Vikings?

Every time there's a new movie or tv show about "vikings" I can't help but feel a bit embarrassed. It's mostly because there'll be hundreds of mistakes in their timeline: wrong clothes, wrong living conditions and cultural expressions, wrong religion, just wrong wrong wrong. Most of the time it'll be a veritable pick'n'mix of elements from between 900 AD to 1400 AD and it annoys me - like they couldn't be bothered to do a better job.
I'll be back with a verdict on this new show that premiered this month.

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EDIT:
How about no? I barely got past the first episode. It was just so booooring! Not to mention that as soon as I noticed that the story's supposed to be acted out around 790 AD I thought back to what I'd seen of the show before. Hadn't I seen monks flash past in the trailer for the show? Yes I had. Christian missionaries didn't come to Scandinavia until around 829 AD. There were no monastaries until the 1100's. I called BS and I'll let others enjoy it. I won't.

Books I found... rather disappointing. Pt.2.

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë.

   I’ll give it to you straight – it’s glorified nonsense. It’s passionate to extremes and exaggerated to absurdity. Of course, I can definitely see how a reclusive stay-at-home daughter such as Emily could get bored to the point where dreaming and writing of passionate feelings and everlasting love is her only refuge. The narrative is great, mind you, it’s the characters I can’t stand. None of them invoked any kind of empathy with me and the only reason to why I read it to the end was because I just wanted to know what was so special with this book to make it an obvious choice to put on a books-you-must-read kind of list. Every single thing these characters uttered to each other was hateful and mean.

   It’s apparently a classic so inevitably someone will at some point tell you to read it and please, by all means, do! But I won’t pass on an opportunity to tell you what I thought about it.

   I wouldn't put it on a must-read-in-your-lifetime list.

Books I found... rather disappointing. Pt.1.

Anger Management for Beginners by Giles Coren.

   I have reached the conclusion that Giles Coren is an asshat. Granted, he’s a quite handsome and eloquent asshat but an asshat nonetheless.

   As I’ve finished his book Anger Management for Beginners I’ve learnt all those things about Mr. Coren that I really didn’t want to know after enjoying Supersizers as much as I did. Aside from what I already did know - that he’s a columnist for The Times, a food critic and general misanthrope - I’ve gotten to know plenty of other things that just can’t be unlearnt and doesn’t really speak to his benefit.

   Anger Management for Beginners is the kind of books that could vent your anger for you. If you wake up one day and feel terribly angry because you absolutely loathe airports, there’s a chapter about that which you can read (chapter 2: Travel), have a laugh and hopefully not murder someone when you get to said airport. I can gladly admit that I giggled like a mad person when reading some of the book (for example chapter 5: The Boat Race is a hoot) but regretfully those few chapters or parts of chapters can’t weigh up to the ones I found truly offensive and sometimes even going against the general public good - like the chapter where Coren explains that a real man doesn’t wear a cycling helmet but would rather die or the chapters in which he explains that he hates fat people to the point where he’s certain that the statement “fat and happy” just can’t be and feels that anorexia is better by far.

   Coren’s hate is inexhaustible and seemingly unstoppable and it’s applicable to most things, but to me it just seems like he’s infinitely bitter, in acute need of some self-distance and a calming cup of tea. Also, he should maybe keep to being a food critic and only that. I still love Supersizers.

Going crazy for more Sherlock

Dear Sherlockians, our wait is coming to an end. The production of season three of BBC's Sherlock is finally coming to a start with the read-throughs and Benedict Cumberbatch is growing his Sherlock hair back.

LQL

So. This year's tickets to San Diego Comic Con sold out in something like 15 minutes. Unbelievable! At least I wasn't hoping on getting any tickets this year.
In other news, yes you will be getting something alike a book review quite soon. I can't keep quiet about this one.

I got nothing

Once again I will go on to tell you guys that I'm recovering my conscience from the sewers of my own brain. I'm trying to go through the unread books of my library and maybe I'll give you a hint as to what I'm reading but I can tell you it's been a few books since I found out that I don't qualify for the university course I thought I'd take this March. And so I'm out of school until September and will until then try and be a little more active around this blog. But, until then here's a gif of me getting out of bed:

Screw this

I am now going to watch a sad movie so that I can cry uncontrollably while pretending it's not really about my miserable existence. Tomorrow I'll be the one with the swollen red eyes trying to explain to my boss that yes indeed I would love to extend my contract, yessir, I would.

Stay nerdy everyone, and Don't Forget to be Awesome.

On the Scale of Self Esteem

I guess I'd be somewhere off the scale to the right of Dean Winchester though I wish every night that I'll wake up as Zaphod Beeblebrox. Two heads, three arms and all of that glorious attitude. He's so hip he can barely see over his own pelvis.
I think I'm feeling a re-read of The Hitchhiker coming on.

Getting away from Reality

Above is one of many many many great scenes from Black Books. But why can't I get to hide from life and its minions underneath a table with a good book and a Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster? I could use that right now.

Now there's a beauty

Fight Club is one of my favourite movies of all time and this poster you see below really inspired some feelings of nostalgia when I saw it. And reminded me that I need to do a rewatch. Again. I had a habit of watching this whenever I had a high fever and since I haven't had a spell of high fever in a while... Well, no luck. Just try it yourselves and tell me it doesn't carry a certain appeal.

Source: minimalmovieposters.tumblr.com via Bettina on Pinterest

DON'T PANIC

I've got 3 hours left until deadline and need some 200 more words for that hellish essay. I haven't slept properly since friday and am feeling more than a bit pressured at this point. I sure as hell shouldn't sit here and oogle through Tumblr again. My brain is still missing and I know this is going to be pure disasaster. It's not the end of the world to be honest, I could write some complementary words once I get the essay back with comments but... yeah. When will I learn though?

Die William, die...

Every damn time I watch The Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl I think to myself "this is some amazing music" but  then I get frustrated and think "why can't William Turner just get on with it and DIE?!?" It would have solved the issue with the two incredibly useless sequels.
Just sayin'.

What. The. Hell.

I just realized I have no clue what I'm doing.

Essays again

End of the semester and two days until I have to hand in a short essay. I'm writing about the importance of gender in the genocide of Rwanda 1994. Very uplifting stuff, eh? That's why I'm spending ridiculous amounts of time on Tumblr and watching Disney movies. I'm just going to ignore it for a while longer.

Lets forget 2012, Happy New 2013.

So.
It's 2013 now.

2012 was the year...

• ...I moved to Gothenburg.
• ...I had 14 866 visitors to this blog. Impressive, eh?
• ...that I discovered Doctor Who and Sherlock and thereby had my life enriched.
• ...I discovered new friends.
• ...I became a Tumblr addict. It. Never. Ends. I can't even...
• ...one of my best friends and I went to New York together to celebrate our decade of friendship.
• ...I cut my hair off and loved it.
• ...Diablo III was released, I got it and I wasn't very impressed. I'm still playing occasionally and am still not impressed.
• ...I got a new job.
• ...I became an aunt for the third time in my life.
• ...I didn't go to The Medieval Week on Gotland.
• ...my tattoo got a little bigger.
• ...I started following the awesome John and Hank Green on Youtube (Vlogbrothers). DFTBA.
• ...my wait for The Hobbit finally came to an end.
• ...the world was supposed to end too but... didn't.

All in all a year like any other I suppose.

For 2013 I'd like more of everything that's good. A lot of great movies coming up this year. I've decided to go to Gotland this year because I'm actually missing all that medieval fun and it's their 30th anniversary. A bigger tattoo perhaps? Yeah. Time will tell. I'll finally get my university degree.

Stay nerdy my friends and lets make 2013 a year to remember.