When you live like I do

YouTube: Doctor Who Cast and Crew

As you probably already know by now I'm watching the Doctor Who series at the moment. I'm only on season two yet, and still trying to get used to the new Doctor.

So I was sitting on my computer playing games and listening to a podcast I'm trying out called Geek Chicks, and they were talking about a funny YouTube video made by the cast and crew of Doctor Who. I saw it, and thought it was funny, so here you are.

Ps. I will try to do the blog daily again starting today. I'm starting to get better, so now I have no excuses.

 

What now? I'm sick :(

Hi everyone.

I'm sick so I haven't written on the blog lately. My head is just not up for writing, and I try not to be a copy and paste kind of girl. But I'm getting slowly better, so I hope to be back blogging some time this week.

But if you miss me and my geekyness much you can read my Tumblr blog until I'm back. I think I even have some stuff queued there still. My Tumblr! Different kind of blog, but filled with geeky goodness.

 

Watching:
Doctor Who
Downton Abbey
Walking Dead

Playing:
CastleVille
Oblivion

Reading:
ElfQuest

Webseries: The Guild

I started watching The Guild a year or two ago, and I got totally hooked. I had never seen a web-series before, and I loved the concept. And I loved the topic also. I have played WoW, although I never was a big guild player, so I knew the basics of what they were all about.
By the way: I love Felicia Day, the main creator and star of the show, and I will dedicate a whole post to her later on, so I won’t go on about that here.

The Guild is a independent sitcom web series about a group of online gamers. The show started in the late summer of 2007, and for the first season was financed solely by Paypal donations from LOYAL FANS. Since season 2, The Guild has been distributed by Xbox Live and Microsoft and sponsored by Sprint.
Episodes vary from 3-8 minutes in length, and follow the Guild members’ lives online and offline.
“The Guild” has won numerous awards, including the SXSW, YouTube and Yahoo Web Series Awards in 2008, and 3 Streamy Awards in 2009: Best Comedy Web Series, Best Ensemble, and Best Actress for Felicia Day.
Source: Watchtheguild.com

The Guild is about a group of very different people gaming together as a guild in a game called The Game. Before the series starts they have never met, and are not especially interested in each other’s private lives. All that matters is the guild. That changes when Codex, the main character, gets one of the guild members on the door telling her he’s going to sleep on her sofa because he just moved out of his mother’s house. This is the start of the funny and weird adventure where the guild members get to know each other in person, and eventually become friends. There are of course many other things that happens in the show too, but that would be spoilers. And I try not to do them too much on this blog.
What I can say is that as the show grows they have a lot of good geeky cameos and guest stars. Some of my favorites is Wil Wheatons recurring role, and the cameos of Neil Gaiman and Stan Lee.

So all that is left to say is that if you haven't seen it, here is the first episode of season 1. See it, enjoy it, get totally hooked.

 

TV-series: #WalkingDead

"The Walking Dead is an American post-apocalyptic horror television series developed for television by Frank Darabont and based on the ongoing comic book series, The Walking Dead, by Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore and Charlie Adlard."
Source: Wikipedia

Walking Dead is a fairly new show, although they are already in season 2. They have only 6 episodes in each season, but those episodes are really well made.

It's about this guy who wakes up after being in a coma, and find that everyone around is dead, and the world has been thrown into a zombie apocalypse. So it's about his fight to find others that survived, and to keep on surviving.

At first I wasn't sure if I wanted to see it, because I'm more of a vampire kind of girl (Buffy, True Blood and Anne Rice, NOT Twilight and Vampire Diaries) and not much for zombies. But my brother talked me in to watching it. He said something in the lines of "Murphy from Boondock Saints (Norman Reedus) is in it, and he's big muscled, sweaty and angry all the time..." And so I was sold. But I didn't want to see it alone. Not much for horror this girl. So my brother was willing to re-watch the first season with me.

This is a series with action from start to end. No slow unnecessary scenes here. It's probably because they have so few episodes to do it all in. The special effects are amazing and the zombies are so well made up it really blew me away.

I get really in to everything I see, which is why I don't do well with horror or splatters. And I really got in to this series too. I got kind of scared, yelled "HURRY" a lot and almost cried in a few places. All in all a good watch, and I recommend it to everyone.

And if some of my friends read this: Don't worry. If you ever turn in to a zombie, I would be the first to shoot you in the head.

 

Dr. Who and Oblivion

I might post a little bit more sporadic this coming week. I'm working a lot and I and testing out if I like the newest Dr. Who series, and the game Oblivion. So far both are put down as status OK.

 

What now? Updates on me!

I have decided that I won't write too much about me on this blog. Part because I'm not that exciting, and part because I tried it before. I found that people are not interested in reading about me, and I very soon got bored with writing about my not so interesting life.

But that being said, I thought I would make a series of update-posts about me. What I am reading, watching and doing at the time. As you probably understand these posts won't be very frequent. As I said, I don't have an especially interesting life. Probably why I'm so geeky...

So let's start!

What am I reading these days?

• The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien. Started rereading this one because it was surly 10 years since the last time. And since the movie is coming out eventually I wanted to remember a bit better. I only have a few chapters left now.
• Northern Mysteries & Magick – Freya Aswynn. Reading this one for a book club project with a friend. It's mainly about runes. And I have to say I'm not impressed with the author so far...
• Naked Empire – Terry Goodkind. Haven't actually started reading this one yet. I just finished Faith of the Fallen, so I did take it out of the shelf, and it is currently receding in my reading corner (yes I have one). I decided to reread the entire Sword of Truth series, and I'm about half way.

Which audio books am I listening to?

• American Gods – Neil Gaiman. Just finished this one actually. It was very different from the other books I have read by him. But I loved it of course. I love everything he writes.
• Pyramids – Terry Pratchett. I have a project going on: I'm going to listen to the whole Discworld series. I have book 1 - 36. This is number 7. I find there's some wonderful weird logic and world wiews in his writings that I totally get.

Which series do I watch?

• Eureka. I actually hadn't heard about this series before this year. I guess it's not running in Norway. But a friend told me about it, and then I found out that Felicia Day and Wil Wheaton are staring in season 4 I was sold. I'm currently on season 2, slowly working my way to their episodes.
• The Big Bang Theory. I didn't want to see this show at first, because I got so uncomfortable watching the character Howard Wolowitz. But after getting trough the first two seasons it got better. And this is the only show I have watched where I get 90% of the references!
• The Guild. This web-series by Felicia Day just ended their season 5 actually. But I'm sometimes a bit slow when it comes to series, so I saw the 3 last episodes a few days ago. And I absolutely loved all the cameos!
• Dragon Age: Redemption. Felicia Days new webseries. So far there's only two episodes, but what I saw there convinced me that I want to see the rest of it.
• NCIS, Criminal Minds and The Mentalist. I can say pretty much the same about these three series. I love them passionately. I have followed them since they started. I will keep following them till they end (gods forbid).

What games do I play?

• FarmVille and FontierVille. I know it's sad. My internet is not exactly up to date these days, and that won't change for at least a few months. So instead of WoW I had to find something. Don't worry, I have a fake FB account for playing these games. And I will stop as soon as I can play WoW again.
• Spider Solitaire. Sometimes I like to play this one while listening to my audio books.

What do I do these days?

• Blogging/Twitter/FB. After I stopped smoking a few weeks ago I started using more time online. Probably to keep my mind from the smoking. I will have to calm down with the internet thing soon though. I never go to bed on time anymore.
• Variety Show/Acting. I'm currently in an acting group of sorts, and we are writing a variety show. We haven't started practicing on stage yet, but we will soon. It will be two preformanses, one 27th and one 29th of December.
• Podcast/Knitting/Coffee. Not always together though. Not long ago I decided to test the phenomenon that is podcasts, and I loved it. I am also currently learning to knit. The two go very well together.
• Walking/Spinning. These are the two main exercise things I do. I used to attend zumba classes, but they changed the day. And the new day did not suit me at all. That being said, except for zumba, I hate all forms of exercise. So I do it because I have to, not because I like it.

I think this will have to do for this time. One wants to remain a tad mysterious at least, hehe.

 

Watching: Twin Peaks

I just finnished watching Twin Peaks a little while ago. I started watching it a few years ago, but I never got very far. So I didn't find out who killed Laura Palmer. I think my mom might have told me a long time ago, but if she did I never could remember what she said. But that doesn't matter, because NOW I know. And I stoped watching right after I found out. I had borrowed the whole DVD set from my brother of another mother, and he adviced me that I probably would find the rest very boring.

What did I think? It's weird. I'm sure it's supposed to be very serious and creepy. But with the weird FBI agent and the crying policeman it made me confused. So many people have said I just had to see this series, and for the life of me I can still not understand why. I just saw it because after having started it I really did wonder who the killer was, and didn't want to just wikipedia it. I guess it's just not my humor if it's funny. Not my cup of tea.

Yeah...and what's up with the weird dancing "little person"?? Creepyyyyy!