NOOOOOOOOOOO, the Wicker Park movie took my idea of using the Postal Service's cover of "Against All Odds" and Broken Social Scene's "Lover's Spit" for a soundtrack, wah~! now i hate you (the movie) and won't see your movie, just buy your soundtrack... because the artists on that album are good.

hate! i have the right to act like a baby in this situation. *air-guitars out* XD


(i'm kidding. it was ONLY released in this soundtrack. ;D except for Lover's Spit, which has two versions to pick from.)

ooh, i can't get over this. i repeatedly watch LOTR: Return of the King, willing it to show me Eowyn/Faramir shipper scenes other than the one from the coronation scene. i most definitely regret getting my current DVD copy now that i know the Extended Edition will have the couple's falling-in-love scene at the House of Healing. eventually i will get the lengthier versions of all three films, but i must say that i hate having realized i wasted money on the copies i have now. i hate wasting money, period.

excuse me, i'm feeling anxious. the school i applied to for this school year had not called to summon me for my interview today. gosh darn it, Ian! (the principal) you promised! >[

hullooo!

it took about a week to get Noir and another week to get Utena, only to find out that the latter did something iffy to my computer and now i have to redownload it. but in any case, BT packs does something horrible to my computer like cutting off browser functions, thus no internet time.

pro: stopped brother from Starcrafting for a record 3 days.

con: bored to bits.


ok, so my planned trip to Olympic island got cancelled, WAY before the actual day. lovely mother dear thought weirdo people go to concerts to rape innocent little girls like me. i resisted to the bitter end, but then i realized that i really didn't want to fight over the matter for 2 weeks so we came to a compromise. she owes me a CD of my own choosing (or two, since i was willing to pay up to $40 CAN to go to the concert).

well, it turns out that she was invited to a lakeshore picnic that day, and the whole family's invited. i was certainly pissed off since i feel like being so near the lake made me feel equally as close TO the concert. the picnic was still fun and i think i gained about 5 pounds from all the barbeque they made. XD *shakes fist at yummy chicken wings* ooh, but the coolest part was when we witnessed a car crash. i never seen an actual one before. n.n; no one was hurt, but i think they were racing another car and i think they destroyed government property. o.< in any case, we had front row seats because it was right across from our picnic site.

(funny part: right after we stopped oggling, we went right back to eating. @D@)


*punches air* i was so happy at the beginning of the week when i truimphantly figured out to work .ogm files, and later on matroska (.mkv) files. but by this week i'm rather stumped as to why my windows media player 9 won't work with .avi files anymore. it's most likely because of all the other things i installed and reconfigured in able to work those two files that i'm having all this trouble. no worries, no worries. the only thing i lost as the WMP9's brightness/contrast toggle controls of my favourite skin. there's always the WMP Classic. it is my new friend.

the Olympics is here! was razzle-dazzled by the opening ceremonies. very happy to see Björk performing, as well as DJ Tiësto (providing BG music to the parade of nations). ah~~ i wish i was somewhere there, the view from even the rowing races i saw this morning was spectacular. it also seems the Canadian rowing team (is it what they're called? i don't know, i just like to look :D) are doing well in the heats. do well Canada! i'm cheering enthusiastically for you all, even as someone who's not very keen in sporting events. >XD

aww --> [ link ]

too bad for firm believers of the parallel universe. :3

good news: i finally found that particular untitled song by Sigur Ros. it seems that the album it came from contains songs all named "untitled". god, it was confusing. :D oh heavenly!

iSketch.net! i remember a game like that in Bored.com. will have to get people to play with me later on~

will reformat to-day! *repeats to self* will reformat today, will reformat today, will reformat today, WILL REFORMAT TODAY, WILL REFORMAT TODAY, WILLREFORMATTODAY, WILLREFORMATTODAYWILLREFORMATTODAY...

[ link ] Chart Attack's article on Jakalope last march. "Chart Attack", you say? Jakalope is heard to be based in west coast Canada and signed under Orange Record Label.

! = "Pretty Life" comes on once that site loads. mighty catchy song and hot, HOT beats. a little on the pop-ish side, but if it sounds good, fuck that huh? Billy Klippert comes on after that though, so if you don't like, reload the page for a song encore.


someone mentioned the name J. Englishman yesterday on television. it's been a very long time i've heard it since the Kat told me about him a year or two back. one of her favourite artists then supposedly, i was still new to the rock music listening, therefore a lot of good names fall on nearly deaf ears to be brought up months or years later for a good recalling of where and whom exactly i heard it from. it was only when i found out that Esthero was his sister (better yet, when i found out J. was her brother) that i truly found him hard to forget after that, which meant only one thing left to do: finally listen to his songs, considering that i've listened to his sister's songs on repeat for a good long while.

i brought up Esthero (real name Jen-Bea Englishman) because of that quirky quote from her website that i found myself snickering at:

"hard proof that god is a woman because she put the perfect man on this planet and gave him a guitar. I crank this record almost everyday and sing along at the top of my lungs like a fool."

fwee hee. in case you're wondering, she was talking about Sam Roberts and his album We Were Born In A Flame. i wasn't very sure about him for half a year, but now i find him to be an awesome musician months too late from the rest of the world. and it was for superficial reasons too! i really wanted to shave that boy down; for the media-exposed Roberts, i was really mad that he seemed unkept even with all that new rockstar attention that was on him. well, whatever, i was shallow. *raises hand* i will never do that again... but onwards. a naturally good-looking and talented musician shouldn't be listening to a nobody girl like me anyway, just because i agree with Ed the Sock's comment of him looking like Sirius Black. in fact, despite the overgrown beard, i agree more with Esthero's quote. he's a pretty damn cool and i should really shut up about his beard.

Sam Roberts is going to play at Olympic Island soon, so i'm very excited. i have never been to a concert before to tell you the truth. just like i'm too uncool to have a completely music or mp3 blog (due to my limited knowledge and my 7th grader vocabulary, dammit), i feel that i'm still too uncool to go to a concert or venue. and, oh yeah, being broke factors in as well. but the tickets for this one is pretty cheap + ferry and maybe food, and the line up is pretty fucking awesome. i don't know if they're all canadian (i think they may be :D i'll look into the rest), but BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE??! i'm sososososo there. maybe all of BSS members will be playing. i sure do hope so, so maybe i can finally see what Emily Haines and Feist would look like.

in reference to the girls from BSS (the almighty supergroup from Toronto), one of my entries from my old blog had a given credit mistakenly, so i must set the records straight. it was not Emily Haines (of Metric) who sang in "Almost Crimes", it was (Leslie) Feist who did. the mystery was solved when i saw her solo video (featuring Buck 65?! be still my heart!) and immediately linked her dance moves from the "One Evening" video to the "Almost Crimes" video, followed by the eventual connection of her voice between the songs, with the addition to her singing in the BSS B-sides Beehives' femme version of "Lover's Spit". it was just that she and Emily Haines sounded somewhat alike, and having been more familiar with Haines' voice, i thought it was her. the "Almost Crimes" silhouette video did NOT help. XD

you know, if both Feist and Buck 65 are in that concert, do you think they'd consider a reproduction of their moves from her video? i've been hearing a whole lot about Feist doing solo performances from her album Let It Die following BSS ones, so it maybe not be that far off. gack! now i'm excited. >:3

i feel like a brat. i want a new blog name extention thingy now. with that, there comes a desire to get a domain and a domain name. it follows a whole slew of wants that i cannot afford: CD's, books, vintage and shoes, they are the modern-day savvy treasures. i do try to discard such thoughts, but hint my ambition that i dare not lose touch with in the first place. to aim a bit higher may do me some good, provided that they can be reached and i don't look too much of a fool in the end.

the Pika pioneers many things that set example for me like a big sister (although i'm the elder of our net sisterhood :B); domain last year, new domain name this year. having forgotten to get those Bonnie Pink songs, i was looking through her Mini again today and thought it would be awfully nice to share some music i've collected to some friends and strangers. immersed in music that helped me turn my life around, i can hardly keep them to myself. i'd also like to one day archive bits of writing i've dappled with. they're scattered everywhere, so i'd like to put them altogether somewhere i can oggle them anywhere i go.

a whole domain for myself is far more beneficial to me than one can simply imagine, especially with my lazy reputation. i plan to have an online portfolio stocked by november of this year along with my wish projects. and as tempting as riding the freeloader train sounds, i have a deeply-instilled morale from my parents to not bother kindly people with my crap. just think! i'd probably be using up my hoster's bandwidth with my many-MB'ed experiments (bound to happen), along with collective plans, i might as well have my own domain. being hosted by more than one person is bound to get messy anyway, so i'd rather not go through with it all.

at times like these, i wish that i still wasn't "incomplete" in my recovery. healthy and confident, i could hold a job like kids my age and provide the little things for myself, BY myself. save up for college and a helpful laptop, little by little. but hey geez, i'm really happy i'm out of the hole. the steps are a little hard from here on out. i just have to be content abour my sure but steady crawl to my goals.


ah, speaking of music, i e-mailed Josie Dye at The Edge last night and bugged her about this band she played after her Nooner show from either last week or last monday. got back a response --> the band is called Jakalope and their site is most puzzling. the key is patience, you have to wait a few minutes to finally access the contents of the site, and even then you're on your own. i feel happy to gloat that i got the audio streaming part of their single (called "Pretty Life"), but i reckon i've only seen 4/5ths of it all. i have yet to find one more thing posted at a NIN board that i haven't come across. good luck to me!

btw, there was mention of it in that NIN forum because of Trent Reznor's producing and song-writing and playing in this album. i'll give more information i found out on my research this afternoon at a later date. computer is god-awful slow. you can guess the reformatting hasn't taken place yet. :p it's because my brother likes to hog the computer, and on the times i'm on, tweaking and browsing is cut short due to wooziness my headcold affects me. m'yeah, and a period.

i'm absolutely SICK of being in front of the computer this whole week. i did nothing else but eat, sit and update all my files before burning them, BEFORE i clean out the whole computer. (wtf?): i spent a whole month talking about it and another half preparing for it. i pushed back the Noir-leeching a few days because i don't think i'll be able get this done by the promised date of tomorrow. my benefactor, although not B-sama, was kindly enough to accept my excuse.

i've become so meticulous with this that i've produced pages upon pages of written dedication to fserv listing and inventory instead of advance in plot for chapter one of my fanfic. i'm losing sleep over it. i repeat the ideas in my head in an attempt to remember it for when i can eventually sit down and draw out the scenes in one session. the scraps of free minutes simply won't do unless it's to write about new ideas.

speaking of fanfic, the second one i'm planning started a-blooming. mayhaps it is because of two stories forming, along with keeping track of how many volumes of (x) i have, i'm loosing sleep over. thoughts are overflowing and it is a little more than i can stand on my vacation.


mother wants to go to niagara-on-the-lake again, but not for cherry picking. i told her it's a little early for that. maybe i'll sit and sunbathe my arms and legs by the water. they've become too pale, and i'd like to keep my clothes on.

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LJ was fucky, so i'll say it here:

i'm getting trigun. >O!! after that, the world!

oh yeah, pika! i got up to volume 15 of hot blooded woman last night. ^^ too bad about the icon challenge, but i'm sure you'll get to finish them all in time if the challenge was repeated. :3


woo boy, really lightheaded there. this week has been sickness hell for me. it's the reoccuring tiredness theme with me again. well, better keep busy not fall on my ass again like yesterday. XD i tripped on the stairs when i had a dizzy attack, and i bumped my knee in the process. *dork* myeah, i'm ok though. :p

jebus, Firefox lies to fuck with layouts, doesn't it?

or does that indicate poorly-coded layouts? i wonder...

test crosspostage

har har har!!

i still have no layout. plus, LJ is funny and sucked my soul... lately.

i WILL figure out how to make LJ and this work. yes, yes i will.

in other news... ouch.

PMS.

yeah.

it's making me really grouchy.