Karsa Orlong

Oi! I swoon when I listen to the Gedster Mastodon - Crack the Skye

Damn, I thought I'd get home in time to see the end of the match, but it was all over very quickly once the wickets started tumbling

Brilliant film, brilliant book

Damn! Note to self: remember this note to self Deadsoul Tribe - Some Things You Can't Return

<_< Remind me not to be nice to you in future

You promised you'd never tell anyone! <_< Anathema - Fragile Dreams

A real classic I finished The Hanging Shed. It was okay, a bit like a Scottish version of Jack Reacher, but I got fed up with things being described as 'wee' or characters saying "ah ken, ah ken" Now onto the second Dresden Files book, Fool Moon.

I have to say, he doesn't quite have that effect on me Anekdoten - Monolith

Nooooooooooo! No, no, no, no, NO!!! Ridley Scott to make new Blade Runner movie <<deep breath, count to ten>>

Got to 51% of the way through The Hanging Shed last night.

Just about to start watching the cricket for the day. That pretty much guarantees it'll rain

Yeah, I don't get that either. I haven't seen it yet, but it seems to also ignore the whole thing with Cornelius and Zira going back in time and having baby Caesar (who grows up to lead the ape rebellion) in the present-day Still, it is a reboot I suppose - and it's got to better than the Tim Burton 'attempt'

Yeah, the one that I always remember was when he and Bobby turned up at the hospital to see a body and found out it was his son

Without reading any of the above, I kind of gave up on the show nine or ten eps into season 6, but have gone back to it and it seems to have picked up a bit. I'm up to 6x13 at the moment and the last couple of eps have been really good.

Oooh, Hill Street - I used to love that show, especially Belker and Howard, and when Buntz came into it. Big fan of NYPD Blue, too. Dennis Franz is brilliant.

Finished Jack Vance's Emphyrio and started The Hanging Shed by Gordon Ferris.

I thought it was very good, Kylie. It's a very quick read, doesn't hang around. I thought, at the start, that I wasn't going to like it, but I ended up really enjoying it

Aw, Firefly. I get very sad when people mention that show. 'Out of Gas' is one of my favourite episodes of any tv series It is! Edit: I watched this one the other night, cracked me up Sheldon plays dirty

I've got to add Dan Simmons' Hyperion to my list. Loved it.

Yeah, I can see that Blade Runner could be considered a poor adaptation of the book, but it's a great film.

Hyperion by Dan Simmons From Amazon: Hyperion is the first of a much-heralded two-part work -- including the The Fall of Hyperion--about the last days of a vibrant yet self-destructive galactic civilization of humans called the Hegemony. The Hegemony is doomed because in exchange for the knowledge needed to conquer the stars, the human species sold its soul to a hive of machine-based intelligence known as Technocore. Six people embark on a pilgrimage to Hyperion, their only hope for redemption, to seek the help of the Shrike, a half- mechanical, half-organic creature that inspires both terror and devotion in its subjects. The book won the 1990 Hugo Award for Science Fiction. SF's answer to The Canterbury Tales, with frequent references to John Keats and an actual clone of him appearing within its pages. That's probably the worst description I could ever have come up with, but it's true! In fact, Keats seems to have such a hold over Simmons that the book's title - and its sequel's - is taken from Keats' final poem, about the Greek Titans and the Younger Gods. From what I can gather, Keats died before finishing the poem, to the point where it stopped mid-line, and although Simmons doesn't go to that length, there are similarities ... Anyway, this tale of seven pilgrims journeying to a doom-laden encounter that will see most, if not all, of them fail to return, is just a wonderful exercise in storytelling, beautifully written, jaw-droppingly inventive and imaginative, populated by characters who are gradually fleshed out as they tell their own stories of how they have come to this point in time. This central conceit allows Simmons to change voice, to switch between first and third person, and throw in all manner of literary tricks which, to my mind, all worked brilliantly. The characters' stories vary from horror to love, even to a pseudo-film noir-ish detective story, and another that I found completely heartbreaking. I have read a few of Simmons' novels before - Carrion Comfort, The Terror, Illium - and enjoyed them all, but this one surpassed the lot. For the first few pages I couldn't get my head around most of the terminology, the descriptions, the ideas the book was throwing at me, one after another in such quick succession - but it sucked me in and I couldn't put it down. I was tempted to give it less than a perfect score. It's the sort of book that left me breathless and frustrated that it was over, wanting to know what happened next and yet quite annoyed that there are sequels. Something about it just cries out to be left as it is, to leave it to the reader's imagination to figure it all out. I'm not sure I want all the answers, but I know I'll read them anyway, and I'm almost sure they'll be a let down. This book, on its own, is pretty much perfect. 10/10

Both Watershed and Ghost Reveries are great albums, imo. I started with Ghost Reveries, listened to it, didn't like it, put it away, went back to it for some reason a few months later and it suddenly clicked. I think it's because I liked the music so much that eventually I just caved in to the growls. The thing with Mikael is that his clean vocals are amazing, and he can do it all live, too. I hope you grow to like 'em as much as I do! Ooh, while I think of it, here's the aforementioned new song, sans growls:

You'll be pleased with me - I'm just reading my first ever Jack Vance book, Emphyrio

Thanks - it was only £1.99 so I didn't think I could lose, really Now reading Emphyrio by Jack Vance - another one where I spent the first few pages thinking I wasn't going to like it, and then it really took off