The Squeee

Any suggestions for movies that'd go well with the season? Perhaps an X-Files or Poltergeist: The Legacy marathon? Maybe it's time to watch Possession (Sam Neill and Isabelle Adjani, not the one with Jeremy Northam, Jennifer Ehle, Toby Stephens and all - two very different movies indeed). Weeeell, we shall see if there is time to watch a film over the weekend. Got other plans. Oh crud, I just remembered - we went to both Tesco and Asda earlier and we didn't pick up any pumpkins! :/ (Watching the Jonathan Ross Show on BBC1... Mamma Mia! was a truly awful movie. I rarely seriously dislike a film, but good grief, that's one of them. *shudders* An Education looks really interesting though, and I love Carey Mulligan!)

Still no sign of a trailer, but hey, if we are to believe the BBC press release, series 8 of Spooks is heading to our screens next Wednesday, November 4! :D I like the fact it'll be on Wednesdays. There's bugger all else on that day! EDIT 29/10: And here it is, finally! :D Was going to embed it, but it didn't work with the layout (*groan*) so here's the link instead: Spooks Series 8 Trailer 1

While I was cat-sitting the other day (her owned ones are on their honeymoon) and waiting for li'l miss puddytat to come back in, I decided to read some "Jane Eyre" aloud to myself. It was the chapter when she first meets Rochester at Thornfield, i.e. the "yes, you do play a little " bit. And from there, I think it's fair to say that the project of recording Jane Eyre as an audio book has been shelved. I got some great and very detailed feedback from a friend through Facebook, which I'll definitely use in future attempts, but I think it'll have to be something a bit easier than JE. The book is incredibly long, uses a lot of words which are difficult even for native English speakers (and I'm not one of those, as it happens) not just to understand, but for me, they're difficult to pronounce. That's okay, though, but the drawn-out prose does bore me... and, which is a very big contributing factor, I'd have to be speaking French .

These days, I'm a little bit cautious when it comes to new TV shows, just because I know I have a tendency to go a little overboard with them if I happen to like them. I was trying to not get sucked in by Stargate: Atlantis , but it was a good show, with some very attractive casting. There have been a number of new shows out that I've sampled, and the only one I'm currently setting reminders for to watch is Warehouse 13 . Last year, or if it was earlier this year, Fringe started showing on Sky1. Fringe was hailed as a new X-Files , and being about an FBI agent looking into the paranormal... well, you have my attention! The problem with Fringe is that it's sort of trying to be X-Files without actually being X-Files , so it's a bit disappointing. Not a bad show, it's just that... it's not Mulder and Scully. Series 2 starts off with Luke Goss as a guest star, however... so I'll give it another chance. (Oh yeah, there'll be a post aaaaall about that ...

By googling Spooks 8 in trying to find when it's going to be shown, I came across a Spooks forum which linked to an article in today's Daily Mail, entitled Me, a sex god? Spooks star Richard Armitage on his army of female fans ... When done swooning and squeeing, my reactions are thus: 1. He's no longer living with that previously mentioned lady, so a part of me is sad for his sake, while the other one wants to jump on a train to London. *cough* 2. It also says he can lay laminate flooring. We might want laminate in the new house we're moving to, Richard... fancy popping 'round and givin' us a hand? ;) (OMG, he's good at DIY as well! This guy is starting to sound too good to be true!) 3. He uses words like "frugal". That to me shows that he's well-read. People who are generally have a pretty decent vocabulary. Oh, and he has a "fast mind" (squeee!!) and a "fast metabolism": Richard, we love you already, don't rub it in. ...

Picking up a curry at the local takeaway tonight, I spotted a headline on the Daily Mail on the table: Taking the pill for past 40 years 'has put women off masculine men' . If ever there was a headline to catch my eye...! It basically says that there might be a correlation between using contraceptive pills and finding more feminine-looking guys attractive. To proove a point, the article is illustrated with pics from different eras. Kirk (not Kurt) Douglas in the 50s, for instance - now, with regards to him and Donald Sutherland, I've always thought their sons were way better-looking, to be honest. It then moves on to Sean Connery and ends with Zac Efron now in the "naughties". If the Pill would make me fancy Zac Efron... I ain't taking it! (Which I'm not and have no plans to, so there you go! The hormones in my body are all my own.)

I actually went to see the Robin Hood exhibition at Nottingham Castle last year, as I was showing someone around town and we decided to pop to the castle for a visit. (Brought the camera and all, should've taken photos, but I didn't. Someone slap me, please, I deserve it.) Now, going to a pretty small exhibition for a show you aren't all that interested in... well, you walk around fairly quickly. If I had been a fan of the show back then, things would've been different. There were clothes on display - one of the outlaws had a pair of Converse on... I'm pretty sure they weren't invented back then. :P There wasn't much to it. Some weapons, some pictures, some clothes, some info on characters, some video footage. Still plenty enough to take pictures of. And yet I didn't. There was also really big pictures of the characters, and I did go slightly weak at the knees seeing Guy towering over me. My reaction was thinking "woah, he's a bit attrac...

I've been re-watching BBC's Robin Hood recently. I might decide to write something about that another day, but right now, I just feel like talking about one character in particular. No, not Robin Hood. Jonas Armstrong plays him very well, but Robin is really not a very likable character. Start of series one, he's snogging a random girl, so he must've really missed Marian, right? And the way he treats Much is dispicable. Much is a really sweet character, albeit on the terribly naive side, but he's the sort of friend that sticks with you in thick and thin. His reward? Being bullied! Seriously, it isn't right. Then we have the whole peeping tom thing Robin does ever so often, especially when Marian's with Guy. Now, what would those scenes have been like if she didn't know Robin was there, eh? Anyway, that brings me on to the whole point of this post: Guy of Gisborne.