The Ramble Woods

Okay.
This.
I don't even really know how to describe this.
It's practically a car crash, but the only reason you saw the crash was because you saw a dancing chicken on the side of the road.
That is, it starts out pretty funny and then just kind of escaltes into a horror of "...You have got to be joking.. Oh. Oh god, you're not?! AAAAUUUUUGH DX" and at the end you're just left in utter disbelief and shock.

Possibly a rent, if only so that you can stop it and scream when it gets to much.

Time Travelers Wife:
Advertised as a heartwarming story of a very devoted wife.
Actually played out as a total WTF screw up of a young girls life with a really downer ending.

I do not recommend it.
At all.

I do not like Zombie movies.
This is just a fact of life.
They make me skittish and paranoid and anyone who tries to sneak up on when am I like that I will scream an unnaturally loud and high note and automatically punch them in the face.
But I really liked this movie.
It didn't have a lot of zombies, but when it did it was pretty gory.
But it also has a very generous helping of Snark and Genre Savviness which I think is part of why I love it so much.
Otherwise, it's a cute story about a ragtag group of survivors attempting to get along, eventually becoming a 'family' and a teenage boy who has a crush on a girl and eventually they go out.
With zombies and shotguns and a great running gag about snack foods.

Not Out Yet

-The Princess and the Frog
-Sherlock Holmes
-Avatar (The one with the crazy blue alien cat people.)
-Fantastic Mr. Fox
-Planet 51
-Ninja Assassins (I'm predicting god awful story, but REALLYREALLYGREAT action sequences.)

Out, but not seen:

-My Sister's Keeper (Heard good things about the book)
-Inglourious Basterds
-9
-Where the Wild Things Are
-Pirate Radio
Boondock Saints II (WHAT.)
-The Men Who Stare At Goats (This is a rental for sure.)
-The Invention of Lying
-Love Happens (AARON ECKHEART. THAT IS ALL.)

I held a brain today.
Like, legit.

I mean, our fucking captain does not know how to play her position. >=/
Coaches, please explain to me. Why does the Center Who Never Does Anything deserve a C on their jersey?
Our defense does not know where to defend
Our offense does not know where to attack
Nobody is switching out at the right times. (There was a four and a half minute shift! They're supposed to be one minute at the max!)

We drill this shit over and over and yet, it apparently does not stick.  In the locker room we preach to each other about what we need to do this game and we don't do any of it. We scream instructions to each other from the bench and no one can hear it.

We lost 8-0 (again) and did not have a single shot on goal.
Good god are we awful this year.

Honestly, I don't think I would need to elaborate upon those two words, but I will, for the sake of venting and proving a point.
I have never, do not now, and probably never will, want a Facebook.
I remember when MySpace was a huge fuckin' deal, and everyone pestered me to get one. Then suddenly, everyone forgot it existed. And then, it was Facebook. And now, everyone is pestering me to get a Facebook instead! DX
You know what I would use Facebook for? The stupid 'status' things. If there was a site that had just that, without the personal profiles, and the pictures and annoying ass 'wall', I would be all over that.
Oh wait.
I have Twitter account. I"ll admit that I got it recently, but I have a Twitter account and I am completely in love with it. A friend who has one along with her Facebook called me out today that I was using my Twitter just as much as one uses a Facebook. She proceeded to bitch about why I should just get a Facebook instead, as it has more stuff.
She then promised that if I got one, none of "them" (lunch friends) would bitch me out on my 'wall' about caving and registering.
The rest of them all proceeded to join in and bitch about how I should get a Facebook. :|
Fuck that. I got up and left.
Yes, I have a Twitter, which does the same thing as one of the Facebook features.
Yes, I have a DeviantArt, which does the same thing as one of the features of Facebook.
Yes, I have a LiveJournal which...does everything Facebook does, only you can actually write shit here. >=/
DeviantArt? I post what I draw, not stupid pictures of myself and my friends. I get feedback that's actually useful, and I have dotcomrades that I can discuss things with.
Twitter? The only part of Facebook I would bother using, and it has Nathon Fillion and Det. Carlton Lassiter. I am completely content seeing the crazy shit they put up there.
(Do Facebook users know about Spartacus Von Awesome? I think not.)

So tell me again:
Why do I need this 'Facebook'?

Aaahh~ Sweet Standard Time, how I missed you~ <3

Post-It notes are probably one of the most fabulous inventions ever and a great tool for writers.
(Did you know the sell them in shapes?) I use them to jot down ideas and snippets and stick them on a wall next to my desk. It is now covered with leetle stars (24 so far, to be exact), and I just adore them.

It works so much better than collecting things in notebooks; I can group them and move them and their shape is just so cheery! I actually like flipping through the stupid things I've come up with this way.

I haven't actually written anything recently, but I skim through the things stuck to the wall, and more ideas come to mind, which are then posted on the wall, and it is a glorious little cycle of inspiration! :3

There are twelve ten people on the team this year.
TWELVE. TEN.
We went down from twenty one.
And we have a game this Saturday.

....
uuuuuuuhhhuihuhuhggggggggg  D|

Good God, this deserved every inch of that R rating.
This movie is NOT for anyone squeamish in the least.
I'm not really squeamish at all and there was some stuff in there that made my stomach flip-flop. I won't be going into detail with that, but there is a lot of blood and corpses and generally icky things.
(And it's really good CGI, which isn't helpful.)

That aside it was horribly horribly sad. The only time I have left the movie theatre feeling like this was after Stop-loss, and that movie made me cry. It focuses very heavily on racism, or really, speciesism, as these are aliens we're talking about. But they're totally not treated like actual people in the least, and the shack slums this was shot in actually exist.
There is no better example of Humans are Bastards currently in existence, I believe.
The REALLY sad part is that should we ever come in contact with very non-human aliens, a lot of this is bound to happen. ;-;

It has some great action scenes if you ignore what they're about, and there are a couple funny moments in the movie, but you feel kind bad for laughing with all the other stuff that's going on, so I'm not sure if they're worth it.

This is one that you'll have to rent because it has times where you just need to pause it and sit for a bit. It's hard to handle all at once.

You guys have no idea how excited I was for this.
And while it was completely awesome, what with the epic action, explosions, homages to the original, and really really hot actors, there were so many continuity errors that it made my head hurt. ;-;
That really hurt my opinion of the movie. It was fun and light hearted, but aaaaaargh. DX
It's worth seeing if you like the cartoon or the comics. A little bit less if you didn't, as there are something that aren't entirely explained very well, but old fans will get it and not think about it twice.

I have blisters on my fingers from trying on new pairs of skates. (Bought a pair. I love them dearly. They're fantastic. <3333333)

:3

-The Princess and the Frog (n/a) (Because it's a good old fashioned 2-D Disney. But I might wait for DVD if no one else wants to go with me. :< )

-Sherlock Holmes, because holyshituguiz~ (n/a)

-My Sister's Keeper (Heard good things about the book)

-Inglourious Basterds

-District 9

-G.I. Joe

-9 (Going this weekend)

Hff.
So.
I got all my songs back from my iPod onto my computer. (Thank god I remembered to update it before The Crash.)
I'm missing a couple playlists, but I can sort those out. Mostly. There was a really old one that I barely remember, but I"m sure it'll come back eventually.

Vista is a fickle thing. I have to use an entirely different program to scan things. (Thank you Internet, for this information. I probably would've screwed something else in the process of constantly trying to reinstall my printer. I have like, five copies of the driver now....) So while all my art is gone, I can at least put new art in. Most of the old stuff was already uploaded or I have a hard copy somewhere.
I really miss Flash and Fireworks though. I'll see if Leo can reburn the CD for those again, if he still even has them on his laptop.

And I now have a bunch of empty folders within the folder 'Stories'.
It's really depressing to see them all empty. But I guess they'll get full again.
Just.
Very, very slowly.

My computer broke.

So I had to buy an entirely new one.

And I now no longer have any thing.

None of my bookmarks. None of my game files. None of my music. None of my art. None of my stories.

That computer was seven years old.

I have just lost seven years of files.

Today sucks.
Really.
Fucking.
Hard.

Oh god, the next time someone talks me into going to a midnight premier I'm smuggling as much food in as I can. Those lines were atrocious.
Not to mention that I've slept a total of three hours now because of how late I got home.

Alright, so I have to admit that I didn't really want to see this movie; the Harry Potter series took a dark turn after book 4, and my enjoyment for it slowly declined with it.
And so this movie was for the most part, dark. There are a few light-hearted scenes centered around awkward teenage love (Awkward!Ron is adorable) but all the other going-ons are quite grim. And the sky seems to be permanently cloudy.
Bellatrix LeStrange is a crazy bitch. Like, what the hell woman.

Otherwise, I can't think of much else to say. It's a Harry Potter movie: British accents galore, fun special effects, gorgeous architecture and sets and the story that you probably knew already when you walked in.

But I went with MJ, and we were dorks, so it was fun.

Because MJ and I have been having lengthy discussions about our own takes on magical worlds, I drew up a chart of the different dragons in mine, and all the things they do.
And this of course inspired me to write semi-lengthy blurbs on the subject.
So here's one of them. (May or may not post this on my DeviantART. I don't know. Depends on what people say about it.)

( Conversation with The Black Dragon )

My 8th grade science teacher inspired my love of sciences; Biology in particular, along with giving people THE most random nicknames that come to mind, referring to anything that has a name that's vaguely scientific as 'thingamajig' or something similar, and was the best "Teacher Dude" ever, hands down. I'll never forget him :3