Fellow dreamers

Remember that LJ top commenters thing? I decided to try it again for old time's sake.
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The trailer I linked in my previous update is a film called Visioneers. I know very little about it except that it's about people exploding from stress. I think it looks pretty cool and unique, what little I've seen of it reminds me of a cross between Punch Drunk Love and Brazil.
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The Fall - All I can say is watch the trailer http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/thefall/ ...it looks mindblowingly beautiful, visually, and the plot reminds me somewhat of Baron Munchausen, to draw another Gilliam reference. Check the release dates, it's going on a limited release tour soon. I'll be catching it in Cambridge on the 30th, most likely.
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The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus - Speaking of Terry Gilliam, here's his latest project, about some sort of magical theater troupe or something. It has Tom Waits playing The Devil. Heath Ledger was in it, and died before filming all of his parts. And so Johnny Depp, Colin Farrell and Jude Law have all stepped in to play his character, at various points in the film, due to his character being transformed by magic or something.
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Synecdoche, New York - My favorite screenwriter Charlie Kaufman wrote this, and it's also his directing debut. I read the leaked script, and it's unpleasant in a wonderful way. Philip Seymour Hoffman plays a playwright who launches a retelling of every day New York life inside a warehouse. He recreates buildings inside the warehouse, hires actors to study real people and portray them. Things start getting really surreal when he gets an actor to play himself, the New York reproduction becomes life sized, and the laws of physics generally start breaking down. All for art.
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Where the Wild Things Are - I posted about this film before, and how it's been pushed ahead to October of 2009 and could potentially be mucked around with by the studio. There's a clip of an early test shooting, which I really love, and I hope the film stays the way Spike Jonze wants it. Here's a fan blog keeping track of various updates on the story.
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Fight Club director David Fincher reunites with Brad Pitt to make a movie about a man who ages backwards. WTF I'll see it.
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Coraline - Neil Gaiman book, animated by Henry Selick, music by They Might Be Giants. Awesome? Yes. (Speaking of TMBG, there's also apparently some indie film called "Don't Let's Start" coming out. I know nothing about it.)
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Watchmen - Directed by the guy who did 300, which I don't care about particularly, but the source material is an effing amazing graphic novel which you should all read. As far as I know, they're staying pretty true to the plot and design and everything, so I feel pretty optimistic.
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Burn After Reading, Suburbicon, Hail Caesar, Gambit - The Coen brothers have four upcoming films listed on their IMDB page, one of which I believe is coming out this year. They're brilliant, so yay.
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Various blockbuster films:
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull - YESSSS PLEASE BE GOOD
Dark Knight - Batman Begins was slick but didn't kick my ass particularly. This looks better, so I'm excited.
WALL-E - Pixar can do no wrong.
Quantum of Solace - Bond fun.
The X Files: I Want to Believe - Oh hell yeahhhh


That's all I can think of right now. Any suggestions?

( follow up to twilight madness )



Ahaha I went back and watched some season one Avatar. Sokka is so baby faced xD. And omg when Zhao first appears? He's totally hitting on Zuko omg I can't not see it. Luckily he mans-up a little after that xD. His hair keeps changing colors too lolol. And Iroh is so freaking funny and the music is bad xD. Also? Now that I know to look for it, Kataang was everywhere.

( Aaand a Zhaozula doodle )

The Oscar Meyer Weiner song was once so popular that people would request for it to be played on the radio.


What's the last song you heard on the radio?

Turn, Turn, Turn - The Byrds

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McOGxK5JcEU&

How to Use a Telephone. From 1927. :)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=nfsb5HUFMQ0

I'm not sure if this will be better if you haven't seen the original video or not. Either way, enjoy.

For skywize, I uploaded images of our new deck.

See them here:

http://s204.photobucket.com/albums/bb291/isilwath/new%20deck/

:)
Enjoy. I put the fire bowl together today. :)

The idea of the atom was first introduced by Leucippus of Miletus around 450 B.C.. Leucippus and his pupil, Democritus, theorized that all matter was composed of atoms, or bits of matter too small to be seen. The word "atom" comes from a Greek word, "atomos", meaning uncuttable, because Leucippus believed that atoms were the building blocks of all materials and therefore could not be broken down any further.

http://glumbert.com/media/chopsticks

And the Japanese Tradition of Chopsticks. :) Awesome.

Yesterday was the 12th, so here we are again with Chad Darnell's 12 of 12! It was another work day, and a night shift to boot... I think I'm cursed to never have the 12th fall on a day I'm visiting up north or on vacation. -_-

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Ta-dah.

SPOILARS SPOILARS SPOILARS

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^^^--------ABOVE IS SPOILERS--------^^^


OMFG LUCIUS

HAHAH AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

WHY IS HE IN A NECK BRACE?? XDDD

poor bb!!

lmfao Dude ok, when I see Jason Isaacs, I'm actually more reminded of Zhao now, because I think Zhao's design was really supposed to just.. be an animated Jason Isaacs with sideburns lol. Lucius to me is more my Lucius than Jason :B. BUT THE POINT IS I LIKE, SEE BOTH LUCIUS AND ZHAO IN THAT PIC LOLOL lakjsdflksadjfl

Caption contest! :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDfZdfeJ1nc&e

And holy crap. Flooding is scary. I hope everyone was okay.

Okay, I made it through a little over half the book. I went from being very amused to outright offended. Here's what I got down before I deleted the pdf off my computer.

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tl;dr summary:


This is Edward Cullen, and he is beautiful.
Bella loves him for being beautiful.
I'll never get these hours back.

What my mom wrote on my graduation card:

UR TTLY AWESOME AND MADE OF WIN!

I cracked up. She READS MY JOURNAL TOO MUCH, MOTHER!! That's right I see you.

Anyway, I passed the card around to the rest of my family.

My aunt: "Hahaha... what is "W" "I" "N"?
Me: "...win?"
Aunt: "...OH ok ahaha"

And then my other aunt and I flailed about the last Lost ep.

Srsly lol my family is awesome.

Pierce Brosnan began show business as a teen runaway, working with the circus as a fire eater. He later gained more conventional acting experience working in London theatres. His theatrical breakthrough came when American playwright Tennessee Williams hand-picked Brosnan to play McCabe in the British premiere of Red Devil Battery Sign. He got another big break when he landed the TV series "Remington Steel" (1982-1987). After the cancelation of his TV show, Brosnan moved to movies and appeared in numerous films, including, of course, several James Bond flicks in which he plays the womanizing British spy 007.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-C9bkuJliMY&e

Hillary Clinton vs Gas Station Coffee. hehe. ;)

Okay, I am not over my fascination with Twilight. I recently procured the pdf book, because I really had to do a kind of double take, and check it out again. I decided to write in some mental comments in some of the text.

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Just a silly little thought that hit me tonight while I was watching PGSM. xD

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Title: Otherside
Fandom: Sailormoon
Rating: PG (language)
Genre: Comedy/Crackfic
Setting: Canon timeline

( What is this place? )

I know it's a day early, but I'm not going to be around tomorrw until the evening, so I wanted to get it out there.

Happy Mothers day!!! To all the Moms, Grandma's, Aunties, God-Mothers, etc.



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Remember to give hugs and love to all those ladies in your life, tomorrow's their day! :)

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.  ~Aristotle
That's awesome.
And unrelated.
http://glumbert.com/media/grandma

And an older sex therapist. Not work safe! She's giving blow job hints. And she kinda looks like my grandma. Creeeepy. lol

I fail at keeping up on LJ lately. I try, but then I have a few days off from work and it's just... too much. I'm probably going to do a minor friends cut soon.

I finally got my hands on the final volume of Absolute Boyfriend. As I suspected, I should've gone to the Source in the first place. It was... okay. (Don't worry, no spoilers in this post. I can't promise there won't be any in the comments, though.) The ending was all right, but it seemed very rushed. Every little thing took forever in the first two-thirds of the series, and suddenly it's all bing-bam-boom rapid plot point assault! in the last few chapters. I get the feeling Watase-sensei got tired of writing this and sped through the ending. It doesn't help that volume 6 is only half Absolute Boyfriend and half some totally unrelated one-shot thing, so here I was thinking I had all these pages left to go and suddenly there's "The End." I can't complain about the way the story was resolved, but... I feel unfulfilled. :\

On the video front, I finally finished watching the Fullmetal Alchemist series with my sister. I'd seen it before, but in a hurry and quite a while ago, so I absorbed a lot more of the story this time. Three of the episodes on the final two discs wouldn't play in my DVD player, though, grr grr grr. Fortunately they worked in the Playstation. That just leaves the movie, and then I'll have to get her hooked on something else. :) Aside from that, I'm power-blasting through the live-action Sailormoon series, since I really need to finish watching that before being on its panel at Anime North. >.>

Outside of fandom, it's largely same-old same-old in me-land. Lately I've just been feeling... content, overall, like everything is secure and going well. :) Of course, that's likely because I'm not thinking too much about the worries I'm ignoring, haha. But it's nice. I'm still getting exercise every day, but we'll see if that lasts this weekend while I'm on nights. Hopefully I can still make it work, I feel so much better all around when I've had exercise. And Wednesday my sister and I had dinner with my aunt and my cousin, which was great, since I don't see them often. We try to get together when we can, but we're all so busy. It was good times, except for some lengthy awkwardness when we revisited the "Dee" issue all over again (if you're on my flist, you know what I mean). -_-

In some things, I'm so cold. Everyone wants us to resolve this issue, but I'd just as soon not deal with it and not have to have it stressing me out. Yes, that means being distant from family... but I've never been the type to really need close bonds with any of my relatives. I feel kind of guilty about it, because that's not the way it's supposed to work, but that's the way I feel. I'm happy with or without this mess being straightened out.

This was inspired by capslock_atla's fake spoiler post.

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SALISBURY, Conn. (AP) - Police say a man's excuse for speeding through a small Connecticut town takes the cake _ or, at least, the cookie.
A state trooper who stopped the 1993 BMW last fall says its driver, 28-year-old Justin Vonkummer of Millerton, N.Y., blamed his driving problems on an errant Oreo.
Vonkummer told the trooper that an Oreo had just slipped from his fingers as he dunked it in a cup of milk, and that he was trying to fish it out when he lost control of his car.
Prosecutors learned in court this week that Vonkummer had been charged with speeding and driving under a suspended license _ not driving under the influence, as a clerk had mistakenly noted in the court records.
Vonkummer's attorney declined to comment. The case is pending.
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And the house of the future! :)