5 on Friday - Set 132

Travis at Trav's Thoughts invites everyone to lay down a short set of music that takes their fancies for his 5 on Friday meme.

This time next week, I'll be sitting at my booth

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at the Indie Artist Alley, Metro Toronto Convention Centre in Toronto, Ontario signing copies of SAINT SANGUINUS and BOUND BY DRAGONSFYRE. I'll also have prints of my mom's watercolor ink piece, Stare of the Dragon available. 

If you're in the Toronto area from Aug 23-26, hope you can join me at Fan Expo!

Thurs - Aug 23 - 2:00 to 9:00

Fri - Aug 24 - 9:30 to 7:00

Sat - Aug 25 - 9:30 to 7:00

Sun - Aug 26 - 9:30 to 5:00 

In the spirit of Fan Expo and dark fantasy heroes like Scorpius, my falconer's apprentice fighting to stay one step ahead of deadly political intrigue, here's a set of my favorite fantasy film themes.

1 - Harry Potter theme - Hedwig's theme - composed by John Williams

2 -  Game of Thrones theme - composed by Ramin Djawadi

3 - Lord of the Rings theme- The Bridge of Khazad Dum - composed by Howard Shore  

4 - 300 theme - Message for the Queen - composed by Tyler Bates

5 - Xena: Warrior Princess theme - composed by Joseph LoDuca

2012 Movie Madness Challenge - June Report

Time for my fifth status report for the Movie Madness Challenge.


Here is my code for the films:


New to me - N
Repeat viewing - R


I'll also be including how I viewed the films:


DVD
VHS (yes, we have a lot of those, and a VCR)
Network TV
Pay TV
Internet
In theatre

Game of Thrones season 2
Pay TV
N

My iz budushchego (We Are From the Future)
Internet
N


I watched this Russian time travel film on You Tube without any subtitles. I did pretty well! My Russian is getting better and better.


Here's the link if anyone else is so inclined:


We Are From the Future


It follows a group of modern 20-something jaded Saint Petersburg residents who dig on old WWII battlegrounds for military memorabilia, which they sell on the black market.


One of the group is a Neo Nazi thug, who tries to use an unearthed skull for target practice. This sets up the time travel portal for this group of young men to meet the men whose grave they just disturbed.


Really enjoyed it. My interest in actor Daniil Strakhov led me to this one, as it is leading me to many excellent projects.

Snow White and The Huntsman
Theatre
N

The Borgias season 2
Network TV
N

Abraham Lincoln : Vampire Hunter
Theatre
N




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Total movies for June - 5


Total movies for 2012 - 43


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Seven films away from Movie Fanatic status.

Believe it or not, I'm re-watching the Russian historical drama Bednaya Nastya (Poor Nastya) now that I've discovered the fully-subtitled version on Viki.com.

My husband and I are gobbling up this show like starving maniacs. What I love most about it: the good guys don't have to be shiny, although the bad guys don't show too many Save-the-Cat moments to make them more agreeable. In this show, even the good guys do things that truly shock the viewer, and then have to pay a karmic price for their wrongdoing. It's awesome.

Brad and I watch one episode per day, which tends to eat up my movie-watching time, but I'm having too much fun in Imperial Russia.

Just want to say a massive shout-out to subtitler Agatha for helping me to understand what they were saying! *kiss kiss kiss*

25 Movies: Movie Newbie


50 Movies: Movie Fanatic


75 Movies: Movie Critic


100+ Movies: Movie Master