Current mood:	impressed
Current music:	Su› í eyrum - Sigur Rós

Your Media Minute....
A few things to point out:

I am halfway through Sigur Ros's new album, Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust. So far it's different than the others. It most reminds me of Takk, but whereas that album was a joyous, childlike outpouring, this one is a more reserved happy. Warm. I dunno, the point is there is new Sigur Ros and I am sooooooooooo happy :D



Speaking of media intake, I finished the latest Battelstar Galactica episode.
Ho. Ly. Shit.

Jesus. Wow. Wow. WOW.

This was one of those Battlestar episodes where I was just sat in awe as the show ripped apart and ate my ideas of what a television show could do. In a single episode we had the outing of the Final Four, the near execution of them, a truce between the Cylons and Humans, the path to Earth revealed AND the arrival at a less-than-expected Earth. To fit THAT MUCH into a single episode seems like suicide for the show. If I had know that was where we would end, I would have been positive they'd jumped the shark. Way to prove me wrong, RDM!

It was brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. They were able to take one huge event and build it to the explosion of another huge event, until suddenly there we were, standing on the radioactive remains of Earth with half a season left.

And the music. THE MUSIC. I really didn't think Battlestar would ever reach what they did at the end of the first season when they introduced that strings theme into the show for the prophetic finale. That just made the whole show rise to this level of 'oh shit, we are playing for keeps now.' That shift in the soundtrack just signaled that this show was going somewhere totally different and more serious than we may have thought. It upped the ante. The second season continued with the beautiful strings themes...building to the AWESOME theme of the Pegasus vs. Galactica 'Prelude to War' theme. But since then the music hasn't really done that much for me. The end of the second season had the boring, morose 'One Year Later' guitars, then the third introduced 'All Along the Watchtower', which was cool, but more of a confusing step away.....I was like 'Why are they hearing a modern day Earth song?' ...I dunno, it was cool, but it didn't blow my world apart like the strings from season one.

Well, the music fun started in this episode with the threat of Tigh being airlocked. That CREEPY choir cueing in as Starbuck ran to stop Lee....did anyone else think of the finale of The Shining? I was on the edge of my seat....that choir just sounded so ominous....like wheels were going into motion that couldn't be stopped and we were all fucked. Oh, it was so good.

And then we had the discovery of Earth....that joyous hymn. God, it was amazing, made me tear up. And to go from something so serene to the decimated planet was just a masterstroke.

I can't believe we only have a few episodes left. I kind of wish they would expand the second half into a season of its own. Hell, it feels like they could build a whole SERIES off of where they left off. I also am way interested to see how the prophecies will fit into the end. Laura Rosalin is definitely still alive and kicking (um, no complaints there, btw), and it was said 'the dying leader will show the way to Earth but not live to see it.' Was she not the dying leader she professed to be? And what of Starbuck being the Harbinger of Death? Certainly Earth isn't what they expected, but no one is dead yet.

And of course, the Fifth....

Oh man. January, you cannot get here soon enough. Thank you Battlestar.

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I have also recently been on an exercise kick. Been running 4-5 miles a day for about two weeks (and boy do my joints hurt!). I haven't worked out this much since I was a Freshman at Miami....it feels really good, I'd forgotten how fun it is to run a trail multiple times and kinda get to know the lay of the land. Hopefully I can keep it up.

What inspired this running gig? Well, the impending Alaska trip, mostly. It's gonna be entirely different than when I went in Winter. Mostly due to the 20 hours of daylight. Meaning lots of outdoor activity....hiking, rafting, climbing, camping.....and I wanna kinda be able to enjoy it without being really tired or anything. Oh man, I am so pumped. LESS THAN TWO WEEKS AWAY!!!

And for the leveL readers out there, the update is nearing completion. There was a bit of a hiccup due to a couple things. I took a trip down to CIncinnati, Patrick's family came to visit, AND Photoshop decided to be a bitch and freeze on me not once but TWICE while trying to ink the most difficult panel in the update. I had to redraw it three times, and it took a lot longer than it should have ._. But fear not! We will have new pages soon...