33 posts tagged “movies”
I had therapy yesterday and we talked about something that I am starting to feel terribly bad about and it's not very funny although for a while I was laughing about it. Dr. Moore made me realize how wrong I was to share the thought and now I just don't know how to take off the table. I think I'm going to avoid it and see if it won't go away. She'd be really proud of me taking that route too. Damn, what a mess.
I finally got my big Christmas present hung and displayed in my bedroom. I like it very much. D done good. I love my poster. My only wish is that I had had one of the 11.21.08 posters too. I would have put them right next to one another. But that is probably a greedy thought. I love what I have. Thank you Puppy.
So I was up all night reading Rachel Caine. I finished Lord of Misrule and found the first three chapters of Carpe Corpus on her website. I liked many many many things about Misrule. I did think it needed more Shane but I would probably think that regardless of how many pages he graced. It was strange that the entire books spans about 3 days. It feels like it should be many more. A lot happens. And just when I start grumbling that it seems she will never turn 17, I see that her birthday is the first day of the next book. So it then staggers me to realize that months pass between Misrule and Corpus. My favorite character out of Misrule isn't Shane, it is Myrnin who has some of the best lines in the entire book. My least favorite part of the book is the ending. I would really like to have them have a week solid of peace. And there are 5 more Morganville books. I can't even fathom the sexual tension between Shane and Claire in book 10. Unless she starts writing cut scenes. Come on cut scenes. Shane deserves some nookie.
The book I'm going to be starting soon is Sunshine by Robin McKinely. D spotted it at the bookstore because of the cover. When he read the backcover he knew I would be into it because there are vampires. So we will see what it's like. Although I haven't read any of it today. I slept late and then have been playing on the KMM message board. I always feel like a twit on message boards. But I have been sporting my love for Barrons and explaining how I think making Jericho be a vampire or a werewolf would be so mundane and wrong. I hope the story doesn't take that road. Some girl suggested that he will be something unique and I hope she is right. Something unique and powerful. Hello, is it August 25 yet? Only 230 days. I think that it was longer when I started counting down Twilight. See not long at all.... and the wait until City of Glass? Just 76 days. I can't wait. I'm vibrating with anticipation.
This week Possession comes out. It has Lee Pace and Sarah Michelle Gellar and I'm really looking forward to it. I love me some Lee Pace, although he forgives me for not watching Pushing Daisies this year. I don't know where it is opening yet but I think the boy will be taking me to see it. I would also like to go and see Twilight sometime this weekend. It would make easy if we could movie hop but Twilight isn't up in a lot of different places anymore. So we will just have to wait and see.
Thursday night D and I are going to the Staples Center to see the Ducks play the Kings. Go Anze and Raitis. I would like to be able to stay up the entire game. We'll have to try it out as a new thing. There is just something embarassing about falling asleep at a sporting event. A year ago I would have been all for the Ducks but then they traded Andy. I have man-loyality. And Teemu and Beauchmin aren't playing. It leaves little to be excited about. Hell, they don't even have Bertuzzi for me to be excited about someone hitting. But it will be a good game. We will have fun.
I finally watched the last three episodes of So You Think You Can Dance Canada and I was so excited to know that Nico won! I was so harried when I watched the finale because Canada does theirs different and doesn't eliminate any until the very end. I was so excited when he won though. And when he hugged Arassay I get a goofy smile on my face. Now I have to keep on top of SYTYCD Australia for when they start theirs. I wonder where Jack is now. Maybe he will come back to choreograph one of the routines this season.
So if the band aids at Hot Topic weren't ludicrous enough (yes I want them regardless), Torrid has come out with a Twilight perfume. Because I'm such a fangirl I want it badly. I think I will let it wait a little while but I will have it. The bandaids I hope to have much sooner. D might be stopping by Hot Topic on his way home from work next week. I wonder when the New Moon stuff will be coming out. I was sad to see Twilight is out of the theater in the Grove. We are going to see it on Friday at Universal Citywalk, along with Valkyrie and The Spirit. I am eager to see how Gabriel Macht does as The Spirit. I want to be impressed with the movie. I hope it doesn't leave me with the feeling that Sin City did.
On Tuesday I went buying many books and I came across this book called Wondrous Strange that just came out and utterly intrigued me. I am most excited to read it although I won't be able to because of all the others that I have to read before it. I already love it from the blurb, it's a fairie book. Those win everytime. Speaking of which I am up to the fourth book in the Highlander series. I finished the third just earlier today. I won't be able to really get anywhere in it until maybe Saturday. I do want to read them as quickly as possible, Faefever is available at the library already. I have five books to read before I can get to it. Then I have to read the fourth Vampire Kisses book so that I can read the fifth before it's due at the library. I'm not good with library books.
Tomorrow is Christmas and I am amped up. I want to open presents! I kind of worry that I won't sleep tonight. I plan to take pictures of Christmas, I hope D likes his presents.
Today suck. D is dying of some plague and has been in bed all day. I love him home but not when all he does is sleep. We are supposed to be going to a Sharks game tonight and I think maybe we should nix that idea and get him better.
It's bad enough that I have to go to therapy and he will have to leave the apartment for that. I have spent the day laying about. I finished Darkfever and it was really good. I can't wait to read the next one. Although I went to the author's website after I read it and went to the forums and apparently she uses characters from another series of books she wrote previous to these, in these. If you know the characters attributes it gives more meaning to the inteactiona and moment. So I am downloading the series on torrent. I might read them before Stone of Tears if D doesn't mind. I really liked Jericho Barrons in Darkfever. It's well written because I want to know his secret and want to know what he is. I think he is clearly not just human. Oh and I liked V'lane even though he is a death-by-sex fae and he almost rapes Mac in a museum with several dozen on lookers. I'm sure to the fae it's not rape if the person is compelled by magic to want to do it first. I see it differently but like him all the same. And despite the category marker on the side these are not romances. There is not so much as a warm feeling throughout the entire book. I was lied to. It is a really really good suspense though. But you do have to read all five books to get to the resolution. You only get clues in each book, leading to a resolution.Little Ashes finally got a release date for the states, March 27th. I am really excited about this film. It would be nice to see how Rob Pattinson does in an edgy role. Salvador Dali and his lover should turn off some of those teeny boppers who think Rob is just Edward Cullen. I hope it shows a lot of male on male french kissing. Brian Kenney used to do it and make me feel like I was watching the hottest thing going.
And today was my actual birthday. I got Twilight t-shirts and a hoodie. I also got Valiant and Ironside, so my Holly Black book trifecta is complete. D got me a Gap coat that I have been coveting. And the boy bought me roses. Awwww. I got gift certificates too. It was a hell of a pull. I don't deserve it but I totally appreciate it. My mom called me to wish my a Happy Birthday, as did Andy. The only person I felt the absence of was my grandmother. I won't hold death against her. It would have been nice to have heard her voice today though. I guess I wasn't as okay with her passing as I had thought.
Tonight was also the start of the Hockey season. I didn't watch any games. I am on a TV sabbatical today. Sunday D has tickets to see the Sharks at the Kings. I am looking forward to the live game. I'm just unsure of the televised ones. Vesa did win his first game though. Mmmm Vesa. I look forward to seeing the Leafs play the Kings. I will wear my jersey and bring my camera. I will moon over Vesku and my heart will go pitter patter. It will be a good time. I just don't know about games that are on tv. I want to smell the game.
I just read the first three books in Gena Showalter's Lords of the Underworld series. The next one doesn't come out until May of 09. There is a prequel title that is available only in ebook that I may read. The series was not the finest writing ever. The concept was really neat and I liked the immortal warriors and their demons but the story writing was pretty weak. The scenarios were sometimes so lame that I had to stop reading and laugh aloud. Of the three books, The Darkest Night, The Darkest Kiss and The Darkest Pleasure I would say I liked the heroine of the first two a lot. For comedy the second book rules. For the hero, I loved Pain, the third Lord. I know who I want to read the stories of... Sabin's is next his demon is Doubt. I want Paris to have a book although they probably won't since he already had Sienna and she died. I want to hear Galen, Hope's story and I wouldn't mind hearing Aeron's situation. He was Wrath and he has a demon named Legion in love with him. So over all they were mediocre but I'm invested and will read the rest. They make me want to read good YA. Of course I read Kelley St. John books when I was done with Showalter today. It was like I fought my natural inclination and went to easy rather than good. I feel the need to justify myself here and say that I write all this out so I can go back and remember what my thoughts were when the urge strikes me to reread books. Sometimes this cures me of that nasty habit. Two people latley made the comment about my vox being all books and tv shows. I'm a little offended. I don't watch that much tv. As for the books. They are the majority of the thoughts I'm thinking. I don't really do anything. So this is my life. This has turned from a happy entry to me feeling the need to validate my thoughts. It's really shitty. I think I'll go read.
I've started You Suck: A Love Story, but I'm really not enjoying it that much and I sort of put it down last night. I think the only character I like so far is the one main character Tommy Flood, although his naivete drives me bonkers. Jody Stroud, his love interest seems to not really love him. I find that said since she made him a vampire. I can't stand Abby Normal, she makes me want to lobotomize myself with my bookmark. I don't know I am going to try to read a few chapters a day but I won't be devouring this one even a little.
In the meantime I read Rhonda Nelson's The Player this morning and I think the series makes so much more sense now that I read the first book. I had read the second book, The Specialist, first and it was okay but it refers back to Audrey and Jamie and I didn't know enough about their story to get the subtleties. So now I am on top of it and I really liked Jamie and Audrey. I don't know if it was reading it and filling in the gaps or what but I think I liked them better than Payne and Emma, from the second book. Maybe I should reread it again before moving on to Guy's story in The Maverick. I guess reading either of them is better than reading You Suck at this point.
There has been much goings on in the Twilight-verse the last few weeks. The Midnight Sun leak that got Stephenie Meyer reacting like a drama queen and punishing all her fans for the betrayal of someone close to her. I think she is ridiculous and I don't care about her writings about mermaids, I want Edward's story. There were some new photos of the filming up in Portland and the reshoots in and around LA. Those pictures had TwiMoms in them and they scare me. And then there are these near pornographic pictures of little Taylor Lautner who is trying to "bulk up" for the next movie and to my disgust adult women are perving over this little 16 year old boy. And before anyone calls me a pervert hypocrite over Krys, I defend myself saying I never wished to do him or see him without his clothes on. I merely find him beautiful. There is a distinction. Taylor Lautner should tie the panties of young girls in knots but not adult women. Some of these women are old enough to be his mother and they are asking his preference in underwear. The fandom is twisted. I like my pedophilia to be literary. Otherwise I choose adults.
Speaking of adults, and hott ones at that, I have listened to a lot of Taking Back Sunday the last few days. I forgot how much I like them and of course all that leads me to the very beautiful Adam Lazzara. The boy just sizzles with hottness. I must recommend Louder Now as a very good pop punk album. I love the lyrics which are pretty clever and intelligent. Liar (It Takes One To Know One), MakeDamnSure, What's it Feels Like To Be a Ghost?, My Blue Heaven and Miami are just a few of the songs that I really think sell it. And did I mention that Adam Lazzara is just fine? Check out the album or let me know you want to and I will zip it up and share it with you. No one will ever ask though. I am not even convinced that people regularly read this.
I got to talk to someone yesterday who is bipolar but is managing without meds and it had the oddest effect of longing and despair in me. My experience is that I need meds to manage. I lose control to easily and go right down the drain. Not to mention I get the longest spells of depression and mania. A month of either and I'm disfunctioning. I see Dr. Scott today and I plan to mention to him my reaction although Dr. Moore is more likely to have me understand it. I don't see her until next Monday. Silly little thing to let get under my skin. I need to read and forget it all. This is who I am and I need to stop letting these little things interfere with me being whole again. Just throwing debris in the minefield.
Ah, I just finished reading the leaked chapters of Midnight Sun, which I will share. At first I was suspicious because I thought the feel was off but that soon passed. Then I was wondering about the length as S. Meyer has said she was half way through and it was over 300 pages, but then I realized this would equate to that in book format. I soon found myself engrossed and I have to say that it is a much more compelling read than Twilight. I will even add that it is more steeped in yearning and desire than Bella's point of view. More sexual. And I've only read the first 12 chapters. The manuscript is lousy with errored paging though, pages 16 and 25 come after 51 and others are inverted. One page is sideways and that will be interesting for some one on a PC to read. I want the rest now. I very much hope that this isn't a clever fake, I'm leaning hard on it being legit. Edward's perspective is just enthralling. The rest of the books need to be done, regardless of what Stephenie Meyer has to say about that.
I came across the pdf. and the audiobook of Breaking Dawn recently and took the time to upload them. The audiobook is broken up into our parts, I, II, III and IV. I still maintain that the book wasn't bad despite the ending. I think I am likely to listen to the audiobooks sometime. And I still have plans to reread all 4 books sometime and look for the clues that S. Meyer talked about being there that tell you the events of Breaking Dawn. Now I just have to find the audiobook for The Host.
I have listened to the newest Stills CD and I pretty much love it. I think that I must have listened to it about 5 times on loop when I first got it. I have uploaded that too and you can grab it here. It is a lot more of a throw back to Logic Will Break Your Heart. I think the last album tanked and they realized that people liked them for their initial sound. A few songs stand out on this one; Being Here, Everything I Build, Hands on Fire, I'm With You and Statue of Sirens--But really the whole thing is c cohesive work and it all stands out. I do have to say that as a longtime fan I miss the feathers. The skull seems a bit morbid and harsh. I am planning to see them play in October. They will be touring with Kings of Leon and the tickets were fucking expensive, 120.00 for both of us. Much different than the 15 bucks we paid last time they were out here. And I don't even plan to stay for Kings of Leon... I know they had a marketable song a few years ago but I don't really recall what it was. I miss club shows.
Going back to Twiligt-verse related things... this photo of Rachelle LeFevre as Victoria was leaked last week and I love it. The woman is totally gorgeous and I might totally be in love with her. I do have to say that I wasn't half as interested in Victoria in the book as I am as her character in the movie. I read an interview with her and Robert Pattinson last week and I can't remember who it was with but she was so well spoken and even Rob commented about it she credits it to her dad being a professor and her mom is something impressive too. There was a bit of joke from that when Rob came back with his dad made German techno music. I guess it was funnier in the context of the interview rather than my playback. I'll go back to drooling over Rachelle. I totally want her for my girlfriend.
I've been slogging away at my goal to read all the Harlequin Blaze books. I read 7 in a three day period this week before slowing down to a less machine like pace. D made me a little database to keep track of the books I have, need and what I've read. All this because I was BookMooching books that I already had or had read. I have 72 unread books at the moment. I have more that I've ordered that haven't arrived yet. And to be honest most of them aren't stories that I'm that impressed with or that I will think to ever read again, although there have been a couple. One was Sarah Mayberry's Take on Me. I totally loved it and it even warmed me some to Mayberry who I wasn't impressed with in the past. I am reading one by her now called Below the Belt. I'm hoping it will be as good as Take on Me. I have about 350 books to read to read all the Blaze books. It's quite the undertaking. I don't have a set date to read them by so it can be a marathon rather than a sprint. I still have other books to read too.
Today I'm spending time with Logan again. We are going to the Mission of San Gabriel, which will be fun for me and who knows if anyone else will actually like it. I am already late in getting ready. I don't regret it Midnight Sun was worth the upheaval this morning.
Oh and Death Race is a completely senseless movie, just like it looks, but D is happy he got to see Jason Statham. My boy has a big man-crush on him. Ian McShane was no Swearengen sadly.
This last past week more ads for How to Be surfaced. It's had some success in London and New England with screenings. I hope that it means that it will get a fair shake in the new year and get some distribution. I am just dying to see this film. Some yummy Rob goodness.
I have my desktop looking like my trash pin it's covered in pics so I thought it was time that I posted some of them so they can be dropped into iPhoto and I can see my desktops again. I love the new baseball one. I think Jackson looks good there. I'm not a fan of his crazy 80's hair in the film so seeing him with the hat on is major points in my book. I am totally becoming a huge Cam Gigandet fan and I think this pic is such a good James one. I watched the video from Comic Con again and he's just a creepy mofo.Krys... I'm such a sinner with the perving on a baby, but I think he's really beautiful. Should have been Jacob. I could have bought him over Taylor Lautner. The Read poster makes me shake my head. It's genius in a marketing standpoint but I wonder if they have any shame. And then the girls. I both love and hate this picture. It makes it all seem neat and pat. They are all Twilight whores. All of them.
Yesterday I found the audiobooks and pdf for Breaking Dawn. If anyone sees this and wants me to upload them let me know and I will. I am not ashamed of my pirate-y ways and think audiobooks cost way too much for something so cheap to make. By the same notion, anyone know where I could score the Gemma Doyle Trilogy on audiobook I would greatly appreciate it. I do miss me some Kartik. And I loaned my first two books out and can't reread them.
D has been really unhappy at work for a while so he was going to take the latest offer that Get Back. But just when he thought all was lost Spike TV, who he works for offered him a promotion with an office and a pay raise. So of course he couldn't in good conscience say no to that and he took the promotion. Today he got his office and you can see it in the picture to the left. Nice view too. Now I am determined to decorate his office. I want to get some lucky bamboo for it and he can use one of my Twilight posters if he wants. I think he needs to get some swag from MTV, it's the mother company to Spike TV and then his walls won't look so bare.
My plans for the weekend include seeing a movie with Connie and whomever else is coming. I think I plan to do nothing but read over the weekend. I have 80 Harlequin Blaze books, Vampire Kisses, Vampire Diaries, Tithe, more Sookie Stackhouse books. I could happily read and do nothing else and have no problems with it. We will see.
So after having a fabulous week, I crashed and spent two horrible days in bed. I even slept until 5:30 yesterday afternoon. So I took the new meds last night to make sure I'd sleep and I woke up today with joint aches like I'm crippled or something. Again, horrible. Not even Dr. Horrible, just regular horrible. I feel so off and I really hate it and I kind of hate myself for feeling it. I really wish that being bipolar didn't mean that the ups and downs were so guaranteed. I'd really like to just feel the elevation. The depressed cycle is not even a little fun. Lying all day in bed feels a whole lot like lying in a coffin. I don't want my life to be over yet. So, yeah--tons to share in therapy tomorrow. If I'm not so incapacitated that I can't go.
The other day I went to work with David he works in Santa Monica in the MTV Networks location and around the corner from it is Summit Entertainment. The fangirl in me was all it excited. I had to go by it. I had the typical fangirl delusion that I would see Rob Pattinson in front of the building standing around just waiting to meet an overzealous fan. Yeah, that did not happen. I know your surprised that my very unlikely fantasy didn't pan out. That kind of thing happens to obsessed fangirls every day. It will be enough that I will see him at Comic Con. It will have to be enough since I just don't have the kind of life that would put me in his path. How much of a chance do I have when I'm depressed and in bed?
On Thursday the new Twilight Trailer was unveiled and it shows more scene wise then the first one. But I still feel like it's geared for the fandom and that just makes me worry about getting new people interested. Of course I do have to say that there is much with the pretty. I love the shot to the left. I think them man looks yummy. There is a touch of something that might start with 's' there. I don't know the word yet but it's there. The other thing is David Strick posted more Twilight photos in his Hollywood Backlot site.These seem way less serious than the first batch. It would seem Rob has his tongue out for the majority of these. I have no problem with this man's tongue.
As for books. I have been devouring Harlequin Blaze books. I have about twenty of them that I ordered from BookMooch and I have been eating them. I ordered twenty more today. They are really easy, mindless books of fluff and sometimes fluff is all you can do. I do have my favorites. I love this one Author, Stephanie Tyler. Her books are always about Navy SEALs and I really have something for SEALs apparently. The last few books I've read have been by Dawn Atkins. Her books aren't themed, although the last two were about girls from Copper Corners, AZ. I have Breaking Dawn coming out in just two weeks and I finally figured out what Midnight Release Party we are going to for that. Acheron comes out three days later. D said I could order a series of books that I'm dying to read when we get back from Comic Con. The book world is A-Ok. My life will be over when I run out of things to read. Let's hope that day isn't anytime soon.
So today has been mad interesting. I don't talk often about my family on here and it's because it is just not a situation I like to advertise. I love my family but they are frustrating and they make me wonder how I have survived them this long. I'm not talking about the family I have with D but rather where I came from. My roots, if you will.
Today I called home and talked to my mom for a while and she didn't do the thing she usually does to me where she doesn't listen to a thing I say and then starts conversations about random trivially shit that just drives me crazy. We actually had a conversation. It was really nice. But then I talked to my sister and that changed everything.
My sister is 12 and she is rather tight-lipped. She isn't a big communicator. I don't think she understands much of how she feels about anything or what makes any of those feelings come to life. I love her more than anything and I want really desperately for her life to be something. I asked her today if she was happy and she told me that no, she's not happy at all. She didn't know how to change it and my suggestion of reading and journaling was met with disagreement. Apparently the kid hates to read. (I don't know how we can be related if that is true.) I remember how lonely it is to grow up where she is. We live in a pretty unpopulated area. I say 'we' like I still live there. The place is just really empty and she spends almost all her time with adults, much like I did. It's just short of hell for a young person and I just don't have any answers for her. I would buy or give her anything she wanted to make it better but not even she knows what that might be. It all frustrates and saddens me. She has at least 6 more years of this and she doesn't have the escape of books to make it bearable. I don't know what to do.
On to other less depressing things. I changed my banner again. I love the picture here and I also made a iPhone desktop of it too. So now I hope to see the picture everywhere I look and maybe I can make myself sick of it.
Speaking of pictures, there is a new movie still out today. I only have eyes for the running Edward, so I never noticed the running Rosalie in the background. D had to point it out to me. I don't mind getting these small tastes and bites of Twilight. It makes me all the more hungry for the movie. There is a rumor that there is another trailer to be released tomorrow night on Entertainment Tonight. I can't wait for someone to upload it so I can post it on here.
As for tomorrow night... I will be attending the Red Carpet Premiere of Step Brothers in Westwood with D, Susan and Belle. We got the passes while in line at the So You Think You Can Dance taping last Thursday. The movie trailer tickles me something awful so I am really looking forward to it.
I am so many days behind and have so much to muse on that I am bouncing off the walls to write this. I'll start by saying that I did go to the Results Show for So You Think You Can Dance. I am really proud of Belle and I for correctly guessing the bottom three and who would be voted off the show. Although the later wasn't much of a stretch of the imagination. I had a great time though, even though we had the world's most annoying guy in front of us. I would love to go and do it again. Without the sunburn though. My arm is still an alarming scarlet color.
This week Entertainment Weekly released a cover with Robert Pattinson and
Kristen Stewart and it is CRACK. And I don't mean that like it's a good thing. No. Number one for me is that Edward doesn't have pretty blue eyes and Bella isn't supermodel-like. No, that is all someones bad dream. I read somewhere someone called him a hairy powdered donut and that makes me laugh, but I can see it. I think it's a nice attempt to get Twilight some early love but it was poorly executed. Very poorly. The other images from the magazine are nice enough. The one with Rob carrying Kristen is especially nice. I think I will make that one my new layout image for my phone and this journal... the second is a bit photoshop-ed to the silly but it's still a nice enough depiction. Somewhere there is a femi-nazi looking at them saying they clearly show his abusive tendencies. I did buy mine, 2 actually so I can see the hairy powdered donut up close.The Promo to Penelope has been leaked and it's a cute minute long thing of behind the scenes action. There was another with them doing a scene where he is bringing her to the Cullen's home and then where he is dancing with her in his room and they were more "pay-dirt" than this one but they have been pulled from YouTube by Summit for copyright infringement. I got this one though and uploaded to my own server so no one would yank it on me down the line.
But wait it doesn't stop there... More Twilight related stuff. Today D and I were at the Apple store at the Grove at 6:30AM to get in line for the new iPhones. This guy arrived about 7 on crutches and he juggled a coffee while trying to stand up without them. Did I recognize him then, no. No it was about 9:30 when D asked me if he was someone and I took a really good look at him and realized he was Cam Gigandet. The things I did notice about him is that he is hott in person, he smokes, a lot and he did something to his right leg and spent a lot of time pacing with his crutches. He was about 10 people behind us in line and I didn't feel comfortable approaching him so I just took really bad photos of him. Maybe a braver soul would have said hi, but that soul so wasn't me.
Also in line was Adam Goldberg and he was taking pictures with people in line near him but we weren't in the same line so that never became an option. He looks exactly as he does in the movies.
Last night after we got home we watched Shoot 'Em Up and it was a classic. The lines are so cheesy they are brilliant and the parts with the baby and Clive Owen are just priceless. I decided that we need to own this movie. Monica Bellucci as a lactating prostitute who Owens falls for is just a hilarious premise and the movie delivers.
So, I've had SYTYCD shows, movies, new iPhones, movie star sightings and tons of things on the internet to entertain me. Not to mention I have been reading romance novels one after another again. So is it surprising it took me a few days to post?