I'm Nobody! Who are you?

Donna, shouting to the Doctor in Catalan since 2008.

2008-05-15T19:03:21Z

Well, it's been confirmed: Donna is awesome in every language. She even said Ten is "escanyolit*" (she stole my phrase!), and then she wanted to "donar-li un mastegot*". LOL! She sounds hilarious in Catalan. And very sexy, too.

*luvs 'er*

*I'm the worst translator ever but escanyolit means something like "meagre", "slim" or "skinny" in a sort of informal, funny way. Donar un mastegot means er... "smack him"? "slap him", perhaps? I don't know, Catalan expressions sound really silly.

EDIT: Para la xerrameca (could be "stop babbling")? Ni de conya, marcià ("no way, Martian")? Oooh, that's too good!

EDIT II: I didn't mention it because I'm stooopid but, obviously, I'm watching The Runaway Bride on the Catalan telly.

Are you my Mummy?

2008-05-04T01:13:53Z

The Doctor made a Nine reference! I declare this series is almost making up for all the crap in the previous one. Ten doesn't even act like a twat, anymore! And Donna is still all over it being great and spectacularly funny and caring and real. It's too good to be true.

Um, I need an "All hail Donna, the perfect companion" icon, now.

Quick, before my connection goes down, again!

2008-04-20T21:56:30Z

sarie_gamgee, alioli, this one is for you:

Sorry, I did try to make him look a bit happier but it wouldn't do... So, do whatever you like with him but try and treat him nicely for he's been very sad since Gene dumped him for a certain Ms. Bolly Knickers...

Hope you like him, ladies.

:*

Because she is so much love and because you can't stop me, now.

2008-04-17T23:18:07Z

Yes, I'm still probably going to be away for a little while, but my connection was working so I took the chance. :P

Edit: I added a second version of Annie, with the police uniform and the little cute hat and all. I can't stop, I told you!

Shame.

2008-04-17T15:22:46Z

*
108 Bulls Tortured
Killed in Barcelona in 2007
R.I.P.
P.S. My internet is being wonky again. And I'm getting disconnected from my line (blablabla about technical problems with my current provider) in ten days but my hand gets shaky every time I try to call Telefonica to enquire about their dsl lines. I hate them so much... Anyway, what I meant to say is that I might be away for a few days. Be good, ok? And visit BarcelonaMata.org or StopOurShame.com (in English).

< / tiresome pro-animals activist>

:*

By popular demand...

2008-04-11T23:30:16Z

Pixel!Gene:

I mixed up LoM!Gene with A2A!Gene because I wanted the black suit he wears in Ashes but then I couldn't leave The Green Skirt of Hotness out of the thing. I'm not particularly happy of the final result but I did had a great time doing it.

What, now? Fanart?

2008-04-10T01:15:23Z

I think I'm going to try to do Ray next, it's so much fun! And, yes, I have already tried Gene but, as it's quite obvious, I can't really draw so there is no way I can make a handful of scattered pixels look like the mighty Gene Genie.

She tries hard, or so she says.

2008-04-07T03:49:37Z

OMFG!!!!!!

2008-03-25T21:31:42Z

Sergi Zamora snogged Roger Pera*! My very first slashy OTP comes true 14 years later!!!!

*is officially dead*

*for the non-Catalan readers those two guys played Eddie and Mickey on our version of the musical 'Blood Brothers' called Germans de Sang

P.S. Yes, I'm still around. Unfortunately, my computer died on me a few days ago and keeps sorting itself out only to die again a few hours later, so I'm busy playing Dr Frankenstein with the thingie.

Cargol treu banya...

2008-02-21T02:29:06Z

Snails go out with rain.

It rained yesterday, so there I went.

A2A Episode 2 = BLISS!!!!!!!

2008-02-19T02:10:41Z

Even better than the first! Even better than ANYTHING on tv EVER!!!!

Oh, how I love Keeley and how I love Alex! I love how she starts the episode being so confident, so superior and sarcastic and ends up so vulnerable, drawing a plan to go back to her daughter's birthday...!

It was less campy than last week's episode, yes, because this week was all about the 80's glamour and, after the first Miami Vice style LOL!moments of the first episode we had our first immersion into two of the best and most interesting topics of the decade: social issues and fashion/nightlife! YAY!

I think I'm going to start calling people "constructs", too. I enjoy the witty way in which the writers wink at us when Alex plays with words, with her perception of what she is convinced to be her mind's reality and her self-amusement at everything her head comes up with. It's like when you have a dream where you are making out with the fugliest, most disgusting guy you have ever met and then you wake up all "WTF was my mind thinking!?! GROSS!". Don't tell me you never felt that way!

And then, Alex thinks she knows she has everything under control and she is enjoying herself, and being posh and insufferable and flirting with that ~~disgusting Roger Moore wannabe~~ guy because it's all in her mind and will be over soon and... BOOM! She remembers the explosion in which her parents died, her bitchy mother walks in and, even though she said to herself at the beginning of the episode that she'd never get emotionally involved with what happens in her non-reality, she can't help it when her feelings get the best of her.

Then she tries to regain control, to be a copper again, and believes she has caught the bad guy and feels superior again but... she is wrong and even though she does get it right with the bomb at the celebration, in the end the boy dies and she sees there are consequences to her actions in her imaginary world, too.

I know I'm rambling a bit but... don't you find all the Freudian stuff in this episode great? I'm so glad they have created a female character that is not 100% emotion, nor 100% good or 100% bad. I adore all the shades and changes in Alex because they made me see her as if she was real, as real as Sam used to be with all his emo and his being the biggest and most stubborn prick that ever lived (and, don't get me wrong, I love Sam!).

And then again there is Gene, all changed, all nostalgic... I admire Phil so much for being such a good actor, for saying so much with only those incredible eyes of his. In all his scenes alone, or with Alex and even with Ray, you can see how he misses Sam, how he is trying hard to be a good police officer. And he is nice with Alex and tries to lead Ray in the right direction. DCI Hunt, you have grown so much*. May I marry you, now that you are single again?

Er... Yes, I'm coming to the neo-romantic!Chris, now! But I can't really comment on that... I was laughing so hard and squeeing so loudly all at the same time that my mum came to see if everything was alright! I mean, that scene at the nightclub was priceless! I would have paid to be there! And then Ray asking Chris if he was wearing make-up! I love my writers on crack, especially when they write confused!Ray being jealous of Montse. MUAHAHAHAHAH!

AND WHAT ABOUT ALL THOSE GORGEOUS BRITISH BUTTOCKS WE GOT TO SEE!

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN INDEED!!!!!

XD!

*Indeed, you won't deny that the not-hittng-the boxes thingie is a clear sign of change and an amazing gag from our amazing writers.

Talking about cliches... weren't the 80's marvellous?

2008-02-16T05:08:44Z

I watched Ashes To Ashes! And loved it!

First of all, doesn't Phil look gorgeous? Don't you wanna have 10 or 12 babies of his? I do!!!

And I love the eighties troubled, roughed macho air they have given him. He is, CLEARLY, missing Sam so much! And Alex? She is brilliant! I'm completely in love with Keeley! (well, I have has a giant crush on her since I saw Wives & Daughters). And I laughed so much with all the "action scenes" and with those both tiny and huuuuge references to how lame and decadent and absolutely brilliant the 80's were. You know, I always said I should had been born on the early 70's so that I could have been a teen on the 80's. It's definitely my favourite decade from last century and it's so well captured in A2A and with such a nice sense of humour... Because, obviously, we can't look at the eighties and laugh at them without feeling a bit stupid, ridiculous and self-concious because we all were there ate the time, weren't we?

There is a such a chemistry between Alex and Gene! Both fighting and, at the same time, somehow, consoling each other... And, what about Ray? He has followed his Guv' but seems to be so out of place, so jealous of Chris who is blending in already and so confused because Gene is not who he was anymore... Gosh! I think I prefer Alex's mind to Sam's! Perhaps because it seems more complex, more femenine, in a way, and yet she is snarky enough to construct her 1981 (the year I was born!) world as silly and pompous as it really was. I really liked the pacing in the episode, the development of Alex's story and how we were introduced to her life, her job, her relationship with her daughter and her ex. I'm quite hooked already.

I even like the fact that Sam is so clearly gone in Alex's reality and I like how his "departure" has had an effect on the characters we knew so well.

And, yes, Alex and Gene are hot together and they are clearly going to lick each other wounds but even with that, you see in Gene's face how he loved his Sam and how he misses him at so many levels.

You'll think I have a terrible taste for tv and movies but I actually enjoy 80's stuff. I love how everything was new and flashy and yet everyone was so naive and free and...sad and pathetic, too. It's great how they captured all that and turned it into a drama with such a big dose of humour.

And it's great how Chris turns out to be the hero of the day and how Chaz (I can't spell and it's late so, from now on, I'll be calling her Montse 'cause she is half Catalan, the lucky bitch!) looks at him and how the group dynamics have changed.

Also, where did they find such incredible locations in London? I never thought they'd be able to have these series as beautifully shot as LoM...

Waaah, I can't wait to watch this week's episode!!!

Stop the cruel seal trade.

2008-02-09T03:17:01Z

Please, take a moment to fill the survey and stop the horror or at least give a favourable opinion for regulations against massive seal hunting.

Go here.

Do it for her:

To stop this

*puppy eyes*

I'll send you candy if you do it. And... and... chocolate! You can't refuse chocolate, can you?

Then why aren't you HERE, yet?

For once, I'll be early and say...

2007-12-31T04:12:19Z

Hugs, kisses and many good wishes for the new year, f-listers.

Bon any! :*

P.S. Yes,I have a paid account again but don't ask me how or why because I have no idea.

Quins tan segurs consells vas encercant, cor malastruc, enfastijat de viure?

2007-10-26T19:11:56Z

Another list I composed while being sick in bed, two weeks ago.

Ten favourite pictures of some favourite authors:

Anton Chekhov. I absolutely adore this picture, he seems so relaxed, so intellectual... I also love how tiny he looks wrapped with that huge coat. There are many other pictures of Chekhov I like, especially one where is sitting in a white garden chair wearing a hat and his glasses and looks like one of those Van Gogh self-portraits, but none of them share the intensity this one possesses.

Emily Dickinson. They called her the Belle of Amherst for a reason. And... can't explain further, I just want to kiss her. I wish I had a time machine.

Lev Tolstoy. Look at that beard and those wild, tender eyes, filled with emotion. And his forehead...! That forehead tells a story of its own.

Katherine Mansfield. There are those other pictures of Kate, where she wears a short fringe and a light shirt and looks really cute. But this one is just so full of melancholy...

Ausiàs March. I fell in love with Ausiàs March the first time I saw this picture on a text book, when I was in school. Obviously, after reading some of his poetry I became obsessed. Don't you think he looks like a bit of a meanie?

Dorothy Parker. Perhaps I should have chosen one of those pictures where she wears a hat and looks sophisticated but I prefer to think of her like this, without all those artificial and frivolous stuff which always surrounded her and sometimes deformed the image the world had of her art.

Edgar Allan Poe. I also fell for good ol' Edgar the first time I saw this pic, after reading all his short stories in one week. And I wasn't the only one. Poe was never happy but he was a ladies man, apparently. They say, even today, a rose appears on his grave every year on his death day anniversary. Also, in case you are curious, one of the first illustrations of Gabriel I ever saw was this one, which appeared on the Culture section of a newspaper and is based on this picture.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning was ugly. If you look at other pictures and drawings of her (where you can actually see her face) you will see it. And yet, the way she wore her hair, her eyes, her whole countenance is a bit mysterious and you just have to look at her to see she was brilliant.

Thomas Hardy. He looked so much like my father is scary. The more I read of him, the more I love him, I feel really very close to him, somewhat. It's the only author I can't stand to see slighted, so be careful of what you say about him, or you may suffer my wrath.

Oscar Wilde. Every year I discover new pictures of Wilde. He was beautiful beyond words and he liked to pose. This particular image is still my favourite because it's the one to be found on the cover of my first Collected Edition of his works (yes, the cheap one).

Oh, I forgot to say I may still post the odd open post whenever I don't have anything too personal to say, as is the case with this list.