Mood: Tired

Dear angry teens:

If you would like me to post your anti-Twilight rants in the front page article section -- which I'd be more than happy to do simply for the uproar and fangirly angst that it would stir -- please try to make a half-decent submission that doesn't break every spelling and grammar rule in existence. (Despite what you may think, netspeak is not an acceptable form of English.) Also preferably a submission that is more than two sentences long. (Extra exclamation points do not count towards your word count.) I am always up for spreading more LULz at the expense of Stephanie Meyer and the Twilight series, but I can't do so when you don't put in any effort!

On the related note of Twilight fuckwittage: If Twilight Were 10 Times Shorter and 100 Times More Honest

So I've been badgered into taking a trip on the Twitter bandwagon. I made a deal that I'd use it for a week and I'm on my fifth day and am still not quite sure what the whole point of Twitter is. I'm trying, I really am. *Squints* Wait, is that... Nope. Sorry. Don't see it.

I don't understand why people are flocking towards this awkward and somewhat useless middle ground between blogging and Facebooky social networking. I particularly dislike the part of this week-long deal where I'm being forced in turn to follow every Tom, Dick, and Sally that randomly decides to follow me. I don't understand. I don't know these people. I don't care what they're thinking, doing, or saying through out the day. Why are strangers following my Twitter feed in the first place? D:

The only Twitterism that I've grown fond of is the handy ability to immediately update my Facebook status straight from the Twitter app on my desktop. That's cool. I also like the idea of being able to include a widget on the side of my blog that shows my recent updates. Basically I like and will probably continue using anything involving it that directly relates to updating or displaying my Facebook status, which essentially is all Twitter really is. Starting Friday though, I'm cleaning out my spammed-to-hell Twitter friend list.

I didn't get to play any Guild Wars tonight, which I'm very sad about. :c I really need to buy a cheap computer headset. Playing in a party that I can't talk outloud to directly is really hard; I don't know where people are, or what they're doing, or what I'm supposed to be doing! There's not exactly a lot of time to spare to type out game plans while you're being mauled by a fucking gang bang of vicious skale monsters, you know?

Mood: Interwebbing

I'm a sucker for sappy fan-made shipper music videos (because, yes, I am that much of a nerd.) Sadly these are the only well done Ten/Rose ones I could find:

*Hearts*

And YAY for a new 2D animated movie from Disney~! :D A teaser is out for The Princess and the Frog and I'm very excited. Too much 3D has taken over the animated feature film and television industry, and the little hand-drawn loving part of my soul dies a bit each time. ;_; They just never seem to have the same impact on me as the old pencil and paper animation does. Back to basics, Disney! Make some magic again! Chop chop!

Mood: Squee!

There's a nice old woman at Mason's work that constantly makes Mason lunches and goodies to bring home. Today I walked in to find she made us a giant tin of amazing sugar shortbread-ish type icing cookies~! They even have little cut up pieces of maraschino cherry on the top of them~ *OM NOM NOM NOM* I feel like I should bake her something tasty in return maybe or I'll throw off my tasty treat karma.

Ahoy, neat girly find of the day! Where have you been all this time? Have any of you other ladies heard of this? I saw the commercial on T.V. and was like "HEY. I have that problem!" What a simple, marvelous idea! I found a pretty much identical bra strappy hiding product called Embrace which is sold in one of the stores here in town for cheap. I'll have to pick one up.

We finished up the end of Doctor Who season 4 this evening and OMG FINALLY LONG AWAITED ROSExDOCTOR KISSAGE! *squee!* X3 *Rolls around on the couch in fangirlish glee while Mason looks at her strangely* I heart Ten x Rose, I really really do. Now they can go off and have lots of Rose Tyler / Half-Human Half-Time Lord babies~ And Doctor Donna! What happens to Doctor Donna? Isn't she supposed to be in next season? D:

I know they usually make a habit anyway of getting the Doctor to snog/be snogged by someone at least once each season (which is always awesome), but adorable Ten x Rose face-suckage deserves to be showcased:

Chelle, I don't remember whether or not you gave me the latest Christmas special. I have this vague memory of being given a CD with it on but for the life of me can't find physically find it. Yes? No? Am I crazy?

Mood: Nerdy

LULz. There was no part of this episode that was not genuinely amusing, from the journalist turned over the top, Joker ripoff, Jeff Bennett-voiced loony; to Harley trying to schmooze Mister J for sex while slathered in pie and the Joker looking awkwardly uncomfortable about the whole thing (for the second time this season -- the writers seemed to have made Harley extra horny for TNBA.) She's hilarious. How can such a dysfunctional relationship be so utterly adorable at times?

I remain undecided on whether or not I like the art style for TNBA more or less than that of the original animated series. It's cleaner and bit more streamlined -- I enjoy Bruce's new design and particularly the resounding absence of his old ugly yellow shirt and brown suit, and the Batman suit is darker (because HEY, nothing says stealthily hiding in the shadows like giant blazing flashes of yellow right on your chest and waist!); but in certain episodes there's a lot of over sized bobble-headiness going around and for whatever reason the Joker is now... blue...? o_O

/end random Batman rambles. Off to bed now.

Mood: Post-napping

I am now living with a man with toe shoes. We ventured out today to buy him a pair of this strange footwear; and yes, while they are apparently the most comfortable things you'll ever wear on your feet, and yes, they help with balance and posture, and yes, they are scientifically proven to be better to walk and run in then sneakers and regular shoes... I just can't get over the fact that they remind me of turtle feet. I am in love with a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle. (This is all Greg's fault. He started the crazy finger shoe epidemic.)

I almost don't want to make mention of it for paranoid fear of jinxing it, but I think I may have finally solved my constant headache brain worms. While we were away on the cruise, Chelle was over bunny sitting and turned down the brightness on my iMac monitor by a dramatic amount. My first day back at work I did the same thing for my office computer (they're both sitting at about 25% full now), and in the last four weeks since I've only had four headaches. I don't think I can remember the last time I've been so headache free over that span of time, though it would make a lot of sense because it was around the time I got my iMac and started going to NAIT with iMac's in class that the brain worms came around. *Sparkly tear-filled eyes of joy* We'll give it a couple more weeks and see how it goes, but fingers crossed that my 3ish years of past numbing head pain are behind me.

I downloaded the BBC six-part Pride and Prejudice mini series. I've heard lots of wonderful things about it from people so I thought I'd give it a whirl. Bridgette Jones would never lead me astray, would she?

All right and this is grossly overdue, but here's the answers that 5-question meme you tailored for me... like... half a year ago. (I think that's all the stored up memes I have. I'm on a roll.)

1. You've won a date with a celebrity of your choice! Who would you pick and what would you do?

   Oh god, what a cruel question -- so many choices but only one date! D: I'm torn between Simon Cowell and Johnny Depp. I mean on the one hand, there's adorably angry and British Mr. Cowell, who I would first: pile him with puppies, kittens, and rainbows; then second: proceed to velcro myself to his leg and see how long it takes him to tear me away and how crazy he becomes during the process. And on the other hand, there's plain adorable Mr. Depp; who I would, you know, just stare at all day. I may or may not ask him to take off his shirt and crawl across the floor to me like a panther. Rarrwww~ ¬_¬ <3

2. The UN is banning chocolate world-wide tomorrow. What would you chose to be your final chocolaty-meal?

   One last chocolate meal ever? D: Safeway chocolate truffle cake. Mmmm mmmmm~ Immediately following, overcome by grief, I would then proceed to drown myself in the North Saskatchewan.

3. You are forced to live for one year in a country where English is not the primary language spoken. Where would you choose to live?

   D: OMGthatwouldbesostressful. *Preemptive hyperventilating* Maybe France? French is supposed to be relatively easy to catch on to, isn't it? And while I was being shunned by all the French-speaking natives, I would drown my sorrows in the sights of the city of Paris and eventually become the creepy American recluse hiding in the bell towers of Notre Dame' while wiling away my lonesome days singing to dead pigeons. What a sad French life I would lead. :c

4. Is there something you wish you had said to someone, but at the time just couldn't bring yourself to say? Say it now, with or without the name of the relevant individual attached.

   I'm sorry.

5. It turns out hell is highly personalized. What would your own, special, personal hell be like?

   Hell doesn't need to be very personalized for me. Being surrounded by literal flamey hellfire for the rest of eternity would would be too much for my already irrational fear of fiery doom, and my head would probably explode from the stress.

Mood: Sleeeeepy...

So Christmas was good, a little more relaxed this year for a change which was pleasant. I am happily overflowing with chocolate in my house now. X3 I also got four seasons of Doctor Who burned from my lovely sister, which I've started to dig into as well as the first seasons I've downloaded of both The Tudors (YAY! Henry is HOT!) and Dexter (very creepy... but good.) I have the first episode of True Blood ready to go too but it's taken a back seat for the time being since I have all these other splendid series' to watch.

I went out and immediately bought the Dark Knight on special edition DVD since I didn't get it for Christmas, and while the movie is still absolutely amazing, the so-called "special edition" features leave something to be desired which is extremely disappointing. Seriously, they're crap. You'd think with a blockbuster this big they'd pull some punches and do up a sweet set of extra features. :P Where are the interviews? The deleted scenes? The so-badly-craved featurettes on the making of the Joker and Two-Face? Where's the MEAT? ;_; Apparently there's a completely new documentary as well as extensions of the other features on the Blue-Ray, but not on the DVD? Christopher Nolan, you cheap bastard.

I've always enjoyed the Joker as a character, but the Dark Knight has put me in somewhat of a Joker craze. Ledger was piles of awesome in the film and I'm fairly confident he has a pretty good chance at the Oscar this year even despite his death, and I'm on the wagon that believes he deserves it; despite whether or not there were other actors who could have done just as amazing a job with the character.

With that said I have to admit though that I'm a little torn at certain aspects of Heath Ledger's Joker. Sure, they had the green hair and the trademark purple suit, and while I adore the downright creep factor he brings to the screen, I can't get away from the fact that the Joker in DK always looks like he just dragged himself out of a garbage bin. He's tussled and mangy and reminds me a little of a homeless drug-addict you'd see staggering around in the gutter. A familiar part of the Joker's character from the comics and television has always been that -- while yes, sure, definitely crazy -- you also rarely see him without his hair carefully slicked back and his clothes impeccably clean and pressed. The Joker is a clean-cut and usually charming narcissist in addition to being a stark raving psychopath, and it's always a little jarring watching DK and not seeing that familiar polish to the Clown Prince of Crime. It was a radically different approach to the character and I can't help but love them both but for different reasons.

While in my fangirly craze over the past week, I re-watched the Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker animated movie (uncut version) from 2000. I remember now why I loved both the original and BB cartoons, they're so great. *LOL* Kevin Conroy will always be the voice of Batman for me. The Joker in RotJ (now I feel like I'm talking about Star Wars) is the same as the one in the original series but a little darker and sleeker, it's great. (Hahaha and I love the movie commentary during when the Joker is literally killing hundreds of innocent citizens with his OMG GIANT SPACE LAZER D: and the producers and other commentators are like "Oh no no no, those cars you see being vaporized aren't being driven by people! Those entire city blocks of buildings? Oh they're in the abandoned part of town! Don't worry, those people by that blown up fountain were really quick to dodge! We swear!" Sure sure. Way to cover your ass, guys. *More LULz*)

EDIT: OMG I just noticed that the Joker doesn't have eyebrows in the animated series. WTF? o_O Where did his eyebrows go?!

On a final note, I'm a little in love with KidNotorious' Joker art~ *Hearts*