( 100 Movies in 2008 )


( 25 Books in 2008 )



I'm completely open to suggestions. I usually read/watch what someone tells me to.

So um my mom just told me that Stephenie Meyer was staying at our local Holiday Inn this past weekend. I DRIVE PAST THERE EVERYDAY! IT'S NOT EVEN 5 MINUTES FROM ME!

Apparently, her nephew, Ryan Meyer, was drafted (I don't know if this is the right word, I don't do hockey.) into the Ottawa Senators this weekend so she was here supporting him, I guess? It wasn't supposed to be known, especially since the Holiday Inn is right by my mom's book store and I guess she didn't want to do any appearences.

My mom came in, all happy, singing "I know something you don't know...for once!" I was like "I highly doubt that but go on." Haha. I DID NOT KNOW. I probably would have gone all Twi Mom and stalked her out though so it's probably for the best.

		I will marry Taylor Kitsch.
		After a wild honeymoon, We will settle down in New York City in our fabulous House.
		We will have 5 kid(s) together.
		Our family will zoom around in a Grey Kia.
		I will spend my days as a Director, and live happily ever after.

Apparently, my new nickname at school is Twilight Girl. A little uncreative, but sure, it works I guess.

I had a tiny bit of a SQUEE fest in french this morning with palpable and then my teacher came over and started talking to me about my favorite part (DWANGELA! HOLLY THINKING KEVIN IS RETARDED! JIM HALPERT!!!). That episode? UM FREAKING AWESOME! Besides the obvious, you know, Andy STEALING JIM'S WOULD-HAVE-BEEN PERFECT MOMENT. GRRR ANDY, NEVER HAVE I HATED YOU SO MUCH. But other than that the episode pretty much made me pee my pants I was laughing so hard. AND AMY RYAN! LOVE HER!

Also? This week, two awesome sets of photos have come out and I owe captaincatapult for having seen them because without her, I would not have. SO THANK YOU ANNA! And I've been meaning to say: HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY! for the past week and I hate myself for leaving it so late.


THEY'RE BAAAAACK!

I never do these things but hey, there's a first time for everything right? Plus, I'm kind of in the need of a boost ;)

i love you. i want you. right now: the love meme

+ Just finished watching Prom Night. WTF? THAT WAS TERRIBLE! I hate movies where EVERYONE dies and only one is left standing. I feel like crap; it was very depressing. NOT SCOTT PORTER!

+ We did our french skit today based on scenes from L'Ecole des Femmes. Ours was based off of The Office and it was awesome...except I screwed up the lines a couple of times and I had to say to the audience (the class) "LIGNE!" (line in french for those who may not know). I'm so glad it's done and I don't have to worry about it anymore.

I literally couldn't breathe. I had to step away and take deep breaths. OMG! This is gonna kill me....

BEST. THING. EVER.

Real update coming soon...

I'm extremely bored right now so I stole this meme from lavitaestbella. Fun stuff.

1. Pick 15 of your favourite movies.
2. Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie.
3. Post them here for everyone to guess.
4. Fill in the film title once it's guessed.
5. NO GOOGLING/using IMDb search functions.

11/15 identified

1. "I don't care if she was abducted by leprechauns and whacked over the head with their shillelagh sticks!"

2. "My daughter's a tramp! My daughter's a tramp! You're 15 years old, how could you do this to me? Why don't you just take my gun. Take my gun and shoot me in the head with it tramp! I wish that you were never born! How was that?"

3. (Three Men and a Little Lady, guessed by unlessipretend "Today, we join in holy matrimony Ed and Sylvia... I knew a Slyvia once... no... she's dead..."

4. (Cinderella, guessed by afrocurl) "A dream is a wish your heart makes when you're fast asleep. In dreams you will lose your heartaches. Whatever you wish for, you keep."

5. (Sweet Home Alabama, guessed by hide_r) "The only reason I ain't signing is cause you've turned into some hoity-toity Yankee bitch, and I'd like nothing better right now than to piss you off."

6. (How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, guessed by lyttlqt21) "Our love fern! You let it die!"

7. "It should take you exactly four seconds to cross from here to that door. I'll give you two."

8. "Now it isn't that I don't like you, Susan, because, after all, in moments of quiet, I'm strangely drawn toward you, but - well, there haven't been any quiet moments."

9. (Lost and Delirious, guessed by onemagnet) "Hey boys, didn't you see the sign? "No dickheads allowed.""

10. (Mean Girls, guessed by afrocurl) "Your face smells like peppermint!"

11. (Clueless, guessed by afrocurl) "I was surfing the crimson wave. I had to haul ass to the ladies'."

12. (Walk the Line, guessed by breakingsilence) "God gave us a great big apple, see, and He said don't touch it. He didn't say touch it once in a while; He didn't say take a nibble when you're hungry; He said don't touch it! Don't think about touchin'it, don't sing about touchin' it, don't *think* about singin' about touchin' it!"

13. (Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical, guessed by onemagnet) "What a night. I was in more laps than a napkin."

14. (Across the Universe, guessed by solflower22) "Learn French or die."

15. (Atonement, guessed by solflower22) "...if all we have rests in a few moments in a library three and a half years ago, then I don't know... I don't..."

Some of these are ridiculously easy.

People, please watch Friday Night Lights in 5 minutes! The most amazing show that no one is watching, as I call it.

Yesterday I finished The Time Traveler's Wife after captaincatapult mentioned it in a post. HOLY CRAP that was a fantastic book. The way those two loved each other is so real and deep. There was just one tiny part I found unnecessary at the end but that part is easy to ignore. But I really hate when it's not written that Henry has black hair until 150 pages into the book; I was picturing him with BLONDE HAIR. Then I had to force myself to imagine black hair but I couldn't because I already had this image in my head. This happened in Twilight too. For the longest time I pictured Alice with long reddish/orange hair and Rosalie with dark brown hair. How weird is that?

What to read next? I'm REALLY feeling like reading The Lovely Bones. Unless someone has any other suggestions? I have about 20 books in my room that I want/need to read but as always, I want to read what I don't have. I was going to read Atonement next but I'm not sure I'm in the mood for it.

PS How awesome is the name Alba? SO COOL!

RIP Heath Ledger. I really can't believe it.

I need to rant about my brother and how much I really really hate him.

He went out about 2 hours ago. I came downstairs and the TV was on (as always) and his Xbox was still on too (again, it ALWAYS is) and have you ever heard one of those things? they're freaking loud! So I figured he'd be out for a while maybe not even back at all tonight so I turn it off. He came back with his friend about 10 minutes ago and starts yelling at me because I dare turn off his Xbox and save energy. My brother is extremely scary at times. He's has threatened me many times, once that he would bash my head against the cement wall because I wouldn't get off the computer and he wanted on. The other night, he got this thing for the car radio for his new iPod and since he's the driver, it doesn't matter that I have an iPod, I'm not allowed to use it. Ever.

Then, the other day, his friend was on my computer (it's the family's really but my brother has his laptop and my mom uses the computer once a month for an hour so I call it mine) and my brother was playing video games. Um couldn't his friend just go home AND DOWNLOAD HIS MUSIC ONTO HIS OWN COMPUTER?! Ugh. He's done it before too and I deleted it all and my brother yelled at me again saying it's not just my computer. FYI, he has his OWN laptop and his OWN Limewire. This, I do not get.

More and more lately he's gotten this sense of entitlement. I mean, he's grown up without any friends and now he has lots of friends that actually like having him around, but other than that, I have no idea where it's coming from.

I just want him to move out. He thinks he owns the house and then turns around and says I'm the selfish one.

And now with them down here whooping and hollering I can't get any homework done. I was counting on not having anyone here. And to top it all off, my brother's friend works at a TV and stereo place and he's brought over these massive speakers and I can here the video game sound vibrating the floor. Greeeeat. I have my music on pretty loud and it's Tegan and Sara to boot (he hates Tegan and Sara) I'm really tempted to turn it up louder but I'm actually scared of him.

Man, the f-list went CARAZZY the last two days. I haven't been on since yesterday. WOAH!

Anyways, no real entry tonight because I'm too tired and I need to take my mind off school tomorrow because nothing is doing the trick except thinking about going to MICHIGAN next week! I'm extremely excited. I just took work off for the weekend today. My boss is going to be mad because I didn't do it earlier and I had to do it in a note but I don't care, she can fire me because nothing is going to stop me from going to see onemagnet.

This little meme has been circling around and it looked fun. I love seeing what kind of tunes the f-list listens to. But, whenever I do these things, the embarassing music ALWAYS comes up. UGH.

Step 1. Put your playlist on random.
Step 2. Post the first line from the first 25 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing. (You can skip songs that are instrumental.)
Step 3. Strike out the songs when someone guesses correctly.
No Googling! That's what they call cheating, fool.

1. This is the only lonely picture waiting on my floor
2. We belong together and you know that I’m right
3. Mary Jane oh Mary Jane. You crumpled me like cellophane
4. War is not the answer (babyjamesismine)
5. Don't hang your head low 'cause I can't see your face
6. Just a small town girl, livin in a lonely world (babyjamesismine)
7. Turn it inside out so I can see the part of you that's drifting over me (solflower22)
8. Two to one static to the sound of you and I undone for the last time
9. I don't need to be anything other than a prison guard's son (lj user="babyjamesismine">)
10. It's in the water baby (asouthernthing)
11. I was alone, falling free
12. One night to be confused (captaincatapult)
13. The sky glows, I see it shining when my eyes close
14. There is a wall that runs right through me (solflower22)
15. I got a girl that lives at the mall
16. I hear the bells down in the canyon (lj user="afrocurl ">)
17. In two more years, my sweetheart, we will see another view
18. I'd rather chase your shadow all my life than be afraid of my own
19. Watching terrible tv it kills all thought (captaincatapult)
20. This is morning (babyjamesismine)
21. Every day was glowing like a prefect day in summer
22. Hey girl, is he everything you wanted in a man (tommygirl887San Francisco Bay, past pier thirty nine</i>
24. You'll find it hiding in shadows (tommygirl887)
25. Gone. She's gone (captaincatapult)

The following is a rant that I felt was very necessary:

Sometimes I wish I was the only one who has ever read the Twilight series. This whole war thing over the fangirls (who I’ve actually never encountered) and the people who think they are totally above the Twilight fangirls and make fun of them is really getting tiring. I rarely talk about Twilight (here, in real life I do) because of this. I’m not a fangirl by any means. I love the books and that’s it. But the thing that has been bugging me the most about this whole fandom is the Bella hate. I don’t know exactly when it happened but I’m pretty sure it was after Eclipse but it doesn’t really matter because I honestly cannot find any evidence that Bella is “lame” or “needs to die” I don’t see it. But what do I think the problem is? Girls. Girls are the worst (and let’s face it, most of every fandom is made up of girls. The term is fangirls for a reason) they sit there and judge girls for the most far fetched reasons and the guys come out smelling like roses no matter what they do. Edward has made mistakes, he’s done wrong, sure, he left Bella for her, to protect her blah blah blah, but he’s perfect right? He’s Edward Cullen. No. I don’t care if he’s Edward freaking Cullen. I can’t stand that people let him off the hook and then give Bella crap for not being considerate for Edward’s feelings (again, I can’t find any evidence of this in the books.) She’s a teenaged girl who has to deal with freaking mystical creatures and she has to make impossible decisions, I would be difficult in that situation too; but of course, everyone else would just be perfect. Mhmm. Again, I’m not entirely sure why people hate Bella; I’m sure people have different reasoning.
But really, this girl problem really came to me this season with Julie Taylor from FNL. She’s constantly being painted as this major bitch. I admit, she has been a bitch this season. And I don’t mean for breaking up with Matt. That I fully supported, and I love them together. But people aren’t looking at what’s going on around her; for the first 16 years of her life she has been the center of her parents universe. She was an only child. Technically, she still is even with baby Grace. In my psychology class last year we learned that if a child is the only child for 7 years or more, they are considered an only child no matter what. They always feel like that. And that is what’s happening to Julie although she still has to share her parents with this new sibling. And a newborn at that. I think just for this, her actions and behaviors can be explained. And then there’s Lyla of course. The amount of hate people have for her is undeniable. I’m guessing this hate comes from her sleeping with Tim while Jason was in the hospital. But really? Really? Tim gets some crap but for the most part, girls love him even with what he did with Lyla while his best friend was in the hospital, because he’s hot and hot guys can get away with anything. I’ll admit, I adore Tim Riggins, but if I let Tim off the hook, I do the same for Lyla. I’m not going to make that double standard just because she’s a girl and guys are expected to sleep around but if girls do they are sluts. No. That’s totally unfair.
And then of course, there’s Marissa Cooper. Ryan, quite possibly the worst character on that show, is painted as this amazing guy while Marissa is a whining, annoying piece of crap? I won’t even try and understand this one. This is one that has bothered me for 4 years and I still can’t figure it out.


I’m just so sick of girls judging girls this way. And I’m not just talking fictional characters here. You can’t be too fat; too thin; too whiny; you can’t wear what you want to wear; talk too much; talk too little; or else you’ll get judged and labeled. And the big one: if you stand up for yourself, you’re a bitch. For once in my life, I stood up for myself and I’m a bitch now. And the thing is, I used to be really nice; now, I act like everyone expects me to act. I’ve turned into a complete bitch because of these girls who constantly judge. I work with about 10 girls and one guy. I’m always hoping that guy, Richard, is working because I can ask him anything about what the hell I’m doing and not feel like an idiot. I swear, it’s gotten to the point where I’m nervous around girls. I’m constantly on alert around girls, wondering what kind of judgments their putting on me.

Girls are harsh, and I don’t know how this is ever going to stop.

I have probably missed so much that I've wanted to get out, as always, so I might have to add to this.

Tell me that isn't the cutest kid ever. JLuke is my new favorite character.

Real update to come. I just read some Twilight. Reading at night, lying on my bed, makes me so tired. I can't lie down when I'm reading; it's just not good. I have a paper due tomorrow and I haven't started. I'll have to wake up early in the morning. I work better in the morning anyway. Ugh and two presentations tomorrow! I HATE PUBLIC SPEAKING OF ANY KIND. NERVOUS!

"Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?" - Ernest Gaines

We would like to know who really believes in gay rights on livejournal. There is no bribe of a miracle or anything like that. If you truly believe in gay rights, then repost this and title the post as "Gay Rights".

Apparently, this is an old meme but I never saw it so I'm doing it now because this is one topic that I have firm views on.

I remember once, when I was about 10 or 11, my mom and I were driving and along the road, stopped, was a big red bus with something about anti gay rights. It was like a freaking tour bus going around telling people not to support gay marriage. This is really the first time I really knew what being gay was. Right then and there I decided it was completely unfair for anyone to have this right to go around telling people not to allow certain people to live in the way they choose. It still baffles me that people believe they have some sort of right to judge homesexuals and tell them they aren't allowed to live the life they want to live. They aren't hurting anyone; they aren't doing anything illegal so mind your own business. It's like going up to someone who has red hair and telling them to dye their hair brown because it's more natural. Something you're born with cannot be changed. You can't help who you fall in love with. I also really hate when people think that I'm gay just because I support gay rights. Only homosexuals can speak out for themselves? Bullshit and completely unfair.

Okay, I managed to keep my ranting to a minimum there which really surprised me because I can get pretty heated about this topic.

Also, I really recommend watching All Aboard! Rosie's Family Cruise I know, ew it's Rosie, but honestly, it's an amazing movie and really shows the crap that these people have to go through on a daily basis. I remember I watched it and my mom came in and asked why I was watching this crap I answered "Because it's great" and the next week I came downstairs and my mom was crying, I looked at the TV, she was watching the movie.

Just wanted to quickly wish the flist a HAPPY NEW YEAR! I'm falling asleep at...11:05. I'm pathetic.

I'll post my resolutions and stuff tomorrow morning.

Things I got this Christmas:

• Box O’ Books is what we’re calling it. My mom filled a box of books from my wishlist for me that include: The Farther You Run by Davida Willis Hurwin (don’t know how I’m going to get through this one since the first one was so freaking sad), The Pact by Jodi Picoult, Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin, Friday Night Lights by H.G. Bissinger, Kit’s Law by Donna Morrissey, And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie.
• Friday Night Lights The Complete First Season (yes! I haven’t seen most of the first season)
• The Audrey Hepburn Collection
• Enchantment: The Life of Audrey Hepburn (I’m not even a huge Hepburnfan;I just really like Breakfast at Tiffany’s. I’m much more of a Monroe fan.)
• PJs
• Huge curling iron
• Yellow shirt (because now that I’m not blonde anymore I can wear yellow)
• Sixteen Candles
• Various stocking stuffers and chocolate
• iPod dock! Last night at 8 o’clock my dad gave it to me because he had forgotten that he had it. He felt all bad but it was cool because it was like Christmas wasn’t over. Plus it was an amazing gift. I love it so much. I can now play my iPod while cleaning my room and stuff.

And that’s it. Pretty good year I must say. Bonus that everyone was in a fairly good mood (and not punching holes in the walls like 2 Christmases ago)

Hope everyone had a great Christmas!

First, Merry Christmas (or Happy Holidays) to the flist! I hope you all have an especially great day.

Second, thanks to the amazing poetrytoprose I just finished watching Atonement. Wow. I can't say anything else. I absolutely loathe Kiera Knightley, I find she ruins every movie she's in so I really wasn't expecting much from the movie. But I really did love it. And James McAvoy didn't hurt either ;)

And then, of course, Sweeney Todd which I saw yesterday with some friends. Again, wasn't expecting much from this one either but it really turned out to be as fantastic as everyone said it was. I can't stop singing "Johanna". Did anyone else sort of maybe tear up at the end? WHAT? IT WAS SAD!

I'm off to watch Friday Night Lights season 1 which I got from my brother. I still haven't seen most of it.

Have a great day everyone!