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Christmas/New Year... Why? Because I feel myself alive from first X-mas tree to the last X-mas tree. The rest of the year I'm dragging myself in hope to see the next tree...

Big thanks to noelia_g for the idea (and I love to pick up a good ideas from people)

I am just getting around to the cards part, so, if you'd like one, comment here with your address, comments are screened. If I had your address, assume I've lost it, because I just might have.
If you're interested in sending me a card (I love X-mas and New Year cards, and there almost no one is celebrating it), here is my address:

( I can be found there: )

And now, for the wishlist:

Step One
- Make a post (public, friendslocked, filtered...whatever you're comfortable with) to your LJ. The post should contain your list of 10 holiday wishes. The wishes can be anything at all, from simple and fandom-related ("I'd love a Snape/Hermione icon that's just for me") to medium ("I wish for _____ on DVD") to really big ("All I want for Christmas is a new car/computer/house/TV.") The important thing is, make sure these wishes are things you really, truly want.
- If you wish for real life things (not fics or icons), make sure you include some sort of contact info in your post, whether it's your address or just your email address where Santa (or one of his elves) could get in touch with you.
- Also, make sure you post some version of these guidelines in your LJ, or link to this post (it'll be public) so that the holiday joy will spread.

Step Two
- Surf around your friendslist (or friendsfriends, or just random journals) to see who has posted their list. And now here's the important part:
- If you see a wish you can grant, and it's in your heart to do so, make someone's wish come true. Sometimes someone's trash is another's treasure, and if you have a leather jacket you don't want or a gift certificate you won't use - or even know where you could get someone's dream purebred Basset Hound for free - do it.
You needn't spend money on these wishes unless you want to. The point isn't to put people out, it's to provide everyone a chance to be someone else's holiday elf - to spread the joy. Gifts can be made anonymously or not - it's your call.
There are no rules with this project, no guarantees, and no strings attached. Just...wish, and it might come true. Give, and you might receive. And you'll have the joy of knowing you made someone's holiday special.

( If wishes were horses… )

Also, I've been saving your wishlists, but you can also post me the link in comments, to make sure I didn't miss any. Also, if you have someone on your flist you think deserves gifts (apart from, well, all of them, cuz flists are awesome), link their wishlist to me, maybe I can do something?

List the first ten fandoms that come to mind. Your friends will comment with the character from each that they think you are most like. Remember this is who I'm most like, not favorites!

1. Star Wars
2. Harry Potter
3. Batman (Nolanverse)
4. Три Толстяка [The Three Fat Men]
5. Ai no Kusabi
6. Weiss Kreuz
7. X-men
8. X-Files
9. Indiana Jones
10. Sherlock Holmes

Picked it up from noelia_g

1) Post a list of 20-25 books/movies/anime/TV shows/video games/bands [fannish etc.] that you've had an obsessive fannish love or interest in at some time in your life (or that you simply like(d)).
2) Have your f-list guess your favourite character/member from each item (one person can try to guess 5 characters).
3) When someone guesses correctly, strikethrough the item and put the name of your favorite character next to it.

(I'm sorry, but part of them will be of the Russain origin, I'll try to put them in the end)

1. Star Wars Obi-Wan Kenobi elefwin
2. Harry Potter
3. Batman Jim Gordon gaudy_night
4. Sherlock Holmes Sherlock Holmesgaudy_night
5. Ai no Kusabi
6. Weiss Kreuz
7. Event Horizon
8. Narnia
9. The Patriot Colonel William Tavingtonelefwin
10. The Name of the Rose
11. X-Files
12. X-Men
13. From the books of Alexandre Dumas, père.
14. Lord of the Rings
15. Indiana Jones
16. Equilibrium Cleric Preston elefwin
17. Stargate SG-1
18. Knight Rider
19. The Prestige Bordon twins elefwin
20. Fantômas
21. Мастер и Маргарита [The Master and Margarita] Messir Woland elefwin
22. Три Толстяка [The Three Fat Men]
23. Обыкновенное чудо [An Ordinary Miracle]
24. Волшебник Изумрудного города [The Wizard of the Emerald City]
25. Кабирский цикл Олдей [The Kabir Cycle by H. L. Oldie]

Really, I just don’t get them…

( To the rant )

Sorry, for the long rant, but I just can’t…

And there is the link to the photos of the one of the most beautiful (not to mention beloved) city in the world: http://picasaweb.google.com/zntylner/Chernivtsi2009

По тесту Знание пород кошек на сайте Психологические тесты у меня следующие результаты:

Вы отлично знаете породы кошек. У Вас очень глубокие и профессиональные знания. Вы разбираетесь в нюансах и замечаете даже незначительные детали в той или иной подгруппе. Вы можете смело судить выставки и высказывать свое мнение о той или иной кошке! Оценка - отлично

In about 20 hours I'll be on my way to my beloved Ukraine, to the one of the most beautiful cities in the world, Chernivtsi... First time in 12 years. And second time since our emigration 18 years ago…

Comment, and I'll tell:
1. what I associate with your default userpic .
2. what scent I associate with you.
3. what colour your user name is to me.
4. in what book/film I'd make you the main character.
5. why I friended you.
6. what film/song remind me of you.
7. a random fact about you.
8. my first memory of you.
9. what animal you remind me of.
10. what I [always] wanted to know about you.
11. And you post the meme in your journal in turn. [or not. whatever]
~
Оставившему коммент я...
1. Говорю, какие ассоциации у меня вызывает твой основной аватар.
2. С каким запахом ты у меня ассоциируешься.
3. Каким цветом у меня отображается в мыслях твой ник-нейм.
4. В каком фильме или книге я сделал бы тебя главным героем.
5. Скажу, почему зафрендил.
6. Скажу, какая песня/фильм напоминают мне о тебе.
7. Расскажу случайный факт о тебе.
8. Расскажу свое первое воспоминание о тебе.
9. Скажу, какое животное ты мне напоминаешь.
10. Спрошу тебя что-то, что всегда (ну почти всегда) хотел знать о тебе.
11. А ты за это постишь такую же игрушку у себя в дневнике.

elefwin again coercing me into writing a movie review.



( So, what do I have to say on the subject? )

It goes like this: comment & request and I will reply with five words I associate with you. then you post this in your journal elaborating.

From elefwin

( Go on... )

RULES: Comment and I’ll have a look at your journal info to find THREE FANDOMS you apparently love. And then you answer these questions about them!

01: What got you into this fandom in the first place?
02: Do you think you'll stay in this fandom or eventually move on?
03: Favorite episodes/books/movies/etc.?
04: Do you participate in this fandom (fanfiction, graphics, discussions)?
05: Do you think that more people should get into this fandom?

From elefwin (who else can get me into it...)

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UPD:
3 more fandoms there http://www.diary.ru/~Whitegold-Dragon/p70941904.htm

Somebody, I'm not going to point a finger (but it was elefwin), was for a long time trying to push me into writing movie reviews. Something about my becoming rusty... So...



IMPORTANT NOTE: I liked the movie; otherwise I wouldn't be writing all this.

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“Unfortunately, I’m immortal” (c) Wizard.
Fortunately… You ARE immortal.



Rest in Peace… Baron Munchhausen… Wizard… Jonathan Swift… Mr. Stapleton…

Rest in Peace, Oleg I. Yankovskiy

Do you know what the right way to eat strawberries is? No, no, no… Whatever you have in mind – forget it. The right way to eat strawberries is…To be waken up on your birthday at 7 o’clock by Uncle Petya, who brought a big milk can full of the first strawberries from Aunt Luba’s and his garden. The strawberries are still not fully ripe, but I must have berries for my birthday, according to Uncle Petya. The same Uncle Petya who's sure that “There aren’t not ripe strawberries. Only not enough sugar.”
***
Uncle Petya had already passed away. There is no garden anymore. The milk can… Maybe Aunt Luba still has it somewhere. But for the last 18 years every morning before I wake up on my birthday there IS Uncle Petya with a big milk can full of strawberries.
And I pray to G-d that for the next 80 years it will not change.

x-posted Whitegold Dragon

How old I am? Two… Yeah, I think two. I’m sitting very close to the asphalt. Am I in a pram? Looks like it. It’s my bright orange pram. No, it’s not orange. It’s blue with green. Mom is pushing it. We are going to see Grandma and Grandpa, I think. At last we are near their home. The asphalt is very pretty – black, wet and sparkly under the street lamps' light. Something is shining on the pram's wheel. What is it? It's a candy wrapper stuck to the wheel.

x-posted Whitegold Dragon

There are no two cities as unlike as these two. Unlike in everything: history, architecture, language and continent. The only thing that connects them – my everlasting, everyday-growing love.
One of the cities is mine by birthright and no force in the word can tell me that it's not mine anymore. You can't delete sixteen years of mutual love and happiness just because somebody told you so. Or because you are not living there anymore. Really, it's again from the poem by A. Galich: "Don't call me, my Home, to help you! Don't call me! I'll come by myself!"
The second one… It was mutual love at first sight. I was standing in the middle of the biggest crossroad I've ever seen in my life, understanding that my ten-year life-without-Home was ended. I found myself a new Home. And a new Love.
Now I'm back again to my life-without-Home. Again after six years of happiness I'm in the place I call "my private Purgatory"…

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x-posted Whitegold Dragon

A little movie meme that I nicked from elefwin, as always ;-)

1. Pick 20 of your favorite movies.
2. Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie.
3. Post them here for everyone to guess.
4. Strike it out when someone guesses correctly, and put who guessed it and the movie.

( Good Luck! )

To all those who think Homophobia is wrong and want to fight for a better future for our GLBT friends, please repost this into your journal:

I am the girl kicked out of her home because I confided in my mother that I am a lesbian.
I am the prostitute working the streets because nobody will hire a transsexual woman.
I am the sister who holds her gay brother tight through the painful, tear-filled nights.
We are the parents who buried our daughter long before her time.
I am the man who died alone in the hospital because they would not let my partner of twenty-seven years into the room.
I am the foster child who wakes up with nightmares of being taken away from the two fathers who are the only loving family I have ever had. I wish they could adopt me.
I am one of the lucky ones, I guess. I survived the attack that left me in a coma for three weeks, and in another year I will probably be able to walk again.
I am not one of the lucky ones. I killed myself just weeks before graduating high school. It was simply too much to bear.
We are the couple who had the real estate agent hang up on us when she found out we wanted to rent a one-bedroom for two men.
I am the person who never knows which bathroom I should use if I want to avoid getting the management called on me.
I am the mother who is not allowed to even visit the children I bore, nursed and raised. The court says I am an unfit mother because I now live with another woman.
I am the domestic-violence survivor who found the support system grow suddenly cold and distant when they found out my abusive partner is also a woman.
I am the domestic-violence survivor who has no support system to turn to because I am male.
I am the father who has never hugged his son because I grew up afraid to show affection to other men.
I am the home-economics teacher who always wanted to teach gym until someone told me that only lesbians do that.
I am the man who died when the paramedics stopped treating me as soon as they realized I was transsexual.
I am the person who feels guilty because I think I could be a much better person if I did not have to always deal with society hating me.
I am the man who stopped attending church, not because I don't believe, but because they closed their doors to my kind.
I am the person who has to hide what this world needs most, love.
I am the person who is afraid of telling his loving Christian parents he loves another male.

Re-post this if you believe homophobia is wrong. Please do your part to end it.

A little something I picked up from elefwin ( ... )

Meme

1. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me."
2. I respond by asking you five questions of a very intimate and creepily personal nature. Or not so creepy/personal.
3. You will update your LJ with the answers to the questions. 
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.


( Answers for Elefwin )

Grabbed from dkwilliams

Bold the ones you have read, strike through the ones you read and hated, italicize those you started but never finished and put a star next to the ones you love.


( Let's see )

Look, what I'm doing instead of getting ready for tomorrow citizenship test.

Happy Birthday to the person, who makes my life worth something…

I love you, elefwin

elefwin, really, why are you doing it to me?

O’k, here is your meme……

The Actor Meme:
Choose your favourite actor. Look up his/her name up on imdb.com and list all his/her movies (no series). Bold the ones you've seen. Underline the ones you own. Strike the ones you didn't like. Then tag five friends to do this meme.

( Lessee…… )

I'm not going to tag anyone - anyone welcome ;-)

A fandom meme from elefwin:

Current fandoms: Khm..... and who counting them? lessee......... Три Толстяка [and i don't give a damn, that it's being the fandom of one fan], Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Harry Potter, Patriot, Ai no Kusabi, Weiβ Kreuz, Sherlock Holmes (books and Russian movies), Fantômas (with Jean Marais), H. L. Oldie [and who told, that there is no Oldie fandom?].... more or less that's it..... or, at last, biggest of them.......

My first fandom ever: Три Толстяка

My most recent fandom: Weiβ Kreuz

Five fandoms that mean a lot to me: Три Толстяка, Star Wars, Harry Potter, Ai no Kusabi, Weiβ Kreuz.

Tag five people: everyone who wants...

From my dearest elefwin


1. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me."
2. I will respond by asking you five questions. I get to pick the questions.
3. You will update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the same post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.


( O'k, my quiestions from Elefwin )

Пересматривал "Имя розы" (очередной образец, как НЕ надо экранизировать хорошие книги... Но не будем о грустном)....
Так о чем это я.....? Ах, да... Пересматривал "Имя розы" и меня малость глюкнуло.... Хорхе из Бургоса играет некий Feodor Chaliapin Jr. Пошел проверить - таки да - сын Федора Ивановича Шаляпина. Вот вам и глюк - я, в начале 21-го века, смотрю не очень старый фильм [19 лет - не возраст] в котором одну из главных ролей играет сын Шаляпина...

Еще один хороший человек...

inkasun, поздравляю и желаю...



И спасибо за все...

Вот, увидел... и нахлынуло...



Это ведь действительно The End...

P.S. Иных уж нет... Sir Alec and Peter, you're missed...

Трудно говорить о дружбе Украины и России, когда на одном гербе вилка, а на другом - курица.

В России две беды, и одна из них ремонтирует другую.

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2D( мусор )</div>

Скульптурный ( мусор )</div>

Фото( мусор )</div>

Никак не могу выбрать окончательный ( вариант )</div>

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