Hey all...I just wanted to say...I went on a horror movie spree earlier this year, and got TOTALLY addicted to the zombie subgenre. I dunno what it is about it but I just fell in love with it...specifically George A. Romero's trilogy. Which then I found out that there's four. And low and behold, my mom comes home with the fifth one! Wow! I'm TOTALLY out of it when it comes to movies...and games and books and TV shows...I guess that whole "not having a TV"-thing is having its toll.

But anyway. I was really bored and decided to try to hook up my old TV and VCR/DVD player and even though I'm totally retarded when it comes to that type of electrical stuff -- but I did it! I got 'em to work. So I watched "Diary of the Dead" on DVD. I thoroughly enjoyed it...a lot more than "Land of the Dead" anyway. But NOTHING beats the old "Dawn of the Dead". The remake sucked ass too. Zombies are meant to be slow, darn it!!

But yah. I knew that, since I enjoyed it, most people probably think it sucks so I checked it out on IMDb. And boy was I surprised when I saw the message board there full of hate...NOT! Totally expected that. But hey it was a nice movie I think. Kind of like "Cloverfield" only with zombies. So I have no quarrels with this movie. Except that the mute Amish guy with the tiny chalkboard had to die...sad stuff...

I tried watching "See No Evil" once upon a time. But any gore that involves the eyes or the privates, I just can't handle. And OMG. There was an ad for a movie called "Teeth" which is about a woman with a monster vagina. I'M SERIOUS. Look it up!!

See?

Monster vagina. I guess Freud's sexism paid off...

Oh well. I'm still pissed at myself because I kept "The Descent" for at least three weeks over the due date, and never even bothered to watch it...it looked really freaky.

Oh well. Off to do more important things! Like sleep.

Mood: bouncy Tags: dead, death, horror, romero, teeth, vagina, zombie

Hi all! You may be asking, where have I been. Well...

At first I was sick, so to pass the time, I picked up my copy of "Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team" and set out to actually BEAT the game this time. And well I was feeling better by Tuesday. But the game is just so addicting that I couldn't put it down! I just loved the story, it had me hooked (my character was an Eevee, and my partner a Mudkip). I finally beat Rayquaza on Wednesday afternoon, so it only took me what, three days to beat the main storyline! Wowie. But you know something? The ending made me cry so hard. :-( Truly. I wept.

It was just really sad...and while I still attest that this game MAJORLY jumped the shark at a few plot points, I still absolutely 100% enjoyed it. I think the game would've been a lot deeper though, if your human-turned-Pokemon character HAD been the person from the Ninetales legend. But then I guess younger gamers might not have understood the delicate roles of "good" and "bad" in the game, if it had been the way I wanted it to be. But I think for us older Pokemon fans, it would've been cool and kind of philosophical! But oh well. TWO THUMBS UP!!! But then again when have I ever played an unenjoyable videogame!!! ;-)

So I picked up a copy of the sequel this morning, "Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time". I wanted "Explorers of Darkness" but they didn't have it and I wasn't willing to wait for it...and so far it is really great! But my partner's not as engaging as he was in the last game. And out of all the sixteen Pokemon you can choose to play as, there really wasn't one that jumped out at me. No Eevee. Sigh (oh no am I turning into one of those "I remember when there were only 150 Pokemon" types?? Yikes!!). But yeah. After a long hard hour of tinkering around with the questioning process, I finally got to play as a female Skitty and I stuck with it.

But it's funny. This game has a way of making even the ugliest Pokemon seem so terribly cute. So even though my character, Skitty, never even opens her eyes, I still adore her (but not as much as I adore Eevee!). Oh, and my partner is a male Pikachu. He's cool, but I would've so preferred another Mudkip!!!

So yeah. I even skipped my singing lessons just so I could play this game. I've been enjoying it...and I know by power-playing it for several hours at a time, I'm only going to make it end sooner, but so what. I NEED to get it done so I can get back to writing again...this is the first writing I've done since last Friday!! Jeez. But oh well. I thought I'd let you all know.

Also I've been thinking of starting another Pokemon fanfic, based on these two Mystery Dungeon series games. Not like a rip off, but a spin off at least. Because it's a new and refreshing perspective! But I'm very conflicted. But then again, why? I act like there's a deadline or something...when there's not. It's just something I do with my time, and God knows I have plenty of THAT to go around...

So I dunno. But I'm sure I'll figure it out soon. Oh. And my recital on May 18th? SUCKED!!! I got lumped in to the 3 PM show and not a one of the other performers in my time slot were over ten years old!! I had no competition. In fact the boy who went on before me played "Mary Had a Little Lamb". On the violin. WITH NO BOW!!! Yep, that's right...sigh.

But even still I managed to totally blow...even lamer. So many people stopped me to tell me I had a beautiful voice, but I really do think those were pity compliments...because I listened to the playback, a little of it anyway, and...well...I just sucked. End of story.

So oh well. TTYL!!

Mood: awake Music: Roxette ~ "Almost Unreal"

WOW it's been awhile since I posted here so I figured I ought to! Nothing else better to do. Just a million other things...really!

So as you know the three or so months that I've been absent here, only terrible things have happened. But who wants to read about my depressing life anyway?

I quit writing in my Pokemon fanfic sometime in early February, after a month of going strong. I guess maybe I burnt myself out or something. Or got distracted with my piano learning. But either way, I'm back! I started writing in it a few days ago because I was bored, and now I'm totally hooked on it all over again. I've even got a new chapter and everything.

I'm now working on Chapter 5 of "Whispers in the Dark".

I'm very proud...I've got 13 reviews! Yay! Probably they're all flames...I wouldn't know because I *cough* haven't read them yet *cough*...but I will, I promise. So thank you and BLESS YOU for reviewing!!

Oh my, what can I say. Writing really is therapeutic. I find myself vegging out for hours in front of the computer, just writing my heart out. One of my idols, the wonderful Stephen King, says he writes at least 3,000 words every day...jeez!!! You don't think that's a lot until you try it yourself. Most of my chapters are only like, 1,500 words long. Chapter 4 of my fic was 4,100-something, and that was hard enough for me to do in three days. So you go, Stevie!!

So as long as we're on the topic of hard-to-attain goals, I'm trying to quit eating beef because I think cows are adorable animals. My long-term goal is to be vegetarian...talk about a MAJOR lifestyle change!

Well. I have a singing lesson to get to. I have a recital on Sunday May 18th, and I'm going to perform Evanescence's "My Immortal", with my teacher playing the piano. It'll be fun...but may be canceled because she just got out of surgery and hasn't been giving lessons for two weeks. I dunno, but I'll find out today. TTYL!!

Thanks for reading!

Mood: refreshed Music: Evanescence ~ "Whisper" Tags: evanescence, fanfic, my immortal, pokemon, stephen king, vegetarian

No I haven't gotten a new one yet. But I got a new piece for my labret last night! I had been wearing a piece that was just a silver ball, which really matched my eyebrow piercing, which is just two silver balls too (enough with the ball jokes). But last night, after digging through a whole case of belly rings, which are horrible piercings because I've never seen a skinny person with one (just fat people), and tongue rings, which are just gross, I found some labret pieces. A spike! Granted though, it's unfortunately just a tiny one. Actually smaller than the ball of my original piece. But it's still cute, and will do until I find a better one sometime on our next trip to Hot Topic. The two others it came with are hideous though. They're tiny balls with like racing stripes. Yuckers.

Anyway. I got the third season of "LOST"!! I've been watching that on and off. Fun, fun. I still swear that Ben looks like a turtle.

I was going to get a new piercing last night, except I ended up going out to eat with my family instead. And because my dad went with us, there's virtually no way he'd allow us to go to Skinsations afterward. So we just went to Hastings, where I found my new labret piece and a couple of good books. I got "Flowers For Algernon" by Daniel Keyes and "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley.

I remember in seventh grade our advanced class got to read "Flowers For Algernon", but it was just a short, highly edited version with all the sexuality taken out. And granted I hate romance and anything to do with it, I'll still read it because let's face it -- reading makes a good writer. And I want to be amazing. And "Brave New World" is a book I've been half-wanting to read for a very long time now, because it's in the same vein as George Orwell's "1984", and I dig existential new world order-type stuff. But what bothered me a lot was that it was so sexual. But now that I'm medicated, I no longer really care. I mean, I've done it before anyway, so why be so upset by it? I used to think ugly people like me can't get laid, but "The Maury Povich Show" proved that one wrong, big time.

SO...I've got some interesting things to tide me over. Plus there's the newer Stephen King books, that I've neglected to read. "Blaze", "Lisey's Story" (which mum says sucked BIG TIME), and "Duma Key" (which she just finished last night and said was very good). Can't read "Cell" though because I very stupidly sold it! Maybe I can find it at the library, but our library sucks.

Yeah I sold a lot of things when I was trying to desperately make money to visit my long-distance boyfriend in Fort Worthless. Dumb fuck. I just dumped him because he's a total controlling pussy, and he's been acting like a pussy ever since.

Well. I guess on Monday I'll go up to No Fear here in town, which is a bad piercing place, and see if they sell any body jewelry. I'd like an eyebrow piece to match my new little labret spike, and maybe a bigger spike for my labret, while I'm at it. And then on Tuesday, I go to Skinsations and have them pierce my right nostril. I'd like a ring in it, but I'll settle for another little silver stud. I just love this kind of stuff. Piercings are like tattoos, you can't have just one!!! I remember once I swore that my ears would be the only things I'd get pierced, but since my hair is very long and I wear it down all the time, they wouldn't show anyway, so...facial piercings it is!

And I've gotta start planning my next tattoo. I've been thinking maybe an Omega sign on the back of my right hand, or maybe something on the back of my shoulder, or just above my cleavage (like bat wings or something). Too kewl.

Mood: thoughtful Music: Delain ~ "Frozen" Tags: brave new world, flowers for algernon, lost, piercings, spike, stephen king, tattoo

What are...things that I'm hopelessly addicted to?!

OMG. Wi-fi is the weirdest most nerve-wracking thing ever. But to say it's no fun would be a total lie!

I have two LJ users I'd love to thank, who are vverevvolf, for his wonderful contributions of new fruits and a Nookington's to my "Animal Crossing: Wild World" town, Elwood, and of course the kind jaebird for graciously trading me a female Ralts and a female Eevee all for the low, low price of a retarded Bidoof and its evolved form (I don't like Bidoofs!) in "Pokemon Diamond". Thank you!!! Your generosities breathe new life into me...the kindness of strangers is a powerful thing. :-)

Well...a new season of "LOST" has just started. Yay!! I've been watching it very carefully. I think that cow on last night's episode near the end was super cute. ^-^

Yeah I'm weird. Anyway...it's funny. I used to hate that show with a passion when it started coming on, while my brother watched it passively. I dismissed it as a soap opera on an island. Then when I found out about the smoke monster and all the freaky shit going on, I started watching it around the very end of the second season. And I've been hooked ever since! Even though I didn't watch a bit of the first season and most of the second, so there are still some things I don't understand as far as characters go. But, I understood enough to get me through the last season, and I suspect that I'll get through this one too. I just hope that we get some answers soon...but if there's one thing that "LOST" has taught me, it's that every answer is followed with at least ten more questions. And that you can't trust ANYONE! ;_;

Sigh. I bought my mom the most gorgeous dress. It's long sleeved with like netted, see-through arms, kind of low cut but not that much so, and covered with netting. It goes down to just below the knees, with a sheered bottom layer underneath the netting. Black, naturally. She was looking for something to go to a funeral in and I got her a dress that's beautiful, but, you know, not very mourny. She tried it on and yeah, I guess it's a little bit of a going-out-to-a-fancy-dinner-type dress. But oh well. At least she'll have that for other occasions! And get this...IT WAS ONLY $6!!!!!!!!! On clearance!!!! Woo! Do I rock or what?

My stupid ex is trying to be friendly with me again...but he doesn't get it. I'm not hurt, and I'm not angry. I'm not anything. I just want to be rid of him because I simply don't care for him anymore. Cold but true.

Well my best friend turned 19 the other day, but I haven't really talked to her in like three months now so oh well.

Mood: rejected Music: Sirenia ~ "The Last Call" Tags: animal crossing, animal crossing: wild world, lost, pokemon

I was FINALLY able to utilize the wi-fi capabilities of my Nintendo DS last night!! After a long almost-two-years of not knowing what the FUCK it was about or how to get it working or how to even use it, I FINALLY got it working!

I even signed up to a few Animal Crossing communities here on LiveJournal and made a couple of friends! I hope to make more...I haven't visited anyone's town yet, or had anyone visit me, mainly because I was out last night, but I hope to finally do this tonight or sometime this week. It would be so cool to visit another town, to get some new fruits growing in Elwood or even get my hair done in someone's Nookington's! Totally awesome.

But there is a downside! Now I have to be all self-conscious about my town. I know it looks like crap. I only started this game on Friday, and I've been so busy trying to pay off all my debt to Tom Nook, that I haven't really invested much in my town's look or feel. I'd love to get some flowers and trees growing around the town hall and museum, and to decorate around my house and my villagers' houses...but I always get distracted by something. >_<

But it WILL be done! I swear it...since I'm no longer Tom Nooks' pocket-bitch. I mean, sure. I have a 298,000b debt to pay off still. But I just fully realized that, I don't have to do that all at once. I can pay more attention to my town if I like, and I would most definitely like to. Well...I just wanted the world to know that...I'm now ready for more Animal Crossing friends! And feel free to make my neighbors move away. Most of them are really...grouchy! ^-~

There's all my info! Feel free to add me, just send me a message through LiveJournal or leave me a comment or something in my blog with your info, and I'll add you posthaste!

Mood: happy Music: Lullacry ~ "Heart-Shaped Scars" Tags: animal crossing, friend code, wi-fi

Yeah that's right! Cool, no? Originally when I searched for the movie on YouTube a few days ago, I only found a few versions, all in Japanese and unsubbed. But then just by chance when I was browsing around today, I found one by digging a little deeper into YouTube...and it's got English subtitles! That's so awesome! Because I know the chances of this movie making it overseas to the US is slim to none...and even if it DOES come, it will be forever...and our local stores would never carry it...and well, I'm a very impatient person who hates ordering things I can get for free...so going to my hotspot and downloading the eight-part subbed version was really the only sane solution! ^-^

OMIGOSH...it's the cutest little movie evar! Basically it's about a little girl, Ai, who moves to Animal Village. She works in Tom Nook's shop making deliveries and gets to meet all the villagers, some of which are far more likable than others. The movie follows her life and her friendships for a time period of what I'm guessing is about half a year. Along the way, mysterious messages are coming ashore from the sea, asking Ai to plant pine trees in various places around the village for a "surprise" during the Winter Festival. Who's sending these messages, and what's the surprise? WATCH THE MOVIE!!

Here's the link to each separate part:


Enjoy! I know I sure did. Talk about a "kawaii-overload". ^-^

Mood: jubilant Music: Stolen Babies ~ "Push Button" Tags: ai, animal crossing, animal crossing movie, tom nook, yu

I'm feeling much better now, but my head is still fucky. My joints and muscles are still screaming, and mostly, Tom fucking Nook has depressed me.

Ever since I got "Animal Crossing: Wild World" started, lets face it. I realized my character was butt-ugly from the get-go. I mean there's no stepping around it -- she got beat by the ugly bush, badly. The bee sting-induced Quasimodo face would be an improvement, any day of the week. The only character uglier than her is, say, Tom Nook, and even that's debatable. Her ugly pink tri-ponytail. Her potato head. Her beady black eyes.

So when I read about one of Tom Nooks' store expansions having a hairdresser that could change your character's hairstyle and haircolor, I was quite thrilled! So I instantly began working towards obtaining Nookington's, setting it as my top priority. But then I learn that you have to do that Wi-Fi shit and have someone else come over to your town and buy something. Which is COMPLETELY UNFAIR to those of us with absolutely ZERO GAMER FRIENDS. Seriously!! I fucking deserve a new hairstyle, man! I shouldn't have to hunt some stranger down online and ask them to do this for me! Oh wait -- I CAN'T EVEN DO THAT! Because I have no fucking clue how!

Secondly, I'm on DIALUP, so I probably can't anyway! I suppose I could take my dad's laptop to my hotel hotspot and use it there, but...

I STILL DUNNO HOW!!

So I guess I'll have to go the alternate route and spend 800,000 bells in his fucking Nookway before he can upgrade to the next expansion. Which should only take, oh...HALF A FUCKING YEAR.

So here's a big shout-out to to the biggest ball-buster in "Animal Crossing" history --

Mood: aggravated Music: "Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood"

I'VE GOT TEH FLUZ0RZ...oh God. Suffering. Every single joint, screaming in agony. Head, throbbing. Dog, barking...don't know why...nose, running...TV on the fritz, wasn't a minute ago...sleeping soooo much...

I'm in hell! :-(

Mood: sick Tags: flu, sick