeing him as "The guy in Captain Ron who isn't Kurt Russel."

Oh, and also I can has meme: =D
Let's start the new year off right; The problem with LJ: we all think we are so close, but really, we know nothing about each other. So I want you to ask me something you think you should know about me. Something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about. Ask away.

Then post this in your LJ and find out what people don't know about you!

I know I'm not around much, but I'd change that if I could. So if anyone here's curious about anything, then, hey.

Terry Pratchett's The Hogfather...

2007-12-19T09:15:56Z

Loved the book, love the film.

'Nuff said. =D

crazy_wood_elf @ 2007-12-17T09:09:00

2007-12-17T09:29:28Z

Well, Christmas/Yuel/Annual Present Day is just a week or so away, and I'm rather looking forward to it. =)

I got a little annoyed last week by Christ Church's sudden decision to take the town centre hostage by blocking the main high street and trying to give out DVDs about putting the 'Christ' back into 'Christ-mas'.(I have absolutely no problem with religious expression, but when you're blocking the main route through town and forcing everyone to squeeze through the tiny gap in front of the card shop, you're bound to irritate more than a few people.)

It'll also be my first holiday without my dad, so of course it's gonna be a little bit weird for me. (Don't worry, he's not dead. I just don't live with him any more, and I also don't get along with him too well in several regards)

We're all having great fun at Sixth Form. We've done our Christmas balloon debate (I got second place as the Virgin Mary, and Elvis won by a landslide. Figures.) and I'm busy giving out presents to different mates. Most people are just getting the old box o cadbury's roses treatment, but I've bought one huge basket of flowers, a scarf, and some Living Dead Dolls too. =)

All in all, I'm feeling pretty good. I still get pretty depressed sometimes (occupational hazard of being possibly bipolar), but I'm dealing with it, at least for now.

Hugs to everybody,

Cwelfin

crazy_wood_elf @ 2007-11-30T14:01:00

2007-11-30T14:12:38Z

Cwelfin's Stupid Tip of the Day: No matter how much you love a certain song, and no matter how much it reminds you of a certain Batman villain, it is not a good idea to start flailing around the study room and delcaring to everyone that they are all a part of 'the new generation'.

Honestly though, I just cannot get enough of that bloody song.

Also, I'm beginning to form a theory that all of fandom is somehow connected. (Well actually, I believe that all life is somehow connected, but it's a helluva lot more obvious in fandom) Observe:

Exhibit One: I really like Alice In Wonderland.

Exhibit Two: I really like Batman.

Exhibit Three: Most of the online bat-fans I've encountered like Alice In Wonderland, as well as American McGee's Alice, Silent Hill, Rammstein, cheesy horror films, and several other things which I really like.

Conclusion: Everyone is fandom is, in fact, the false alias of an omnipotent super-geek who likes Jervis Tetch, Lewis Carroll, Batman, rock music, videogames, and every type of horror stuff imaginable. This, of course, includes myself, which provides quite the paradox...

Yeah, I know, I'm weird. Deal with it. =P

crazy_wood_elf @ 2007-11-28T09:08:00

2007-11-28T09:18:12Z

"We Are...The Artificial Soldiers.
We Speak...Without Thought...
We Are...We Are...We Are...
The New Generation."

Okay, I know this sounds a wee bit daft, but would anyone here mind going to aliceeverfalling.com , going to the music section, listening to New Generation, and giving me a little help with figuring out the lyrics? The problem is, it's not an official mainstream song, so no websites I know of have the lyrics uploaded. Any help would be seriously appreciated. =D

(Oh, and apologies for the contrite capitalisation of almost every word.)

crazy_wood_elf @ 2007-11-28T08:42:00

2007-11-28T08:54:32Z

Read Or Die is now my all-time favourite history-centric anime mini-series with lesbian undertones. If you haven't seen it yet, it's certainly worth a look. My favourite E-Jin would have to be Genjo (whom I call Stick Man) and Otto Lilienthal (whom I call Aviation Man). Seriously, there's something almost lyrically kickass about two women on a giant paper aeroplane trying to gun down a clone of a dead German scientist.

Other than that, I'm doing pretty well as usual. I'm waiting patiently for December to come around. Oh, and since this is the first time I've been on in about a week, expect a little carpet-commenting. =D

crazy_wood_elf @ 2007-11-21T08:56:00

2007-11-21T10:15:02Z

Cwelfin Jelk's Tip Of The Week:

* While listening to Magnum is apparently highly conductive to writing long analytical essays, watching Batman is not.

I'm havin great fun writing essays and whatnot, and even though I've had a little trouble meditating on my options, right now I feel better. I've also developed a bizarre tea-drinking habit that I'm sure wasn't there last month. I'm putting it down to hormones and all thatm considering I couldn't bare to touch the stuff last year, and now I'm having about four or five cups a day. (Excessive much?) Though to be fair, I suppose I've changed a lot in general since coming to Sixth Form. Don't get me wrong, I'm still obsessive, bizarre and more than a little neurotic, but this year I feel...stronger. I'm coming top , or close to topin most of my subjects, I've got a lot more friends, I guess this is what it means to come out of your shell, or find yourself, or whatever the heck you want to call it. Whatever it is though, I love it.

Had great fun last week dressing up as The White Rabbit for Children In Need. (First time I've worn anything even remotely girly in months!) Also I've been elected as Sixth Form representative, which isn't that important, but at least it's interesting.

Also, I am in serious need of Batman Mad Hatter icons, so if anyone can reccomend a person or group where they'll take requests, then I'd be really grateful. =) I only need some simple ones, and I already know sites with BTAS picture galleries, so...yeah. I'm the sad sort of person who wishes she had a userpic for every single emotion concievable, from apathy to zealous fandom. =D (Speaking of which, please excuse my bizarre choice of icon today, it was the closest thing I have to 'feeling kinda tired'.)

As always, wishing you well,
Cwelfin Jelk

crazy_wood_elf @ 2007-10-30T13:08:00

2007-10-30T13:15:48Z

Hey guys... =D

Ugh, I haven't been able to get online much, but I'm still having a lot of fun. As I said before, Sixth Form is half-fun, half-challenge. I mean, Psychology is absolutely fascinating, and I'm getting great results, but I'm already pondering over what I might drop next year. Oh well...

Aside from that I've been re-watching my BTAS DVDs, and mostly chilling. Oh, and I've renewed my library card after about seven-ish years. I've gotten out about ten books on writing. I really want to improve my skills, but it's a bit frustrating. I don't exactly have much time between essays and experiments and whatnot, so it's not as if I can spend five hours a day writing. Also, I'm not exactly the most disciplined person in the world. (Still working on revising that SH fic). The problem is that I'm a total perfectionist, and whenever I'm writing my first draft, I always get the temptation to start over again, which means I often don't get past the first chapter.

I'd say that's about it really. Still can't get online much, still can't write much. I hope you're all doing well, and I'm sorry if I've missed anything.

Cwelf

crazy_wood_elf @ 2007-10-16T09:33:00

2007-10-16T08:34:31Z

Hiya!!! =D

Sorry I haven't been around very much. My life has been absolutely hectic. I'm bogged down with essays, wrapped up in writing (well, trying to write. I'm rather a novice and I'm only just beginning to establish a good work ethic. As for that fanfiction I mentioned awhile ago...Well, it's undergoing a complete overhaul. Hehehe, well, the first draft was terrible, and due to my lack of free time, the revisions are both huge, and very, very slow.), and carried away with a somewhat, ah, complex move from my mom's house to my dad's. So...yeah. *sighs*

Gosh, I'm exhausted. =( I haven't had net access in weeks, so sorry if I've missed anything.

Anyway, I'll try and make a longer post when I can.

Ciao for now,
Cwelf

crazy_wood_elf @ 2007-09-04T15:32:00

2007-09-04T14:27:40Z

I've just completed my first short story (even my first piece of writing) in over sixth months. It's a quick Silent Hill ficlet that I'll probably put online after I've checked it over more thoroughly. It's a tad verbose, and I know I've gotten quite a few of the smaller details wrong, but it's my first work in a while, and I'm pretty proud of it. =)

General update

2007-08-29T11:12:26Z

Spent yesterday watching Life of Brian with some friends. I'm kind of surprised how weird I don't find it that I was the only female member of the group, eating sausage rolls and lemonade with seven guys. Deep down, part of me probably knows this should totally freak me out and make me despair for my social life, but...Well, meh. I've been hanging out with guys for most of my life, after all.

I'm reading Garth Nix's Old Kingdom Trilogy right now (though I am going to look for that book rosehiptea recommended me when I've actually got some money again. (Not having a job is the suck sometimes, but I'd rather have the extra time to work on my A levels when I start in a few weeks. Besides, EMA money will be a definite help.) I'm on Abhorsen, and while I really love the series so far overall, I feel that Lirael is a mite uneventful. I mean, basically, nothing happens. But at least it doesn't happen in a very engaging, entertaining way. It's sort of like a lot of 'middle' books, setting up the playing field for the big, final battle and whatnot.

So..yeah.I haven't been doing very much, save for reading, dreaming, and just basically waiting for Sixth Form to start.

crazy_wood_elf @ 2007-08-10T12:24:00

2007-08-10T12:06:03Z

I haven't been doing much this past week, apart from reading books and just generally arsing around.

Oh, and I'm slightly angry at JK Rowling right now, simply for the fact that watching about ten minutes of the first Harry Potter movie has added yet another character/event idea to 'The Story'. The Story, for those of you who are interested, is a very large, very persistent story idea which has been bugging me for the past few years, in various different forms. (All my story ideas tend to start out as shameless self inserts, and then slowly grow into really cool concepts which don't include any Sues at all) The best way I can describe this idea right now is sort of Alice In Wonderland meets occult fantasy, meets steampunk . So basically it's all a load of semi-epic, half-baked b*llocks full of little moments that really make me think
"That would be so cool!"

If I can ever muster the discipline to write a book, then I'm sure that'll be the book I write. Of course, right now I'm just a fledgling scribbler who barely ever takes the time to finish even a short story, but one day I really want to be a writer. =)

Anyway, I'm off to finish reading Diary of a Young Girl, and then I'm going to listen to the audiobook of Fear I got in the post yesterday. I've started looking for more Roddy McDowall audio books lately. Hearing the way he reads Batman leaves no doubt in my mind why they asked him to work on the animated series. His voice is truly amazing, and his maniacal laugh just makes me squee.

crazy_wood_elf @ 2007-07-30T20:00:00

2007-07-30T19:15:54Z

I saw the Simpsons Movie today, but I refuse to spoil it for any of you guys. However, I will say that the film was not as dismal as I'd expected, but not as awesome as I'd dare to hope. So overall, it was kind of in the middle, between 'pretty cool' and 'really good'.

In other news, I've spent the last week on a massive Tomb Raider binge. After completing Anniversary and spending last Monday playing Revalations with Tracy, I've decided to try and go through the entire series in order. This'll be kind of weird for me, since I never completed the first three games, and I used cheats to beat Boaz in AOD.
I've beaten the first game so far, and I'm playing through the Opera House in II, which is fun, but bloody difficult.

I guess that's all I have to say right now. Hopefully I can think of a little more tomorrow...

Cwelfin

Night Gallery - Cemetary, Part 1

2007-07-22T11:27:52Z

The first part of Night Gallery. The other parts can be reached through the YouTube Link. =)

crazy_wood_elf @ 2007-07-22T12:18:00

2007-07-22T11:26:00Z

I watched Night Gallery's 'The Cemetary' on YouTube last night, and it creeped the bloody hell out of me. The performances from Ossie Davis and Roddy McDowall were amazing, but I think it was the way that the camera kept getting 'drawn in' to the Cemetary painting that got me. It really makes you feel Jeremy's shock and unease when you realise that the cemetary painting has changed yet again, and you wonder just what the ending is going to be. The ending itself, (don't worry, I won't spoil it for you) while ironic in a sense, left me feeling just a little annoyed. That is, until the 'real' ending part happens, because suddenly, what you thought had been revealed in the ending has just been turned completely on its head, and you begin to wonder if things were ever as simple as some people thought they were.

In other news, I've found myself really enjoying William Shatner's two Tek novels.But I've practically finsihed TekLords, so I'd be really grateful if somebody could recommend me some books. (And please don't say Deathly Hallows, because for me to read that, I'd had to have read book six and not given up due to frustration. I'll read DH one day, but for now I'm just content reading all the spoilers online. =P)

Food for thought...

2007-07-20T12:58:02Z

“The Invitation”

It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing.

It doesn’t interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dream, for the adventure of being alive.

It doesn’t interest me what planets are squaring your moon. I want to know if you have touched the centre of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life’s betrayals or have become shrivelled and closed from fear of further pain.

I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine or your own, without moving to hide it or fade it or fix it.

I want to know if you can be with joy, mine or your own, if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful, be realistic, remember the limitations of being human.

It doesn’t interest me if the story you are telling me is true. I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself. If you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul. If you can be faithless and therefore trustworthy.

I want to know if you can see Beauty even when it is not pretty every day. And if you can source your own life from its presence.

I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, and still stand at the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, “Yes.”

It doesn’t interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know if you can get up after the night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone, and do what needs to be done to feed the children.

It doesn’t interest me who you know, or how you came to be here. I want to know if you will stand in the centre of the fire with me and not shrink back.

It doesn’t interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to know what sustains you from the inside when all else falls away.

I want to know if you can be alone with yourself and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments.

By Oriah Mountain Dreamer

Ever since I got that INFP result from the OKCupid test, I've been looking at myself a lot. But I like to look at myself; not in a mirror where all I can see is pale, chubby, exhausted, but in my heart and my mind. When I look at myself like that, I begin to see things, things which I never see from day to day. When I look in me, instead of at me, I begin to see things which are hard for me to describe.

Normally, right about now, you'd hear me say that I'm not at all eloquent or articulate, or that I have trouble finding the words to say to people. But you know what? I am eloquent: fucking eloquent in fact. But...it's never enough. Not for me. If I can't tell you exactly what I'm seeing, exactly how it looks and sounds and feels, then nine times out of ten, I won't. I'll just sit here on an orthopaedic chair in the middle of my dusty, dingy living room and mentally claw my own eyes out because I'm not Shakespeare.

Kind of sad, don't you think?

I do. In fact, I'm crying right now, here in my house at a quarter to two (though it'll probably be at least half past two when I actually finish writing this). I'm crying, and I don't care at all. There's nobody here but me and the cats, and I like it. I like the liberty of being able to sit here and cry without anybody seeing me, and I like the liberty of being able to call my friends whenever I want, but also the liberty of being able to not call them.

The computer desk is very old, and the little platform for my keyboard and mouse has just fallen off, but I don't mind that either. I know we won't be able to get a new one for at least a couple of weeks, and this one should hold out just fine until then.

Oh, and it's raining here too. But I like the rain. It's refreshing after this ridiculously hot summer we've been having.

I'm not crying anymore, you know. In fact, I feel pretty good right now. And I hope you do too. Whether you're someone I've spent hours with on AIM, or someone I just correspond with on the rare occaisions we share common ground, or someone who I've bever even met before, who's stumbled onto this page from 'out there' on the great wide web.
Well, whoever you are, I'd like to wish you a good afternoon, or morning, or evening, or night. Doesn't really matter much, not to me anyway.

And yes, oh yes, I've lost the point again. I'm meant to be talking about me, myself, and I, my personal schisms and why I prefer being alone with myself.

Pfft! Bugger that.

You might care about logic and structure and keeping to the road that one has paved for oneself, but I don't. I'll go where I want, when I want, no matter what anybody else says.

And now...now I feel good again, and maybe you do to. I want you to feel good right now, it'd really make my day if you did. Of course, if you don't, then that's fine too. There's nothing wrong with feeling bad every now and then. I should know, I feel bad almost all of the time. But right now, I'm content with the world, and what I have, and what I am, and what I'm doing.

Of course, I plan to change. Tomorrow is a different day, and I hope that I'll be a different Cwelf. Who knows, perhaps I'll even go by my real name tomorrow?

We'll just have to wait and see...

Giant Robots, Giant Homer, and Mr Leland Gaunt

2007-07-17T16:26:20Z

I was going to update anyway, but after this article: http://news.aol.co.uk/pagans-to-try-rain-magic-on/article/20070717052709990001
I thought I'd give myself a little more to say.

If you don't want to read my angry, and slightly rantish thoughts on this advertising move, or the movie, or the Simpsons in general, then just skip past the cut to the rest of the entry.

I'm not pagan myself, (I consider myself Spiritualist, most of the time) but I still think it's bloody disrespectful to people who are. I know that the advert's going to wash away as soon as it rains, but it's still ridiculous, in my opinion. Enough people are going to see the film anyway, so I don't see the point of painting Homer by the giant, or making certain American shop employees talk like Apu, or anything like that.
The Simpsons Movie, is not, in fact, important. It's a (quite possibly) good film (I haven't seen it yet) based on a TV program that has been going downhill in quality and humour for a very long time. And I think the ridiculous amount of advertising and weirdo publicity campaigns is utterly excessive.

(And for god's sake, DO NOT get me started on the whole hypocrisy of the blatnt cel-shading in the 'We don't use 3D technology in our movie' advert. That's a whole different can of yellow worms.)

(Aw...hell. I'll say it anyway. Showing a clip that clearly involves cel-shaded animation after essentially implying that the movie doesn't use 3D animation techniques is about as hypocritical as Live Earth aka "LET'S CAUSE MASSIVE CARBON EMISSIONS SO THAT WE CAN TELL PEOPLE NOT TO CAUSE MASSIVE CARBON EMISSIONS. ROFL.")

Yes, I know I'm terrible. But I can't exactly help it much.

Anyway, in other, happier news, I've just seen the Tranformers movie, and I have to say that I really liked it. Not loved per se, but it's still rather awesome. =) However, I'm not going to spoil it now in case anyone here hasn't seen it. I've had a few plot points spoiled for myself (or should that be me?) and I don't want to do the same to anyone else. It's probably better that way. =)
I've also been reading Needful Things, Eats, Shoots & Leaves, and Popcorn. I liked the first two books a lot, but I'm finding the third harder to get into. Still, I'd definitely reccommened Needful Things. It's not my vaourite Stephen King book, but I still really enjoyed it. =)

Cwelf

Just a silly little meme...

2007-07-08T15:11:40Z

This thing's so true that it made me laugh out loud. =) I'd be interested to see what kinds of results you guys get.

Your Score: Pollyanna- INFP

20% Extraversion, 66% Intuition, 33% Thinking, 26% Judging

So, you want to make the world a better place? Too bad it's never gonna happen.

Of all the types, you have to be one of the hardest to find fault in. You have a selfless and caring nature. You're a good listener and someone who wants to avoid conflict. You genuinely desire to do good.

Of course, these all add up to an incredibly overpowered conscience which makes you feel guilty and responsible when anything goes wrong. Of course, it MUST be your fault EVERYTIME.

Though you're constantly on a mission to find the truth, you have no use for hard facts and logic, which is a source of great confusion for those of us with brains. Despite this, in a losing argument, you're not above spouting off inaccurate fact after fact in an effort to protect your precious values.

You're most probably a perfectionist, which in this case, is a bad thing. Any group work is destined to fail because of your incredibly high standards.

Disregard what I said before. You're just easy to find fault in as everyone else!

Luckily, you're generally very hard on yourself, meaning I don't need to waste my precious time insulting you. Instead, just find all your own faults and insult yourself.

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If you want to learn more about your personality type in a slightly less negative way, check out this.

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The other personality types are as follows...

Loner - Introverted Sensing Feeling Perceiving
Pushover - Introverted Sensing Feeling Judging
Criminal - Introverted Sensing Thinking Perceiving
Borefest - Introverted Sensing Thinking Judging
Freak - Introverted iNtuitive Feeling Judging
Loser - Introverted iNtuitive Thinking Perceiving
Crackpot - Introverted iNtuitive Thinking Judging
Clown - Extraverted Sensing Feeling Perceiving
Sap - Extraverted Sensing Feeling Judging
Commander - Extraverted Sensing Thinking Perceiving
Do Gooder - Extraverted Sensing Thinking Judging
Scumbag - Extraverted iNtuitive Feeling Perceiving
Busybody - Extraverted iNtuitive Feeling Judging
Prick - Extraverted iNtuitive Thinking Perceiving
Dictator - Extraverted iNtuitive Thinking Judging

Link: The Brutally Honest Personality Test written by UltimateMaster on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the The Dating Persona Test

What can I say, it's me to almost a 'T'. =)

A slightly long-ish entry

2007-07-07T08:51:47Z

Just thought I'd write a quick entry and let everybody know how I'm doing.

I've been feeling pretty good lately, and overall I'd say that the Summer Holiday has been cool so far. Two things, though: One, I went on a trip to the Sealife Centre (basically, Sea-World to international people) with a couple of mates. It was relatvely fun, except for the really loud schoolkids, the overpriced merchandise, and the fact that fish really creep me out. (I'm such a wuss! XD ) Anyway, it was a nice day, and I'm glad I actually got some time to spend with my friends for once, so I was happy. But I recently found out (this is Two, by the way) that one of my closest friends that I've known for over ten years has just been 'deported' to London. It's basically because he didn't want to get a job, or go to college, or do much of anything, so his Mum's dragged him down south to get a job. I can see why she did it, but I'm still going to miss Alex. =( We've known each other since reception, and I can still remember when we used to hang out together as Cosmic Girl and Fear Fighter. And I remember when he'd always pretend to fall over, choking during the opening of Golden Axe. ("My good friend Alex was also killed.") So...yeah, I'm really going to miss Alex, and I'm going to have to ask someone for his email adress. And that's my emo-ing done for the day.

'The Pile' as a like to call it has now reached 26 DVDs, and 1 VHS. It's a very colourful, and bizarre thing to look at, and it now reaches just below my knee in height. (Thought to be fair, I am pretty young, and also rather short.) I tried to take a picture the other day, but it's completely buggered up (as have all the rest of my recent photos)I think I'll take some time off now, partially to try and save up some money, and partially to think of a less squicky name for my collection of Roddy McDowall movies. ('The Pile' just conjures up too many weird mental images.)

In other news, I've also considered trying my hand at reviewing stuff (mainly films and the odd videogame). Firstly, I'd like to improve my writing and composition skills, and secondly I want to make recommendations to people about certain films that I think everyone should see at least once. Of course, I'm not going to phrase it like that, because whenever anyone says that to me, I usually end up watching something either really boring, or just not my style.

Speaking of which, I'd like to offer up a quick plug for the heard_of_it community, a really awesome (but rather small) community for people who have interest in slightly obscure fandoms. So if you're into things like weird science fiction films, underrated books, non-mainstream videogames, or really, just anything that isn't as popular as it should be, then you might want to check the comm out. I myself will try and make an entry for Gregory Horror Show in the near-ish future, and hopefully one for Roddy McDowall too. =)

Well, that's about it, really. Hope everybody's doing well, and as usual, I'll try and comment more on your journals as soon as I can get around to iyt. =)

Loads of love,
Cwelf

crazy_wood_elf @ 2007-06-18T14:28:00

2007-06-18T13:39:06Z

Alright, sorry I didn't post about this when I said I would, but I've just been really exhausted lately.

Anyway, my post-birthday celbration. I went to Pizza Hut on the 15th-a week after my birthday-with five of the most wonderful people that I've ever had the pleasure of knowing. Paul, Laura, Joe, Morten, and Frankie, you guys absolutely rock my socks off. =D

We ate a ridiculous amount of food, and made a ridiculous amount of dirty jokes, as well as reminiscing about old teachers we'd had in old schools. Of course, it'll all be different next year, with the two-tier system and my old Middle School being assimilated into the new complex. But anyway, we had a lot of fun, and Laura got the Pizza Hut people to sing Happy Birthday, even though they said my name as 'Andrea'. Oh, and they bought me a gigantic chocolate cake, and I didn't have to pay for anything at all, not even drinks.

Here's a somewhat oversized scan of the inside of the card they gave me:

So, all in all, it was one of the best nights of my life. Not to mention the fact that the people at the Lemon Demon forums and The Musgrave Foundation all wished me a happy birthday. =D

Oh, and I had the most wonderful dream about Gillespie (Roddy McDowall's character in Charlie Chan) leaving his wheelchair to chase people around on a blue plastic vacuum cleaner. So, yeah, pretty awesome.

Oh, and Smythe? Please come on IM more fequently, at least, that is, if you have the time. I'd like to keep bugging you about politics and cinema and whatnot.
Don't make me come over there, because I will. >.< (I'm joking, of course, but I still miss talking to you)

crazy_wood_elf @ 2007-06-15T22:45:00

2007-06-15T21:39:45Z

Best. Post-birthday celebration. Ever.

Will post more tomorrow, I'm too tired and too happy to tell the whole thing now. ;)

crazy_wood_elf @ 2007-06-11T16:55:00

2007-06-11T15:48:42Z

So...went shopping on Saturday to buy some post-birthday stuff. I picked up a couple of books, as well as some relatively cheap comics, and a really cheesy hippy bracelet (purported to encourage 'unexpected miracles') which broke this morning due to the fact that it was made with elastic thread about as thick as a wet atom. (That expression makes no sense, I know) I ate through Carrie in a few hours, and I'm currently having a go at The Magicians' Guild by Trudi Canavan. It's a pretty decent book, but I'm finding it a little hard to get into due to the fact that sites like fanficrants and GAFF have given me some very unfair prejudices towards books with vaguely Sue-ish characters. (I really need to stop this, as I feel I'm becoming over critical of otherwise wonderful books just because they have a protagonist who is a teenager with seekrit, I mean secret powers)

Oh, and has anyone read issue 833 of Detective comics? The one with Zatanna on the cover? That was an awesome issue (not that I've actually read any other issues). And the bit at the end with Loxias and Zatanna and when [CUT FOR SPOILERZ], well, it looks like I just might pick up the next issue sometime. It's just such a shame that the nearest comic shop is in Wolverhampton, and I only visit about once every three months. >.< Oh well...

Just another silly meme...

2007-06-09T06:43:50Z

Skip it if you like. I'll start making real posts soon, I promise. (And thanks to everyone for the birthday wishes, especially rosehiptea .

So, crazy-wood-elf, your LiveJournal reveals...

You are... 3% unique (blame, for example, your interest in roddy macdowall) and 18% herdlike (partly because you, like everyone else, enjoy writing). When it comes to friends you are normal. In terms of the way you relate to people, you are keen to please. Your writing style (based on a recent public entry) is intellectual.

Your overall weirdness is: 28

(The average level of weirdness is: 27.
You are weirder than 63% of other LJers.)

Find out what your weirdness level is!