Blather, rinse, repeat

Haha, I'm such a dork. The song and the cut-scenes just seemed to go together and I couldn't help myself. So now you know, when I say "I'm killing zombies," this is the game I'm playing. RE4 is a great survival/horror game and Leon is a fun and quirky hero. Hope you like this silly AMV!

This also served to remind me why I fell in love with 30STM in the first place. They are such a fantastic band. Jared's voice is so beautiful when he just lets it fly like that. ^_^

Oh: Please let it load before watching it, please have the sound on (hello, it's an animated music video,) and please watch till the end because it's very funny. ^_^

I don't know dude, all of a sudden I was writing fanfictions again, really short ones that I didn't even bother to finish. I was just goofing around, trying to see if I could come up with anything. I wasn't too thrilled with it.

So I did what I always do: uploaded them to a private page and ran them through my old friend The Mangler.

As always, mangled lines are in italics and parenthetical comments are my own.

( They grab onto something--a barrel a sack of grain, he can't be seeing this: spikes shoot out of his pants. )

FUN!

Mild spoilers, nothing you can't figure out for yourself.


Hmmm.

I just think that Klaatu should realize that there is a HUGE difference between "seeing the good side" to a person (or the entire human race) and actually believing that they will change. Everyone says they can change when it's about to end, and maybe they change for a little while until they think the threat is over, but you can't change what is fundamentally there, you just can't.

And seriously, if all Helen had to do was prove to Klaatu that humans had a good side and weren't merely destructive, let's forget about the whole "Oh I miss my dead husband and love my stepkid, watch us mourn together" thing, and instead just have sex with him. I mean if he was moved simply by witnessing something as trite as a cemetery scene, why not just skip over all the syrupy stuff and just bang? He was like, "There is another side to you. I see that now." No, all you saw was that humans are afraid of death, and you obviously already knew that what with the "please don't kill us" thing.

If anyone did the "another side to humans" convincing it was that Chinese dude and John Cleese, and they didn't have sex with him, so.

Helen should have hit that with the fist of an angry god. I mean, first, before doing anything else. Before even trying to reason with him or beg. "That's another side to us humans. Now have some Gatorade and call off your little silver bugs."

That's what I would do. If an alien came down saying he had to destroy humans to save the planet, but maybe not if only he could find something decent about the human experience, and he was all Keanu Reeves looking, I would do that.

I would so do that to save the human race.

The acting was okay, I love John Cleese. The kid was hella frigging annoying, I wanted to slap him out of the script the entire time. jennifer Connelly's always pretty decent and Keanu is, you know, Keanu. He's hit or miss for me and he didn't really have a hell of a lot to do in this film.

One of the best things was that I saw a commercial for The new Resident Evil movie with Leon in it! I nearly screamed! Now on Amazon it says the release date is 12/27, but everywhere else it says the 30th. WTF?! Goddamnit, I want my beautifully rendered, badly scripted fanservice NOW thank you!

Oh, and also this which has nothing to do with the movie:



Well, we've already lost lots of human rights over the last eight years; I hope to gain some back instead! And I'm not sure about connecting with a broadsword of any kind. I really will try to drink more fanfiction, I'm sure I won't be givine Native American's to charity (what an American way of thinking! >_<) I wouldn't mind starting a Pele fund, and skitty_kitty already knows my true feelings: That we are some sort of cosmic twins!


:D

To get this out of the way first:

Say, Bush, you invaded the wrong country and Al Quaida wasn't there until you invaded it.

"SO WHAT?"



Once again, Cenk says it all. I don't even have to add to his commentary.

Well, now that that's off my chest... Today is otherwise lovely! It's raining, and though I wish it were snowing, this will do for now I guess. Once in a while the rain freezes into sleet and makes a cool noise on top of my patio room and the aviary.

Last night in Kung Fu we all had such a great time. We worked really hard in basics class and then in advanced we did locking and trapping and throwing. I'm feeling all stretchy today, also I think I caught a cold but it's not so bad.

As we were closing up the school I asked Sifu when our party was going to be and he said he didn't think we were having one because no one could afford it. This was a MAJOR bummer for me. I told him, "Yeah, I guess I understand. But, let's have one anyway!" and he was like, "Well, okay." In the end we decided that whoever wants to will just meet up for a night out. It probably won't be that many of us. Me, the Empress, Lady Chrysanthemum, Beautiful Boy, Snarklit, and Sifu is my guess. Maybe Scarred Hardcase and Tattooed Sweetheart.

This afternoon I'm going to see TDTESS. It plays at 4:10 around the corner here. I guess I'll go out to the grocery store and get a pint of ice cream for dinner and then head over to the theater.

BLISS, right? :)

Oops, one more thing. Making me both LOL and cringe today, Resident Evil 4 ways to die. It's 8 minutes freaking long!



It's hideous when he gets totally owned by the regenerators! And chopped in half, and run over, and stabbed repeatedly and, like, really graphically. It's kind of hilarious when Luis kills him out of exasperation. And It's AWFUL* when he drowns!














*Kind of hot.

Yeah, kind of hot.

ETA:



O_O

hyenarave, you showed me the trailer for the new CG film based after Resident Evil 4 with Leon Kennedy and I fangirled and wondered when it was coming out.

Guess what? IT'S ALREADY OUT IN JAPAN. And according to the Wikipedia entry, it will be "coming to DVD and Blu-ray in North America on December 30, 2008."

O_O

Whoop whoop!

Here's an interesting article on Facebook users and narcissism.

The researchers found that the number of friends and wall posts (messages left by the owner of the profile or friends) that a person had on their profile correlated with how narcissistic they were. Study leader Laura Buffardi, a Ph.D. student in psychology, said this is similar to how narcissists behave in the real world, forming numerous but shallow relationships with others...

"We found that people who are narcissistic use Facebook in a self-promoting way that can be identified by others," Buffardi said....

"Nearly all of our students use Facebook, and it seems to be a normal part of people's social interactions," Campbell said. "It just turns out that narcissists are using Facebook the same way they use their other relationships - for self-promotion with an emphasis on quantity over quality."


So, err... then it's a good thing that I have three friends and about ten comments? O_o Heh.

In other news, I am home (obviously,) unpacked, have returned to Kung Fu (owie,) and am back to stressing about the coming election and the state of the country. I feel like I missed everything, eveyr bit of news while I was in Disneyworld. A literal vacation from reality, that one was.

And apparently I have to go to the doctor for a wellness checkup before I apply to college,a nd retrieve my immunization records from my alma mater. I did find my college transcript. (The grades read like a long winded sheep. BAAAAAAAAAAAA. I had a really good average. ;D ) I am shy one lousy bioscience credit bu7t I can make that up at the grad school.

Grad school? Did I just say that about myself?

Oh my god. I have to get bookbags, pencils, pens, notebooks with dividers and junk like that.

WTF?

WTF?

WTMFF?

Currently I am trying to sort pictures from the Disney trip and see which ones to post.

I am also re-reading one of my most fanpoodliest favoritist book, Capt. Hook: The Adventures of a Notorious Youth. Apparently the sequel comes out this fall. I have been waiting for three years. Isn't that WAY too long to wait for a meffing sequel? GOD. Every once in a while I revisit my Captain Hook madlove.

I miss my SB and my hyenarave. JO-CHAN. See if I can't pick you up after school next Friday and drop you off Saturday night. Iron Man comes out on DVD Tuesday. I'm thinking: visiting Boychild, ice cream, FFVII, Iron Man at AJ and UJ's later. You say?

Meanwhile, here are two pics from the latest trip:

THE BRUSH OF SCRATCH BACK.


They never specify where.

I am using this icon because it's Cloud Strife's birthday. Okay, yes, I know, I should be ashamed to know that. But I am not. I am a FANGIRL. See my well-worn copy of FFVII. You just can't find that out there anymore! CHOKE ON IT!

Wow, I have a lot of catching up to do, and a lot more pics to share.

On Thursday, we walked to the beach. "We" was my Ma, Chrissie, Boychild, Celia (her sister, my cousin,) and her two youngest kids Mimi and Zack.

( Beautiful sunset, ridiculously cute kids, and great pics, if I do say so myself. )

On the way home, Celia and Mom and I sang the theme to WKRP in Cincinatti, like really, really loud. Then Celia and I sang Stone Temple Pilots "Plush" and wondered why we had never wondered wtf the lyrics were about before. Then Zacky grabbed my hand and he wanted to sing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, which we did. We found some footprints from road paint which went in a circle and disappeared. Zack was convinced it was "The Jolly Mean Giant" who was going to come and scare him that night, but I tried to tell him it was a nice angel wh had flown away. Then we were stopped by my neighbor's husky, Fire, who was running around trailing his leash. He jumped on and licked all the kids before the neighbor came to get him. Then he let all the kids pet him. When they left, Mimi said to me, "THAT MAN LICKED ME!"

"Err, dog," I told her. The last thing you want is a kid telling random people that a man had licked her.

We went back to Chrissie's house where Zack and Mimi didn't want us to leave, and Zack said to me, "Umm, umm, umm...

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Iloveyou!!"


That was Thursday. I had hoped to take her oldest boy, Brando, to Kung Fu with me tomorrow, but I haven't heard from her, so I'm not sure.

In other news, I said goodbye to my beloved birdies on Sunday. The three bluejays (including, of course, the super friendly one,) and the TITMOUSE (whose name is Tifa,) are all going to live with my friend Laura until release.

I spoke to Bluejay and I told him, "This is where our ways part for now. You've been a good friend, and thanks for spending the summer with me." Then I said fare thee well to Tifa the TITMOUSE.

I think I'm keeping the neurological robin (Dana,) till the end. She keeps getting worse. She can't keep her head still and she will never fly. But she does eat on her own, and she bathes and preens and sings. I think she's going blind in her left eye which makes me think she's got a brain tumor. I might experiment with some different remedies and see if anything works. She's a sweet thing. You never know.

Dude, man, so today I just saw Tropic Thunder. It was as hilarious as I'd heard it would be. Ben Stiller has this way of making comedies that are so satirical that their truths make me feel embarrassed for the people he's satirizing. I mean, the satire is so right on the mark that you're just like, "Ohhh. Ouch." There were parts where I totally LOLed.

Aside from the movie, here are some things I'd like to add.

So, I need to find me a guy with eyes like RDJ. I'm not talking about the silly blue contacts, but I mean the whole dark, dramatic look thing. Eyes like that make me want to hit it with the fist of an angry god.

The best parts of the movie were his random one-or-two liners that made everyone else go O_o.

"Satan's Alley" needs to be a real movie. ;)

Why are movie theaters so cold? I swear my nips are gonna hit the screen.

Moving on.

So okay, here's a weird thing. I'm putting this on the table, okay, I wouldn't mind some opinions. It's weird; bear with me. Here we go.

I might have mentioned that I've been seeing the same set of letters on license plates everywhere, and they spell out the publishing company to which i just sent my manuscript. Oddly, since I sent that bitch out, I have not seen that name on any license plates. But, it has been replaced with another word, and this one disturbs me. Everywhere I go, everytime I go out, without fail, at least twice in one trip, I see EGG on a license plate. Everywhere. EGG. Constantly. No more publishing company. (Which was odd enough in itself; there are, as far as I know, a handful of three letter publishing companies, but I only kept seeing this one. And believe me, I looked for the others.)

So EGG has been following me around, or actually I have been following it, since I always seem to be behind it. And in the last week another funny thing has happened, and I didn't really pay much attention to it because it's just a fannish thing. A few times I've seen plates with the letters as follows: CGB. CGB Spender was Cigarette Smoking Man's initials on X Files. He was played by William B Davis.

Today in the parking lot, I parked behind an EGG license plate. On my way home, I was behind this dude in a truck. His vanity plate read DAVIS. I thought that was kinda funny. We both turned onto the same road an dhe pulled over to the right lane and pointed out his window like he was trying to indicate something. He was pointing to the car that had been in front of him but was now in front of me, a maroon mini van. The dude was probably not pointing out the minivan to me, but it sure seemed like enough of a weird occurrence that I was curious.

Willing to follow the White Rabbit to a point, I shrugged and pulled up behind the maroon minivan. I have to tell you that even I was surprised to see that its license plate read "EGG."

Man, wtf. WTF? WTMFF?

Now I know that there is some kind of mental disorder where you see signs and connections in everything. I realize that this is a form of OCD and I know i have OCD. you you gotta admit that's kind of weird and might make anyone spit-take. Right?

Help me out with this!

Could this possibly be for real? If so, it's a long time till even any news of a possible release date but still. Maybe?




ETA!

Bah! It is a chopped up version of a really decent fan video called The Dark Sage.

The first one is much cooler! It was done by one dude, one John Curran. Bravo. Now why would someone steal it and chop it up? >_

Taking Back Sunday





Aug 12 2008 9:22 PM
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Awesome suggestions haha! When we play Hawaii we'll just have your dance group perform with us!

<3
fazzi


I'm pretty sure I just won the internet. ^_^

( Slight spoilers for X Files )

Here's another weird thing! When Mulder is going through his cell phone numbers, presumably to call Scully, he very obviously scrolls down to the name Gillian and starts to hit send.
WTF?

Anyway, it was loads of fun, and I will for sure break out my old X Files tapes to watch later. :D