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I. F+TM was great! She was wearing the greatest dress thing with giant sleeves, I kind of want it. Her voice was really strong, she played songs from both albums and she was really cute onstage, actually :) So yeah, that was a good night. Afterwards we went to this small cafe in Brussels in a tiny alley which was strangely nice. :)

II. So Game of Thrones came back! :D I only watched the first episode because I don't want to not have an episode next week. I refer to characterizations in the books but any actual spoilers are under the handy new spoiler cut. (lj actually made a good improvement?)

( Power is power )

III. I feel like I have to add this to combine points I and II:

I. Guess who's going to Florence & The Machine tonight? :DD

The rush to get tickets months ago was crazy, I tried getting two to go with a friend, but after an hour of hitting refresh they were sold out :( But then it turned out that my mum's boyfriend had gotten in and ordered four, and had one to spare so I'm going with him and two of his friends :P I don't even care, it'll be fun.

II.I was gonna make a post about Being Human ending and Mad Men beginning but I don't have time. So very very short reactions under the cuts

( Being Human )

( Mad Men )

If you want me to blabber more about these shows, tell me, but I doubt anyone is sitting on the edge of their seat waiting to hear my opinions on tv shows :D

Off now, see you all later!

I. I started taking driving lessons. I only have 6 hours with an instructor and the rest with my mum, and I am not really enjoying it, to say the least. I know everyone struggles with this but I just get so frustrated when I can't do something despite practising like crazy. I went to drive today and almost ran over two pedestrians. :S

II. This weekend I'm going on another film weekend, same concept as that week I did this summer. The theme is romantic comedy so it should be fun. I'm a bit worried though, because the end of the semester is fast approaching and I haven't really done/finished anything yet. I've only been watching films for my thesis, which means I haven't written anything yet, I only have a vague idea for my film&narrative paper (I'm thinking of writing something on Tarantino). There is another class where we are allowed but not obliged to make our own short film and I didn't think I'd do it, but like yesterday I agreed to maybe do it after all with a few other people. But it's very last-minute and I am starting to freak out.

And add to that the fact that I still don't have a clue what I want to do next year. I really want to go abroad for a semester or a year but I don't know doing what. If I stay here I want to get a job or study something else but only if it really interests me. I'm not doing something economic or whatever just because it would make it easier to get a job because I would just hate every second of it.

III Because I tend to only post about tv shows, some other things I have been enjoying lately:

Music: Stars! I've been listening to them for a long time but I am having a total revival lately. Some favourites are: Barricade, Personal, Your Ex-Lover is Dead, One More Night

Books: Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel. Pretty well-known, but if you haven't read it yet and are into historical fiction: buy it. Now. It's tudor-era, about Thomas Cromwell and spans the period of Henry's struggle to marry Anne Boleyn. It's marvellously written; she can make you laugh or cry in a single paragraph. The ladies are also excellent; I admit I am a bit biased about this period because I love it so, and Anne Boleyn is one of my very favourite historical figures, but how Mantel writes her is amazing. But the best character is probably Mary Boleyn who only shows up now and then but is wonderful.

Movies: I watched Clue the other day and it is hilarious! People kept telling me it was terrible but I still wanted to watch it because of the concept and also Tim Curry. And I love it, idec how ridiculous it is!
I went to see Tintin because those comic books are my whole childhood (I think I read them like over a 100 times). I gotta say I was severely underwhelmed though. Action-adventure movies aren't really my thing anyway and this was just all chases and epicness and the characters were just there to move the plot forward. Which isn't that different from the comics but there it works better?

Is there anything I should be watching in the cinema these days? I hardly ever go anymore. Hell, I hardly watch movies made after 1960 (other than...Asian longtake cinema? :p)
And if you have any music or book recs, feel free to share!

I. It's the time of year of Season finales! The Chuck one was great, I thought. I am happy they got renewed, but I'm also happy it'll be the last season. It's getting slightly repetitive. But I still like it a lot and I still like Chuck/Sarah though I seem to be a minority. Chuck is one of those shows where I just see a lot of people having Opinions and Ships and Im sitting here in my corner of 'as long as they have wacky adventures I'm happy'. It's refreshing. See also: Community. I loved the Western episode, the Star Wars slightly less but that's probably because I'm not a Star Wars fan.

How I Met Your Mother is not a show I really love anymore, and I stop watching it regularly but there is always an afternoon I'm bored and catch up. And this season finale annoyed me by not giving us the mother again, but also managed to stir my buried Barney/Robin feelings. So I just know I'll be watching next season just to find out who the girl is. (I'm being vague because I don't want to spoiler cut for one sentence of himym because who even cares). But at least my thesis is finished and I'm confident it'll be good enough.

This week's Glee wasn't that great. ( I guess I need a cut after all. Spoilers for 'Funeral' )

II.Exams are coming up and we get no time off to study for them. I'm not feeling very confident about it all, because I have 7 of them, and not a very good schedule (I am especially dreading English Grammar because it is the third time I'm doing the exam and I don't know it any better than last time :/)

III.Music! Some things I have been liking recently: I bought 21 by Adele and while I was listening to it on my way home on my bike, I had a great moment when Hiding My Heart came on. It was the first time I heard this song and it almost made me cry. Which is awkward when in public (there were just a few people fishing in the river around though so it was okay :P). The whole album is great, actually.
I have also (belatedly) fallen in love with Florence & The Machine, mainly because of The Hardest of Hearts, which is amazing and beautiful and I will probably listen to it a few dozen times in the next few days.

IV.Name a fandom, and I will tell you a) my three favorite romantic relationships, b) my three favorite non-romantic relationships, and c) one character combination (either shippy or non-shippy) I wish got more attention in canon.

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