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America takes other nations' music into the back alley and rapes it. Also, anyone notice that Clinton looked like she was going to murder someone after the speech? You should've seen everyone's reactions when the prayer was said at the end of the speech. "When black won't be asked to get back When brown will get around When yellow will be mellow When right will do right" The reaction was something like this: And then we all laughed nervously.

Project Runway and Top Chef. The first one cause it's so pretty, the second one because the food looks so goddamned good.

I'm pretty sure that my friend and I were screaming incoherently at the screen while watching Cowboy Bebop this weekend and with that news fresh in our minds. ...Maybe the rest of the cast will redeem itself? (Doubt it, but let me have my pitiful hope.)

Zack and Miri Make a Porno. I have a new favorite movie ever. Goddamned funny, a great love story, and it really hit on a lot of levels for me. And I need to figure out when it's coming out on DVD.

He's playing Deadpool Whoops. Thanks for the correction. This is a pretty good point. The parts where he's fighting various agents of Stryker's look like they're set in a modernish sort of time.

No. Because the fangirls demand their pretty Gambit, and by god, we'll give them their pretty Gambit. Also, they hate you, Preston. Are their eyes closed because they're all trying to forget they're in this movie? xD

Battlestar Galactica, episode 4.13. And now I remember why I love this show so goddamned much. It doesn't hesitate to punch you in the gut and show you humanity at its most hopeless.

...The puppets look like something out of Labyrinth. Which may be a good or bad thing.

Meryl Streep wears awful clothes, and sings about being a golddigger at one point. Also, NO ONE IN IT CAN SING. And there's a horrible number that plays over the credits with the most godawful disco outfits in the history of EVER. (Youtube it if you want your eyes to bleed out.) (And I kind of liked Sweeney Todd! Yeah, it's not as good as the original musical, and Helena Bohnam Carter should not have been Mrs. Lovett, but it's passable.) Currently watching the BSG marathon preparing for the premiere of the last half of the season tonight; I'll get to see at least half of my favorite episode ever ("Hub", WATCH IT) before heading for work, and with any luck I'll be done before the start of the new episode. Currently on "Faith". Six!cest kiss is so frakking hot.

Good. Fox gets its money, and they aren't too douchey about it. WB keeps its name on it and keeps the rights. And the movie gets released on time. Everyone wins~!

We all lose in this weather.

...I hate winters in this part of the world. -45. And it's supposed to get even worse when the sun goes down.

I don't really think they absolutely need to have the Joker in the next movie. After a few more viewings, Ledger's Joker was pretty solid, but there were other performances in TDK that were better. And as it is, Joker's probably in Arkham; the next installment can afford to focus on other villains, maybe hint that he's broken out at the end of the movie. Plus there will be backlash if Nolan even tries to do that at this point, from fans of the Ledger performance.

RIP KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!

Let me have my delusions, please.

I wish to call bullshit on that (on Marvel's hiring decisions).

That's actually quite nice to hear. I thought that they way too quickly, it would be a nice place for the third movie to pick up.

Frak. Me. Got into an accident today; missed a stop sign, got plowed into by a sedan, then bounced into a SUV. I'm perfectly okay physically, as were the other people from what I know at the moment; no ambulances had to be called, thank god. The van's pretty much totaled, though (though I can get out and not in, WTF?) with major impact damage to the side doors and the driver and passenger's doors. Sedan had its hood bent up and slight impacted inward on the front fender, SUV took almost no damage, just slight impact damage inwards on the front fender. I've got at least a $180 citation to pay for causing the accident, not to mention this fucks over my parents' insurance rates and we're having a hard enough time paying tuition as it is... *facedesk*

Hah. Nice.

I just feel the need to say that I should not be able to hear my bitch sorority neighbor's movies and music (including Mamma fucking Mia) through the walls like it was playing in my own room.

Just put on Iron Man, haven't seen it in a while. However, I also get to listen to Mamma Mia, also known as Menopause: The Musical through the walls, courtesy of my dumbass sorority opera diva neighbor.

Lucifer Collected Volume 3 - A Dalliance With the Damned - Probably my favorite volume that I've read, besides volume 11. More of Elaine figuring out what she can do, and an angel called Duma who RADIATES~ how he's feeling, what with being the Angel of Silence and all. Probably my favorite two characters, right there. Mazikeen continues her search for her face, which brings her to her kin - the Lilium, more background there, which is very appreciated. We also get introduced to a character we'll be seeing again soon and the mechanisms of how hell works without Lucifer; an interesting sidestep, but I didn't like it quite as much as the rest of the volume. Meanwhile, Lucifer tries his hand at creation, which yields some interesting results. DMZ Collected Volume 1 - On the Ground: Another great series that I've been turned on to by a friend and this site. Excellent and realistic development of an AU situation, seemingly based in what's happening overseas and what might well happen here at some point. Lots of interesting characters and groups introduced who are probably going to become important down the line, and neat development of differences between neighborhoods and how they're all defended. DMZ Collected Volume 2 - Body of a Journalist: I love what they did with this volume. Politics gets drawn into this big-time; how Roth gets set up by multiple people from his network and the government and how he uses his contacts and own knowledge to his and the people in the DMZ's advantage is great to watch happen. There's more background given to all the characters as well, not to mention a guide to all that Roth's explored and met in the DMZ towards the end of the volume. Can't wait to find more of this. Comic Books: 0 TPBs: 5 Graphic Novels: 0 Also got a friend to buy Kingdom Come from the Waldenbooks at the mall's closing sale; I think I've made her an Alex Ross fangirl now. Excerpted from various things she shouted while reading it in two hours: *points to the panel where Spectre comes through the wall of the church* FUCK YEAH! THAT is what the Spectre is supposed to look like - an avenging fucking angel! And the light bloom! What the fuck does the man use, this is beautiful!! (Sidenote: Art student, looking into going into either working for Pixar or doing comic artwork.)

I know how you feel. We've never had contact with my mother's side of the family, because of stuff that happened when I was really little; hell, I didn't even know I had a mother's side to the family till high school. The only time they've ever gotten in contact with us was to tell my mother that her mother and father had died, where the funeral was... and then that she wasn't invited to it. There's been one of her sisters-in-law (I think?) that has been attempting to get in contact with us, though. In this case, it's really up to you in the end, which really sucks. Because, on the one hand, you probably want to find out a little bit about him, but on the other hand, there's years of issues on the other hand. I'm kind of in the same situation right now. *hugs* If you need to talk/rant, feel free.

Lucifer Collected Volume 2 - Children and Monsters: Let it be said straight off the bat that I have yet to read all of the way through Sandman, much less all the way through this (but if you know where I can find all of this, please, direct me!). I love the way they use various mythologies in here, I love Lucifer as a character period, I love the way they sneak in little cameos (Contsantine!, references to Sandman!), and I absolutely adore Elaine. Want more of this. Lucifer Collected Volume 11 - Evensong: Yeah, I went straight from Children and Monsters to this. So I'm lacking context, probably, and I don't have much of an idea what happened in the interim. But, She's probably one of my favorite characters ever. . It's also quite nice to see Dream and his conversation with Lucifer, as well. As befits the last volume, there's a sense of finalness but still a sense of "things go on", in a way. This has pretty much cemented that I need to find the entirety of this so that I can actually understand what's going on. This volume also includes the one-off Nirvana. I don't know who did the artwork for this, but it reminds me of Alex Ross' work on Kingdom Come; there's a soft kind of haze around everything, which fits the etherealness of it all perfectly, and the realistic artwork works especially well in the context of memory. The plot's a little hard to wrap your head around at first, but it makes more and more sense as you read through it. Totals: Comic Books: 0 TPBs: 2 Graphic Novels: 0

Meh, I assume you'll all find me soon enough.