After having seen Stonehenge, I took the train to Cardiff, the capital of Wales.
I had been wanting to travel to Cardiff for a few years, ever since I got into ‘Doctor Who’.
InterRail 2010 – Part 9: Cardiff
Discovering ‘Doctor Who’
In the fall of 2005, at the age of 15, I fell in love with a British science fiction show.
I had been watching the Norwegian national broadcasting network’s second channel NRK2 to an excessive point all through the summer.
InterRail 2010 – Part 7: Traveling to England
After Amsterdam, I traveled up to Hoek van Holland, or The Hook of Holland as it is known in English.
From there I took a ferry which is a part of the Dutchflyer rail-ferry service between Hook van Holland Haven station and Harwich International station in England.
Top 5 Songs from ‘MoS: Level 3’
Back in February, I shared my favorite song from each ‘Miracle of Sound’ album.
This proved to be very difficult, as there are so many great songs there!
I Won a Pop Culture Award
A few days ago, Ruth from Silver Screenings held The Silver Screenings Awards over on their website.
This is an award that they hand out to various bloggers they like, from time to time.
McDuck Breast
For this month’s geeky recipe, I decided to make a dish based on Disney’s Scrooge McDuck!
I have previously expressed my love for the Scottish trillionair duck’s comic books here, but what is even better than reading about Donald Duck’s uncle, is eating him!
The Russo Brothers’ Community
I have been writing a lot about The Marvel Cinematic Universe lately. And some of the movies that I have had the most praise for have been ‘Captain America: Civil War’ and ‘Avengers: Infinity War’.
These two movies, alongside ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’ and the next 2019 Avengers film, were all directed by Anthony and Joseph Russo.
Easter Crime
In Norway, one of our main Easter traditions is reading and watching crime fiction, which we will often sit down to enjoy after a long nice walk in the snow.
Time Travel Stories
I love time travel in fiction.
That is one of the main reasons why I love Doctor Who.
I love how this storytelling device can put ideologies from vastly different cultures, separated by decades or centuries, up against each other. By doing this, we can compare them, and find strengths and weaknesses in both. It can also just lead to funny jokes, or cool imagery, like a medieval knight riding on a velociraptor and wielding a laser sword.
The Cass Casserole with PBJ Sauce
For last month’s geeky recipe I made The Scully Burger, based on FBI-agent Dana Scully, from The X-Files.
I think it is only natural to move from The X-Files to Supernatural, just like many of the creative minds behind that show did.
In Supernatural, Castiel is an angel who sometimes helps the main characters, Sam and Dean Winchester, who sometimes call him “Cass” for short.
As an Angel he does not normally eat, but at different times during the show’s run he has gotten in particular situations where he could or has had to eat.
For this casserole recipe, I have tried to incorporate some of the things he has enjoyed eating in those situations.
It is, as a result, a mess.
The Casserole
1. Make a burger patty mix, with whatever ingredients you prefer.
I used 400 grams of ground beef, an egg, half an onion, garlic, salt, pepper and cumin.
2. Cover the bottom and sides of a greased up casserole with the burger patty.
3. Boil 200 grams of angel hair pasta, then remove the water.
If you can’t get angel hair pasta, use spaghetti.
4. Make a simple tomato sauce.
I just boiled up 400 grams of diced tomato, added a handful of parmesan, and some salt and pepper.
5. Mix the sauce and pasta, and pour it in the casserole.
6. Cover the casserole with a few handfuls of crushed pork rinds that will act as the crust.
7. Let it all bake in the middle of the oven, at 200°C/400°F for 30 minutes.
The PBJ Sauce
1. Put two spoons of peanut butter, and one spoons of red-currant jelly, in a pot.
2. As you start boiling it, add one deciliter of milk and a spoon of butter.
3. Boil, then spice it up!
Serve the Cass’erole with a salad and some PBJ sauce on the side.
The Best ‘Miracle Of Sound’ Songs
I recently rediscovered one of my favorite musicians, Gavin Dunne, aka Miracle Of Sound.
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I usually spend my listening-time on podcasts, but when I am in the mood for music, I like stuff that has lyrics worth paying attention to.
That often means comedy or musicals (e.g. Hamilton), but Miracle Of Sound also fits in that category.
Gavin Dunne often takes a video game, movie or tv-show, and makes a song based on it. The lyrics always reflects the events and spirit present in the works he draws on, in a very interesting way.
I like all his music, but I love the songs based on something I am familiar with the most, as those hit me in a way that the ones based on works I don’t know could not.
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I have here tried to find my favorite song out of each of his main albums (the ones named “Level #”), while also trying to keep my choices as diverse as his various music styles.
If you like this stuff, you can buy his albums here!
Here goes!
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Level 1: Sovngarde Song
“Level 1” has the most tracks out of all of these albums, so this was a very hard choice to make. ‘Sovngarde Song’ presents the awesomeness that is Skyrim, the fifth Elder Scrolls game.
This is a more recent remaster, but it is still the same song, so I felt that would be ok.
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Level 2: Take It Back!
This was a song he got to make as promotion for Mass Effect 3, back before that game came out.
Such a good war-anthem, pumping you up to reclaim Earth from The Reapers!
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Level 3: Dream Of The Sky
Listening to this song again is what gave me the idea to write this whole thing.
The song has so many aspects, just like Bioshock Infinite itself!
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Level 4: Forever Blue
Both a deep dive into the psychology of the main character of Breaking Bad, Walter White, AND a pun on the color of the meth he makes.
Good stuff!
Top 5 Songs from Level 4
Writing Inspiration #5 – Other Writers
Writing Inspiration #4 was about taking inspiration from video essays, often about analyses of certain works or writers.
That sort of skipped over the more obvious advice, to simply take inspiration directly from those same works and writers.
I won’t go in too much detail as this can’t be news to too many people, but I felt it deserved an entry.
Certain writers have helped many by spreading words of wisdom, by what will help the most with inspiration is simply to consume a lot of the type of media you wish to create.
Be it sci-fi or articles, reading a lot of the subject is sure to get your imagination going!
This is the last one of these in a while. I’ll be sure to post some “footnote blog posts” in time, with more specific examples to each categories.
Here’s #1, just to loop it all.