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Oh that Llama! He's so curious! And adorable.

Last night was the first night in ages in which it was cold enough to cuddle up to another person in bed.

It's turning into Autumn now.

If you are currently living away from home/a place where you can expect people not to barge in at random, working a job which doesn't expect you to work past 8 in the evening the majority of time or are currently receiving benefits and live closer than an hour to people who you like and respect, I am insanely jealous of you right now.

Which of these should I get?

 

or this dress?

 Well, I've been consuming a lot of TV recently, between dipping, or rather, diving headlong, into "Wolverine, Essentials Vol. 1" in which I've been asking whether Chris Claremont is a brilliance before his time, or really needs to learn when to shut up. I think the answer is somewhere between the two, but the man can certainly write! More on that as I go further through it.

The other thing I watched recently was "A world if Pain: Myra Syal on self harm." which I watched more from horrified facination more than anything else; ( LJ cut as potential trigger and potentially wrong interpritations liable to upset people. )

I also watched Liquid Sky for the first time recently. The Plot is pretty well known, even if the name of the film isn't: Alien's come to earth in search of Heroin, but discover that human orgasm's give a better effect and then go about killing people who have sex. And as predicted, the music is either horrible or brilliant, dependong on how one interprietes the use of the slightly-out of-tune synths, the dialogue and acting at moments seems to have been lifted straight from Garth Merengie and the outfits are brilliant and mad and beautiful and perfectly fitting, as are the set designs and Special Effects.

However, when you watch Liquid Sky, you soon find that this is almost a tack on: the real story is about Margaret, the bisexual model in the New Wave scene of New York. She dresses in fabulous clothes and lives with her heroin dealer girlfriend in a penthouse, where periodically men come around and usually make a move on her. The Alien's discover her and use her, much like everyone else in her life.

SPOILERY BITS:

( Potential Spoilers Ahead! )

Very Safe for work, unless your boss doesn't like kittens.

1/ Holding hands with someone as I walk down the street.

2/ Waking up warm.

3/ Traumatizing retro_geek  with cartoons.

4/ Soothing trauma by looking at pictures of thousand dollar chinchilla's on a chinchilla fancier's website.

6/ Running around with my near-completed cape because it's soooooooo warm!

6/ Knowing that not only are Borderville playing on May 1st at Power's, Kilburn, but Wasim is DJing as well!

7/My actual Birthday falling on the June Stay Beautiful Date *hint hint :P*

8/ Planning my birthday picnic the day after

9/Looking through old(er) photos and remembering the silly things that happened that night.

10/ The fact that I have a dressform to set up currently sitting downstairs because a lady as sewing class wanted to get rid of one! I've always wanted a dress form - they've always seemed like something very cool to own.

...especially when I got drunk at work and I'm half-way through a fortnight of hell.

As I'm unlikely to see anyone this week - recommend a couple of films I should probably have watched by now?

As a bit of a wannabe Scientist with a vague social conscious, believer is what is probably known as web-activism and damn good informative writing, please Steal the Chapter from Bad Science that Ben Goldache couldn't print in his book before now, due to pseudo scientists with their own adgenders.

Very quick and over-simplistic summary - Ben Goldache goes over the bones of the case of Matthias Rath, AIDS/HIV denier, who,in South Africa, with the help of other deniers, has encouraged the use of (his) vitamin pills over anti-viral drugs which, y'know, are effective at controlling HIV and AIDS.

Promise to update properly soon, have things to say but not the correct sequence or rhythm of words to properly get the meaning over.