Holy crap, how have I never heard of the movie Spellbound before?!? I watched it for the first time on Saturday, AND IT IS FREAKING AMAZING! I think it just earned the title of Second Favorite Hitchcock Movie Ever. Sorry, Rear Window. You just got dethroned.

Spellbound, for the uninformed, stars Gregory Peck and Ingrid Bergman, and features a trippy dream-sequence by Salvador Dali. Bergman plays a psychiatrist working in a mental institution, who falls in love with her new supervisor. Soon, however, she finds out that he is an imposter; an amnesia patient who assumed her supervisor's identity. She works to cure him,but soon the police show up, suspecting him of murdering the real supervisor. The amnesiac, who can only remember his initials of J.B., starts having violent mental breakdowns when he sees certain objects, further convincing himself and the police that he is a murderer. He and the psychiatrist become fugitives as she vows to prove his innocence before the police drag him away to prison. Close-calls and crazy mental breakdowns ensue.

This is one of the few movies where I've actually literally been on the edge of my seat and giving warnings on the characters onscreen. Hitchcock may have been a complete jerk in real life, but DAMN, he knew how to make a film.

Hey you. GO WATCH THIS MOVIE. NOW.

Well, great. I've just discovered that some random kid has been spamming my phone with text messages. Apparently she thinks she's talking to some boy she knows. And after three days of not getting a response, she still hasn't stopped. Or gotten a hint.

Hmm. Do I text her back the next time she sends me a note and tell her she's got the wrong number, or just block her number from my phone and let her think her boyfriend is ignoring her?

Personally, I'm leaning towards the latter.

Movie list thing, ENGAGE:

(X) Rocky Horror Picture Show
(X ) Grease
(X) Pirates of the Caribbean
(X) Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man's Chest
( ) Boondock Saints
( ) Fight Club
( ) Starsky and Hutch
(X) Neverending Story
(X) Blazing Saddles
(X) Airplane
Total: 7

(X) The Princess Bride
() AnchorMan
( ) Napolean Dynamite
(X) Labyrinth
( ) Saw
( ) Saw II
( ) White Noise
( ) White Oleander
( ) Anger Management
() 50 First Dates
(X ) The Princess Diaries
( ) The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
Total so far: 10

( ) Scream 2
( ) Scream 3
( ) Scary Movie
( ) Scary Movie 2
( ) Scary Movie 3
( ) Scary Movie 4
( ) American Pie 2
( ) American Wedding
( ) American Pie Band Camp
Total so far: 10

(X) Harry Potter 1
(X) Harry Potter 2
( ) Harry Potter 3
( ) Harry Potter 4
( ) Resident Evil 1
( ) Resident Evil 2
( ) The Wedding Singer
( ) Little Black Book
( ) The Village
(X) Lilo & Stitch
Total so far: 13

(X) Finding Nemo
(X) Finding Neverland
( ) Signs
( ) The Grinch
( ) Texas Chainsaw Massacre
( ) Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Begining
( ) White Chicks
( ) Butterfly Effect
( ) 13 Going on 30
(X) I, Robot
(X) Robots
Total so far: 17

( ) Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
( ) Universal Soldier
(X) Lemony Snicket: A Series Of Unfortunate Events
( ) Along Came Polly
( ) Deep Impact
( ) KingPin
( ) Never Been Kissed
( ) Meet The Parents
( ) Meet the Fockers
( ) Eight Crazy Nights
( ) Joe Dirt
(X) KING KONG
Total so far: 18

( ) A Cinderella Story
( ) The Terminal
( ) The Lizzie McGuire Movie
( ) Passport to Paris
( ) Dumb & Dumber
( ) Dumber & Dumberer
( ) Final Destination
( ) Final Destination 2
( ) Final Destination 3
( ) Halloween
( ) The Ring
( ) The Ring 2
( ) Surviving X-MAS
( ) Flubber
Total so far: 18

( ) Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle
( ) Practical Magic
(X) Chicago
( ) Ghost Ship
(X) From Hell
(X) Hellboy
(X) Secret Window
( ) I Am Sam
( ) The Whole Nine Yards
( ) The Whole Ten Yards
Total so far: 22

( ) The Day After Tomorrow
( ) Child's Play
( ) Seed of Chucky
( ) Bride of Chucky
(X) Ten Things I Hate About You
( ) Just Married
( ) Gothika
( ) Nightmare on Elm Street
(X) Sixteen Candles
( ) Remember the Titans
( ) Coach Carter
( ) The Grudge
( ) The Grudge 2
( ) The Mask
( ) Son Of The Mask
Total so far: 24

( ) Bad Boys
( ) Bad Boys 2
( ) Joy Ride
( ) Lucky Number Seven
(X) Ocean's Eleven
(X) Ocean's Twelve
(X) Bourne Identity
( ) Bourne Supremecy
( ) Lone Star
(X) Bedazzled
( ) Predator
( ) The Fog
(X) Ice Age
( ) Ice Age 2: The Meltdown
( ) Curious George
Total so far: 29

( ) Independence Day
( ) Cujo
( ) A Bronx Tale
( ) Darkness Falls
( ) Christine
(X) ET
( ) Children of the Corn
( ) My Boss's Daughter
( ) Maid in Manhattan
( ) War of the Worlds
(X) Rush Hour
( ) Rush Hour 43

( ) Best Bet
( ) How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
( ) She's All That
( ) Calendar Girls
( ) Sideways
( ) Mars Attacks
( ) Event Horizon
(X) Ever After
(X) Wizard of Oz
( ) Forest Gump
( ) Big Trouble in Little China
( ) The Terminator
( ) The Terminator 2
( ) The Terminator 3
Total so far: 33

(X) X-Men
(X) X-2
( ) X-3
(X) Spider-Man
(X) Spider-Man 2
( ) Sky High
( ) Jeepers Creepers
( ) Jeepers Creepers 2
( ) Catch Me If You Can
(X) The Little Mermaid
( ) Freaky Friday
(X) Reign of Fire
( ) The Skulls
( ) Cruel Intentions
( ) Cruel Intentions 2
( ) The Hot Chick
(X) Shrek
(X) Shrek 2
Total so far: 41

( ) Swimfan
(X) Miracle on 34th street
( ) Old School
( ) The Notebook
(X) K-Pax
( ) Krippendorf's Tribe
( ) A Walk to Remember
( ) Ice Castles
( ) Boogeyman
( ) The 40-year-old-virgin
Total so far: 43

(X) Lord of the Rings Fellowship of the Ring
(X) Lord of the Rings The Two Towers
(X) Lord of the Rings Return Of the King
(X) Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
(X) Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
(X) Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Total so far: 49

( ) Baseketball
( ) Hostel
( ) Waiting for Guffman
( ) House of 1000 Corpses
( ) Devils Rejects
( ) Elf
( ) Highlander
( ) Mothman Prophecies
( ) American History X
( ) Three
Total so Far: 49

( ) The Jacket
(X) Kung Fu Hustle
( ) Shaolin Soccer
( ) Night Watch
(X) Monsters inc.
(X) Titanic
(X) Monty Python and the Holy Grail
( ) Shaun Of the Dead
( ) Willard
Total so far: 53

( ) High Tension
( ) Club Dread
( ) Hulk
( ) Dawn Of the Dead
(X) Hook
(X) Chronicle Of Narnia The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
( ) 28 days later
( ) Orgazmo
( ) Phantasm
(X) Waterworld
Total so far: 56

( ) Kill Bill vol 1
( ) Kill Bill vol 2
( ) Mortal Kombat
( ) Wolf Creek
(X) Kingdom of Heaven
( ) The Hills Have Eyes
( ) I Spit on Your Grave aka the Day of the Woman
( ) The Last House on the Left
( ) Re-Animator
( ) Army of Darkness
Total so far: 57

(X) Star Wars Ep. I The Phantom Menace
(X) Star Wars Ep. II Attack of the Clones
(X) Star Wars Ep. III Revenge of the Sith
(X) Star Wars Ep. IV A New Hope
(X) Star Wars Ep. V The Empire Strikes Back
(X) Star Wars Ep. VI Return of the Jedi
( ) Ewoks Caravan Of Courage
( ) Ewoks The Battle For Endor
Total so far: 63

(X) The Matrix
(X) The Matrix Reloaded
(X) The Matrix Revolutions
(X) Animatrix
( ) Evil Dead
( ) Evil Dead 2
( ) team america world police
( ) Red Dragon
( ) Silence of the Lambs
( ) Hannibal
Final total: 67




PFFFFFAHAHAHAHAHAHA IT THINKS I HAVE A LIFE AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA!!
Seriously, this list of movies makes no sense.

Hi guys, I'm still alive!

I feel kinda bad for not posting here or on NPF as much as I used to. I blame a mixture of work, waking up late, various art stuff, and a dash of video games.

My mom bought a Wii and WiiFit for herself, which I have been stealing occasionally. I set a goal of keeping my same weight for two weeks... and failed. I lost weight and didnt' make my goal. Yay wii fit.

And now to add to my distractions, in addition to Knights of the Old Republic I'm also playing a few console games. I found Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance for the gamecube and Psychonauts for the PS2 in a discount bin over the weekend, so those have been taking up a lot of time. Now I understand why people always rave about Psychonauts. It's freaking awesome. Fire Emblem's not bad, although it guilt trips you every time you lose one of your characters. So far I've accidentally killed of Rhys the white mage ("He was recovering from a horrible illness! You killed him, you jerk!") and Oscar the Lance Knight ("He has cared for his two brothers since they were ORPHANED AS CHILDREN, and now they're alone!! You killed him, you jerk!"), which I feel bad about. It wouldn't let me kill off the emo-tastic mage Soren, though, which annoys me. I hate that guy.




Er... not much else to report. Basically I'm just writing this because I'm bored and haven't updated in a while. So yeah.


Boring post is go.

I found out this morning that my high school journalism teacher died last week. She was only 36. I don't know how it happened, and I apparently already missed the memorial service.

I feel so sorry for her family-- she had two sons a few years younger than my little sister.

I'm replaying Knights of the Old Republic on my sister's Windows XP. Every time I've tried to play it in the past, something went wrong with the computer and I lose everything. I'm so freaking sick of playing Taris over and over.... But it's been a year or so, so I figure I'll try again. I always forget how to kill the rancor in the sewers, though. This time I got bored of trying to remember what to do, so I ended up just lobbing an adhesive grenade at it and walking around it.

I named my heroine Not Revan because I'm creative and original. I know it's like the oldest joke in the book, but I like having her seem like she's living in constant and desperate denial. "Nice to meet you. I'm Not Revan." "I'm glad I could help. My name is Not Revan, by the way."

I just got the entire boxed set of Monty Python's Flying Circus for ten dollars.

Granted, they're videotapes, but hell, TEN DOLLARS. I remember seeing that set advertised for $200 on BBCAmerica when I was younger. TEN FREAKING DOLLARS. For every Flying Circus episode known to mankind.

I love our St. Vincent de Paul's so freaking much.

more random people are putting me on their friends list.

Now it's kind of freaky. I gotta go edit all my posts. Dammit. I liked posting stuff here.

Note to self:

Do not  unplug an electrical appliance by tugging once on the cord to loosen it and then grabbing the metal prongs while they're still technically plugged in.

 

I am a friggin' genius.

Dry lightning creeps me out. Normal lightning storms I'm okay with, but dry lightning is just...... eeeeaaagghhhh. I think it's the possibility of massive wildfires that follows that does it.

That, and the fact that you're totally not expecting lightning when it's not raining. Especially not this early in the year. I was driving home a few hours ago, just before midnight, and all of a sudden a big flash of orange light illuminated the sky above the city. At first I thought something had exploded, but then a few minutes later a white flash appeared on the other side of the freeway. I couldn't hear any thunder, so I assume it was some distance away, but there's something unnerving about driving in a metal car on a relatively empty freeway on an open stretch of land during a lightning storm.


I hate dry lightning.

For some reason, "Vera" has become my favorite song from "The Wall." It's only like forty five seconds long! There are other, more interesting songs on the album! There's no reason why I should like "Vera" so much!! So why am I listening to it over and over again on youtube?

Wait, why am I listening to it on youtube at all? I own the album....


oh well.

 

Okay, so some random person I don't know apparently added me to their friends list about four weeks ago and I  just now noticed.

My journal isn't that interesting. Why watch my site if you have no idea who I am?


Or maybe they're someone I do know? Hell, I dunno.

Doot da doo


I'm stressed out and worried and depressed and I'm praying the shit won't hit the fan and dammit I'm an idiot.

Doot dee doot dee dooot.



In other, less emo-y news, I finally got to listen to Pink Floyd's The Wall in its entirety. I've had a mixture of songs from both that album and, for some reason, the Rocky Horror Picture Show stuck in my head for the past few days.



There. I said something positive.

I'm going to a ball tomorrow. I kid you not. No, I don't know what possessed me, either. Best part: It's a ball that caters solely to English nerds. I'll let you guys figure out how that works.

So yeah. This is either gonna be mind-numbingly awesome, or horrifically lame. The funniest part is that this is how I'm gonna spend my Saturday night.

I'll post pictures, if I take any.





And oh man I've got some awesome stories from work, but it's late so I'll save them for later.

1. Put your iPod or other music player on "shuffle".
2. For each question, press the NEXT button to get your answer.
3. You must write that song name down, no matter how silly it sounds
4. Tag friends who might enjoy doing this as well as the person you got this from.


If someone says "Is this okay", you say?
The Sound of Silence  (Simon and Garfunkel)

What would best describe your personality?
Just a Singer (Moody Blues)

What do you like in a guy / girl?
I'm like a Bird (Nelly Furtado)

What is your life's purpose?
Iris (Goo Goo Dolls) ((Well that makes no sense))

What is your motto?
Spies (Coldplay) ((Guess this means I'm paranoid?))

What do your friends think of you?
Infinitus (Cirque du Soleil)

What do you think about often?
Genome (Samurai Champloo)

What is 2+2?
El Pendulo (Cirque)

What do you think of your best friend?
Come Together (The Beatles)

What is your life's story?
The Kraken (Pirates of the Caribbean)

What do you want to be when you grow up?
Eleanor Rigby (The Beatles) ((.......that's depressing.))

What do you think when you see the person you like?
Real Love (The Beatles) ((Finally one that makes sense!!))

What do your parents think of you?
A Rush of Blood to the Head (Coldplay)   ((... ... ... ... I'm not sure what to think about this one....))

What will you dance to at your wedding?
Extreme Ways (Moby) ((.....okay?))

What will they play at your funeral?
Fields of Gold (Sting)

What is your hobby / interest?
Yellow (Coldplay) ((Yellow?? But I'm Mauve!)

What is your biggest secret?
Can't Buy Me Love (The Beatles)

What do you think of your friends?
Why (Audio ripped from Devil May Cry 3: "Why isn't this working?!? Is there something missing? MUST MORE BLOOD BE SHED?!" The startup sound for my laptop.)

What's the worst thing that could happen?
Square One (Coldplay)

How will you die?
I'm Only Sleeping (The Beatles)  ((I'M NOT DEAD YET!))

What is the one thing you regret?
Purple Haze (Jimi Hendrix) ((...........?))

What makes you laugh?
The Scientist (Coldplay)

What Makes You Cry?
American Baby (Dave Matthews Band)

Will you ever get married?
Hey Bulldog (Beatles)  ((......................what?))

What Scares You The Most?
Talk (Coldplay)

Does Anyone Like You?
Nocturne (Cirque) ((Sooooooooo..... Is that a no? Yes? Maybe?))

If you could go back in time, what would you change?
Kathy's Song (Simon and Garfunkel)

What hurts right now?
Tomorrow Comes Today (Gorillaz)





I'm surprised "Your Mother Should Know" didnt' come up while I was going through my music. Murphy's Law dictates that it should have come up for the most awkward question.

"I'm so tough, my sideburns are made of chainmail!"

---from the most interesting 2-player game of Dark Alliance II ever.

Stupid internet being slow.... I WANNA LISTEN TO MY DAMN MUSIC ON YOUTUBE AND LOOK AT IMAGES AT THE SAME TIME IS THAT SO MUCH TO ASK??? STOP LOADING THINGS SLOWLY !


Anyway, my sister and I made a list of things that are both creepy and awesome. It's a fine line between things that are creepy and not awesome, and things that are both. That list includes:

Boiler rooms

Old ships WITH boiler rooms (for example, the Queen Mary)

Really old hotels

Ikea stores (Seriously, it's like a mega company from a futuristic dystopia that has stretched into every market and runs the world. BUY IKEA FURNITURE FROM OUR SEVEN-FLOOR BUILDING, AND GET IKEA TOYS FOR THE KIDS! HAVE LUNCH AT THE IKEA RESTAURANT! PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE STRANGE DISAPPEARANCES FROM OUR LOWER FLOORS! DO NOT ENTER THE ZOMBIE LAB!) Ikea's awesome.

Places like the Aperture Science Enrichment Center from Portal: Extremely clean and orderly and sterile, but totally abandoned. It's creepy.

Similarly, people who look completely together and sane yet give off the "crazy dude" vibe as soon as they open their mouths. See: Dr. Cid from FF12

Kronen (sp?) from Hellboy. Nuff said.

Why yes, my favorite color IS green. Why do you find that odd?


Also-- the fact that krylo is both my cordon bleu chef AND the perverted scientific genius amuses me.

.....My iPod randomly started picking up radio signals yesterday. Some classical music station.


I am... kind of freaked out.





ALSO-- HO SNAPS INSTRUCTABLES WHY MUST YOU APPEAL TO MY NERDY SIDE SO MUCH??!?!

Now I have the urge to make myself a cheap pair of steampunk goggles.


Or a trebuchet out of office supplies.

Things I need that would make my life more fulfilling:
_______________________________________________________

Chozo power suit

Mandalorian Battle Armor
(Either of the above. I'm not picky.)

Top Hat

Space ship

Time Machine

David Tennant, to pilot said time machine 

Tiara

Some sort of awesome adventure

Personal soundtrack

Non-shitty internet connection (FIX THE DAMN PROBLEM YOU CAUSED, CENTURYTEL.)

Pirate Ship

Super Powers