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Saturday, July 26th, 2008
desdemona47	5:02p	Daddy VS Fire: Fire-1, Daddy-0 [16:57] skully696a: who would have thought a screw driver would give you a blister? [16:57] FL Des47: yeah, really? [16:57] FL Des47: or that my dad could somehow get flaming bits on plastic on himself? [16:57] FL Des47: haha [16:58] skully696a: yeah wtf was he doing? lol [16:58] FL Des47: he was trying to light the grill [16:58] skully696a: with plasctic? [16:58] FL Des47: and was using paper to light the coals [16:59] FL Des47: well, he neglected to realize THE PAPER WAS LINED WITH PLASTIC [16:59] FL Des47: d'oh [17:00] skully696a: why would paper be lined with plastic? or do you mean like the little clear window on an envelope? [17:00] FL Des47: I don't know [17:00] FL Des47: but there was plastic incorporated into the paper somehow, and it caught fire and floated upward, then landed on Daddy's hand [17:00] FL Des47: so, his hand was on fire, and he just blew it out [17:01] skully696a: wow [17:01] FL Des47: but then the molten plastic was fused to his hand [17:01] skully696a: yeah [17:01] FL Des47: so Mom and Daddy were like "Elaine, you're a doctor, what do we do?" [17:01] skully696a: lol [17:02] FL Des47: and I'm thinking "I'm a chiropractor, how am I supposed to know what to do about molten plastic being stuck to a person's hand?" [17:02] FL Des47: So we decided to pull it off.. poor Daddy Current Mood: amused Current Music: Love's Long Journey (4 Comments |Comment on this)
eve_the_just	11:56a	Scatergories Meme SCATTERGORIES: Copy the text below, erase my answers, then use the 1st letter of your name to answer each of the following. They have to be real places, names, things.. nothing made up! Try to use different answers if the person in front of you had the same 1st initial.. You CAN'T use your name for the boy/girl name question. WHAT IS YOUR NAME? Bree 4 LETTER WORD: Bark BOY NAME: Bradley GIRL NAME: Brigit OCCUPATION: Bus driver A COLOUR: Blue SOMETHING YOU WEAR: Bonnet BEVERAGE: Bellini FOOD: Baked Beans (double points for alliteration!) SOMETHING FOUND IN A BATHROOM: Bath salts PLACE: Boston REASON FOR BEING LATE: Breakdown SOMETHING YOU SHOUT: Bravo! (Comment on this)
boneorchard	11:56a	Well, Hello There! I just looked and I have a gazillion new friends/people I don't recognize. For those of you I don't know in real life or who don't have obvious Egyptian/Kemetic names that would place you for me, please leave a comment about who you are, why you friended me and what interests we share! Thank you! And I was saddened to see baci_di_dama disappear. I see the journal is deleted. I'm sad. I'll miss you, Barbara. (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, July 25th, 2008
musesari	9:46p	general stuff I discovered that if I take ephedra it cures my chronic headaches (after tylenol and aleive didn't help I tried this, works great). I worked out today - kettlebells and treadmill w/incline. GO ME! I got Saturday the 9th off of work so that I can attend an ecohaus opening (renewable building materials/home improvement products) and we'll be going to have a dinner date that night too.. Yay for having a Saturday night off of work! Techno dance music is my friend. I save $30-$40 a week by driving the focus instead of the charger. I'm about to start work for presumably another 12 hour shift.. also there is a car show this weekend that I want to go to but I don't know if I'll be able to go if I work until 10am again.. maybe that'll have to be a Sunday thing instead of a Saturday thing. Lets hope the weather holds out! Current Mood: indifferent (Comment on this)
lordtwinkie	11:41p	holy shit when did they start offering free cake http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/display.php?id=35919 The Dark Nights Inside L Street's dueling goth parties Amanda Hess Posted: July 23, 2008 Gothic Tribes: Scott Royce holds down the basement. (Darrow Montgomery) Scott Royce discovered the District’s goth scene in 2001. A year later, he was helping to run it. In 2002, the Fairfax legal researcher—newly outfitted in after-hours black—launched Midnight, a Saturday dance night for District goths, Wiccans, vampirists, fetishists, and pewtersmithing enthusiasts, at underground L Street bar the Meeting Place. “I’m a politician at heart. I’m not happy unless I’m running something,” says Royce, who served on the Libertarian National Committee before turning independent. Now, Royce is fighting a darker battle in the basements of L Street. Last October, five years into Royce’s regime, a group of more established scenesters—a cadre of D.C. übergoths led by local goth fixture Lori Beth—turned their backs on Midnight and set up an alternate Saturday event, Spellbound, at Recessions, a similar basement bar two blocks away. The old-school upstart has created a bit of a rift between two sectors of an already narrow local goth community. Though some nightcrawlers attend both Midnight and Spellbound every Saturday, most must choose their loyalties. Royce, for one, isn’t too keen on Spellbound. “I’ve never been, (a) because I’m busy, and (b) because of how they are,” he says. “Spellbound thinks they’re goth’s gift to humanity. They expect everyone to genuflect in their direction whenever they walk into the room.” Royce says the competition doesn’t worry him. “No matter how long those people have been running the scene, we came in here as independents, and we’ve been running consistently the largest event for six years,” he says. Lori Beth describes the reason for the split in more neutral terms. “We wanted to have an option for the older gothic crowd,” she explains. “Midnight is 18-and-over. We’re 21-plus. I’m getting pretty close to 40, and I want to be dancing and listening to music with people who were born before 1985.” Still, Lori Beth, who has been involved in the scene since ’85—first as clubber, then as caterer—admits the split did cause some tension between the clubs. “Yeah, yeah,” she says. “At first, you know, they just thought we were trying to steal their business.” Lori Beth, Spellbound's goth queen. (Photograph by Darrow Montgomery) Whether their differences lie in attitude or age, Midnight and Spellbound have been competing for local goth pocket cash ever since, using any tool they can, from character assassination to novelty goth drinks to free birthday cakes. One reveler who frequents both nights—and wished to remain anonymous—explains the Midnight-Spellbound social rift: “It’s like the Titanic,” she says. “Midnight is below-deck: We’re the Irish immigrants who play fiddles and dance jigs and drink too much whiskey. Spellbound is above-deck: They’re the upper-crust clique in stuffy Victorian clothing. When the ship goes down, they’re the ones who take the life boats.” Another goth: “Midnight has cake,” she says. “That is the only difference.” Now for a more comprehensive inventory of the similarities between downtown’s goth establishments, as gleaned from a survey taken last Saturday night. THE ATMOSPHERE Midnight: Orange stringed lights, seeping green light from ATM sign Spellbound: Orange stringed lights, colored gels, custom dance-floor, televisions broadcasting fog, fog machine (Photograph by Darrow Montgomery) THE ATTIRE Midnight: “There is no dress code,” says Royce. “One person’s $5 is as good as any other’s,” adding, “We encourage people to dress in black.” Spellbound, he says, is known to be a bit more finicky. “They’re a snootier group. They’re better dressed.” Spellbound: Counters Lori Beth, “You can wear anything you want here.” THE GOODS Midnight: In a corner even darker than the rest of the bar, Thomas Mulvey displays his collection of imported English pewter, Nepalese rings, and Bali poison vials. “The Thor’s hammers are really popular,” says Mulvey. “There’s a decent amount of our customers who are actually followers of Thor.” Spellbound: On a table near the back, artist and musician Steven Archer offers up charcoal drawings, paintings, CDs of band Ego Likeness, and a goth children’s book, Luna Maris. His artwork, much of it mounted on the back of old book covers, includes dragon-winged pixies, a naked man meditating, and a portrait that appears to be a white-eyed Martin Luther King, Jr. “I try to leave interpretation up to the viewer,” says Archer. “If I’ve gotten it right, most people should be able to find something in the piece.” THE FREEBIES Midnight: Plop down a $5 cover, then enter to win CDs from The Cruxshadows, XUBERX, and Bow Ever Down. Cake—in both chocolate and strawberry shortcake flavors—is always free at midnight. A tray of lollipops is provided for sucking. Spellbound: Sink $7 in Spellbound, then pick up some mints and Hershey’s kisses—free of charge. Attendees can enter to win a drawing for a $50 gas card at the door. THE REGULAR Midnight: A woman calling herself “Kerie,” who wears a ponytail of springy metallic hair falls, a long-sleeve mesh shirt, a strategically torn black T-shirt, a corset, plaid Capri pants, combat boots, spiked wrist cuffs, Cleopatra eye makeup, blood-red lipstick, and numerous rings, attends Midnight nearly every Saturday. “They’re not as outgoing over there,” she says of Spellbound. Spellbound: Resident DJ Philip Shade, who has DJ’d goth events at the now-defunct Nation and Chief Ike’s Mambo Room for more than a decade, insists that he’s not a poser. “My motto is DJ Shade—yes, that’s his real name!” says Shade. “I see all these DJs coming out going by names like ‘DJ Nom de Plume’ and ‘DJ Cybernetic 26.’ Sure, that name sounds cool now when you’re 23, but will it sound cool when you’re 34? I’ve learned that it won’t.” THE LIBATIONS Midnight: The “Black Death Shooter,” an ever-changing secret-recipe drink that always contains a blackberry liqueur. Spellbound: The “Gothmopolitan,” a cosmo with grape-flavored vodka and Razzmataz instead of triple sec, perfect for the berry gothic. Lori Beth, however, has been known to drink a yuppier spirit: the Red Bull and vodka. (Photograph by Darrow Montgomery) THE DOUBLE AGENT Midnight: Daniel Starling, a crimson-shirted, leather-panted, slender solo dancer, starts off the night at Midnight, then wanders, alone, between the scenes, stopping to move to New Order and Sisters of Mercy. “In any scene, there’s always the little political rifts,” says Starling. “This is D.C. we’re talking about.” Starling says he’s “kind of inside the scene, kind of outside the scene,” and is unsure of his future in goth. “You can’t really call something ‘goth’ anymore because you’ll just get people thinking it’s Marilyn Manson and shit like that. You get a lot of occultists, Wiccans, people who actually think they’re vampires” he says. “Those people are stuck in the ’80s.” Spellbound: Marc Usatine, who carries a wooden staff topped by the pewter head of wine god Bacchus and sips from a chalice of Captain Morgan and Sprite, always attends both Spellbound and Midnight. Tonight, he hits Spellbound first, standing at the sidelines of the dance floor, watching. “Spellbound is a more refined taste,” he says. “Midnight is sort of prenatal.” Later, Usatine takes back his comment. “Let me give you something to compare,” he says of the dueling nights. “There is nothing to compare.” (Comment on this)
pee_truck	11:06p	Mexico Resorts Can anyone give any insight on the following Adult Only All-Inclusives? Thanks in advance. Rivieria Maya: Aventure Palace Secrets Maroma Secrets Silver Sands Excellence Riviera El Dorado Royale El Dorado Seaside El Dorado Maroma Royal Playa Cancun: Sun Palace Royal Cancun Le Blanc North of Cancun: Excellence Playa Mujeres (1 Comment |Comment on this)
mayhelie	2:35p	Jerry worked a half day today, he has called me three times and visited me six times for more than ten minutes each… he also decided to annoyingly ask me and Jimmy repeatedly “What are you doing” as we’re trying to figure out what the fuck is up with my detail views not showing the section cut in the 442M holder that is due to be cut today, so I’m super stressed because it should have been done this morning. Then Jerry proceeded to touch my exposed hip skin with a cold bottle of water and snicker about it. I told him to stop because I am in no mood for his shit. He is so fucking annoying >[ Current Mood: annoyed (Comment on this)
mayhelie	2:27p	UHHHHHRRRRRRgggghhhhh!!! Dealing with one hour of broken half sleep and NX fucking 5/442m holder = Massive headache and ultimate annoyance!!! Check puh-lease! Current Mood: What the fuck!?! (Comment on this)
pee_truck	11:33a	Day #3 2.25 27:00 2.5% incline when jogging (2.25 miles @ 5.0 mph) 30 diagonal ball lifts 30 bicep curls (10 lbs) 30 tricep extensions (10 lbs) 30 supported biceps curls (10 lbs) 30 triceps kickbacks (10 lbs) 30 chest presses (10 lbs) 85 crunches 85 pelvic tilts (Comment on this)
Thursday, July 24th, 2008
pee_truck	11:17p	A male meme Gakked from mikeyracing 1. Bold the names of guys you'd definitely shag. 2. Italicize the names of guys you might shag after a little persuasion. 3. Leave the guys who don't do anything for you alone. 4. Put a question mark after the guys you've never heard of. 5. Strike the guys you wouldn't touch with a ten-foot pole. 6. ADD FOUR OF YOUR OWN AT THE END. NOTE THAT THESE ARE THE FICTIONAL CHARACTERS, NOT THE ACTORS THEMSELVES ( Let's hear it for the boys! ) (Comment on this)
Friday, July 25th, 2008
mayhelie	7:20a	Stolen from boy_lost THEATER KID-- [x] Ever been in a play? [x] Have you ever seen a Broadway show? [] More than 10 Broadway shows? [x] Have you ever been/Are you in school shows? [] Does your current job involve theater in some way? [] Want to end up working in/for theater [x] can you recite all of the lyrics to your favorite play/musical? [x] Do you break out into random songs whenever/wherever!! [x] Do you like the Sound of Music? [] Did you like the Broadway show? (what show?) Total X: 6 --REDNECK-- [] Do you have a couch in your front yard or porch? [] Do you drive a four-wheeler? [] Do you ride four-wheelers? [x] Do you like to get dirty? [] Do you like country music? [] Do you have a broken car in your back yard? [x] Do you own a cowboy hat? (ah-hem... hot pink cowgirl, only used for bedroom/Halloween purposes) [] Do you live on more than 1 acres? [x] Do you have more then 4 different animals at your home? []Do you watch Larry the Cable Guy movies? Total X: 3 -GOTH-- [x] Do you wear black eyeliner? (only a few times) [x] Is most of your clothing dark? [x] Do you think about death often? [] Do you want to die? [] Are you a social outcast? [x] Are you pale? [] Do you like Hot Topic? [x] Do you enjoy Tim burton movies? [] Are you mean? Total X: 5 --PUNK-- [] Can you skateboard [] Do you wear Vans? (I wear volatile and soda mostly, thx) [x] Do you do stupid stuff with your friends? [] Have you gotten in trouble with the Cops? [x] Do you watch the x-games? [x] Do you have any piercings? [x] Do you like/wear a mohawk? [] Do you wear Band t-shirts? [] Are you a rebel without a cause? [x] Have you called someone a poser recently? (does a "tool" count?) Total X: 5 --PREP-- [x] Do you say the word "like" alot? [] Do you shop at Hollister/Abercrombie&Fitch/AEO/Aer? (hell no) [] Do the people in Hot topic scare you? (They're all tools) [x] Do u laugh a lot when your with your friends/girlfriend or boyfriend? [] Have/do you watch LAGUNA BEACH? [] Do you like pop music? (not usually, but I LOVE 80's pop!!!) [x] do you want/have a little dog? [x] Do you smile & laugh a lot! [x] Do you hang out with your friends a lot? [x] Do you always carry a purse/wallet WALLET!!! Total X: 6 --HIPPIE-- [] Is your hair long? (it was before I cut off 13 1/2") [x] Do you own a tye-dye shirt? [x] Do You want to save the animals? [x] you think war is unnecessary? [x] Do you like classic rock and trippy music? [] Have you ever participated in a protest? [x] Have you ever been overcome with a desire to hug a tree? [x] Do you play a ukulele or bongos? [x] Do/have you ever smoked the peace pipe? Total X: 7 --GANGSTA-- [x] Do u act ghetto? (When the mood strikes me, I do live in Lawrence a.k.a Lawtown you know...) [] Do u wear do-rags? [x] Do you like hip-hop? [x] Was Tupac truley the greatest rapper in the world? [] Do you believe he's alive? [x] Do you know the words to a lot of hip hop/ rap songs? [x] Do you like afros? (I want one! Not forever though) [x] Have you ever said "Fo Shizzle"? (more like fo sho) [x] Do you like to dance? [] Do you own any Baby Phat or G-Unit? [] Were you raised in Queens, Brooklyn or The Bronx? Total X: 7 --EMO- [] Do you cry often? [x] Do you wear hoodies? [] Do you like soft music? (what kind of "soft" music?) [] Do people not understand you? (some do, most think they do ;P) [x] Do you write your own poems? [x] Ever dyed your hair red, black or dark? [] Do you cut yourself ? [] ARE U LONELY? (I'm just tired) [] Do you like "Ohio is for lovers" by Hawthorne Heights? (WTF is that?) [] Do you have square black rimmed glasses? Total X: 3 --SURFER-- [] Do you surf? [x] Do you wear flip flops year-round? [x] Is your hair shaggy? (when I don't brush it, like today its too humid so I finger brush) [] Do you wake up before 6 every morning? (Ugh! I am NOT a morning person) [x] Do you own any pairs of shorts? [] Are you tan? (I got a read nasty sunburn Saturday, so I'll be tan on some spots. I hate tan lines, grrr) [x] Do you want to be at the beach right now? (I love the beach ♥) [x] Do you hate tourists? Total X: 5 --GEEK-- [] Do you wear glasses? (I should, I need to get a pair) [x] Do you get good grades? [x] Do you use an inhaler? [] Do you stick pens and calculators into your shirt pockets? [] Does your mom pick out your clothes? (not anymore!) [x] Are you on the computer often? (I work on one, I have no choice) [x] Do you ever get picked on? [x]Do you look forward to goin to school? [] Are you shy around the opposite sex? [x] you play video games? Total X: 6 I'm a hippy gangsta, haha! I luff it! seven points Runner up is preppy theater geek ;P six points Current Mood: amused Current Music: Pirelli's Miracle Elixer from Sweeny Todd (Comment on this)
Thursday, July 24th, 2008
pee_truck	9:43p	Tougher times falling asleep at night This week, Jacob has definitely gone through a growth spurt. On Sunday he was up at 5:30am, Monday at 6:00am, and Wednesday at 5:15am. Ick. He gained 4 ounces since last Wednesday (which is considered a lot for a baby over 3 months old; according to the RN LC that I see on a weekly basis). He's normally great when I put him in his crib at night. Even when I put him down right after his last feeding, he fights it...bad. I'll then nurse him again for like 10 minutes (after he had a full meal 1 1/2 hours prior) and then put him back to bed. He'll cry for about 10 minutes at the top of his lungs. This is not normal for him because he's not a crier in the least. Is this extra somewhat soothing nursing routine a thing that happens near 6 months? I don't want it to become habit, as it never was prior to this. Thoughts? Advice? (3 Comments |Comment on this)
fbi_woman	3:30p	The Daily Telegraph Look who made an appearance in Delta Goodrem's tour diary in 'The Daily Telegraph' newspaper in Australia... ( guess who! ) (2 Comments |Comment on this)
blubeagle	3:04p	Our James ( You are about to view content that may not be appropriate for minors. ) Current Mood: amused Current Music: Chris Isak, "Only the Lonely" (1 Comment |Comment on this)
mayhelie	2:49p	MmmmmMMmmmm... peanutbutter M&M's are devilishly delicious!! Yum! Current Mood: satisfied Current Music: As the World Falls Down by David Bowie (Comment on this)
eve_the_just	9:26a	Vrooooom I can hear it from my office, a faint whine running in the background against the competing radio stations and chatter. Edmonton Indy has begun, and for the first time I'm actually working in that corner of the city. I wonder if it will get louder as the week progresses. Right now it's actually not as loud as the trucks in the regular traffic in front of the building. Tomorrow I get to go downtown and climb around in a clock tower to do a condition assessment and write up some recommendations with one of the guys. I'm very excited about it. I've also scheduled it around lunch hour so I can hit Taste of Edmonton :) (Comment on this)
mayhelie	7:32a	Writer's Block: Phobias Do you have a remarkable phobia? Does your phobia have a large impact on your life? Submitted by bitter_melodee View other answers I have Thanatophobia... fear of anything related to death. I used to not be able to look at cemetaries, funeral homes, caskets, herses still make me shudder, I have panic attacks when attending wakes and funerals. When I'm at funerals, my heart beats so fast and so heavy I get lightheaded because I can see the deceased breathing (when I gather the nerve to look over) and I expect at any moment for the person to sit up in the casket! I've seen it before and had to snap myself back to reality. I hate it when they have vent in the floors of bathrooms at funeral homes... I just think of where they keep the bodies, how many are in there and I'm sharing that air with the morgue room and the room I'm standing in. I tend to hold my breath a lot when I think of it... and its fucked up that all the funeral homes smell the same... its not right... I freaked once when I was about thirteen, I was walking to the store and there's a small funeral home in my path. It was all in slow motion too, I look up and see people pushing a stretcher with a body on it and a red sheet covering it!!! Why the fuck was it red!!!??? I got lightheaded and immediately turned around and went to the other store that was a longer walk. From then on, I would cross the street to quickly walk past the home and then cross back to the store. I had real bad dreams for months about people rising in their gurney with a red sheet over them, it would slip off and be a scary corpse face. *shudder* My phobia is more of a fear of the living dead, if you didn't notice... I've always feared zombies since I was a little girl thanks to my father... its really annoying actually. Doesn't really impact me much in my daily life, its more of a mental battle for me because I know its completely unreasonable... but I can't help it when these thoughts go through my head... My brain likes to fabricate dead people all around me waiting to attack. My fear is turning around and there it is right in my face and there nothing I can do about it (no reaction/self protection time) Something about a zombie that just viciously eats other people without a thought of the humanity it once had... it freaks me out... and after they bite you, you turn into one. How fucked up is that?!? Having an extremely painful and fearful death and then becomming on is fucked up! Fer reel. It ruins my night time showers, I'm always looking out of the curtain. When I take my dog out at night time before we go to bed, I'm constantly looking over my shoulder. During the winters its easier for me because its too cold for zombies, I tell myself they'll freeze before they can reach me ;P And what's also fucked up about me is that I love love love watching horror movies, I still can't watch "Night of the Living Dead" without getting major bad dreams. That's the movie that ruined me. Little girl zobies are the worst trigger for me... But I still watch those movies, I do enjoy them but I know I'll be paying for it weeks after. I remember when I watched the remake of "Dawn of the Dead" I flipped my lid when I saw the first zombie in the movie. It was a little girl standing in the hallway and then she ran! She fucking ran!! I said out loud in a terrified voice in the theater "They run!!?? THEY FUCKING RUN!?!?!?!" I was ready to leave after that but I didn't because I try to face my fears... to help me get over my phobia, its working and now I can actually look at cemetaries and appriciate the beauty of them and I think of all the forgotten people lying there... I'll get over it eventually ;P (Comment on this)
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Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
desdemona47	2:49p	The Creepiest Thing I've Ever Seen Eerie. It's the eyes. Anyway, yeah, Mom and I went to see The Dark Knight last night, and I'm still trying to sort it all out in my head. My reaction wasn't the straight-forward "Hell yeah, that was AWESOME!!" response I had to the first movie of this latest retelling-I really felt like I just couldn't say anything about it right after seeing it. Oh, it was certainly good, of that there is no doubt, but it wasn't exactly awesome, in the usual sense of the word, for me anyway. The thing about it is that the main villain of the story claims to be an anarchist. Now, I dabble in the punk subculture, which itself generally embraces the idea of anarchy, but I always rather thought of anarchy as unachievable ideal-a life free of constraints like rules is tempting to the true non-conformist. However, true non-conformists are rare, and as a whole, people just don't work that way. People, for the most part, need rules, even want rules, if only to break them sometimes. However, there will always be those who dream of that life free of rules. I think what bugs me about the movie is that The Joker isn't one of those people. Anarchy isn't some lofty societal goal for him, it is an excuse to blow shit up. He calls himself an agent of chaos, and that is far more accurate. He's not an anarchist, he just likes seeing people scramble to stop him. So, I suppose, it just didn't sit right with me for him to be associated with that particular concept. Of course, at this point, you can't really discuss this movie without mentioning the actor behind the character and his much-buzzed about performance. Heath Ledger's final performance as The Joker is so well known in this country right now that even my father (who hasn't seen a movie in a theater since Saving Private Ryan) is at least vaguely aware of it. Does it live up to the hype? Is it worthy of an Oscar? Is the focus on it merely a result of his untimely death? Well, in my opinion, the answers are yes, yes, and not entirely. Would a performance in a movie like this, a summer blockbuster and a comic book movie to boot, would rarely get rewarded for an Oscar, no matter how good, unless the movie was some sort of cultural watershed. A good example of this is Johnny Depp's nod for being a pirate. But a "popcorn" movie like this isn't supposed to spawn Oscar nominations, let alone wins. So if Heath Ledger is nominated for an Academy Award, I think it at least somewhat has to do with the way he died. But does he deserve it? I would say... yes. I think that had I not known who was playing that part initially (a near impossibility discussed earlier,) I might not have known who it was. It was, in short, a complete transformation, in manner as well as looks, for Ledger. Every little detail is The Joker (or at least this version of The Joker,) the body language, the voice, the facial expressions, the eyes, the hair, every little bit shows you who this person is-a sociopath. He delights in the torment of others, he seems what he's doing as a game. Every person he meets can either help him or die or help him and then die. And you really believe that in the way that Ledger presents him. It is an unbelievably fantastic portrayal, and absolutely lives up to the fanatical speculation that led up to the movie's release. And that's saying something. However, the movie was not made on that alone, though I have read critics who believe it was. I think Bale shines again, basically playing three parts-Batman, Bruce, and Public Bruce. Not much is said about what he brings to the movie, but I think it's because it's simply a given. You need Batman to make any Batman movie, of course. But what makes each movie of Batman different is the villain he fights, and it's easy to get lost in the conflict of that without looking at what anchors the story. Bale presents a Bruce who is convincing as a reckless playboy and a serious crime-fighter, often in the same scene and sometimes in the same sentence. He flips back and forth between duel personas seamlessly, and that's not even including his Batman. As Batman, he gets all the little details right here as in the first movie-the grim jawline, the piercing eyes, and of course that voice. But, again, since he did that all in the first movie as well, I feel that his hard work is overlooked. Micheal Caine does the same thing as well-performing as admirably in this film as the preceding one, as does Gary Oldman and Morgan Freeman. One almost marvels at the quality of the supporting cast in this film. Even Nestor Carbonell as the Mayor of Gotham (a somewhat bit part) was able contribute to the overriding themes of the movie-what makes a hero? How much bad are good people willing to accept? The scene with him and Aaron Eckhart discussing whether or not Harvey Dent is really up to doing what needed to be done for the city is as pivotal a point in the movie as any and really stuck with me. Speaking of Aaron Eckhart... wow. Another amazing performance in a film full of them. I liked him very much in Thank You For Smoking, so that was expected. However, he had a very tough job in this film-not being lost in the shuffle of costumed warriors-and he pulled it off admirably. What makes his character so complex is that he is painted as the "white knight" to Batman's "dark knight" and I think he really shows how difficult it would be for most people to become a symbol rather than a person. For Bale's Bruce, becoming a symbol was hard, for Eckhart's Dent, it's more than he can bear, and you can see it. Without make up or fancy crime-fighting suits, Eckhart had the unenviable task of portraying a character who struggles between two identities-himself and who everybody wants him to be, all the while being surrounded by flashy action sequences and explosions. He pulls it off, and he deserves recognition for that. So, definitely, it was a good movie. It wasn't just a simple "comic book movie," as the general public might expect. It was more like an actual comic-deep and complex. It was dark, dark, dark, and definitely not for kids. It makes me hopeful that Hollywood and just people in this country are starting to take comics and graphic novels more seriously. They can certainly be children's fare, but like books, movies, and television, comics and animation and the superheroes found in them are merely tools for telling stories. They can be used to tell dense and dark stories for adults as well as light and easy stories for the general public. The Dark Knight takes advantage of the old expectations by turning them on their head, from taking the over-the-top comic antics of Jokers in the past and contrasting them with the psychotic, meaningless destruction of Ledger's character, to the down-right disturbing conclusion which embraces a sad truth-some times good people do go bad. Current Mood: thoughtful Current Music: My computer's fan (Comment on this)
pee_truck	12:52p	Day #2 2.25 27:00 2.5% incline when jogging (2.25 miles @ 5.0 mph) 30 diagonal ball lifts 30 bicep curls (10 lbs) 30 tricep extensions (10 lbs) 30 supported biceps curls (10 lbs) 30 triceps kickbacks (10 lbs) 30 chest presses (10 lbs) 85 crunches 85 pelvic tilts (Comment on this)
desdemona47	10:21a	Swiped from Katrina 8 years ago in 2000 ( Cut-cuttity-cut-cut-cut ) Current Mood: hopeful (Comment on this)
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
lordtwinkie	11:17p	i hate "soothing" "relaxing" classical music i think its utter crap i like shit like this and same goes for jazz wtf is smooth jazz huh? when has anyone said "hey you need to jazz that up a bit" and have it mean to mellow it out. fuck that jazz is supposed to be popping and in your face and just Jazzy hmmm i need more jazz music (4 Comments |Comment on this)
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lordtwinkie	9:23p	so apparently these vids have been mysteriously appearing on the tubes which is totally awesome in my opinion apparently each video was uploaded by different accounts deumnborkborkbork, weirdowhatever, meepmeepmeepow, patrioticeagle, and heckleu247. so that video was in response to the weezer pork and beans video this video is in reponse to the muppets mahna mahna video in reponse to western spaghetti by PES and finally in response to the two talking cats (Comment on this)
lordtwinkie	9:01p	http://www.asylum.com/2008/07/22/the-ronald-mcdonald-chronicles/ (Comment on this)

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