.: so comes snow after fire :.

I'm writing this entry using the new Update page. It looks... huge? I'm not sure I like it, but I guess I could get used to it. My only complaint regards the userpics, that window was already sloppy when writing comments, I wish they hadn't put it in the update page too. Oh well.

Sorry I dropped off the map for a few days, but Tati is finally on holiday, so summer is officially over for me too. And it's that stupid week of the month, with bonus hormonal storms that messed a lot with my mood. PMS, you're the opposite of Batman. You're so not invited to my birthday party.

This morning I got a new package from Amazon, and now I know how I'm going to spend my weekend:


I was watching the movie last week for the hundredth time, and halfway through my brain got lost in a conversation with itself, "this is so good, I should re-read the books too - I haven't read them in years - wait, now that I think about it I only have the Italian editions - to Amazon!". And there's also the new album by Amy MacDonald, and Cherry Tree by the National because it was the only one missing from my collection. Blasphemy, because it's the one with About Today, and that's one of my favourite songs ever.

When I came back home I stopped by the railway station and bought train tickets for Milan in two weeks. Now I'm all set, Frankenstein, here I come! ♥

EDIT:
What the frak is wrong with the mood, I completely missed it the first time, and I can't preview it!?

I was singing and playing Paparazzi on Rock Band with my cousin and Tati, and the SDA courier picks that exact moment to ring the doorbell. He goes "There's a book here for you, I'll leave it on the doorstep". A book. Here's what was inside that not-at-all-shaped-like-a-book package:



Besides the squeeing and the running around and the flailing my arms, a part of my brain is still wondering how he could think that was a single gigantic book. :D

Anyway, we have lots of music that I bought over the past two months, The National, Elvis Perkins, The Magnetic Fields (finally, I was sick and tired of mp3s), The Parlotones (it took them three months to get back in stock), Rick Riordan's The Demigod Files, three new Percy Jackson adventures since the next book comes out in the fall and I can't freaking wait.

And a bunch of X-Men comics, both Uncanny and Ultimate X-Men, because there are SO MANY of them and I have to start somewhere. Manga are much easier to understand, you pick a story, get all the volumes, but here there are multiverses, and avengers and iron man and everyone knows everyone else. It's a maze.

Yesterday I finally read House of M, and it blew my mind. I had a feeling it was going to be great, I just didn't know how much. The art, so gorgeous. The writing. Wow. That scene with Quicksilver and Magneto? I had to re-read it three times on the spot, it was just so perfect and heartbreaking. First thing I did this morning was order a few volumes from the same series. I need to know what happens next. I need more!

The best part is, comics on amazon.co.uk cost one third of what they would cost at the comic book store, and they're in the original language. The only thing that's more expensive is manga, and even if they have to translate them, I still don't get why they cost at least double than here.

I was singing and playing Paparazzi on Rock Band with my cousin and Tati, and the SDA courier picks that exact moment to ring the doorbell. He goes "There's a book here for you, I'll leave it on the doorstep". A book. Here's what was inside that not-at-all-shaped-like-a-book package:



Besides the squeeing and the running around and the flailing my arms, a part of my brain is still wondering how he could think that was a single gigantic book. :D

Anyway, we have lots of music that I bought over the past two months, The National, Elvis Perkins, The Magnetic Fields (finally, I was sick and tired of mp3s), The Parlotones (it took them three months to get back in stock), Rick Riordan's The Demigod Files, three new Percy Jackson adventures since the next book comes out in the fall and I can't freaking wait.

And a bunch of X-Men comics, both Uncanny and Ultimate X-Men, because there are SO MANY of them and I have to start somewhere. Manga are much easier to understand, you pick a story, get all the volumes, but here there are multiverses, and avengers and iron man and everyone knows everyone else. It's a maze.

Yesterday I finally read House of M, and it blew my mind. I had a feeling it was going to be great, I just didn't know how much. The art, so gorgeous. The writing. Wow. That scene with Quicksilver and Magneto? I had to re-read it three times on the spot, it was just so perfect and heartbreaking. First thing I did this morning was order a few volumes from the same series. I need to know what happens next. I need more!

The best part is, comics on amazon.co.uk cost one third of what they would cost at the comic book store, and they're in the original language. The only thing that's more expensive is manga, and even if they have to translate them, I still don't get why they cost at least double than here.

My X-Men First Class soundtrack finally arrived! So beautiful, and angsty, and I can't stop listening to the fifth track, Frankenstein's Monster. My poor heart.



They divided the shipment in two, not sure why, so tomorrow I should get the rest of my order, which consists in four albums by The National (and the Penelope dvd). I already have High Violet, and I've listened to it too many times to count, so it's definitely time to check more from this band.

Which reminds me that in a few days the new album by Jon Fratelli should be out. This is definitely a wonderful month for music. *____*