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Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
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10:50 am - 26 more Futurama episodes confirmed:
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| Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
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1:20 pm - I made my first Motivator:
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10:48 am - But going through a divorce together, you can't pretend that didn't bring us closer together:
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| Saturday, May 30th, 2009
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12:27 am
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| Friday, May 29th, 2009
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10:32 am - Meme time, kids:
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Friend Quiz: Leave as Comment in my LJ
INFO
1. Name:
2. Birthday:
3. Where do you live:
4. IM:
5. What are you studying/What are you working as:
6. What makes you happy:
7. What are you listening to now/have listened to last:
8. Weirdest food you like:
9. An interesting fact about you:
10. Are you in love/have a crush at the moment:
11. Favorite place to be:
12. Favorite lyric:
13. Best time of the year:
14. Put a picture of yourself:
RECOMMEND
1. A film:
2. A book:
3. A song:
4. A band:
PLUS
1. One thing you like about me:
2. Two things you like about yourself:
3. Put this in your LJ okay?
current mood:  bored
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| Thursday, May 7th, 2009
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10:55 am - Rather than send theis someecard to everyone I know, I'll just post it here:
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| Friday, April 24th, 2009
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12:51 am - An alternative to watching the upcoming G.I.Joe movie:
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Read this,* and then watch these.**
There are currently 10 episodes, each approximately 5 minutes apiece. That equates to something like 3 hours of awesomeness, I think.
*This is optional.
**This, I command.
Sorry, J-Rock. This is another one of those things you have to make Zwookie watch. He will, again, appreciate it to it's fullest.
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| Monday, April 20th, 2009
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12:13 pm - Spoilery if you haven't seen Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along-Blog yet. In which case, YOU'RE AN IDIOT.
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| Friday, April 17th, 2009
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9:44 am - A&JF looming ominously over the cloudy horizon:
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That's fine, weather! Rain all you want! Just as long as you get that shit all out of your system for next weekend.
Next weekend. Fuck Yeah!
current mood:  excited
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| Wednesday, April 1st, 2009
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10:10 am - I, for one, welcome our new CADIE overlord.
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| Thursday, March 26th, 2009
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2:48 pm - Oh yay. Monsters are real:
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| Wednesday, February 4th, 2009
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6:18 pm - iPhone Apps
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Now that I've [finally] synced up my iPhone with my iTunes account, I'm finally able to add Apps to the bad boy. I've looked at a couple top App lists, and there are some good ones on there, but many of them I don't see myself ever using. So, I'm asking that you good people recommend some good ones to me. It doesn't matter if they're free or not (of course I prefer free), but I got a $50 iTunes gift card for Christmas, and since I pretty much just pirate all my music, my iPhone will probably be primarily what I use it for.
So, favorite Apps! Enlighten me!
current mood:  productive
current music: The Whitest Boy Alive - Above You
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| Wednesday, January 21st, 2009
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2:17 pm - Bang. Woah.
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Poll #1335134
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: AllKeanu Reeves has been confirmed as the actor chosen to play Spike Spiegel in the upcoming live-action Cowboy Bebop movie. How does that make you feel?
Multiple sources.
Maybe they can get Lindsay Lohan to play Faye?
current mood:  disgusted
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| Friday, January 16th, 2009
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2:17 pm - "It seems you have quite a fondness for movies. "
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Paprika is best described as equal parts Spirited Away, Ghost in the Shell and Akira. And yes, this is a very good thing.
Sigh. Okay, The Cell, too.
You should watch it anyway.
I also watched Steamboy and Primer, which were less fantastic, although Primer deserves a rewatch.
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| Thursday, December 18th, 2008
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11:45 am - Elefante Blanco:
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I'm going to a Christmas Party tomorrow, and I'm required to bring an (approximately) $15.00 white elephant gift.
What should I bring?
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| Saturday, December 13th, 2008
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2:23 pm
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| Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008
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2:49 pm - FotC FTW:
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| Monday, December 1st, 2008
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5:30 pm - R. Tam sessions:
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Well I'D never seen them.
current music: Barenaked Ladies - Crazy
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| Thursday, November 20th, 2008
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8:17 pm - We're missing something.
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When I tell people that I've started watching House, M.D., they typically tell me the same things every time: 1. It's a good show; 2. It can be formulaic; and, if this person is a woman, 3. Hugh Laurie is soooo sexy. Well I don't know about that one, but I can attest that the first two points are not only valid, but spot on.
I've seen about 13 episodes of the show now: about 5 of the current season and 8 of the first season, and I agree. House, M.D. is a good show. But calling it kind of formulaic? That's like saying Hitler was kind of a mass-murderer. In every episode you can be relatively positive that the following will happen:
1. Something goes wrong, patient gets spooky, unknowable disease and gets admitted into the hospital. House initially misdiagnoses the patient a few times, and finding that he's wrong, his curiosity is spiked and he and his team take the case and get to work.
2. Patient or patient's loved ones will tell a member of the House team something inaccurate, or, more likely, an outright lie. (This doesn't always happen, but it usually does)
3. House's team misdiagnoses the patient.
4. Patient begins to seizure.*
5. House's team once again misdiagnoses the patient.
6. Patient's heart stops and the team has to start it again or the patient will die.*
7. House's team once again misdiagnoses the patient.
8. Patient almost dies.
9. House's team figures out what's really causing the patient to be ill and narrowly saves his/her/their lives.
10. "Why did you lie to us??" (This doesn't always happen, but it usually does)
11. Patient gets better and we realize that maybe this House fellow isn't such a bad person after all.
*The order in which the patient seizures and their heart stops can be interchangeable with each other, but you can be sure that the patient will definitely suffer both at some point.
Formulaic: (adj.) 1. closely following a formula or predictable pattern; imitative, not original.
The very fact that this show continues to be good is as astounding and unknowable as the diseases the patients get.
(-10 points for overuse of italics)
EDIT: You'll all be happy to know I've cracked the case: Approximately 1 in every 5 or 6 episodes, there shines brilliance. It still follows the guidelines I stated above, but the individual plotlines and the characterizations of the players are heightened in sheer moments of beauty, and that's what makes the show good. Okay, I didn't crack the case at all. ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) webwawa did.
current mood:  content
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| Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
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9:43 pm - Voight-Kampff:
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Poll #1299942 A hypothetical:
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: AllYou're in the desert, you see a tortoise lying on its back, struggling, and you're not helping it -- why is that?
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tired