Veronica Mars

[dagronrat]

I am pretty sure it was about ten years ago that June first mentioned the tv series to me, and I pretty determinedly put it on my to watch list.

Had a failed attempt or two at borrowing a friend's copy of the series since with little luck...

Watched the movie on the flight back from Singapore.  one word: AWESOME.

The tv series is definitely gaining more weight on the to watch list now!  ;D

(Now when I'll get around to it however... *sigh* Need to try Steins gate still too... and being on holiday means so much to catch up on the stuff we actually watch regularly. Huh.)

On a mega plus note: Good to be back home!  ^__^

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[fs-playground.livejournal.com]

Hooray, welcome back. I hope you had a great trip.

[dagronrat.livejournal.com]

:D
yep!

[dagronrat.livejournal.com]

I know, I am a horrible horrible procrastinator with a ridiculously short attention span. *hides*

Yeah, we did. Holiday was awesome-amazing (NZ is a beautiful country!), was good to visit long not-seen family and locations of childhood memories too.
Waiting till what our body clock had set as 5am in Changi on the way back for our next flight was a bit less fun. 12 hour time difference is Zombie-fying me still. |P

[rae00.livejournal.com]

I am never going to claim to be a procrastinator ever again. That's got me beat by orders of magnitude.

[fs-playground.livejournal.com]

Lol.

Dag's list seems to be really long.

[rae00.livejournal.com]

I don't care about the rest of the list; the fact that Steins;Gate is still on it makes me cringe. x_x

[dagronrat.livejournal.com]

^^;; yeeep.

I really suck at making time to watch video stuff hubby isn't interested in.

[rae00.livejournal.com]

XD;

[fs-playground.livejournal.com]

Argh, I missed you on Skype last night. Will you be online tonight? *hugs

[dagronrat.livejournal.com]

our internet/phone line seems to have died today.  ;,;

[fs-playground.livejournal.com]

Argh that really sucks. Are you on the phone or in a café or bookshop with internet access?

[dagronrat.livejournal.com]

the phone. :P

Hubby is on phone to try and fix the line.

[fs-playground.livejournal.com]

Hopefully he'll be able to fix it by tonight. XD I read your Frozen-DC crossover, btw. The beginning was really interesting although I need time to get accustomed to the characters first because I don't know anything about Frozen.

[dagronrat.livejournal.com]

Yeay! I'm probably gonna write more of it if internet isn't fixed before Thursday (at latest estimate from phone company. )

Meanwhile I'll just leech wifi in pubs and occasionally turn on roaming data
:)

[fs-playground.livejournal.com]

Lol, the lack of WiFi has its advantages...

I write on paper these days. It's easier to focus and my eyes hurt when I look at the screen all the time. *feels old

[dagronrat.livejournal.com]

Wrote a couple of scenes on paper while on holiday.  Was nice but a lot slower than typing... also misleading: I write big on paper but use a small font on screen. seeing 3 pages done makes me think I've written tons but then I realize it's all of a small scene at best. :P

[fs-playground.livejournal.com]

That's odd. I write into small notebooks and always underestimate how long my scenes are. I just expect them to be shorter since I take the size of my handwriting into account. XD

And you need to learn how to abbreviate stuff so that it's faster and takes less space. XD

[dagronrat.livejournal.com]

Oh like taking notes in a lecture? ah. That makes sense. (but my uni notes included doodles and diagrams and random french. XD Not easy to translate to literary flow.)

Maybe I'll give it a go. XD

[fs-playground.livejournal.com]

You can doodle on paper, too, drawing interior designs, scenes... It's terribly tempting. XD Especially these pretty pocket notebooks that one can fill within a month. *sobs

[juneaddams.livejournal.com]

Veronica Mars! Do check it out, if you got the time. First season is the best; subsequent seasons are okay, though they suffer from various internal and external issues. What made the first season so good is the compact, tight-knit plotting, which made sense since it was adapted from the showrunner's in-progress novel. It helps that the showrunner had experience writing novels. You can sense it in the dialogues and worldbuilding. Overall it is a pretty good stab at updating the Marlowe-era noir genre.

Seizing the moment to recommend Orphan Black while I'm at it