Hey, a short comic for Doctor Horrible's Sing-Along Blog is up! On the MySpace, I know, but hey, it's actually not that hard to read. Also, Doctor Horrible's Sing-Along Blog.
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Sweet Jesus on a stick, why is there so much good TV now? The Middleman, which started two weeks ago and thus at least isn't hard to catch up on, is:
1) The kind of show where the male lead uses the word, with no irony whatsoever, "ri-gosh-darn-diculous"
2)The kind of show where the female lead admits to reading The Spirit
3) The kind of show that hella passes the Bechdel Test (although I'm not sure that's as big a deal in most TV shows)
4) Sort of like Chuck, Reaper, and Pushing Daisies combined, which makes it
5) pretty much exactly my kind of crack.
Like Chuck, it's ordinary-person-pushed-into-extraordinary-job-with-hot-partner-and-cool-gadgets; like Reaper, it's wacky-monster-of-the-week; like Pushing Daisies, it's extraordinarily quirky and also likes to hide behind a squeaky-clean exterior until it jumps out at you with a joke about skin being the largest and most sensitive organ of the body. (This show is on ABC Family. While watching, one of those ad-bars on the bottom popped up and declared that the channel was "a new kind of family". Oh, I'll bet.)
The leads are cute and, unlike Chuck, have chemistry that isn't actually forced; also like Reaper, the female lead looks uncannily like Missy Peregrym (minus the epic shoulders, admittedly), and one of the first things she does is stab a genetic monstrosity with a letter opener. How can you not possibly love that? And she paints abstract expressionism! Apparently the show is based on a comic book--actually, the creator of the comic is not only an executive producer of the show but also wrote the first episode, which is just kind of awesome all around. There do not seem to be any easily-locatable promo pictures of the show, so here is a picture from the comic instead; it gives the same general impression, really. Look at that. I mean, look at that. There is a commie bear on a motorcycle in that picture. That is what this show is like.
Thus--in conclusion--gosh darn it all to heck, at least it's in the summer so I don't have to worry about it stacking up with ten million other shows. (I am a little frightened of what will happen in the fall, when the schedule aligns and I'm watching eight shows at once.) Also it's probably going to get canceled in three weeks, but hey, that's what I said about Pushing Daisies, right? Who knows--it's been a good year for new shows; maybe the trend will continue.
(...seriously, why aren't there any promo pics? It makes me sad to say all this stuff without a proper visual reference.)
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Okay, first off: holy crap that's an awesome new photo from the Watchmen movie, seriously, not only does it look like the photo from the comic but it looks like an actual old photograph, and it is just so awesome; second off, wait, it's not being written by Zack Snyder? It's being written by the guy who wrote X2? THERE IS NO WAY THIS CAN GET ANY BETTER, I SWEAR TO GOD. *flails uncontrollably*
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It is probably a bad idea to be driving at night, in wonderfully warm weather, while listening to rock music, right after having seen Iron Man, but I didn't crash into anything, although I did take a wrong turn. Anyway, my point is, I may be late to the party as always, but by god if the party isn't friggin' amazing.
So did you know Jarvis was voiced by Paul Bettany? The credits think so! There's pretty much no way this could get even more amazing, is there.
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| 2008-05-11 11:50 |
| the haircut is actually rather recent--i will never grow tired of making it shorter |
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| apparently i really like the master, doctor who, girl genius, heroes, hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, i like art, i like comics, i like toys, my life and welcome to it, omg other characters, sandman |
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Hey so remember when I said I wasn't going to take a picture of my Master and Doctor action figures in an interesting position? Here's the picture I didn't take, plus a few others, including me omg. You can see my face! And my hair! I rather like my hair. I'm very proud of it.
Right. Homework. Notes on the foreign policy of North Korea. Can I just put "N/A" and get away with it? Probably not.
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| 2008-05-10 18:38 |
| i also bought a muffin, but i don't think any of you care about that, and rightfully so |
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Hey, ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) selenak! I saw Julie Be-enz, I saw Julie Be-enz!
...very briefly, because I didn't have enough money for an autograph and she didn't look very happy to be there anyway, but I still saw her.
Yes, I was at Emerald City Comicon, and I didn't actually do much there besides briefly see Julie Benz and grab a few books (the new Courtney Crumrin collection--damn, they certainly took their time with that one--and a couple Wondermark books; Malki! himself was there, and he was very sweet and self-effacing) and a Master action figure--ahahah, it is horrible, and it only comes with the laser screwdriver, but I had to get it. Alas, I didn't have enough money to get Jack (in his Empty Child attire) or the Weeping Angel, and I would've liked to get K-9, but he only came with a Rose I already had...when are they going to make a Donna figure? They need to make a Donna figure. And a Sarah Jane figure. And a Jack figure in something other than his Empty Child attire, although I suppose that would be a Torchwood figure.
You know, I'm far too interested in things that I never use for anything other than decorative purposes. I know that other people have it far worse--I confine my madness to Doctor Who, for the most part--but it's still a bit odd to realize that I've just spent $50 on action figures. (Not today. Today was only $12. Last year at Comicon proper, however...)
I am not going to put my Ten and Master figures in a compromising position. I am not. That would be crude. But if I did, Martha, Rose, and the TARDIS would get to watch. It's only fair.
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Thirty seconds' worth of thoughts, in chronological order, upon reading a movie-news website:
1) Wait, they're making a Scott Pilgrim movie? Huh. That's kind of cool.
2) Edgar Wright's directing it? Okay, that's pretty cool.
3) ...Michael Cera's starring in it? THIS WILL EITHER BE AMAZING OR HORRIFYING, AND I MUST SEE IT, IF ONLY TO FIND OUT WHICH.
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| 2008-02-15 17:20 |
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A summary of my day, in six-word segments:
Vid won't save. Restart. No go.
Vid won't save. Try new method?
Life on Mars, the song: earwormy.
Preacher, the comic: Garth Ennis? Awesome.
Can't find friends' house. Memories: fail.
Fairy-tale musical: surprisingly dirty, oh my.
Ordering pizza: why so complicated? Mysterious.
Found: $31. Origins: gremlins? Bought soda.
Vid won't save. New method: questionable.
David Bowie's Jean Genie: female? Huh.
Vid won't save. Suspecting infernal interference.
Want Torchwood. Cannot has Torchwood. Alas.
Ballroom Blitz: not Misfits; Sweet, apparently.
Want draw? No. Want write? No.
Want vid? THAT WOULD BE NICE.
Read fic; Ianto = Time Lord. Interesting.
Catch up on TV? Not today.
Read six-word stories. End results: guess.
Bored, so, six words six fandoms:
Car accident, then timeshift; bad day.
Time travel: always better with two.
Some family: not just the flying.
Cardiff: alien sex capital of world.
"Physician, heal thyself"; load of crap.
Ancient alien races are always idiots.
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Tagged by shizuka_blooms:
List seven habits/quirks/facts about yourself.
Tag seven people to do the same.
Do not tag the person who tagged you or say that you tag "whoever wants to do it" OR ELSE YOU FAIL
1) I'm the illustrator (not a whole lot of comics--just little pictures) for my journalism class, and approximately one-half of the entertainment section. For our last issue, I wrote a big thing on the writers' strike. For this issue, I did a big thing on all the geeky movies coming out this year (it was so big, we split it in two and decided to publish the second half in June) and I am working on a piece on graphic novels. I kind of really love this.
2) When I was younger, I used to eat and drink at the same time--i.e., I would take a bite of something and then take a swallow of milk while the food was still in my mouth. It took me quite some time to figure out this this was strange.
3) I lost 25 pounds two years ago, and I'm trying to get back to that; I do not talk about this much because, well, I don't have much to say about it and I don't think anyone would really want to listen.
4) I went through a brief period in middle school where I wanted to be a voice actor when I grew up. I even did a presentation on it for a class.
5) I went to the "smart" school from kindergarten to eighth grade; it was "smart" because we tended to get good grades, but high grades weren't a requirement for getting in. Rather, it was a co-op--parents had to come in and help out in the classrooms. And somehow, mysteriously, this helped. I wouldn't say it was the best time of my life--I was kind of a loser until I was 16--but I damn well appreciate it, and I think it was a significant factor in developing who I am today. And the teachers were great, too. In theory, there's going to be a reunion this summer for every senior in the district who graduated from that school, and I am very much looking forward to it, partly because I really want to see all those teachers and kids again, and partly because I want to shove all my successes in their faces. HEY LOOK, I'M COOL AFTER ALL. HAH.
6) Two years ago, when I was in our high school production of Footloose, I had a powerful crush on one of the boys in the cast (he played Willard, and he did it amazingly, because he was pretty damn amazing at pretty much everything), and for some unfathomable reason, I decided to tell him this. He didn't say anything--he just looked at me, not like he was shocked or disgusted but just like I hadn't said anything at all. So I mumbled "sorry," and walked away. And then it occurred to me that I didn't actually feel like it was the end of the world, and then I realized if such a horribly embarrassing situation didn't phase me too bad, I could withstand anything. Quite cool, that. (I am now, oddly, great friends with his little sister. In fact, she's coming over in about 45 minutes for a Heroes marathon. Life is strange sometimes.)
7) My favorite color is orange. I do not understand why everyone likes blue so much--blue is boring. Orange is happy and warm and, well, colorful. For a long time, I thought my favorite color was green, but then I realized I was having fantasies about canyons and it turned out my favorite color was actually orange. I may be the only person in the world to have such a revelation.
Tagging: harena, swingerzetta, sparky77, fiorediloto, snopes_faith, kdsorceress, and artemisfowl2nd
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So. Uh. Does anybody know the name of Niki's father? Has it ever been revealed? It isn't Richard, is it? Because, well, uh, go check out the latest NBC comic at the website. Either it's just the comic writer teasing us with his possibly-canon status, or the guy we saw in Six Months Ago might not have been quite as...related to Niki as we thought...
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| 2007-12-26 11:22 |
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To reiterate, but also to elaborate upon: this has been the best Christmas ever.
Dinner was amazing (my mom is a better cook than yours--thrice-cooked duck with roast potatoes and then persimmon pudding with pear sauce for dessert, bitches), and then we watched It's a Wonderful Life, which, oddly enough, I had never seen before. Very charming. Jimmy Stewart is a doll. After that, when everyone else had gone to bed, I finished coloring the Cthulhu Tree and put it on the tree; there was room for it, and it looked nice that way. Then the morning! Again, my mom is a better cook than yours; we have a tradition of toasting bits of bread right next to the tree and eating them with pate, bleu cheese, smoked oysters, caviar, butter, and sake while opening presents. (I didn't eat the caviar or drink the sake. Or the butter, actually, which is supposed to go with the caviar.) So now: A LIST OF SWAG.
1) Official NBC helix-symbol necklace. When I put it on my wishlist, I thought it was metal, like the Haitian's, but it turned out to be more like Kensei's symbol--all rough and not particularly shiny. Still, though, it's awesome.
2) Official NBC Heroes calendar. February is Petrelli Month. Well, February is Nathan month, but it also has Peter and--!--Heidi on it. No Angela, though. But she makes an appearance on Peter's page (November). It is worth mentioning that Nathan's page also has Hiro on it (from their Godsend meeting) and that the bit with Peter in it is what I like to refer to as That One Publicity Photo For Fallout, also known as Holy Crap, They Really Aren't Trying to Pretend Any More, Are They. (Actually, it turns out there are variations upon it--different photos, and all that--and I wish it was easy to Google, but it ain't, so basically it is like this: Nathan and Peter in the Odessa jail cell, Nathan reaching out and taking hold of Peter's jaw while staring deeply into his eyes. Man, I love my show.) Other things that make me happy: Eden shows up a few times on both Mohinder and Noah's pages, and Audrey and (early) Molly show up on Matt's, and Claude shows up on Peter's. There's no Sylar page, oddly enough; aside from a few barely-visible bits of him being unconscious in the Primatech cell while Noah and the Haitian look at him, he only shows up in his baseball-capped shadow form. Pity. But ah well.
3) The Wonderfalls DVD. Good times, good times.
4) Assorted money and gift card thingies. Woooo money!
5) An 80GB Zune from our good friend the head of Microsoft Research. (Not development, as I had previously stated. I always get that mixed up.) I gave it to the parents to do with as they choose.
6) A black Nintendo DS with Pokemon Pearl. I CANNOT STOP PLAYING IT, SEND HELP
And theoretically another present will be arriving for me in the mail from some friends of ours in California. After breakfast, well, I played Pokemon for four hours (I swear, it's impossible to tell time while you're doing that) and then we went to the house of some family friends for Even More Food. (Goose, ham, dumpling things, vast amounts of cheese and crackers, poached pears with raspberry sauce--my mom, again--among other things.) The kids (kids being me, my 21-year-old brother, the 18-year-old and 21-year-old girls of the family, and their 12-year-old and 14-year-old guests) scurried away to watch the second Pirates of the Caribbean. Why hello thar, Bill Nighy!
(A fairly obscure joke: when Mackenzie Crook's character--the blond lanky guy with the wooden eye--first shows up, my brother said, "He's assistant to the regional captain." See? Obscure.)
From the 18-year-old girl, I received the command to read Lolita, and she lent me a much-loved paperback copy of it. In return, I promised to lend her the Heroes DVD and continue feeding her Sandman. (I've been feeding her Sandman.) Ahh, dichotomies. Don't you just love'em?
And then we came home and I finished checking my internets and I played Pokemon until 1:10 in the morning. (I meant to stop at 1, but seriously, no sense of time.)
And now I go back to checking my internets and god knows how long I'll play Pokemon for this time. I'm...being especially odd with this one; I'm naming all my Pokemon after Heroes characters, and my character's friend/rival/love interest has been dubbed Nathan. Alas, I haven't found a good Peter yet--I'm saving him for a Flying-type--and actually so far I've only got Monica (fire/fighting monkeything, the one I started out with; she gains experience way, way too quickly and it is difficult to stop her from kicking ass), Maya (Magikarp--she may be annoying as hell, but by god does she have potential, and I have faith that she will not disappoint; also, once she's done with the hand-holding, she will kick crazy amounts of ass as a motherfuckin' Gyrados), and Elle (electric cat-thing, who also needed lots of hand-holding but I hadn't known that at the time. Now, though, she rocks. I may go so far as to say that she fucking rocks. Pokemon, man, I swear, I get way too into it when I'm playing it. (I also do a mental running commentary during every fight. Mostly it goes along the lines of OH YEAH, YOU THINK YOU CAN TAKE ME? YOU'RE ONLY PROLONGING THE INEVITABLE! LOOK, YOU JUST GOT SCHOOLED BY A FUCKING MAGIKARP! YOU ARE AS UNTO THE DUST BENEATH MY FEET.)
So yes, off to the rest of the Internets now; hope you all had as good a day as I did.
ETA: OH AND. This morning, my mom sent me an email pointing me towards a charming little Pushing Daisies ficlet from Yuletide. (It was Emerson-centered, and about knitting, and she belongs to a knitting group on the Internets so apparently someone there had been passing the link around.) I thusly had to explain to her what Yuletide was; she asked me if I did it this year, and I told her I hadn't because you have to be 18 but I would probably do it next year. My mom now knows what Yuletide is! ...I'm not sure if that is awesome or vaguely alarming. What if she goes looking through the archives?
ETA again: A digital copy of That One Publicity Photo For Fallout has been located! Behold it.
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Here are some things about new movies that are adapted from comics.
1) Hellboy 2 trailer Hellboy 2 trailer HELLBOY 2 TRAILER
1a) I know it is on MySpace, I do not know what is up with that, HELLBOY 2 TRAILER
1b) Mythology mythology mythology
1c) Dude, Doug Jones gets to play another badass creature character? Preeeetty
1d) OT3 OT3 OT3
1e) Oh yeah, Abe's voiced by his actual actor now, not some random "established" voice who is totally all wrong. Yaaaay Doug Jones!
1f) Is Liz's fire actually red now? Probably not, but it looks like it, so: sweet. Blue fire just ain't your thing, honey.
1g) GIANT TENTACLE MONSTER GIANT TENTACLE MONSTER GIANT TENTACLE MONSTER
1h) Okay, so, basically the Hellboy monsters fall under at least one of three categories: 1) Nazis, 2) various mythological thingies, or 3) giant tentacle monsters. A major problem of the first movie is that it did not have enough of all of these. IT LOOKS LIKE THEY LEARNED THEIR LESSON.
1i) eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
2, finally) Watchmen has photos! Eeeeee! Seriously, you gotta check out the one of the newspaper stand--pitch-perfect, yo. Excitement levels: SO VERY HIGH. I am still waiting for pictures of the cast, especially Rorschach, because Rorschach is too cool for school, and also the Comedian, because Jeffrey Dean Morgan is too cool for school, but this will work nicely for now. sweeeet.
HELLBOY 2 TRAILER
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| 2007-12-18 16:25 |
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I HAS MORE MEMES
On the twelfth day of Christmas,  futuresoon sent to me... Twelve heroes drumming Eleven comics piping Ten fables a-leaping Nine webcomics dancing Eight tenrecs a-milking Seven books a-swimming Six scrubs a-writing Five cla-a-a-aude rains Four teh intarwebs Three good omens Two pushing daisies ...and a digger in an eric murphy. THIS IS BRILLIANCE. DO NOT TELL ME THAT THIS IS NOT BRILLIANCE. EVERYONE DESERVES FIVE CLAUDES. EXCEPT MAYBE EVERYONE WHO IS NOT NOAH OR PETER. (And, oh god, poor Eric. Nobody needs a wombat there.) In 2008, futuresoon resolves to... Give up writing. Backup my dexter regularly. Drink four glasses of reaper every day. Admit my true feelings to bookelfe. Ask my boss for a sandman. Find a better supernatural. 1) ....ahahhahhahahahaahha 2) But I delete all the episodes when I'm done with them! Why do I need them after that? Are they IMPORTANT? 3) *points wearily towards the writers' strike* 4) ....I don't even know her 5) I've got plenty of that, thank you, and I don't have a job, so I wonder who I would ask that anyway. 6) What, you mean there are other options? Tell me more. I am intrigued.
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I never read any of the Batman comics except for the Dark Knight books. I am only a little ashamed to admit this. But I loved those, of course, because they are awesome. And before I read those, I watched the animated series. The good animated series. The Paul Dino one. And I loved that, of course, because that was awesome. I also watched most of Batman Beyond, which I really need to find again because that was, in fact, awesome. In a slightly different way. But still awesome. I didn't watch any of the older Batman movies, because, well, I didn't. Not actually sure why. I may have seen bits of the Tim Burton one, but aside from that, I don't think I missed much. All of these things, despite not having read the original comics, instilled within me a deep and undying affection for Bruce Wayne, Dick Grayson, Tim Drake, Alfred, Harley Quinn, Two-Face, Clayface, Catwoman, Poison Ivy, Commissioner Gordon, Barbara Gordan, the Penguin, Inspector Bullock, etcetera etcetera. And the Joker. Now, part of the reason I never saw the Tim Burton Batman was because they had Jack Nicholson playing the Joker. Jack Nicholson is not the Joker. I don't even like him that much anyway, but he simply is not the Joker, and I know this for a fact, and I will believe no lies about it. The one and only Joker is Mark Hamill, also known as Holy Crap, I Guess He Really Can Do Things Besides Star Wars. (On a similar note, the one and only Batman is Kevin Conroy, also known as Why Can't I Ever Find You Again, You Are Awesome.) These are facts. These are pure, immutable facts.
That said, I did rather enjoy Batman Begins, and Michael Caine is just as good as Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., and I approve of Gary Oldman in general, even if Christian Bale isn't Kevin Conroy. (Let's face it: nobody besides Kevin Conroy is.) And maybe their Scarecrow didn't have crazy orange hair, but crazy orange hair does not really fit within their universe so I can forgive them that. I will say that Ra's al Ghul really isn't supposed to be Japanese. Anyway, the point is, I liked it. Even if Christian Bale isn't Kevin Conroy.
But this next one, Dark Knight (which is completely unrelated to the comics of the same name)....oh ho. This one has the Joker.
The Joker who is not played by Mark Hamill. (I acknowledge that maybe Mark wouldn't exactly look the part. But that does not matter.)
So, basically, my reaction when I first heard the casting news: Heath Ledger what?
But then little publicity photos and promotional things began to leak across the web, and I saw the character design, and I went, hmm, okay. He looks pretty cool. Maybe it is not so bad.
Today--tonight, actually--they released the official trailer.
Heath Ledger may not be my Joker. This is a pure, immutable fact. However? He has damn well earned the right to be a Joker. In my little fangirl heart, something is jumping up and down and squealing yes yes yes oh my god so much yes YES
So, basically, Dark Knight? Is so going to be one of the movies I drag my parents out to the theater to see. Because that is the motherfucking Joker. HELL YES IT IS.
Ahem.
That's all.
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Secondhand Lions: a very sweet, charming, and thoroughly boys'-adventure-book movie with a few nice surprises in it. The first surprise, really, is that it is sweet and charming and, well, good; honestly, I was expecting it to be a bit humdrum and pat, but I found myself liking it more than I would. The second surprise is the sudden appearance of Christian Kane--I did a bit of a double-take when I saw him, and of course he does a very fine job of swashbuckling his way across 1920's Africa, even though he only gets one line of actual dialogue. (That's what happens when you're a flashback character, I suppose.) The third surprise is the sudden appearance of Berkeley Breathed--well, his art, not the man himself. Gotta love his stuff. Bit random, really, but I sure as hell ain't going to complain about it. (And now I want to read those comics, dammit.)
The fourth surprise--which, if we're going chronologically, would actually be the second surprise, assuming the "hey this is actually good" was the first surprise and not more of a continuing surprise, but it wasn't a surprise at all because I knew about it ahead of time and in fact had watched the movie pretty much entirely so that I could see it--was the brief appearance of Adrian Pasdar as a traveling salesman with a Texas accent. My parents knew this was the primary reason I wanted to see the movie, but I think my dad forgot.
DAD: Hey, guess who that is?
ME: I told you who it was.
MOM: Didn't you hear the squeal of delight?
It's nice to know that at least one of your parents gets you.
(Also, I can squeal with delight if I damn well want to. It's weird--I was actually nervous about what he would do when he showed up. I think I wanted my parents to get a good impression of him. "Yeah, dad, look--see, he's a good actor even when he isn't playing my TV boyfriend...")
(Long after Adrian Pasdar's minute of screentime was gone, my dad remarked that it didn't look like Nathan Petrelli was going to show up again. I found it amusing that I was impressed he remembered the name at all.)
(Now, I just need to find that movie where he plays a cross-dresser...)
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| 2007-11-10 09:19 |
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From harena:
Comment on this post. I will choose six userpics from your profile and you will explain what they mean and why you are using them. Post your answers (and this explanation of the meme) in your own journal (if you want) so others can play along. Or heck, post them here if you don't want to toss it into your own journal, I don't mind.
blaarggag
This is an icon I filched shamelessly from...somewhere. I use it on the occasions when I have no idea what icon I might conceivably use. I love it so.
god grant me the strength
This is, uh, another icon I filched shamelessly from someone I've completely forgotten. (Before I had a paid account, I used to nab icons I liked and save them to a folder on my desktop so I could look at them and giggle whenever I wanted. When I got a paid account, I put up a bunch of them because I wasn't too clear on the whole 'theft' thing. If their owners ever find me and complain, I'll take them down; until then, I use them, because they are awesome.) This one is used for times when one must be angry. There are not a lot of those when it comes to me, but the ones that are require nothing less than a murderous Elizabeth Bennett.
hand love
So clearly you're choosing all the icons I stole from somebody. This one is a Torchwood reference to perhaps the most creepily adorable pairing I've ever shipped--Jack/Ten's hand, since Jack had possession of it for quite a while and certainly seemed more fond of it than half his other teammates. Alas, it was a love that could never be truly fulfilled, and so it is my icon of woe and/or unrequited love. Love in general, really.
el laberinto del fauno
Finally, an icon I've actually made myself! This one is for the ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) reel_heroes challenge, for which I am doing El Laberinto del Fauno (also known as Pan's Labyrinth, but I am sometimes pretentious when it comes to movies and there isn't actually a character named Pan in it anyway). I made this icon because I decided I needed one for perhaps the most ridiculous challenge I've ever participated in, and because I had no idea what I was going to call the damn thing. I think I actually do have a title now--El Laberinto del Historias Perdidas, assuming Babelfish isn't a complete liar when it comes to these things--but I still feel the need to assert that this is not, in fact. El Laberinto del Fauno.
comics!
I was saying stuff about the Watchmen movie and it occurred to me that I needed an icon about comics. The word balloons in the background are from various Googled sources; one is Watchmen itself, one is some crappy old '50s superhero thing, one is Sin City, one is Hellboy, one is Cat and Girl, one is sandman, and I have no idea what the others are. Especially the pink one. What the hell is the pink one?
apply directly to the forehead
Seriously, you're choosing like all of the ones I didn't make. This one was another shameless filch, though it later turned out to be a creation of mystery_sock, who graciously allows me to use it. We all need a Peter Petrelli icon, don't we? And that commercial is nothing less than comedy gold. 'strue.
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...remember, remember, the fifth of November!
The gunpowder treason and plot
I see no reason
The gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot.
God, I'm such a dork. *hangs head*
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My last post before I leave for Comicon, and what is it about? Something besides the Master that nobody else cares about! Hurrah!
There's new (and hopefully final) news on the Watchmen casting front; I like it: I like it a lot. Of course, I've never seen any of the actors in anything (with the exception of Billy Crudup in Big Fish and probably Patrick Wilson in somethingorother, but I don't remember either of them too well), but, uh, they look the parts? And I've heard Jackie Earle Haley is really good at the crazy? And, er, well, at least it isn't Jude Law or Keanu Reeves any more? Less money spent on actors = more money spent on movie, and I'm down with that. (Even though I would have really liked Cusack!Nite-Owl.) Malin Akerman is a vague source of worry, but given that she's a virtual unknown, I'm betting she had something more than sex appeal--if you want that, you go for someone the guys will theoretically recognize.
On a related note: Zachary Quinto is almost certainly Young Spock. I find this deeply, deeply amusing. As my dad said: "well, he'd have to do something about the eyebrows..."
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O-kay! Final journal entry until I get home, I expect. So, because I now have a fair amount of time (I finally remembered to bring the damn extension cord to the coffee shop), I present: a more detailed run-through of my time in Savannah.
The plane ride! There was no meal (there are never meals), but there were two sets of snacks and beverages, and the snacks were a bit more interesting than usual (you had options! I went for the frosted oatmeal bar), and every seat came with a little screen embedded in the back of the seat in front of it, which meant: movies! Music! TV! The music and TV was free (though I never watched the TV; it looked boring), but the movies cost about five bucks a pop. On the very first page of movie choices, I was shocked and impressed to find two of the recent movies I must wanted to see--but I decided I would probably want to watch 300 with the family, so I went with Blades of Glory instead. My tastes, I think, are a bit diverse.
Blades of Glory was utterly ridiculous with a number of wince-worthy gags, but it was kind of sweet, actually. (And it certainly didn't hurt that Will Ferrell's character--who has a tattoo symbolizing every famous lady skater he's slept with--got a tattoo of Jon Heder's face in the end. I am not making this up.)
I mentioned that the Savannah airport has rocking chairs? I did. It is worth repeating.
The condo-ish-thing we rented has air conditioning, for which I am profoundly thankful, but then, everything has air conditioning. Every single building. You know, here in Washington, we pride ourselves that our 80-degree-weather lacks any trace of humidity, but when we do reach that 80 degree mark, we have no air conditioning. Ever. Anywhere. I'm pretty sure we just don't consider the matter. "Air conditioning? In Seattle? Pssssh, we don't need that." EXCEPT IN THE SUMMER, FOOLS.
What else what else what else. First day out! There are many many breakfast-cafe-type-places in Savannah, and we found a very nice one. Theeeen we walked. And walked. And walked and walked and looked at significant statues and plaques and Historical Stuff. I was surprisingly not bothered by this. (I will admit that the humidity did.) We had lunch...somewhere. Then we walked some more. I think we went back to the condo for a while at some point. Then dinner, also...somewhere. Then, because I am smart and capable of planning ahead, we watched the rest of Utopia. (We watch Doctor Who on bootleg DVDs, so I had it in travel form; my dad is a person prone to rage, so we did not finish it the first time we tried to watch it with him. Long story. Anyway.) Utopia = good. Generally. The beginning could have been better. (Too abrupt, too unexplained, and if you hadn't seen Torchwood you would have no idea what was going on.)
Second day! Actual school stuff! Uh...I think I covered this, actually. General awesome. Then we went to a store called, I am not kidding, "The Book" Store. Remember what I said about everybody being obsessed with Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil? Apparently they often refer to it as "the book". I got postcards. The lady running it was very nice. (She said I had great skin. That was the first thing she said to me. Ahh, Southern familiarity.)
At some point, we went to various art museums; the statue from Midnight had been removed from the cemetary and relocated to the Telfair Arts Center or somesuch. It's a very nice statue. At one of the museums, there was this amazing collection of three electronic pieces--three screens, each with a little camera on top, and if you walked in front of any of them, they would record your image. The first one used a bunch of ever-moving squiggles to paint your picture (or, if you were moving, paint blurs of your colors), the second one used a bunch of branchy patterny things to paint your general outline (or, again, blurs), and the third one was in fact a lot of really tiny screens that would record your movements perfectly. They were very, very cool. There was also an entire section for the work of this guy called Mark Kenney. He was a mixed-medium kind of guy--very mixed-medium. Car decals, "vintage paint-by-numbers", cutouts from science textbooks and kids' books and comics, wallpaper--and paint, of course; unlike many mixed-medium folks, he appeared to be quite a good regular painter as well. My favorite, though, was this giant roll of yellowed paper completely covered in cut-out word balloons from vintage comics. At some time, in some publication, someone uttered the words "WHAT! A--a chair!" This makes me happy.
The days are blurring together at this point, but I know that on the evening of the second day, we rented and watched State and Maine, which is amazing. I'm not sure whether to call it a comedy, a dark comedy, a satire, a romantic comedy, a dark romantic comedy, a darkly satrirical romantic comedy--but anyway, it's got Philip Seymour Hoffman as a romantic lead, and that's just all kinds of amazing. Also: Alec Baldwin commits statutory rape. I said it was a dark comedy.
On the evening of the third day, we watched Bowfinger, which is also generally amazing. Because I am running out of time, though (we have to head back to the condo and pack up before checkout time), I will not go much into it.
All in all: Savannah is very fun, I think I'm going to like living here (assuming it is not this humid in October), and I really need to actually read The Book; I've only seen The Movie. I return to the Northwest tonight! And then I collapse under the sheer weight of webcomics and fics I have to catch up on. (And comments I have to respond to. There are only a few, but they still count.) See you when I see you!
(No, I didn't get any writing done. Shut up.)
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