hello everybody. Its been a very very long time. We've both been absolutely snowed under with the ridiculous reading demands of our course and also writing dissertations (gasp) but they are now done *one woman mexican wave*
SO now i have some free time. which feels weird. Expect some sport and movie updates soon.
As I said life's been work-centric of late but i have managed to watch a lot of Glee (the best show on TV seriously) it makes me want to cry with joy, i spent the entirety of last night's episode cheering. I've also been enjoying the new season of dancing with the stars. I love Derek as always but Markie really came back back into my affections this season before being cruelly injured very early, although he has made appearances playing flamenco guitar (wow, just wow) and choreographing. I'm Also enjoy Maksim Chmerkovskiy and partner (erin?) he has been very very good (i'm sure she has too) and my early favourite is Evan Lysacek THE cutest, dorkiest figure skater ever. He's adorable and if i could vote for him i would. ALso True Blood has been outstanding. I won't spoil anything but one of the scenes between Godric and Eric was one of the most beautiful things i've ever seen on TV (clue it took place on a roof)
And i've been listening to the radio a lot lately. I like Professor Green's song, because INXS will always rule. And that dance song with accordion in it (because as my mum says i'm a sucker for a bit of accordion.) I bought a semisonic album lately and i'd forgotten how awesome they are, i urge you all to look up secret smile, it is impossible to not feel moved while listening to that song. SO there it all is.
Love to everyone. Ciao
Ruth
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Showing posts with label TV. Show all posts
Showing posts with label TV. Show all posts
Tuesday, 27 April 2010
Friday, 24 July 2009
Update- uni,etc
Well my uni results are also in. I also got a 2:1 for the year which I was very very pleased about. I'm happy to know I'm heading in the right direction and doing something right somewhere. I was also disappointed with my modernism results as it was somewhere around 52 (I think) although frankly I expected it because I spent a large part of the modernism module yelling in frustration and attempting to bang my head off the desk. I really struggled with modernism as it all seemed rather pretentious and ridiculous to me. However I did do very well on my mini dissertation which I was absolutely delighted about because I did actually put a lot of work into it and thoroughly enjoyed writing about Dracula and Interview with the Vampire. Both Nicola and I got onto the modules we picked for next year which is good but I still can't work the stupid uni timetable system which doesn't seem to work ever.
I've been sitting down a lot over my holidays. I've realised how long this holiday really is. I had a job last year so my summer flew by but this year I've been chilling out and watching LOTs of TV. I've just started watching 'Desperate Romantics' on BBC 2 which I really like. Its about the pre-Raphaelite brotherhood and has a fantastic cast. Its about art in the victorian era but don't let that put you off its very vibrant and fast paced with plenty of beautiful and witty boys (and girls) and romance, fame, drama and of course pretty pictures. I've also been reminding myself how much I love Friends. Its so ridiculous now that almost every episode I see makes me cry. I also started watching True Blood on FX which was weird but good. It was dark and broody with lots of sex and weird southern accents.
Ruth.
I've been sitting down a lot over my holidays. I've realised how long this holiday really is. I had a job last year so my summer flew by but this year I've been chilling out and watching LOTs of TV. I've just started watching 'Desperate Romantics' on BBC 2 which I really like. Its about the pre-Raphaelite brotherhood and has a fantastic cast. Its about art in the victorian era but don't let that put you off its very vibrant and fast paced with plenty of beautiful and witty boys (and girls) and romance, fame, drama and of course pretty pictures. I've also been reminding myself how much I love Friends. Its so ridiculous now that almost every episode I see makes me cry. I also started watching True Blood on FX which was weird but good. It was dark and broody with lots of sex and weird southern accents.
Ruth.
Friday, 10 July 2009
University Results
Well the marks are back - the result of another year of blood, sweat, tears and general stress. And I am sad to say that for the last exam I got ......56!! 56 for the hell of modernism, they should give you a 2:1 just for turning up to the lectures/seminars, we went a lot more than most people! Other than that though, mostly good news, a mid-range 2:1 overall I think, will have to pull my finger out next year though and do some work.
In other news... I'm loving Gossip Girl at the minute although I think next week is the last episode of the series :(. I want to BE Blair Waldorf, and I cried at Wednesday's episode, how embarassing, but I was having an emotional day in my defence. Also there was the last episode of Katie and Peter - forever! - and I'm just gutted! Can't wait to watch her with Piers Morgan on Saturday, sure she'll be her normal reserved, secretive self. I know everyone's Team Andre at the minute, but everybody deals with breakups in different ways - I've seen plenty of friends act the way Katie has when they've split up with someone. And it's not like she abandoned her kids in a hotel or something, they were with Pete. I love Peter too though - I just want them to work things out! You know so much about them through the media and their shows it's almost as if you know them personally!
Anyway, Ugly Betty is really heating up, just when it seemed as if they'd gone full circle - Daniel back at Mode, Wilhemina back to plotting, they threw in a couple more twists! Glad to see they're more on the ball than the Desperate Housewives writers, I'm hoping that that was the last series of DH to be honest, I think they've totally lost it!
Think that's all for TV at the moment... I'm desperate to watch that Four Weddings program, especially because I love Come Dine with Me and as I'll probably be becoming a Bridezilla myself soon, but I can't get Living TV on my Freeview :(. Never mind!
Nicola
In other news... I'm loving Gossip Girl at the minute although I think next week is the last episode of the series :(. I want to BE Blair Waldorf, and I cried at Wednesday's episode, how embarassing, but I was having an emotional day in my defence. Also there was the last episode of Katie and Peter - forever! - and I'm just gutted! Can't wait to watch her with Piers Morgan on Saturday, sure she'll be her normal reserved, secretive self. I know everyone's Team Andre at the minute, but everybody deals with breakups in different ways - I've seen plenty of friends act the way Katie has when they've split up with someone. And it's not like she abandoned her kids in a hotel or something, they were with Pete. I love Peter too though - I just want them to work things out! You know so much about them through the media and their shows it's almost as if you know them personally!
Anyway, Ugly Betty is really heating up, just when it seemed as if they'd gone full circle - Daniel back at Mode, Wilhemina back to plotting, they threw in a couple more twists! Glad to see they're more on the ball than the Desperate Housewives writers, I'm hoping that that was the last series of DH to be honest, I think they've totally lost it!
Think that's all for TV at the moment... I'm desperate to watch that Four Weddings program, especially because I love Come Dine with Me and as I'll probably be becoming a Bridezilla myself soon, but I can't get Living TV on my Freeview :(. Never mind!
Nicola
Monday, 29 June 2009
Nicola's TV Reviews
Until recently, TV has been dominated by Big Brother (boo! how many more series can they possibly make??) but finally, Ugly Betty has filled the void left by Desperate Housewives. The 1st episode was amazing, the same great, sparkling writing, crazy colours and awful-but-cool costumes by Patricia Field. I was dubious at first about Daniel being kicked out of Mode but they've actually managed to make it work really well, and I can't wait to see what happens with DJ and with Wilhemina's evil plotting!
Gossip Girl is getting better every week too - I loved Serena at first but now I think Blair's my favourite, she's a lot more easy to relate to as the series goes on, and I want the entire cast's wardrobe!
I wonder when I should get excited about X Factor, I know its starting in August and the fashion wars between Dannii and Cheryl have already begun, but it's just not quite as good as Britain's Got Talent! On the plus side, there is plenty of ridiculous drama over nothing on X Factor, Cheryl Cole's awesome hair, and the girls' gorgeous dresses to admire
Gossip Girl is getting better every week too - I loved Serena at first but now I think Blair's my favourite, she's a lot more easy to relate to as the series goes on, and I want the entire cast's wardrobe!
I wonder when I should get excited about X Factor, I know its starting in August and the fashion wars between Dannii and Cheryl have already begun, but it's just not quite as good as Britain's Got Talent! On the plus side, there is plenty of ridiculous drama over nothing on X Factor, Cheryl Cole's awesome hair, and the girls' gorgeous dresses to admire
Tuesday, 21 April 2009
Random Life Update: Nicola
Nicola: Sorry for the long silence from me - my internet snapped (never get mobile broadband it is pointless and stupid and never works) so I have been stranded in a world without blogs or Facebook. I've actually had to talk to people face-to-face, it's been very unnerving. The saddest thing is absolutely nothing has happened for me to talk about even though I haven't said anything in ages!
So far my Easter break has consisted of eating my weight in chocolate (one of life's great mysteries: why is Easter egg chocolate so much nicer than the normal kind?) and pizza, reading Cosmopolitan, watching TV, writing my novel and defending my ridiculously friendly Labrador against smaller, scarier dogs. Then I looked at the calendar and panicked because I realised I have done no work for the mini-dissertation I have to hand in in a month. So the obvious answer was to come online to blog and mess around on Facebook for an hour.
On the plus side, my novel is on 42,000 words, so I'm finally over the halfway mark, and I bought a new laptop because mine officially broke.
Just to fill in some space, here's a review of the TV I've been saturating my brain with. Britain's Got Talent is back: yey! My favourite bit is, of course, Ant and Dec - they should have an act, they would win by a landslide. I loved the kid who sang Michael Jackson on Saturday though, but I felt bad for him when Simon stopped him singing Valerie - I thought that was really good, Simon Cowell must have been told the kid had a better song prepared. Also Gok Wan is back with Gok's Fashion Fix, and it's much better than his previous show (I can't even remember what it was called, I stopped watching it even though I love Gok more than life itself), and he has managed to redeem himself slightly, although he has enough for five different shows in there.
Gossip Girl is getting exciting again, but I wish Dan and Serena would just get together already, and Blair and Chuck, and Lily and Rufus... there is a lot of the we-love-each-other-desperately-but-it-would-never-work going about on the Upper East Side. I read in a magazine that somebody dies, so every time anything bad happens I can't breathe because I think this is going to be it. I think it'll happen tomorrow with the whole limo thing. I still want to be Blake Lively though, she has the best hair ever.
However, I'm really starting to get sick of the storyline on Desperate Housewives. We already know everything - what is the point??? They're just dragging it out, what happened to all the tension-building and twists and turns of the earlier series? I always used to get it wrong, but I've known for weeks now exactly what's happening. I watch it on E4 on Sundays because I'm sad like that, and I'm starting to get a bit bored of the whole Dave-Mike thing. If Mike dies I will stop watching, he is by far the best Househusband. And I hate Orson!!!! I won't ruin it for you if you watch on Wednesdays, but you will hate him too.
So goodbye for now, I'm off to weep over my mini-dissertation and find something interesting to do so that I can blog about it!
So far my Easter break has consisted of eating my weight in chocolate (one of life's great mysteries: why is Easter egg chocolate so much nicer than the normal kind?) and pizza, reading Cosmopolitan, watching TV, writing my novel and defending my ridiculously friendly Labrador against smaller, scarier dogs. Then I looked at the calendar and panicked because I realised I have done no work for the mini-dissertation I have to hand in in a month. So the obvious answer was to come online to blog and mess around on Facebook for an hour.
On the plus side, my novel is on 42,000 words, so I'm finally over the halfway mark, and I bought a new laptop because mine officially broke.
Just to fill in some space, here's a review of the TV I've been saturating my brain with. Britain's Got Talent is back: yey! My favourite bit is, of course, Ant and Dec - they should have an act, they would win by a landslide. I loved the kid who sang Michael Jackson on Saturday though, but I felt bad for him when Simon stopped him singing Valerie - I thought that was really good, Simon Cowell must have been told the kid had a better song prepared. Also Gok Wan is back with Gok's Fashion Fix, and it's much better than his previous show (I can't even remember what it was called, I stopped watching it even though I love Gok more than life itself), and he has managed to redeem himself slightly, although he has enough for five different shows in there.
Gossip Girl is getting exciting again, but I wish Dan and Serena would just get together already, and Blair and Chuck, and Lily and Rufus... there is a lot of the we-love-each-other-desperately-but-it-would-never-work going about on the Upper East Side. I read in a magazine that somebody dies, so every time anything bad happens I can't breathe because I think this is going to be it. I think it'll happen tomorrow with the whole limo thing. I still want to be Blake Lively though, she has the best hair ever.
However, I'm really starting to get sick of the storyline on Desperate Housewives. We already know everything - what is the point??? They're just dragging it out, what happened to all the tension-building and twists and turns of the earlier series? I always used to get it wrong, but I've known for weeks now exactly what's happening. I watch it on E4 on Sundays because I'm sad like that, and I'm starting to get a bit bored of the whole Dave-Mike thing. If Mike dies I will stop watching, he is by far the best Househusband. And I hate Orson!!!! I won't ruin it for you if you watch on Wednesdays, but you will hate him too.
So goodbye for now, I'm off to weep over my mini-dissertation and find something interesting to do so that I can blog about it!
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