It’s weird in such a short period of time, and really at the same time, to be able to be so proud and so disgusted of my country and my state. 

I honestly never thought I’d see the day a minority took the office of President.  So much of this country is still so racist, whether they admit it or not, that I just didn’t think I’d see this day come.  I’d forgotten how good it could feel to actually be proud of something this country has done.

But then Californians fucked it all up.  No, it’s not over yet…they’re still counting votes…but it looks like Prop 8, the state constitutional amendment to ban same sex marriage, is going to pass.  I’m sick over this.  Matt said it best last night…it’s like this country isn’t happy unless it’s oppressing someone.  Florida and Arizona passed their measures banning it, but that’s not surprising.  I can’t believe that even with the disgusting wording that straight out says it’s eliminating this groups rights, people still accepted it.  I just wanna smack these disgusting asses upside the head.  They deserve it.  I’d like to take away a right of theirs right now.  Perhaps a right to practice their religion publicly?  See how you fucking like it assholes.

I actually feel better saying I’m an American today than saying I’m a Californian.  We like to think we’re so liberal and so progressive in this state.  Obviously that’s not true. 

Btw, apparently on the news last night they said that 70% of the Yes campaign money came from Ohio.  I wish they’d mind their own fucking business.  That’s appalling.  It’s not their state, stay out of it.  Stay in fucking Ohio if you don’t like it.  We’ll happily stay away from your shit state.

So yeah.  It’s fantastic that a minority has taken the office of President.  I’m still giddy about that.  I was bouncing and giggling at work last night.  People were honking in the streets of Pasadena.  The 21 flavors, across the street, which was showing the news and Obama’s speech…was full of people just sitting and watching the tv.  It’s very exciting.

But we’ve got a long way to go in this country.  There’s still so much hate, so much oppression…we’re not done yet.  This is just one big step in a very long trek.

I’ve gotta work tomorrow night. 

Which means I won’t be sitting at home watching the Election results…good.

But the store will likely be empty and so instead I’ll be sitting around the store wondering what the hell is going on…bad.

I’m just hoping that a)it’s a good crew working, and b)whoever is in the office will be calling us with continuous updates.  Maybe I’ll need to keep my phone on me so Matt can text me with any big news.

OMG, PLEASE LET OBAMA WIN.  It’s already hard enough admitting I’m an American when I’m in another country (usually it’s better to say you’re from California…they don’t hate us), I really don’t think I can take any more.  I’d like to be able to be a little proud of being an American again.  You know, if you ignore the bigots, racists, religious fanatics and closed minded asses that seem to be much too big a part of this country.

Ok, maybe I’m hoping for too much with one election.  But it’d help.  A LOT.

Oh, and I finally saw the exact wording of Prop. 8.  "Eliminate the Rights of" ?!?!?!  I mean obviously even if by some crazy chance it ends up with a yes, it’ll be deemed unconstitutional…no worries.  But what kind of person could with a clear conscience vote yes on it?  It fucking says it’s going to eliminate the rights of gays and lesbians.  It’s not even pretending anymore to be anything about ideals or idiotic morals or whatever.  It’s plain out saying it wants to take away the rights of a part of our society.  I don’t care what your religion says.  Plain and simple, if you can vote yes on this you are a bigot and an ass.  You may not agree with gay marriage, but the words eliminates the rights?  That should disgust anyone.

Stolen from Katie ’cause I’m a thief:

A. Pick 16 of your favorite movies.
B. Then pick one of your favorite quotes from each movie.
C. Post the quotes in your journal.
D. Have those on your friends list try to guess what the movie is.
E. Strike out the quote once it has been correctly identified and place the guesser’s username directly after the quote.

1)”First rule in government spending: why build one when you can have two at twice the price?”
2)”You never knew what life was until it ran out in a red gush over your lips.”
3)”It’s hard to watch anything when you’re being barbequed man.”
4)”The fair won’t open for seven months, and that’s all anybody ever sings about or talks about. I wish they would all meet at the fair and leave me alone.”
5)”Now shall you deal with ME, o Prince - and all the powers of HELL!”
6)”Sonora, you have to be extremely careful with your appearance. I mean, having no natural beauty of your own you really need to help yourself.”
7)”I can’t help thinking that at some point someone is going to produce a piglet and we’ll all have to chase it.”
8)”Spiders… the spiders… they want me to tap-dance. And I don’t want to tap-dance!”
9)”Eyes down. Don’t smile. Indian bride never smiles. You’ll ruin the bloody video.”
10)”Dad! Way to go. I can’t believe you had that restaurant swarming with your secret servants. You ruined my date! And now, I’m going to die before I ever get to third base… I mean second base.”
11)”Life seems nothing more than a quick succession of busy nothings.”
12)”I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
13)”Thank you for curing me of my ridiculous obsession with love.”
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So, picked up the new Madonna the other day and I am not really feeling it.  It’s just…many of the songs are those songs where the bass is there, and loud, just for the sake of being there.  It doesn’t really add to the song, it’s just there because somehow an alarmingly large percentage of the population seem to think that lots of bass makes them look cool.  I wouldn’t mind it if it’s part of the song (ala Garbage’s "Stupid Girl" or Muse’s "Time is Running Out"), but when it’s there and so loud just to be there?  RETARDED.

-  Candy Shops got good music, but the lyrics just make me wanna laugh, and not in a good way. 
-  4 Minutes is ok…but the whole "featuring" thing going on right now just makes me wanna hurl.  Since when do you have to have someone else on a song in order to make it appealing?  There are songs when it works great (Peter Gabriel & Kate Bush on "Don’t Give Up" for instance), so I’m not saying it should never happen…not by any means.  It’s just most of the songs doing it now…it’s a gimic.  That’s all it is.  And here it feels like she’s doing it to try and be relevant…which dude, you’re Madonna.  You shouldn’t need it.
-  I like the music in the chorus of Give It 2 Me a lot actually, but the lyrics are meh, as is the rest of the music.  And "2?"  OMG.  No.  Just…no.
-  Heartbeat, eh.  "See my booty get down like?"   Really?  I think I threw up a little in my mouth.
-  Miles Away is great.  I like this song more and more every time I listen to it.
-  She’s Not Me is one of the worst songs I’ve ever heard I think.
-  Incredible, eh.  Though I did like that parts of it really sounded like 80s Madonna singing (you know, her voice has matured…in this it sounds like she could have recorded it when she did Get Into The Groove.
-  Beat Goes On is meh.  I can’t stand Kanye West…so that’s not helping matters.  The song isn’t too bad, until his rap…and then I just tune out.
-  I like Dance 2Night a lot, except there’s the whole "2" thing in the title again that’s retarded.
-  Spanish Lessons is ridiculous.  But she always seems to have one song like this where you’re just wondering what the hell she was thinking. 
-  I like Devil Wouldn’t Recognize.  It’s not her best, but it’s nice.
- and lastly Voices…I think by the time I get to this song it’s a bad idea to have a slower one ’cause I just start getting sleepy.

So yeah…I think if she tours and ends up playing mostly stuff from this album I wouldn’t bother going.  Which would make me very sad ’cause she’s so great live and I didn’t get to see her during the Confessions tour (except Coachella…but that’s only like half an hour and such a scaled down show).  But yeah, I’m feeling kinda like I did when I get American Life….just meh.  Which sucks.  I loved Confessions, so it’s not the Dance music thing, I’m fine with that.  This just doesn’t feel like anything different than all the crap on KIIS and that’s sad.  She’s usually so great, and this just feels like everything else, and so mediocre.  I’m very disappointed.

The Dome is playing Indy…which means the Chinese won’t be.  First they get Episode 3, now Indy. 

I HATE THAT PLACE. 

I swear I wish they’d torn the Dome down back when they were talking about it, before people convinced them to conserve it.  And I’m usually totally on the conservation bandwagon.

But that theatre is SHIT.  You have like 2 seats in the entire place that have a good view, and the rest you get distortion because of the curved screen.  It’s retarded.  I am convinced that people who like that theatre only like it because they think they should.  Because it’s what the cool kids are doing.  I mean how could you like a theatre where the view is distorted all the time?  IT MAKES NO SENSE.

And all that happens now that they kept it is that the assholes who run the Arclight fight to get movies that the Chinese then can’t.  So the one amazing theatre in Hollywood, the one that used to get all the good movies now looses them to the shit Dome.  There’s a reason I refuse to go to the Arclight if I can help it.  This would be it. 

Thank goodness they built the Landmark which is such an awesome theatre (they sell Tim Tams for goodness sakes!  It’s awesome).  It seems to be getting a lot of the smaller films we used to have to go to the Arclight for (like Daywatch, which played at the Arclight and one other shitty theatre in LA).  Now we can just avoid the Arclight all together and not give them our money.  ‘Cause I really really hate going to that place.  The vibe?  Awful.  It’s so the cliche of what everyone in the world thinks LA/Hollywood should be like that it makes me sick.  Thank goodness the cliche is mostly wrong.

So we’re holding out for the Village, Bridge or the Landmark to get it.  They haven’t announced what they’re playing yet, so there’s still a chance.  Well, I should say still a chance for the Village or the Landmark…the Bridge will get it for sure.

I’m so behind on this.  And won’t review the new films ’cause I just can’t be bothered at this point.  Some of the latest (since 15) are likely to be out of order ’cause I can’t remember them all.

25.  My Blueberry Nights
24.  The Lady Vanishes
23.  Run, Fat Boy, Run
22.  Death at a Funeral
21.  Evening
20.  The Princess and the Pirate
19.  Miss Potter
18.  Captain Blood
17.  No Country for Old Men
16.  American Gangster
15.  Beyond the Gates
14.  Starter for Ten
13.  Jumper
12.  Across the Universe
11.  Becoming Jane
10.  The Spiderwick Chronicles

7. 24 Hour Party People
6. The Return of the King (Extended)
5. The Two Towers (Extended)
4. The Fellowship of the Ring (Extended Cut)
3. Party Girl
2. Cloverfield
1. Atonement

So…been in a weird not really interested in the internet mode lately.  And mostly when I do pop on it’s to check email, check my flist, and check fanboys.  Not really been in the mood to post too much.

Re The Fires of Pompeii…I heart Donna.  She’s everything I wanted her to be.  That scene at the end where she’s crying (trying not to spoil too much so don’t have to add a cut)?!  My Gahan.  That was beautiful.  But yeah, not in the mood for a reaction post really…so if you care what I think you can read my posts in the FoP, Donna, and Ten threads over at fanboys.  Though I’m mostly figuring if you do care you’re already there anyway….

But I did wanna do this meme that went around a couple weeks back ’cause I’ve had a post with the info open for ages and just really need to close that window…heh.  So stolen from azmatazz

List ten fictional characters you would have sex with (in no particular order) and tag five people to do the same.  Disclaimers: This, of course, assumes some sort of weirdo parallel reality where everyone involved is very single.  And not infected with any sort of weird communicable disease.  Last thing you want is intergalactic crabs.

1.  The Tenth Doctor - Doctor Who, as played by David Tennant.  Is anyone at all surprised?  Didn’t think so.
2.  D. I. Peter Carlisle - Blackpool, as played by…David Tennant.  I swear that’s the last one.  But who can resist that oral fixation?  The part with the ice cream or the lollipop?  HAWT.
3.  Frodo Baggins - LOTR, as played by Elijah Wood.  ‘Cause I’ve always loved Elijah, and probably always will.  Even if he’s not the crush of the moment, he’s the longest lasting crush (14 years!).
4.  Mr. Darcy - Pride & Prejudice, as played by Matthew MacFadyen.  I’m probably one of the few who didn’t fall all over Colin Firth as Darcy.  Matthew however…humnahumna. 
5.  Wesley Wyndham Price - Angel, as played by Alexis Denisof.  And yes, only from Angel.  And even then only after he ditched the glasses and became all rugged and hot.
6.  Christian - Moulin Rouge, as played by Ewan McGregor.  Who can resist that voice, and those eyes, and and…gah.  He’s a beautiful man, that Ewan McGregor…but Christian was the character that stole my heart.
7.  John Crichton - Farscape, as played by Ben Browder.  But really…I love John and Aeryn so much I wouldn’t wanna go there.  Though I gotta list him ’cause he’s hot.  Heck, I’m gonna say 7a. is Aeryn Sun ’cause seriously, Claudia Black is hawt too.
8.  Gus Pike - Avonlea, as played by Michael Mahonen.  I adored this show when I was a kid, and have been slowly trying to collect the series on dvd.  I always had such a huge crush on Gus, and apparently still do after watching the first few series again.  hee!
9.  Prince Charmont - Ella Enchanted, as played by Hugh Dancy.  I know the movie is beyond cheese and the book is way better, but I don’t care…it’s fun and Hugh Dancy is just gorgeous.
10.  Ben Calder - Chasing Liberty, as played by Matthew Goode.  I think only boltofblue and I saw and adored this movie.  But I love it to death, and still get all squeed over Ben.

Ok, that was tougher than I thought…and totally not in order.  Though of course Ten is number one hands down.  But most of that it took me some time to come up with ’cause I’m a dork and kept forgetting people.  Anyway, that was fun.

I had a jury summons for this week and after four days of being told I didn’t have to report…I have to report in tomorrow.  SO CLOSE.

I have to be there at 7:45!  That’s ridiculous!  Grr.  I’m doing the minimum amount of effort.  Cords is about as fancy as I’m getting damnit.  I guess I can’t be too mad, I mean I have always had school as an excuse to get out of it….but still.  It was the last day I had to call!  I was SO CLOSE!!!!

The three creators of TWOP have just announced they’re leaving the site.  After selling out to Bravo a year ago, and basically destroying a place that was so awesome by making it corporate…they’re now abandoning it entirely.

I can’t say I’m surprised.  It’s hard to know whether this was a planned move from the beginning, or if things have just gotten so bad for them they can’t take it anymore…but either way, I think we all knew this would happen eventually. 

I pretty much gave up on the site last summer after things just got incredibly hostile on the DW boards for anyone who didn’t hate Rose.  I can’t blame that entirely on the sellout, a lot of it was an influx of new members from OG to read Promethea’s spoilers.  But I can get pissed that I was warned for standing up for the character and the people who like her, was attacked by one of the haters, and then I get a warning and that person doesn’t.  That’s not acceptable.

So yeah, Fanboys was the answer.  And it’s so refreshing to be able to get happy at things like yesterdays spoiler pics without people coming out with some bitchy comment.  Especially when you’re a Rose/Doctor shipper and in this fandom that seems to be the worst possible thing you could ever admit to being.

Btw, I just opened up the board for anyone to read…it was locked unless you registered before.  But I know some peeps would like to see it before they join in…so here’s your chance.  I’ll probably lock it again eventually.  Maybe when the show officially starts again or something.

As hitokirivader has done this 4 or 5 times now I think it’s time I finally gave it a shot…

1. Pick 15 of your favorite movies.
2. Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie.
3. Post them here for everyone to guess.
4. Fill in the film title once it’s guessed.
5. NO GOOGLING / using IMDb search functions.

Let me just say…it was really hard to find quotes on some of these that weren’t blatantly obvious.  I did my best though, though some of you should have no problem spotting a few of them.  My prediction is that boltofblue gets at least 3 of them easily.  She’s got the memory for this sort of thing.

1. "Hey, man, if this is torture, chain me to the wall."

11.  "First rule in government spending: why build one when you can have two at twice the price?"

12.  "I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve."

15.  "Does Barry Manilow know that you raid his wardrobe?"