it's who dares wins in this city

What's not fun:

Christmas Eve and Christmas Day when a terrible cold had made me photophobic. I was fleeing Christmas lights and everything. Couldn't go on the computer for longer than 5 minutes. Had to wear sunglasses most of the time at the Christmas party I went to.

still, I got some good stuff. Got a new CD/radio/casette player, along with a Dark Knight calendar to replace my ferret one and a bunch of nice chocolates. Along with a pencil from Tokyo Tower and some other things. We got my mom the Lips karaoke game for Xbox 360. I remember trying out an early version of the game in some exhibition at the Tech Museum. You can add your own song too, and they provide some random animated music videos. So big lumpy dough monsters were wreaking havoc on a city while I tried to match the frequencies on "Knights of Cydonia." yes.

I won't be able to flist, so if you posted anything cool recently, please leave a link here.

at the station

The many versions of the TV Yule Log


Thakoon for Target has some very nice prints

Until I saw the first act on the Classic Arts channel, I didn't know there was a ballet for Edgar Allan Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher."

actually, it started out when Debussy wrote 30 minutes of an opera for "The Fall of the House of Usher" some time before he died.

info on the version I saw a part of. Done by the Royal Ballet, London. They really emphasized the thing between Roderick and his sis Lady Madeline.

via search results:
Holbrooke also wrote a ballet score for "The Masque of the Red Death", among ... Minimalist Philip Glass wrote an opera based on "The Fall of the House of Usher" that debuted in 1989.

goths would faint.


oh, and I finally finished Spaced! And I did watch the Doctor Who Christmas special. I like being able to put downloads into the Xbox 360 and watching them on the widescreen.