i tried to be like grace kelly

Random question time: growing up, what did you watch on TV with your parents?

For me, there's shows I watched because I was genuinely interested in them (TGIF and Snick lineups, afterschool cartoons, old sitcom reruns) and then there were shows that my parents (well, mostly my dad, as my mom had absurd hours when I was younger and usually she would watch whatever my brother and I would watch because it at least meant that she was hanging out with us) watched that I would either mostly ignore while I sat on the couch or floor and played or read something, or ones that I vividly remember watching with them. For example, I have memories of half-heartedly listening to Star Trek: The Next Generation, and actually paying attention to The Cosby Show with my dad. Actually, The Cosby Show is the reason why I asked this; my brother has been watching it on Netflix for about a week and a half straight and it's bringing back random memories. I think my dad taped the finale for that show. I know he taped the finale of TNG.

I'm going to go back to look for my first LJ entry to see what I was talking about then. I CANNOT BELIEVE I'VE BEEN ON THIS SERVER FOR A DECADE. WHAT IN THE WORLD. Speaking of that, I still boggle in disbelief when I see people using the icons I make. It makes me feel kind of special. Is that weird?

Oh, what the hell, why not:


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Finished my final newscast story in under two hours. (Everyone: Whaaaaat?! Me: I KNOW, RIGHT?) I will do my demo reel tomorrow, and after Monday, reporting 1 is OVER.

Quick notes:

- I've made an icon/wallpaper post at brandnew_soul. Check it out, if you're so inclined.
- Lost last night! WASN'T [SPOILER] AS A [SPOILER] JUST [SPOILER] [SPOILER]?! Also: NEXT WEEK IS A RICHARD EPISODE. OMG. I can't even lie, whenever they ran that preview I was bouncing up and down and squealing like a hyperactive twelve year old. Thank God only Pepper witnessed this.
- I am so, so glad that this guy is of legal age, because otherwise I would feel like a major perv crushing on him. But at the same time: omg he was born in 1990.
- This poster for the as-yet unproduced Captain America movie makes me want the movie SO MUCH.

Day Two of 30 Days of Meme: Your Favorite Movie.


(poster courtesy of evilcomma at Tumblr)

My movie-going life prior to being able to drive kind of sucked, as exhibited by my ticket stub collection (which reminds me, one day I will get back into working on ticketboothed). I was always at the mercy of my parents or my brother most of the time, and because of this if there was a movie I specifically wanted to see, I often had to wait until it came out on VHS before I could actually see it. The exception, of course, was if I could go with a friend, but during the summer of 2001 (when Moulin Rouge was released), I was sort of low in the friend department. I'd just moved to Texas the year before and while I was friendly with some of the girls who lived in my neighborhood and went to school with me, they weren't my friends, per se.

That July, my family made our then-biannual treks back to North Carolina to visit family, and I got to see my then best friend Amanda. We had both been obsessing over the ads for the movie and decided that we just had to see it (it was down to that and Pearl Harbor, come to think of it). There was one problem: the theater that we ended up at wasn't showing it. Instead we caught Tomb Raider.

I finally saw Moulin Rouge in February 2002, when I was in my super-emo woeful stage (that is unfortunately captured in some of the earlier entries in this journal). I went around obsessing over it for a few months after, bought the soundtrack and the VHS that year with Christmas money, and had a replica of the movie poster taped on my bedroom door until it fell off and got ripped. I think I love this movie for all the reasons that some people dislike it: it's over-the-top and the first half hour is this massive frenzy of high energy and color. But I also like that it's kind of a microcosm of some of my favorite fictional elements. It has comedy ("Nothing funny, I just like talent!", the entire scene in the elephant when Christian is attempting to sell the script to Satine who is unaware that he's not the Duke), drama, romance, and it's a musical, for crying out loud. It's a beautiful film to look at and it makes you care. As I said about my favorite song yesterday, there's other movies that I've enjoyed or meant something to me, but this is the one that constantly makes me happy.

Guess who is one of the only people in her intro class to have her film featured in the intro student showcase tomorrow night?

I AM SO SCARED. On one hand, I get extra credit for it, and it's not going to be among the juried films, so there's that. And, I mean, this is an accomplishment. Something I filmed and edited and wrote is going to be on an actual movie-sized screen! But on the other, it's mine and it's up there and people get to see it and possibly hate it. I am perfectly okay with critique, even when I'm certain I've done a stellar job and then other people say it's not as great as previously thought, but it just makes me nervous. And it's my first movie too. Hello, anxiety.

I wish I could get over the feeling that just because people don't always like or fawn over what I create or do or say that it doesn't mean that they don't like me. Sometimes I still feel like that. It's universal and normal, but I'm so self-conscious about it sometimes.

And while we're still talking about critiquing!



Plz to be telling me what you think (anonymously, as are the rules of that).

Also good news: I GOT AN A ON MY ADVERTISING PROJECT IN MY MEDIA WRITING CLASS. YAAAAY.

Finally, I wish I could tell off customers who are insanely rude to you even when you are trying your hardest to be nice to them. The woman I had to deal with tonight was even bitchy to the manager she demanded to talk to. I do not understand why people seem to think that if you are in retail, you deserve to be bitched at. We provide customer service, and although you're supposed to ensure that the customer is happy and will shop at your store again, it is damn hard sometimes to make sure that happens when said customer is being rude to you.

TWENTY-NINE HOURS!!!

Random drive-by promotion: like Lost? Like Lost icons? Go vote in the first round of iconstant!

I rarely talk about RPing here, for some reason. My RP discussion tends to get mostly talked about over at InsaneJournal, because most of my friends over there role play as well, and they "get it". But basically: I feel like I've hit a wall lately. There's a game I want to join, and I cannot write a character biography for the character I have in mind to save my life. I don't know what's up with my sudden writer's block, but it's mildly distressing.

ack_attack has the best all I want for [winter holiday of choice] icons evs. My favorites from there:

a cheeseburger
Chuck Bass
a deserted island and Peter Petrelli. Oh, and a good book.
Emo!Peter's bangs
House to get laid
the Metallicar and a shotgun loaded with rock salt
Mike Rowe all dirty
more books
a new episode of Lost
a shoebox full of $20s
a sonic screwdriver
a superpower
the TARDIS to land in my backyard
this icon
my own tropical island
my TV shows back
world peace... or a thousand pairs of shoes, whichever's easiest
your voice (URSULA, IS THAT YOU?!)

Speaking of holidays: if you would like a card from me, send your mailing addresses to supersyncspaz7 at gmail.com, por favor.

I saw Enchanted again tonight and can I just say that I loved ( this one spoilery part? )

I've seen this in a few places over the past few days, but some of you might not have: is the dancer turning clockwise or counterclockwise? SO TRIPPY. The first time, I swore she was going counterclockwise, and then I looked at it again and it looks like she's going clockwise! I am so confused.

Meme time, because it be fun:

Comment on this post. I'll choose seven userpics from your profile and you'll reply here (or you know, your own journal, whichever), explaining what they mean and why you're using them. Post this along with your answers in your own journal so others can play along.

Even though I did this with mouseykins1, I'm going to do it again with seven random ones.

( Iconses! )

For some reason, it distresses me that, when I go back ten entries, I can read entries from July.

ANYWAY: I have found some VERREH NICE pictures of Milo Ventiglmia from... some blog that I can't remember.



A few days ago at thequestionclub, someone asked what your favorite movie scene is, and I searched on YouTube for this. In the process, I ended up finding this At World's End trailer that was remastered and recut to somewhat resemble the Casino Royale trailer and it is SO COOL.

And while we're talking about YouTube discoveries, how 'bout Shirley Bassey doing a cover of "Get the Party Started" by Pink? IS AWESOME. ZOMG.

I am slowly (but surely) coming out of my icon-making slump. I finally posted some at itsapolarbear that I'd been working on all summer (well, it seemed like that; they were made sporadically during the summer), and thanks to fuselage_lims, I want to make Lost icons again. Yay!

I am, semi-currently, making icons of Mean Girls (explaining where my super-cool "boo, you whore" icon comes from) so that I can make my first ever post at itsapolarbear (HAI). And something dawned on me when I started making that set:

1. I haven't iconned Lost in forever. Not because I dislike the show or anything. I don't know why.
2. There are a lot of things I want to icon but haven't gotten around to because I'm lacking in inspiration or what have you. Like, I've wanted to do Supernatural icons since I did my first set last summer. I've wanted to icon Heroes since the show started. I made 10 Things icons when I first started making icons, and... they are horrible. Well, not horrible, but oversharpened and overly yellow and just bleh. Okay, they are horrible.
3. I have never made a batch of Prison Break icons, yet I have made many of Wentworth Miller. Including this one:



It was made after I something I said at my GJ:

Wentworth Miller with a full head of hair = one of the sexiest things ever. Just... God. I'm looking at pictures of him from right before Prison Break started shooting and he has gorgeous hair. All wavy and like you'd just love to put your fingers through it. He works the shaved head like no one's business, but gah! Hair! ANDTHOSEBLINDINGLYBLUEEYESUNH. Bitch won in the genetic lottery.

And: poll. Because it's almost summer (summer summertime), and I'll have more time.

[Poll #975314]

Circle circle dot dot, now I've got a cootie shot.

I think I'm going to submit my handwriting to Fonts for Peas, so it can be made into a font.

I was uploading some stuff in Photobucket the other day and I was suprised at how much my graphics/icon making has improved since I started two years ago. Heck, I always get surprised to see how different my icons look from post to post.

With that said: if you make icons, let's see the last three icons from the last three sets that you've posted. Here's mine:



That's it! I'm off to study and/or watch Lost. Probably both.