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[riverdresses]

JESUS CHRIST, M.A.C. HAS ANNOUNCED THAT THEY'RE RELEASING A HELLO KITTY LINE OF MAKEUP THIS FEBRUARY!!!

OMG. & it isn't too expensive! LIPGLASS AISLE, HERE I COME. (my first M.A.C. items will have my favourite kitty on them. WIN!) But WTF WAITING LISTS & ONLY OUT FOR EIGHT WEEKS?! M.A.C., NOOO. (& what is this fuckery about coming out after my birthday?! Eleventh my arse - it should be the seventh, so I can run down there & BUY!)

::shakes alli_everyday & laii:: GIRLIES! AMAZING, Y/Y/BUNNEH?

::squeals, flails, dies, regenerates to blow a lot of money on this line::

Okay. So I haven't got one of Tarina Tarantino's strawberry Sweet Lolita Hello Kitty rings yet, but I will. BUT THERE'S A M.A.C. SHOP FOUR BLOCKS FROM WHERE I LIVE. MUST OWN SOMETHING OF THIS LINE!

Speaking of things a-happening in February . . . my twentieth birthday is next week, on Friday. Mother's asked me if I'd like to go see Coraline on my birthday, but I sort of wanted to wait until it was showing at the Red Vic Movie House & go myself. Other than that, I have no idea of what I'm going to do for my birthday weekend.

Mother's birthday is next week, on the third. We're going to dinner, which is a birthday dinner for both of us. I'll have to remember to bring her gift & card with me & give it to her then.

I like birthdays, for the silly things. The fact that everyone's nice to you, they hug you lots, treat you wonderfully & give you gifts & you get to eat & do whatever you want, really. But I don't like them for what they are, really. (but I'll save that for a serious, thinky post that will contain more depressing things.)

& yes, as I said above, Coraline's coming out on February sixth, so GO SEE IT, DAMMIT! Go support Neil Gaiman's lovely book at the pictures! (& it looks quite good - I saw the trailer for it when I saw him live in October & OMG it looks great. So support Neil & go see it.)

In fangirlish & fannish news, I've started listening to The Natural History of Fear again, slowly. I take back what I said about it being dull, it is damn near the most disturbing audio I've heard since the Zagreus/Scherzo arc. Just . . . it is so creepy & confusing & also mind-fogging at the same time. & I think I'm growing to enjoy it a bit more than I did before.

(& GUH, Paul McGann's VOICE IN THAT AUDIO. Whispery, angry, shouting, innocently seductive, pleading . . . I DIE EVERY SINGLE TIME I LISTEN TO A FEW SECONDS OF THIS DAMN THING.)

Also . . . I may have acquired a new fandom. A very tiny, with very little fic sort of fandom, & one I've been all 'OMG SUNDAY. SOME THINGS ARE SACRED, WE DO NOT MAKE THEM INTO FANDOM FOR CHRISSAKES', but I . . . I just couldn't help myself! ::hangs head:: But the fic is considerably good when I find it! So I've not many regrets other than the 'O FUCK SOME THINGS ARE SACRED WE AREN'T SUPPOSED TO MAKE THEM FANNISH.'

So after all of that, I have a mix to make! Maybe two. Or three!

(hmm. Is anything too sacred to make it slashtastic/fannish? Y'know . . . I don't think so, actually!)

& as I write this, I may be, in a way, re-acquiring a fandom, but this one has roots in my childhood, in the obsessive reading I did when I was a little girl. (o, audio plays, you make me so happy!) When I was a little girl, I used to go to the library every Friday after primary school, rain or shine, & I'd take out tons of books, so many I'd need to take a rolling suitcase to hold them in. Among them was occasionally Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories. (my long-standing favourites were The Sign of the Four & The Hound of the Baskervilles, which was really an overall childhood favourite of mine. I still have my copy, even.) & now, I'm listening to the lovely audios of them, which were done by BBC Radio from 1989 to 1998, if I remember properly.

So far? Amazing amazing amazing. ♥♥♥

I suddenly miss those days I'd putter about the library, picking out various sorts of books, all different genres, piling them into my suitcase & trudging home to read them all before next week.

(I read a lot of mystery when I was a girl. & Sherlock Holmes always made me wish I could play the violin. I can't, but I adore violin music nevertheless.)

Comments

[blueleopard87.livejournal.com]

That Hello Kitty make-up looks so awesome! :D

Forgive me for being a flake, I know you like Hello Kitty a bunch, so for curious conversation's sake, do you own a lot of Hello Kitty stuff?

(Also in a backward sort of way I'm hinting/wondering if as a semi-belated birthday present you'd be interested in some Hello Kitty things, since I am currently in, well, Japan which has a LOT of stuff that might not be available in the US.) :3

[riverdresses.livejournal.com]

I WANT IT. SO VERY MUCH. ::wibbly::

& actually, not TOO much - small things mostly - a little fan, lipgloss, mobile phone ornaments, lipglosses, socks, a little pouch I use to carry my art supplies when I go out & my calendar. The big things are my hair dryer & my toaster.

(EEEEK, SEMI-HINTING IS NICE. :D & OF COURSE I would - I'm actually rather jealous that you're basically in the world's epicentre of CUTE & ADORABLE right now! You're so kind to think of me! Thankyou sweetheart!)

[sonicbookmark.livejournal.com]

I LOVE SHERLOCK HOLMES AND MUST HAVE THESE AUDIO BOOKS. WHERE DID YOU GET THEEEEEEEEEEEM???????
p.s. I TOTES SLASH HOLMES/WATSON. I HAVE NO SHAME.

I thought you had forgotten about those rings! I'm glad you're still set on getting one. THEY WERE PRACTICALLY MADE FOR YOU AFTER ALL.

I am excited about the new Coraline movie, but it looks so different from the book that I can't help but be apprehensive about it. :/

[riverdresses.livejournal.com]

I SHALL EXPLAIN VIS A VIS TEXT, BB.

& I KNOW YOU DON'T. WHY CAN'T I BE MORE LIKE THAT?! (& ARGH, the first audio is like, teh most slashtastic thing I've heard in a while, srsly! Slash bells were a-ringing in my head whilst I was listening to it!)

I NEVER WOULD! I waaaaaant one - it has my favourite kitty & my symbol on it! MUST OWN, OMG.

Hmm. From what I saw of the trailer, I thought it followed the book quite accurately, but I'm sad that Coraline isn't an English girl anymore - that's part of why I liked it! But as it is a NEIL GAIMAN related project, I gots to support it! NEIL IS LOVE.

[sonicbookmark.livejournal.com]

the first audio is like, teh most slashtastic thing I've heard in a while, srsly! Slash bells were a-ringing in my head whilst I was listening to it!)

:O
I MUST HAVE THIS, I MUST.
And I have to say that I hated it when Watson got married. HATED IT.

it has my favourite kitty & my symbol on it! MUST OWN, OMG.

YES YOU MUST OWN. I really surprised you don't have one yet actually!

I thought it followed the book quite accurately, but I'm sad that Coraline isn't an English girl anymore

Yeah, they got that Dakota Fanning girl to voice her didn't they? :/
And it does look pretty accurate except for the singing and the additional character. It just doesn't look as...haunting as the book, if that's the word I mean to use.

[riverdresses.livejournal.com]

YOU'VE GOTTA HAVE IT, GIRL! & WTF HE GOT MARRIED?! ::shouts:: WHAT THE HELL.

I KNOW! It's mainly 'cause I'm cheap & also because I don't know if my local Temple of Pink (i.e., my local Sanrio store) is selling them anymore! But I could still get it online, do you think?

Yes they did, & I think she makes a nice Coraline, but couldn't they have found a British girl instead? But Neil was involved in this project, so I won't say anything against it until I see it.

'Haunting' is a good word for that book - it really does stick with you after you read it, especially if you've read or listened to it multiple times. (& it makes you a little leery of black buttons, srsly.)

AAAAAANYWAY, as I said, since it's a Neil Gaiman-related project, I'm giving it the benefit of the doubt of being good. I don't know if it'll be as good as Mirrormask, but I doubt Neil would have let it go through to completion if it was horribly full of suck. :)

[backinblackk.livejournal.com]

BB! You have to be the first person I tell this because it is so EPIC. THE DEADLY ASSASSIN IS COMING OUT ON DVD THIS YEAR!!!! DVD extras, and all that! I'm so excited :D :D :D :D

Ooh, I must put your birthday present in the mail before work tomorrow, and hopefully you will get it on time!

[riverdresses.livejournal.com]

(ARGH MY DAMN BROWSERS WERE ACTING UP & WOULDN'T LET ME ANSWER UNTIL NOW WHAT THE HELL.)

Okay, let's see how I can phrase my reaction to your comment . . . hmm, something like I SWEAR, THE MINUTE I READ THIS, I SQUEALED OUT LOUD & FLAILED A BIT ON MY BED. OMFG. OMFG FINALLY!!! WHEN, WHEN?! I MUST KNOW THIS!

Aww, sweetheart, thankyou! ::kisses your head:: I can't wait to get it! (Thankyou so much for thinking of me, loveylove. ♥♥)

[riverdresses.livejournal.com]

HEE! See, convinced you! ::hugs::

My birthdays are the same way, actually - I was literally not allowed to have birthday parties growing up; they were always spent with my parents. So I'm used to how dull my birthday can be & even now, I wish for someone to throw me a great party to celebrate my life. (ah, that sounds horridly self-centred, doesn't it?)

Ooo, I really want to go & look about for my old copy again! It should have a reread I think. :D

I KNOOOOW! More Neil Gaiman-related films! (& I've heard that his newest book, The Graveyard Book is going to be made into a film as well. That was a WONDERFUL book & hearing Neil read from it . . . AUGH, AMAZING. :D)

Edit for light Sunday!fail: YOU CHANGED YOUR USERNAME! Even IF the Friday the 13th films scare the hell out of me (the newer ones; the old one kind of makes me giggle a bit), I like it! But you know I'll miss your old one, of course.