Of Bernard Werber, Numb3rs and slashy songs.

[castalie]

Today was a Great Day! Why? Because I got to meet one of my favourite authors *bounces* A couple of days ago I was cruising Bernard Werber's official site which told me that he was going to do a signing this Saturday in Paris; Sandra and I being huge fans of him - I'm proud to say that I was the one who converted her, btw - there was no way we would miss it, right?

So that's how Sandra and I found ourselves waiting in front of Les Deux Magots café at 3.00 pm this afternoon to meet with the guy. And okay, about Les Deux Magots? It's a very famous Parisian café - it's what we call a literary café? - where people like Paul Verlaine, Mallarmé, Oscar Wilde, Guillaume Apollinaire, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir or Hemingway - just to name a few - used to hang out in their times. Neat, uh? Not exactly a practical place for a signing but classy all the same.

There was another author with BW, but I have no idea who the guy was - I actually felt sorry for him because people kept coming for Bernard Werber... but, dude, it's Bernard Werber, of course he wins at popularity *loves*

So anyway, we were there and he was there and I'm now the proud owner of a signed book! Les Thanatonautes - one of my favourite books ever, maybe the favourite of my books, is now signed! This is huge, people! He also drew a little picture for each book and I got a little angel. *cherishes her book even more than before* Oh and I have four little pics:





Dude, that was a wonderful moment :-)

I also want to say that if I get pneumonia, it'll be because of Bernard Werber; I left the house and it started raining so hard that my clothes got soaked; I spent the whole afternoon freezing my ass off but, well, it was for a very good cause, right?

And then I came home, put on some comfy, warm and dry clothes and planted myself in front of Numb3rs. I don't have a lot to say about the ep, actually:

Larry was back and it was of the good.

The Amita/Charlie storyline is still a mystery to me. I don't know what to think of it. Seems like they do want to try but they're always so awkward... I seriously don't know whether they're meant to be together or not.

A moment I really liked was Charlie's 'it's not fair of me to ask you to sacrifice your career if I'm not ready to sacrifice mine' line, because no, it's not fair at all but at least he realised it. Which was lovely. We'll see where the whole thing goes but I can't say I care one way or the other. And after seeing Charlie with Susan, it's almost painful to see him with Amita because yeah, awkward seems to be their way.

I liked the Alan-Charlie scene, and then the Don-Charlie scene in the garage - loved the fact that Don can still be surprised at Charlie's former accomplishments, here the security algorithm thingie.

I adored the Alan-Don scene at the end: it was very cute.

Also, is Don trying to chase Charlie away or something? Dude, don't do that! Though admittedly, he did that worried little face, and then there was this look between daddy!Eppes and him when Charlie left so I guess it's okay.

Actually I'm more interested in the season finale. I've heard some stuff that definitely interested me. Can't wait for CBS to give us the preview *waits*

Unrelated now: I've downloaded a song that I adore and thought I'd share with you because it's actually a slashy and pretty funny song. It's in French though, so you'll have to take my word for it :-) Hey French Posse, do you remember Benoît and his Tourne Toi song? Man, Sandrine and I kept singing it at one another back in the day. It always cracked us up.

For the non-French speakers among you; it's a dialogue between Benoît and a friend of his. She asks him about the previous night, he answers: and he tells us about this girl he met at the dance club, she was alone - no boyfriend or girlfriend - and she was pretty and looked all cuddly and stuff, so he chatted her up and she took her hand to bring him to a dark corner. Then she asked him to turn around - that's what 'tourne toi' means - which he did and he felt this 'huge thing at the small of his back'. Turns out the pretty girl - Ludivine - was in fact a pretty boy - Jean-Mario - hung like a horse. And Benoît to tell us how he actually decided to give it a try, he bent over and, seriously, it's all pretty easy and every guy should try it once because it's very good and, as he tells us, he had the time of his life. Benoît ends the song mocking all those macho guys who think they're teh shit. Cute, don't you think? lol

Benoît - Tourne Toi There're two versions of the song but this one is the best since it's a bit more explicit :-)

Comments

[castalie.livejournal.com]

It is great, yes :-)

I download my episodes from Mininova (http://www.mininova.org/). There are other sites, of course, but this is the one I've been using pretty much all the time.

Oh and I'm talking about bittorrent, btw.

[admiralandrea.livejournal.com]

Okay, I'll take a look. I don't know what bittorrent is btw! I'm a total ignoramus on these things!