we got all night

I'm so behind on TV. I'm like a month behind on Sunday shows, a week behind on everything else. I spend all my time at school and I feel like every time I do anything extracurricular someone goes "LOL UNDO" and I have to waste another three hours of my time doing something that will be undone the next day.

The one light in my life was that this weekend was the World Cup of Quidditch and despite others telling me they would go, the only one who actually came along was splits_thesky. She needed that weekend as much as I did, and it was joyous, omg. I uploaded pictures and videos (there are eight videos but only four are showing up right now?) on Facebook. I think I would enjoy hanging out at Quidditch matches from now on. I'm going to look into helping out with some local Quidditch Club. Something to do with my spare time (lol says the girl with none). Also I uploaded pictures from Boston and my visit to the Statue of Liberty in August because they were all on my camera and I just only found the USB cable this weekend. Eventually I will have time to think for myself and actually post that Boston entry I've had waiting in the wings.

I've decided I want to go to a midnight showing of Deathly Hallows on Thursday, despite having to work the next day. It'll just make my Friday harder but damn it, I get so little time to myself. I haven't chosen a theatre but two people who said they'd come with me. LET'S SEE WHO ACTUALLY SHOWS, EH? And I now have a Ravenclaw tie so heck yes, there will be reppin' happening. Or something.

Also, BTR is releasing a holiday EP or something and one of the songs is "All I Want For Christmas Is You" which is my FAVORITE MODERN CHRISTMAS SONG. Also releasing a holiday EP? Rooney. This Christmas is like eargasm central for me, CLEARLY.

This spring weather is doing amazing things for my sanity. I find myself smiling a lot more lately than I have in a while. I'm a lot less stressed, much more invigorated (although part of that's probably the spring break, too), etc. I want to do internet spring cleaning, but I don't have time right now.

Those of you who watch/know anime/manga, what does it mean when you can't see the character's eyes? Like this? Does it mean anything? I can't find anything on tvtropes about it. I'm reading it as they're shady or ashamed, but there's other tropes for that, and in that particular scene Kazahaya is just walking neutrally, so I'm confused.

Wow, remember when I didn't even care about anime? WHAT IS THIS YEAR? I've got three series on my laptop to watch this weekend alone along with five manga series bookmarked on my phone's Manga Browser. It's like 2010 hit and Japanese culture invaded my heart. Anyway.

I got my instructions for graduation next month and now I can't help seeing the end in sight. It's exciting!

And I finally got myself a new layout! It's been up for about two weeks, but I only just decided on a header I liked. I was going to do rotating headers, but I like my rotating headers to have a similar theme and the ones I was making were all over the board. It's been a while since I had a Psych-only header, anyway.

Oh, and Bijou is sick, lol. She had a vet appointment on Thursday and I guess they gave her kennel cough accidentally via the shot used to prevent it, because she's got a runny nose (lol idk dogs with running noses are kinda still adorable, even if I'm the one constantly cleaning her nostrils) and keeps coughing (which we all thought was just her retching at first, because it's the same sound). I've never had a dog get their version of the common cold before and it's kind of hysterical and adorable at once. I think it's stupid that they even have bothered giving her that shot, because she doesn't go anywhere or go near anything that would give her kennel cough anyway.

( How To Make It In America )

( Lost )

( V )

( Here, have some super-short but cool videos I saw on The Digg Reel (which I'm also still behind on) )

I prefer criticism to compliments, but today a classmate of mine asked for a copy of my poem that we went over in class Tuesday, and it's buoyed the rest of my day, lol. But this entry isn't about poetry.

For my screenwriting class I'm making a horror movie. Generally I don't watch horror movies unless they're super-gory or have some actor I like in them. It's usually the latter, although I've been known to see horror movies with actors I can't stand specifically to watch them in pain (I'm horrible, I know).

Anyway, now I'm in a pickle because I really like this one story I'm doing, but the teacher is discouraging making movies that rely too heavily on genre tropes. So that only makes me, in my naivete and hardheadedness, want to prove myself. But I'm not a horror movie buff. He also wants us to watch a movie a week and analyze the plot points and three-act structure. I usually do that kind of thing anyway during movies (I focus on imagery and writing more though), but I barely have time to relax, much less watch movies.

So I'm thinking, to help myself out, I'm going to make my one movie a week movies in my genre. So here's where y'all come in! I need horror/thriller/psychological movies, especially with possessed objects like cars and houses. Here's my list so far:

Amityville
The Shining
Cold Creek Manor
The Changeling
Saturday the 14th
Poltergeist
13 Ghosts
Monster House
The Others
Burnt Offerings
The Haunting
Legend of Hell House

Aaaand SPN episodes: phantom traveler, women in white, route 666 (stfu)...

I asked Tumblr last night, but there's more people on here. :p

So rec away!

P.S. Ugh, I can't pick icons on this thing. Android fail!

So I missed the VMAs, but I was watching HBO. HBO > MTV.

I don't know what I'm going to do each Monday this semester with this six hour break. Thank my father for getting me Gabe, for sure. But besides that, I'm totally bored. I can't watch TV for six hours straight. My attention span wanes.

The school's wi-fi keeps me from going on AIM and Y!IM, as well, so I have to use AIM Express. I don't speak to anyone on Y!IM as of late, so I don't worry too much about that when I can't get on.

( Psych )

( True Blood )

( Entourage )

( Sons of Anarchy )

( I'm not sure if this constitutes as a casting spoiler for SCC or Fringe/Lost, but )

Lia

Holy hell, it took me three hours to catch up with my flist. I'd been gone a while and it felt like forever, but the usual amount of catching up is two hours. Um.

Whatever, spring break is coming up. I'm excited. Mostly because the week after it ends is the week Iron Man comes out. I'm sad that I haven't seen ads for it anywhere, whereas Speed Racer and Made of Honor are everywhere, but MSG does have an Iron Man ad along the hockey rink and 7-11 has 3D cups. I got the cups on Monday, and every time I watch a Rangers game (like now) I'm begging someone to do a body check into the wall where the ad is. I'm sick, we all know this.

Speaking of sickness, my obsession with older men continues. And evidently my long train of actor/musician obsessions as well. Because now I'm crazy about Dermot Mulroney (and his band-- "Life Is A Pain" FTW). I like actor/musicians fine, but I'm tired of everyone putting out albums because someone told them, "Oh hey, your voice is good." And they're all in genre groups, too. Like Bruce Willis and Russell Crowe have rock bands and all the pretty young'uns are pop tartlets. And now there's the singer/songwriter tag for people like Jason Schwartzman and Zooey Deschanel and Scarlett Johansson (although bringing Tom Waits to the masses is probably something I can get behind). And don't get me started on singers who want to act. Can't anyone ever just stick to one career anymore?

Which reminds me-- my dad taped an episode of "After Film School" with Jason Reitman on it. And I had no idea that Robert Rodrigeuz wrote a book. I looked at my dad when he came home and went, "Clearly, a trip to BNN is in order this weekend!" I don't even know why I try. I could read fifty books on directing and writing and making movies, but without friends to cast in them, what can I possibly do? Still, Jason Reitman is pretty awesome, even if I am among the few who enjoyed Thank You For Smoking more than Juno. I love when directors give actual advice and aren't all gloom.

( Maybe I should listen to this meme and do writing instead. )

Speaking of actor/singers, a spoiler for any HIMYM fans on my flist.

Lia

P.S. I'm highly amused that the name of the judge in the Jo Rowling vs. the HP Lexicon case was Robert Patterson.

Two and a half classes done! I'm going to miss my Geography and English teachers, but not the time the classes started and ended. I also got a lovely compliment on my speaking voice that just about made my night.

Today on my way home I saw a truck that read "SCHWARTZY'S MOVING CO." and I just about died. And my bus stop had an ad for Nation Treasure 2, and I couldn't stop looking down at John Schwartzman's name in the DOP section and grinning like a weirdo.

( Year in review meme )

And that handwriting meme.


Now I'm going to get started on those spams I promised y'all (I cannot stop saying this lately! Even in class today), and your X-mas gifts. Then comes catching up on all the two weeks of TV I've missed. I think I have everything, but if you still want something or if I forgot something, let me know. I'm kinda excited about all this. It's kind of sad.

Holiday gifts
Psych Xmas fanfic, drabble, icons, banner and profile layout for vampira34
Bandom header for splits_thesky
Jam drabble for rateth

Fandom spam
Diggnation
Psych
K-Ville
Entourage
How I Met Your Mother
Comics

Lia

P.S. This cover owns my mind today. You can hardly hear Robert over Rufus, who's gobbling his mic up, and Sean who's the only one with a solo (rightfully so, regardless) but I love it. And Sean randomly looks like Masi Oka during the solo...

So, I finally got online to get my grades. I passed Algebra! I'm not transferring from now on. Freak missing the city. I'm not taking that class ever again. My grades were as follows:

MODERN EUROPEAN HISTORY: B
COMMUNICATIONS: A
ALGEBRA: D
AMERICAN CULTURE: A-
ART HISTORY: B+

I feel bad for not thinking Sow would actually get away with giving me a D like he said, after listening to my sob story of taking the course numerous times. That makes him the first Math teacher I've had that stood by his word. Still doesn't mean he was a good teacher, but I felt like sending him a thank you card or the like.

Anyway, I finally saw Ocean's Thirteen, Knocked Up, Spun and Slackers.

( Slackers )

( Spun )

I was originally supposed to see Ocean's Thirteen on Friday, and Knocked Up earlier this week. But my plans went out the window this week and Friday's weather was in the 90s (and I'm really not waiting for a bus in that heat.) Then a friend reminded me that today, Sunday, was the Puerto Rican Day Parade. That's the one day I don't go outside because people get ridiculous over here. My dad has delusions of taking me to the parade one day before he dies, he says. The parade is basically a life experience equivalent to my not watching Titanic. I have no desire at all to go to it. But I'm a daddy's girl so if he wants to drag me one year and if it'll make him happy... I... might go. /end tangent

Back to the point. I decided to double-feature both movies Saturday. And just as I was leaving, my dad said he wanted to go shopping in the same area. So we left together. During the day I was explaining internet memes, engrish (that also included Spanglish and reminiscing about The Ketchup song), macros and lolcats to him (when we got home last night I showed him some lolruses and lolhamsters) and I got a few new shirts out of it. Really just some plaid shirts, the new Old Navy July 4th ts-hirt (lol mom and I collect them every year since 2002,) and a GREEN POLO! I HAVE A GREEN POLO. IS IT JULY 13TH YET?

( Ocean's Thirteen )

( Knocked Up )

Oh yeah, and the poster for Knocked Up is basically the poster of The Forty Year Old Virgin. Get a new ad agency! But I love the fact that it makes Ben look like a sex offender or something. "What if this guy got you pregnant?" Oh NOES! lol. They both remind me of McDonald's for some reason... o_O

Also, zomg tonight is the finale of The Sopranos but Brandon's sleeping over so I can't watch it live, unless he conks out in the next half hour. He brought the Wii over too, but won't let me play it... and something's wrong with the second controller so we can't even play two players. But it looks like he and my dad are still messing around with their "Lego Star Wars masterpiece" on the computer, so I may go steal the Wii and hook it up in my room. I want one so damn bad!!!!!!!!!!!! :(

Lia

P.S. Damn, I'd been writing this entry since 6pm! Talk about interruptions...

The promos for shows are all out of whack. Chevrolet is sponsoring USA network instead of The CW (Supernatural), and Toyota (Yaris) is sponsoring Smallville instead of Psych.

I got SingStar Rocks! and SingStar Pop. These games are tougher than the Karaoke Revolution series, but they're not technically games. I don't think there's any real point to getting the high scores. Even still, I've spent the whole day playing them.

In art class today we went over Michelangelo's The Last Judgement. Am I the only one who thinks Jesus looks like Kid Rock? Here's a close up of Jesus. And what's with the ladder dude? Is it going through his robe/cloth?

( The Sopranos )

( Drive )

Asia ≠ me being a PCD fan. If Nicole goes solo, I'm going with her, but that's about it. No one really cares about this, but since I like to hear myself talk/type, there ya go.

( Supernatural )

I really, really love ABC's Thursday night ads. JC! *beams*

( October Road )

Was that Michael Stahl-David in that Traveler preview? And who gave Logan Green a show? Ewww (LOL but Aaron Stanford's in it apparently. Awwww Pyro, you suck).

Lia

P.S. This post is alll over the place. Kinda like my mind. Sorry about that.

Today was totally a weird ass day. I hope everyone near Virginia is ok. I know some of you live in VA. And for everyone else, just... start building boats. I saw somewhere on the news some lady said it's the most water she's ever seen. Um, sure. You were living under a rock during Katrina then, I guess. It's not torrential here but if I see a honey pot or umbrella float by with some forest animals in them, I'm hopping on.

As for other news, The Imus story is definitely huge in my school so we ended up talking about it yet again today. I want it to be over already. My views don't fit the majority of the class and having strangers pounce me is not on my list of "must do". And I forgot my calculator and we had a test in Math. But we spent so long reviewing that it got pushed to Weds. I love my class.

I spent a good hour and a half out in the rain today just because I wanted to. Ever had one of those days where you just don't want to be anywhere? Yeah. I wanted to be home so badly. And you know how you sometimes think you see something out of the corner of your eye and it's nothing? Well the women in my family (maybe some of you get it too, but it's only my mom, me and my sister that see this) from time to time see like human figures, almost like silhouettes. Sometimes they're dark gray, sometimes white. They're only ever around for 5 seconds at most. But I've been seeing them a lot lately, especially at school and it creeps me out. They're not scary, it's just shapes. But it's maybe three every five minutes at school. It's hard to focus on stuff when there's shapes moving about the campus or the library, disrupting you from whatever you're doing.

My music isn't helping either. I'm highly addicted to Amy Winehouse. I try to listen to one album at a time, and then listen to Chingon or Kane or Marky Mark or something else I adore, but in a few minutes I'm thinking about some song I adore, and scrolling the iPod/iTunes back up to 'A'. Ever get those kinds of ruts? I know it'll blow over eventually and I'll be in some other musical addiction, but it's kind of annoying once you know all the songs by heart but just can't help listening one more time.

And I missed a good half hour of "Dancing...". And obviously now there's three episodes of "Drive" I have too go find. BUT. Coming Soon came from Blockbuster, so screw the shows. It is time for floppy-haired James Roday. Once again, Psych (or it's star) saves the day.

Oh, also:
This wins. Trainspotting was good, but the sequel wasn't too amazing. But that may have been because of the way it was written. It wasn't written in dialect like Trainspotting was. So, maybe the movie will be better. Although the accomplishment of the movie wasn't making a good movie, but knowing which characters from the book would make the best sense in the movie. So that's what I'm looking forward to now. P had a lot of funny characters-- I'd say more than Trainspotting, just not as interestingly written.

This picture is adorable. I don't like paparazzi pictures, but at least you can't see the kids faces well. And this picture is hysterical. I almost woke people up this morning when I saw that. LOL

Lia

P.S. And hey, what do you know today's the anniversary of the Titanic sinking. I don't know what that has to do with anything, but I didn't know that. Heh.

And Happy Birthday Sean Maher! *waves Browncoat flag*

There's a theme to the winter season here: It snows for five hours, covering everything for two days. Then it melts, leaving that crusty black dirty mounds along the street that are almost done melting but still need a week or so. Then it snows again. Repeat.

I just looked outside. All I see is yellow, yellow and the number two white.

( Fun pairings )

( Movie meme )

Lia

P.S. Now it stopped snowing. 0_0