Closing in on Isengard
Feb. 18th, 2007 07:15 pmSeveral folks have Friended me lately, so a big hello to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
logrusboy, iwondery, motherofpearl51, and serenalita. Welcome, and hope you enjoy my posts!
We're in the middle of a three day weekend here at the Murkworks, and so far it's been a fairly laid back and pleasant sort of thing. No particular plans have been made, but that's okay, there's something to be said for an easygoing and stress-free long weekend.solarbird and I spent some time today going through our media library--a lot of our old videotapes are screwed up since they'd been taped on a machine that decided it was going to invent its own format, so now we can't play them on anything else. And several others are things that we don't need anymore, since we've since purchased the same things on DVD. So we've built a sizeable stack of tapes we no longer need; anybody local need a bunch of videotapes? Let us know.
It's been fun looking at the stuff, though, and seeing which things we want to keep. Such as, for example, the movie for the eighth Doctor Who. Now that Ninth and Tenth Doctors have finally sold me on Who fandom, I need to watch this again some time soon and remind myself of Eighth Doctor.
It's also kind of amusing just thinking about how media has advanced so much in our lifetimes that we don't even really need videotapes much anymore. I still have a bit of a need for scratch tapes--as we speak, I've been taping the third season of Digging for the Truth forgerimaple since she's a huge fan and it's not airing in Canada yet, and this is the easiest way I have of getting episodes up to her. But other than that, it's been ages since I've wanted to tape anything.
I've also been poking around online trying to find out where I can buy CDs for various Atlantic Canadian artists' music. There's one more Fables CD I want, and some more Irish Descendants, and I keep hearing over and over that as a GBS fan, I probably will like the Punters as well. None of whom are downloadable on iTunes. Sniff. I have found atlanticcanadianmusic.com; any Canadian folks or otherwise fans of Canadian music out there have any experience with this site? Is it reliable?
On the other hand, I have noted with pleasure that the most recent Paperboys CD, The Road to Ellenside, is in fact downloadable via iTunes. Yay! And I was really stunned to see that there's a small assortment of filk on the iTunes store as well--including some Julia Ecklar and Heather Alexander. Soon as I have some music-buying budget built back up, I'm totally making another sweep through the iTunes store. There's some Seven Nations and Young Dubliners and Captain Tractor with my name all over 'em.
Until then, I am apparently going to be in a huge Carbon Leaf mood, since Ether-Electrified Porch Music has taken over my iPod; it's a very, very strong album. I've also been giving Love Loss Hope Repeat a few more listens--and as I'd expected it would, it's starting to grow on me. Something about it suddenly went click once I started catching the mandolin work in the background. It's a subtler album than earlier Carbon Leaf, but there's some serious goodness there, especially "The War Was In Color".
And oh yeah, it must also be noted that the remastered TOS episodes are kicking serious ass, if y'all haven't managed to catch them yet. We just caught "Amok Time" last night, and enjoyed the new effects and space shots quite a bit--suddenly, Vulcan has ice caps! And the wide-angle shots of Vulcan terrain, including a shot of Spock's hometown that's consistent with the animated Trek series, are really cool. The whole episode got me off onto an amused mental tangent about the story behind how Spock's parents got together; I mean, what possessed Amanda to decide, "Hmm, Vulcan! I want me some of that!" ;)
Hope everyone's weekends are going well!
Miles since the 8th: 26.3
Miles out of Hobbiton: 1773.8
Miles out of Rauros Falls: 464.8
Miles to Isengard: 19.2
logrusboy, iwondery, motherofpearl51, and serenalita. Welcome, and hope you enjoy my posts!We're in the middle of a three day weekend here at the Murkworks, and so far it's been a fairly laid back and pleasant sort of thing. No particular plans have been made, but that's okay, there's something to be said for an easygoing and stress-free long weekend.
solarbird and I spent some time today going through our media library--a lot of our old videotapes are screwed up since they'd been taped on a machine that decided it was going to invent its own format, so now we can't play them on anything else. And several others are things that we don't need anymore, since we've since purchased the same things on DVD. So we've built a sizeable stack of tapes we no longer need; anybody local need a bunch of videotapes? Let us know.It's been fun looking at the stuff, though, and seeing which things we want to keep. Such as, for example, the movie for the eighth Doctor Who. Now that Ninth and Tenth Doctors have finally sold me on Who fandom, I need to watch this again some time soon and remind myself of Eighth Doctor.
It's also kind of amusing just thinking about how media has advanced so much in our lifetimes that we don't even really need videotapes much anymore. I still have a bit of a need for scratch tapes--as we speak, I've been taping the third season of Digging for the Truth for
gerimaple since she's a huge fan and it's not airing in Canada yet, and this is the easiest way I have of getting episodes up to her. But other than that, it's been ages since I've wanted to tape anything.I've also been poking around online trying to find out where I can buy CDs for various Atlantic Canadian artists' music. There's one more Fables CD I want, and some more Irish Descendants, and I keep hearing over and over that as a GBS fan, I probably will like the Punters as well. None of whom are downloadable on iTunes. Sniff. I have found atlanticcanadianmusic.com; any Canadian folks or otherwise fans of Canadian music out there have any experience with this site? Is it reliable?
On the other hand, I have noted with pleasure that the most recent Paperboys CD, The Road to Ellenside, is in fact downloadable via iTunes. Yay! And I was really stunned to see that there's a small assortment of filk on the iTunes store as well--including some Julia Ecklar and Heather Alexander. Soon as I have some music-buying budget built back up, I'm totally making another sweep through the iTunes store. There's some Seven Nations and Young Dubliners and Captain Tractor with my name all over 'em.
Until then, I am apparently going to be in a huge Carbon Leaf mood, since Ether-Electrified Porch Music has taken over my iPod; it's a very, very strong album. I've also been giving Love Loss Hope Repeat a few more listens--and as I'd expected it would, it's starting to grow on me. Something about it suddenly went click once I started catching the mandolin work in the background. It's a subtler album than earlier Carbon Leaf, but there's some serious goodness there, especially "The War Was In Color".
And oh yeah, it must also be noted that the remastered TOS episodes are kicking serious ass, if y'all haven't managed to catch them yet. We just caught "Amok Time" last night, and enjoyed the new effects and space shots quite a bit--suddenly, Vulcan has ice caps! And the wide-angle shots of Vulcan terrain, including a shot of Spock's hometown that's consistent with the animated Trek series, are really cool. The whole episode got me off onto an amused mental tangent about the story behind how Spock's parents got together; I mean, what possessed Amanda to decide, "Hmm, Vulcan! I want me some of that!" ;)
Hope everyone's weekends are going well!
Miles since the 8th: 26.3
Miles out of Hobbiton: 1773.8
Miles out of Rauros Falls: 464.8
Miles to Isengard: 19.2
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