Back at last !
11 Apr 2004 02:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
salineaAfter three days of not working due to server, my dear ombilical internet is functionning again. Yay-ness. No, I am not an addict.
Anyway, happy birthday ponygirl ! You're born two days before my sister ^_^
I'm finally getting better out of this cold. Played Nephilim on Sunday, and scheduled to see Kiki Delivery's Service AT LAST this tuesday. I look forward to it.
And what about all those homework ? Well, of course, I'm not one shred ahead than I was before. *sigh*
I also finally got lent the Fables : the animal farm TPB. Not as good as the first one, but very very nice nonetheless. I want more. I'll probably end up buying them.
Song meme, gawked from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
halcyon_libra
Choose a band/artist and answer only in song TITLES by that band.
Tori Amos
Are you female or male:: Strange Little Girl
Describe yourself:: 1,000 Oceans
How do some people feel about you:: Icicle
How do you feel about yourself:: Way Down
Describe your ex girlfriend/boyfriend:: Hey Jupiter
Describe your current girlfriend/boyfriend:: Enjoy the Silence
Describe where you want to be:: Somewhere over the Rainbow
Describe what you want to be:: Spark
Describe how you live:: Precious Things
Describe how you love:: Bliss
Share a few words of wisdom:: Pretty Good Year
Another quizz, ganked frommasqthephlsphrand knullabulla
/me dances in a purple dress and with Smith's black glasses on.
I admit I did it again when I got Yoda as a result.
The Ten Most Important Books meme gawked from, ah, too many people
1/ Crin Blanc, cuz it was the first real book I read, and the first one I sneaked to put the light back on so I could finish it on the night after my parents had put me to sleep.
2/ Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Leguin : a great book I keep re-reading. Made me want to study Anthropology.
3/ Distress by Greg Egan that book has everything. Anarchism, theory of everything, solipsism; quantic physics, ontological reality, gender study, influence of technological achievement over society, saying you're fed up of people speaking in your name without asking your opinion.
4/ Amber Cycle by Roger Zelazny, my first litterary crush and a world that has deeply influenced my imaginary world. It's hard to explain because it's just something that lives inside my head, but that's where I live after all. Also, would have never got into roleplaying games without good ol' Zelazny
5/ Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. When I read it, that book struck me so hard I kept crying and couldn't fall asleep so I just went ahead and spent the night reading the sequel (i think it was the first time I kept reading until dawn) I have really seldom read a book that was showing me exactly the feeling of isolation and loneliness that had always been mine. Card's good at that. I want to add his novella Unaccompagnied Sonata to this because it's such a beautiful point about the pull to write.
6/ Lord of the Ring by Tolkien : can't get aorund it, can we ? When i had finished reading that book, I asked my bibliothecaire for other books "like this". She said there were no such things. Then I went to another bibliotheque and found out what was called fantasy.
7/ Last Call by Tim Powers : got me interrested in Tarot.
8/ 1984 by Orwell : I was about 13 or 14 when I read it and it got me to think a lot about freedom and the self. I want to believe in freedom, it's one of the most fundamental thing I want to believe in. I want to believe there can be freedom whatever are the exteriror tensions and pressions you can put on someone or on a society. Freedom is the liberty to be what you want to be. It's not a "do" thing, it's a "be" thing. I never read that book again, I never felt like I needed to, because it's still very fresh in my mind, someway.
9/ Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gabriel Kay. That book resonates strongly in me. They are many reasons for that. Also i love all books by Kay, he writes so beautifully, in such a lyrical, nostalgic and bittersweet way.
10/ La Sagesse de l'amour by Finkerlkraut. The only philosophical book I read and enjoyed, not that I read many *chuckles* points about ethics and why we are ethical that I agree mostly with.
Damn, is that all ? There's probably lots of other books that should be here... le petit chose, le Lion by Joseph Kessel, Mike Resnicks's books, Ian Banks', Gireaudoux'... Books are probably what have influenced me the most all throught my life !
Anyway, happy birthday ponygirl ! You're born two days before my sister ^_^
I'm finally getting better out of this cold. Played Nephilim on Sunday, and scheduled to see Kiki Delivery's Service AT LAST this tuesday. I look forward to it.
And what about all those homework ? Well, of course, I'm not one shred ahead than I was before. *sigh*
I also finally got lent the Fables : the animal farm TPB. Not as good as the first one, but very very nice nonetheless. I want more. I'll probably end up buying them.
Song meme, gawked from
halcyon_libraChoose a band/artist and answer only in song TITLES by that band.
Tori Amos
Are you female or male:: Strange Little Girl
Describe yourself:: 1,000 Oceans
How do some people feel about you:: Icicle
How do you feel about yourself:: Way Down
Describe your ex girlfriend/boyfriend:: Hey Jupiter
Describe your current girlfriend/boyfriend:: Enjoy the Silence
Describe where you want to be:: Somewhere over the Rainbow
Describe what you want to be:: Spark
Describe how you live:: Precious Things
Describe how you love:: Bliss
Share a few words of wisdom:: Pretty Good Year
Another quizz, ganked from
masqthephlsphrand knullabulla
/me dances in a purple dress and with Smith's black glasses on.
I admit I did it again when I got Yoda as a result.
The Ten Most Important Books meme gawked from, ah, too many people
1/ Crin Blanc, cuz it was the first real book I read, and the first one I sneaked to put the light back on so I could finish it on the night after my parents had put me to sleep.
2/ Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Leguin : a great book I keep re-reading. Made me want to study Anthropology.
3/ Distress by Greg Egan that book has everything. Anarchism, theory of everything, solipsism; quantic physics, ontological reality, gender study, influence of technological achievement over society, saying you're fed up of people speaking in your name without asking your opinion.
4/ Amber Cycle by Roger Zelazny, my first litterary crush and a world that has deeply influenced my imaginary world. It's hard to explain because it's just something that lives inside my head, but that's where I live after all. Also, would have never got into roleplaying games without good ol' Zelazny
5/ Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. When I read it, that book struck me so hard I kept crying and couldn't fall asleep so I just went ahead and spent the night reading the sequel (i think it was the first time I kept reading until dawn) I have really seldom read a book that was showing me exactly the feeling of isolation and loneliness that had always been mine. Card's good at that. I want to add his novella Unaccompagnied Sonata to this because it's such a beautiful point about the pull to write.
6/ Lord of the Ring by Tolkien : can't get aorund it, can we ? When i had finished reading that book, I asked my bibliothecaire for other books "like this". She said there were no such things. Then I went to another bibliotheque and found out what was called fantasy.
7/ Last Call by Tim Powers : got me interrested in Tarot.
8/ 1984 by Orwell : I was about 13 or 14 when I read it and it got me to think a lot about freedom and the self. I want to believe in freedom, it's one of the most fundamental thing I want to believe in. I want to believe there can be freedom whatever are the exteriror tensions and pressions you can put on someone or on a society. Freedom is the liberty to be what you want to be. It's not a "do" thing, it's a "be" thing. I never read that book again, I never felt like I needed to, because it's still very fresh in my mind, someway.
9/ Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gabriel Kay. That book resonates strongly in me. They are many reasons for that. Also i love all books by Kay, he writes so beautifully, in such a lyrical, nostalgic and bittersweet way.
10/ La Sagesse de l'amour by Finkerlkraut. The only philosophical book I read and enjoyed, not that I read many *chuckles* points about ethics and why we are ethical that I agree mostly with.
Damn, is that all ? There's probably lots of other books that should be here... le petit chose, le Lion by Joseph Kessel, Mike Resnicks's books, Ian Banks', Gireaudoux'... Books are probably what have influenced me the most all throught my life !