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I already am an environmental Knytter (= maker of Knytt Stories environmental levels).

I am also planning to ask a fellow Greenpeace activist to teach me how to knit. Got the wool, got the needles, just need to find an opportunity when we both have some time. So, if that works out, I will soon also be an environmentalist knitter.

(No kidding: I just noticed this.)

I ordered Joy Division's "Unknown Pleasures" recently, vaguely inspired by fic research (which included rewatching "24 Hour Party People" to get a better sense of late 70s/early 80s pop culture in Manchester, which reminded me that I really love this song). "Unknown Pleasures" is from 1979. I only have one other album from that year (I think) - namely, Midnight Oil's "Head Injuries". Midnight Oil just had three reuninion concerts, today and Friday/Thursday, I think, so I've been watching youtube clips for a bit, which I also did for Joy Division before I decided to buy "Unknown Pleasures", and this made me realise that my two 1979 albums also both happen to be by bands whose lead singers have/had patently bizarre "stage moves"... They both look a bit like out-of-control robots when they really get going.

I don't think it's a 1979 thing, though. But it's a weird coincidence.

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This post is not meant as an endorsement of Australia's - apparently - sadly ineffectual Environment Minister.

"So by your account Harold Potter was a perfectly ordinary Englishman without any tendency towards being a Scotsman whatsoever?"

(Monty Python's Flying Circus, episode 7)

1.) Happy coincidence:

I'm about to receive a number of French comics from two different sources in the next couple of weeks. Wheeeeeeeee! Also, nager let me know yesterday that he found the first part of Mohiro Kitoh's Wings of Vendemiaire on ebay this week, a collector's item he wanted to give me for a present a while ago but couldn't find then, and it should be arriving here soon, as well. We're both Mohiro Kitoh fans, and I totally didn't expect this, so it's the best kind of present: unexpected, and with a special meaning both for the giver, and the person receiving the gift. (((nager)))

2.) Weird coincidence:

Tonight I dreamed I was looking at a flat in Britain, possibly to rent it or something, and there was this tiny little room attached to it that would have been *just* big enough for a very small jeweller's workshop. I immediately latched onto the idea of making it my workshop, but the woman letting the flat told me I couldn't do that, or she already had let the flat (or perhaps just the room?) to someone else... This was my first jewellery-making-related dream in *ages*, and a very apt representation of the conflict between jewellery making and Real Life concerns that currently forestalls most of my jewellery making activity. Then, in the early afternoon, I got a call from... my very first jewellery making teacher! *Weird*. I hadn't talked to him since before Christmas, and before that had lost contact with him for about two or three years, so it's not like this kind of thing happens often. I was in a hurry, and he was being mysterious, but I suspect it was about the opening of his new shop/gallery/thingy - he said he wanted to send me something, and I think that 'something' is probably an invitation, especially since he also hinted that we would probably be meeting soon. He also asked about the state of my, *cough*, career, and there was a lot of hinting and mock-blaming (it's all *his* fault, him having turned me onto jewellery making in the first place! *g*)... and psychoanalyzing, too. Interesting. We'll see where that goes.

3.) I've started actually putting my video together in Premiere now. I've got the first six or seven clips in place, but it's still very scary to work with Premiere. At least once per evening I'm running into some severe technical problem or other, and then usually resolve to call it a night, and try again the next evening. I can't even begin to list the - even most basic - things I still haven't figured out how to do. And I even lack the *vocabulary* to ask the necessary questions, I think. So, trial and error is about the only way I have to solve my problems...

This may take a while, folks.

I just saw FS 4.01, and it was good. Not great, definitely not great, but hey, FS season openers have never been the best eps in a season, somehow it always takes the show a few eps to shift into the right gear. Was it confusing? Frell, yes. Was it stupid in parts? Yes, I'm afraid it was. Does it bode ill for the rest of the season? No, I don't think so. And I must say John's 'new' look at the beginning of the ep is, uhm, mildly disturbing. He looks like something straight from a hippie commune. Where the frell did he get that frock??? And the hair and beard... well, at least they're more or less clean. ;-) Anyway, it was good to see them all again, and tipsy 'hippie' John, dancing and writing on walls, was fun, in a way. I'm feeling very sorry for Chiana, though. Frell, and Rygel should take a page from John's book and *shave*!!!
I also like that John knows Klingon. *g*

Speaking of Klingon -- anyone out there interested in getting into Deep Space Nine? 'Cause it's going to be rerun on Sat1 this autumn. :-)

Welllll, what else is there to tell? I spent the weekend with my good friend Anne, trying to refrain from spoiling her with details about 4.01 ;-) (thanks for your patience!!!), sleeping little and at the wrong times ;-) and watching movies, talking, and eating yummy chinese food a lot. Oh, and we copied CDs, too, of course. The two most essential things to our weekends are:

1.) an inflatable mattress
2.) a CD writer

BTW, Anne, if you're reading this (you probably aren't, since you're keeping away from spoilers), could you tell me again where I might get that mattress? Was it Plus or Lidl? I can't remember...

Freaky coincidence of the week:

Have you ever heard of a musical instrument called 'theremin'? Neither had I, until yesterday, when I perused the booklet of a CD we copied. Then, a few hours later, I caught another mention of that strange instrument in 'Hannibal', which I'm still reading for uni. Strange! Have I overlooked all previous mentions of that instrument in my life, or have these really been the only two times I've seen the word anywhere?