tv & things you do with yarn

[cimorene]

• I didn't realise until isilya told me last week that Billie Piper was starring in a tv show called Secret Diary of a Call Girl. After that Wikipedia told me that it was based on a wildly popular blog of an actual anonymous call girl (unless it's fake), and after that I started watching it. I'm enjoying it, and I like the pacing and length of the episodes.
  
  But what I really want to be doing is watching all of The West Wing over, from the beginning. wax_jism and I have been talking for a while about doing that and we almost started a few months ago, but then we didn't. And now, of course, we're doing NCIS, but maybe after that.



• I think I'm done with hats, for now, after crocheting five (one of which I unravelled again). There's just a limit to how many hats you can make, y'know? Maybe I will have Wax show me round knitting so I can make some legwarmers. Or maybe I will try to teach myself to knit cables. Is that really complicated? Or is it possible that I could find instructions somewhere on the internet, for example?



• I would watch The Brian Austin Green, Shirley Manson and That Really Adorable Detective Jim Ellison Are You Kidding Me OMG Is That A Shoutout? Chronicles even without Summer Glau, Lena Headey and... whoever plays John "Emo" Connor. Brian Austin Green is actually good, and on top of that I still haven't gotten over laughing every time he's onscreen because, like, he's Brian Austin Green. And Shirley Manson, well, enough said. But what the fuck is up with John Connor? I mean, he's just really, really annoying. He's a whiny, emo little bitch. Life's not fair! DUH! Boo-hoo! NO, you cannot be a normal teenager - now go to your room! It's not just that he's railing at fate, it's that he's so sulky and immature and annoying about it. And more than that, it's that I cannot remotely believe this guy is going to grow up into a tactical genius, or a leader of men, or a symbolic Jesus figure. So, in short, I would like the show better if it didn't have his plot at all, even if that meant we also got a lot less of Summer. Summer is awesome, but there is some highly suspect writing going on here. Actually, the Terminators themselves are the only parts of the writing that I actually like. Not just Summer and Shirley Manson, but Cromarte (sp?) too.



• Some fandoms hardly have any AUs at all and some are completely crazy full of them. I wonder why that is?

Comments

[anatsuno.livejournal.com]

cables in knitting are most often charted instructions rather than written out, but you will find both. As for help, I recommend knittinghelp.com and their great videos, or of course a search on youtube... I've never knitted cables in a project yet, personally, only in swatches to get a basic idea how they work. I don't think it's especially hard though!

[cimness.livejournal.com]

Cool! This is reassuring.

[undersea.livejournal.com]

There's actually a book version of Secret Diary of a Call Girl, too, which I think is the blog but in book form? IDK. I have it, and I'm slowly making my way through it.

[quiet000001.livejournal.com]

cables look a LOT harder than they actually are. If you can handle basic knitting and purling, you should be able to manage cables just fine.

[psychoticspy.livejournal.com]

My favourite knitting instruction site is TECHknitting (http://techknitting.blogspot.com/). She's amazingly clear in her entries and the illustrations are fantastic. She's on hiatus at the moment, but there are a few years of back-entries.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

Oh, thanks!

[dreamnnightmare.livejournal.com]

i cld use a home-made hat. not practical 2 mail s&v chips in payment :(

[cimness.livejournal.com]

I thought you had like 20 stocking caps! But I'd be happy to make you one!

[dreamnnightmare.livejournal.com]

I have 3, but all just red.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

oh, ok. Well, we only have undyed natural wool, but the black is too scratchy to use really. I was thinking about using a dark tan and light silver.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

To be clear, I have cream/off-white (unbleached white sheep), grey (a light silver), medium brown/tan, light tan, and maybe some dark brown/dark charcoal grey. If you have any colour preferences...?

[dreamnnightmare.livejournal.com]

all of those sound good; my jacket is medium & dark grey.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

Okay!