The other day I started watching Fringe – it’s surprisingly good! I never watched the X-Files or anything, so the whole idea of supernatural investigations is still new to me, haha. Anyway, I’m pretty sure I’ll be following this show from now on. 

One funny thing, though, is that I just knew I recognized Walter Bishop (John Noble) from somewhere, and when I looked him up on IMDB I even recognized his name! So I went through the list of things he’s been in, and realised he was Denethor in LOTR. I hated Denethor. Ever since the first time I saw the Two Towers my mum and I were calling him the Grease Pig because I thought it suited him better xD. Seriously, though, that’s really a credit to John Bishop’s acting ability – Walter is awesome, LOL.

I saw Fall Out Boy last night (: it was awesome. Their music is just good for concerts because it’s all so funky, so you can jump around alot haha. And about halfway through me and my friend managed to push to a couple of rows from the front, whoot. They played all the songs I know (probably because all the ones I know are the famous ones, but shh xD) and while they were playing songs I didn’t know, I got a whole bunch of really good photos! So all in all it was a SWEEEEET concert (:

There was a girl in front of us with an SLR camera and every single photo she took came out absolutely perfect – but I didn’t take my good camera so I had to take like 60 bazillion shots to get anything good xD still, in the end I did get some I like:

It saddens me that the last pic is so blurry D: but oh well! And I know I look like a total Pete Wentz stalker here, LOL, but in my defence he was the cutest closest to where we were standing xD

The other day I watched Slumdog Millionaire. It was incredible! I’m not really one to watch arthouse movies – to be honest I was expecting it to be one of those ones that doesn’t make any sense just so they can say it’s “artsy” – but it wasn’t like that at all. I can completely see how it has been nominated for so many awards, everything from the acting to the plot to the individual camera angles were done perfectly.

It inspired us to become the three musketeers (: from the land of dreadful photoshop! Haha.

I was at a friends house the other day watching some TV shows. It came to my attention how horrifying it really is that 90210 is one of the most popular shows on television, but Arrested Development was cancelled.

Arrested Development is beyond awesome. It’s one of those few shows (that isn’t a cartoon xD) where you can watch the same episode 50 times and not get sick of it – because it’s just so funny.

It might just have been the episode of 90210 I watched, but it was honestly painful to see. The acting was bad, the plotlines were stupid, the characters weren’t even likeable or believable in any way. Why is this show so goddamn popular? Why the hell is this allowed on the air and Arrested Development isn’t? ):

I found this on LJ spotlight just now, and it reminded me that I never really reviewed Havermercy after I read it D: so here we go. I don’t have the book with me, but nevermind xD

Anyway, Havemercy is a novel written by one of the authors of Shoebox Project, Jaida Jones, along with her friend Danielle Bennett. While I definitely prefer Shoebox, and it probably would have been better if I wasn’t somehow expecting the characters to all be like the Shoebox ones xD, I still really did enjoy this book. 

Royston and Hal are adorable, full stop. I think it’s actually kind of nice that they stay kind of innocent and sweet, it’d ruin it somewhat if they went any further than they did – it was also good that it all took so long to develop, the suspense is always good, haha. I liked that Hal’s character became stronger towards the end, and I liked the friendship between him and Thom. And Royston is totally Sirius all grown up, lol.

Thom and Rook were good fun. I love Rook, haha, you just can’t beat a total asshole with blue streaks in his hair who won’t stop swearing. I especially loved Thom and Rook’s ending, it was completely unexpected (which is likely just because I’m silly and didn’t see that coming xD), and it really opens up the opportunity for fanfics or sequels about later on. The only thing that actually seemed odd them was, that I thought it was kind of obvious, from the minute Thom was thinking about the brother he didn’t remember, that it would end up being Rook. Why else put in that little detail? It probably would have been better to mention the long lost brother in the beginning, so the reader wouldn’t automatically think of Rook. Before I knew they were brothers, I thought they would actually have shipped really well – there was alot of chemistry there which is kind of odd, thinking of it now xD

I read in the LJ comm somebody saying that they wished Royston and Rook would have communicated more, because omg snarky, and I agree lol. Though I loved the bit at the very end when they do finally meet, after all of Rook’s making fun of Royston for being a cindy, and he just basically goes “yes, and?” ahaha.

All in all, awesome book. Unfortunately, I was reading it on and off over a period of a couple of very busy weeks, so that might have affected the overall picture I got – I really want to sit down and read it again, properly!

Wow, I haven’t updated this in a while. But I finally went and saw Twilight today!!

It wasn’t brilliant, but I still really liked it. I’d been told by several people that it wasn’t very good, so I guess my expectations weren’t too high, but still. My only question – why didn’t they include the whole “do I dazzle you?” thing? That was a really famous line, and it wouldn’t have taken up any time to throw it in, but they just completely skipped it o_O unless I was talking and missed it?

I’d heard that Kristen Stewart’s Bella was too emotionless, but I actually thought she did a really good job – movie!Bella was a lot more realistic and less annoying than book!Bella, in my opinion. In the book she sometimes comes across as kind of bratty, but in the movie she definitely didn’t.

And Edward was impossibly hot. There were several scenes where you just have to sit back and go “wow”. Haha. Having said that, the sparkling in the light was really dreadfully done – he looked like somebody had spritzed him with water or something – and half the time he had WAY too much makeup on, especially the lipstick. Like, the first time you saw him, when he walked into the lunch room, the first thing that stood out was his ridiculous makeup o_O and it changed from scene to scene, so sometimes he had really red lips and dark eyes, and sometimes he looked almost normal. Pick one and stick with it? Still, you know. Hot. Hot hot hot.

I also heard that the relationship between Edward and Bella was too stilted – but I don’t agree with that. It was incredibly awkward at first, to be sure, but I think that actually worked and made it more realistic. In the book they just kind of fall in love at the drop of a hat, the movie made it look like a slower process that actually matured over time. 

There were two scenes in the film I really liked – the first was the scene where Edward and Bella are walking across the school carpark, with everybody staring at them, and Edward says something like “I’m breaking all the rules now” and puts his arm around her. I don’t know why, it was just cool xD. The other good scene was the one where Edward introduces Bella to his family, and he’s hovering in the background the whole time looking really painfully embarrassed, hahaha, just because it was cute. 

Anyway, all in all I enjoyed it, a whole lot more than I thought I would, and I’d really like to see it again!

Edit: Ooh, I forgot one more thing! I thought the actual Forks school kids were pretty awesome. I’d be so happy if I moved somewhere and the people were like that :S lol. Not because they were fighting for her attention, but because they were all so silly and cute xD little things like Tyler stealing Mike’s chair out from under him or them doing their stupid dances outside while Bella was eating with her dad. Seriously, they were cool! Haha.

I just finished watching the movie of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. I’ve seen it lots of times, but I only really noticed this time that Shoebox was written after the movie came out, so a lot of the little things about Remus are actually taken from the movie. The way he dresses, the jazz music, the books, the kind of awkwardness of him, they’re all in the movie. I had no idea! I knew the chocolate was from the book and the scars were from the film, but that was all I’d noticed before. Also, if you really concentrate, you can actually picture Shoebox!Sirius growing up to look like that. Interesting!

Except in the movie Moony is spelt ‘Mooney’, which is a bit odd. Surely it’s not spelt that way in the book? It looks silly spelt like that.

I just watched the new South Park episode – Pandemic – it was awesome! I’m so relieved lol I seriously feared for the future of South Park. But this episode is just so completely random and ridiculous it’s beautiful. And it takes the piss out of Cloverfield, which is good because I really hated that movie xD

It’s probably an extremely common saying, but it still amuses me that characters in Shoebox, Dexter, and Twilight all claim to be Switzerland during a conflict.

Dexter – 0208 – Blast From The Past
“Hey, I’m Switzerland”
- Dexter Morgan 

Shoebox Project – Part 20
“Remus Lupin is a no-fight zone. Remus Lupin is neutral ground. Remus Lupin is Switzerland.”

Twilight – Eclipse
“I am Switzerland. I refuse to be affected by territorial disputes between mythical creatures.”
- Bella Swan

I think South Park may have jumped the shark, which is sad. The latest episode is okay, a lot better than the last one, but it just lacks the awesomeness it used to have. I was expecting a twist at the end, which could actually be a product of watching too much Dexter, but still, it was way to predictable.

None of the episodes this season have been very good, actually. Eek, a Penis! had some incredibly funny moments and I enjoyed Canada on Strike, but they’re nothing compared to the old episodes. They just don’t make things like Casa Bonita or Scott Tenorman Must Die anymore. Hopefully the next episode is better?

In other news, I watched one of the new Family Guy episodes, I Dream of Jesus, last night, and it was hilarious. I usually like South Park better than Family Guy, but this episode made all the new South Parks look even more like crap lol. The entire show is just based around the song Surfin’ Bird by the Trashmen, it kicks ass ahahaha.

Peter: Brian can I see that paper for a sec? Huh, that’s odd, I thought that would be big news.
Brian: You thought what would be big news?
Peter: There seems to be an absence of a certain ornithological piece. A headline regarding mass awareness of a certain avian variety.
Brian: What are you talking about?
Peter: Oh, haven’t you heard? It was my understanding that everyone had heard.