childhood ambitions

here i am, six years old, knitting away! the sad thing is, the husband has almost that exact chair in our living room now. slightly higher backed, but the same chair. oh it is so ugly, it pains me. But the yarn i'm working with ain't no prize either. I had a poncho with long fringe made from it, i looooved that poncho!


Current books:
Moby Dick, herman melvile; i never read it!
Cottage Witchery: Ellen Dugan yup, i'm a witch, it happens.
Two Sweaters for my Father: polly klas (i thin i've got her name totally wrong
The History of the Wife: can't remember the author at all!

Recent movies:

In her shoes. Sappy chick flik with cameron diaz and a gal with bad teeth, which i admired. nothing else special.
K19 the Widowmaker: i love a submarine film, love love love! but somehow this was a let-down. shouldn't have been, i mean really, a huge missmanaged dissaster like that? near world catastrophe? shoulda been great! maybe i'll find a book about it.
Serenity: yup, watched it again at my parents' house. my brother loaned us his copy of the series and the movie, so we watched 4 episodes a night and then the movie. my kother commented the day after that it was just too odd not havivng any firefly to watch anymore.
what is it about this series that is so affecting? i remember when it was first broadcast i gave it up in favour of farscape, which was in it's last season (although i didn't know it at the time.) but i keep coming back to firefly in a way that i don't with farscape, or star trek, and don't get me started on how fabulously awful stargate sg-1 is. that shit reeks. Battle star galactica was a favourite when i was a kid, but i have boycotted the new series. i just started watching this year tho, as i feel bereft of shows to watch. Surface sucks ass, house is a letdown, and really, the husband's show, not mine. Lost frustrated me a lot there with the constant repeats, and alais is MIA. really, i should watch less tv. i just feel the need for mind-numbing of a non-alcoholic or drug related source at the end of the day. and it's good to knit to. or needlepoint.

currently i'm working on an embroidery test run of a character from the animae series "samurai champloo", the intro is so textile-ispired, it was an easy choice.

in the days before television, trekkies, and such. did people get so crazy into stories like they do now? pretending they were romeo and juliette? dressing up? quoting lines at each other at conventions in the pub? fanfiction?