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Kooza is awesome. The costumes are fabulous, the contortionists are amazing, the wheel of death is terrifying. If you can go, do it.

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Susan Sto Helit

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Don’t take too long to think about it. List 15 books you’ve read that will always stick with you. First fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes.
1. The Last Dragonlord
2. Dragon and Phoenix
3. Persuasion
4. Pride & Prejudice
5. The Enchanted Forest Chronicles
6. Magic & Malice
7. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
8. A Stranger in a Strange Land
9. Old Man's War
10. Joy Luck Club
11. Jane Eyre
12. Rainbow's End
13. The Dresden Files Books
14. Dracula
15. Brave New World

If you are not yet reading Dreamless, you should be.

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Hilarious and not safe for work... though I watched it at work... during lunch.

Actually, I have only tried this author once and did not care for her. Perhaps I should try again.

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Does anyone else think it is odd that my chapstick has a warning to "keep out of eyes"?

Up
I do not know how Pixar does it, but it almost appears as if they can do no wrong. Up is wonderful. Be warned it does tug your heartstrings and it is not a movie that could be watched frequently, but it is beautifully done. I would go into my favorite scenes, but I do not want to spoil it for anyone. Just go see it.
***** 5/5 stars I saw it in 2D and as far as I can tell I did not miss a thing.

Star Trek
I really liked it. My one complaint is that I would love shaky close up camera shots to go out of style (I am looking at you Mr. Abrams). Otherwise a lot of fun.
Oh and the little speech that circumvents the entire previous Star Trek stories but acknowledges that they did happen was hilarious, but only in a god-mode kind of way.
***** 5/5 stars See! I do sometimes like movies.

A good use of your time.

My dream last night:

I dreamed that I was the avatar, aka embodiment of, the essence of ice magic. Doomed to live until I found the man who could master all the elements of magic in a world that believed in magic without having a single magic user (generic mountainside vaguely medieval land). I searched for a millennium and finally found the boy when he was a baby. By threatening the parents, I was granted access to the child as an older sister-like figure whenever I wanted. As another condition of my undying life, I had to locate his soul-mate, so I spent the boy's childhood teaching him how to work magic all forms of magic except ice magic(because for some reason I could use all the magic in the world) or traveling the lands to find his soul-mate. When the boy hit his late teens, I found the girl and brought her to him. They were uber-shy around each other at first (they did not know about the soul-mate thing) but I had to leave them to defeat a monster that was attacking our home. When I got back to them, she had become addicted to some substance that took away her will and made her violent in a reactive way. The only cure was to bring her to my home universe (because I apparently was not from their universe) and have her system purged by the magical drain hidden underground (my universe did not believe in magic but apparently held this "Shadow of the Colossus" looking drain). We all crossed over via a mansion-face that floated in space that when you circled it to the other side looked like a slightly altered mansion-face and walked through the front door straight to our goal. The drain was guarded by a bunch of old men and women who knew that this journey must happen, and offered cryptic and useless advice. We celebrated purging the girl's system and in the boy's excited display of power he finally gained access to the ice magic he could never work previously. This is when I suddenly started having power fluctuations. We all then traveled across town, by flying over the industrial city and bending train bridges that covered a river, to a subway station that was the cross-over point back to the limbo mansion-faces in space that would return the soul-matched pair back to their universe when an assassin, meant to kill the boy found us. A subway was passing by the manhole exit we were using and I put myself in the line of fire to save the boy using the last of my magic to kill the woman; however the woman had shot me. The rest of my party had escaped, but when I did not join them, they returned to find me dying and coughing up blood on the subway tracks. The boy was distraught to learn that he had only been able to access the ice magic that he could not have worked because we had returned to the scene of my original death all the millennium ago (because I had only become the avatar when I was shot in the exact same way back then). He learned this from the rest of the party because I had to pretend I was already dead when he found me. The boy and his soul-mate left to mourn, leaving my body to be dealt with by the gruff man who had been helping us since I had located the girl. With my dying breaths I explained to the man all the stuff that the boy had just learned (apparently my dreams have timing issues) and explained that the boy could not see me die (or something bad would happen). At which point I died for real. I watched the rest of my dream in third-person, as my body was abandoned in the poorly lit subway tunnel and everyone walked away to return to their rightful universe.

What was in my Wall-E birthday cake I had yesterday?

It is 82* in my office. It has been around 80* in it all day.

Even with the window open (which means I can hear the dulled music coming from frat row).

Not fun.

If this was commercially made I would so buy one.

I saw all these movies a few weeks ago but I decided to review them today.

Watchmen
Yes. Dr. Manhattan is naked. Yes. It is blue. Moving on. I liked the ending better in the movie than the graphic novel, but otherwise it is scarily accurate to the book. Great casting for Comedian and Rorschach too. And Bubastis(?) only makes sense if you have read the book, because in the movie, she has no reason to exist.
*** 3/5 stars Worth seeing once.

I attended a horror movie night on Friday the 13th where we watched the original horror films for a bunch of classics. I refuse to rate them, but I will comment.

Friday the 13th
Here's a fun drinking game. Drink every time you see a dead body. You will not get that smashed, but it is amusing. And seriously? The killer can stealthily and quickly kill everyone but the last girl?

Nightmare on Elm Street
It has a young Johnny Depp with really bad hair. I am sure more happened, but that is all I remember. Oh, and the bloody bed scene is hi-lar-i-ous.

Halloween
According to this and many movies of a similar vein, I will survive most serial killers because I do not sleep around. But sometimes, the prude gets killed too. Hmm. I do not know. I do know that I would call the cops and run to my car (which I can see the entire back seat from the outside even in the dark but not in the winter, hmm maybe I should think this out a bit more) rather than hide in a closet.

My Bloody Valentine 3D
Stupid. The 3D effects were silly and the deaths were bloody. The twist is mostly obvious, but a cheap trick none the less.
** 2/5 stars I capsized to peer pressure.

Coraline 3D
Scarier than you would imagine for a children's PG film. Not terrifying, but it has a few moments. I agree with my Mom that yes, it does have a few parts that seem a little slow but in general it is very good. The 3D effects are pretty well done too. Not intrusive and really no gratuitous items thrown at the audience. By the way, how did pasties on an over-developed old lady even seem like a good idea? Because it is hilarious and awkward.
**** 4/5 stars If you can, it is worth seeing in 3D.

Friday the 13th
More violent than Valentine. At least in my opinion. I had never seen a Friday movie before but I kind of knew the Jason mythology; regardless, it is not necessary.
** 2/5 stars At least the next movie my friends want to see is Watchmen.

I repeat, do not get your hopes up for as Jane Austen reminds us if you go with the expectations of perfect happiness, it just never works out. Or something to that effect.

Krod Mandoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire

We interrupt this strange, ignored journal for an unimportant announcement.

I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday. I did... an I am glad it is over.

We now return you back to your irregularly updated movie tirade.

The Day the Earth Stood Still
Is not a great movie. Not bad per say, but not great. Perhaps it is because I read too much or watch too many similarly themed movies, but meh is my final opinion. Sure Keaneu Reeves cannot act, but it actually does not detract much. And Jennifer Connelly will forever be "Sarah" in my mind and yes, I think the Jaden Smith kid is obnoxious like most children, but I cannot completely explain why I just did not care for it. John Cleese makes every movie better, even if he is only in it for 5 minutes.
*** 3/5 stars Two stars would be too harsh and this movie just is not engaging enough to arouse such hate.

9 - A Trailer for possibly great things to come.
Watch the trailer.
And if you know the name of the epic song, please tell me because I cannot remember for the life of me.
edit: Thank you interweb. The song is "Welcome Home" by Coheed and Cambria. I knew I recognized it. It is a song in Rock Band.

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Now the real question is: why can I never remember the code for LJ cuts? Seriously, I always need to look it up. It is not even hard!

Wicked
My mom and I saw it last night. Now I knew all the songs beforehand and like many of them. I read the story a few years back and could not understand why it was so special, but the musical only used bits and pieces of it and changed the ending so there is no reason to fixate. Now, onto the costumes. Clockwork Dr. Seuss. Awesome. Just freakin' awesome. Did I mention the costumes were awesome?

Something is wrong with me... or my priorities.