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Post by Olive on Jun 14, 2011 7:48:20 GMT -5
Yeah, Achilles is a bit... ok, really whiny... but he's Achilles.
... did that make any sense? No, I didn't think so...
(Far to lazy to argue my point at the moment, I'll return later.)
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Post by Olive on Jun 13, 2011 13:12:14 GMT -5
I have seen all of these bands live except Pink Floyd(too young), Opeth(that might change this fall), and Agalloch My heart breaks because I'm too young to see most of my favorite bands (The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin). However, Opeth is one of the few bands that I have seen live. And it was in a tiny-ass venue. It was AMAZING. Even though my then-boyfriend accidentally gave me a black eye.
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Post by Olive on Jun 13, 2011 13:09:58 GMT -5
But it's so gooooooooood. I know, but I'm afraid I'll burn out on them if I keep listening nonstop. Speaking from... 17? 17 years of experience: Not possible. Haha.
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Post by Olive on Jun 13, 2011 12:57:44 GMT -5
Thinking: ...I need to stop listening to the Beatles Listening: Back In The USSR- The Beatles But it's so gooooooooood.
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Post by Olive on Jun 13, 2011 12:44:21 GMT -5
Somewhere in the Black Forest, in some rundown little cottage that's reasonably well insulated and somehow has an amazing internet connection. And isn't too far from Heidelberg. Because that area just feels like home.
Person below me, if you could learn any instrument in a day, what would it be?
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Post by Olive on Jun 13, 2011 12:42:30 GMT -5
BUT BUT. Father of cyperbunk. You have to read him. Start with Neuromancer. Please. As a strong recommendation then. Alright, I'll pick it up next time I go to the bookstore. <3
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Post by Olive on Jun 13, 2011 12:40:10 GMT -5
I haven't gotten them in foreign countries/ordered them online, but I do have two German novels from classes this past year (dear god, if anyone tells you to read Soloalbum, don't!), as well as the entire His Dark Materials trilogy in German, which my ex-roomie gave to me for my birthday. She had to order it online, through a German website. I'm proud of her for succeeding, because she doesn't speak a single word of it.
I've also picked up Das Hobbitbuch and Siddhartha (in German) from my favorite used bookstore.
Now that I'm thinking about it, I'm wondering why I didn't pick anything up while I was in Germany...
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Post by Olive on Jun 13, 2011 12:36:37 GMT -5
I'm trying to teach myself a little bit of German before I go to Austria and Germany for a month this summer. My high school no longer offers German as a language. I absolutely love the German word "flughafen" (airport). It's so much fun to say! "Flughafen" is fun. So is "Tafellappenmeister." Although now I'm wondering if my high school German teacher lied to me, because I can't find that in any dictionaries... "Tafellappen," yes, "Tafellappenmeister," no. But, damn, it's still fun to say...
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Post by Olive on Jun 13, 2011 12:28:03 GMT -5
I have to be up late and slightly tired and delirious. Delirious is the most important part. Like being drunk/high, but without the substance abuse! Wunderbar.
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Post by Olive on Jun 13, 2011 12:25:54 GMT -5
No, I actually love Speaker. I don't think it was a really popular book, I just picked it up and...no. Hang on, let me look it up actually... Card co-wrote a novel published in 2007 called Invasive Procedures with Aaron Johnston. Yeah. That's it. Ah. Yeah, haven't heard a single word about that.
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Post by Olive on Jun 13, 2011 12:23:42 GMT -5
Heh, I actually haven't read him at all, so I'll take that as a recommendation. xD BUT BUT. Father of cyperbunk. You have to read him. Start with Neuromancer. Please.
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Post by Olive on Jun 13, 2011 12:17:01 GMT -5
Post apocalyptic and dystopian are two of my favorite genres This. I love science fiction in general, but I am absolutely obsessed with dystopian and post apocalyptic fiction. I also have things for both cyberpunk and steampunk. I like you. I like your name and your signature and your taste in genres. Thoughts on William Gibson? (This is me being assumptive, deal with it.) (That is not the right word at all, goddamnit.)(Maybe it is, I've gone and gotten myself all confused now.)
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Post by Olive on Jun 13, 2011 12:10:33 GMT -5
So Yesterday by Scott Westerfeld. I'd read a lot of his other books and that one just...I dunno. I really didn't enjoy it at all. Also, there was some joint science fiction book Orson Scott Card wrote with another author...something about DNA or a virus or something...it was disappointing after being such an avid fan of the Ender series. Your description immediately brought Speaker for the Dead to mind... but since that wasn't a collab, and part of the Ender series, I assume that's not what you're talking about... Meaning, I have no clue, sorry :-P
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Post by Olive on Jun 13, 2011 11:19:07 GMT -5
Northern Michigan University, where one day class is cancelled because the prof went to the beach and the next day requires a wool coat to get across campus. :-P Eh, better than ours. We had classes during that -60 degree windchill a year or two ago. We never close unless the highways are blocked up. It doesn't matter how uncomfortably cold it is, school is open as long as people from the smaller towns can get in. Which is mostly fine, because you can get around all of the main buildings on campus without ever going outside. Unless you live in the dorms. Then you get major headaches from the windchill breaking through your hat on the way to class. :-P
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Post by Olive on Jun 13, 2011 11:16:08 GMT -5
Mood: Tired, a bit withdrawn, but sated. Doing: Staring at Tumblr/the forum, because it's my lunch break at work. Thinking: Excited for a coffee date after work, but kind of wishing I could just go straight home to get back to East of Eden. Listening: Sail to the Moon - Radiohead (Radiohead station on Pandora)
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