i tried to be like grace kelly

Oh my God, in a little over three weeks I will have been on LJ for TEN YEARS.

AT THE SAME NAME.

TEN YEARS.

AHHHHHH.

Part of the reason why my LJ name is so nonsensical is because I thought I'd never use it regularly. I tend to be pretty loyal to the screen names I choose (and I tend to use a few of them over and over), so I haven't bothered to change it. I've wanted to at points, but it's just so much a part of my online identity that it would feel weird to.

As I've mentioned briefly before, in my off-time I roleplay, and ever since someone else brought the idea up I have been trying to figure out if I would want to attempt to start a game based on the idea that you create your character around a trope from TV Tropes. I would so love to do that, except I have a history of starting games and the games not taking off and feeling like a massive failure when that happens.

Eh. Either way...

the TV TROPES meme

HAVE FUN. TRY NOT TO GET SUCKED TOO DEEP INTO THE VORTEX.

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.

A few days ago I spotted this meme:

1. Comment to this post with "I surrender!" and I'll assign you the basis of some TV show idea. (Science fiction show, medical drama, criminal procedure, etc...)
2. Create a cast of characters, including the actors who'd play them
3. Add in any actor photos, character bios and show synopsis that you want.
4. Post to your own journal!

The amazing austen gave me the prompt: An annual pajama party held in the high school cafeteria turns deadly. Who will step up to solve the first murder as more begin to unfold? And this is the result of what I came up with:


( it's just like watching the detectives. )

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OH LJ, HOW PERFECT FOR YOU TO ASK.

One of my fondest '09 memories: Maroon 5, November 20.

( The full story, plus pictures. )

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I am going to be Carmen Sandiego for Halloween. I bought the red trench coat this spring when it was on sale and I just need a red wide-brimmed hat. I've had this costume in mind since last year whenever I saw a red trench at Old Navy, and I remember thinking how cool it would be to pull that off.

I love Halloween, man. I love costumes, so naturally I like the idea of a day when you can wear one and people won't think you're crazy.

Random question: is it normal to have your arm still feel sore hours after getting a flu shot? I bucked up and got one today even though I hate getting shots. I figured that hey, it wouldn't hurt and I work with the public so the tingle wouldn't hurt that bad, right? But my left arm aches in this dull way right now.

Dear friends' list, I have a confession to make: I am digging both Glee and The Vampire Diaries. I feel a wee bit bandwagony as far as the former goes, but I like it sooo much. And I should feel horrifically guilty about the latter and should just say that I'm in it for Damon (Boone didn't die, he just got turned into a vampire and somehow got off the island and went badass psycho on everybody), but I just like it too. I can't help it. Don't judge meeee.

Day one: a song
Day two: a picture
Day three: a book/ebook/fanfic
Day four: a site
Day five: a youtube clip
Day six: a quote
Day seven: whatever tickles your fancy

The video: Wall-E Meets his fans at the D23 Expo. This is entirely too cute. I LOVE HOW HE GETS ALL DISTRACTED AND GOES TO LOOK AT THE PEOPLE. I want a WALL-E.

Day one: a song
Day two: a picture
Day three: a book/ebook/fanfic
Day four: a site
Day five: a youtube clip
Day six: a quote
Day seven: whatever tickles your fancy



YAY, DOGGIE.

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If that day came, I would eat nothing but potatoes the entire day. Ever since the whole "low-carb" thing came along, people have made me hate the fact that I love me some potatoes. So if calories didn't count, I would declare it Tuberfest and start off the day with a big order of hash browns, then have Chick-Fil-A waffle fries for lunch, and finish off the day with two gigantic baked potatoes with lots of butter, bacon bits, and cheese and have sweet potatoes with brown sugar, cinnamon, and more butter for dessert. Oh, and there would also be potato bread. I know it doesn't have potatoes in it technically, but it counts.

(Okay, not just potatoes. Baked macaroni and cheese, dulce de leche caramel ice cream, those little angel food cakes that you put fruit in and then cover with like, a pound of whipped cream, Chick-Fil-A nuggets, egg rolls, and I'm gonna stop before I give you all a heart attack by proxy and I start to sound like even more of a glutton.)

I have nooooo moneys. Well, I do, but I am trying to save. I transferred some to my "new" bank account and the rest is still in my old one. Hopefully, I can switch over accounts before the end of the month so I won't have to worry about that as much. But even though I am lacking in money (and I desperately want a bunch of really nice cardigans and blouses at a few stores right now, ohhhh), I went and saw Jennifer's Body, which was not as horrifyingly scary as I thought it was going to be. It was like Heathers hooked up with Dawn of the Dead. I usually don't care for Megan Fox either way, but her deadpan-ness at points was kind of perfect. I think Amanda Seyfried just really made the movie--part of me was like, "YOU GO, KAREN!" the entire time. It was pretty good; I'd give it a B.