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they’re laughing in the snow

amanda — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:39:14 +0000

NPH(neil patrick harris) is awesome. Period. He should have hosted the Oscars. I am serious. It would have at least been funny. And everyone knows that a splash of gay makes things more interesting.
Aside from that, here is my Oscar recap: (and yes I am LATE as I did not watch the Oscars until Monday night and do you know how DAMN hard it is to not get spoiled by the internet for a whole 24 hours? HUH. DO YOU?!)
Simple recap.

Sandra Bullock.

I love you.

Period.

Kate Winslet. You had amazing hair and the most endearing smile. And yes I am a fangirl and I don’t care what anyone says. Anything you do is great.

I love you.

Period.

The rest of the Oscars, meh. I was not impressed with the winners, and doubly unimpressed with the hosts (sorry boys) and the whole show had this weird feeling to it. I didn’t even cry during the In memoriam…. I ALWAYS cry during that. But not this year. I think it is more them and less me. So… Let’s hope next year returns the grandeur to the ceremony and the recipients of the award. Did I mention I love Sandra Bullock? I do.

Tuesdays are for posting awesome adventures in fiction.

Period.

(can you guess who was up late editing? guess that’s why i am being so definitive, with the word, period.)

period.

Whatever we deny or embrace

amanda — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:18:29 +0000

No blog today, too much to do! Maybe tomorrow!

But look what someone did. This VID is AMAZING. Watch it over and over like I did.

just to have one yesterday

amanda — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:31:27 +0000

OSCARS tonight! Woot. Color me excited, though still not sure how I am going to manage the viewing with Puppy School smack in the middle of them. I’ll figure it out. At least I am more fortunate than the folks in NYC who have Cablevision and therefore no ABC right now. Shame on you Cablevision and double shame on you Disney!

Anyhoo. I am in the middle of writing, so can’t go on about something, so I will save my Sunday topic for later in the week. Instead, OSCAR update: I watched two more movies nominated for Best Picture.

Inglorious Basterds - saw it. Not impressed. This is what a nominee for best picture is now adays? It was too long, and a little boring, and well… it did not evoke in me what I would expect from a best picture. Instead it was okay, and I think the actor’s ability to move from english to french to german and back was worth the cost of watching it. Aside from that? Nothing new. Nothing amazing.

The Hurt Locker – okay, I was expecting a lot more from all the hype. While some of the visuals were stunning, the story didn’t go deep enough to make me care about the characters. I don’t think this is due to the subject; I’ve watched many war movies; I just didn’t get their motivation. While it made the me think we need to get the hell out of Iraq, that was about it. And I was already thinking that so, *shrug*

Of the movies I have seen on the list, District 9 still is the best in my uninformed opinion. See, I even said so here, and why.

We’ll see what happens…

impossible not to beleive

amanda — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:03:56 +0000

I’ve been feeling especially schizophrenic lately. Too many hobbies and weird ass time constraints, has me being oh so neurotic. I have about 5 personal projects I am working on.. but see the thing is, which one is more important? You know? I want to do them all, but there is only so much time in any given day, so I need to focus on one at a time. Okay! I know this is me, so I need to focus on two at a time. *wink* Part of my brain is like, ’screw it’ and just not bother with some of the projects, so I can focus more on those that make me happiest. *insert sigh* so I am not sure what I should be doing… thinking is hard.

The Oscars are this Sunday! Woot! I love me the Oscars, though I feel out of the loop this year, with there being 10 movies nominated for best picture. I mean WHAT? 10!

Avatar: um no. It was pretty. You don’t get awards for being pretty
The Blind Side: haven’t seen it yet. D’oh
District 9: LOVED this movie. It won’t win. But I loved it
An Education: haven’t seen it yet. D’oh
The Hurt Locker: haven’t seen it yet. D’oh
Inglourious Basterds: haven’t seen it yet. Kinda don’t want to. I’m not a Quinton fangirl.
Precious: haven’t seen it yet. D’oh
A Serious Man: haven’t seen it yet. D’oh
Up: one of the best movies ever. SQUIRREL! It won’t win either, but it was awesome.
Up in the Air: haven’t seen it yet. D’oh

I may try to catch up on some of these movies tomorrow, but that’s not a for sure thing yet.
What is for sure is that we have Puppy Class Sunday night, so I am not sure how I am going to do the whole watching thing. Maybe set the DVR to record, and then come home and watch… not sure. I know I will get all spoiled by the Internet if I wait to watch it on Monday… so. Harrumph.

I am pretty annoyed right now with TV. For a handful of reasons. Let’s start with Damages Season three. I set my DVR to tape all the episodes… and now, apparently, episodes 1, 2 & 3 are missing! WTF!???!?!?! This has me exceptionally pissed. I am not sure how to rectify the situation, but I am not yet giving up hope. You would think the 3 missing episodes would be online somewhere, but I have yet to find them. Which LAME! Another annoyance is the rumor going around that Legend of the Seeker may not be renewed. A double dose of WTF!?!?! This is wrong. So very evilly wrong. I love this show. It has the potential to be on TV for years. If you haven’t yet, go HERE to get info on where to email, mail, and pester to attempt to keep this awesome show on the air. Pretty please? Or rather, do it or The Mother Confessor will come for you.

the line begins to blur

amanda — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:39:06 +0000

I stumbled onto this artcile in the New York Times , and it’s fascinating. How we have become this society of people who stare at machines to interact with other humans, but our interactions are on a completely different level. Via emoticons and words, at time random pictures. Does that signal a negative way to interact, or is it just our evolution? And because the world is technologically changing so quickly we will, an organism, be able to keep up? And is it all part of the Cylon plan?
Don’t know why the article went into the whole political Health care Tea Party route. (well yeah I do, everything seems to end up going that way lately, which lame!) It would have been more informative to stay on point. The isolation and anxiety plaguing humans is at an all time high, and we are ingesting more pharmaceuticals than even in the 1950’s (shocking!) to overcome things that may in fact be rectified if we were to step outside of the cyber reality. But from what I have seen recently I don’t know if that is possible. More and more people are developing anxiety disorders – and hey! I am right there with them- as they go through their days interacting with people only through the digital medium. Which, not picking on. Where else can shy people such as I interact with other people who are living across the globe, and or feel like there is a kinship with people you will never meet?
Plus the internet is vital to keep fangirls like me alive and kicking. It is just interesting to think about how far it will go. Perhaps I need to be reading some more cyberpunk soon! lol.

I kinda sorta killed the garlic press on Tuesday night. It wasn’t on purpose! I swear. It was more a combination of a pesky big clove of garlic and my surreal hand strength. Oops. So, what was supposed the be like metal? Snapped. I think my slayer powers kicked in or something. Anyway. Now I need to buy a new one. As garlic is an everyday staple of my culinary existence. *blink*

I didn’t write… not one word in any fandom yesterday. I feel… weird about that. Some good some bad. Weird is a adequite description.

Okay this picture has nothing to do with anything going on, other than I made it all green yesterday while I was waiting for report after report to download… *blink* it is pretty. Kahlan is such a BAMC!

Speaking of the BAMC… I am getting a little worried that there won’t be a season three. I have sent annoying emails out to local stations as well as big wiggies, but I am just a tiny little voice. I hope they look at the numbers and realise that this show IS watched by MILLIONS across the globe, and is a huge rating magnet for all these little affiliates. Just look at the long run Xena had. Srsly. Please. Keep up the Seekerness. I don’t even want to think about there NOT being a Legend of the Seeker… I WILL NOT! It will go on and on forever…. amen.

Speaking of amen: I got this piece of spam today: ‘I do think this is a most incredible website for proclaiming great wonders of Our God!‘ I don’t know why but spam like that on MY blog, which is about TV, lame taxes, femslash and lots of lesbianism… totally makes me chuckle.

So I managed to kill (aka lock up for a long time) not one but BOTH of my computers yesterday. I so hope today is better. Oh. And I think I killed all my virtual fish on facebook. Oh jeez. Is it Friday yet?