Strong Pieces

↘ I'm newly in love with Mitch Hewer thanks to flareupwithlove linking me a clip of Maxxie on Skins and me proceeding to watch Maxxie-centric episodes. Ugh, Maxxie, the things your fabulousness and pretty mouth do to me. I even made a wallpaper strategically, so I get sex eyes all the time now. (Even when I have a video file or IM window open, he peers over the top at me. It's awesome.)

↘ I had like, five promising icon posts open in tabs and was all ready to upload new icons, but I only found one I really liked. Bummer. Speaking of icons, I have a few recent posts at ancientgate that I never linked to.

↘ Spent today with my sister as she got the SUV appraised. The dealership would take it off her hands for 10k, but she still needs 2k upfront. Plus, her BF is stuck in Kansas City. He'd originally flown out there with his uncle so he could help him drive his car back here, but apparently the guy at the shop had been lying to his uncle and the car is nowhere near ready. So they're stuck until he has money to buy a ticket back. It's been so quiet in the house lately, with just us girls here.

↘ I've had bizarre dreams lately. Last night, I dreamt I was at a con and ran into the Glee cast, then managed to get interviews from them. Before that...God, I forget, but it was epic in a Jurassic Park kinda way and involved the Glee cast somehow.

↘ Watched Slumdog Millionaire for the first time last night, and ended up watching the ending about five times in a row. God, it was perfect. Am also a little in love with Dev Patel, now.

↘ Added to my long, long list of TV shows to watch: Alias, Eureka (catching up), Royal Pains, Sanctuary (catching up), Secret Diary of a Call Girl, Six Feet Under, Skins UK (giving it a second chance), Warehouse 13.

↘ I'm sure I had more to talk about, but I have a post to write, tags to get to, and blog stuff to take care of before I give in and play as much Dragon Age 2 tonight, as I'll be at Jordan's all week.

↘ Oh, no, one thing. I made an appointment with a clinic tomorrow morning, to look into birth control and seeing if I qualify for Family PACT, which is a program that provides (hopefully, for me) free women's/reproductive health care. Free birth control if all goes well, yay.

↘ OMGGGGG, this cover of Teenage Dream by The Rescues is insanely gorgeous (especially the drums in the last 30 seconds). They also do one of my recent favorite love songs, My Heart With You.

Today we did Christmas Eve presents, which was mostly to tide the kids over until tomorrow. Jordan gave me a ring he bought for me last week (I picked it out, but he was mean enough to make me wait until now), and his mom gave us season five of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia on DVD. BEST GIFT EVER. We immediately went and watched the blooper reel and a few deleted scenes, and we're going to watch the entire season because I don't think he's seen any of s5 yet.

Then we took a well needed break and went to the movies on our own - though we almost didn't, since it started snowing last night and will keep snowing until 9am tomorrow. Craaaaazy. But, we saw True Grit, which was just...yes. I'm not a big western fan, but it looked good and there was MATT DAMON'S SIDEBURNS so I couldn't resist. It was great.

Then we had dinner and came home and I'm snacking on an entire Christmas stocking full of candy, including Everlasting Gobstoppers. :D

Oh, and we also stomped around in the snow (all fresh powder), which was enough for me for the rest of this vacation.

And over the past few days I've downloaded some 5gb or so of DC comics, mainly various Batgirl volumes and a huge Supergirl torrent. Excited~

♠ I got a Winters/Nixon, Spiers/Webster claim for War Big Bang, which should be interesting. XD eudaimon also sent me her draft of her big bang to fanmix unofficially, and I'm just gonna like, rub it in all your faces because it's amaaaaazing.

♠ When I came home from the library, my sister's bf and his aunt were watching the last ep of True Blood and discussing how hard Eric is. So strange.

♠ dutchesschaotic and silensy making me watch Adam Lambert's rave in the forest finally got me over my irrational dislike for him. That, and people not talking about AI 24/7 anymore, anyway. Now I can't stop listening to If I Had You. -_-

♠ January Jones is a great Emma Frost, but what the fuck is going on with X-Men: First Class? Ugh. Just. It's in the 60s, with younger Magneto and Xavier, but Emma is grown, and there's a young Banshee and young Beast but no Cyke or Jean? Fuck that noise. Fuck. That. Noise.

♠ Todd Stashwick said I am carved out of awesome. *_*

♠ Ping on iTunes was a disappointment. It would be much easier if you could like a song/artist directly from your iTunes, but you can't, so there goes that.

Jordan and I saw Inception tonight, and oh my God, you guys. I can't even describe how I feel about it -- it's been so long since a movie's moved me like this, made me think and want to watch it fifty times just so I can analyze every single inch of it.

Also, I've stopped hating Joseph Gordon-Levitt.

Also, I want Tom Hardy (HANDSOME BOB!!) in my pants like yesterday.

Also, Cillian Murphy, I still LOVE YOU.

Yaaaay, now Jordan and I are starting tonight's True Blood.

Day 02 - Your favorite movie.
Starship Troopers

This may come as a surprise to anyone who isn't frogmajick, but Starship Troopers really is my favorite movie. I thought about Black Hawk Down, Lord of the Rings, Master and Commander, Sunshine -- all amazing movies, all in my top ten, but I don't nearly watch them as much as I do Starship Troopers. It's not just a cheesy scifi movie, but a great satirical look at war. And yes, it's kind of bad, but that's what I love about it.

I can quote just about all of it by heart, and it's been the movie I watch before every single job interview I go on. It calms my nerves. XD

"Come on you apes, do you wanna live forever?"

( The days. )

SO GUYS. I'll be booking my plane ticket to San Diego for a week from now or something, but before I leave I'm going on a day trip to DC to visit a museum, which I've always wanted to do but somehow never got around to in my combined 6 or so years living in VA, and visit amberlynne.

MY PROBLEM IS I CAN'T DECIDE ON A MUSEUM.

I've whittled my choices down to the Newseum, the International Spy Museum or the National Air and Space Museum, which I've always wanted to see. I'm going to start looking at all their exhibits and see what grabs my interest the most. I'm excited. XD Maybe I can even plan it so I can visit two in one day, if I focus on a certain exhibit instead of trying to look at an entire museum. Though if I do the Newseum, I'd spend the whole day in there.

LOL, Predators.

And my mood theme reminds me: How fucking strange is it that Q-Tip from Generation Kill is on the list of possible actors for Captain America? I love him, but he doesn't fit the bill. Sorry bb Wilson, I still love you.

1. Pick 15 of your favourite movies.
2. Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie.
3. Post them here for everyone to guess.
4. Fill in the film title once it's guessed.
5. NO GOOGLING/using IMDb search functions.

( Quotable. )

This is I watched and read in 2009! About ten less movies and a few less books than 08, but that's because I discovered comics and really plunged into them. I started a list, but stopped updating it. I've easily read twice the amount I have listed there. This year, I'm including TV episodes because I watched a crazy amount in the last few months of the year.

Everything I list is stuff I haven't read or seen before.

( Books )

( Video Games )

( Movies )

( TV )

I woke up in the middle of the night and couldn't go back to sleep, so I thought, 'I know what I'll do, I'll watch a movie. Oh! I haven't watched Pandorum yet! And we did get VIP seats and asked questions at the Pandorum panel at Comic Con, so I kind of feel loyal to it.'

BAD FUCKING IDEA AT 3 FUCKING AM, HOLY FUCKING SHIT.

I'm not a horror movie fan at all, but Pandorum was incredibly well done, scared the shit out of me, and I was actually engrossed in it the entire way through. Mostly because as soon as it starts, it's off. No wasting time on exposition or getting to know the characters in and out, just balls out claustrophobic (which is really what made this movie scary to me) space ship horror. Fuck yeah.

...I also take back everything I ever said about Ben Foster, because I actually found him hot.

Even though I still believe that he must have it written somewhere in his contracts that he gets dirty and grungy and gross in every single movie he makes as an adult to wash away every trace of Flash Forward.

I'm going to try to go back to sleep now. In daylight.

The baby's had a really bad runny nose for the past week, and I've finally caught whatever he has. Sore throat and fatigue when I woke up today, ugh. I've had two cups of tea, some cold syrup, a banana for lunch, and stayed in my warm warm bed watching movies on my laptop.

( A few reviews of what I've watched in the past few days because I'm feeling sorry for myself and you should amuse me: )

Next up is Jennifer's Body and Drag Me To Hell, and I'm mad at Gamer for being lame and not playing on anything. The torrent I got it from was taken down, too, so I can't troubleshoot.

I should eventually haul my pathetic self out of bed and get somewhat festive for giving out candy tonight.