The Fangirly Diary of a Geek Girl: Dead & loving it
This past week we had lots of TV series news, including trailers, first looks, a spin-off, and a cool feature for a 100th episode landmark!
This past week we had lots of TV series news, including trailers, first looks, a spin-off, and a cool feature for a 100th episode landmark!
This week the Oscar happened! And Leo didn’t win! Also, Captain America: The Winter Soldier keeps getting closer and we are getting more articles. Here’s how the week started.
Since I haven’t done personal lists like many YAM regulars, I’ll just go and do a general list of 100 things I love.
Here lies history. Buried by the YAM Magazine team for the 2012 End of the World.
BBC2’s Shakespeare event The Hollow Crown premieres with Richard II, and there’s been loads of info about it. Also, old franchises are back and Hiddles is a tennis nerd.
This week has been curiously fandom packed, as in I’ve found myself lurking around some blogs about the nature of fandom and why it’s fun to enjoy media that isn’t exactly high art.
I find myself misquoting a British writer, this time it’s Dylan Thomas. And the reason concerns one of the nicest men in showbiz and something not so nice that happened to him. But I digress. Let me tell you how my week began.
Blogging about two songs that I hate.
I was really excited about this movie and it lived up to my expectations and then some. I read the books a few years back and while I am a fan of Alan Moore, and it is certainly a thoughtful and complex work, the original graphic novel left me a little cold. I respect it and enjoyed it, but it was more of a detached fascination then any real affection for the characters.
This new issue has reviews on the Tokyo! Michel Gondry-related project, as well as Maria Larsson’s Everlasting Moments, Watchmen, and a lot of music… including an article on why international artists need to record music in English~