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[godream]

I heart my parents.

Celebrated my birthday with my mom tonight -- it's not till tomorrow, but I'm with dad then so we went for it. She and I and rockopowder and Denise went out and saw Triplets of Belleville and took goofy photo booth pictures and criticized Mom's perfume choices and I found the second Sandman book which I've been searching for for ages and it was enjoyable and entertaining and generally satisfying.

Then I came home, and opened presents, and got new guitar strings and a book about chess and really delicious looking chocolates and (drumroll, please) a shiny new laptop!! (Thus the eee of the subject.) It's a Dell Inspiron 5100, all kinds of fast with lots of disk space and memory and a superdrive, and it makes me feel that warm and fuzzy glow of possession and deliciously spoiled. Yay!

All done gloating now. No, there's not going to be a redeeming factor to this entry. You may now return to your regularly-scheduled friends-page perusal.

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[merulina.livejournal.com]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY! (a day early)

Ooooh, a new laptop. Shiny.
Ooooh, Triplets of Belleville. Any good? What in the world is it about?
Ooooh, Sandman. I <3 Neil Gaiman. Is that any good?

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[godream.livejournal.com]

Triplets of Belleville was interesting. One of those movies where I have to repeat the word interesting at least twice before I say anything constructive about it. Maybe three times. Interesting. It's animated and has barely any dialogue. The animation is beautiful, very detailed especially if you look at the backgrounds. It's about a young man devoted to riding his bike, to the exclusion of all else, and his grandmother who is devoted to him. Oh, and also the brick-shaped Mafia. I'm a total sucker and kept feeling bad for the characters in all the scenes that might have been supposed to be funny, but it was pretty good.

Neil Gaiman rocks my world. I'm still working my way through Sandman 2, but the first one was spectacular, creepy and funny and touching and thought-provoking and all those things Neil Gaiman does so well, and this one looks to be similar. The first of the collected comics in "A Doll's House", the second one, is a strange little backstory told in a mythic... no, that's not the word. Folklore, that's what I'm looking for. Folkloric? Shoot, I just lost the sentence. Interesting material, interesting presentation, is what I'm trying to get at, and I haven't got all that much farther so I can't say much more. :P I also got Gaiman's "Books of Magic" from the library (which has an introduction by the late Roger Zelazny (!!!))(the comic, not the library) -- I read the first bit but I think I want to read Sandman 2 first, so I'll come back to it. The art is lovely, though, and I bet I'd appreciate it a whooole lot more if I were more familiar with the legendary comic characters it draws on.

I think this comment is longer than a fair number of my posts.

WOOT

[finamdar.livejournal.com]

new laptop yay! happy birthday in advance in case I don't see you online tomorrow. and I better not it's your 18th birthday!!! you're staying offline tomorrow got it? DAVE'S ORDERS~~~~~~~~ hmmm I have to call you at some point hehehehe anyway enough random chatter from the farm...

Re: WOOT

[godream.livejournal.com]

*g* It WOULD take the geek-gloating post to drag you out of the woodwork, wouldn't it?

[rockopowder.livejournal.com]

OH MY GOD! your done allready??? geez you got that yesterday!

[lithuaniangod.livejournal.com]

happy birthday!!!!!! new laptops are always nice! I know that my laptop is def like my best friend!!! HAPPY BDAY!!