"curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!"

[ontology]

i. Right, so, I am leaving for Connecticut tomorrow; and yes, it's only a little less sudden to me than it is to you lot. Dad desperately needs a holiday and has managed to get time off of all of his jobs for this weekend, so we are running off to the Strawberry Park Folk Festival tomorrow and shall be back on Monday. I am rather excited at the prospect, abrupt as it is, because Richard Shindell will be there. (Also Lucy Kaplansky and Dave Mallet and...some other people.) And the weather will be chilly and a bit drizzly and the main stage is surrounded by trees and I could not ask for a better atmosphere. (See, the thing about music festivals is that they are usually terribly hot, and I am not fond of that sort of weather, nor tans, neither. Hot and shadeless, hark you. So this, really, is completely marvellous.) There will be internet access, but I doubt I'll be able to post. And oh, scarves and jumpers and cape, how I've missed you!


ii. In fact, it is beautifully autumnal today -- I am wearing my favourite orange jumper and a cranberry-coloured vest, and the wind is sharp and biting and crisp and evenings are beginning to be a bit witchy, with the wind whistling through the cracks in the windows and leaves fluttering hither and thither. The trees are still mostly green, but I can sense it -- any day now we shall wake up and find that the tree in front of my window has gone gold.


iii. Thanks to the machinations of the thoroughly magnificent lady_moriel , I have just seen my first episode of Firefly. This sounds horribly stoic and businesslike, so picture, if you will, me jumping over piles of clothing and papers and musical instruments in my bedroom, waving my arms like a crazed propeller. Because VERILY IT IS MADE OF AWESOME ADSKLHGLKHG *flail*. The characters! The music! The production values! The plot! The scifi-western-Chinese aesthetic! (Which is so perfectly right that it deserves a meta-y post of its own eventually.) The costumes! The witty repartee dialogue! The awesome! Have I mentioned the characters? Only I think I am madly in love with each and every one already.

And of course I would begin watching this right before I go off on holiday and can't see another episode for five days.

Which I ought to be preparing for straightaway. Oh, and still no word on Oliver!. Good grief, it's been a week. And, er, I am wretchedly behind on the f-list and on emails, so -- really, I'm sorry. I'm a bit harried at the moment, and I am trying to get to you all as best I can. ♥

Comments

[builtofsorrow.livejournal.com]

Oh, have a marvellous time, darling! -waves- Now I've got to run off and listen to the one Richard Shindell song I have in honour of this, and also in honour of your lovely day (we haven't had any really autumnal days yet, although I hear they arrive in October, and the prospect is thrilling... a pox upon SoCal's seasonlessness!).

OH FIREFLY. -envies- I have been wanting to watch that for a very long time. Perhaps that's what I shall attempt after I finish the final two eps of Torchwood, since Life on Mars decided to hate me, or something. But yes. I've been watching Torchwood with Noelle over g-talk and half of what I say is keyboard smashing because LO: IT IS MADE OF WIN (although I am not entirely sure how you would feel about it).

Anyway. I will be sending threatening vibes in the general direction of the Oliver! directors. (But not too threatening; I wouldn't want them to think ill of you.)

♥♥

[allie-meril.livejournal.com]

YOU HAVE NOT SEEN FIREFLY BEFORE THIS BANUI WHY WAS I UNAWARE OF THIS ATROCITY?!

[last-archangel.livejournal.com]

Oh love, you can see the show. Go to tv-links.co.uk, and there are usually live links to watching full episodes and such.

A word of advice: don't watch Serenity before you have seen all the episodes. I saw the film first, and although I love the show, it was a little sad from the beginning, knowing that I knew how it ended.

Welcome to the Browncoat ranks, Ensign Banui!

[travellers-home.livejournal.com]

A warning: if you love Firefly, beware the movie they made afterward, Serenity. I do not like it. Especially the end... I could kill whoever thought killing people off was a good way to end it. I won't give any specific spoilers, because that would be nasty; and I won't tell you not to watch it, because that's your decision to make; but I refuse to recommend it.

But Firefly, yes. It is Made Of Awesome. :D

Enjoy the music festival... I really must get to one someday, only I think we haven't any at all within a reasonable driving distance. Pooey.

[wanderlight.livejournal.com]

FIREFLY FIREFLY FIREFLY. I expect to be kept updated on it. Obviously you see the MADE OF WIN AND AWESOME, and then some, and ... yes. It is very hard for me to be coherent about this series, but anyway. Yes.

April is the cruellest month; autumn is the most beautiful season. April has nothing to do with anything, no, but I wanted to quote Eliot, so shush.

Enjoy Richard Shindell! :)

[safebox.livejournal.com]

FIREFLY!!! As a new convert myself, I am very full of squee. Kaylee - most adorable thing ever, y/y? :D

[bonny-kathryn.livejournal.com]

Firefly is the best. show. ever. (Well, as long as we also mention the awesomeness that is Buffy. Because Buffy has the best Joss Whedon episodes. But, Firefly is the best all round *show*). Firefly is shiny, and wonderful, and Serenity is one of the great sci-fi movies of all time. Mmmm. Yes.

[un-titled-love.livejournal.com]

Have a fabulous time, dear! I'm incredibly excited for you and desperately envious of your weather. Firefly is high on my list of Things That I Need To Watch - Nelle said she'd wait and watch it with me once I'm done with DW and Torchwood. Yay!

Still sending good thoughts and wishes your way for Oliver. ♥

[greyeyedpixie.livejournal.com]

Sounds like you're enjoying some wonderful weather. I love Autumn~

Have a great time at the Festival!

[ressie-noldo.livejournal.com]

Drat it all, I am now the LAST person who has not seen Firefly. UTTERLY THE LAST. ARSE.

Also am most disappointed that you are Off, because on Monday I will be moving into college and then giving my computer to Repair Blokes and so probably really absent, woe & despair. :( I miss having 876-line conversations! actually we have had ones longer than that.

[midenianscholar.livejournal.com]

THE DOCTOR IS ON SCI FY CHANNEL!

My life is complete.

I just saw a BRAND NEW episode.

Every Friday night!

*waves it over you and taunts*