Life is so boring lately. Thank god I have .gifs to make this entry seem more interesting than it actually is.

How is everyone else? Any .gifs to share?

BAHAHA. The cell phone pic is crappy, but it's a story from Teen Vogue about girls dating bad boys. Think Chuck from Gossip Girl bad boys -- ie, players. Smack dab in the middle of the article are celebrity "bad" boys: (from the left) Bobby Brescia, Shia LaBeouf, John Mayer, and Nick Jonas. Okay, first: aren't the Jonas Bros big on the whole purity ring stuff? When you're of Disney fame, I have a hard time buying that you're a bad boy.

Also RPattz is on the page before this. LET ME ASSURE YOU TEEN VOGUE, there are badder boys than this. Spence and his creepy flesh colored beard? Senor Bale (who isn't bad as much as douche, I guess..)? KFed? I'll settle on freaking Tony Stark -- it doesn't even matter that you're fictional when you're being compared to Nick Jonas.

That is all. How is my flist today? C:

Cell phone pictures cannot truly depict how delicious this looked, let alone how it tasted.

I love midnight snacks. x]

When you wake up in the middle of the night, what do you snack on?

I've decided that since I enjoyed the first season or so of Heroes and wasn't quite sure why I never kept watching it, that I would catch up.

I'VE BEEN WATCHING THIS SHOW FOR THE PAST NINE HOURS.
And even though Hayden has an underbite and Milo's mouth moves in a weird way and Zach has a horrific unibrow and Adrian has that omg square jaw, I still love it.

So tell me guys, what have you been up to? Any new obsessions?

ETA/PS: Congratulations are in order. ;D

That song makes me smile. It was in every other commercial awhile back, too.

What songs do you guys like listening to? I'm looking to discover some new music. (:

I have so many things to do and I just keep procrastinating. I'm becoming a flake.

Then I feel bad and start working, but it's like I look for freaking distractions. Like right now. D:

Anyone else having a similar problem?

Some guy from Akron (a city about half an hour away from me) tried to add me on facebook the other day. He's a lot older than me and sort of creepy-looking, and I didn't recognize him. To be fair, however, I sent him a message asking where we knew each other from. All he replied back with was "i met u somewhere," which is hardly enough proof for me, so I shut the tab, forgetting to deny his friend request (it was late, gimme a break).

I wake up today to see he's left like four messages, all variations of "add me back." I finally denied his request and blocked him for good measure.

The problem is, he lives half an hour away. I'm sort of scared that I'll run into this guy in real life and find out that either a.) I do know him and I was just a total asshole or b.) he'd walk up to me and say something. Ugh.


Also, SciFi = SyFy now? What a dumb name, especially for a network that wanted to maintain their status as a solely science fiction channel a few years back. That would be like Comedy Central trying to stray away from comedy or something.

I'm trying this to try and get rid of my pimples. This toothpaste on my face looks ridiculous, but if it gets rid of the pimples that popped up on my face I consider the ridiculousness and my eyes watering completely worth it.

I'll update you guys on if it worked or not later. C:

In other news, my jaw hurts really bad and I'm not completely sure why. It doesn't feel like a toothache, it feels like the jaw bone itself hurts. Ugh.

Anywho. This toothpaste is starting to burn and I think it's time to go wash it off. So I'll cut this entry short for now.

What have you guys been up to? And does anyone have any clue what's up with my jaw?

Public Enemies wasn't necessarily bad, but it was no where near good. (THERE ARE NO SPOILERS AHEAD, SO DON'T WORRY.) I was sincerely disappointed because a movie with Depp and Señor Bale should have been miles and miles of good. What did I end up with? Characters that I have no reason to care about, a female (not-so-)lead that switches between weak and strong at different points in the movie, and an ending that leaves much to be desired.

The biggest problem with the movie is the likability of the characters. Depp plays a bank robber on the run, Cotillard his romantic interest that completely gives into him only approximately an hour after meeting him, and Bale the one in charge of the effort to catch John Dillinger. That's it. You don't learn much else about the characters and find yourself caring about them just as little. All of the characters have flaws, some more obvious than others, but throughout the movie I keep noticing just how two-dimensional they are. I see what they're doing but I don't know why they're doing it and don't care. As the viewer, I think it's understandable to want to care about the characters at some point in the movie.

Maybe care is the wrong word. I want to feel something towards them. I wanted to hate Dillinger (Depp) at parts and root for him at others. I wanted to feel for Billie (Cotillard) and see just how tragic her relationship with Dillinger was. I wanted to feel something towards all of these characters, I really did, but each and every one fell flat. Please note that this is hardly the fault of the actors -- they were all phenomenal actors, but sometimes a script is so bad that even phenomenal actors can't save it. This was such a case.

There were good things about the movie, naturally, parts that kept me watching (like I said, the acting was great). But some elements were just bad. The sound quality was wonky so I was straining to hear what people were saying at points. Might've been the fault of the theater, though I doubt it because the sound was fine at other times. The cinematography was interesting at some points but for the majority of the time bugged me. At times everything was shaky and then at other times it was sort of oversharpened and it was just...sort of annoying, really.

I wouldn't advise seeing this movie just yet. The fact that the characters didn't make you care made it seem waaay too long and if you don't have a good attention span, you'll end up craving the end -- which I won't spoil you about, but I'll just say wasn't very impressive. I would advise you guys to just rent it later on if you want to see it, but go ahead if you have some cash to burn and a bit of time to waste. I give it about a 5/10 overall.

TL;DR?: Acting was good, script and characters weren't.


By the by, I will be posting a couple fireworks pictures later on tonight. C:

I woke up today at some ungodly time and found out that we couldn't see Public Enemies because god forbid we don't go to a matinee. So we pushed it back -- oh well. Such is life, I suppose.

Anyway. I saw some pretty amazing fireworks tonight. The place we go every year typically makes its fireworks show last about fifteen minutes, but I swear we were sitting there for about half an hour watching fireworks until the finale started. I got some nice pictures of them, too. C:

As for the bad side of the day...I'm breaking out for no reason. Like, I have four huge pimples on my face. One is smack dab in the middle of the space between my eyebrows like a freaking bulls eye. My bangs are just too short to cover it up. I feel really greasy and gross because I never have pimples and these ones are just so red and...ugh. I'm afraid to pop them, too, because I don't want them to scar.

I discovered a big one on my shoulder and popped it. TMI, I know, but it's oozing. I have never oozed in my lifetime and I find it disgusting.

So what conclusions have I reached today? Apparently it's necessary to go to a matinee. The world of fireworks has stepped up its game. I need to cut back on greasy food because it's giving my oozy pimples.

How was your day, flist? No oozing, I hope. What did you guys do for the 4th?

Life is so hectic, I haven't been around in foreeeeverrr. Hope people missed me. :o
I'm going to see Public Enemies today; it looks really good.

So. Any movies you guys have seen recently? And how has everyone been?

My grandma came over today, bearing gifts. Mine? A 22" LCD Monitor, brand spankin' new. It looks gorgeous, except...
my computer doesn't support the ridiculous resolution that the monitor has to offer. It's 1600-something x 1080-something. I've been running on the standard 1280 x whatever.

So I have to wait another month before I'll be getting a new tower that can use it. Woe is me.

Hey, better have something than nothing at all, right?

So how has your day been flist? :] This is starting to become a common question.

I don't have much to say today, but I just wanted to say that I got a netflix account.

I love it~!

I've watched a thousand and one movies online already and got MST3K: The Movie in the mail today. :]

Today was a good day. How was yours, flist?

So I'm at my aunt's house, on the computer, and the phone rings. My aunt yells for me to pick it up. It's a telemarketer (I know because every call that my aunts receive are from telemarketers.). This is exactly how the conversation went:

Me: Hello?
Telemarketer: ...
Me: Hello?
Telemarketer: Yes?
Me: Um, who is this?
Telemarketer: ...is Sarah [last name] there?
Me: Who's calling?
Telemarketer: Jennifer.

Oh, well as long as it's Jennifer. She didn't offer any sort of business name, just Jennifer. I head-desked right then and there.

Me: Jennifer from...?
Jennifer: HSBC.

She actually gave me an acronym, like I know what the hell an HSBC is.

It was obviously this chick's first day or something, and I don't care because I laughed my ass off afterwards.

So you could make the case that it's a huge step in bridging the gap between capitalism and socialism in America, but you could also argue that Obama's universal health care plan will help the medical system as we know it. (You could also argue that socialism isn't really that bad, I suppose, so long as we don't take it a step too far.)

"It is a model that rewards the quantity of care rather than the quality of care; that pushes you, the doctor, to see more and more patients even if you can't spend much time with each; and gives you every incentive to order that extra MRI or EKG, even if it's not truly necessary," Obama said. "It is a model that has taken the pursuit of medicine from a profession -- a calling -- to a business."

- source

I have to admit, I like Obama's ideas about it. I like the idea of millions of people not having to worry about getting sick and if they can afford their medication, I like the idea of physicians not getting paid by how many tests they give--I like it. And if I could vote on it, I would definitely vote for it.

Reading articles like this doesn't sway me, either (I like the last question, where he practically quotes Obama on the quanitity versus quality issue, however). Paul seems to be making claims with little evidence behind it other than "there's no proof it will work," refusing to acknowledge that there's no proof Obama's plan won't crash and burn, either. On the other hand, sometimes I have to ask myself, is what Obama's offering too good to be true? And then I think about funding and realize that to some extent, the answer is yes.

Either taxes go up for high-income Americans, we tax someone else, or the government digs itself deeper into debt.

Someone has to pay for it, which is the big flaw in this plan. I'll be honest and say I still somewhat like the ideas he's offering, and maybe if I knew for sure who was paying for it I could support it more definitely. So what do you guys think? Is universal healthcare good or bad? Why?

[I'll admit, I'm not incredibly educated about universal health care. So if I said anything that seems off, feel free to correct me.]

Finally, something somewhat political. It's late. But I'm providing you with something of a rant/general thoughts on the topic anyway.

I'm sick of hearing of businesses going under. I'm sick of hearing of the bailout. I've always held an in-the-middle sort of stance about it all--while I definitely see the positives of the bailout, I also think survival of the fittest should be applied to the business world. Given the national debt, the United States government can't afford to personally sponsor every business that starts to go under (I'm exaggerating, but it's late. Give me a break). So I'm split when it comes to the topic. I see both positives and negatives that make me glad I'm not one of the people on Capitol Hill that have to make decisions pertaining to it.

BUT. However split I am about it, I'm so sick of seeing "business name here going under" every time I open up Yahoo! News. It's Perkins, Sbarro's, and Krispy Kreme today, in case you were wondering.

I'd say I would like to see some of the stories that used to constantly be reported on, like American obesity, but now that Krispy Kreme is going under I can imagine that won't be much of a problem anymore. (Even I wasn't aware I could provide a punchline this late, trust me.)


Also, something bothers me about this story.
Cheney says that Obama's compromising national security by closing Guantanamo Bay and bringing "enhanced interrogation techniques" to an end. (Keep in mind that one of the topics we covered in Speech & Debate this year touched on Guantanamo, and whenever we touch on a topic we end up debating it so much that we don't even care anymore, so I have a hard time holding a strong opinion about this.) Maybe it's late, but I have a hard time understanding how this affects national security. We're not letting terrorists go, as far as I'd understood on the topic--just moving them to a place with rules so America can avoid the label of human rights abuser.

But we can't just let it go and say "that's Cheney for you" and move on. No, the director of the CIA himself has to say that Cheney's "wishing that this country would be attacked again, in order to make his point."

Both of these statements seem so...absurd. No, I don't think national security is compromised by trying to close a facility that has been criticized for a good amount of time. But it's a little immature of the director of the CIA to suggest that Dick Cheney wants America to be attacked. Maybe he does. I don't care.

But come on. That's such a ridiculous thing to say. Biden might stick his foot in his mouth at times, but I think the CIA director would have been well-advised to just quote Joe on the subject:

"I think Dick Cheney's judgment about how to secure America is faulty," Biden said. "I think our judgment is correct."

By the way, this is a bit lengthy. Is anyone's friend's page suffering? Should I put some of this under a cut?

I bought the Sims 3 today. After buying it I went to the drive-in movie. It was a double feature and they had two screens, so I had the choice of viewing either Land of the Lost and X-Men Origins or Up and Night at the Museum 2 (you couldn't go to the other screen halfway through). Given that I heard Up was a bit of a downer and I needed something funnier, I chose Land of the Lost.

Wrong choice. It was the wrong freaking choice.

The plot was weak which was to be expected from a Will Ferrell movie, but it just wasn't funny. And it wasn't like they tried to be funny and missed the mark or it wasn't my type of funny; it seemed like there was no humor attempted. At all. I think the casting was to blame, honestly: Anna Friel just does not fit into the sort of movie that Will Ferrell does. Ferrell relies on other people to make him funny in almost everything he does, and it works in movies like Anchorman where he's got Steve Carrell and Paul Rudd to keep the humor going, but Anna Friel pulls off quirky comedy, not the ridiculous and oftentimes ad-libbed comedy that fills most of Ferrell's movies.

I sound like a movie critic now, don't I?

On a lighter note, returning home before X-Men played was the right choice. The Sims 3 is fantastic. (:

Also--has anyone seen Kristen Stewart lately? I think her new look fits her acting abilities.
Zing.
( Here's a picture, in case you haven't had the viewing pleasure that is her new haircut: )
She's got to be one of the most broken-looking people I've ever seen. Every time you see her in interviews or even pictures she looks so insecure, which I'm not completely sure I understand. While I personally believe it's overrated, Twilight is huge. The girl is pretty much guaranteed to have a successful acting career--whether she deserves it or not--and...I just don't get it.

Answering this question does not mean you are a genius.
It means you have an IQ slightly higher than that of Forrest Gump.
Seriously though, what the hell?

Also--I keep trying to watch all of Manos: The Hands of Fate because I keep getting pulled away from the computer halfway through, but it's just not happening for me tonight. Mainly because it's past two am and that painting gives me the creeps like a whole 'nother mother.

It looks like modern-day Michael Jackson slapped on a Freddie Mercury 'stache and decided to break out his Thriller jumpsuit, and I have no words for the creepy dog-thing in the corner. Dear god.


...and I just realized my brother neglected to bring my dog back into the house. This pisses me off because I can never get the dog's chain to unhook. Frick.

That's it for me tonight, elJay. Hope my first legitimate post didn't disappoint you too badly.

 Oh, hello there. This is a first post because in my past experience with blogs, people love to comment things when they add people.
And I love it when people comment things when they add people, especially if that person is my and the thing they're commented is a post!

So to fulfill your commenting, adding urges, here you are--a post. Questions, comments, and hatemail are all incredibly welcome.