You'll ne...ver...walk...alone!

So I've finished the Harry Potter series and I'm slightly disappointed in the movies, but that's how it usually always is with the book going to the movie.  The picture in my head of the story just doesn't add up with what  is on the screen.

So now that HP is officially read, I am now reading Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.  Don't worry, its the more than complete one.  Pretty awesome book so far.  Not the best book to read while running lights for a show though.  I almost busted out laughing when Eddie the computer started singing You'll Never Walk Alone.

"Impact minus twenty seconds, guys..." said the computer.

"Then turn the bloody engines back on!" bawled Zaphod.

"Oh, sure thing, guys," said the computer.  With a subtle roar the engines cut back in, the ship smoothly flattened out of its dive and headed back toward the missiles again.

The computer started to sing.

"'When you walk through the storm...'" it whined nasally, "hold your head up high...'"

-Quote from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams (read it!)

Kinda loving this song in this moment right now.  The color in the music video is kinda trippy.

Delayed Harry Potter Obsession

I have a delayed Harry Potter obsession.  I did not start the first book until the beginning of this semester AFTER seeing the last movie.  I probably would view Snape differently if I had not seen the movies.  I can't seem to hate him with as much passion as Harry.  I cried when I learned about Snape and Lily in the movie.  I've been reading as fast as I can just to get to that chapter.  Talk about motivation.

I find it rather interesting that Alan Rickman played a similar role in Sense and Sensibility as Colonel Brandon.  He is absolutely wonderful in that role.  Also as a person he has a mystery about him which is so intriguing.

The role of the silent lover is so beautiful to me.  For a person to love without any knowledge of being loved in return within literature is "terribly romantic."