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Review - Jennifer's Body

Jennifer's Body is a tale of two movies, not of maintext versus subtext but two seperate movies fighting for dominance in which, ultimately, the oft-told (and tired) conventional one wins.

This basically sums up my feelings with the movie.

I enjoyed a lot of it. The actresses were very good--Megan Fox gave a lot to the character that the script didn't--and the visuals were pretty cool, but in the end it was just as disappointing as I expected it to be, if not more. That's a good review, though, without much spoilers, so if you're curious...

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I had promised a full report on Britney's concert.

It was so good, and yet so bad. The interesting thing, which was confirmed by a co-worker who went the night before, was that the audience was really, really strange. I'm sitting here watching Pink's Funhouse tour dvd, and we aren't always a lame audience. I think half the audience was fans, and the other half just curious bystanders who came just for the curiosity factor (i.e. me.) But for a sold out concert, there were a LOT of empty seats. Then there were probably people like me, who paid less than the face value on the ticket from Ebay.

The whole 25 minute countdown clock, pre-concert circus acts and then another ass long wait was frustrating. She came on at 9.35, which is when most acts are about an hour into their set. I'm sure Pearl Jam (playing on the other side of town that night) were well into their set by then. I'll have to check with the suits at work about that one (weird to see the immaculately expensive suited bosses at work being PJ fans).

But I did sit up in the nosebleeds (which is nothing like the nosebleeds at Wembley - seriously - that makes the nosebleeds here seem like they are at sea level) with all those who were mostly curious bystanders. However, the stans behind me were true squealing fans. As soon as I heard the high pitched squealing 'BRITNEY WE LOVE YOU!' I knew I had found the lovechild of the screaming woman who sat behind us at the Cure in 1986. Seriously, that woman had an unforgettably squealy tone, which I rediscovered.

I was surprised by actually how many songs of hers I knew, lol. But the dancers were incredibly active, and some were amazing - walking backwards and then doing a backflip? That was pretty amazing. Britney came out in a Gaga wig, and later put on big glasses. I couldn't help but think she was trying to do the whole Gaga emulation. Of course she mimed all but one song. Those fans who were wetting themselves obviously didn't seem to care.

I really didn't think she was that active enough to warrant miming. Sure, I'd probably be able to put on a pair of super high heels, and skip my way thought Body Attack, and still do as much exercise as her. But even all that aside, it was entertaining.

She only spoke to the audience twice, but it was very disconnected. "Hello Brisbane" and later "thank you very much." Sitting here listening to Pink telling her audience they were all amazing, and beautiful = well that's just nice to hear. The big gaps between songs as she changed costumes was... slowly irritating. The video screens with the old Britney screen caps and the whole Britney S&M video to Marilyn Manson's cover of Sweet Dreams was... strange. I think the stans in the audience didn't care if she was in the room, they squealed as loudly about it as the rest.

As for the circus component... Having seen Take That's Circus at Wembley, then this, well, this was lame. TT had a 50' Elephant, proper tightrope walkers, a million clowns. Brit had a legless woman on a trampoline and a few sad looking clowns (no, there were a few good ones in the pre show, but not awesome).

I was educated on a song that I thought was a Sugarbabes one was actually hers. Weirdest thing of all was the audience disconnection - even down in the pit, hardly anyone was dancing, or throwing their arms in the air... It just was a wholly strange vibe. It was not as saccharine as I thought it might be - all the mothers who brought their 8 year old daughters were in for a surprise - a bit raunchy for them. Then again, from what they see on tv, it might not be too raunchy these days.

The best part of the night, lol, was the toilets. There's been a makeover at the entertainment centre, and the toilets have been refurbed. Hot pink lights, hot pink walls with a bit of lavender. All explained away by the poster of Pink over the door, and the thing about her 11 sold out nights at the centre. There are awesomely huge posters of her in the bathroom, and the lyrics of her songs are etched into the mirrors. It was the coolest toilet I've been in for ages, lmao. If there weren't about 1000 other women waiting, I would have taken a photo, hahaha.

I think if you compare it with other artists, what really struck me was that she came out, she did her show, but she didn't seem to be enjoying herself. She seemed to be just going through the motions. When you watch Pink's funhouse dvd, she looks like she's enjoying herself as she's performing. There's a big difference, and that might be part of it all.

At least the lack of bopping around and standing up by the fellow audience afforded the opportunity for plenty of clear camera shots.

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May or may not be best random shit I found in Google Image Search ever.

because I always listen to Lari. 100 Questions for...

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DEAR GOD PEOPLE, STOP FEEDING ME. FREAKING ASIANS. THEY TELL YOU YOU IT'S A BLESSING YOU HAVEN'T GAINED WEIGHT LIVING ALONE FOR THREE MONTHS AND THEN THEY MAKE YOU A MOUNTAIN OF FOOD. (Though not gaining weight is already an accomplishment in itself, being I've been eating fast food like crazy lately. YAY STRESS AND NO TIME TO COOK).

To add insult to injury of my food ranting, I also made a 14 lb. turkey yesterday, along with mashed potatoes and stuffing (from scratch - thanks for the encouragement, Erin! I will never buy Stove top crap again...). Mashed potatoes are still plentiful, Yvana somehow ate my whole bowl of gravy, stuffing has almost disappeared (Which I was surprised by) and we did pretty good damage to the turkey. And Matty brought over corn pudding and apple walnut stuffing and awesome cranberry sauce from his fam's dinner yesterday. I am so stealing some for later so I can make a sandwich tomorrow.

And now I am at the living room table. Next to me is Matt, who is working. On the other side of me is my brother, who is also working. And then we are going to dinner. We are sad, workaholic-y, gluttonous people people.

Or maybe that's just me since I'm the only one not running a half marathon on Sunday. OH WELL. I need sustenance to survive finals!

SCHOOL FIELDTRIP PLOT

Hi! I know there are a couple of people who wanted to get on the bandwagon that I started setting up for Jenny, my schoolbitch for fleets. I thought people interested could have a chitchat about dynamics, setting up the back history of characters and the school.

( Some thoughts/ideas about the school; ALL OF THIS IS TOTALLY UP IN THE AIR AND OPEN FOR DISCUSSION! )

I got to hang out with dogseesgod today! Are you jealous? YOU SHOULD BE. Also her bf has the patience of a very patient...thing, to put up with all our RP talk. XD

BASICALLY HANNAH IS AWESOME.

So I was going to write this lovely happy entry today about how this morning, teh boy came in from checking on the dogs across the street and then climbed into bed and was FREEZING COLD and how I was yelling at him for being a sparklepire and then started pondering how the idea of sharing a bed with someone who is always FREEZING COLD and never ever gets warm could ever be even remotely sexy, BUT

I'm too rageful to do that because my editing client (for whom I spent two days working through his ridiculous chemistry paper on chicken selenoenzymes and hepatocytes and blah blah blah it was like dropping my eyes in HCl) refuses to take an hour out of his weekend to chat with me about the editing suggestions like he agreed to do before he sent me his paper because he has to "prepare to examination."

I e-mailed my professor and he was like, "No, you have to chat with this guy or else you fail" so I'm kind of irate right now and hating people.

Just caught the back end of the IJ Black Friday sale. Yay cheap permanent account :)

I had a dream last night two people wanted to hold James Proudstar at mh.

I am so disappointed to wake up and find that's not the case.

This was my first Thanksgiving, and I had two of them. One at my father's and one at my dad's. I know I'm young and I haven't experience many things in a mortal way, and it's almost once a day that I'm doing something which is a completely new experience to me. But I've seen a lot and I know how things are supposed to be.

Even though I had two Thanksgivings this year, I don't think either of them were normal. I know from the movies and television shows I've seen that you're not supposed to come out of a family dinner saying, "at least no one died." I also know that you're not supposed to come out of the second one being thankful that your dad and his mortal were able to save you from being date-raped by your uncle.

My family is not normal.

Oh gracious, I feel like I should rest for a week. But I'm far too energized for that.

My dears, there is simply nothing like Thanksgiving.

stethoscopic has made me excited (!!!) about RPing in an Anticipating of Plans type of way, which is new given that all my Neo plots are making me excited in a Tinged With Melancholia type of way -- it's rather exhilarating to fall into a new world tits over heels and exercising new muscles in the application process. After a break to respond to scenes and the like (HI chthonian AND faeriexlights, HERE'S LOOKING AT YOU), stupa shall be wrested into submission with wicked amounts of enthusiasm. Hello, Classical Archaeology, and thank you for finally being somewhat useful.

In other news, I made a delicious pumpkin cheesecake that is actually a fat lot better for you (HAR HAR) than usual recipes. It is basically like the baking gods said hi, Allison, you can make decent things for the holiday season. OM NOM NOM.

rpwrimo
31,655 / 30,000 words. 105.5% done!
25,052 / 30,000 words. 83.5% done!
Key
	- THY
	- Fair
	- Brave New World
	- Isolation
	- Incanto
	- Ninety One
	- Other PSLs

Not too bad! I'm not sure yet if I'll reach 30,000 at my not THY stuff, but we'll see! Either way, it's been a pretty good month, I must say.

Today I need to go have my car inspected by the insurance company and I suppose I should try to get started on homework for Monday. But for now, I've had leftovers and am watching Hercules and plan to take it easy. Hooray!

Also, thanksgiving yesterday was a lot better than I thought it would be. Except then I fell asleep far far too early last night. It made me sad.

I finished NaNo this morning. The book isn't complete by any stretch of the imagination, but I hit the 50k and I'll keep on going until it's done. I have a small amount of faith in myself that I haven't had in a long time where my writing's concerned.

As for my unintentional run at RPWriMo, if I count Draco's app and all, I'm fairly certain I smashed through 30k days ago. Quite possibly even without the opus of Draco.

I'm so tired, but I feel accomplished. Now I'm going to go fight some Black Friday crowds. Because THAT is so sane, right?

... yeah, for those who, like me, have been squinting suspiciously at the Muppets Bohemian Rhapsody and delaying playing it until it trips them up?

Watch it. It sure brightens things up!

Also, TGIFF.

<3

Finally finished all the part ones. Yay!

I effing love Amanda Peet. I always group her together with Piper Perabo in my mind, but have no idea why. Is it the big lips? The sunny smile? The 90s movies? I DO NOT KNOW.

AMANDA PEET


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Somebody I watch recently (within the last month or so) posted icons of Nico Tortorella. And yes, I'm making my own set of him, but still... I'd love to know who it was. I'm like going through icon journals until I can't see straight and just not finding it, and going back through my flist is just way way way too sloggy. *sighs* And I don't think it even goes back far enough.

I've been writing a lot of narratives lately.

From creating pies with legs to being oblivious in a really messed up relationship -- I've becoming more fond of introspective but action does well too.

This is why I write. *proud*

Mostly to get ducks in rows.

I already sent out stuff in MU, but does anyone need things, especially in the psls?

-Elaine! Feeling hella neurotic with all this stuff with the medlab.
-Brian! Exhausted from cooking for Thanksgiving?
-Geoff! Being...creepy. idk. Training with X-Factor? Trying to find dead people to talk to about what's going on?
-Tesla! Self-defense but otherwise trying to ignore that the school's crazy for now.

-St. John! Starting to work for the DMA!
-Freakshow! Finishing system upgrades!
-Remy! Something with Kitty? Rogue?
-Terry! Catch up with Forge? Alison?

-STUFF IN MU. Fill in drama-llama here. Mel, I figure Rogue and Logan'll get back Sunday or so? I can email and we can figure out some vague details, and then scene out something in particular if you want!

105 Jeff Goldblum icons. Let us be thankful for him.

Teasers:


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Credit kikithepirate, please.

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The Ashbury Academy For Young Men The Ashbury Academy for Young Men, founded in 1878 in Kirby, Massachusetts, is one of the leading preparatory schools for the nation's gifted and financially privileged sons. It's located in an affluent suburb just outside of Boston, Massachusetts, across the street from the equally prestigious Ivy Institution for Young Women. The Academy's programs are among the most elite and exclusive, seeking only the best in athletics, arts and sciences. No one applies to The Academy, but nearly two hundred extremely talented young men are invited to attend each year. With it's apartment-style dormitories, Olympic-level gymnasium, award winning music and theatre program, The Academy provides each student with the means to succeed beyond all measures after leaving it's warm and inclusive community. ashbury is a highschool-based slash game that revolves around the lives and relationships of 42 Ashbury students, each based on a flexible premade. The Academy is waiting to welcome the best and the brightest into its historic halls. Premise | Rules | Premades | Taken/Held | Application

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Title: Hope
Characters: Aberforth Dumbledore, Albus Dumbledore, Minerva McGonagall
Rating: PG
Summary: It's a time for reconciliation and hope.
Disclaimer: Aberforth, Albus and Minerva belong to JK Rowling. Lucky her.
Author's Note: A response to this prompt: Prompt 17. Piano. Set post-DH.

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