I am a rock, I am an island

OH HAI. You've just stumbled onto my journal. It's not friends only, so feel free to look around! But this is mostly just my personal stuff--not much pertains to fandom, other than my random entries about listening/playing/reading/watching something new. Have fun!

Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones 5/16/10
Chocolat by Joanne Harris
Watchmen and Philosophy: A Rorschach Test by William Irwin and Mark D. White
The Illiad by Homer
The Odyssey by Homer
Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
You Don't Know Me by Klass
The Once and Future King by T. H. White
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles 8/26/09
Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus
Prometheus Unbound by Percy Shelley
Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti
The Other by David Guterson
The Drunkard's Walk by Leonard Mlodinow
Metamorphosis by Ovid
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
Time After Time by Karl Alexander
The Last Sherlock Holmes Story by Michael Dibdin
TripTych by Karin Slaughter
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow4/12/09
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Unabridged) by Victor Hugo 4/9/09
Sleepers by Lorenzo Carcaterra
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey 4/23/09
The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle 10/23/09
The Prestige by Christopher Priest 10/28/09
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto by Chuck Klosterman
Moulin Rouge by Pierre La Mure
Larklight by Philip Reeve
The Sword in the Stone by T. H. White
La Morte d'Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory
The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl by Barry Lyga
Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions by Daniel Wallace
Yes Man by Daniel Wallace
Join Me by Daniel Wallace
The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce
A Vision of Doom: Poems by Ambrose Bierce edited by Donald Sidney-Fryer
Blindness by Jose Saramago
Unfriendly Fire by Nathaniel Frank
Eaters of the Dead by Michael Crichton 11/2/09
The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling
Steampunk edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer 2/1/10
Mainspring by Jay Lake 2/04/10
Perdido Street Station by China Miéville
The Digging Leviathan by James Blaylock
Steampunk by Joe Kelly
The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Darkover Series by Marion Zimmer Bradley
The Fellowship of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkein 5/4/09
The Two Towers by J. R. R. Tolkein 5/20/09
The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkein 5/28/09
The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien
The Wheel of Time Series by Robert Jordan
Whitechapel Gods by S. M. Peters
Steampunk-Style Jewelry: A Maker's Collection of Victorian, Fantasy, and Mechanical Designs by Jean Campbell
The Translated Man by Chris Braak
Simon Says by Elaine Marie Alphin
Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko 7/18/2010
An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England by Brock Clarke
The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson 2/11/2010
Let the Right One In (AKA Let Me In) by John Ajvide Lindqvist
The Fox and the Hound by Daniel P. Mannix
Kiki's Delivery Service by Eiko Kadono
A Wind Named Amnesia by Hideyuki Kikuchi
Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Armies of the Night by Norman Mailer
Up Against the Wall Motherf**ker by Osha Neumann
On The Road by Jack Kerouac
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
Everything by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Cycler by Lauren McLaughlin
(Re)cycler by Lauren McLaughlin
Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld
Zeppelin City by Michael Swanwick and Eileen Gunn
Boneshaker by Cherie Priest
You and the Pirates by Jocelyne Allen
Last Drink Bird Head edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer
Past World by Ian Beck
The Hunchback Assignments by Arthur Slade
The Grand Tour by Wrede and Stevermer
The Mote in God's Eye by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein 8/14/10
The Court of the Air by Stephen Hunt
Castaways of the Flying Dutchman by Brian Jacques
On Stranger Tides by Tim Powers
And Another Thing... by Eoin Colfer
Silver by Edward Chupack
Two Hearts by Peter S. Beagle
Fast Ships, Black Sails edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer
Flint and Silver by John Drake
Tokyo Vice by Jake Adelstein
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien 5/16/10
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby 5/19/10
Codex Seraphinianus by Luigi Serafini (This is more something I just want to acquire than really read, considering...)
"I Have no Mouth, But I Must Scream" by Harlan Ellison 9/20/10
The Forgotten Door by Alexander Key
"Howl" by Allen Ginsberg
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon 9/16/2011
Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
The Autobiography of William Butler Yeats
Maurice by E. M. Forster


More to be added.

Brick
Mysterious Skin
Manic
(500) Days of Summer
Little Ashes
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
Vampire Hunter D
Laputa: Castle in the Sky
When the Wind Blows
Neo Tokyo
The Cat Who Walked by Herself
Like the Clouds, Like the Wind
A Wind Names Amnesia
MirrorMask
Thru the Moebius Strip
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
Prince Vladimir
Wristcutters: A Love Story
Do Começo ao Fim
The Secret of Kells


Rumored/In the works movies
Shadow of the Colossus
Dune
Ghost in the Shell
Cowboy Bebop
Bioshock
Ender's Game
How to Train Your Dragon 2 (& apparently 3)


More to be added.

Even though I was so relieved when I finally settled on Theater and Education as my double major, I've become agitated again.

I'm dropping Theater. Even though I don't want to disappoint the friends I've made in the department, and the teacher, and especially Shay, I know if I don't I'll be disappointing myself. I can't do it. I love it, I do, but I'm just not good at it. It's not what I want.

I'm taking up English as either a minor or my second major.

I hate indecisive me, but it can't be helped.

I hope Shay won't be too disappointed. Today, she mentioned how happy she was that we were majoring in theater together, and reminded me of the day we went and saw Twelfth Night when we both decided we wanted to do theater for a living.

She asked me, "Did you ever think we would actually get here?"

"Yes." I said, the my betrayal hiding in the back of my mind, struggling not to make itself known through my voice.

I am sorry.

GANTZ MOVIE OH MY GOD I'M SO EXCITED AND SO GLAD I FOUND OUT ABOUT IT IN TIIIIME!

January 20, the first Gantz movie is going to be playing in a couple of theaters near where I live! After the movie, they're going to show a live interview with the two actors playing Kurono and Kato.

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/ne…

I'M SO HAPPY!

Now I'm need to go and catch up with the manga.

MERRY FUCKING CHRISTMAS. OR WHATEVER YOU CELEBRATE.

I GOT PRESENTS FOR MY BRO AND MOM. SHIT YEAH, FIRST CHRISTMAS I'VE HAD MONEY FOR.

THE WORLD IS GOING TO LITERALLY SINK FROM HOW AWESOME I FEEL.

Oh my gods, I just beat Professor Layton and the Unwound Future. Fucking game. It made me cry. I still want to cry. I did not expect that storyline, that ending, in a fucking puzzle game.

This is the first video game to make me cry. I feel like such a dork right now.

So, I'm tired as fuck from this week, and it's only Tuesday. All the stress is killing me. Thought we were gonna do our scene today, but then we didn't. Our teacher can't fucking count. Despite that, for the past few weeks, we've only been able to get to one or two groups each day, he still decided to add us as the third group for today. Guess what fucking happened? We didn't go. All my nervousness and gut-wrenching anxiety was for nothing.

Motherfucker.

But, on the bright side, my speech on Monday went marvelously well. I mean, it was beautiful. The class liked it, and I only really messed up a couple of times. I'm so happy. I made my class want to hear about Victor Hugo, who really is a remarkable person.

Thursday is gonna be such a bitch, though. My Japanese midterm and the scene are both due that day. And the Japanese midterm is a fifteen minute verbal test. I'm so gonna vomit at some point that day.

Then, on Friday, is my history exam. I can only pray I won't fuck up, cause I so have not been paying attention in that class, even though I take notes.

The only good thing I can think of to look forward to this week is the release of How to Train Your Dragon and Sukoshicon.

Things I'm looking forward to/stressing over:

1. How to Train Your Dragon DVD on October 15
2. Special Occasion speech due October 11
3. First scene due in Acting I on October 12
4. Japanese midterm on October 14 (FFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUU-)
5. meteorflo.smackjeeves.com/comics/9… will finally update again on October 10
6. www.stringtheorycomic.com/comics/b… will update on October 13
7. NaNoWriMo is coming up (Will I at least make an effort this year?)
8. Sukoshi-con
9. Halloween
10. Getting the Kiki's Delivery Service book
11. Sleeping iiiinn this weekend

Fuck. I'm tired. Those concerts over the weekend just sucked all my energy out of me. Shinedown, Papa Roach, and Five Finger Death Punch kicked ass. They were definitely the best. Besides them, Sick Puppies was pretty good. I'm told Godsmack rocked, but we missed them.

This student in the Drama department wrote an awesome play, and he invited Freshman to come and read, to see how it sounded (I know, contradiction, but you get the idea) and give feedback and critique it. I hope it gets the grant for the department. It is so fucking awesome.

I remembered an old band I liked, and got them on my iPod. God, it's been so long since I listened to Smile Empty Soul, and they've come out with two more albums since I last heard them. I remember I first started listening to them because of an old Naruto fanfic. Just like my favorite band, AFI. I first heard of them because of a Naruto fanfic, "But Home is Nowhere" by Mercury Bohemian, and it also introduced me to a bunch of awesome movies and many other great bands.

I'm gonna go look that up now, so I can be all nostalgic over it. =D

RULES:
1. Put your iTunes, Windows Media Player, etc. on shuffle.
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER HOW SILLY IT SOUNDS.
4. Tag 10 friends.
5. Everyone tagged has to do the same thing.
6. Have Fun!


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