I won I won I won!

[ealgylden]

Some days I just love Ebay. I just won myself a Watership Down score CD, for a not-scary price. Yay! I've been wanting this score for almost 20 years- it's this beautiful, oboe-filled work that I always find playing in my mind when I think of cool hedgerows and gently rolling English fields. Can you believe it? Dark Crystal and Watership Down in the same week! My score collection just got 400% cooler.

Also very exciting to me- my Shu Lien figure (with the "Sir Te's study" base, thank you very much) arrived today, at long last. She was the short-packed Crouching Tiger figure (why short-pack Michelle Yeoh? Because Art Asylum is evil), she sold out everywhere before I got one, and Ebay prices were usually in the $30 range (I like the figure, but not that much). But at last I found one on Ebay that had been mislabeled in the auction listing so no one else bid, and I got her for $13! Mint and perfect and gorgeous. I finally have all four in the line (not usually a consideration, but I loved this movie). Yay!

I am a very happy (and broke. And exclamatory.) geek this evening.

Comments

[ex-declinean757.livejournal.com]

Ooo! The Shu Lien fig is a beauty, isn't it? Which reminds me, I need to put my Shrine To Kick-Ass Women back up....

And also Way Cool! about the Watership Down soundtrack. You gotta love it when that happens. For me it was finding the score for the Jeremey Brett Sherlock Holmes series. :-)

[ealgylden.livejournal.com]

What a neat icon! Where is the picture from, if you don't mind my asking? I really like your new cowgirl one, too. She looks very sassy.

For me it was finding the score for the Jeremey Brett Sherlock Holmes series.

Ooh, another wonderful score. I love "Elsie Cubitt" (oboes!) and "North by Ten and by Ten" especially. And "Lucretia Venucci." Oh, and "Baker Street Reunion". Okay, all of it, I guess. ;) I had an old, beaten-up cassette copy that I listened to until it spontaneously combusted, which was tragic. But then two days after I started grad school, when I was feeling very stressed and scared, I wandered into an import music store in Yorkville (arty Toronto neighborhood) and found that CD plus "The TV Themes of Nigel Hess," ie lots of stuff I didn't recognize and the lovely, evocative theme for the Granada Maigret series. It's times like that day and this week that make the hunt worth it.

[ex-declinean757.livejournal.com]

What a neat icon! Where is the picture from, if you don't mind my asking? I really like your new cowgirl one, too. She looks very sassy.

It's from the cover of Finder: Talisman by Carla Speed McNeil, a series I discovered while working in Lee's Comics back in San Jose. Talisman was kind of a mini-series within the series. To quote the blurb from the back of the compilation:

Talisman is about a book. The book that's never there when you wake up, no matter how hard you try to take it with you. The book you steal when you're too young to understand it's not the only copy in the world. It's the kind of book that makes you think that if you can somehow swallow it whole, you'll be magically imbued with the skills and abilities it contains ... but once you get it home, it's just another handful of dry leaves. Talisman is about hunger and magic.

If you 1) love comics and 2) love books, I highly recommend it. :-) I'd also recommend vol. 1 of Linda Medley's Castle Waiting series, which was collected under the title The Lucky Road. I'm not as thrilled with the second series, but the first volume was one of those things I read cover-to-cover in one sitting and then grinned for days after. :-)

[ealgylden.livejournal.com]

I've heard good things about Finder for years , but I've never read it. Looks like I'll have to break down and invest. It's a pity one can't usually get comics and TPBs at the library. Also, you worked in a comic store? Wow, I bet that could be either really, really fun, or tremendously annoying. Be nice to have an employee's discount, though.

I loved The Lucky Road and The Curse of Brambly Hedge (which I see is out of print again, darn it), but yeah, I agree on the second series (Solicitine? Something like that, anyway). I liked it well enough, but it just never connected with me like the first series did. Maybe it'll read better as a collection.

Have you read a minicomic called Amy Unbounded? The second story arc, Belondweg Blossoming, was collected as a TPB last year, and it has a lot in common with Castle Waiting. I think Linda Medley even did the intro for the trade. It has things like a ten-year-old girl for the lead character, a dragon in human form and Amy's barbarian mom and gentle weaver dad instead of bearded nuns and talking animals, but the feel is much the same.

[ex-declinean757.livejournal.com]

LOL! Once again, I see our tastes overlap. ::G:: I don't own Belondweg Blossoming but I have read it and have been meaning to add it to the collection for quite a while. :-)

I've actually worked in two different comic book stores, one on each side of the US, lol! The first was a place called The Dragon's Tale in Atlantic Beach, Florida; the other was the aforementioned Lee's Comics in Silicon Valley, CA. It was both really, really fun and tremendously annoying. ::G::

Have you ever read any Donna Barr? I still can't decide what I think of her work. Some of it I really love, while other pieces make me scratch my head and go, "The hell?"

[ealgylden.livejournal.com]

Oh good, I'm glad you've read Belondweg. I pimp it every chance I get. Because it's a great comic, of course, but also because I met Rachel Hartman at the first con I ever went to, and she was so sweet and nice and helpful (and she gave me cookies. Always a plus). Mostly because I really like the comic, though :)

I'm in the same boat as you when it comes to Donna Barr (surprise!). I find the earliest Peach stories hard to read, because the characters are so... odd. And that's true of some of the later bits as well, even though in the later stories they tend to be more recognizable (that's not exactly what I want to say, but close), less caricatures and more characters . But sometimes her stuff really works for me. She's just so uneven. I will and have recced her work, but with the warning that she's hit-or-miss.

[ex-declinean757.livejournal.com]

Oh, forgot to add, the cowgirl one is from a sheet music cover. Found the image in the latest Victorian Trading Co. catalog; they've added a very small section of women of the Wild West, which amused me to no end. I just wish I could do a larger version of the image so you could see all the little details, like the pentacles on her gauntlets. Between that and the mischievous expression on her face, I had to use it for my default icon. :-)

[ealgylden.livejournal.com]

Oh neat, I think I even have that catalog! Um, somewhere. Gee, I really need to clean. With pentacles on her gauntlets, even. What a great picture.