Saturday

[samvara]

Down to the beach bright and early, collected chocolate croissant from bakers en route - new addiction forming - and padded through the cold sand with woofer bouncing around demanding ball throwage. Fink woofer refused to fetch ball from deep water and skulked around pretending to be alert and noble until intrepid labrador saved the day.

Saw a dolphin, always gives me a special feeling.

Decide to fix shower problem.
Can't remove shower head - go to hardware store and buy larger shifter
Attempt to remove shower head
Think 'Yay!'
Think 'Oh crap'
Remove entire piping system with new strange twisted bit
Take system to hardware store and discuss with man
Rip open packets and try out elbows and shower heads - decide different one is nicer
Patient man cuts pipe to correct length - admire pipe cutting tool
Discuss exotic use of plumbing tape (and you thought plumbing was boring)
Buy many shiny things, take home and assemble
Turn on - watch water go everywhere
Try again - watch water go everywhere
Tighten everything lots of times - Shower works!

Go to TKD, bounce around a lot and hit things, mmm hitting things = good.

Get home, walk into house and suddenly CRAP EVERYWHERE but it's OK cos some of it is a refrigerator. Yay, T1's brother has delivered all her stuff from storage and I mean all.

Reading James reveals UWA is having annual book sale thus we have to go. Invite every book loving person I know who will attempt to kill me if I don't tell. Call David and repeat the word "books, cheap books" at him until he capitulates.

Buy many books: The Hollow Man by Dan Simmons, Spiritwalk by Charles De Lint, Wise Children by Angela Carter, Song of Sorcery by Elizabeth Scarborough, Dark Hand of Magic by Barbara Hambley, Heart's Blood by Jane Yolan, Patchwork Planet + Saint Maybe by Anne Tyler, The Body in the Bath House by Lindesy Davis and Homecoming Earth trilogy by Orson Scott Card.

Shall sleep on them like Smaug and consider learning to breath fire.

Budget still recovering from Dymocks in Perth which used to have two pathetic, stunted shelves of Scifi/Fantasy but has increased to seven. Was supposed to buy Monstrous Regiment as my copy went byebye but got distracted and left with Night Watch and Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon, Scifi is a bit dodgy but am forgiving because of Paksenarrion, shall buy Serrano Legacy secondhand at no more than $5 per book - suspect it's Hornblower in Space.

Was seduced into joining Dymocks book club, have explained if they post me crap I shall fax them the telephone directory.

PS Avoid David Feintuch unless bad space naval fantasy gets you hot - I wish I had.

You cheap bastards ..and the King Arthur posters out there are gradually being replaced with I Robot posters - the preview looks nothing like my memories of the book. So what do you do when you're too lazy to come up with characters and plots of your own? You take icon level fiction, create your own cheap Hollywood driven plot and name your characters after people you know will get an instant_thrill reaction from your fannish audience.


King Arthur - The movie of meaningful looks. C'est tres slashy, am expecting vast amounts of Arthur/Lance (Oh Lance, your hair was so beautiful throughout) and Gawain/Galahad (who were the Merry/Pippin characters except without the humour). Lance in the stables with Arthur : "I don't care for anything that leaves a man on his knees." Rather fond of Sir Bors who was the most human character - I was waiting for him to die, all that audience/character bonding usually leads to a bloody death. Am still completely in love with Keira Knightley and slightly startled to hear she is working on Pride and Prejudice as .. you guessed it Elizabeth.

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[ironed_orchid]

fireriven does a good review of King Arthur here. So good, in fact, that I'm waiting for the dvd release, and maybe for the weekly rental option.

[black-samvara.livejournal.com]

I like her review very much, ascetic_hedony was mumbling about stirrups when we left the theater. I was just gibbering, am planning on appreciating this movie based on number of attractive actors cast and general all round love of male bonding scenes.