Eleven Thirty. Good Evening, Jacobi.

I saw The Watchmen last night, and I must say I was really pleased with it. Even though they changed some elements of the story, and left some out, it still worked out in the end and was fantastic. My only two gripes are: I wish they would have used more original scoring rather than use songs by Bob Dylan and Jimi Hendrix, and that Zack Snyder and his damn slow down action scenes. Do you really need to slow down so we can see her hair flip around? *sigh*

Other than that, great film, highly recommend it. Recommend the book more, but the film was good.

I cannot wait until you are dead you bastard.

Play 10 or so songs from Itunes, Winamp, WMP, or any other music player at random. Rate them on a scale of your choosing (thumbs up, stars, 1-10, A-Z, dogs to whales) and talk a little about the song. It's fun to see what songs people get and whether or not they like them.


1.) Don't Stop Me Now - Queen

Always liked this song. Became really popular with me in High School when someone played it over the PA system and me and my friends started singing it in science class.
9/10

2.) Sink Beneath the Line - Incubus

You know, Incubus is one of my favorite bands, and I still haven't listened to all of their songs. Now that I'm listening to this one though, I really enjoy their complex guitar melodies. This seems like it would be a great song to hang out with friends and drink to.
7/10

3.) Crying Shame - Jack Johnson

Seriously, it's Jack Johnson. All his songs are great to kick back to. His lyrics are really catchy too.
9/10

4.)'Look Down, Lord' Reprise and Finale from Rosewood (1997) - John Williams

So, I have a massive collection of classical music on my iTunes, and music by composers. I love classical, but some of the newer stuff, like John Williams and Danny Elfman I love. While this is a great song, it's probably one I'd just skip.
4/10

5.) It's Reciprocal - Bad Religion

An okay song. Bad Religion has a special place in my heart, but this isn't one of the best songs ever.
6/10

6.)The Sick Bed Of Chúchúlainn - The Pogues

An okay song. Not great, not terrible.
5/10

7.)Better Than Me - Hinder

I like Hinder, but every now and then their songs turn into "I'm a terrible person, don't date me, just leave me here to die by myself.
4/10

8.) Savior - Rise Against

Some people don't like his voice, but I really like the energy and lyrics to this song. I don't think he has a bad voice either.
8/10

9.)Us of Lesser Gods - Flogging Molly

I can't ever bring myself to skip any Flogging Molly song. Ever.
10/10

10.) Second Chance - Shinedown

Same thing with Hinder. Some of their songs are awesome and some are "oh poor me." BUT the difference is, I really like this song. The lyrics are incredible. Also happened to come on the radio the day I found out my mom died.
10/10

It looks so gorgeous...

"Don't ask me silly questions, I won't play silly games," Jake muttered, looking at the final picture. It showed Charlie the Choo-Choo pulling two bunting-decked passenger cars filled with happy children from the roller coaster to the Ferns wheel. Engineer Bob sat in the cab, pulling the whistle-cord and looking as happy as a pig in shit. Jake supposed Engineer Bob's smile was supposed to convey supreme happiness, but to him it looked like the grin of a lunatic. Charlie and Engineer Bob both looked like lunatics . . . and the more Jake looked at the kids, the more he thought that their expressions looked like grimaces of terror. Let us off this train, those faces seemed to say. Please, just let us off this train alive."

Awesome.

A friend of mine passed away today. He was in a car accident. I know people die all the time...but this is only my second death. He was a great person, someone who genuinely cared about the people he met, however fleetingly, and was a great musician.



Take it easy, bud.

Fable 2: Woah.

I've been a fan of Wolverine since I was 7. I know his history by heart and I consider myself a complete and utter fan boy when it comes to him. So when the new movie touches on a subject that the comics have never even touched on yet, suffice to say I'm a bit iffy on it. We got Wolverines Origin story with Origin, which was made up by Bill Jemas, Joe Quesada and Paul Jenkins, who also scripted it. So with this story line, we finally know that Logan's name is actually James Howlett. We knew something that Logan himself didn't know. But one thing that they have never officially talked about was who took Wolverine's memories, and why?

I am really excited at the prospect of the movie telling the story, I just hope that it's not a complete crap fest like X3 was.

Plus: FUCKING GAMBIT AND DEADPOOL.

If this movie impresses me, then it's good. No one will judge is harsher than I.

During the first Punic War, that is, the first war between Rome and Carthage, the Carthaginians had more naval power than Rome did. So how did Rome defeat this? Did they try to build up a huge navy to combat them? No. Rome instead made boarding ramps on their ships, so that when the Carthaginian ships would ram the Roman ones, the boarding ramps would fall onto the lightly manned ships of the Carthaginians and the Romans would board, slaughter the crew, and just scuttle their own ship.

God I love Rome.

www.somethingawful.com is just full of wonderful advice.

Fuck all the pop song puppy love bullshit. Your heart skipping a beat isn't love, it's cardiac arrhythmia. It's not about shortness of breath, either, or how turned on you get or whether you tell yourself you'd throw yourself in front of a bus for her or whatever. You can convince yourself of a lot about how you feel and what you would do in exchange for regular oral sex.

Love is when she drives you insane sometimes. And I don't mean merely "aggravating" or "annoying," I mean flat-out fucking in. Sane. And in a way nobody else can do it in a million years. She'll drive you to the point where you'd gouge out your own eyeball with a melon baller or smack your scrotum a half-dozen times with a ball peen hammer if it means you can be done with this conversation. She'll make you want to chew your own arm off to get out of talking about this. And I don't care how many fucking times you've had this conversation, each time, you know you'll have it again:

Her: I thought you turned the heat on.
You: I did.
Her: Well, I'm still cold. Are you sure you did it right?
You: Yes, I'm pretty sure I know how to turn on a thermostat.
Her: 'Cause you know you have to flip the switch to "heat" and....
You: Honey! I know! How to turn on! A thermostat! I went to college for it and everything.
Her: Well, I don't feel any heat blowing in here.
You: I know. I think you broke the thermostat again.
Her: I didn't break it.
You: Yes, you did, you put that halogen lamp right next to it again.
Her: That doesn't do anything.
You: Yes, it does.
Her: I thought you fixed it?
You: I did fix it, and you broke it again.
Her: Are you sure you fixed it right?
You: Yes, goddammit, I fixed it right.
Her: How do you know you fixed it?
You: 'Cause it worked when I fixed it!
Her: Well, it's not working now.
You: 'Cause you broke it again!
Her: How'd I break it?
You: You put the goddamn, fucking lamp next to it!
Her: I don't see why a lamp would break a thermostat.
You: OK. I'm going to explain this. One more time. Slowly. Thermostats have a coil inside them that expands and contracts based on the temperature. This is how they know when it is hotter than the setting of the A/C, so it can cool the room off, or colder than the setting of the heating, so it can heat the room up. Halogen lamps generate heat. Halogen lamps generate a lot of heat. That's why you burn your fingers when you touch the bulbs after they've been on for a while. So when you put a halogen lamp next to a thermostat, it causes the coil to keep expanding and expanding and expanding past the point it's intended to expand. This makes the thermostat think it's really, really hot all the time, and it makes the coil less sensitive in the future, and it'll eventually break the coil so I'll have to replace the thermostat.
Her: That doesn't sound right.
You: Trust me. It's right.
Her: How do you know?
You: BECAUSE I TOOK SIXTH GRADE FUCKING PHYSICS, OK?!
Her: Well, I don't think they should make thermostats that can be broken by something little like a lamp.
You: Fine. Don't think that. Write a letter to the manufacturers. Write a letter to universities and tell them to build a better thermostat. I don't fucking care. But that's how they make them. That's why I keep moving the lamp, that's why I keep telling you not to put it back to the right of the bookcase, that's why I've had to fix the thermostat four fucking times now. Stop! Putting! The lamp! Right! Next! To the thermostat!
Her: But on the other side of the bookcase, the front of the hallway is dark, and I can't see inside my gift closet.
You: Well, you can turn on the hall light to go through your gift closet, or you can sit here and be cold! Your choice, honey!
Her:
You:
Her:
You:
Her: I don't think you fixed the thermostat right.
You: GOD-MOTHERFUCKING-DAMMIT, I'M GOING TO FIX THAT MOTHERFUCKING THERMOSTAT TOMORROW, AND I SWEAR TO MOTHERFUCKING CHRIST IF YOU PUT THE LAMP NEAR THE THERMOSTAT AGAIN, I WILL SMASH IT TO A MILLION FUCKING PIECES AND SHOVE THEM DOWN YOUR GODDAMN THROAT!!! MOTHERFUCK ME, JESUS!!!!!!

And if the seventh time you have that conversation, knowing full well there will be an eighth time, you'd still rather have that conversation again than imagine a world she's not in, you're in love.

Especially if you do fix that thermostat... again... the next day, and not just so she'll shut up about it, but because you really don't want her to be cold anymore. -SA poster.

Dear god, YES. George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire was picked up by HBO earlier this year. Just found out today from his LJ account that HBO has given the pilot episode the green light.

WINTER IS COMING TO HBO!!!

http://grrm.livejournal.com/58155.html

Current works: 7 page essay on whether or not President Bush fed off the emotions from 9/11 in order to get his bills passed, such as the act to be able to spy on you and detain you for years without trial. Er, i mean Patriot Act. Right, right. I forgot if you throw FREEDOM or PATRIOT in front of something it can't possibly be bad.

I love my Engrish teacher.

I don't feel like everyone else. I feel like my vote counts. Obviously I voted for Obama, and I voted No on 8! Go equality!

If you're a tea aficionado such as myself, I think you'd be pleased to know that Snapple is deviating from the norm and have started making Earl Grey Tea. I don't know if they've always done this, but I picked some up today, and it was quite good.

In other news, I picked up a book today on Zen Living. It's quite nice, and I'm in quite a good mood. Beautiful day, iced tea, fresh air. :)

I love how Sarah Palin said today in Colorado, "Now is not the time to experiment with socialism!"


...Didn't her party just nationalize all the banks?

Please, oh PLEASE let present Sylar become future Sylar. I like him so much better as a good guy!

AND Boston won tonight! Yeeeeeeeeeeeeah!

You want a Rock play list!? I'll give you a fucking rock play list. This play list rocks so hard, if it was a porn star, it's name would be Rocky Hardington.

All joking aside, new play list! Check it out, yo!

Psycho-Puddle of Mudd
Stricken-Disturbed
Whiskey in the Jar-Metallica
Never too late-Three Days Grace
Turn the Page-Metallica
I Hate Everything About You- Three Days Grace
Changes-3 Doors Down
Eat Blazing Electric Death Bitch-Treephort
The Last Night-Skillet
Darkness-Disturbed

Just added 4 more:
Devour-Shinedown
Never Enough-Five finger Death Punch
Bad Girlfriend-Theory of a Deadman
Too Drunk-Buckcherry

In your FACE!

This year, since it was the first time I've ever read The Watchmen, I was going to be Rorschach. I got the mask part down, which was pretty easy.



I just used a painters mask, turned it backwards, and used black shoe polish for the markings. Unfortunately my fiscal situation has prevented me from obtaining the rest of the costume, such as the trench coat, brown fedora and pin stripe suit. Sine my friend Anne is throwing a costume party this year, I wanted to make my own costume and really get into it. So I was thinking about what I had, and realized I could be the invisible man. I have a pea coat, dress shirt, black tie, black fedora, gloves, boots, etc.

First step was to obtain the goggles.



I just went to home depot looking for a pair like the Dr. Horrible ones. (You should know what these look like by now. Not explaining it.) But alas, they didn't carry those kind.

Next step was just figuring out the face part. Got it all pretty much nailed down.

Front View:


Side View:


Still working out the rest of the costume. I'm sure I'll have pictures of it after the party. More to come! Stay tuned, kids!

My English teacher used to work at USC. She doesn't work there anymore because she refused to pass a basketball student who couldn't read. Not as in couldn't read full words. As in he didn't know the entire alphabet. He used to buy his food by looking at the pictures on the box in the grocery store. SO awesome having a teacher who cares about her students actually learning.


Huzzah!