Sunday, Mar. 05, 2006 - 10:45 pm
+ a love that will never grow old and thus, i hate the academy.
brokeback was shafted. i figured it all along when everyone thought it would sweep, because apparently america isn't ready for gay cowboys.
from what i hear, ang lee might've won best director... i'm not sure, because i went to take a bath and got back in by best picture, and saw that crash won. and after none of the actors from brokeback won anything either, that was kind of... annoying. crash was okay, but i didn't think it was THAT good.
so, they got the froufrou and obvious awards: best score, and best adaptation to a screenplay.
le roar.
why is the general public alright with gay allusions and small amounts, or even merely in television shows, but when it's blatant everyone gets offended and feels the need to condemn it?
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Sunday, Mar. 05, 2006 - 5:31 am
+ just remember the last laugh is on you i'm paranoid as hell when i hear the dogs barking in the early morning hours, and i happen to be awake. i feel the need to go out and check on the trucks and elsbe's car (if it's here) to make sure all of the windows are intact, and that there's no one lurking around them.
does that make me crazy?
this can be attributed to the fact that my truck was broken into, and the (at least) two cars that have had broken windows down the street. i'm scared that elsbe's car will be broken, i'm scared that mine will end up more broken, i'm scared that dad's truck will be broken -i'm scared i or someone i care about will feel as violated as i did that morning when i woke up.
i'm also scared that i'll wake up one morning to the alarm going off, and it won't be dad shutting it off to go out the door for work or elsbe coming in unexpectedly -hell, i don't even really wake up for either of those that often anymore.
..i should be sleeping, but i'm not. and i don't know why, really. obviously i'm not tired yet, but there's something more there, and i'm not sure what that is. elsbe and aaron have been asleep for a while now, and i just can't seem to get myself to bed. i'm just now starting to even really get tired, though i know if i go in there now i'll awake entirely too early to them fighting or playfighting and end up cranky and annoying -yanno, that person that i don't want to be.
of course, not sleeping at all will leave me even worse off than that.
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Friday, Mar. 03, 2006 - 3:33 am
+ free for the moment google this: sony ericsson z520a
that's the phone i'll be getting as of... uhm... whenever i wake up and call gramma for her credit card number, since there's something on her card that i need to finish the order that she didn't need to give me before.
..oh no, i won't be paying $100+ for it. i'll be paying...
$18.
that's right, bitches. i'm getting a one hundered (or more) dollar phone for less than twenty bucks, because i've been on cingular since i graduated from high school.
originally, i was gonna get a relatively sleek, black nokia flip phone that was originally $80 for the same price as the sony ericsson. the nokia doesn't have nearly as many features... nor anywhere NEAR the talk time/battery life. good god, that in and of itself is orgasm-worthy -9 hours of talk time, 16 days of standby? i don't think i've even heard of that in a cell phone yet.
anyway, i spent tonight looking at the phones on cingular that i could get for just the eighteen since that's all i can afford right now, and since my phone's goin' to shit. then i went back a few minutes ago after remembering i had gramma's credit card number around already 'cause of her amazon orders, when i saw that phone sitting there in the free (it costs eighteen to change phones, no matter the phone) section...
that makes me so happy inside.
plus i can add the ringtones i want myself from my computer instead of having to download them and ending up spending more money... i think i'll need a firewire for it, but holy god.
and it's so sexy too.
i think i've just had a tech-gasm.
+ empire records (actual) soundtrack ! - while the original song appears on the soundtrack, the movie version doesn't. this means, of course, that the portion in which renee zellweger is singing is cut out entirely of the choruses, and performed by the male lead on the verse that she sang -an utter disappointment.
+ damn. i had sixty dollars on tuesday. so much for that. i spent entirely too much time customizing my computer today... though i suppose for a person who's sick and confined to the house, that's something productive. there's plenty to show for it, though one likely wouldn't believe it took a grand total of about five hours to find and install everything that i got. as it is, my computer is smecksy now. elsbe had a choir concert tonight, as you read in the first paragraph with the phone thing. i dragged my sick sorry ass out of the house for it, meeting amanda there with her ticket about five seconds after they closed the doors -_-;;. thus, we had to wait for the first song to end... thank god it wasn't elsbe's group. got through the concert, ended up at winstead's afterward. interesting conversations going on there... stoney broke the rules of what things shouldn't be brought up while eating again, and i ignored it best i could. ..julie, rather, wanted us to spoon his eyeballs out. and i heart her for that. what's more fun? the fact that he had no idea we were talking about spooning his eyeballs out.
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+ why does distance make us wise +
Friday, Mar. 03, 2006 - 2:43 am
+ making amends to your circle of friends so... i typed out the songs that *actually* should make up the soundtrack to empire records after watching it just now. (i got the dvd, it came in today, was watching it to make sure it played through the two scratches on it.) the stars indicate a song that is indeed on the released soundtrack, all others aren't to be found -and are mostly relatively important to the movie at some point or another.
*1. til i hear it from you - gin blossoms
2. can't stop losing myself - the dirt clods
3. the honeymoon is over - the cruel seai don't *4. want to live today - ape hangers
5. hey joe - the dirt clods
6. video killed the radio star - the buggles
7. dark and brooding - norah stone
*8. whole lotta trouble - cracker
*9. ready steady go - the meices
10. thorn in my side - quicksand
11. little bastard - ass ponys
12. i don't know why - sacrilicious
13. real - real
14. counting blue cars - dishwalla
15. if you want blood (you've got it) - ac/dc
*16. circle of friends - better than ezra
*17. crazy life - toad the wet sprocket
18. romen & juliet - dire straits
*19. the ballad of el goodo - evan dando
*20. what you are - drill
21. snakeface - throwing muses
22. candy - full tilt gonzo
23. how - the cranberries
*24. liar - the cranberries
*25. a girl like you - edwin collins
26. hardlight - peg boy
27. chew toy - fig dish
*28. bright as yellow - the innocence mission
29. power shack - fitz of depression
30. rock 'n' roll/ega - daniel johnston
31. saddam a go-go - gwar
*32. here it comes again - please
33. backdown blues - loose diamonds
34. tomorrow - mouth music
35. plowed - sponge
36. surround you - billy white trio
!37. sugarhigh (film version) - coyote shivers
38. l.a. girl - adolescents
39. seems - queen sarah saturday
40. vinyl advice - dead hot workshop
*41. nice overalls - lustre
42. this is the day - the the
*43. free - the martinis
44. say no more (mon amour) - maxwell caulfield
45. i shot the devil - suicidal tendencies
46. she walks - poster children
47. money (that's what i want) - flying lizards
48. infinity - mouth music
i'm amazed. one, at the amount of music that they crammed into that movie, and two... the amount of music that they *didn't* cram into that soundtrack. what's worse, is the music they did include is mainly from conversational points in the movie and not from major points like opening the store, or the song that rex manning had released, or the song played while a.j. tried to say how he felt.
Thursday, Mar. 02, 2006 - 11:48 pm
+ the opposite of war isn't peace, it's creation as of tomorrow, i will be in the land of teh no munnies again. i'll be upgrading my phone (and paying my gramma the money for it as i'm using her credit card) because mine froze three times during the barely over an hour choir concert that elsbe was in tonight. after that, i'll be donating money for pizza and snacks and such for hanging out tomorrow night... so i'll have like three to five bucks by saturday.
