Jul. 20th, 2006 10:09 pm
project runway and books
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toastykittenProject Runway is back! YAY! So far I am liking the Atlanta dude, Michael Knight, and the older woman with negative breasts and five kids who is an architect, and the Barbie doll designer, Robert, and the pageant-wear designer Kayne, whose name I keep mistyping as Kanye.
Hate: Angela, from "o-HI-o", Vincent, whom I have dubbed "Woody Allen on meth", and that "punk" rock guy with no neck that I will refer to only as the Cardassian.
I don't know why they switched to summer, since they were already doing pretty well as a winter show. Maybe because there's less competition? I think it's still too early to tell at this point who's going to end up in the final three, but I think the least dramatic people will actually make it. They have a slightly older crew this year, and the maturity shows in the ones who've decided to opt out of the drama.
In the past few days, I've finished the following books:
Triton, by Samuel R. Delany - 1. This book will teach me to never ever read those blurbs on the covers. I kept expecting stuff to happen that didn't. 2. I don't know if all Delany's books are like this, but the info-dumps were a bit much. I like my info-dumps to be much simpler and more fluid, not take up ten pages for each detail of the structure of future society. It just makes me think the main character never went to school in his world, or wasn't very observant about it. 3. Ugh, I hated the characters. It took me nearly two months to read because I hated all the characters so much. The protagonist was kind of aimless, his best friend kept hitting on him even though he's not gay, his love interest was really annoying. 4. The war that the planet is involved in lasts maybe two days. I just kept expecting more to happen. Maybe I should re-read it, but I might end up throwing it at the wall. I haven't really read Delany's work before other than a few essays - maybe his shorter works are better? 5. I also ended up laughing at Delany's ideas of "futuristic space fashion".
The World's Worst: A Guide to the Most Disgusting Hideous Inept and Dangerous People, Places and Things on Earth, by Mark Frauenfelder - Frankly, if you already read BoingBoing this book is unnecessary. It doesn't even go into as much detail as the posts on the same subjects in his blog do. There should have been more pictures. I finished this coming home yesterday.
Angel Sanctuary Book 1, by Kaori Yuki - I actually already have this manga series on my bookshelf. However, I bought them in Japanese, because at the time, I was under the delusion that I would actually learn Japanese well enough to read it. Anyway, the only way I can describe the series is: CRACKTASTIC. First, there's the incest. And the mixed-race weirdness. Then the whole battle between the angels and the demons, and right now, from what I can tell, the demons are the good guys. And the demons have declared war against God, and they might actually win! Oh, and did I mention the incest? It's even more fucked up than the Flowers in the Attic stuff. I borrowed this translation from the library - they only have up to book 6.
The Reach of a Chef, by Michael Ruhlman - Actually, I'm still reading this one. I think I'll be done tomorrow. It's okay, but not as good as I thought it would be.
Hate: Angela, from "o-HI-o", Vincent, whom I have dubbed "Woody Allen on meth", and that "punk" rock guy with no neck that I will refer to only as the Cardassian.
I don't know why they switched to summer, since they were already doing pretty well as a winter show. Maybe because there's less competition? I think it's still too early to tell at this point who's going to end up in the final three, but I think the least dramatic people will actually make it. They have a slightly older crew this year, and the maturity shows in the ones who've decided to opt out of the drama.
In the past few days, I've finished the following books:
Triton, by Samuel R. Delany - 1. This book will teach me to never ever read those blurbs on the covers. I kept expecting stuff to happen that didn't. 2. I don't know if all Delany's books are like this, but the info-dumps were a bit much. I like my info-dumps to be much simpler and more fluid, not take up ten pages for each detail of the structure of future society. It just makes me think the main character never went to school in his world, or wasn't very observant about it. 3. Ugh, I hated the characters. It took me nearly two months to read because I hated all the characters so much. The protagonist was kind of aimless, his best friend kept hitting on him even though he's not gay, his love interest was really annoying. 4. The war that the planet is involved in lasts maybe two days. I just kept expecting more to happen. Maybe I should re-read it, but I might end up throwing it at the wall. I haven't really read Delany's work before other than a few essays - maybe his shorter works are better? 5. I also ended up laughing at Delany's ideas of "futuristic space fashion".
The World's Worst: A Guide to the Most Disgusting Hideous Inept and Dangerous People, Places and Things on Earth, by Mark Frauenfelder - Frankly, if you already read BoingBoing this book is unnecessary. It doesn't even go into as much detail as the posts on the same subjects in his blog do. There should have been more pictures. I finished this coming home yesterday.
Angel Sanctuary Book 1, by Kaori Yuki - I actually already have this manga series on my bookshelf. However, I bought them in Japanese, because at the time, I was under the delusion that I would actually learn Japanese well enough to read it. Anyway, the only way I can describe the series is: CRACKTASTIC. First, there's the incest. And the mixed-race weirdness. Then the whole battle between the angels and the demons, and right now, from what I can tell, the demons are the good guys. And the demons have declared war against God, and they might actually win! Oh, and did I mention the incest? It's even more fucked up than the Flowers in the Attic stuff. I borrowed this translation from the library - they only have up to book 6.
The Reach of a Chef, by Michael Ruhlman - Actually, I'm still reading this one. I think I'll be done tomorrow. It's okay, but not as good as I thought it would be.
