~PreoSmo

Ok, so went and saw TDK at the midnight release thing whatever. Anyway, so we got there two hours early and squished between a group of jocks and a group of wannabe jocks. There was a ball being tossed around, a six foot guy in a twelve year old kid's batman costume. V. entertaining . . . or so I'm told. I was reading.

Anyway, so I went to the regular theatre so sadly, didn't see the HBP trailer.

Now the movie itself. I liked the first movie but it was v. meh compared to this one. Intense as hell.

First was Heath Ledger. There was such a precise way he directed his words, a certain facial expression here and there, a sort of weird tick with his tongue, all of this made the Joker character much more than I've ever seen him. I always knew Mr. Ledger was a phenomenal actor but WOWEE.

Then of course there was Christian Slater, mumble mumble . . .

OH! Anthony Michael Hall! Anyone reading my journals might notice a trend: I've been watching TDZ episodes for a few weeks now. And Anthony Michael Hall is the star (He was also in The Breakfast Club--math geek--and Sixteen Candles--guy who got her underwears).

Well, AMH leaked that he was in TDK but couldn't say who his character was. He was under a contract from the production company. Then, on the internets, there is this thing of Gotham News Network or something like that. Well, there's AMH as Mike Engle, a news reporter/talk show host type person.

Who is Mike Engle, you ask? Nobody. Not in the comics.

So why all the secrecy? My theory is that he's going to be big, he's going to be someone in the next movie. Who will he be? No fucking clue. It'll probably be one of the villians who, in the comics, has little to no back story. I haven't read enough of the comics to figure out who this is.

Ok, I will do an actual review of TDK v. soon so look out for it. This is just me babbling.

Edit: WOW. We just had a storm and lightning hit near my building! Took out the power with a sizzling sound and now it's all smokey outside. Freaky!

Alright! Have been watching G4's E3 cover for two days. Of course, I only cared about two things: God of War III and Trico.

That's not to say I wasn't happy about other things. I mean, the whole Netflix/360 partnership is fucking awesome and Fallout 3 looks fun as hell.

But earlier this year, as I am a slow noob, I was introduced to the beauty that is the God of War franchise. I mean, WOW. It mixed fighting, platforming, and puzzling along with graphics beyond the PS2's capabilities. WAY THE FUCK beyond. So I had high hopes for God of War III. And ZOMFG, the trailer (which is not online as of yet as it debuted just a few minutes ago)is just . . . YOU COULD SEE HIS SKIN. Like, I know it's not the actual game play but still. You could see the texture of Kratos's skin. As soon as that comes out, I am going to be THERE.

They did not show anything having to do with Trico, sadly. I wasn't a fan of Ico. I mean, even though it had awesome graphics and phenomenal lighting, I'm not into escort games. I absolutely LOVED Shadow of the Colossus, though. So whatever the working-named 'Trico' is, I'm sure it'll be awesome.

On another note, I forgot to mention Portal. There's a new Portal coming out. Which was, I must say, is the best thing not only of the Orange Box but of all games. Minus the two aforementioned.

I am sooooo excited. And to think, I'm predominantly a book person.

*sob* I HATE CHANGE.

Ok, I like how you can view your comments and shit without opening them. I like how you can search and choose to browse without going into a separate area. Ok, cool.

But, WHY ISN'T THE SEARCH BAR AT THE TOP??? It's WEIRD not being there. I'd be pretty ok with the new layout if the search bar was where the Gods intended.

Though the rest of it is a tad cluttered. Like, every page, even if you are just simply looking at a deviation, every page has a billion buttons on it.

Not good for a person with OCD who has to hit every damn button.

Maybe I'll get used to it. Maybe.

Clubs I Moderate:

Clubs I'm a member of:

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read (as in the book is bought and sitting on my shelf).
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Star those you've started and have not and will not finish.

and…

5) Strike-through those you've read and hated, and will never read again.

Here they are!

1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. *The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5. *To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Bible
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19. The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34. Emma - Jane Austen
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
37. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
38. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
39. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
40. Animal Farm - George Orwell
41. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
42. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
43. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
44. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
45. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
46. Far From the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
47. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
48. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
49. Atonement - Ian McEwan
50. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
51. Dune - Frank Herbert
52. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
53. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
54. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
55. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
56. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
57. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
58. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
59. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
60. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
61. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
62. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
63. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
64. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
65. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
66. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
67. Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
68. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
69. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
70. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
71. Dracula - Bram Stoker
72. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
73. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
74. Ulysses - James Joyce
75. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
76. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
77. Germinal - Emile Zola en francais
78. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
79. Possession - AS Byatt
80. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
81. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
82. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
83. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
84. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
85. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
86. Charlotte's Web - EB White
87. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
88. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
89. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
90. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
91. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
92. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
93. Watership Down - Richard Adams
94. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
95. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
96. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
97. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Ronald Dahl
98. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

I'm going to cry. I really am. It seems like ALL my favourite comedians are dropping off one by one. First, it was Mitch Hedberg and then Richard Jeni. Now, George Carlin is dead.

Ok, so the guy was old but STILL. I wanted to go to one of his stand-ups. I've loved the guy all my life. Now he's gone. Today. Like that.

For those who don't know who George Carlin is, go to Youtube and type in his name. Watch his shit; it's the most hilarious. 7 Dirty Words is probably his most famous.