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I’ll add notes when I re-watch this series.
Do not watch this without respecting the Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel viewing order.

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0162065/

A vampire, cursed with a soul to be immortally haunted by his past, hopes for absolution by fighting the damned.

An astonishing series. The characters and story are outstanding. While built upon/within the Buffy the Vampire Slayer universe, it has a different and significantly more adult story line. I would say that this series is better than its parent, but Buffy is mandatory and still enjoyable viewing to get to this one.

Mandatory viewing.

Set in the universe of Buffy the Vampire Slayer – (1997 show), sharing significant-enough elements that crossover-viewing is largely considered mandatory. See Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel viewing order.

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Gattaca – (1997 movie)

2006-02-14

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I’ll add notes when I re-watch this

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119177/
https://www.sonypictures.com/movies/gattaca

In a world where genetics predetermines health, a man with congenital defects pursues his dream of becoming an astronaut.

This is, for me, an intensely nerve-wracking movie. I will definitely keep it in my collection, but I find re-watching difficult.

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I’d need to re-watch this to add proper notes.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer - (1997 show) image

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118276/

A highschool cheerleader, learning she is imbued with the spirit of the Vampire Slayer and her school was built on a Hellmouth, is trained by an ancient order of Watchers to fight vampires and other monsters from ending the world.

An astonishing series, and I don’t say that lightly. The characters and story are outstanding. While this is a fast-and-loose show, it matures. It spinoff/partner series, Angel – (1999 show) is even more adult. This show is well worth the time, even if its initial episodes put the viewer off with its childishness. It’s not a series that “grows on you”, it really does get better and better, building upon and maturing out of its initial impressions.

Mandatory viewing.

Inspired by Buffy the Vampire Slayer – (1992 movie), which is neither mandatory nor recommended viewing.
See also Angel – (1999 show), which is set in this universe and shares significant-enough elements that crossover-viewing is largely considered mandatory. See Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel viewing order
Inspired a comic book sequel.
See also Supernatural – (2005 show) for a similar premise.

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Shakira

2005-01-29

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Music >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.shakira.com/

I was first introduced to Shakira through Whenever, Wherever (2001 song), via the video, and really loved it. I hunted through my resources and found that she had been around for quite some time and a lot of her music was in Spanish (Españoles). Many thanks to that anonymous person somewhere in South America who had an excellent collection which I could build on.

Having lost my fear of “foreign” music through my appreciation for Lacuna Coil (Italian) and later for Vintersorg (Swedish), I fell in love with her voice even when not in English.

A strange aside.. for some reason a song or two really rung a bell for me.. as if I had heard them before somewhere. Nada es facil (“Inevitable”, 1998 – Dónde Están Los Ladrones? #05) did that for me. Weird.

I also bumped into a couple of other artists by the name of “Shakira”.. go figure. =)

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Linkin Park

2005-01-29

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TODO – Select songs
TODO – absorb bits of pushmeaway?

Music >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.linkinpark.com/

A metal/rap-ish/”alternative” metal band, who I know from their very early days and still have pre-release songs from Xero and Hybrid Theory.

They were really great, but like their peers they slid downhill. I stopped caring about them many years ago.

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Brave New World Revisited – (1958 book), by Aldous Huxley

1018-01-14

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Brave New World Revisited

This is an item with Brave New World – (1932 book), by Aldous Huxley

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – (1876 book), by Mark Twain

1017-08-18

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - (1876 book), by Mark Twain cover

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(on Wikipedia)

Something something painting a fence something racism something story of a boy.

After reading The Secret Garden – (1911 book), by Frances Hodgson Burnett I was not about to suffer through another book with an accent conveyed in text.

“This Reader’s Digest edition contains the complete text of Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, first published in 1976.”
Fifth Printing, October 1990
ISBN-10 0-89577-217-5
I also have a Companion Library book of this, which is a double book alongside

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