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by Canelek » October 1, 2003, 10:23 pm
A combo of 3 forums, but what the hell.... I like these topics...
Currently...
Watching: Lucio Fulci - 'Zombie'
Reading: Anne Rice - 'Memnoch the Devil'
Listening to: Death by Stereo - 'Into the Valley of Death'
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vn_Tanc
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by vn_Tanc » October 2, 2003, 5:43 am
Watching: Children of Dune TV miniseries
Reading: Zahn's Star Wars trilogy
Listening to: Lots of old dancehall and dub reggae.
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Burke
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by Burke » October 2, 2003, 9:54 am
Watching: Dead Like Me, Carnivale
Reading: Terry Pratchett -'The Truth'
Listening to: A Perfect Circle -'Thirteenth Step'
Akaran_D
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by Akaran_D » October 2, 2003, 10:13 am
Watching: Angel, CSI, Charmed, South Park
Reading: No time to read.
Listening: Godsmack
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But I guess that on the other hand, I could be like the rest.
Fredonia Coldheart
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by Fredonia Coldheart » October 2, 2003, 11:55 am
Watching: Monk
Reading: R. A. Salvatore's Legacy of the Drow
Listening: Placido Domingo & Itzhak Perlman "Together"
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Zamtuk
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by Zamtuk » October 2, 2003, 11:57 am
Watching: Family Guy, Carnivale, Sopranos reruns
Reading: School books
Listening: Outkast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
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by Fairweather Pure » October 2, 2003, 12:56 pm
Watching: Carnivale, Joe Schmoe, Survivor
Reading: The Handbook of Knots, Stupid White Men, and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation!
Listening: Rage Against the Machine: Renegades
Mawafu
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by Mawafu » October 2, 2003, 4:18 pm
Watching: baseball playoffs
Reading: Stephen King's It
Listening: Sublime
Legenae
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by Legenae » October 2, 2003, 6:24 pm
Watching: Third Watch, Gilmore Girls (don't laugh!!), Smallville, Angel, Friends, Charmed, Joan of Arcadia.
Reading: WoT: The Eye of the World
Listening: bunch of downloaded mixed CDs.
Xzion
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by Xzion » October 2, 2003, 11:04 pm
watching: reno 911, south park
reading:shawshank redemption
listening to: got a moe. and string cheese incident CD in my car right now..
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by Shashonna » October 3, 2003, 11:18 pm
Watching : CSI Maimi and Vegas versions, ANgel, Smallville, Carnivale, ER, Joan of Arcadia, Tarzan, Law and Order SVU and CI
Reading : Anne Rice-Pandora
Listening : No real CD but a fe Matchbox 20, Maroon 5
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Zaelath
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by Zaelath » October 4, 2003, 11:30 am
Legenae wrote:
Reading: WoT: The Eye of the World
OMG, Turn back before it's too late! (Well, that or stop around book 5, it just turns into a cash cow at that point and drags on like listening to your grandma describe how they used to peel potatoes in her day...)
Legenae
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by Legenae » October 4, 2003, 12:24 pm
Zaelath wrote: Legenae wrote:
Reading: WoT: The Eye of the World
OMG, Turn back before it's too late! (Well, that or stop around book 5, it just turns into a cash cow at that point and drags on like listening to your grandma describe how they used to peel potatoes in her day...)
Are the later books really THAT bad?
Zaelath
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by Zaelath » October 4, 2003, 1:12 pm
I can't remember the book numbers exactly, but there was a "cliff hanger" in book 6 (say), so you read all of book 7 wanting to know the resolution... there wasn't one until book 8. I think that's pretty bad
Legenae
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by Legenae » October 4, 2003, 1:53 pm
Oh well. I'll probably read them anyways. The first book is interesting so far.
Syenye Squirrellyelf
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by Syenye Squirrellyelf » October 4, 2003, 3:39 pm
watching: newlyweds
(re)reading: middlesex by jeffrey eugenides. pulizter prize winner for 2003. just got my hands on an autographed copy. read this.
listening to: taking back sunday - tell all your friends, saves the day - through being cool, and thursday - war all the time.
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by Kithyen » October 4, 2003, 8:42 pm
Watching: Scrubs season premiere
Reading: Imagjica (Clive Barker)
Listening to: Third Eye Blind - Out of the Vein
Oh, and your poet Eliot had it all wrong:
THIS is the way the world ends.
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Shanter
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by Shanter » October 5, 2003, 4:09 pm
Watching: Football/Baseball, 10-8, South Park
Reading: The Symposium
Listening to: Fuel - Shimmer
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by Dregor Thule » October 5, 2003, 4:54 pm
Watching: That 70's Show, Angel, CSI
Reading: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Listening to: Cibo Matto
Drolgin Steingrinder
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by Drolgin Steingrinder » October 5, 2003, 7:30 pm
Watching: Blackadder seasons 1-4, Angel, The Fast Show
Reading: Imre Kertesz' Kaddish for a child not born , Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things .
Listening to: Marvin Gaye: Live in Montreux, David Bowie: Reality, Mew: Frengers, Beck: Sea Change, Led Zeppelin: How The West Was Won (live).
IT'S HARD TO PUT YOUR FINGER ON IT; SOMETHING IS WRONG
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Sartori
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by Sartori » October 6, 2003, 4:27 am
Kithyen wrote: Reading: Imagjica (Clive Barker)
Sounds familiar
Watching: Adult Swim occasionally, John Stewart Show, That 70's Show
Reading: Return of the King
Listening to: Jane's Addiction & Radiohead in the car, completely random mix of MP3's at home
Legs, WoT is good up to a point, then it goes downhill fast - I stopped at book 5 myself.
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Fesuni Chopsui
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by Fesuni Chopsui » October 8, 2003, 12:32 pm
Watching: Carnivale, Re-runs of Queer Eye, Dead Like Me, both of Magraret Cho's comedy DVDs, Robin Williams live on Broadway 2002
Reading: Plato's Symposium, Plato's Republic, Plato's Apology of Socrates, Aristophanes' Clouds, Brief Calculus And Its Applications, History of Ancient Rome 2nd Edition
Listening to: A fuckload of Coldplay, Radiohead, Elton John and Billy Joel
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Tenuvil
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by Tenuvil » October 8, 2003, 2:40 pm
Watching: Haibane Renmei (anime), Enterprise (TV series), Angel (TV series), Dreamcatcher (DVD), ALCS (TV sports) (go Sox)
Reading: CISSP Study Guide, Stephen King's The Dark Tower, Holy Bible (Good News TEV edition)
Listening to: Rammstein "Sehnsucht", Dimmu Borgir "Death Cult Armageddon", J. S. Bach "Goldberg Variations"
Fallanthas
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by Fallanthas » October 9, 2003, 10:57 am
watching: football
reading: working through all of Dick Francis novels yet again
listening: scots-irish fiddle compilations
Yeah, it's been a weird fall so far.
Adelrune Argenti
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by Adelrune Argenti » October 9, 2003, 2:38 pm
Watching: All the Law and Order series, West Wing
Reading: Orson Scott Card's Alvin Maker series
Listening: Sensation-White 2002, Paul Oakenfold Great Wall, and Jim Matheos "Away with Words"
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