No such thing as an Ordinary Human

I know I haven't posted in eons but I've been a bit busy plus I haven't had anything to talk about on here.

Anyway here's a wordle of my profile.



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( O, Literature, my Literature! :D )

( Clickey )

 As you'll all know by now the filming of Doctor Who Series 5 began on Monday. 

( Vworp Vworp Vworp Thunk )

This little ditty is one of my favourite games to play online.

Simple yet addictive. :D
 

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1) Comment to this and I will give you 3 people.
2) Post this meme with your answers.
3) Provide pictures and the names of 3 people.
4) Label which you would marry, shag and throw off a cliff


redonyou1  has given me David Tennant, Rupert Grint and Mitch Hewer.



 

( Follow for wonderous things... )

So, come on people!

This is the one day of the year when you can make a fool of yourself AND be raising money for charity at the same time!

Do whatever you like just be

                                                  
                                                   Funny for Money!


Pop on a red nose.

Wear a T-shirt.

Do something stupid (and get sponsored for it!)

Watch Comic Relief tonight on BBC One and donate over the phone.





Do ANYTHING as long as you can have a laugh and get the cash in for this most worthy of causes! :)


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Well it's almost here. Another Neil Gaiman book adapted into a film means another magnificent couple of hours spent watching the old light show on a big screen.

Of course, the man is a master of his art and everything he touches turns to golden pixie dust in literary form.

But

Did he have to use buttons as eyes? They are beyond freaky. :P

Hey. Maybe he gets high from his own pixie dust? :D

 

Cheerio!

 

[Stolen from Redonyou1]



The Big Read thinks the average adult has only read six of the top 100 books they've printed below.


1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them.


1. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien
3. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series – JK Rowling
5. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
6. The Bible
7. Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
8. Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
11. Little Women – Louisa M Alcott
12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare
16. The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
19. The Time Traveller's Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch – George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
22. The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
23. Bleak House – Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
26. Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
30. The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia – C.S. Lewis
34. Emma – Jane Austen
35. Persuasion – Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – C.S. Lewis
37. The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
38. Captain Corelli's Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
39. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
40. Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne
41. Animal Farm – George Orwell
42. The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving
45. The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery
47. Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid's Tale – Margaret Atwood
49. Lord of the Flies – William Golding
50. Atonement – Ian McEwan
51. Life of Pi – Yann Martel
52. Dune – Frank Herbert
53. Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
54. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
55. A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
56. The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
58. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
62. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
63. The Secret History – Donna Tartt
64. The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
65. Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
66. On The Road – Jack Kerouac
67. Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones' Diary – Helen Fielding
69. Midnight's Children – Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick – Herman Melville
71. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
72. Dracula – Bram Stoker
73. The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses – James Joyce
76. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
77. Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
78. Germinal – Emile
79. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
80. Possession – AS Byatt
81. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
82. Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
83. The Color Purple – Alice Walker
84. The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
85. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
86. A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
87. Charlotte's Web – E.B. White
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
91. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
92. The Little Prince (Le Petit Prince) – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93. The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
94. Watership Down – Richard Adams
95. A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
96. A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
98. Hamlet – William Shakespeare
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables – Victor Hugo.

Total: 22

6 books my foot!

:D

I found this site...

Now, I adore Obama. The fact that he is in the White House changing America already is amazing but you've got to have a laugh and this speech generator has fun with the random words you type in. ;)

I thought the one it churned out for me was quite funny actually. :D



"My fellow Americans, today is a Fantastic day. You have shown the world that "hope" is not just another word for "amble", and that "change" is not only something we can believe in again, but something we can actually Writing.

Today we celebrate, but let there be no mistake – America faces Quick and Tall challenges like never before. Our economy is Angular. Americans can barely afford their mortgages, let alone have enough money left over for Twins. Our healthcare system is Wonderous. If your Hand is sick and you don't have insurance, you might as well call a Farmer. And America's image overseas is tarnished like a Umbrella Post-It. But Flying together we can right this ship, and set a course for Britain.

Finally, I must thank my Turquoise family, my Jumped campaign volunteers, but most of all, I want to thank Stephen Fry for making this historic occasion possible. Of course, I must also thank you, President Bush, for years of Ringing the American people. Without your Soft efforts, none of this would have been possible."



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You Scored as Heart of Gold (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) You are a light and humorous person. No one can help but to smile to your wit. Now if only the improbability drive would stop turning you into weird stuff. Heart of Gold (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) 81% Serenity (Firefly) 75% Babylon 5 (Babylon 5) 69% Moya (Farscape) 69% Galactica (Battlestar: Galactica) 63% Millennium Falcon (Star Wars) 56% Enterprise D (Star Trek) 56% SG-1 (Stargate) 50% Deep Space Nine (Star Trek) 50% FBI's X-Files Division (The X-Files) 38% Bebop (Cowboy Bebop) 31% Nebuchadnezzar (The Matrix) 31% Andromeda Ascendant (Andromeda) 25%

Yay! The top two are the crews I would LOVE to be on! :D

Rules: List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they're not any good, but they must be songs you're really enjoying now, shaping your spring. Post these instructions in your LJ along with your seven songs. Then tag seven other people to see what they're listening to.

Coldplay - Violet Hill

 

Patrick Wolf - Careless Talk


Beyond the Sea - Bobby Darin


Together in Electric Dreams - The Feeling


Wilkommen - Joel Grey


Dream a Little Dream - Mama Cass

Sexy Thing - Stereophonics
 

 

Journal,

Had dinner with Andrew last night. Very sumptuous, the meal...and maybe, just maybe, him. The night had to end abruptly (as usual) though when I got a call from one of the Night Shift at half 10.
Bloody Dijinns!
There aren't many of the spectral beings in the capital at any one time so when one of them went on a rampage the rather useless Twin Guard reported back to base and, because of the recent staff upheavals, the just qualified Night Shift commander came running straight to me! I'm going to have a word with the Seat first thing tomorrow I swear to God!
So. I was outside the old War Office, checking my gun and strapping on the short sword I'd got from the armoury. One of those new blacked out Land Rovers pulled up infront of me and the door opened. Got inside, two night shifters were there looking ever so nervous, though they tried to hide it beneath the "look at me I'm a secret service agent" stare. Newbies.
I had absolutely no idea where we were going to end up. The tracker in front had the standard equipment belt and handheld moniter with a little green blip beeping every two seconds. Then we were there, the mock Greek Temple look mixed with the automatic sense and aura of money. The Bank of England.
Shit, I said. What the hell does a dijinn want with money!
The night shifters swarmed up the stairs and knocked the guards on the door out with their tranq pistols. They could have just showed their ID and let them be but all the new recruits are hot heads. Once inside we headed to the lifts and down to the vaults. It was very clear what the dijinn was doing.
The door of the main vault was wide open and the cages nearest us were bare of their usual gold bullion. Down the corridor a swarm of activity brewed up as a luckless guard tried to stop the ever growing dijinn with bullets. When we reached him he was out cold. Dijinns never seem to be able to kill humans.
Finally reaching the spirit I could see it had enoyed the 80's. It had taken the form of a New Romantic. Surreal...and that's coming from me.
It had melted the gold as it went and decreased it's mass, placing great globules of molten metal into it's essence. Turning on us, it bared fangs and leapt at the nearest night shifter knocking him out immediately. The other barely got off one shot before he two was on the floor.
You know your breaking almost every article of the Yessen Conference, I said.
Oyp! Names Oyp! Must break law!
Oyp. Very well. Why do you need the gold? 
Pent needs gold for my freedom. Pent needs now! Pent needs Hook too!
The thing launched at me but I already had a capsule in my hands. Sucked inside the technomagic device, I placed the entrapped dijinn in an evidence bag and called the 'clean up' squad. It was then that I realised how close the spirit was to the concealed grate. The entrance that led down to the Imperial Vaults, the old storage house for the Empire. No one has been down there since India achieved its independence.
Got home at midnight after taking a few record books from the office library. 
What is the Hook?
Who is this Pent?


Julius

Shall we start again?

My previous post was very rough around the edges and extremely lacking in content apart from a shameless advert for my friend. I hope to rectify that first impression with this post, the fact that I don't actually know what I'm going to talk about is, hopefully, not going to be a problem I can't handle...

Let's get on with the show.

I have a fictional character which this account is named after: Julius Harker. 
I've been struggling to think of a subject I can use when posting on here fairly regularly and I have finally stumbled upon an idea. 
I am going to post his journal on here.

Of course this is going to sound very egotistical. I mean, no one has even heard of this character or, until later, the organisations, events and other characters surrounding his life. 
I merely hope to entertain, intrigue and surprise while finally putting this journal to good use.

Starting from tomorrow this 'project' will begin and I just hope that it works to some extent, and by work I mean develop my creative writing skills and the characters voice for future works.

Of course, I shall still post here with ordinary stuff and so the entries based around Julius Harker will be titled with a date.

 

Cheerio 

Hello!
Hallo!
Здравствулте!
Bonjour!
Etc!

So.

Here I am...

...and without much to actually write about.

I'm going to add all my interests to my profile (which I should have done already really) very soon so I can't really talk about them.

Thinking about it, all I can say is please wait until my next post when I will be properly organised and will be putting up something interesting instead of this literary piffle. ;)

Well. I can put this post to some use. My friend has recently started a graphics journal and maybe you can find your way to adding it because I can assure you that delights for your eyes will soon begin to pour into it. :)

w_anderlust 
 

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