Below are the 20 most recent journal entries recorded in Clémence de Roch's LiveJournal:

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Tuesday, May 8th, 2007
6:58 pm	Spread the "Tudors" love! Finally got round to watching the first episodes of The Tudors. Golly Jonathan Rhys Meyers is pretty; but my favourite has to be Sam Neill as Cardinal Wolsey. Subtle, devious, calculating, intelligent, corrupt and patriotic, he is a fantastic Talleyrand-like figure. And Jeremy Northam has unexpected depth as Thomas More; I last saw him as Ivor Novello in Gosford Park and it's nice to discover him in an entirely different range - from gigolo to King's mentor. (Comment on this)
Wednesday, August 16th, 2006
1:58 pm	Gone to join the choir invisible What Monty Python Prop Are You? You are... The Dead Parrot!You are no more. You have ceased to be. You have flown up and joined the choir invisible. Take this quiz! Quizilla | Join | Make A Quiz | More Quizzes | Grab Code (Comment on this)
Monday, November 7th, 2005
7:06 pm	Meme: Five characters in sore need of a punch in the nose 1. Fabrice del Dongo in La Chartreuse de Parme, for not seeing that La Sanseverina is miles above that little girl whose name I don't even remember. 2. Raistlin in Dragonlance. That angsty Gothy baby spiel is so adolescent! 3. Luke "but-I-was-going-to-pick-converters-in-Anchorhead" Skywalker. *runs from zoethe* 4. Mrs Proudie in The Warden and Barchester Towers. Evil, mean-spirited, nasty crone. 5. George in A Single Man. He's Christopher Isherwood minus the talent and the charm, IOW a particularly unpleasant Gary Stu. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, October 10th, 2005
2:36 am	ROTS DVD review! Only 23 days to the release of the Revenge of the Sith DVD, and here's Bill Hunt's review. Can't wait! Current Mood: excited (Comment on this)
Saturday, October 8th, 2005
2:14 am	They put crack in the Nobel Prize judges ventilation system, right? Mohamed Elbaradei gets the Nobel Peace Prize? A man whose complete lack of cojones vis-à-vis Iran has put us, if anything, closer to nuclear war? Are the Nobel judges completely nuts??? (Comment on this)
2:06 am	REC: "Though The Night Yield No Glimmer" by scoradh Go read. Go read now. Though The Night Yield No Glimmer This is a Draco/Goyle fic, and in its way it's just as stunning as that other strange but marvellous pairing, allecto's The Chosen, which was Harry/Crabbe. I suppose it's because once you've thought up an unusual combination, you really have to work it through to make it believable. Anyway, Though The Night Yield No Glimmer is a post-war, bleak, unsentimental fic, and it's about love. Actually. Current Mood: bouncy (Comment on this)
Monday, August 2nd, 2004
1:56 pm	Happy birthday, ivyblossom! Your wonderful fics pulled me into this fandom! (Comment on this)
3:18 am	Chapter 15 of "Draco Veritas" is up Well, this tears it: this is the fic, or rather the trilogy, that got me into fanfic, but I find I can't much care any longer. (That, and the wait between chapters is simply too long.) The angst is so drawn-out as to become entirely predictable; the overwritten twists and turns of the Voldemort plot now bore me silly; and it's obvious the author plays at almost-pairing Draco with every character available just to tease the readers. This fic has become too slick, too self-referential, and far too self-indulgent; and the writing suffers. It's as if Cassie Claire, who's a fantastically gifted writer, had somewhat tired of the HP fandom, but felt she owed it to finish this. I am much looking forward to any original writing she will produce, and I'd much rather re-read her utterly brilliant A Season in Hell and After the Flood. These are Cassie at her best, with spare, evocative writing, and a sharp, wry understanding of teen-age angst. The understated ending of ATF is a model of how to put a point across with a deeply satisfying economy of means. Current Mood: disappointed (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, July 12th, 2004
12:39 am	Yummmm, heaven! Who is your ideal partner in the wizarding world? by Silvikins Name Sex Colour Partner Percentage of getting together: 100% Created with the ORIGINAL MemeGen! (Comment on this)
Tuesday, June 29th, 2004
10:31 pm	I know this is silly... I am a member of 4 cliques of size 6 clemencederoch, cursive, icarusancalion, isiscolo, scribbulus_ink, geoviki clemencederoch, cursive, icarusancalion, isiscolo, scribbulus_ink, yukipon clemencederoch, cursive, icarusancalion, isiscolo, scribbulus_ink, mctabby, amanuensis1 clemencederoch, cursive, icarusancalion, isiscolo, scribbulus_ink, amanuensis1, yukipon Find the largest clique containing: (Enter your livejournal username here). (Comment on this)
Friday, April 23rd, 2004
6:38 pm	Mrrraaooowwww! You are a Siamese! You are fun-loving, playful, energetic, talkative, and exotic. You are the center of attention and you love every minute of it. What breed of cat are you? brought to you by Quizilla Figures - I'm a complete fan of alchemia and bugland's Procul His. Current Mood: Mrraaaooowwww! Current Music: Jacques Loussier Trio, Variations on Beethoven's Seventh (Comment on this)
Saturday, March 13th, 2004
8:26 pm	Well I never Gacked from littleneedle. Some of these things happened when I was really, really little (haven't peed myself since I was two, so get your minds out of the gutter), and I should mention that the police arresting me were Communist Yugoslav in the 8Os, for poking my reporter's nose over a border fence. ( Put an X in front of the things you've never done ) Current Mood: amused (Comment on this)
Tuesday, February 24th, 2004
12:21 am	Absolut Snape I just love twilightsorcery's Absolut Snape ad!! Current Mood: amused (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, February 12th, 2004
6:00 am	The best Sharpe summary ever. Trust me. ladyjaida has the best Sharpe summary ever. Go there and worship. (Comment on this)
Monday, January 26th, 2004
3:38 am	The 200 Best Books BBC Meme! The ones I read are in bold (and the ones that are on my bookshelves but which I somehow haven't got round to read are in italics.) How do they pick the books, BTW? I mean, Jean Auel??? Four Thomas Hardys but no Anthony Trollope? Jeffrey Archer and no Balzac? Sheesh. ( Still, can't resist a list... ) I really should think up an alternative list. Current Mood: bemused Current Music: Saint Saëns, Septet Op. 65 (Comment on this)
Saturday, January 17th, 2004
4:13 am	Join Scruples_Fest, everyone! Essayel rocks my socks here. She's answered the scruples_fest challenge to write anything the Fandom Scruples censors would most like to ban, and she does it with wit and style - come check out the Climacticus spell to banish a Boggart! A classic. Current Mood: hilarious (Comment on this)
Thursday, January 15th, 2004
10:45 pm	I'm the line I used to take to go to my first London job! Go, me! Congratulations, you are the Piccadilly Line! You are exciting and fun. Your perfect match is the Victoria line. What London Underground Line Are You? brought to you by Quizilla Current Mood: amused Current Music: Runnin' Wild, Marilyn Monroe (Comment on this)
Tuesday, December 30th, 2003
5:38 am	A new H/D classic... ...is pandarus's Invisible to See. Jane Austen meets Dornford Yates, and a perfectly charming Neville, too. And some completely unforced, but piping hot sex scenes. It takes the boys quite a bit to come out of their respective closets, which is as it should be; and even longer to admit they don't hate one another. With terrific snark from Draco and a decidedly unromanticised Snape as well. Absolutely terrific. ETA Gacked from the selfsame pandarus My journal says I'm 70% masculine. What does your LJ writing style say about your gender? UsernameCommunity LJ Gender Tool by hutta It says I'm a man! 70%! Silly machine. *g* Current Mood: amused (Comment on this)
Friday, December 26th, 2003
1:31 am	Spectacularly vulgar I have bought a spectacularly vulgar and financially indefensible (it costs the price of a half-way decent used car) huge plasma screen TV. [*] Not that I was planning to. And then my 15-year-old Philips telly with the cheap replacement remote died on me, just as I'd received from Amazon the compleat boxed Sharpe, the compleat boxed Hornblower, and Seasons 1 and 2 of The West Wing. I heard a faint "poof" when I hit the Power button, and black it went, never to revive. So for three weeks I circle Darty, the "Circuit City" of France, sniffing longingly at the monster screens and ruminating "preciousssss...my preciousssss" in an undertone. Now I got me one, arriving Saturday morning with bells and whistles. It's a 42-inch Panasonic, in case you're interested. Meaning I had to brave Ikea on the eve of Christmas to buy the new lady in my life a dedicated table and shelves for the DVDs currenty lying on the floor in occasional piles. Today, crushed fingers and entirely too much noise for my neighours' beauty sleep as I assemble the stuff. Whee! [*] Didn't buy the steel & glass stand shown here. How they manage to fit something so impractical in those tiny Japanese homes is beyond me. The TV can either hang from the wall, or stand perfectly well on a built-in central stand the size of two hardcover books. In case you wondered. Credit me with some restraint *cough* *cough* *cough*. Current Mood: industrious Current Music: LCI, the French cable news (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Tuesday, December 23rd, 2003
9:23 am	Pic rec: Young Snape Squeee! A superb young Snape, here. Current Mood: admirative Current Music: Christina Aguilera, The Voice Within (Comment on this)