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Weekly reading/watching meme
Jan. 28th, 2013 05:43 pmWhat are you reading/watching now?
The Great Gatsby (fiction) and Bentham on Torture (non-fiction, French translation - Allia edition). The latter because of Zero Dark Thirty. So, yanno. MOVIES.
Didn't actually manage Beasts of the Southern Wild last week, but did re-watch quite a lot of the LotR extended edition featurettes -- and am still not done. Somehow I managed to miss all this time that the Lorien elves' lament for Mithrandir was sung by Liz Fraser??? This... makes a lot of sense tbh...
Also watched the Youtube compendium of all the cut scenes from the LEGO Lord of the Rings video game, which I can promise you is a profitable use of 90 minutes. (In fact I watched various dudes play through 2/3 of the game on Youtube. Mostly for 1) Gimli being picked up and thrown repeatedly, 2) Sam setting fire to stuff. It's a puzzle platformer for 8-year-olds in which you can't die, i.e. I can almost imagine playing it myself successfully.)
What did you just finish reading/watching?
Started but didn't finish any books this week. Watched Zero Dark Thirty.
What will you read/watch next?
Kon-Tiki! Picked it up along with the Bentham.** I have always sort of wanted to read this, since my childhood days poring over stacks of old National Geographics. XD I swear until just now I hadn't realized there was a movie and it's nominated for a Best Foreign Film Oscar.
** By which I mean: along with the Bentham, a collection of Anna de Noailles' poetry, the first tankoubon of Tezuka's MW, and two volumes of essays and commentaries on Bertrand Russell.
The Great Gatsby (fiction) and Bentham on Torture (non-fiction, French translation - Allia edition). The latter because of Zero Dark Thirty. So, yanno. MOVIES.
Didn't actually manage Beasts of the Southern Wild last week, but did re-watch quite a lot of the LotR extended edition featurettes -- and am still not done. Somehow I managed to miss all this time that the Lorien elves' lament for Mithrandir was sung by Liz Fraser??? This... makes a lot of sense tbh...
Also watched the Youtube compendium of all the cut scenes from the LEGO Lord of the Rings video game, which I can promise you is a profitable use of 90 minutes. (In fact I watched various dudes play through 2/3 of the game on Youtube. Mostly for 1) Gimli being picked up and thrown repeatedly, 2) Sam setting fire to stuff. It's a puzzle platformer for 8-year-olds in which you can't die, i.e. I can almost imagine playing it myself successfully.)
What did you just finish reading/watching?
Started but didn't finish any books this week. Watched Zero Dark Thirty.
What will you read/watch next?
Kon-Tiki! Picked it up along with the Bentham.** I have always sort of wanted to read this, since my childhood days poring over stacks of old National Geographics. XD I swear until just now I hadn't realized there was a movie and it's nominated for a Best Foreign Film Oscar.
** By which I mean: along with the Bentham, a collection of Anna de Noailles' poetry, the first tankoubon of Tezuka's MW, and two volumes of essays and commentaries on Bertrand Russell.
