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WHAT. WHY IS THIS SO AWESOME.

Lawl, it was made by the same guy who did Potter Puppet Pals. THAT IS ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW.

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This is the obligatory "MOVIES I WANNA SEE" post that happens about every three months. Yeeeees. There is a lot of interesting shit coming out, guys! Let's begin with my top three:

9. I guessed that this would be the first feature-length CGI to be rated PG-13, and I was right! HAH. I bet dumb parents will bring their little kids to it anyway, though. It'll be the Princess Mononoke debacle all over again. They were all, "That movie scarred my kids!!!!" and the raters were all, "Uh, it was PG-13." And the parents were all, "But it was animated EVERYTHING ANIMATED IS FOR THE CHILDRENZZZZZ." Head meet desk.

But yeah, I really like the story and look of this movie, though the mega-intense guitar music in the trailer is making me have an eyebrow raise. Seems like a quieter, more terrifying theme would suffice, yanno? Whatevs. But yeah, I'm fond of post-apocalyptic scenarios (see Bleak, cough cough) and the non-human, animated protagonists really tickle my tickler, if you know what I mean. (I don't even know what I mean.) So basically the humans have destroyed the world yet again (stupid humans) and now all that's left are some evil kittycat robots and rag dolls trying to do.... something. IDK. Looks cool.

The style and rating are really giving me the sense that they are going to take the subject matter very seriously, which is really cool. This type of movie could very well turn into a barrage of bad one-liners and sight gags, but the way the trailer presents it it looks as if it is going to be solemn-toned and action-packed, just the way I like it. (I mean, I like comedy, but in its proper place, yanno?) Very excited. Also, Elijah Wood, wtf are you doing in all these movies all the sudden. First you're a penguin now you're Sackboy. Scuse me, I mean a stitch punk. No, seriously.

Also, this is a movie based off of a short which can be seen here, if you'd like to get a better idea of how the movie will play out. (Though I hope it ends less depressingly.)

District 9. NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH 9 (or Nine, or $9.99, is this an obsession people??!) Ohman, this looks COOL. It's like a story I'd write!! Except different. But afgsga, I really like this. To be honest sometimes I find Peter Jackson goes a bit too far with the... I don't even know what to call it, but it you saw King Kong you know what I'm talking about. But in this case that stuff is appropriate. So basically, these aliens come to Earth and are like, "This is ttly just a pit stop, gaiz." But the humans are like "OMG U CAN'T LEEVE GIVE US YOUR TECHNOLOGIEZZZ!" Stupid humans. And then this nerd or something gets infected with alien spray paint and can suddenly pilot giant robots and it became an anime all the sudden. And everybody wants him for his body, fo' realz. But I don't really care about him, I care about the poor widdle aliens. Seriously, man. "We just want to go home!" D: If you ignore the face tentacles it's very touching T.T (why aren't there ever fuzzy aliens? They all look like bugs or people made out of clay by a three-year old. Sigh.)

Avater. NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH THAT OTHER AVATAR. Srsly, I heard about it and was like, Wait, they're making TWO Avatar movies?! And everyone was freaking out over it at Comic con and I was confused. BUT apparently it's completely separate xD;; It's very under-wraps and full of hype which makes me suspicious it's going to end up sucking but I'm holding out hope. The plot is a little confusing- basically there's this other planet (or like, an alternate dimesion? Not sure.) and humans can't live there so they send like AVATARZ instead to go talk to the like, blue people that live there. FOR SOME REASON. A nefarious reason. And they make the blue people mad for getting all up in their biznass. Stupid humans. Always messing things up. ANYWAY, looks very interesting. Recently there's been a really good run of fantasy/sci-fi movies and generally nerdy things in theatres. I think we can all blame LotR for that- thanks, Peter Jackson! Thanks for being so rich! But anyway I hope it continues cause these are the types of movies I absolutely love xD

Okay, now the movies that I'm less excited about/are coming out so far ahead that I can't allow myself to spaz yet (or already have and have burnt out early, haha). The Princess and the Frog, obviously. Looks GORGEOUS.

Despicable Me- okay, the trailer has mildy sophisticated humor compared to most of the non-Pixar CGI offerings out there (I view them with a sneer, because I am a Pixar elitist), and I love the sort of bad guy they seem to be portraying (except it's Steve Carrell, wtf?!) and there are a lot of bizarre names popping up around it LIKE JEMAIN CLEMENTS, WHAAAAAAT. Go back to New Zealand!! JK. I love that guy down to the large gap between his teeth. But he isn't the same without Brett. We learned that in episode twelve, c'mon, guys! Also I'm amused to see that the trailer has little to do with the actual plot, which involves three orphans and the moon. Yeah.

Alice in Wonderland, for Tim Burton, etc. It's going to freak me out even more than the original. Speaking of freaky, where's that adaptation of American McGee's Alice? C'mon, Whedon, don't let us down!

Moon. What IS this? It terrifies me and yet I want to watch it.

Evangalion 1.0. I'm not sure I want to see this, it's on here basically for the WTF factor. Okay, so... It's a remake of original Eva into a feature film? Soooooooo.... why are they using the same shots and only mildly better animation? (And the same voice actors that I grew to hate?) Is there still going to be an insulting amount of fanservice? Is Shinji still Jesus and does he still hate his dad? (Understandable if you ask me.) So many questions. I was under the impression that the Eva remake was going to be American live acton (except after the DB debacle I'm glad it isn't) but this appears to be from Japan. So I guess it's an entirely separate thing. But Evangalion 1.0 is a stupid name if you ask me. I probably won't see it since I've already seen the anime and this looks EXACTLY the same. You can only take so much Shinji-squealing in your lifetime. >> But I wonder if they'll still keep the penguin?

Okay, and finally, back to my Pixar elitism. The lineup is: Toy Story 3, Cars 2, Newt, and finally The Bear and the Bow. Don't care, WTF, omg adorable, OMG AWESOME! There you have it.

I know there are more I'm interested in but I can't think of them and frankly I've tortured you people enough xD Oh yeah, and I was amused to see that the New Moon trailer was listed under "Horror." It truly is.

( All the trailers behind this handy cut! )

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Did anyone notice that going to livejournal.com sent you to a small picture of a castle a little while ago? >>

So anyway, picked up this little gem over at

girl_gamers. Oh my gawd. Why can't more video game females be like this??

I can't stop watching it. My inner feminist is dancing xDDDD

BAWZ. I would have the Las Vegas story and pictures up, except ~~I'm a lazyass~~ my camera is being a fart and I'm to angry with it to keep messing with it. YES. I GET ANGRY WITH TECHNOLOGY.

It didn't work for Video Games Live! either, although that was probably for the best since in the dark I would've blinded everybody and gotten myself kicked out. IT WAS AS EPIC AS THE FIRST TIME, and actually the seats on the lawn were pretty great, since we had a screen of our own and we could see the stage and we weren't being blinded by the light show.

They changed a couple things- actually they rotate songs quite a bit, but the old standbys of Halo, Zelda, Mario, etc. were still there (I wish they'd update the Zelda montage, srsly guys, there's no reason to still be using beta Twilight Princess footage, that game came out like five years ago >>) BUT THEY PLAYED METROID THIS TIME. AHFKJFKSJ. SAMUSSSSSSS. ~~NEKKID SAMUS.~~ And Castlevania, which was epic. Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't the compositions from the older series much more interesting? They only had bleeps and bloops, so they had to rely on an actual theme. Now these newfangled Halos and Gods of War can just hire an angry string quartet and a lady to go AHHHHHoooOOOOAAAAAAH in the background and they call that music. Haha. I actually like that type of music. But I still think the older melodies have more substance to them, and it's a lot more exciting to hear them upgraded from bloops.

Oh yeah, and I got the soundtrack from iTunes. Vol 1. I hope volume two comes out soon, because I found Vol. 1 a little empty of games I actually play. Although Advent Rising suite is fucking epic (DIES IRAE BITCHES) and hearing Castlevania live is epic and the Martin Leung Tetris medley is a treat. (That guy is insane!)

But yeah, one thing they added at this concert was they had THE CREATOR OF VIDEO GAMES speak to us through Skype. AUGH. I kind of herniated and bled to death for a while there. He was old. And Tommy Tallarico wasn't letting him get a word in. >> That guy is a spotlight hog. He was talking to Sid Meier, and Sid was all, can I have the microphone pliss? Also Baba Yetu is still my favorite composition and I'm glad they kept it in. Little disappointed they didn't keep Myst, though. Le sigh. I really liked the montage for that one, and my dad would have spazzed. He was watching the Space Invaders part and he got all exited and was like "OMG I remember that music!"

Oh, and Maddie's major contribution of the night was to hear the lyrics of One-Winged angel as "Hefty, hefty Sephiroth. HEFTY HEFTY SEPHIROTH." Now I can't get it out of my head.

ANYWAY, that was VGL. If you haven't seen it yet YOU'RE CRAZY and you should see it the next time it comes to the DC area. I'll be there.

To wrap this shit up, I should mention that Michael prodded me into RPing with him at Realms of Hyrule, a pretty hefty (not as hefty as Sephiroth- btw that's a name taken straight from Judaic mythology 8D) Zelda-themed RPing site. It would have to be Zelda to get me interested xD;; I'm playing a Subrosian, SEE? MAH PROFILE. So that's exciting. Except I have the patience of a hungry kitty and I do backflips waiting for Mike to respond to my posts. So I've been writing a bit to alleviate the intense pressure. I just read Lost by Gregory Maguire (and I expected it to be all bizarre and crazy with disturbing sex acts popping up every other page but instead it was 80% normal and mildly depressing. It was still good, though. READ IT.) and that put me in the mood to write something slightly dark. And I started writing a story about a certain group of rats. And I may post some of that and some of something else in

koryoslore later but we shall see.

ALSO in completely UNRELATED tangents I love the book The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett and you should all read it. >>

Also I'm not going to friendslock this post because I think my stalkerbuddy may have given up and has gone on looking for fresh meat. WE SHALL SEE. But I may still flock about things such as my whimsical sexuality OOPS DID I SAY THAT OUT LOUD?

HAY YEW GAAAAAAAIZ~~~

Remember that round robin we started eight years ago?!?!?!?

I GOT IT.

HOWEVER.

It is unfinished~~~~! So I figured I'd give it another shot and maybe we can pick up where we left off.

( CRANBERRY MUFFIN O SHI- )

Here are some loose plot ends in case you're out of ideas!

Is the little girl REALLY Manuel's cousin?

WHY is the muffin BLUEBERRY-flavored instead of CRANBERRY-flavored?

WHO is the mysterious boss that both the little girl and Death work for?

Is Manuel's ~~ass~~ donkey REALLY named Rucio? WILL she attack her greatest rivals, the elephants?

WHY was Hayvyer slated for death in the first place?

Is Nicholas REALLY still in the closet?!

xD...

Poor Link. He just wanted to pet the piggy. D:

...Twilight Princess is on crack, ftw.

omigad you guys.

OH MY GAAAAAAD.

Nicole Kidman as Mrs. Coulter? xOOOO And the first directer left because he wanted to downsize on all the anti-religion. Ha!

REAL reasons Americans are opposed to gay marriage...

1) Being gay is not natural. Real Americans always reject unnatural things like eyeglasses, polyester, and air conditioning.

2) Gay marriage will encourage people to be gay, in the same way that hanging around tall people will make you tall.

3) Legalizing gay marriage will open the door to all kinds of crazy behavior. People may even wish to marry their pets because a dog has legal standing and can sign a marriage contract.

4) Straight marriage has been around a long time and hasn't changed at all; women are still property, blacks still can't marry whites, and divorce is still illegal.

5) Straight marriage will be less meaningful if gay marriage were allowed; the sanctity of Britney Spears' 55-hour just-for-fun marriage would be destroyed.

6) Straight marriages are valid because they produce children. Gay couples, infertile couples, and old people shouldn't be allowed to marry because our orphanages aren't full yet, and the world needs more children.

7) Obviously gay parents will raise gay children, since straight parents only raise straight children.

8) Gay marriage is not supported by religion. In a theocracy like ours, the values of one religion are imposed on the entire country. That's why we have only one religion in America.

9) Children can never succeed without a male and a female role model at home. That's why we as a society expressly forbid single parents to raise children.

10) Gay marriage will change the foundation of society; we could never adapt to new social norms. Just like we haven't adapted to cars, the service-sector economy, or longer life spans.

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Please post this in your journal if you are for gay marriage.

You Are A: Kitten!

Cute as can be, kittens are playful, mischevious, and ever-curious. Like you, kittens hate getting wet. Kittens are often loving, but are known to scratch or bite when annoyed. These adorable animals are the most popular pets in the United States--37% of American households have at least one cat. Whether it is your gentle purr or your disarming appearance, you make a wonderful kitten.

You were almost a: Monkey or a Bear Cub
You are least like a: Pony or a Groundhog What Cute Animal Are You?

School is beginning to bother me. Even this early in the year, I'm already slipping into my old bad study habits, which would still keep me at a B average, and would be okay except for my straight-A dragon. I think I might name her Emo or him Anatole. But, um, that's off topic. For instance, I've never had to pay attention, because I can usually gleam what I'm supposed to know from the homework, or from notes from the overhead... I've been trying to take notes from the actual lecture-type things, but anything I hear tends to go in one ear and... yeah. I'm definitely not an auditory learner- something the teacher says will remind me of something else, and I'll start thinking about that- then I'll be like, Oh crap I just missed a huge chunk of the lecture. I can't control my mind and force it to stay on topic, which is kind of a scary thought.

I'm also trying to actually do the homework that's not graded- annoying, but I've been okay with that so far. Studying for a test... I've always done a five-minute cram session on the bus or the previous period (probably missing an important lecture). I've always been better with an immediate, recent refresher rather than one over several nights... although I've never really tried to study like that anyway... this could point out that I'm not actually absorbing my subjects, but bouncing them quickly in and quickly out of my head. Which is not good.

Actually, rereading the past couple paragraphs, I need to insert a sweatdrop for how horrible my study skills really are. *insert sweatdrop here*

I wanted to babble about the Lerner sisters, going to Russia, and my snakeboy story (mmm... poison-y), but apparently I've gots to take out the trash, yo. Thank you mother.

Lookit my new icon! I made it myself, from a picture of She-who-must-not-be-named.

I swear someone was smoking pot in C hall today- it smelled like it. Although my sister said it could have just been because her friend farted in a locker (??). But anyway, afterwards, strange things started happening...

When I was walking to English, two seniors started to have an interesting conversation to the left of me:

"Dude, your name sounds like a pokemon."

"It does? Dude..."

"..."

"Dude."

Then, as I was walking to chorus, my chorus teacher started yelling across the hall for the boys to "count their nonnies!"

And finally, and by far the most interesting, two boys walking behind me started smacking each other:

"I'm leaving!"

"No you're not!"

"Yes! I'm moving!"

"No, you asshole."

"I want a sexual hug."

"No way."

"I want a sexual hug... please."

I never heard the answer because I started cracking up. But this proves that drugs and/or farts, while mildly mind-altering, are not in all cases bad.

And yep, this all happened today. XD I think they musta arrested the pot-smoking kid or something, there were police and security guards all over the grounds.

koryos's LJ stalker is kalaidascopeeye!

kalaidascopeeye is stalking you because they heard you are awesome in bed, and they want to find out. They are also in jail for murder!

Just watched tactics 1-3.

BEST. LINE. EVAR.

"Muu-chan, I'm your husband, so why are you getting all hot and heavy over another man?!"

Muu-chan= Image hosted by Photobucket.com

X3 And Kantaro is certainly not a clone of Rei Ayanami, and Haruka is definitely not Dark's moodier twin. *luff*

I read vol. one of the manga... it looks like the anime is NOT going to follow the storyline at all, unless it's picking it up much later than I've read. Also, I'm kinda sad that they left out most of Kantaro's "I named you so you must obey my every command MUHAHAHAHA!" (He does cackle, but it's not as smexy as the "must be obedient to the uke!" thing.) And they haven't done the scene where the tanuki captures Haruka so far. I WANT THAT SCENE. I WANT HARUKA IN CHAINS REAL BAD.

I like the anime, but I think I like the manga a bit better (as per usual). Kantaro is so much eviller, although he doesn't have as much badchildhoodscar!angst. That was teh secks- he was all, rubbing his chest seductively to Haruka. DON'T CONTRADICT ME. And why was Muu-chan peeping on them in the hot springs...?

Itachi: *sneaks up behind Naruto and hits him on the head*

Naruto: @.@

Itachi: *cackles OOCly* Finally! ABSOLUTE POWER! *reaches in Naruto's stomach*

Fangirls: OMG ItaNaru *swoon*

Kyuubi: *sees hand* Food! *eats it*

Itachi: Augh! That was my backstabbing hand!!

Sasuke: Dammit, Naruto, stop eating my revenge!!

Naruto: @.@

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