Birdwings

As seen from *checks list* brightknightie, teratornis, argentum_ls, and rhi.

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Turn to page 126.
3. The 6th full sentence is your life in 2026

The nearest book on my nightstand was The Code of the Woosters, which seemed unlikely to deliver the Cassandra goods—but that being the assignment, I located the page in question, began counting down the highly detailed, robustly elegant Wodehouse sentences, each describing ridiculously specific situations and spirits, only to land on the instructed sixth full sentence (by this point halfway down the page), read it, and promptly started recounting.

There was no mistake. Here is the sentence:

"It was the same with me."

This genuinely made me laugh. I'll take the black comedy aspect of all of this. Not like it's telling me something I couldn't have guessed!

On Saturday, discovered through network, originating from thefridayfive

1. What is your all time favorite book?

I must concede defeat and go with Vivian Vande Velde's Companions of the Night (1995), which I read countless times as a teenager, and which I revisited a year ago and to my astonishment it still held up as a thriller, as an exploration of vampire lore, as a YA novel skirting the edge of paranormal romance, and as a character study of a teenage girl thrown into insane circumstances. It's still my highest standard for a believably dangerous vampire love interest and I read the book in two sittings because it remained highly compelling after all these years.

2. What is your all time favorite movie?

The Third Man (1949) has continued to beat all comers and has never gone down in my estimation across multiple watches. It's basically a perfect film to me. The feel-good variation on this movie-making perfection would be Casablanca (1942), but The Third Man nudges it because of the score.

3. What are you reading right now?

Arthur C. Clarke. 2001: A Space Odyssey. About thirty pages from the end, though! I will likely make a post about it.

4. What is your favorite show on TV?

My usual comfort show for many years has been the combined twelve seasons of Buffy and Angel. Bad things would happen and that's where David and I would go, curling up and watching it until we could recite swathes of dialogue. Other shows where I have lost count of the number of times I've seen them have been The Wire and Highlander, and my chief source of writing inspiration has been Jeremiah, but the Buffyverse was the only show where we got to the end and instantly started over.

5. What is the last movie you saw in the theater?

That would be Baby Driver, seen when David and I were visiting some of his family in Boston. I had to look it up to remember when it was (2017). It was a surprisingly good time, and it featured a music score I really appreciated, including Queen's 'Brighton Rock.'

Then whatever the hell that was about Kevin Spacey broke, and was followed by a whole bunch of other information about certain Hollywood people, and it leeched all the fun right out of the experience.

Still, the core memory is of a really nice evening.

Seen via argentum_ls and amazingly, finally, a meme I can actually do. Yay for me! And I did scribble my five shows before I read the questions. :)

TV questions: pick your five favourite TV shows (in no particular order) and answer the following questions. Don’t cheat!

1. Angel (1999)
2. Jeremiah (2002)
3. Teen Wolf (2011)
4. Highlander (1992)
5. 12 Monkeys (2015)

I went in the order they sprang to mind, either as firm favorites or as shows which I have written fic for.

( 19 Questions )