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I can’t wait for… Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

July 2nd, 2009

This July, once again, is Harry Potter month! Two years after the last installment and being pushed back several months, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince hits the screens. This is the movie adaptation of the sixth and second to last book in the famous J.K. Rowling series. I always try to approach the movies with a very open mind and try not to go too crazy about things they don’t include or things they just made up. This one is no exception. Besides being one of my favorite books of the saga, the previews look pretty good and there are a few things I’m excited to see in this movie
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Last.FM Top Artists

June 28th, 2009

I took down almost everything from the sidebars, except for the Last.FM album covers thingy *points below* with the intention of giving the blog a more ‘cleaner’ look, which I prefer. But I kinda miss the Last.FM list, so inspired by Alice’s ‘Weekly Top Ten’, I’m gonna be grabbing my weekly artist top-20 (because 10 is never enough XD) at Last.FM and posting it here. Feel free to comment with your opinions or ask if there’s any artist you don’t know and want some info on
(In brackets the number of songs of the artists I listened to along the week)

1. Elbow (44)
2. Los Rodríguez (18)
3. Regina Spektor (17)
4. Björk (5)
5. Goldfrapp (4)
6. Los Planetas (4)
7. Radiohead (3)
8. Sarah Slean (3)
9. CocoRosie (3)
10. Rachael Yamagata (2)
11. Charlotte Martin (2)
12. Death Cab for Cutie(2)
13. Air (2)
14. Metric (2)
15. Stars (2)
16. Eisley (1)
17. Fiona Apple (1)
18. Poe(1)
19. Charlotte Gainsbourg (1)
20. The Wallflowers (1)

Apparently, I didn’t listen to much music this week, at least not on my laptop anyway.

Oh, and on a related note, I made my music collection list. It’s still a work in progress, but that’s a big part of what I have. I plan to do the same with my DVDs too

EHOTH – June 2009

June 24th, 2009

Wow, it’s been almost two weeks since this months EHOTH day and I hadn’t posted my pics yet. Shame on me. Mind you, this might be the most boring EHOTH day ever, don’t say I didn’t warn you

09:23 – Getting ready for class

I forgot to get my camera until I was almost out the door, so here’s me grabbing my last items before heading out to class: my cellphone (Alice!), that I use to listen to music on the street, hence the headphones and my bag. I got that bag from my aunt the last time she moved apartments. She basically opened a closet full of stuff she didn’t want anymore and told me to help myself. This was one of the goodies I got at the time. I love it and it’s really handy for class.

12:35 – Back home

I didn’t take pics from the last two hours because I was in class, so nothing interesting happened. When I got home, my aunt (the same aunt of the bag ) was visiting, so she saved me from studying before lunch XD

13:20 – Twittering

Right before going to get my lunch I see Manda’s tweet about the EHOTH day and quickly reply to let her know that I’m working on it And off to lunch.

15:04 – Studying

Couldn’t delay it anymore. We were having a test on Monday, so I eventually had to sit down and study. Those notes you see there are the 1978 Spanish Constitution, which I really don’t like at all. The test was more or less ok, though (44/50).

17:32 – Dreamwith post

I use Dreamwidth for short post, to share pics, random news or songs, as in this case where I posted one of my favorite Björk songs ever, ‘Isobel’.

18:45 – Photoshop

And Photoshop time! I spent that week making codes for an then upcoming / now current fanlisting I was working on with Jessica. Bless Photoshop and .psd templates ^_^

19:40 – Out with friends

And I’m out again. And it’s one of those rare, lovely, sunny days we’re having once in a while, so I get to wear my sandals! The nail polish was new too

00:13 – Reading in bed

Of course, I forgot to take pics while I was out *facepalm*. But I basically went out, had coffee with my friends, did some gossiping, came back home, watched Lost with my mom and went to bed to read for a while. The book was ‘Sauve-moi’ by Guillaume Musso. I finished it already. It’s the third of his books that I read, and he still hasn’t disappointed me yet I don’t know if it’s the French language or just the themes, but I always find his stories to be very moving.

01:16 – Say goodnight

And as usual, one last check to the internet essentials before sleeping. Good night!

Also, for slightly bigger versions, feel free to visit my flickr

It’s gotta be this way

June 23rd, 2009

Yeah, I know I suck at blogging. I never know what to talk about and even if sometimes something crosses my mind and I think ‘yeah, I can post about this’, I always end up putting it off, then forgetting about it and when I eventually remember the moment kind of has passed and I’m back at square one.
I really admire those of my friends who not only post (very) regularly, but who have a very organized posting system and/or schedule. I’m normally a very organized person for most of the things that I do, so it’s a shame I’m not the same with my blog. I decided to take inspiration in those friends and give it a try myself. Now, I’m not gonna have a schedule, because I know I would probably end up not following it and feeling worse, but I thought I’d have some sort of ‘themed posts’. Whenever an idea hits me, it’s normally about something I like/dislike/have an opinion on/am excited about/want to recommend or know what others think about, so I came up with a rough way to classify my soon-to-come posts

Thoughts on: I’m not a good reviewer, I tend to ramble on and I’m always afraid I’m going to give too much or too little information, so my aim is to keep it short: a few short sentences about my thoughts on a certain subject (can be anything, but more likely movies, books, tv show… anything media) and who I would recommend it to (if I’d recommend it, that is ) (Based on Manda’s reviews).

Things I love: And there are a lot! I will start talking about newly discovered things, but there are also lots of things I’m passionate about and would like to share and recommend.(Based on Krissy’s ‘I heart’).

What I’m waiting for: My ‘coming soon’ section. There’s always something I’m looking forward. Always. So I’m bound to have something to share my excitement about something once in a while and check out how many of you out there are as excited as I am (Inspired in Krissy’s latest post about Tim Burton’s ‘Alice in Wonderland’)

That’s basically it. But I would appreciate and suggestions you can make I also want to clean up my other pages a little bit and I would like to make my own WP theme, something more simple (or is it simpler? x.x) and with less stuff in the sidebars, but first I have to come up with a design I like.

And you’ve got permission to poke me via comment/email/boards if I don’t update at least every week. If that’s the only way for me to learn, so be it XD

The books I need to read

June 14th, 2009

Snagged from Alice

Bold the books you have read.
Emphasise ones you want to read.
and Strike Through those you have no interest in reading.

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 – William Shakespeare¹
15. Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
19. The Time Traveler’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 – CS Lewis
34. Emma – Jane Austen
35.Persuasion – Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis²
37. The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
38. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernières
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’s 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 Plath³
77. Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
78. Germinal – Emile Zola
79. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
80. Possession – AS Byatt⁴
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 – EB 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 – 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 Misérables – Victor Hugo

Most of those I marked as ‘want to read’ have all been recommended, so I don’t necessarily even know what they’re about. I have also realised how many books I’ve read that I have not memory of (i.e. 1984 or Jude the obscure) Must re-read, I guess.

1. And what if I’ve read some of them? [↩]
2. Isn’t this part of the Chronicles of Narnia? [↩]
3. I’m actually reading it, so I’ll have to go back to this post and edit it when I’m done ^_^ [↩]
4. Started it a few years ago, bored me and never finished it [↩]

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