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Saturday, July 19, 2003
Fun!  I've grown to really enjoy Mr. Dursley. He's quite amusing, and Jim Dale does an excellent job on him, in the audio version. Dale actually generally does a fine job on the male characters - especially the adults. I think my initial problem with him was, I'd heard Emma Watson's characterization of Hermione Granger, before his. I'm listening to Harry Potter and The Order Of The Phoenix now.... I don't really see how these books can be termed simply "children's books." Goblet Of Fire was fun! Friday, July 18, 2003
91! What a summer! Seems like every day is in the 80's, with the occasional dip into the 90's, like today. Summer is *never* like this here! It usually rains for a couple weeks solid, in July! I swear! Not this year though.... Sun after sun. Glorious air conditioning making it quite enjoyable too. Motto This could almost serve as my motto, this year (and I shall): "Endure, and save yourself for happier times." (Virgil) Thursday, July 17, 2003
Wednesday, July 16, 2003
Web-Mistress  Lately, I've been stumbling upon several personal web sites which are beautiful and creative. I think I need my own personal web-mistress....... I really wouldn't mind having a hand in creating an actual web site at some point, with links, various menu items and such... Everything I read something recently, and I cannot recall or attribute the source.... It was something like: "To be loved is one thing. To love is another thing. To be loved by the one you love is everything." I was just thinking........ I think I will know a girl, at some point, who is just as sweet as she seems to be. A girl who can really stand the test of time. Everything. Cho In HP Wow, I never imagined Vivian Hsu might play Cho Chang in a future Harry Potter movie. That's the rumour anyway..... I think she's probably too beautiful, and too old for the part, as she's 28. Although, she doesn't look it. Actually, I think it would be cool if she got the part. Tuesday, July 15, 2003
What A Witch! Ha hahahaha! A Potter fan wrote, "What a witch!" about that As Byatt person, who wrote an article trying to put down the whole Potter mania. She failed miserably. I love this, though! Couldn't one say about Hermione, "What a witch!", with a completely different meaning? Monday, July 14, 2003
Too Tired To Read No, I am not reading any Potter tonight. "Too tired to read." I told myself. Of course I am apparently *not* too tired to sit here surfing the same themes I've been into recently, endlessly! The net can be so addictive! Especially when you first get into something new. Even more especially, when there is a truckload of stuff out there about the new thing you're into! I think I like Harry Potter fans. Kind of like Beach Boys fans, only younger, generally. Hmm, well, the main likeness there, is, it's one fandom which is fairly evenly divided male/female (although the girls do seem to have the upper hand.) It's an interesting scene... Someone else posted this, someone I don't know, and I haven't asked if I can post it too, but I like it a lot, so I am going to, anyway: "We enjoy warmth because we have been cold. We appreciate light because we have been in darkness. By the same token, we can experience joy because we have known sadness." --David Weatherford Sunday, July 13, 2003
Emma Watson I love this: "Emma Watson may seem confident in her part as Hermione, but in real life she is also a bit shy. I learned that she was embarrassed to hug Daniel at the end of the film in front of so many cast and crew. Columbus edited the hug to make it seem longer than it actually was." What a cutie. Shy is good. Reading The First Last night I started reading the US hardback version of the first Harry Potter book. Wow, for the "shortest" of the series, it sure has *a lot* more detail than the movie! I started with Potter, on a lark, just because that first movie was on an HBO preview earlier this year. I really liked it... Then, I saw the second, a bit of a disappointment, but still of interest... So eventually, I got the third book on tape - quite good. I've been reading a lot more about Potter's world lately, and thinking, "hmm, maybe I should explore the first two books. The first movie did seem short on detail." Wow, there's just so much more in the book... At the small but well-stocked library I picked up HP & the Sorcerers Stone (hate the name change), Goblet of Fire, and that little booklet guide to fantastical creatures, the librarian clearly thought I was checking out these books for a ten year old boy! Ha haa... She breathlessly described having had the very newest Potter on the shelve, for nearly a week, until someone checked it out earlier that day. As if I cared! It's going to take me a while to explore the others fully first anyway. I can wait. .... Ha haha! I just read that the sight of adults reading Harry Potter is "disturbing." As if we'd care.... Hmmm, I've noticed the HP series is very popular with girls (of all ages.) Cool.... As I always say, it's great to experience things when *you* want to! I have this wonderful experience of being *way* behind on Harry Potter books! I've only read Prisoner so far, having just begun Stone now... I know someone with a barely used set of the first four books. I bet she might loan them to me... Then, I could take my time.... I was just reading on The Leaky Cauldron about fans suffering withdrawal now that they've experienced Phoenix.... Lucky me! I'm not there yet! Don't you think they should make incredibly long "unabridged" movie versions of every book?? Well, it's too late for the first two..... Maybe for all the rest though! Maybe, there's a bunch of secret footage, they're just holding onto, for a future "unabridged" version, to get everyone to buy the DVDs all over again? Or maybe, it will turn up on a "long lost footage" bootleg series 20 years from now? .... At this minute, I'm feeling quite lazy about reading a book. Sure wish the other little library where my first book audio version is waiting for me, was open right now.... They're *closed* Sunday!!! Watching HP and the Philosopher's Stone again this afternoon... Wow, it seems like a thumbnail sketch of the book by the same name. I really like some of the characterizations in this movie. Harry, Emma, Hagrid, even Ron. Snape is pretty cool, and the late Dumbledor. Hope the new Dumbledor can fill his shoes...OH, oh, I'm developing a strange attachment to the Dursley's too - especially the male Dursleys! They're quite amusing. Especially the father. By E-Mail I was just reading some old correspondence with a woman I knew... Looking for something which I cannot find in it. However, within her notes to me were things I'd written in e-mail. Does anyone else find their own e-mails written a while back, charming? :-) (Speaking of email, my email address has changed - just substitute @comcast.net for @attbi.com ... They're supposedly forwarding from the old address for a long time to come though.. Suppose I should change the link to the left... hmmm) Love Serenade is a pretty good Austrailian movie produced by Jan Chapman. I like the ending. :-) |
