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 name: priya age: 20 location: IL sign: pisces or metal rooster or revati // aura : gold // color: brown // alignment: neutral evil // evil: kinda evil (7.5) // keirsey: INTJ [ archives ] [ peeji ] [ email ] [ winamp] Big O - Cowboy Bebop - DiGi Charat - Trigun - Petshop of Horrors - Excel Saga - Gokudo-kun - lain - Saiyuki - Basara iggy pop :: david bowie :: rolling stones :: orbital :: BT :: depeche mode :: ABC :: english beat :: velvet underground :: lou reed :: brian eno :: roxy music :: dido :: modest mouse :: morphine :: placebo :: magnetic fields :: adam ant :: siouxsie :: cure :: t rex :: beastie boys :: neuroactive :: bauhaus :: underworld :: air :: juno reactor :: tricky  
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Sunday, December 2, 2001, 09:03 p.m. Sad but New I spent all day with my parents. At 11 am I went over, prepped for my class, made them pancakes. Taught the class from 1 - 2:45 pm (I never knew I could talk that long straight until I checked my watch, and whoops, class was over!) After that, my parents asked me to come to a movie and dinner with them, and I accepted, although I rather would have gone home and slept. I swear, I have got to stop feeling guilty about my parents' empty-nesting. But my dad spends all his time at the office, and my mom says she barely cooks twice a week now, because what's the point now, and I'm like...dammit, I wish I hadn't been the focus of your lives for the past ten years if this meant that I would have to worry about you guys once I left. =*sigh* Anyways, the movie we ended up seeing was The Man Who Wasn't There. Damn. That was quite a good movie. It's hard to summarize without giving the plot away, but it's about a barber in a small Californian town in the 50's. Sound boring, huh? Well, there will be at least...*counts* three? deaths before the movie's over. No, four, my bad. (Forgot the most important one.) This man is so quiet and unobtrusive - you know, he's the man who wasn't there. A living ghost, stuck in a job he married into...and then he hears about the wave of the future....DRYCLEANING. Yes, drycleaning can lead to murder. Watch the movie to find out how. This is a good movie, and I'm only sad that so few people will probably go see it. Hey! It's a Coen brothers film! It has Frances McDormand in it, who is a good actress despite the nepotism at work! XD~ And Billy Bob Thornton...he's damn good, although all I can think of when I look at him sometimes is, " Ew, I know more about him and Angelina Jolie than I ever really wanted to know." After the movie we went to Red Lobster, and now I'm home. My comments on fandoms. Uh. Let's see. *racks brains* I'll tell you one thing that DOES annoy me about fandoms. Ka, you've expressed yourself so well that all I could really say would be 'ditto' at this point. What annoys me about these so-called 'fake' fandoms is how they often begin as a bunch of people who stumbled across the series - usually from the artwork, or because someone who's famous in another fandom has been trumpeting its praises - and these people don't form their own opinions on the show. No, they'd rather take someone else's word on it, and merely adopt the opinion of the person who got them into the fandom. It drives me nuts to see a fandom entirely populated by yes(wo)men. These fandoms lend themselves to the weirdest excesses, such as judging a show merely by its (imagined) yaoi potential, and not by the plot or actual character interaction. I also can't stand it when people slash just for the sake of slashing. They don't take extensive interaction between two male or female characters and turn it into something romantic or sexual. No, they just take two random male or female characters from a show - or from entire different shows - and have them have sex like weasels, with little or no justification at all. I mean, if you take the time to build up the backstory, sure, I'll attempt to buy it, and may even enjoy it. But if you don't even bother to do that, or if the characters barely/never interact in canon at all, one wonders why you're writing FANFICTION. That sort of stuff would make more sense in original fiction, right? I'm talking about stuff like...uh...Snape/Crouch Jr., which is a fic that dropped into my inbox tonight. Why, god, WHY? I'm not talking PWPs...if you think seeing, say, Methos and Obi-Wan Kenobi screw like weasels is secksay, more power to you, man. But it's weird to see people trying to slash Molly Weasley and Minerva McGonagall, or Molly and Lily Potter, or especially James Potter and Lucius Malfoy. And writing long fics around it...I dunno, it's just not my cup of tea. One of the worst offenders that I can remember was a fic I read about how McGonagall and that ditzy Divination professor were girlfriends in the past. And, uh, whatsherface was actually a powerful soothsayer and Earth Witch and was your standard Wicca Chick stereotype. And her predictions always came true, because she was rooted in Earth magic. But then they broke up when whatsherface started dabbling in fake fortunetelling and became a ditz. That fic just made me snicker. McGonagall thinks that woman's a quack and a freak in canon. And giving her a backstory that makes her a Worthy Girlfriend for McG comes across as totally forced, because it becomes even more obvious that there's nothing to base this pairing on. Of course, if you don't like yaoi, you could say that no slash pairings are based in canon, but dammit, you know what I mean. :) And I'm not just talking about slashfic; regular hetfic with random straight pairings is just as bad. Bleh, I can't explain what the hell I mean. Why can't you guys just read my mind? Oh, and Shannon, I couldn't pick up the Boogiepop tonight because I just realized that I'm out of town for interviews on Tuesday and Wednesday, so I wouldn't get to see them anyways. ;_; Must sleep. Ugh. Exhausted. Today's meme:  Which Evil Criminal are You? Now Playing: Peter Murphy - You're So Close Sunday, December 2, 2001, 09:54 a.m. Everyone laughed at Ringo's sudden apprehension. I'm still alive. Really. I'm just half-dead. And busy. Busy busy busy. Had an interview on Friday, and I have one of Tuesday, one on Wednesday (which aren't even in the same state, just my luck) and another on the 12th. fscking interviews. There are a couple random details I could mention: Dude, I better not be the only fucked up med student out there. I will be peevish.
And whoa, I'd better get ready to head over to my parents' to prepare for my class. Yikes. Now Playing: Iggy Pop - Gimme Danger Friday, November 23, 2001, 02:56 p.m. Mmmm...mellow....food coma...thank you, tryptophan... I'm in Ann Arbor right now, and will be here until Saturday night. We drove up here Wednesday night, had Thanksgiving yesterday, and today we're lazing about because both my sister and her husband got called in to the hospital for a while. Maybe later tonight we'll go to the HP movie. We had a 'fried turkey'. Interesting. Not as oily as I thought it would be, and very good. My brother-in-law got a handful of syringes and large-bore needles from work XD and injected the spicy marinade directly into the large muscles of the turkey. Then you dry-rub it with salt and cayenne pepper, and boil it in five gallons of peanut oil over a propane burner for 50 minutes. Et voila. Really really good. I still get twitchy having to hang out with my entire family with no place to escape, but so far it's been pretty good. I drove half of the way up and inflicted a lethal mixture of Adam Ant, the Smiths, Depeche Mode, and the Pixies on my parents. I think I broke my dad; he was starting to get into it around the 200-mile mark. XD Oh, and about that thing I was worried about? Turned out to be the absolute best-case scenario; a systemic fungal infection that can be treated with strong antifungals. So he'll prolly be OK, and my entire family is so relieved. What did I read while I was here...erm...I read "Vivia" by Tanith Lee, who, as I'd always known, writes the weirdest dark fantasy. Krisit, look her stuff up. And I read William Gibson's "Neuromancer." We watched Bladerunner again Thursday night - FTR, Becca, Roy Batty DOES say, " I want more life, FUCKER." And we watched the City of the Lost Children, which was really.......trippy. Shannon, you have to watch that and Jim Jarmusch's(sp?) Dead Man. Watch it at work or something. XD~ Catching up on world news with cnn.com. Hm. Heh. Well, when the Taliban fighters at Konduz surrender, the locals will be allowed to go home, but the Pakistanis, Uzbeks, and Arabs will be arrested and tried 'according to the law of the Islamic state of Afghanistan.' *makes throat-cutting gesture* What's scarier, I guess, is that the US has happily given them the go-ahead with that. We aren't interested in surrender, and we've told them not to let any of the foreign fighters go home. So go ahead and slaughter any that surrender. ... Well, I thought we were in a position where we had the luxury of taking the moral high ground. I was talking to my father and b-i-l about all the different types of bombs. Dizamn. That is some seriously powerful shit. I wonder if those ones that set the air on fire in a mile-radius circle will work in the caves. @_@ The world is truly a strange place. There's an interview with Tom Felton in USA Today. Cute boy, especially when his hair isn't slicked back, but I looked at the poor kid and I FEARED what his fangirls are going to do to him. You poor kid. ;;^_^ He said he'd just finished filming a Quidditch match in the Chamber of Secrets movie, where Draco falls off his broom. " Draco haters are going to love it; he hurts himself. :D " *nadenade* BTW, the USA Today DVD writers are idiots. They were describing the Apocalypse Now Redux as a story about a guy who was sent to 'execute without prejudice' Col. Kurtz. Obviously the writer took the line 'terminate with extreme prejudice', blinked, and went " That doesn't make sense...let's rephrase that." Hahahahahaha! I sl0red! About a month and a half ago, I was frothing to my sister about the Strokes. I sent her two mp3s. Just now I opened my sister's winamp player, and an entire playlist of the Strokes songs came up. *dansu* Yay, Rin's back! I'm going to talk to her. Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. And a kitsui weekend for Kya-chan too! Kya-chan, is your schedule kitsui? Now Playing: The Sea and Cake Sunday, November 18, 2001, 06:32 p.m. " God, I miss the screaming... Well. I saw the Harry Potter movie at 11 pm on Friday. Here are my thoughts (highlight the following text...) My #1 beef with the movie: SOMEONE SHOOT THE MUSIC COMPOSER. Or Director. Whoever was responsible for that loud, blatant, bombastic score. Usually I don't notice BGM much, but DAMN, this guy was underlining your reactions with a black marker. " And now you're supposed to feel UPLIFTED!! QUICK, CRESCENDO! and now it's SCARY!! DUH-DUH-DUHHHHHHHH!!!!!!" I was ready to kill him three minutes into the movie, as Krisit can attest to. Besides that, I'd say it's not a bad movie at all. It DID feel like a desperate attempt to cram in as many memorable moments from the book as possible, but I really liked the visuals, it moved quickly, and the acting was quite good. I liked it. Good things: Things that were bad: Well, I'm picky. On Saturday I went to a screening of Spartacus at the Virginia Theater. It's been YEARS AND YEARS since I'd seen that - I must have last seen it when I was under ten years old. As such, I'd like to say that it's not my fault I didn't remember about the oysters and snails scene. I probably didn't understand what the hell they were talking about, so I didn't remember! Kristi was CRACKING UP at my facial expression. It's not funny, Krisit. Shut up. XD Wow. I thought this was really funny, but I guess some people will take offense. I guess it depends on how seriously you take your Sailor Moon. :D I like Sailor Moon, and I'll watch it, but c'mon, man! It's damn silly! :D What else, what else... Kristina , thanks for linking the persona fanart. Now I am clinging to my monitor. T_T XD Krisit, I got the Flamenco de Pasion combo for Ulala and Katsuya. After I tried it out, I needed to stop and laugh until I cried. To get this combo: After I got back Ulala, if you contact with Ulala + Katsuya, it says 'two people with strong karma' ( Ulala first ) and then you see art of Ulala with a rose between her teeth, calling herself the Carmen of Sumaru. Then Katsuya busts out the acoustic guitar, and Ulala gets jiggy with it. I kept using that combo, although it usually trauamtizes the demons or makes them mad. XDDD It's SO FUNNY. Uhhhh...what else, what else...oh, Krisit's going to be my roommate for January to August. ph33r. ph3333r. Kate called today :D I haven't talked to her in so long. Have a nice thanksgiving, Kate! Uhm...let's see. Krisit, Kristina found a review of Maken X, that game I clung to in the video game store. I'm so getting this when I get a dreamcast. It sounds COOL. Now Playing: Cure - Fascination Street |  |