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Harry Potter 7
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Jul. 21st, 2007 @ 02:31 pm
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It was WONDERFUL.
SOOOOOOOO WONDERFUL. And fabulous. And horrible. And fabulously awesome, and I wonder how long it will take me to recover enough that I stop screaming in joy and bursting into tears at odd moments. So good. So joyful and full of amazing moments. I was crying and laughing and whooping, generally at the same time.
So many moments. So many things I had hoped to see but never thought I would. So many I never would have expected. So many things I was curious about but never expected to be addressed. But were. Quite a few things I definitely did NOT want to happen.
I keep bawling. But it was so wonderful.
Thank you, so much, so very much, Joanne K. Rowling, for such a wonderful gift as is the gift of these books, this world, and these characters. And thank you for the philosophies of love, family, and what's really important that runs underneath them, and through them. Thank you.
And now, SPOILERS.
( initial impressions, Harry Potter 7 SPOILERS )
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Emo Spidey!!
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May. 3rd, 2007 @ 11:56 pm
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LOLZ!! Spidey 3 is such FUN!!!
Unexpected friend connections got Sis and I in to see the 9pm employee showing at the movie theater tonight.
Total fun. Emo Parker and a DANCE NUMBER. I was laughing all over.
It looked to be all dark and scary, but they broke it up with cute goof and heartwarming stuff. Tobey just wasn't convincing emo evil at all. Even Venom-boy so enjoyed his conniving mayhem, you can't dislike him.
Highly recommend Spider Man 3! Great fun, great moments, and great action. And the lol emo factor.
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Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Series: Fangirl
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Apr. 10th, 2007 @ 06:51 pm
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Hope everybody had a lovely Easter!
Last Thursday I went with my best friend Junebug and her sister to see WICKED in Houston.
Oh, so fabulous. XDDDD DeFYing GRAVITY!
After hearing about it all over livej, I picked up a copy of Stephenie Meyer's "Twilight" last week. I usually avoid anything of the "Teen Vampire Romance" genre (3 novels of Amelia Atwater Rhodes' Mary Sue glorifications having finally pushed me over the edge of disgust with anything with the word 'vampire' in it), but all the fangirling and some very warm recommendations got me curious. After visiting Stephenie Meyer's website and discovering that she is an LDS mom who graduated from BYU (whoohoo!), that she also pays warm and friendly attention to her fanbase, and is a-round adorable and fabulous, I just had to read it.
Bella, awkward, shy, angsty and depressive, is a very sympathetic character midst all the angst and I quite love her. Edward, as I expected, is too perfect, and I wasn't entirely convinced as to why he would fall in love with Bella, (me being one who has lost all credulity when it comes to beings with an almost incontrollable urge eat something ever being able to be sexually or romantically attracted to that thing, and also being one who doesn't find wanting to be eaten a turn on. :} ) We WANT Edward to fall in love with her, however, and he does everything to show that he is in love, so, like with all happy shippy fanfiction, we go with it.
The Cullens rock in general, Alice in particular, and I want more of all of their characters. Twilight is wonderfully written, a fun, enjoyable ride, with many scenes that fill my heart with girly glee. At the end I felt it was great stuff, but not fandom (or fangirl) inducing to myself. I had had plenty of spoiler warnings about the 2nd book from a friend who despises it, so I was going to wait for the library copy to become available before I would read New Moon.
After two days I caved and went out and bought it.
Yep, I've been caught.
Having been so warned and spoiled about most of the plot of New Moon (reading the 3rd book summary teaser spoils one of the major mysteries of book 2), I was able to take its turns in stride and actually enjoy it. It is quite wonderful. After reading through all the online info available about why Stephenie did what she did, I think the major plot weakness of the book was...( New Moon SPOILERS )
/end spoilers
So, after reading the first two books everyone, head over to Stephenie's website and read the 4 fabulous chapters she has up from other characters' pov's, including 2 in Edward's point of view. They are WONDERFUL and make everything that mysterious pretty boy does make so much more sense. Generally I wouldn't go for it, but I'm really looking forward to reading her version of Twilight in Edward's pov, Midnight Sun. He's hard to understand, and just chapter 1 made everything click just so much more.
ANYways. Yup, I'm a total fangirl. I happily await everything you write in the future, Stephenie! ^__^
I have this painting of Edward IN my HEAD that I've been trying to get out and it's not coming. GWAH!!!
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X-men Comics
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Aug. 10th, 2006 @ 06:02 pm
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X-men Comics
There's this absolutely wonderful though not greatly ethical becausetheartistsaren'tgettingpaid run of torrents called Chronological X-men, through which you can immerse yourself in 30+ years of X-men storylines, in as close to chronological order as possible, and get some idea of all the wacky things American comic characters go through in multiple decades. The original X-men comics were really cheesy. XD I like the later stuff better. I've only really read 2004 through 2005 so far (but there's a LOT of that), and here's some opinions:
( X-men 616 canon reactions )
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AVATAR and sundry
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Aug. 9th, 2006 @ 09:32 pm
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Working through an art block here. Nothing I've drawn lately do I even feel like taking past the sketch stage. So I have lots of random sketches and nothing of substance. Geck.
So I'm trying my hand at bookbinding! I need better glue, but sewing the pages ("signatures") together is way fun. I like it.
Cool stuff I've been immersing myself in lately:
AVATAR: The Last Airbender
Dude, the awesomeness of this show. EVERYONE MUST WATCH IT. Youtube it, bittorrent it, netflix, rent or buy what's out of the DVDs, but get your hands on this show, it's fabulous. So much love. Here's a pic, here's a fansite.
The first season has the childish waffling that a lot of American kids shows have problems with, but it gets increasingly better. The characters are fun, the world concept is fabulous, and it has some of the most GORGEOuSUS movement animation I've ever seen. They reference martial artists doing choreographed moves, and it works beautifully. I love the bending animation and fight scenes. Ohso pretty.
Great plot, great character and costume designs, a bishy angsty anti-hero with wonderful character development for the fangirls, some fabulous strong female characters with different personalities (Katara has such feminine strength. I love that.). It's the best of anime-influenced American television animation, a fabulous blending of the two, and Nickelodeon has my mad props for being intelligent enough to produce such a show. Everyone should be doing stuff like this! Excellent storytelling!!! YAY!
So, watch Avatar. Yup.
I was going to post about X-men comics, but I waxed too wordy and will have to post it tomorrow.
Pirates of the Caribbean 2 was SO SILLY. I laughed much, but there was just so much ridiculousness going on. I'll wait untill the 3rd movie to form complete opinions on certain characters and their actions. Well, Will Turner is teh Hero teh Awesomeness, but others...hm. And Barbosa=WTF? Oh, whatever.
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Superman Returns
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Jul. 4th, 2006 @ 12:01 am
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Oh, wow.
Oh wow, oh wow, oh wow.
Just watched Superman Returns.
o.o
What a BEAUTIFUL movie. Just, so so beautiful.
Brandon Routh was a quiet, gentle, introspective Superman (and almost inhumanly pretty). And Kate Bosworth has such delicate, lovely features, she was a totally different Lois than Margot Kidder, who was a tough, hard talking, rough voiced woman. Bosworth is graceful and strong through the hurt, a woman scared for her son. And then James Marsden, playing her fiance....A good man who can take care of her son, and be there for them.
Ohhhhhhh, pathos is the word.
The action sequences where fabulous and had me clutching my hands in front of my face in suspended tension. And the emotion...so understated and beautiful. The ideas of a need for a savior.
Brian Singer, I bow. Beautiful movie.
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X-men: Evolution
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Jul. 3rd, 2006 @ 05:35 pm
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I watched almost all of X-men: Evolution on YouTube over the weekend. :) (Search for "X-men Evolution episode #" to get to most of them.)
With it's teen/pre-teen Saturday Morning target-audience, and most of the characters being speed-zapped into 16 year-olds and going to public high school (which feels rather contrived, as Xavier's Institute doesn't have a name change, and it would be easier for the mutants NOT to go to public school), the first season is pretty lame.
But starting with the 2 season and going on from there it gets cool. Very cool.
( X-men:Evo thoughts--Long, w/spoilers well marked )
So, in general, and all in all, I'm an X-men: Evolution fan. XDD
What I really want to do is take all my favorites of the disparate elements of the various X-men Universe versions, and combine them into my own little X-verse of joyfulness. It would take a humongous-ol fanfic to do it, so I think I'm just going to draw some reflective fanart. Yup.
OMG, Joshua Middleton. Yeah, so what if I just discovered him yesterday and he's been doing US comics for a few years? I haven't been reading many US comics. I LOVE his artwork. Beautiful, delicate linework and coloring, aMAZing anatomy, beautiful little waif-girls with a grounding in reality. I need to get my hands on NYX.
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X3
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May. 27th, 2006 @ 04:52 pm
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Recent movies:
DeVinci Code was surprisingly fun, I enjoyed it. And now I finally know why everyone has been talking about it constantly for years. I may have to actually read the book. ;p
X-men 3: The Last Stand
I...just....AAARRRRRGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
( cut for SPOILERS )
InOtherNews, my website is down! And I'm sick. Wah!Feeling::  sick and low |
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WICKED
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Feb. 23rd, 2006 @ 07:18 pm
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O. M. G.
I finally downloaded myself the Wicked Musical soundtrack, which I've heard many good things of but hadn't listened to before. I put it on this morning for my drive to work.
SO AWESOME. O.O
Looked up a synopsis immediately after coming home so I could figure out what in the world was going on. SO COOL!!
Elphaba is the woman. She must be cosplayed. Color me green.
I'd also love to play her in some little theater somewhere, but by the time this thing becomes available for small theaters, I'll probably be too old. Oh well.
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Howl's Moving Castle Dub
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Jun. 23rd, 2005 @ 07:16 pm
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I finally got to see the Disney dub release of Howl's Moving Castle in the theater today! ^__^ I LOVE this movie!
It's only playing in 4 theaters in Houston, all of which are across town from me. (Disney's doing a lousy job promoting Howl.) >:[ *scowl*
Oh, it was SO PRETTY. I definitely recommend that everyone go see it. The detail in the backgrounds is just so beautiful. And the dubbers were able to make a few things clear that were either not clear before, or the fan translaters had missed about the Japanese version. This version made the most sense, story-wise. And it was good to finally be able to see it clearly. :)
The two English Sophie's were nice, her old lady voice was very appropriate, though they seemed to have completely different accents. I liked the Witch of the Waste's English voice better--actually sounds female, what a thought--and I didn't mind Billy Crystal as Calcifer. Christian Bale as Howl seemed to be doing some husky whispering the entire time, which I didn't like, but oh well.
I can't wait for the dvd release so I can see it pretty and in Japanese. :)
EVERYONE go SEE IT! Hopefully it will come out in wide release soon. Like, actually in "a theater near you" and all that intelligent movie-promoting stuff.
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