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Recommend to me...

1. a movie 2. a book 3. a musical artist, song, or album 4. a LJ user not on my friend's list

and put it in a comment and then put this in your journal

Thanks to tylerpistol for the idea.

I went on a mad spending spree at HMV today, after becoming increasingly frustrated with my very stale music collection.  Picked up three CDs: Slingshot Professionals, by Kelly Joe Phelps, Life For Rent by Dido, and Dix Mille Matins by Daniel Boucher.  All in all, a very satifying two hours of shopping.  The damage wasn't too bad, either, since there's a sale on there right now.

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Oh. My.  I did something drastic the other night.  I dyed my hair blonde!  And not just run of the mill blonde, but extra light, Swedish milkmaid blonde!  Because my hair is naturally red, though, it turned out more or less golden yellow ... I'd have to do it again it if I want it lighter.

The general consensus is positive, though ... I was afraid it would turn out trashy and brassy, but over time, it actually looks good.  No one has said that it looks terrible, or at least not out loud.

In other news:  I watched a few really good movies this week.  Sunday, I went over to tylerpistol 's place to watch The Day The Earth Stood Still, which was actually quite good.  For 1951 science fiction, anyway.  Then, I rented Lost In Translation, which deserves all the praise it's been getting recently.  I hope Sofia Coppola wins Best Director at the Oscars.  I don't know if Bill Murray deserves Best Actor, but that's only because I haven't seen the other contenders.

Last night, I watched Blue Crush.  It was amazing!  I have never seen such beautiful cinematography.  I mean, think about it: filming a surfer as she surfs a 20-foot wave, from inside the wave?  Incredible.  And, to tell the truth, the rest of the film wasn't so bad either.  There wasn't as much jiggle factor as I had expected ... it certainly wasn't "Surf Baywatch", anyway.  The bikini factor was there, but that's only because that's how it actually is for those girls.  If you lived in paradise and spent half your time in the water, you'd live in your bikini too.

So, it's been a decent week.  Better than last.  I haven't resolved all the issues I need to deal with yet, but I'm working on it.

I love languages.

I have a couple of online friends in Ireland and Scotland, and they've been teaching me very simple Irish Gaelic phrases, with the help of a website dedicated to preserving the Irish language. (see http://www.daltai.com) Had I continued in my Linguistics degree in university, I would have pursued an academic study of Irish and Scots Gaelic.

*How are you? in the Connemara dialect of Irish Gaelic.

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Arggh.

I'm awake, still, at 4:30 a.m. because I made the stupid mistake of drinking a pot of black tea while watching movies tonight. Go figure. The movies were good, though. I watched Morvern Callar and Swimming Pool, which were both dark, artsy films. The narrative in Morvern Callar was very hard to follow, so I can't really tell you what it was about. Basically, it was the story of this Scottish girl who lives a meaningless life of alcohol, drugs, and a dead-end job, until the day her boyfriend commits suicide. She proceeds to cover up his death, steals the money he left for the funeral, puts her name on the finished novel he had written, and runs off to Spain for more drugs and alcohol. Rather depressing, in all, though if you like dark films you'll like this one. Swimming Pool was much better, in my opinion.

Oh, by the way ... welcome to my LiveJournal!