ReadingLirael, As You Like It, The English Patient, Heart of Darkness, Suikoden III, Candidate for Goddess
Watching House, Rick Mercer's Monday Report, Gilmore Girls, Scrubs, Corner Gas, Aishiteruze Baby, Prince of Tennis, Hikaru no Go
Playing The Bard's Tale, Katamari Damacy, Curse of Monkey Island, Final Fantasy VI, Disgaea: Hour of Darkness, Pretty Barbie Dressup Party Final Fantasy X-2(group gaming)
Back-burner Star Ocean: Till the End of Time, Star Ocean: The Second Story, Final Fantasy Tactics: Advance, Baldur's Gate: Tales of the Sword Coast, Planescape: Torment, Final Fantasy VII
Obsessing Firefly, Erik and Ray, Impulse/Bart Allen, Ford Prefect, Monkey Island, Nostalgia.
Upcoming Things of Importance January 5 First day of classes January 14 Birthday party January 16 Jaryn and Matt Are Old Day
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Is by Meimi, that wonderful Goddess who brings joy and happiness to the hearts of Ingrids.
This time, Meimi brought joy by doing a layout of Isumi Shinichirou and Waya Yoshitaka, of Hikaru no Go. It is full of wub.
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And my favourite movie's been Casablanca since I was nine - your point?
11/21/2004 10:51:52 PM
"The lives of spies are complicated. I guess."
School? Sucks. Why am I here? Not sure. Likely future? Bagging groceries, dead at thirty. But none of that is the point. The point is that on Friday I watched a repeat of a new show on FOX, because my mother told me to, and I enjoyed it.
It's called House and it stars Hugh Laurie. It's one of those medical-drama-mystery-type shows, which I normally wouldn't be that interested in, but Laurie plays the world's most misanthropic doctor. He hates people, he's brutally honest, he doesn't like talking to patients because patients lie, he's got a sense of humour that's pure evil . . . it's delightful, funny and riveting and dramatic all at once. I'm definitely going to make a point of catching it on a weekly basis. Hopefully it won't go the way of Wonderfalls.
It is unsettling hearing Laurie put on an American accent though, especially when there's someone else with a British accent on the show. The lack of accent makes me sad.
Laurie's a British actor who I first became familiar with when I was around six or seven and Masterpiece Theatre was showing Jeeves and Wooster. I can't remember specifically how old I was, I just know I was younger than eight because I remember watching it when Mommo and Grandfather were visiting one summer, and Grandfather died when I was eight so . . . My mum let me stay up past my bedtime to watch Stephen Fry as Jeeves and Hugh Laurie as Bertie Wooster, and things like this probably have a lot to do with my inability to relate to my peers. I absolutely loved that show, though. They're on DVD now, and I keep looking at them wistfully, because Jeeves and Wooster is definitely on the list of things that I wouldn't object to having on DVD.
Laurie was also on Rowan Atkinson's Blackadder series. He was Prince Ludwig in the last episode of series two, Mad Prince George in series three, and Lieutenant George in four, but I still haven't seen most of season three, and season two and four weren't seen until I was around ten or so. And he and Stephen Fry had their own sketch comedy series, A Bit of Fry and Laurie, that I got to see bits and pieces of when the comedy network aired it for a little while early on Sunday mornings when I was in grade eight or nine.
I like Hugh Laurie. I've liked him since I was very small and didn't actually know what his name is. And I like House. This is a good thing. I don't get to say that too often, I spend so much time dwelling on the negative, but I'm happy to have this, as both a new show and a small reminder of some of the thigns that were a fundamental part of my childhood.
So very, very messed up, Almighty Ingrid, Signing Off
