In the last two weeks, I have

1) Gotten a ticket (for turning right on a no-right-turn in this weird bird-foot-shaped intersection in Arrowhead).

2) Not a week after that, I rear-ended this lady in stop-and-go traffic on the 91, on my way home. She was kind of a bitch, but then I was being an asshole to mask the fact that I was nervous and a little scared because I have no money and my dad pays my insurance and pretty much everything about my car right now, and I didn't want him to be angry at me. I swear it makes sense. >.>

3) Had a good Thanksgiving, though I hate family functions and having to be around the young children of my family is a pain in the ass because they're... well, children. They're more obnoxious than most children, though.

4) Done well working on Laurel's Hizumu plushie! Working on the legs at the moment. Almost done with the head (just need to color the eyes), and the torso and arms are sewn and stuffed and together.

5) Finished Rozen Maiden, Rozen Maiden Traumend, and am starting Rozen Maiden Ouverture. The first season was awesome! Sooo cute and interesting! <3 God, but the last four episodes of Traumend made me cry. ;_; I mean, Hina Ichigo... No one should ever have to suffer a death like that. It's just... I can't even say how excruciating it was, almost Nightmare Fuel in the clockwork winding down sequence. Jesus. Nevertheless, that show was made of so much cute. Esp. Hina, who I expected to dislike but she was just sooo well-mannered and adorable. :3 I think I liked Shinku the best, despite Souseiseki being awesomely shota (though she's a girl) and Hina being adorable and Suigintou being so Gothic Lolita. Shinku's attitude was just general so badass. (Except for a lot of Traumend. Meh.) Oh, and the opening and ending themes for each season are so catchy and awesome too. (In case you didn't catch that this show is awesome. :P) I love Ali Project's way of singing, and of course the lyrics are typical anime theme philosophizing. S'all good. <3

That's mostly it. Greatly enjoying watching TV on my computer since there's shit on my actual television, and esp. anime because watching anime just makes me feel warm and fuzzy and fulfilled. Sooo my watch list includes Rozen Maiden, Kara no kyoukai, Bakemonogatari, and for Western TV Big Bang Theory, Heroes, and The Mentalist. Also, this weekend will be interesting (and hopefully make us a lot of money) as it's Black Friday and the start of holiday shopping. Aaaand Saturday night will be a fucking party because I'll be with Laurel! 'Nuff said. XD;;

P.S. Random Heroes side note but - seriously, what the fuck, writers of Heroes? Sylar is not some hick asshole without manners. I mean, yeah, maybe it was his way of silently snarking at the Petrellis' formality, but it is Heroes, so I wouldn't put it past them to just go "Let's make Sylar eat pie obnoxiously because it shows how evil he is" and not have a good reason. Though it was made up for with the pain he went through as Nathan fought him from the inside. XD;;;

For example, there is an ugly child at the top of my journal, and a bitch-faced girl trying to be sexy and failing at the side of the text box as I post this.

In other news, Dollhouse is not yet up for cancellation! I searched and searched, but there were no concrete mentions of 'ooh, we're shutting this show down'. It was mostly speculation and the never-far-from-the-surface worry of fans since this is a Joss show (which means that it is simultaneously the best thing on television and the least watched). It's taking a break in Nov., there will be double-episodes in Dec., and it will return to its normal setup on Jan. 8. This is all sort of 'possibly' since apparently Fox said it would be airing in Nov. with ads and shit and then reneged a week later on it. But hopefully, yes, this is what will happen.

Related to that, I don't understand why broadcasting companies rely so much on ratings of shows when in the age of Internet, many people watch shows online. Or record them and watch them later. Or something less easily tracked, especially the age group for Dollhouse which I am assuming is something like 18-35. These are the people who are the most up-to-date with technology, and will therefore not be restricted to watching shows at a particular time on a network. Just sayin'.

TVTropes Makes My Life Un-Boring...Sometimes

...but was not called that because it needed a link to TVTropes. XD

And this... Trope? Article? Whatever. Epitomizes why it is amazing. Yay Hypocritical Humor!

...

I think I am in love with the Nasuverse. Seriously. Kara no kyoukai... Tsukihime and therefore (and possibly especially) Melty Blood... Speaking of Melty Blood, I am absolutely positively going to try for my brother's PS2 that he never uses! Hopefully he didn't give it up or something. I knew I should've taken it when I had the chance... XD;;

Mmm. Hot chocolate with peppermint Schnapps. <3 And beef jerky ROFL.

I just realized, in an immature and inane kind of way, that one could describe Mr. Bennet thusly:

"OMG HRG iz such a BAMF DILF GQMF with a BFG, FTW! LOL 8D"

And possibly other acronyms that have 'fuck' in them. XD;;

Also, LJ obviously hates me as I wrote an entry three hours ago and it posted... and then only the first line showed up. So it died. D:< It was basically a bunch of musings and rants about Heroes ROFL so it wasn't a big deal. Basically: Yay Charlie/Hiro! Yay Mohinder will be back (I think)! When will Sylar get his body back and start killing people?!

And... done.

Today. Was. Awesome!

Last night I got into Berkeley for the weekend, and Laurel and I stayed up until 5:30 watching Heroes Volume 3. (Finally! We are out of its Dork Age!) She agrees with me on all counts: that Maya is a stupid bitch who needs to disappear, that Elle is a whiny bitch who we are glad did disappear by Sylar's hands, and that HRG is so consistently badass that he is the only person worth watching in that part.

Then we woke up, donned our kick-ass dorky Star Trek movie-style costumes (even our boots matched almost perfectly) and she, Hope, and I went to get boba tea and a snack, then catch the BART and a taxi over to the Exploratorium. It was five hours of science! Awesome, fascinating, interesting science! Yes! Laurel and I discovered that she is an alien because her electrical current is higher than Hope's or mine, and saw a teacup hologram-illusion, and "talked" to a computer while it talked back, and shocked ourselves with a wool washcloth and a metal plate. Before we left we took pictures in one of those photo booths and they came out so ridiculously cute and exciting!! I'm uploading them to Facebook soon.

We returned to Berkeley and had pho and rented more Heroes, and tomorrow I hear we'll be wandering around Berkeley being awesome. XD

Also, she and Hope have two grey kitties, Dmitri "Mitya" and Josephine: the most awesome kitties in the world!! XD

My iPod is on shuffle and a Smiths song called "Back to the Old House" just came on my shuffle and I don't recognize it. Of course, I just looked at the Last Played column and, no wonder, I last listened to it when I first bought Louder Than Bombs in August of '08. But the real point is that it's funny how some things just strike you in a certain way - that song just struck me as the sound of the futility of the 80s indie kids, whether it was just for a moment or for their existences. I could just see Morrissey singing that song to the crowd, and them emoting in their own ways to it. It's weird. And earlier, I was discussing a new story idea with Laurel, and I mentioned Kowloon Walled City, and how that just is so sci-fi to me. It doesn't matter that it's been around forever, because it wasn't the thing itself that got me interested, it was William Gibson mentioning it in one of his novels and using it as a model for his settings, so to me it just feels like sci-fi. Does that make sense?

Laurel and I managed to write more fic! It's set in the Trek 'verse, but not on any canon ships. Instead, we made our own ship, a Saladin-class destroyer named the USS Ishtar, and our own crew. Of the crew we have three characters so far:

Lieutenant Jr. Cassidy 'Cass' Perun, who is impetuous and impulsive and outgoing, as well as extremely intelligent and full of really random knowledge, and a flirt. He's 26 but a rank lower than Grima, to their mutual amusement. Outwardly, Cass is irresponsible, flippant, casual to a fault, and takes an intimate tone with his superiors that can (and does) often land him in trouble. However, in serious situations, he is a quick-thinker, practical, and can easily multitask and stay cool under pressure. He is wiry-skinny, 5'11, and has a face reminiscent of Rhys Webb and a young David Bowie, with violet-grey eyes and messy amber-colored hair to his mid-back.

His good friend (hint hint) is Lieutenant Grima Arason, the calm Spock to Cass' act-first Kirk. Grima was born in Britain but is of Icelandic heritage, and on the Ishtar he is a science officer. He tries to be stoic, but his temper will get the best of him; he dislikes being belittled and underestimated. He has a hard time knowing how to react to teasing, especially the kind that Cass supplies. He enjoys being right (and is thus rather bad at admitting when he is wrong). When on duty, he is coolly polite to superiors; off it he will sometimes treat them first as friends, such as when he interacts in a casual setting with Wilhelmina. He is skinny and shorter than Cass, at 5'8", has short brown-black hair in a mod bowl-cut style, and grey eyes. He has a pixie face with a strong Roman nose and full lips.

Their captain is Wilhelmina Dagmar, a strong woman and occasionally an older-sister type, who excels in strategy and commands the respect and admiration of the nucleus of her crew. When on duty, she is usually polite and friendly to her crew, helping when someone needs it, but not becoming too involved. Off duty, she can get as casual as Cass, and they often drink together, which Grima is often roped into. Under pressure, she is fiery and commanding, as passionate for a victory as she is to make that victory noble, right, and as un-morally grey as possible. She is 32, German-born and raised, curvy in all the right places, and the same height as Cass, with long platinum hair done similar to the 1940s styles. She wears cat eye glasses both as a fashion statement and to correct her nearsightedness.

That's all the non-story detailing we have so far, hahaha. The rest will be worked out soon, I'm sure. We should be starting another fic soon, even tonight. This fic is so damn fun, and it's so easy to write that it's scary. XD; I love it!

Phwoar! I am soo hungry. And tired of trekking up and down stairs with heavy boxes. And really grateful to be sitting, and i just made a new layout but I don't think I'm keeping it. Last night I finally picked up a pencil and drew! I was working on my peacock skeleton tattoo idea, and it's pretty awesome. I still have the tail feathers left, but I'll probably finish it tonight. ^^

Because I am a dork, I am now going to subject you to a meme.

( Memememememememe-- SMACK. )

I am moving tomorrow, finally! I want to stay in a house I actually like. That isn't crowded and dark and at one point infested with carpenter ants. So I put everything I could fit into my car and will unload it there tomorrow. (I didn't manage any furniture and most of my clothes, nor bedding.)

Also, Laurel says that Hope might move out next summer, so I could possibly even move up to Berkeley and room with her next year. Damn, that would be sweet.

Also, I want a collarbone tattoo. I have it all planned out. Now I just need money for the ungodly amount of things I "need". Like tickets to Berkeley for Halloween. And my Kirk shirt. And to pay the fee I accrued at the bank. But at least I can get a haircut soon......

I fucking love Dollhouse. The funny thing is, I love it and I haven't even gotten to my favorite part of it yet. How can it be my favorite part if I haven't seen it yet? Well, that's easy: it's the part when you meet Alpha! The Ax Crazy Knife Nut psycho killer played by none other than Alan Tudyk! 

I stumbled upon that last somewhere in my travels reading the TV  Tropes and Wikipedia articles, though I was attempting to avoid spoilers. But since I was having doubts and worrying that Mr. Dominic would end up being Alpha instead... I am so relieved.

So, Dollhouse. I've only watched up to episode 9, but I will be finishing season one tomorrow, and picking up with season two on Fri. If Fox goes on to cancel this one too, even knowing that Joss's shows are sleeper hits, then... Fuck 'em. They should stick to their shitty conservative teen-pop blandness and leave the good shows to people who'll do them justice.

Also, Topher is awesome and my second favorite, and I think I support Topher/DeWitt, Echo/Paul, and Sierra/Victor.

Oh my fucking god, the Horrors are the epitome of awesome/win/amazing! THey complete my life. Without them, there would be much less that pleases me. It's strange, they're perfect enough (at least, on the first few layers of their surface) that they ought to be fictional: Five sexy, smart, funny, talented, moderately successful British guys doing what they love and having a good time with it. It really doesn't get better than that. Laurel and I have seen them twice now and it still sometimes feels like they aren't real. (Though as she put it, one part of the fun of the shows is that we get to see them be humans. "Yay! They exist!")

Having said all that, obviously the show was fucking awesome and is the best possible thing I could ever be doing. Seeing the Horrors front and center (oh yes, we were), with Laurel, without fucking anything up along the way. Though I did almost lose my hat at one point. If I had a sim-tank like Ed Chianese from Light, I would program it to replay the Horrors in concert to my senses. I could definitely just absorb the energy, sound, and charisma until I died of starvation. Who needs food, I have the Horrors! There were some things I'd rather not have - the claustrophobia-inducing press of bodies, the heat from said press, the fucking moshers behind us who think it's a great idea to shove people around, the mod girl next to me signing off-key really loudly (please, I'm trying to listen to Faris sing, not you!) and taking pictures over me with her camera. Yeah, there was all of that, plus my feet hurt, plus I'm short; in fact, speaking of me being short, we were originally in the second to thrid row of people in front of the stage (but center <3) which would be fine, except there was a really big tall guy in front of us who we couldn't quite see around. I did try for the opening act and even into the first couple Horrors songs, but dammit, I was here for a fucking show and he was damn tall. So after the second song, I asked him if I could stand in front of him because I was short, and thankfully he obliged me. Except that for a while - maybe a song or two? - I was pressed against the stage with him directly behind me, leaning on the stage. It was awkward, and weird, but I was trying really hard not to move and he wasn't moving, so it wasn't as awkward and violating as it could have been. Sigh of relief. Eventually he backed off and Laurel managed to get up beside me, and we got to enjoy the rest of the concert that way.

The set list was the entirety of Primary Colours, including "I Only Think Of You" which, live, was mindblowingly intense and riveting and a truly good story, thanks to their musical genius and charisma. Speaking of musical geniuses, I love Joshua and his epically haunting, sensuous, badass guitar distortion effects! I would wish to be as awesome as he is if/when I learn to play guitar for real. Shit, but his distortion was amazing. And for the encore, we did indeed get some Strange House: "Count in Fives", "Sheena", and "Gloves" as per the usual. What was entirely new for us was the cover they performed for the encore first - another Suicide song called "Ghost Rider"! I found a video of it from a previous gig online, and oh my god it is so damn good. When we heard it, we didn't know what it was, but Faris was yelping and hissing and mumbling and Joshie was noodling, and therefore it was obviously made of Instant Win! 

So: Horrors. Make my life. They should come back around again! (And hopefully record "Ghost Rider" so that I can actually listen to it, hah.)

A week ago I saw Star Trek again and between now and then I have read the best fanfic ever (if it were published, it would beat all other stories excet perhaps for Neil's work. But it'd be pretty close, and damn, if that doesn't say something!), convinced Laurel to watch it and read the fic (she agrees with me on both, no questions), and discovered my sheer love for Kirk/Spock, Zachary Quinto, Chris Pine, and Pinto. Yeah, you read that right... Pinto. <3

To be fair, I refer to The Horrors' new single "Whole New Way", and they seem to be flaunting their 50s and/or girl-group influences lyrically... Perhaps. But really. More badassery, less hey we're arty. But whatever. They're amazing anyway. (OMG Thurs.! XD)

The last three weeks have been about the same as any day -- no job, no money, getting ready to open the shop, scraping by, packing... Boring activities. Though to be fair, Heroes premiered Monday (it was awesome and Matt is stupid and Sylar is snarky and amazing. No surprises there! Very excited for the new arc with new villains.) I packed, and ought to be moving soon -- we found an amazing house that is so, so awesome and feels like home, and I would be happy to live in it. Also, I want to start cooking and it would be nice to do so in a kitchen that is clean and spacious and bright. Which the new house has.

Shop opens Thurs. Horrors concert Thurs. After Thurs, I will hopefully be making money and drifting somewhere around Cloud Nine. Oh, don't I hope so.

Looks like I will be moving after all. I don't want to move, but I haven't gotten another job and it's been a month since I started looking, and if I move up to my mom's house I 1) don't have to pay rent, and 2) can work for her and my aunt in their shop. (They are starting a shop and I'm very excited; today we went out to find some accessories we can sell there, and I got a cloche hat that actually sort of fits. Not that that's relevant.) Now that I'm back at home I really don't want to leave, but I no longer have a choice, really. And it'd be nice to not be so broke. Sigh. I have to start packing as soon as I get packing tape.

I managed to buy and read Evil at Heart today after running my errands. I sort of forget what day it is half the time, and today even though I knew it was Sept. 1 (rent day) and Tuesday (the day things are released, like Evil at Heart and Heroes Season 3) it didn't really occur to me that I could anything about it or that I'd actually not be sitting around staring at the walls wondering what to do. Which I've been doing rather more frequently since F21 decided to "teach me a lesson". So I picked up my prescription and dropped off my rent and decided to continue my marathon at B&N reading comics (I started reading Deadpool yesterday) and then I walked through the door and picked up EaH and proceeded to read. Three hours later my mom called to tell me to come up to her house and now I am sitting in her guest bedroom-loft and trying not to melt. 

So basically Evil at Heart took Heartsick's gritty torture, turned it up a couple notches, mixed it up with Sweetheart's sex, subtracted the Vicodin, and played a bunch more mind games. It also continued Cain's awesome dry sense of humor: when the book's first crime scene turns up a bunch of eyes, Archie scoops some into a container and says "Why don't you keep an eye on this." ...Complete genius. There are many other puns and wittiness, that was just the first to catch my attention, heh. As a Chelsea Cain fan, I think this one is totally up to par with the others. I know others like their serial killer books with less characterization and more hard-boiled detecting, but fuck that. I'm in it for the story.

Also, thanks to Brittany I have discovered the musical party that is Adam Ant! She has a singles collection of his that I borrowed, and I am completely enthralled with his vocal stylings, post-punk-meets-ska sound, and historical affectations. It is totally badass. <3 I also borrowed the Horrorpops' Hell Yeah!, the Misfits' self-titled album, and Mindless Self-Indulgence's Frankenstein Girls Will Seem Strangely Sexy. Now there's a record name that can't be beat, heh heh. Haven't listened to those yet, but I'll get there.

I also ordered my black vinyl boots, despite the fact that I can't even wear pants yet without overheating. XD;;

I'm bored and back to taking personality quizzes. Kind of worthless, really. ^^; Obviously I'm taking Heroes ones, and originally I was going to say that my results varied exclusively between Hiro and Sylar, but... It turns out they don't. So far I've gotten Hiro only once, and one quiz that I took first gave me Hiro, then when I went back to add it to this post I took it and... got Sylar. (I only changed one answer. ROFL) (Edit: Then again, I just took one again and got Hiro instead of Sylar. Reversal! Weird.) I like the one quiz I took that gave me Eden and a bunch of awesome stats, hahaha! It might seem like spamming to get "my favorite character" but being as honest as possible sort of precludes any sneakiness I'd put forth. And I for one am generally attracted to the things in others that I like in myself. Is that strange?

( Silly quiz results, with fun and sexy pictures. )

Still jobless. Mostly. Put in my app at Hot Topic, and have plans to put in one at H&M and Nordstrom Rack tomorrow. Also going to pick up my hopefully-not-abysmal paycheck, and go to the gym. In still other news, I have rediscovered another of my childhood favorites, the Animorphs series! God, I loved those books. Dark and edgy and angsty and full of action and badassery. If only they weren't published in children's book format, what with the very large simple font and 1,280 54 item series. Oh, the unknown pleasures of omnibus and adult-novel formatting... But I digress. Tomorrow, I am enduring another marathon of book-reading at B&N, this time actually with the written word instead of comics. Of said Animorphs series, in case you couldn't tell. Needless to say, I'm excited.

Not that anyone is as weirdly obsessive as me, but, that song that comes on the radio when Sylar turns it on in "Exposed"? Exactly What It Says On The Tin: Talking Heads - "Psycho Killer". ROFL

Yesterday Laurel and I were chatting, and the conversation came around to the Horrors, as it is wont to do, and through a series of Ebay links and some extra searching on her part, we discovered something: A couple weeks ago, a vinyl single was released by a band named Black Lips (entitled Drugs) and who else did the B-side cover but Faris!! It's basically him and keyboards and a girl doing backup vox all under the name Lumina. And Christ, it is so goddamn good. He is seriously the master of being sexy. The first time I listened to it I was practically crying and dying and flying at the same time. ROFL

Even though it isn't a Horrors song, I still hope they play it when we see them.

Oh, job-hunting. How I loathe you. I've been jobless for a week and I feel very defeated and unlikely to get a job, because everybody wants a job and there are many many more qualified people than I. Curse you, economy! Why must you be such a bastard? I just want to be able to move up to Berkeley. ;_;

Finished Heroes. Obviously - it - was - amazing! I fervently hope that the next volume will be as well-constructed as Volume 4 (and Volume 1, of course). I liked Volume 2 well enough, though I agree with many Tropers that the Blunder Twins were se-e-e-riously irritating. Especially Maya. I was glad when Sylar shot her, even though she didn't die. And of course, I love his manipulative bastard ways, and that he's still badass even when he has no powers. There was something enticing about him shooting up the virus cure in the intro to Volume 3, and with his chest wound incapacitation at the beginning of Volume 2. Volume 3... Where to begin. While I watched it, it irritated me that Angela and Arthur tried so hard to manipulate (well, everyone, but mostly) Sylar, and even succeeded in bringing him to the good side. Sort of. And the whole "I'm not going to try to kill you anymore because we're brothers" thing with Peter... was really out there. It's not like there's a switch you can flip to go from feeling like enemies to family instantaneously, except that apparently the writers think so. And Elle! She was such a child, I couldn't appreciate her at all. People say that she's so sociopathic, but I don't see it; she just acts spoiled even though its that she's starved for affection. She really could've been better. It's cold, but I'm glad she died. Actually, it was mentioned in TVTropes how a lot of people pretend that Volume 3 doesn't exist, and I'm greatly inclined to agree with them. The only episodes of that volume I didn't bemoan were the first two and the last two. ^^;

But, the great thing is that Volume 4 was awesome. Lots of showdowns, and Sylar being evil. Very nice. The shapeshifting was kind of gross at first, but apparently it gets less gross the more the ability is used, so it got better. WTF about Sythan and the piece of Sylar in Parkman, though. Eww, Parkman. D: Yay, I can't wait for the premiere! But September 21 is so far away...

I have no money and no food, and I am hungry. Sigh. Such is the life of a procrastinating student in this economy. I should get off my ass and find a job tomorrow.

Yeah, my emotions take me from one extreme to another pretty regularly. One moment I'm bored at home without a job, pining over not being able to watch Heroes, the next... Well, still at home with no job, but now I'm watching Heroes and having a blast, have plans to go Do Stuff with Laurel tomorrow, and, most importantly,

I JUST BOUGHT TICKETS TO THE HORRORS' HEADLINING SHOW AT THE EL REY ON OCT. 1!!!!!!!

Oh, fuck yes. I am so damn lucky.

...Now when will Sylar start being evil again? Season 3 is soo not where I wanted it to go. Too much false family wangst, not enough bloody fun and/or torture.