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“The story of a low-rent super-villain, the hero who keeps beating him up, and the cute girl from the laundromat he’s too shy to talk to.”
It’s full of Whedon-ey goodness!
On You-Tube
There is of course a master plan
I missed the lunar eclipse on Wednesday night. After experiencing several days of clear blue skies, the weather took a turn for the worse. Rain, strong winds and heavy cloud cover ended any chance of seeing it.
However tonight I did have a lunar encounter another variety. I watched the documentary In the Shadow of the Moon, an account of the Apollo moon missions in which the surviving crew members tell their story in their own words.
Watching them talk about their experiences, what it meant to them, so much more than beating the Soviets to the landing, the sheer human bravery of it all, I found myself thinking of this poem, written by a World War II fighter pilot who lost his life in a mid-air collision during the war. It has become a favourite amongst both pilots and astronauts:
High Flight
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of – wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there,
I’ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air.
Up, up the long, delirious burning blue
I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never Lark, or even Eagle flew –
And while with silent lifting mind I’ve trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand and touched the face of God.John Gillespie Magee
Tonight the clouds cleared just enough to allow me to see the moon, barely past full and I thought of those 12 men, still the only humans to set foot on another celestial body.
I’m quite pleased with how my daily creativity challenge is going. I have managed to do something every day and have enjoyed the experience.
Above: detail from journal page
I’ve carried on doodling the wolves. I’m not sure where I’m going with them yet but they have certainly seized hold of my imagination. They may return to menace you yet!
Friday I took the time to make what turned out to be both a hearty and delicious vegetable soup. Saturday I was hit with one of my debilitating headaches so the day was very nearly a washout but by nighttime I was feeling more myself and spent time writing in my journal and brainstorming ideas for some illustrations I’d like to do.
Music: ‘The Journey to the Grey Havens’, Howard Shore, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Complete Recordings
Sorry for the disappearing act, gentle readers, but I’ve been ill all week, struggling with a very nasty throat infection that has left me out of sorts and very tired.
I have kept up with the drawing, though with difficulty. I’ve found it very hard to concentrate on anything and have lost count of drawings started only to be quickly abandoned. I’m going to cheat a little and back date this week’s drawings when I get around to uploading them.
The weather was lovely here all week, mild and hazy with the rain only coming on at the weekend.
Music: ‘Breathe me’, Sia
Today’s quote of the day on the IMDb was from one of my favourite ever movies:
“You could be happy here, I could take care of you. I wouldn’t let anybody hurt you.”
E.T. The Extra Terrestrial
Listening to: ‘I Offered it up to the Stars and the Nightime’, Dirty Three
My Lemony Snicket box set was sitting waiting for me at work when I arrived yesterday morning. Impressively fast delivery! Not that I’ll be reading them just yet, not with the last Harry Potter only days away!
And while we’re on the subject of Lemony Snicket…
This is an image from the brilliant end credits directed by Jamie Caliri for the 2004 film A Series of Unfortunate Events
Oh! X-Files! How I’ve missed you!
New X-Files movie ‘coming soon’
RUMOR CONTROL! What’s Doing With X-FILES 2??
And in other sci-fi related news, new Battlestar Galactica webisodes!
And! And! Heroes season 2 premiere date announced!
Am I a happy sci-fi bunny? Bet your alien implant I am!
Listening to: ‘Mysterons’, Portishead
“You know what the first rule of flyin’ is? Love. You can know all the math in the ‘Verse, but you take a boat in the air that you don’t love, she’ll shake you off just as sure as the turn of the worlds. Love keeps her in the air when she oughtta fall down. Tells ya she’s hurtin’ before she keels...makes her a home.” Mal, Serenity
Serenity/Firefly breaks atmo!
Apparently one of NASA’s astronauts is a Browncoat and has taken Serenity/Firefly DVDs to the International Space Station. According to a Browncoat insider at NASA, Mission Specialist Steven R. Swanson (aka Swanny) got the crew hooked on the show while they were in quarantine prior to launch.
Listening to: ‘Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space’, Spiritualized
Today’s quote of the day on the iMdb was from one of my favourite TV shows of recent years, Veronica Mars:
“Tragedy blows through your life like a tornado, uprooting everything. Creating chaos. You wait for the dust to settle and then you choose. You can live in the wreckage and pretend it’s still the mansion you remember. Or you can crawl from the rubble and slowly rebuild.” Veronica
Listening to: ‘Lily Dreams On’, Cotton Mather
"Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling." G.K. Chesterson
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