i tried to be like grace kelly

IT'S ON!!!!!

THE LOST FINALE IS GOING TO BE 2.5 HOURS?!?!?!?! WHAT.

OH MAN, RICHARD ALPERT DAY WAS GLORIOUS. ( I have thoughts. )

WHY ONLY SEVEN EPISODES LEFT. ;_;

30 Days of Meme, Day Eight: A photo that makes you angry/sad

( Cut because it's big. )

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.

FOUR DAYS UNTIL LOST RETURNS FOR THE LAST TIME. ;_; :D ;_; :D ;_; :D ;_; :D

So on Tuesday, I am going to be alternating between excitement and sniffling the entire time, like, "THIS IS THE LAST TIME THAT THERE WILL BE JEARS. THIS WILL BE THE LAST TIME SAWYER LOOKS AT SOMEONE ALL SURLY-LIKE. THIS IS THE LAST TIME THAT SUN WILL BE AWESOME. THIS IS THE LAST TIME THAT SAYID WILL KILL SOMEONE WITH HIS FEET."

Yesterday when I got off work, I was at Marshall's, and as I was looking at shoes on the clearance racks, I spotted these black stacked heels with cork soles and pink and white flowers on the toe. And then I saw that they were Prada and I was stunned, since I never expected to be within touching distance of anything Prada ever in my life. And they were my size!

So I tried them on, and was able to walk with them. I didn't buy them because A.) I thought they were cute, but just okay, and B.) even though they were clearance, they were still $200.

Anyway. Here are two Lost related pictures to discuss: ( So, discuss! )

The 65 Most Romantic Movie Couples. I am genuinely surprised that about half of that list has some of my favorite movie couples ever in it. Aww. :]

Lost finale in one week! And then, there is going to be eight months until ZE END.

I am planning on rewatching the entire series in the days leading up to the first episode of the last season. Well, I could theoretically watch one episode a day for 102 days before, or I could split it up or something; I don't know. But I have had that idea in mind for a while.

Um, if anyone would like to explain to me WTH happened on Lost last night, I will really appreciate it.

On the other hand: "We're here three years, and no flaming vans; you're here one day and look!" And also: WHERE IS DESMOND?!?!?!?!

Random updatey things:

1. IT'S LOST SEASON AGAIN!!! Plz to be talking about the premiere in comments. [that means that if anyone does? Spoilers! So do not be all WAAAAAAAH YOU SPOILDED ME if you are the type of person who gets all emo about that. I know most of y'all don't, but some people get butthurt over stuff like that.]

2. I made the front page of my college's paper. I was watching the inauguration in one of the student lounges and I was sitting close to the TVs, so I was right in the line of view. I'm in that first picture and my feet are propped up. It was so awesome. :D

3. I got Pepper a squeaky toy that is a plushy Sugar Daddy, and she loves it like crazy.

4. I am simultaneously stoked and scared of my Intro to Film and Video class.

( Two hours of Lost. )

February is so, so far away.