Meme taken from many.

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them ;-)

Can I say how AMAZING it is to read the acknowledgments of a book and see that they thank musical groups? S. Meyer thanked Muse. I can TOTALLY SEE IT. I love that it was Muse. And Coldplay(who I listened to quite a lot while reading the first 2. I actually was listening to 'Yes' off the new album and saying TWILIGHT! "God only knows she won't let me rest/but I am just so tired of this loneliness."-- and I know that is off the new album, and cannot have been anything, but still.)

Now I will have to re-listen to Muse. hehe Start figuring out what scenes come from what.

(Just looked again. MCR!!!!!! Dylan would LOVE it. I love My Chemical Romance, and it SO fits.)

Yes I know this was a completely dorky post. But the book was awesome. Am debating whether I should go before or after work tomorrow to get the 3rd... hrm.


::is nerd::

FAVORITE book (of many I guess, but STILL) is being made into a movie. Lovely Bones? If you have not read it, you need to. SO good.  I knew this, sure, but I gave up following it because it wasn't making any progress. So, what do I see somewhere on IMDB?

That Mark Wahlberg is cast as Jack Salmon. And then I go to the page and see that Rachel Weisz is Abigail Salmon. And Stanley Tucci is the gross man. Susan Sarandon is also in it, but I forget as what. Am pissed that this doesn't come out for another year. Haven't you stalled enough?! Hopefully they don't do anything to ruin it, or I will be pissed. Such an amazing book, it would be a shame.

Oh, and look at this. This looks interesting as well. Like a Sin City 2, but not.


Also changed my layout/header. I like it. Auguste Rodin: The Kiss/Burghers at Calais/The Thinker for you that don't know it. The quote I got somewhere.

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read assignment page and have decided not to turn in a hardcopy. She said to send it in an email, nothing else was said. So... *shrug*. I don't like to waste paper if it's possible. And I don't understand the hard copy AND email version. Waste of time. Besides, we had to send it to 2 emails, her's and her husband's just to make sure she got it.

Whatev. Might go try and sell back the spanish book that I don't really like. I will keep the other one's like the short stories and the one that I didn't read... who knows? Maybe I will want them in the future. So....

I'M DONE!!!!!!

*sigh* Finished all Caliga scenes(I'M DONE!!!! I'M DONE!!!!! There were like 36 there!), caught up on all shows (except 30 Rock), and printed out my sections of the group paper to read from when I present tomorrow. Can't be persuaded to do more. Hate school... Will write other presentation tomorrow in between classes. Hopefully it goes as fast as I think it will...

Was GOING to go to the library tonight, but all of my papers were pushed back to next week. So, that wasn't good. Pretty much insured that I will not do them until this weekend. Turned in my notecards early though. She was pleased. Then I BSed my way through an pop-essay on that crap book that I never could read.

Ugh. Monday I will be done...
Ugh. Monday I will be done...
Ugh. Monday I will be done...

Slight scare about the trip. I texted Vicky asking about the dates (AGAIN, because my brain is all leaky) and she said the 1st or 2nd we will get back. Ummm.... my brother is graduating the 1st. And since MY graduation is at 930 in the morning, I figured his would be too. This had the potential to make us drive through the night. Was NOT looking forward to it. Then I found out it's at 5. AWESOME! I would blow it off, but my brother is valedictorian. He gives a speech. I want to see it.

Decided to start reading Pride and Prejudice. Don't know why, just feel oddly motivated. My mom has these antique books and I think I may try to read a few. I'm not sure if she has ever read most of them, or if they are purely for show. Me thinks it's a bit of both, especially lately. Speaking of, my mom's memory is a bit crappy as of late. She kept asking the same questions over and over, and I would get aggravated with her before I realized that I should hold my tongue. My grandfather(her father) had Alzhiemers, so she has been afraid for years that she would get it too. She went back to school, and she works all the time, because it has been shown that the more active you are mentally, the later it shows/slower it progresses. I felt like an ass.

Need to sleep, but am too awake. Crap.

PS~ All my shows kinda sucked. Is disheartening. But at least I don't have to wait so long for them to be good again(thatis, if they get better tomorrow..)

I freaking love this movie. SERIOUSLY. Every time I talk to that kid in my psych class, I think of this movie. He has 12 brothers and sisters, and he shakes and gets really nervous when talking. He stutters, and is REALLY quiet. He also does that thing in this movie where the husband of the short haired girl is like "asdasdasldsjdj....dsdsasd...." I don't know how else to describe it, like muttering nonsense. The wife always interrupts when he talks, so he never really says anything, their children either. It's funny.

Here it is:








Just got back from class where we all said our favorite books. Ok, seriously, out of all the books in the world, The DaVinci Code? The Notebook? I understand Pride and Prejudice. But like 5 girls said the Notebook, and a couple said DaVinci Code. Ugh.

So, I haven't gotten any emails of the posts made to Caliga in the last couple days. I ALWAYS get them.,. what the hell is wrong?

Watched Evening with Patrick Wilson and Claire Danes. Good, just wish it would have ended with more of ... something. Think I will have to read the book, as you know they cut shit out. Also going to read Atonement. I am making a list(anyone got any suggestions?). I am going to get bored FAST without school. I have had summer classes for as long as I can remember... never a free summer.

I plan on volunteering at different places as well, trying to get a feel for what I want to specialize in. Autistic kids is not it. It is fun and interesting, but I couldn't do it for the rest of my life.

Speaking of Evening, does anyone have the Michael Buble song "I've got the World on a String"? It was in there and now I want it. Hugs if you do.


::sigh:: Am going to take a shower now as I have gotten quite bored. I had planned on sleeping later, only til about 10 or so, but I woke up at 8 as usual. Except this time WITHOUT my alarm. Stupid.

I am in love with Javier Bardem.



Ok, so obviously, I loved Love in the Time of Cholera. (trailer) The writer of the novel is Gabriel García Márquez. I just wrote a paper last week on a story this man has written. :D That was pretty awesome. I checked my syllabus and saw that we will read another before the semester ends.I think I will read the book after I graduate. MAYBE I will read it on the way down to Texas and squee to Vicky. Hehe. The only question is, do I read it in spanish, or english?

Ok, I just uploaded a gazillion new icons of him(Javier). Heh. I know he was the creepy killer in No Country for Old Men, but IDK. LOVE.

It helps that he has the BEST accent, and when he talks in english, he doesn't do it so well. I understand his problems (like saying the word over instead of on), because I have the same problems, but in spanish. I am going to search for him speaking in spanish, I haven't heard it yet. This is my first real Spanish-man crush. I do like Gabriel García Bernal, but not so much as this. 

The only problem with the movie, in my opinion, was that it was in english. It would have been SO MUCH better in spanish, since the book was written in spanish. I hate that whole, we have accents but are speaking in english thing. They try so hard to make the accents fit. Might as well do it in the actual language. Kinda like the Phantom of the Opera. It takes place in France, but only 1 woman has a French accent. Stupid.


That is all. Sorry for the squee-spam flist!

edit: OMG. I looked at his oscar speech, and he spoke half in english, and half in spanish. He dedicated it to his mother (and espana), who he brought with him. ::sigh:: I love him.

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This cut me off. I was talking of Khayman, who I simply adore right now. He is such an old vampire that he finds it fun to wander around in vampire clothes and talk to mortals. He bows to them and talks in awe inspiring tongues. He invites them to an almost empty apartment, save a coffin that they sit on and recites scary poems and such. When it is time to drink victims blood, he does it very theatrically, and he loves the understanding look in their eye as he does. He loves that they know exactly what is happening. As opposed to his old way of lifew before Lestat, walking around in rags, attacking a mortal who hasnt noticed him. If they do notice him, he can't drink their blood. He finds that reprehensible, since they've become more real to him.

I love his backstory too. The King and Queen (Enkil and Akasha), who are the mother and father of all vampires, made him rape 2 twins (for an unknown reason, Khayman did it in the place of the King, for the Queen)who are Maharet and Mekare. Maharet is Lena Olin in the movie. So then Maharet is impregnated and she gives birth before made vampire. So Khayman and Maharet are the great-whatever- descendents to Jesse (the main girl in the movie). I find this interesting. There is a HECK of a lot more back story, but this is the shortened version. I love reading these books, they are awesome. I seriously devoured 1/4th of it today at work. I brought other stuff to do, but this kept my attention.

Jesse, who is in the Talamasca(an organization I would love to work for), uncovers a lot of Claudia's things. I love when they bring Claudia back to weave into these other stories. Jesse has red hair and she goes on archealogical digs, so it reminds me of Nora. hehe.

 So I am re-reading the Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice and I have figureed something out that I either forgot or overlooked in the first place:


And now I think that after re-reading these first 2, I may get farther along, maybe even to Pandora (who was mentioned by Marius, and now I am curious) I never got so far in the series, just to The Vampire Armand-which I am not sure that I finished. Too boring for me at age 18. But now, I feel that I like them much more than I did.

Sidenote: Tom Cruise bought the rights to the 4th in the series: the Tale of the Body Thief. SOOOOO EXCITED!!! It is my favorite of all of them. I think he might reprise his role as Lestat in this film... hopefully he does. I always wanted this to become a film.

Think I may try to read a couple more in the series before the next semester. Although... I remember disliking Queen of the Damned... but who knows? Maybe I will end up loving it.