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ileliberte) wrote2008-12-01 12:57 pm
ileliberte) wrote2008-12-01 12:57 pm
I baked some bread and I liked it...
I made pumpkin bread and cornbread. They were both very very delicious. Somehow, the two times I've tried to put in a layer of cream cheese in the middle of cake/bread, I've managed to overshoot on the liquid part and so the cream cheese layer never stays as a layer, but becomes a meandering random line throughout the loaf. And that actually looks way prettier and like I meant to do it deliberately, I think I'll continue making the same mistake from now on.
And of course, after a week of making a mix of easy and complicated food from scratch, I burnt a pan trying to boil an egg and a potato :/ I almost went to bed, thankfully I was reading fic where someone was eating an egg and that reminded me about the stuff that I should have taken off the stove, oh, about an hour and 45 minutes ago. Yay for fic with food?
Two SPN art recs:
Nadir by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
acerbus_instar (Gen, creepy imagery)
Odd but arresting picture. Very well chosen colors and the starkness of it all is very cool. I'm not entirely sure what it means but it's just visually very cool and lends itself to as many interpretations as you want to give it. Look out for the reflection.
Sketch of Sam byblynnk (G)
Pencil sketch of Sam. I am generally not a huge fan of simply faithful reproductions of photographs without changing any of the context, but there's something very lively about the lighting/shading and the pencil marks in this picture. There's something a little off about the jaw line, but Sam's eyes and smirky-smile are so well done that the faults are completely overshadowed.
TVland:
Every time I come across an episode of The Legend of the Seeker, I am struck by how completely unengaging it is despite having elements that could have really worked. The cinematography is lovely, the lighting is wonderful, the people are kind of generic but still sort of vaguely attractive, the woman holds her own fighting skills-wise, the camera ogles the guy and the girl equally, and there are attempts at wisecracks. But it's just so earnestly trying and then completely failing to realize how silly it is. There's slow motion everytime someone's fighting, the people leave no lasting impression on you, their personalities might as well be stamped "insert heroic/tragic/romantic cliche here" and oh my god, I cannot stand it when people act like yentas in fic and I really can't stand it when they do it in tv shows and take themselves seriously while doing so.
I might be watching bits of Brothers and Sisters just to see if Rob Lowe is on.
Chuck is still my favoritest thing ever. And I'm still not fannish about it.
I'm hanging onto the Mentalist for now, but I still haven't really figured out if I really like it or not. Simon Baker and Amanda Righetti, however, are very pretty.
And of course, after a week of making a mix of easy and complicated food from scratch, I burnt a pan trying to boil an egg and a potato :/ I almost went to bed, thankfully I was reading fic where someone was eating an egg and that reminded me about the stuff that I should have taken off the stove, oh, about an hour and 45 minutes ago. Yay for fic with food?
Two SPN art recs:
Nadir by
acerbus_instar (Gen, creepy imagery)Odd but arresting picture. Very well chosen colors and the starkness of it all is very cool. I'm not entirely sure what it means but it's just visually very cool and lends itself to as many interpretations as you want to give it. Look out for the reflection.
Sketch of Sam by
blynnk (G)Pencil sketch of Sam. I am generally not a huge fan of simply faithful reproductions of photographs without changing any of the context, but there's something very lively about the lighting/shading and the pencil marks in this picture. There's something a little off about the jaw line, but Sam's eyes and smirky-smile are so well done that the faults are completely overshadowed.
TVland:
Every time I come across an episode of The Legend of the Seeker, I am struck by how completely unengaging it is despite having elements that could have really worked. The cinematography is lovely, the lighting is wonderful, the people are kind of generic but still sort of vaguely attractive, the woman holds her own fighting skills-wise, the camera ogles the guy and the girl equally, and there are attempts at wisecracks. But it's just so earnestly trying and then completely failing to realize how silly it is. There's slow motion everytime someone's fighting, the people leave no lasting impression on you, their personalities might as well be stamped "insert heroic/tragic/romantic cliche here" and oh my god, I cannot stand it when people act like yentas in fic and I really can't stand it when they do it in tv shows and take themselves seriously while doing so.
I might be watching bits of Brothers and Sisters just to see if Rob Lowe is on.
Chuck is still my favoritest thing ever. And I'm still not fannish about it.
I'm hanging onto the Mentalist for now, but I still haven't really figured out if I really like it or not. Simon Baker and Amanda Righetti, however, are very pretty.