Appropriate song is appropriate for superhero-related post.

( Wolverine! Complete with shiny new adamantium SPOILERS. )

( And Heroes season finale, also with spoilers. )

( And just to round out this yappy post, brief House and Big Bang Theory thoughts. )

My next two weeks look like this: papers, papers, reading, papers, Henry VIII, test, Spring Awakening, Billy Elliot, Wales, LOST FINALE HOLY SHIT, packing, packing, home to Philadelphia. *collapses*

(picspammy: Someone stop me, for God's sake; this is getting out of hand.)

This was going to be a srs post with lots of life-type musings and bullet lists and whatnot, but I'm just too tired to be srs. I came home from work and took a nap, which I don't do often. O____o And then I saw today's WB entry and realized the universe wanted me to be slothful and silly today (and my Photobucket monthly bandwidth just started over again), so:



( Not dial-up friendly, but many LOLZ beneath the cut. )

No new "House" and "Big Bang Theory" makes me :(. DH was fun, though, wasn't it?

Today, five years ago, I created this fab journal, thanks to jean_prouvaire. (I actually totally neglected this anniversary until, like, last year, so I've gotta remember to get better at that.) Stats:
-- Entries (including this one): 818
-- Comments posted: 42,912 (heh...thanks, ONTD!)
-- Comments received: 8,727
-- Top commenter (excluding myself): la_belle_ange, once again! :) ( top ten behind the cut )
-- Most used tag: "memes," with 174 uses, followed by "college" at 69 and "johnny depp" at 59
-- Icons: 119/119
-- Icons saved on hard drive: ~8,800 O____o

Started a new job last week; work-study, just lots of spreadsheets and rosters and things. Fairly dull, but the people are nice and it's lovely to have monies. (Well, once I get paid, it will be.)

Lily Allen reads ONTD and has been giving us shout-outs. It is super-awesome. I cannot wait for her concert, for srs. Also, there were some test screenings of Public Enemies and people are already giving Johnny a thumbs-up (for the most part, anyway. Main source isn't working, for some reason. Boo). I am so f-ing excited. It's basically definite now that I'm going to NYC premiere and stalking those hot bitches. I definitely need a wingman, though. Any takers?

And I found Forbidden Planet today, which is far, FAR awesomer than the NYC one and I'm sure I will be back to spend way too much money very soon. (Lady Bullseye. Seriously? Seriously!!)

And now, to finish dl'ing House. ♥~ Thanks for the memories, y'all!

Aargh. Computer problems, yet again. It appears to be something either with the inverter or the backlight, and possibly related to the fact that I had it plugged in during a lightning storm. >_____> It's looking as though I may have to get a new one and just have all my shit transferred, because really, at this point, it's just not worth it to keep having it fixed; it's costing more than the thing's worth. :P

Life is good aside from that, though--went to my third viewing of The Dark Knight last night with la_belle_ange and the honorary brother, which was of course hilarious. (I didn't think he was worthy because he hasn't seen Batman Begins and kept going "but I saw the other one! Adam West, right?" But I gave in.) I'd see it five more times--it just keeps being awesome. (But I'd have to be intentionally late because I CANNOT sit through the Mummy III trailer ever ever again. "Yeah, same mummy...TWICE!")

Another meme, stolen from das_mervin, of course:
Six Ships I Love the Most
1. Ron/Hermione
2. Remus/Sirius
3. House/Wilson/Cuddy
4. Matt/Elektra
5. Dwight/Angela
6. Brian/Justin

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( IRON MAAAAN. ) Two thumbs up. Go see it.

Today (yesterday; whatevs) was Strawberryfest at my school, which is exactly what it sounds like and is quite fun. I ate lots of shortcake and was merry. Then I had my final Spanish class (and a test, which I actually didn't fail). It culminated with my professor accidentally poking me in the boob, so all's well that ends well, eh?

( The Office & Lost & Grey's )

Tomorrow (...today) is Free Comic Day. I will so be at Forbidden Planet. Then I've got to write 9+ pages for my Literary Interpretation take-home final, and attempt to study for...everything else. Hoo boy.

P.S.--"To prepare for her role as Pepper Potts, Gwyneth Paltrow read many of the Iron Man comic books, lent to her by her husband Chris Martin." !!!!!! I knew I liked him!

Phew. Exhausting weekend. The silent rave was AWESOME; I showed up right on time and started dancing promptly at 6:17 (I don't know why, but that's when it started), starting with "See You Again" and plowing through 23 songs without stopping, finishing grandly with "Do the Hippogriff." Everyone was just bopping around and dancing and TONS of people had cameras, so I'm sure I'm in a few of the many, many YouTube vids uploaded in the past few days. (And there are photos all over Facebook. Can you find me?) And then every few minutes, some dude held up this pineapple and we all chanted "PINEAPPLE! PINEAPPLE!" and then periodically someone would WOOOOO so we all had to WOOOO...you get it.

LotR marathon: crikey. Not for amateurs. My head ached and I was seeing hobbits before my eyes for hours afterwards, but it was great fun. Andy Serkis so deserved a Supporting Actor nom, seriously. That "nobody likes you!" "Not listening!" conversation in TTT is basically the greatest thing ever. ♥ (And one of my hobbies is listening for Wilhelm screams--there are really quite a few in that whole series! Hooray!)

Comic-Con: a wondrous geeky Mecca. (I thought I was cool wearing my "Spoilt" t-shirt, but all the other costumes put me to shame.) 619slemabov1 and I wandered around for ages and I bought issues 16-22 of Elektra's Marvel Knights run (y'know, the one inspiring my fic. The one that I will get back to...er, someday). I also FINALLY bought my very own copy of Daredevil #181, which I have wanted for a longlong time. Embarrassing Incident #1: I asked how much it was, and the guy said it was "a sawbuck." I had reached for my wallet before I remembered I wasn't a character in a Jimmy Cagney movie and, as such, had no goddamn idea what that means. I desperately appealed to Pepe, but he didn't know either, so I had to ask. (Ten bucks.) We then checked out all the action figures and watched the lightsaber battles going on in the back of the room, and then made it to the artists' section, where I had Embarrassing Incident #2, which consisted of me trying to talk to Greg Horn, who's been my favorite Elektra artist for a while now. People kept swarming around and chatting him up, though, so I hovered awkwardly for a while before yelping that I was a big fan and getting kind of shut down and slinking off to the next table while Pepe smirked at me. ("It'll sound so dorky," I demured, before actually going over there. "What kind of convention do you think this is?" Pepe replied, thus winning at everything for the day.) We capped it off by attending a discussion panel/PowerPoint presentation on 'Geek Love,' which discussed the various stereotypes and illuminated the advantages of dating a geek (and defined the concept), which made me oh-so-happy. Now I am tired, and am going to watch "Desperate Housewives."

(Could I have put more links in this entry? Jeebus.)

(Oh, and we saw the trailer/got a free button thing of this movie. \m/ !!!!!)

SWEENEY TODD DVD; I HAS IT.

That's right! Two-disc collector's edition, since one-disc versions are for bitches. I stopped by the Virgin Megastore just to, you know, visit. I wasn't really planning to buy anything, but just for fun. I walked in, saw the new-release DVD and yelped in shock (loudly), because HELLO, it's supposed to come out next Tuesday! I know this for sure, 'cuz it's my birthday, for god's sake! So I snatched it and asked this Christian Siriano-lookalike behind the counter what the deal was, and he's like 'sometimes they release stuff early because it gets leaked online and they want to hurry it.' And I'm like uhh what? But I DON'T CARE, I HAS IT YEY. And I used my VIP card there and got a $5-off coupon.

(And the special features are outstanding. I've already watched a ton. At the press conference:
Helena: But I had to be righter than right...I just didn't want to feel like I got it just because I slept with [Tim]. At the end of the day, Stephen Sondheim, he had the final say, and I definitely didn't sleep with him.
Tim: That's not what he said.
Johnny: I haven't slept with anyone.
Helena: Heh. Ever.
Johnny: Not once. I've shaved a few, but I've never...(is drowned out by laughter)
Me: *is totally ded*
Sweet suffering Sweeney, I love those three so hard.)

It was a very strange day, actually--
-- Got into a spirited discussion about comics in my Sex and Gender in the Bible recitation when my T.A. compared the Greek chorus in Iphigenia at Aulis to the admiring crowd in the Spider-man films ("Oh, GOD, three was so bad!! Black Spider-man was the best part, and he was only in it for ten minutes!" "VENOM!!" "Yes!" "Dude, Iron Man this summer..." "And The Dark Knight!" "Did you read the Miller issues with the...?")
-- Got out of class 35 minutes early and loitered around the Cooper Union building with a girl from my class because Obama was speaking there, but got booted out because we weren't press :\
-- Was told my comment about the Merchant's Tale was "a really brilliant reading" and talked more about Pasolini's Canterbury Tales film, which is intensely cracky
-- Went to Starbucks and used my coffee name, Lola, when asked. When I went around to get my order, was called "Dora" and received this cup:

*is so confused now*
-- Was unceremoniously tossed from my office when another girl was randomly fired and came to talk to my boss about it; ended up hovering around the copy machine for fifteen minutes in a state of high awkwardness because, like, WTF.
-- Went to the ciné to get my ticket for 21 tomorrow and got a free movie pass because I used my Crown Club card
-- Came home and found an Amazon gift card from my CA relatives.

Very strange. But nice. Almost made up for the lack of "Lost" tonight. D:

Hee. "Fantastic Four."

( 'You reached 4000 Kelvin! That's almost supernova!' 'SWEET!' 'No, not sweet!' )

OMG BATMAN. Just got back from seeing it w/ la_belle_ange...it was really exceptional. Seriously. Beware of long, spoilery ranting.

( Does it come in black? )

I start my new job tomorrow. Eeeeeeep.

[ mood | Energetic ]
[ music of the night | TV ]

DUDE. ELEKTRA SKEWERS LUCIUS MALFOY IN THE FIRST FIVE MINUTES OF ELEKTRA. RAD.

(Just wanted to get your attention.)

Jason Isaacs, I mean. And that's not really a spoiler because you pretty much see it in the trailer. (To see the entire first five minutes, click HERE.)

Hmm. Who would win in a Lucius/Elektra smackdown? Elektra's pretty impossible to beat, and she has that freaky brought-back-from-the-dead-oh-snap thing going for her. (But then again, she was bested by Colin Farrell. Colin Farrell acting like the Tazmanian Devil, no less.) Lucius has got, you know, evil and Voldemort on his side, and everything, but he got bested by...an elf. Might have to give the edge to my girl El here.

But anyway.

Still haven't watched "Alias." Am trying to make the suspense even better. And I want to curl up with a big bowl of ice cream and everything. Squee.