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posted by [personal profile] nekare at 09:12pm on 26/02/2008 under , ,
Today was a bundle of little bad stuff that just amounted for a big OMG WHEN IS THE DAY ENDING. Like, my new eyeliner fell down in the gap between the shower and the sink which we like to call The Endless Pit, the place that nothing ever comes out of; I hit myself on doors/door handles/walls/the triplay wood for Watercolor class/people. I had a headache. I walked a lot for nothing. I dumped half of the bluish watercolor water on my jacket. I almost 'lost' the parking lot ticket and was about to be charged 10 dlls for it (as in, I forgot to pick it up after I payed in the machine, *headdesk*), and then came home and dumped ANOTHER large amount of water over me. One of those days, you know.

And then I looked down on my desk when I came home and saw that my mom had managed to fish my eyeliner out of The Endless Pit and it was like, A RAY OF LIGHT. FROM HEAVEN. Seriously, It was the best thing that'd happened so far in the day and I immediatly texted my mom saying something like 'OMG MUMMY I LOVES YOU SO, SOOOO MUCH'. XD

But there were also good parts of the day. A friend from flamenco class is reading Deathly Hallows (the Spanish translation came out like, a week ago and I didn't even NOTICE, lol) and we fangirled about it and it made me lol because she's in no way involved in fandom, and yet she shares the Popular Opinion that Harry/Ginny = makes no sense whatsoever. In all honesty, I sort of made it my mission to like Ginny because no one else seems to like her. But I still find her a bit blah, and I'm guilty of shipping H/G only because, yes, it means YAY BIG HAPPY WEASLEY FAMILY. Er.

I was also thinking while driving (as one does) about how much I love the turn of phrases in Travis' Why Does It Always Rain on Me and I was wondering how the new album is going and whether they'll stop touring for a while after Dougie's baby is born and then I thought: 'WAIT. I DIDN'T SEE KELLY MACDONALD AT THE OSCARS.' but then again, the baby is born in March, right? So she must be sort of HUGE by now. Still, it would've been nice to see her, girl deserves more praise that she gets. And she's still part of the winner movie of the year, yikes.

AND ALSO. And because this song just started: The girl playing Shaz in Ashes to Ashes is named Monsterrat - how do the British pronounce that? Thanks to this particular song I think of this name and I think Argentina, but I actually know a bazillion Montserrats so I know it's not as exclusive. But. I honestly can't imagine it being said by a native English speaker. o_O
Music:: Bajofondo Tango Club - Montserrat
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posted by [identity profile] elliptic-eye.livejournal.com at 03:52am on 27/02/2008
Oh, God, I love having conversations about HP or DW like that. :D It's all I can do not to spill what a tremendous geek I am by explaining the concept of fandom to them, because I just know that they could be as batshit as I am if they gave themselves a chance.

Sorry for the Day of Random Shite, though. :P Hope your luck improves tomorrow.
 
posted by [identity profile] nekare.livejournal.com at 04:31am on 27/02/2008
I know! People are all NORMAL about it and then one goes off about OMG THAT CRAZY THEORY ABOUT HARRY AND HIS SUPER GREEN EYES AND HOW YOU TOTALLY CALLED THE HORCRUX THING* and people sort of STARE. A lot. Hee. It's not usual for me to get to talk about my fandoms (I only know ONE girl in RL that KNOWS Who, and that's because her dad's a rabid fan, and my cousins think SPN is too SCARY, [to which I go: '...er, what? really?'] and the rest are all obscure. Which is sad. So if I can get a conversation about them? I SHALL NOT STOP TALKING ABOUT IT.

Yeah, I certainly hope so as well. ;___;
 
posted by [identity profile] chrryblssmninja.livejournal.com at 04:53am on 27/02/2008
'OMG MUMMY I LOVES YOU SO, SOOOO MUCH'. XD
aww

oh yeah, Kelly MacDonald was in that movie! she is win.
 
posted by [identity profile] sarie-gamgee.livejournal.com at 06:54pm on 27/02/2008
Montserrat Lombard is actually CATALAN, LOL. Or at least her father is, which makes her 50% Catalan, and I think I read she speaks the language. There's a Montserrat in Argentina? I knew there's Montserrat, the island, whose name I think comes from the mountains 50 km far from Barcelona. It's one of the most popular names for girls over here, in any case, although most of them are called Montse for short.

As for how to pronounce it in English, no idea. Must be a tricky name, like mine :P

Hope today was better, by the way.
 
posted by [identity profile] nekare.livejournal.com at 02:04am on 03/03/2008
haha, really? IT ALL COMES DOWN TO CATALAN FOLKS, LOL. Oh man, I didn't even KNOW there actually was a place called Monsterrat. I always thought it was just a name... o_O It's pretty popular in certain generations here, I have two Monstes in my flamenco class.

As someone that can get foreigners to pronounce her name correctly even when it's only a letter away from Alexandra, I feel for you. Quite a lot.
 
posted by [identity profile] swedish15.livejournal.com at 08:11am on 02/03/2008
I bought the EP of Why does it always rain on me?, and I fell in love with Driftwood's live version that's also on it.

Oh, btw, I remember you being a fan of Daniel Brühl, right? 'cause I've bought an audio book of him reading Fry's The Liar. It's German, however. Interested?
 
posted by [identity profile] nekare.livejournal.com at 02:06am on 03/03/2008
Oh, Driftwood's just so pretty. ♥ (and the video, too, delights me to a scary level.)

Oh oh, I don't know. In one hand Daniel Brühl is all kinds of lovely, and so is his voice, but... I wouldn't understand a word. Mmm. Have you ever heard him speak Spanish? I'm always shocked about his complete lack of an accent!
 
posted by [identity profile] swedish15.livejournal.com at 04:50am on 03/03/2008
Since I don't speak Spanish... I couldn't even say whether he had an accent or not.

Ah well; if you ever want it, give me a sign.

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