Grace Notes @ Snarkattack

I’m trying to listen to music on last.fm and not having much luck thanks to its update not downloading and installing properly.

I can’t uninstall it, meaning I can’t reinstall it and it’s not scrobbling (saving a history/list of tracks I listen to) properly. Thoroughly pissed off. Sigh, I’ll just have to wait till I move out and have my future housemate/good tech geek pal look at it and see if he can fix it for me.

If anyone else has any tips on what I could do, send ‘em my way, I’m all ears.

And I don’t care what my ex says, Joy Division rock. Of course, I haven’t heard as much of it as he did so that might account for my attitude (congrats on the new job too Z if you’re reading).

Since I’ve been reading a lot lately, I decided to buy myself yet another book - Jasper Fforde’s The Well of Lost Plots - third in a series about a detective named Thursday Next who hops into books and solves literary crimes - for example, in the first book, Jane Eyre gets kidnapped and it’s Thursday’s job to save Jane and restore her to her rightful book. It’s very British in humour and thoroughly enjoyable. If you’re reading ralenth and Owen, you’d love the series if you don’t already know about it.

Last night I saw Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and it was great. To be honest I can’t really remember well enough to judge whether it’s faithful to the book (I confess they all begin to blur into one big conglomerate entity). I’m really looking forward to the seventh book Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - it’s probably going to be massive as J. K. Rowling has a lot of loose ends to tie up. I’ve heard some rumours that it’s going to be a bit of a deathfest…Rowling seems to be fond of killing off people that readers get attached to.

At the moment I’m reading The Life of Pi by Yann Martel. It’s early days yet so don’t know quite what to think but it’s definitely interesting. Another confession - at the moment I’m preferring escapist reading… might halt on it for Eragon.

Seen a few films lately - last week I saw the second Pirates of the Caribbean film, yeah, late I know I know. And yes, just like everyone else I agree it’s nowhere near as good as the first one. Hoping to watch the third one soon. I also saw Marie Antoinette and was thoroughly disappointed. There’s a lot of eye candy, but not much else. Bit insulting to one’s intelligence, really. So yeah, avoid it or you’ll be crying for those hours of your life back, I swear it.

Yippee, I bought some books today! After finishing Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince I decided I needed some more light reading and I can only reread Neil Gaiman’s Stardust so many times. So today I bought Eragon by Christopher Paolini which I believe was recently made into a (terrible, I hear) film, and The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier which I’ve already started. Read the first chapter and so far not overly impressed but maybe my expectations are high because i. it’s set in medieval times and ii. I was highly impressed by her previous novel (as was a whole bunch of women, sigh) Girl With A Pearl Earring (no, not a pearl necklace as my ex thought…!). I expected to be reeled in after at least one chapter…we’ll see how it goes though.

Still slowly plodding through Yeats poetry, up to the Irish narrative verse section which I admit isn’t quite as enthralling as it should be…and I’m going to desperately try to read at least one chapter everyday of Vanity Fair or I might forget about it. At the moment I’m up to the part where the main male characters who are all pretty much soldiers have been called off to fight in Brussels

I’ve spent the whole week in bed with the flu (not exactly the flu but seeing as I’ve been bedridden since last Sunday, may as well be) but finally got to do some reading today! Woo hoo. Today’s literary diet consisted of poetry by Yeats (my anthology is huge so I’ll be reading it for quite some time), finishing another edition of Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, then lucky me, my father bought me a copy of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Only 2 chapters into it and so far…eh. Sadly, I already know the bad news because some idiot on a forum spoilt it for me.

Anyway, reading has been a nice break from ‘grinding’ on World of Warcraft with my main (and only) toon. Oh okay, I lie, I have a night elf warrior as well as my regular human warrior but she hardly sees any action.

Thanks to a good pal from the States, I am also very fortunately listening to the new Interpol album, w00t! I quite like it now that I’ve got a good chance to listen to it. But as both dearest Ashley and Christina have pointed out, it ain’t no Antics (their previous freaking awesome album).

Now that I’ve had a bloody good lamb curry in my belly and the album is about to finish, time for more fun and adventures on WoW.