Time Flies When You're...Living

So, it's kinda fucking nuts to me that a year has passed since I graduated high school. Like, I literally physically feel weird looking at the pictures of the class of 2010 in the stupid cap and gowns that they gave back seconds after the pictures were taken. I feel like that was me freaking yesterday and a whole year has passed since it was me. First off, this whole thing- I know- is super cliche' and boring, but there really are times that time just bitch slaps you in the face and is like 'HEY! AS YOUR SITTING THERE WRITING YOUR INSIGNIFICANT THOUGHTS I'M FREAKIN' FLYING BY!!' (Time's a sassy lady, like her bff Mother Nature). And I know every one's heard a million times that time flies and youth is wasted on the young, blah blah blah, but like most things that people tell you, they're meaningless drones until you experience it firsthand. It's incredible how much can happen in a year, how many new people you meet, how many memories you make, how many all nighters you pull, blog posts you write. Not that I'm dissatisfied at all with the past year, in fact, I wouldn't change a thing I'm so thankful for the people I shared it with-old friends, new friends, re-acquainted friends, family, basically-family- and the chances I've been lucky enough to have and the experiences I've gained. It just all passes by so fast. And we don't even notice until we hit some kind of marker that makes us step back and go 'shit, has it really been a decade since Y2K?' or 'holy crap my brother is going to be looking at colleges?' or 'damn! I've only known you a year? it feels like a lifetime!' It's fucking nuts.

So carpe die(h)m. Seriously. Time flies when you're not looking. Live whatever way leaves you with a heart full of memories and a mind empty of regrets.

Peace out, cub scouts.

Many Apologies to the Wifey

So, after playing a few vigorous games of Bananagrams, Clue, and Beatles Trivial Pursuit with the wifey today she reminded me that I had forgotten to post some excellent 'Spotted Around Campus' photos she's submitted like a month ago. So without even further ado than has already been had, I give you:

Spotted On Campus: Drexel Edition

Fighting negativity with love, I like your style graffiti-er.

I mean, sometimes writers block strikes strikes the best of us at the worst of times....

Might I add that stall graffiti/spotted on campus pics are my absolute favorite? (for future reference)

Some more Internet finds. Oh Internet, what would I waste my time on without you?

WOW: Word of the Week

Stormtrooper Effect (noun):

Imperial Stormtroopers in the original Star Wars trilogy, despite overwhelming numbers, professional military education and training, full armour, military-grade firepower, and noticeable combat effectiveness against non-speaking characters, were incapable of seriously harming or indeed even hitting the film's protagonists. At one point Obi-Wan Kenobi even comments on Stormtrooper effectiveness to Luke Skywalker when the pair find the destroyed Jawa sandcrawler, saying "These blast-points... Only Imperial Stormtroopers are so precise." In fact, at the beginning of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, the Stormtroopers are portrayed as lethal when invading a rebel ship, overwhelming it and killing most resistance in what seems like mere moments, whereas later the main protagonists would dispatch many of them without ever receiving a scratch in return.

example: "The Nazis in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade must all have studied at the Imperial Stormtrooper School of Marksmanship."

thanks wiki + stumbleupon!

Noises In My House That Annoy Me (WIP)

> The Internet router box which beeps every 18 minutes telling us it has a low battery
> The random watch in my brothers lunchbox that has an alarm set for 1:47AM and cannot be shut off
> The ice cream man who makes 7 trips down my block in an hour
> My mother asking "How was clown school?" when I return from Comic Con*
> The sound of everything when you have water in your ear



*In her defense, for some reason unknown to me, she actually was under the impression that I was at a clown convention. I'm not sure why. But she didn't explain that when she asked, so I assumed she was mocking me.


More to come!

Forged In the Fires of Mount Doom....

...I give you: COMIC CON '10.

So, naturally this must be followed by a new segment:

You Know You're A Huge Nerd If/When

• You buy slouchy boots so you have footwear for your costumes.
• Most of your profile pictures feature you with pointed ears.
• You know what time it is.
• You've marched with Jedi.
• Your current wall decorations are a Halo poster, a Last Airbender poster, and a Hogwarts banner.
• If given five minutes you could assemble five or more Con-acceptable costumes.
• You look up/draw fanart.
• You jumped up and down when you entered Comic Con.
• You address Boba Fett as "Mr Fett"
• You've made/own craft foam armor.
• You waited on your outside step when you were 11 scanning the skies for an owl.
• You own a lightsaber.
• You've shopped for swords. Multiple times.
• You've thought about setting up/actually set up a booth at a convention.
• You'd rather sit at home and watch Star Wars than go out.
• You love Steampunk.
• You know what Steampunk is.
• You've taken pictures in costume for no reason other than to be in costume.
• The only show you now make an effort to watch is 'Adventure Time'
• You have a Finn hat.
• You made aforementioned hat.
• You can tell an Ewok from a Jawaa.

[Note: this is neither an Ewok or a Jawaa]

And if you didn't know that...you should probably stop reading my blog until you fix that.

Twilight Is Just A Cheap, Sugar-Coated Harry Potter

So, my Yahoo news just informed me that 'Breaking Dawn' (the last, and most terrible of the 'Twilight' saga) will be broken into-yes, you guessed it-two movies. Very original Summit Entertainment (henceforth referred to as 'Satin Entertainment' or simply 'Satin'). And very clearly not a huge gimmick to rake in double the money from the tween-magnet franchise. No one has ever thought of taking a gazillion dollar book to movie project and making it one film longer-oh wait Harry Potter. Now. Before I continue, let me make two things clear.
1. Yes, I have read the whole 'Twiight' series (even 'Breaking Dawn' as I fought my basic instinct to give up and set the book on fire) and for a while I was (shamefully) a fan. I've gone to the midnight premieres of both 'Twilight' and 'New Moon.' And each time I've been (what I now plea) forced to suffer through those cinematic tragedies I promised myself 'No MORE!' And after the utterly absurd 'skipping through a field as vampires' dream sequence I knew it was over. Yes, yes, I put up with it for that long and for that I ask forgiveness.
2. I do not approve of the Harry Potter movies. With the exception of some things (the set, Minerva McGonegall, the old Dumbledore, Bellatrix, the midnight premieres) I would strongly argue that I wished they were never made into movies. I love the book series dearly, and the movies come no where near to doing it justice. And for that I think the directors (all six or whatever of them) should be put on trial for the murder of a great series.

Moving on;
The Ways in Which Twilight Is Just a Trashy Supermarket Romance Novel Version of Harry Potter

• The revival of a classic fictional element to spice up the life of an otherwise boring teenager (wizards, vampires; Harry Potter, Bella Swann)
• An utterly horrid male lead actor playing someone with a range of emotions well outside said actor's abilities permit him to display (Daniel Radcliff, Robert Pattinson)
• The obsession with movie releases in June/July or November
• Painful attempts by the main male character to fit into a school setting when he and everyone else in that setting know that the efforts are fruitless and he sticks out like a sore thumb (Harry, Edward)
• Werewolves (Lupin, Jacob (even though...oh whatever))
• The friend who's always nagging about rules and trying the main character out of everything (Hermione, Jacob)
• The ability of the movies to make the books look bad/even worse.
• The cool guy with the motorcycle (Sirius/Hagrid, Jacob)
• The ginger (the Weasley's, Victoria)
• The omnipresent opposing force (Volemort, Volturi)
• Repeated attempts on the main character's life by a person well-known to the character and their super-powerful posse but which it takes several/all books to kill (Voldemort, Victoria)
• The clear use of V when naming anything evil (Voldemort, Victoria, Volturi)
• The harmless friend who's really not good at anything (Neville, Mike Newton)
• Shapeshifting (Animagi, werewolves)
• The main character's broken family (orphan, divorced parents)
• Another main character's perfect, loving, accepting family (the Weasleys, the Cullens)
• Suspicions of evil cast on a character(s) turning out to be a giant misunderstanding and that character is actually good (Sirius, werewolves)
• The splitting of the last film into two parts to make money.

So, I understand that some of this stuff goes back to like, Carl Jung and the hero's journey and other well-established methods of creating a story, and that the two are the same genre. But seriously, I'm just pissed that all the movie industry cares about anymore is money. Not quality, not preserving the integrity of the material they are adapting, just money. ARRGGGG.

Here's hoping the next Harry Potter movies are worth the $11 it costs to go to the premiere...

23/36 I Dare You To Beat Me

Because now these song bites are all nagging in my brain and misery loves company:


http://www.sporcle.com/games/enough/2000smusic

A fun Sporcle quiz :)

ReeeeVampppp!

Yes, I'm insanely bored and have no life. Which explains why, as soon as Blogger told me that it had revamped its layout program I absolutely needed to try it out. What do we think? Personally I think the clouds encapsulate the worldly themes exhibited in my oh-so-exciting blog. Again, I apologise both for the extremely lackluster posts as well as for the bugs that I know are still in the layout. It doesn't seem to know what to make of pictures...idk. But, to remind all of you reading how much I lurrrrve you here are two videos that never fail to make me laugh





These young rock stars are really startin early with the *whooo whooo* (as Glozell might say). Hope that at least keeps you all at bay until my life actually gets interesting enough to post about. Oh, and if that doesn't do the trick, try going to Target. I just snagged the most adorable dress there for freakin' $8.

Target=Love

)That's the most math I'm doing all summer.)

Summer Playlist No.1

So, I'm adding a mix tape section to the blog because I haven't added a new Segment in awhile. This one's basically going to consist of playlists (and just be prepared because when I like a song it's on all my playlists). This first one was inspired by some of my guilty pleasure car sing-along songs which I noticed are all sung by female singers I either hate to love or love to hate. Hence my Summer 2010: Crazy Bitches and Dumb Sluts mix. Let's take a look...

1. Tik Tok - Ke$ha
2. So What - P!nk
3. Like a G6 - Far East Movement
4. Single Ladies - Lady B
5. Evacuate the Dancefloor - Cascada
6. Beautiful, Dirty, Rich - The Gaga
7. Radar - Britney 'Queen of Crazy' Spears
8. Your Love Is My Drug - Ke-look I'm so original using symbols in my name -ha
9. VideoPhone - Lady B featuring The Gaga
10. Maps - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
11. Boys Boys Boys - The Gaga
12. The Sweet Escape - Gwen Stefani
13. Don't Stop the Music - Rhianna
14. Calabri 2007 - Enur
15. Great DJ - The Ting Tings
16. Blah Blah Blah - Ke$ha
17. Telephone -  The Gaga featuring Lady B
18. 3 - B. Spears
19. Paper Planes - M.I.A
20. Summerboy - The Gaga
21. Party In the U.S.A - Miley 'Queen of the Sluts' Cyrus

So, get in your car and crank this shit up because that's what this summer is going to be full of, crazyyyyy ass female singers who you'd either love to take a meat cleaver to or are likely to be spotted wearing one on the red carpet. Either way they're great to sing along with regardless of your age, gender, or degree auto-tunage naturally present in your voice.

A Few Fun Adventure Pics

his is what my life boils down to. And I could not be happier.

So, I'm extending a challenge to you all. In lieu of a 'spotted around campus submission' I think you should all grab some blunted swords, old Halloween costumes/random fabrics, and awesome props find a questly space and take an awesome picture. I highly doubt anyone will send anything, so the winner will get their own featured post and I'll probably rave about how awesome they are. Ready, set, QUEST!